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King Charles III led the UK in a two-minute silence at 11:00 GMT on Sunday during the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph.

He laid a wreath at the monument in central London as part of the service to remember those who died in conflict.

Services also took place in communities across the UK, including in Edinburgh, Belfast and Cardiff.

Some 10,000 armed forces veterans took part in the Royal British Legion's march-past through Whitehall, alongside around 20 World War Two veterans.

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Today, the BBC announced that Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to unveil a major shake-up of the immigration and asylum system modelled on the Danish system, which is seen as one of the toughest in Europe.

Political correspondent Iain Watson joins Laura and Adam in the studio to tell them about his trip to Denmark where he’s been speaking to the people responsible for, and affected by, those reforms.

Also, Laura has interviewed the mother who is taking legal action against the company behind a chat bot which, she says, encouraged her 14 year old son to take his own life. We discuss some of the implications that AI could have for vulnerable people in the future, and how politicians might handle it.

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Sudan's ambassador to the US has called for concrete steps against countries that back the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), following widespread reports of atrocities carried out by its fighters in the city of el-Fasher.

The RSF denies those reports.

The RSF has agreed to a proposal from the US for a humanitarian ceasefire, the group said on Thursday. Sudan's military-led government has not yet responded.

The two sides have been embroiled in a civil war that has killed at least 150,000 people and forced 12 million others from their homes since it erupted in April 2023.

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The biggest city in the US has its first Muslim and first South Asian mayor.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's bold, left-wing platform has energised progressives, shaken up his Democratic Party, and drawn harsh criticism from President Donald Trump.

"Today we have spoken in a clear voice: hope is alive," Mamdani told supporters after triumphing in the contest on Wednesday.

The BBC's North America Correspondent Anthony Zurcher takes a look at who he is, how he got here, and what he hopes to do.

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00:37 - 01:20: NYC's first Muslim mayor

01:20 - 01:35: Where is Mamdani from?

01:35 - 01:51: Mamdani's rap career

01:51 - 02:13: Is Mamdani married?

02:13 - 02:48: What are Mamdani's plans for New York City?

02:48 - 03:03: Mamdani's views on Israel/Gaza

03:10 - 03:37: Trump's reaction to Mamdani

03:37 - 03:59: Can Mamdani run for president?

Donald Trump has exempted Hungary from sanctions over its continued purchases of Russian oil and gas for one year, a White House official has confirmed to BBC News.

Earlier, the US president said he would consider an opt-out for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a close Trump ally who has maintained good relations with Russia throughout the Ukraine war.

Speaking on Friday during Orban's visit to the White House, Trump said an exemption was under consideration because "it's very difficult for him [Orban] to get the oil and gas from other areas".

It comes after the US effectively blacklisted two of Russia's largest oil companies last month, threatening sanctions on those who buy from them.

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For the first time since Donald Trump's re-election there is renewed optimism among Democrats, after Zohran Mamdani and other candidates won big.

Alongside the win in New York and the governor races in New Jersey and West Virginia, the party also won important – albeit less glamorous – races in Pennsylvania and Georgia.

In this episode, Justin, Anthony and Sarah are joined by Jim Messina, a Democrat strategist and former deputy chief of staff to Barack Obama. He gives his take on what he thinks lies behind Tuesday’s wins, what he thinks the party has learned since 2024 and whether he agrees with Prop 50 - the redistricting measures passed in California to redraw the state’s political lines to favour Democrats.

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McDonald's will bring in new sexual harassment training for managers in strengthened measures agreed with the equality watchdog to protect its staff from abuse.

The move was "in response to serious allegations raised", the watchdog said, after it initially intervened in the company.

A BBC investigation two years ago was told that workers, some as young as 17, were being groped and harassed.

Earlier this year, McDonald's staff told us they still faced sexual abuse and harassment.

McDonald's said it welcomed the new measures, adding that they would "build on the significant progress we have already made in this space".

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Sir Stephen Fry, actor, comedian and recent star of 'Celebrity Traitors', joins the renowned Canadian computer scientist and 'Godfather of AI' Yoshua Bengio.

They discuss their shared concern about the development of advanced AI systems. Does the world need a red telephone, as introduced in the nuclear era? What are the dangers of people forming emotional attachments with machines? And where do the solutions lie?

This week presenter Christian Fraser is joined by regular host Dr Stephanie Hare.

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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said this week that there are 170,000 Russian troops on the outskirts of Pokrovsk, a logistical hub in the Donetsk region which it has been targeting for more than a year. Meanwhile, on the diplomatic front, some analysts are pointing to Turkey’s apparent pivot away from Russian oil purchases as evidence that new US sanctions are beginning to bite.

To answer your questions, Lucy Hockings is joined in the Ukrainecast studio by the BBC’s Europe digital editor Paul Kirby and senior digital journalist Laura Gozzi, as well as diplomatic correspondent James Landale from Kyiv. Could Ukraine develop its own nuclear weapons? Will a Swedish aircraft become a gamechanger? And would the seizure of frozen Russian assets held in Belgium really discourage external investment in Europe?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he is "angry and frustrated" over the mistaken release of two prisoners from Wandsworth jail, just a month after another prisoner was accidentally released in Chelmsford. A BBC Question Time audience members asks: "How hard can it be to keep the correct prisoners in prison?", featuring Labour's Anna Turley, Conservative Graham Stuart, Trades Union Congress General Secretary Paul Nowak and journalist Tim Stanley

Catch up with the whole of the debate with BBC Question Time on iPlayer and Sounds now.

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