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FIFA has officially awarded Saudi Arabia the hosting rights for the men's 2034 World Cup.

The BBC's Analysis Editor Ros Atkins looks at how we got here - and the controversies surrounding the decision.

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A fast-moving wildfire has broken out and burned acres of the wealthy enclave of Malibu, near Los Angeles.

Actor Dick Van Dyke and musician Cher were among thousands of residents told to leave their homes.

No injuries have been reported, but the blaze was still 0% contained as of Wednesday morning, and tens of thousands of homes were without power.

The cause is not yet clear, but the region has been under a red-flag warning, meaning conditions are ripe for extreme fires.

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Syrian rebel forces said they took control of the oil-rich eastern city of Deir al-Zour, as they try to secure the country's resources.

Hassan Abdul-Ghani, a senior commander of the main Islamist militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), said his fighters had liberated the city and its military airport.

"Our forces have seized the entire city of Deir al-Zour," the rebels said in a statement.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) - a war monitor based in the UK - says that Kurdish forces previously controlling the city had withdrawn to other localities.

Kurdish forces had taken the city after former President Bashar al-Assar withdrew his troops earlier in the week.

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Adam Fleming is joined by the BBC’s Diplomatic Editor, James Landale, and Al-Lami, Chief Jihadist Media Specialist at BBC Monitoring. They discuss why Israel’s President, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered Israeli forces to bomb Syria, whether chaos in Syria could lead to a come back by IS and whether the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s regime could harm Iran.

Chief Political Correspondent, Henry Zeffman, tells Adam how Westminster has taken the news of Syria’s regime falling and why the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has announced a spending review.

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Chapters:

00:00 Why is Israel bombing Syria?

08:00 How is the rest of world reacting?

15:30 How is Islamic State involved?

22:15 How have the British Government responded?

29:42 What has UK Chancellor Rachel Reeves been up to?

Victims of atrocities committed by Bashar Al-Assad’s regime in Syria have been speaking out, after years of fear and repression.

BBC journalists have travelled to Ghouta, where chemical weapons were used on civilians in 2018, to speak to victims and eyewitnesses, who are now demanding justice.

We also report from the southern city of Daraa, the centre of anti-Assad protests that started in 2011. Government forces mounted a brutal siege and killed many civilians. We hear from the mother of a 13-year-old boy whose torture and murder by the regime's security forces helped fuel the uprising.

Reeta Chakrabarti presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Yogita Limaye in Ghouta and Lucy Williamson in Daraa.

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Luigi Mangione has contested his extradition to New York during a court hearing in Pennsylvania. New York officials have charged him with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York.

Mangione was arrested on Monday while eating at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The 26-year-old was allegedly in possession of a "ghost gun" with a 3D printed suppressor, bullets, multiple fake IDs and cash when he was arrested.

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Google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion – or 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years – to complete.

The chip is the latest development in a field known as quantum computing - which is attempting to use the principles of particle physics to create a new type of mind-bogglingly powerful computer.

Google says its new quantum chip, dubbed "Willow", incorporates key "breakthroughs" and "paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer."

However experts say Willow is, for now, a largely experimental device, meaning a quantum computer powerful enough to solve a wide range of real-world problems is still years - and billions of dollars - away.

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Israel has confirmed it carried out attacks on Syria's naval fleet.

The BBC has verified videos showing blasts at the port of Latakia in Syria, with footage appearing to show extensive damage to ships and parts of the port.

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had documented more than 310 strikes by the Israel Defense Forces since the fall of the Assad regime on Sunday.

Israeli warplanes have also reportedly carried out hundreds of airstrikes across Syria, including on the capital, Damascus.

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A historic mass rape trail in France is drawing to its conclusion.

At the centre of it is 72-year-old grandmother Gisèle Pelicot.

Her husband of 50 years is accused of drugging her into unconsciousness and allowing strangers into the house where they allegedly raped her.

In his first UK broadcast interview, Gisèle Pelicot's lawyer Stéphane Babonneau has told BBC Newsnight about the impact the case has had on his client.

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Rupert Murdoch has lost a battle to change who controls the future of his media empire when he dies.

The case pitted the 93-year-old against three of his children over who would gain the power to control News Corp and Fox News.

It has been reported that Mr Murdoch wanted to amend a family trust created in 1999 to allow his son Lachlan to take control without "interference" from his siblings Prudence, Elisabeth and James.

But a Nevada commissioner ruled Mr Murdoch and Lachlan had acted in "bad faith" and called the efforts a "carefully crafted charade", according to New York Times.

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