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In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and major breaking news from a global perspective

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  • Chancellor reveals £100 energy bill support

    Chancellor reveals £100 energy bill support

    28/10/2026 Duração: 37min

    Chancellor John Healey has used the Budget to announce that millions of households will receive £100 this winter to help with the rise in energy costs. He will also increase tax on bank profits and has offered tax breaks for some high street shops. We consider the winners and losers. Also on the programme: The Spanish prime minister has said the whole country is in mourning after a train crash killed at least 68 people. And passengers on a three-and-a-half-year cruise around the world have been left stranded in Cambodia due to high fuel costs.

  • Israeli exit polls put opposition just ahead of Netanyahus bloc

    Israeli exit polls put opposition just ahead of Netanyahu's bloc

    27/10/2026 Duração: 38min

    Israeli exit polls suggest Gadi Eisenkot's bloc has won the largest number of seats in the general election but has fallen short of a majority. Eisenkot leads the newly formed Yashar party and is the main figure in the "change bloc", a group of opposition parties with the shared goal of ousting Benjamin Netanyahu. We hear from one of the party's candidates.Also on the programme: the United States says it has issued visas for Flavio Bolsonaro, who on Sunday lost Brazil's presidential election, and his family. Bolsonaro is reported to have fled his home country after being order to surrender his passport by Brazil's Supreme Court amid allegations of money laundering.And we speak to a leader of the 'Effective Altruism' movement about how they're trying to take on the AI industry.

  • Tens of thousands of Israelis fly home to vote

    Tens of thousands of Israelis fly home to vote

    26/10/2026 Duração: 37min

    Israeli citizens living abroad are flying in to vote in the first elections since the October 7 attacks. Polls currently have Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and the opposition bloc level pegging, with neither predicted to pick up enough seats to win a majority. Also on the programme: Anthropic prepares for the first public sale of its shares, with some predicting that the AI firm’s value could be as high as $2 trillion; and should we be buying farmed salmon? We look into the eye-catching campaign attacking the salmon industry.

  • Israeli forces begin demolishing Palestinian buildings in Hebron after two Israeli soldiers shot dead

    Israeli forces begin demolishing Palestinian buildings in Hebron after two Israeli soldiers shot dead

    23/10/2026 Duração: 38min

    The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened a major offensive in the occupied West Bank after Palestinian gunmen killed two soldiers before being shot dead themselves.Also on the programme: President Macron of France has condemned what he called a "racist terrorist attack" after a man opened fire in the western suburbs of Paris, killing one person and injuring four. And we hear from Peter Lantos who, 70 years ago today, was part of the Hungarian uprising.

  • Governments and businesses race to patch websites with critical cyber-security update

    Governments and businesses race to patch websites with critical cyber-security update

    22/10/2026 Duração: 38min

    The vulnerabilities were found within the PHP programming language by AI systems run by OpenAI. But could they just have easily been found by hackers? We ask the former head of the UK Government’s Office for Artificial Intelligence, Sana Khareghani.Also in the programme: We explore the difficulties of accurately diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) after actress Christina Applegate says she was wrongly told she had the condition. And the new film by The Banshees of Inisherin director Martin McDonagh - Wild Horse Nine - stars John Malkovich as a 1970s CIA agent. But is it any good?