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Today, the leader of the Unite union says Labour is not defending working people and they are turning away from the party "in droves".

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner was yesterday suspended by the union - and Unite’s General Secretary Sharon Graham says Labour should be ‘seriously concerned’ after the union voted to potentially rethink its relationship with the party, which could result in it formally cutting ties and funding.

And Paddy and Laura give an update on what we know what happened to the Air India plane crash that killed 260 people in June.

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Two Palestinians have been killed in an attack by Israeli settlers on a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry.

Sayfollah Musallet, a 20-year-old dual US citizen from Florida, was beaten to death during the incident on Friday evening in Sinjil, the ministry said.

The second man, Mohammed al-Shalabi, also 23, died after being shot in the chest, it added.

The Israeli military said stones were thrown at Israelis near Sinjil and "a violent confrontation developed in the area". It added that security forces were looking into the reports of one Palestinian being killed, and the incident involving the second was under review.

It comes as negotiations between Israel and Hamas on a new Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal are on the brink of collapse.

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At least 16 people, including 10 children, have died after an Israeli air strike hit a group of people queueing for aid in Gaza.

A mother lost two of her five sons in Thursday's Israeli strike, while a third was seriously wounded outside the Prjoect Hope-run Altayara health clinic in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza.

The Israeli military said it targeted a "Hamas terrorist" and that it regretted any harm to what it called "uninvolved individuals", while adding that the incident was under review.

Project Hope said the strike was "a blatant violation of international humanitarian law, and a stark reminder that no one and no place is safe in Gaza".

Meanwhile, ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas are on the brink of collapse, according to Palestinian officials.

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There were big promises of deals being struck around the world after Donald Trump announced his “reciprocal” tariffs back in April. But those promises - “90 deals in 90 days” - are yet to materialise and now the president has moved the deadline for those deals from July to August.

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​​The president said the plan was always to wait until August for tariffs to take effect, but not everyone’s convinced. Trump had already been give the ‘TACO’ nickname by Wall Street for not following through on his threats, and the latest delay on tariffs show the difficulty he’s having in bringing America’s trading partners on board.

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​​For this episode, Marianna and Anthony are joined by BBC Economics Editor Faisal Islam, who talks through how many countries are fighting back against the U.S, who may also start to feel pressure from his own supporters if prices continue to rise at home.

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India’s air accident investigation bureau's preliminary report into the Air India disaster says that one of the pilots turned off the fuel control switches shortly after take-off, cutting off fuel to the plane's engines and causing them to lose thrust. The report says it has found no significant faults with the plane.

More than 270 people died in the disaster when the Boeing Dreamliner 787 crashed moments after take off from Ahmedabad in India heading from the UK's Gatwick Airport.

The report says the cockpit voice recordings reveal that one pilot asked the other why they had activated the switches cutting off fuel to the engines.

The passenger jet came down in a densely-populated area less than a minute after clearing the runway, causing devastation and many deaths onthe ground.

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The preliminary report into the Air India crash last month has been released - and casts attention on the actions of the pilots.

Both fuel control switches - which are used to turn the engines off - were moved to the cut-off position, the report said.

In total, 260 people were killed in the incident after the plane plunged into neighbourhood in Ahmedabad, India.

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Today, as the UK faces the third heatwave already of the summer - is this the kind of summer we should expect in future?

Adam is joined by Jordan Dunbar, one of the hosts of the Climate Question podcast and Sarah Keith-Lucas lead weather presenter for the BBC. They discuss when hot weather becomes a heatwave, how prepared the UK is and whether travel habits will change as a result.

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Donald Trump is visiting flood-ravaged central Texas, where 120 people were killed last weekend and another 161 are still missing.

The US president and First Lady Melania Trump are expected to meet with first responders and families in Kerrville.

Their visit comes as questions mount over the response from authorities, and what warnings residents received.

The White House rejected suggestions that budget cuts at the National Weather Service (NWS) could have inhibited the disaster response.

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Is Donald Trump changing his rhetoric on Ukraine? Has he directed allies in Congress to accelerate a new sanctions package targeting Russia? And could infighting among high-ranking Ukrainian officials prove to be a damaging distraction in their country’s war effort?

The BBC’s Lucy Hockings, James Waterhouse and Vitaly Shevchenko answer all that, and consider the delicate diplomatic balance Turkey is attempting to strike during this conflict.

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Doctors have warned of an imminent disaster at Gaza's largest functioning hospital because of critical shortage of fuel and a widening Israeli ground offensive in the southern city of Khan Younis.

Nasser Medical Complex was forced to stop admitting patients on Thursday, when witnesses said Israeli troops and tanks advanced into a cemetery 200m (660ft) away and fired towards nearby camps for displaced families.

The forces reportedly withdrew on Friday after digging up several areas.

Medical staff and dozens of patients in intensive care remain inside the hospital, where the fuel shortage threatens to shut down life-saving services.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military. However, it said on Friday morning that an armoured brigade was operating in Khan Younis to dismantle "terrorist infrastructure sites" and confiscate weapons.

It has previously issued evacuation orders for the areas around the hospital.

The UN Human rights office has also said almost 800 people have been killed while trying to receive food aid in Gaza, since late May.

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