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“The US is no longer acting like the leader of the free world.”
We reflect on a week of heightened rhetoric at the UN General Assembly and ask what it tells us about the world with Professor Peter Frankopan and Chrystia Freeland, the former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
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Play School, the nursery in the home, launched in 1964 and is to return to the BBC in a new form.
But will children today be entertained by it?
Johnny Ball presented the programme for 17 years and gives his take.
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"It's a wild ride!"
Two pilots of an RAF jet who parachuted out of a plane before it crashed yesterday are expected to make a full recovery.
John Nichol, a former RAF navigator who himself ejected out over Iraq in 1991, explains how it feels to be rocketed out of a plane.
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The UK is reviewing its Chagos Islands deal with Mauritius, the defence secretary has said, after President Trump branded it 'terrible'.
Labour MP Mike Kane, who has around 500 Chagossians in his constituency, says they feel the deal would be 'an injustice to their cause'.
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Darts champion Luke 'The Nuke' Littler has hinted that he will not attend future events in the Netherlands after facing continued boos from the crowd.
Sport psychologist Dr Anna Owens suggests the 19-year-old needs to use the hostility to his advantage.
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"You're saying spending will not be cut?"
At the Liberal Democrats Party conference in Brighton, @Sarah_Montague presses deputy leader Daisy Cooper on how the party will fund tax cuts.
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"I didn't properly recover, that place became associated with trauma... Policies like this matter."
The government has introduced two-week unpaid bereavement leave for pregnancy loss before 24 weeks.
Anna Mulnutt, who had three miscarriages in one year, shares her experience.
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"Any organisation has to work on the assumption that some of their systems may fail."
Following the latest air traffic control outage, National Preparedness Commission chair Lord Toby Harris says Nats 'can't work on the basis' software is 'always going to work'.
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"Do you trust the governance of Nats?"
As flights across the UK are disrupted by the latest 'technical issue' with air traffic control, Yvonne Moynihan from Wizz Air says 'I don’t have the confidence… I don’t think my peers have confidence'.
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"If a judge can't trust the integrity... how on earth is the judge supposed to work out that it's not true?"
MI5 has admitted telling lies to courts.
Former Old Bailey judge Wendy Joseph KC says it 'threatens' the ability of courts to function properly.
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Is cryptocurrency good money or bad?
On Figuring It Out this week, @Sarah_Montague and @EvanHD look at what cryptocurrency is exactly, and what purpose it serves.
Watch here⬇️piped.video/watch?v=T0JXFJcF…
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Musician Billy Bragg says Ed Sheeran should cancel his tour after Macklemore was dropped for making pro-Palestinian remarks and all remaining support acts quit in response.
Robert Kraft, who owns the Gillette Stadium, said his venue would not "provide a platform for hate speech"
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Findings of the Thirlwall Inquiry, examining whether concerns about Lucy Letby could have been acted on sooner, have been published.
Chair of the Health and Social Care Committee Layla Moran tells @Sarah_Montague a new system is needed to hold NHS managers to account.
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"We have a crisis in neonatal and maternity care."
Lib Dem MP Layla Moran, Health and Social Care Select Committee chair, reflects as the Thirlwall Inquiry finds that some of the deaths of babies murdered by Lucy Letby could have been prevented.
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"I don't want parents to feel this could be happening right now."
An inquiry finds some baby deaths at the hospital where Lucy Letby worked could have been prevented.
Prof Marian Knight, who gave expert evidence to the inquiry, responds to the Lady Justice Thirlwall’s findings.
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"Our democracy is undermined by the suspicious that the public has, that people give money for influence."
Entrepreneur Dale Vince, who has donated more than £5m to the Labour Party, says the political funding system is 'not fit for purpose' and that donations should be banned.
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"We're doing as much as we can and nothing's coming of it."
Imran Khan's sons Kasim and Sulaiman say they have had no contact from the UK government regarding their pleas for his safety.
The Pakistani government has denied the former PM is being held in severe isolation.
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"The parties do need to raise substantial funds."
Lord Marland, former Conservative Party treasurer tells @Sarah_Montague that no donors 'ask for any influence' and says leaders he has worked with 'wouldn't have accepted it'.
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'We don't have an effective theory on safety'
CEO of Faculty AI Marc Warner tells The World This Weekend that without safety improvements AI 'could get out of control'.
Listen to the full interview, and more analysis on the threats from AI, at 13:00 on BBC Radio 4.
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