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A cyber-criminal who spent almost 10 years on the FBI's most wanted list has been speaking to the BBC in an exclusive interview from prison.

Vyacheslav Penchukov, known as Tank, was the leader of two separate hacking gangs accused of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from people around the world.

BBC Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy has been telling the Global News Podcast about his exclusive interview with the jailed hacking kingpin.

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BBC chairman Samir Shah has apologised for a Panorama documentary which edited a clip of a speech by Donald Trump, calling it an "error of judgement".

"We accept that the way the speech was edited did give the impression of a direct call for violent action," Shah said in a letter to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

Both the BBC's director general Tim Davie and head of news Deborah Turness resigned on Sunday following criticism that the programme, aired in October 2024, gave the impression Trump explicitly encouraged the Capital Hill riot in January 2021 by placing two different parts of the speech together.

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From the spectacular break-in at the Louvre to the rise of mobile phone snatching on the streets of London, Ben Thompson and Talking Business examine some of the global and economic forces behind the rise in theft.

Why are those involved in these thefts finding it so easy to steal and sell our possessions?

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Syria's President Ahmed Sharaa has arrived in Washington for an official visit, just two days after the US formally revoked his status as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

The former Islamist militant will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, 11 months after his rebel alliance ousted Bashar al-Assad.

Hours before his arrival in the US capital it was announced that Syrian security services had detained dozens of suspected members of the so-called Islamic State group.

Joint efforts to tackle what remains of the group in Syria are expected to be high on the agenda during Sharaa's talks with Trump.

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US senators have passed a deal that paves the way to ending the longest government shutdown in the country’s history.

A group of Democratic lawmakers backed an agreement negotiated with Republicans in the Senate.

After 40 days of stalemate, this is the first sign of any progress. But the deal still needs to pass the House, and Democrats opposed to it in the Senate could slow the process down.

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The BBC's director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have resigned, following criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers when editing a speech by US President Donald Trump.

The Telegraph newspaper published details of a leaked internal BBC memo which suggested the BBC's Panorama programme edited two parts of the US president's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

UK political leaders expressed hope the resignations would lead to change, while Trump welcomed the decision in a statement on his Truth social platform.

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The resignation of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness came after The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting Panorama edited a Donald Trump speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

In a statement, Davie said: "Overall the BBC is delivering well, but there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility".

UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has welcomed Davie's resignation and thanked him for his leadership of the BBC through a period of "significant change".

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said it's right that Davie and Turness have resigned, but added there has been a "catalogue of serious failures that runs far deeper".

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Note: This episode of Newscast was recorded before the resignation of Tim Davie, director general of the BBC, and Deborah Turness, the CEO of BBC News.

Today, Laura spoke to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy, who said she retained confidence in the BBC’s leadership, as the corporation prepared to apologise over the way it edited a Donald Trump speech.

Adam and Henry discuss the political ramifications of that interview, as well as other accusations made in the letter by Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the BBC’s editorial guidelines and standards committee.

BBC chair Samir Shah will provide a response to the Culture, Media and Sport Committee on Monday.

Plus, we learned today that UK military personnel and equipment are being sent to Belgium to help it bolster its defences after drones were spotted near the main airport, Zavantem. But how much do we know about the drones and their origin?

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BBC director general Tim Davie and CEO of News Deborah Turness have resigned over a US President Donald Trump documentary edit.

It comes after The Telegraph published details of a leaked internal BBC memo suggesting Panorama edited two parts of Trump's speech together so he appeared to explicitly encourage the Capitol Hill riots of January 2021.

In a statement, Davie said "there have been some mistakes made and as director general I have to take ultimate responsibility”.

The leaked memo came from Michael Prescott, a former independent external adviser to the broadcaster's editorial standards committee.

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More than 900,000 people in the Philippines have been evacuated as a super typhoon called Fung-wong arrives.

Two people have died since it made landfall in the Philippines. It comes just days after an earlier storm, Kalmaegi, left devastation and nearly 200 people dead.

The storm has sustained winds of around 185 km/h (115mph) and gusts of 230km/h (143mph). The country's meteorological service has warned of destructive winds and "high-risk of life-threatening and damaging storm surge".

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