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Last week Ukraine's popular ex-defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections, in what is widely seen as the biggest challenge to Volodymyr Zelensky's presidency since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022.

Zelensky, whose five-year presidential term ended in May 2024, has been under pressure from both Washington and Moscow to hold new elections, but they have been suspended until after the war is over. Fedorov says that corruption is depriving the military of weapons and making it harder for Kyiv to win the war, and that, "democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia”, although he tells the BBC that he had not himself seen the president engage in any corrupt activity.

The Global Story's Asma Khalid speaks to Vitaly Shevchenko from BBC Monitoring about where all this could lead.

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00:00 Introduction

02:48 Who is Mykhailo Fedorov?

06:42 How did Fedorov end up outside of Zelensky's Government?

11:17 How has this impacted Ukraine's war effort?

12:51 Fedorov calls for elections

14:10 Corruption in Ukraine

17:35 Zelensky's response

20:20 Zelensky's 'rocky' relationship with Donald Trump

21:59 Could Fedorov force, and win, an election?

23:26 The Trump effect

26:03 Fedorov interviewed

Hundreds of dentist practices are abandoning NHS work as the service drifts towards a two-tier system, new analysis has suggested.

Data analysed by the Nuffield Trust found that nearly 600 practices in England have withdrawn from NHS dentistry over the last 10 years. The decline has been particularly sharp in parts of the South West and East of England, raising concerns about growing inequalities in access to care.

The analysis suggested more than one in 10 dental practices that once offered NHS care no longer do so, leaving it near impossible for some communities to find NHS appointments.

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Twelve people have been arrested after a collision that killed seven people, including two police officers, Cleveland Police says.

Nine men and three women, aged 19 to 61, have been arrested across Teesside, England, on suspicion of offences including participating in the activities of an organised crime group.

Two police officers were killed when a Volkswagen Passat collided with their marked car around 03:30 BST on Saturday; the five people in the other vehicle were also killed.

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The BBC has been given a rare glimpse at how the Taliban is running Afghanistan, five years after it swept aside a US-backed government in the country to return to power.

In that time, women have been excluded from most workplaces, banned from universities and may not travel alone or visit parks and leisure centres.

In encounters spread over two years, the BBC gained unusual access to influential figures in the extreme Islamist movement, spending time with men who once planned suicide attacks or spent years in underground hideouts, but are now officials and soldiers.

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Andy Burnham has arrived in Kyiv for his first foreign visit as UK prime minister, where it is expected he will hand over blueprints so Ukraine can build its own long-range missiles.

It comes as the UK government has agreed to allow defence company MBDA to declassify information on UK components for the long-range Scalp missile – the French equivalent of the UK's Storm Shadow.

The prime minister will also chair his first meeting of the "coalition of the willing", set up by the UK and France under his predecessor, Sir Keir Starmer.

Last week, Moscow warned of "consequences" over the use of British drones by Ukraine in its recent ramping up of strikes on Russian infrastructure.

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The former Ukraine defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov has told the BBC he stands by his call for nationwide elections even though the country is at war.

Fedorov, a popular minister who modernised the military and pioneered drone warfare, was fired last month after reportedly falling out with the head of Ukraine's armed forces.

In a video released online earlier in the week, he said "democracy should not be the hostage of Putin" and accused individuals in the government of corruption.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he believes wartime elections would currently be too dangerous for Ukraine in remarks released on Sunday.

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Police have named the five people killed in a wrong-way collision that also killed two police officers on Saturday in Middlesbrough, UK.

Michael Robert Cahill, 23, Theo Rae, 17, Cole Robert Worthy, 17, Jacob Matusiak, 23, and Makai Saddington, 18 died in the crash.

Two serving Cleveland Police officers, PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough were also killed.

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The second edition of the World Humanoid Games kicked off in China on Saturday.

The competition will run for five days and has already included a robot running faster than Usain Bolt's 100m sprint world record.

Elsewhere at the event in Beijing, a robot performed Cristiano Ronaldo's iconic 'Siuuu' celebration on the football pitch and droids took part in synchronised marching at its opening ceremony.

Robots have also been competing in events including boxing, high jump and table tennis.

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When Trump Mobile was launched by President Trump's eldest sons in the summer of 2025, the company advertised that a "T1" smartphone would be built in the USA and shipped to customers within months.

Over the last year, key details about the phone's manufacture, design and delivery date have changed, and some customers are still waiting for their phones - as Thomas Copeland explains.

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Two officers killed in a car crash near Middlesbrough, which also killed five others have been named by police.

Chief Constable Victoria Fuller says PC Matthew Blades and PC Tom Clough "were brave officers protecting our communities.

The collision happened in South Bank, near Middlesbrough in Teesside when a car travelling the wrong way collided with a marked police vehicle.

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