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“The tide has turned” on the international order. Canada’s foreign minister Anita Anand tells @bbcnickrobinson that Canada will work with like-minded countries to build a new world order.
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"Ultimately, it's women and babies who will suffer further if changes aren't made." Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt and former doctor, reacts to new analysis from the General Medical Council raising questions about the state of maternity services. The government says the health secretary has made maternity care a priority and is chairing a task force to respond to concerns.
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"We've had not a word from a front bencher." Tim McNally, the chair of Piddington Parish Council, reacts to the news that the government has given planning permission to an asylum site at RAF Bicester after protest from local people.
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A Home Office spokesman said: “A final decision to proceed is yet to be taken. The government is working on a fairer distribution of asylum accommodation across the country, with over £1 billion saved in costs since the election.”
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"This reinforces the need for greater resilience." Luke Pollard, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, talks to @BBCNickRobinson about what the government is doing to tackle the global Microsoft outage.
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"I've become very close emotionally to Jensen." Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, a California wealth management fund, and long term investor in Nvidia, talks about the impact of the company's share price drop on him and his clients.
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Leaseholders - people who own their property but pay charges to management companies that look after their building - in England and Wales will be getting new rights. Jonny Dymond explains more.
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Should some young people see their benefits cut under plans to get more into work? @bbcnickrobinson asks Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook after a Labour MP voiced concern about proposals due next week.
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"This is cruel and vicious both on disabled people and young people." Alan Milburn's year-long report into young people not in education, employment or training is expected to call for under-25s to get fewer benefits but more support into work. Green Party leader Zack Polanski gives his reaction.
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"I don't think the policy needs amending." Zack Polanski is quizzed about the Green Party's controversial 'Zionism is racism' motion that was passed by the party's members last month.
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"There are so many new things I'm able to do that I wasn't able to in the past." Mylo and his mum Alex talk about the new wristwatch-style device that helps control his tics caused by Tourettes. Mylo first spoke to the BBC aged 13 in 2022 when he was trialling the device.
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Some under-25s should get fewer benefits is what Alan Milburn's report into young people in not education, employment or training (Neets). Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman says these proposals are 'the most significant' new details to come out from the report.
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David Walliams has been accused of sexual misconduct by several women, with some accusing Walliams of 'grooming' them when they were teenagers. Former Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips talks about UK law not having an official grooming crime. Walliams denies all allegations.
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Our home and legal correspondent Dominic Casciani points out it is an offence for an adult to meet a child "following sexual grooming". In general grooming is understood in criminal courts to refer to situations where a predator builds a relationship of trust with a child target in order to prepare the ground for sexual activity.
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“I’m impatient for change.” Dame Louise Casey, who led the grooming gangs inquiry, says she doesn’t think 'the momentum has been good enough' on implementing the recommendations of her report.
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"We've made choices, politically as a society, about what we're going to prioritise." Dame Louise Casey, the Chair of the Independent Commission into Adult Social Care, says it is time for a 'reckoning' in the UK's social care system.
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"There are many people in our country silenced by injunctions." Labour MP Jess Phillips says injunctions are increasingly used in sexual misconduct cases, after David Walliams' unsuccessful bid to stop the claims against him being published. Walliams denies all allegations.
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You were Ed Miliband's chief of staff when he did his interview with Russell Brand before the 2015 election - was that a bad decision? @BBCkatyaadler asks Education Secretary Lucy Powell.
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"I wanted to write a book which really satirised the present-day barrage of information that we all suffer." Author M John Harrison talks about winning the 2026 Booker Prize for his novel, The End of Everything.
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Could US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth be impeached? As Republican congressman Thomas Massie plans to force a vote, former Trump defence minister Robert Wilkie says Hegseth 'has a great deal to answer for'.
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