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Can you drink alcohol on weight loss jabs? Do they cause hair loss? And are the new pills just as effective as injections?

In June 2026, the UK's medicines regulator approved the first GLP-1 weight-loss pill, adding to a fast-growing range of treatments that are changing how obesity is managed.

But alongside all the hype, there's also a lot of confusion.

BBC Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes answers the biggest questions people are asking about GLP-1 medicines.

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0:00 Intro

1:00 How do they work?

1:57 How quickly do they start to work?

2:41 How do the pills compare with the injections?

4:08 Can I get them on the NHS?

5:53 How much do they cost privately?

6:23 Do they work without diet and exercise?

7:23 Why am I not losing weight on them?

8:16 What are the common side effects?

8:48 Are there serious risks?

9:27 Do they cause muscle or hair loss?

10:02 Can they affect fertility?

10:46 Can you take them while pregnant?

11:18 What happens when you stop taking them?

12:22 Will I have to take them forever?

12:53 Are there fake weight-loss jabs or pills being sold online?

13:55 Outro

A drone has hit a busy beach in southern Russia, exploding in a fireball on impact. The local governor said seven people including three children were killed and 40 injured.

He accused Ukraine of "a deliberate strike on civilians, while Russia's foreign ministry called it an act of terrorism. Ukraine has not commented. Both Ukraine and Russia deny targeting civilians deliberately.

In social media footage verified by the BBC, a drone can be seen hurtling towards a cliffside before exploding on the beach below as tourists look on from the shore and in the water.

It is unclear what the drone was targeting. Some Ukrainian Telegram channels have claimed it crashed onto the beach as a result of electronic warfare which jammed the drone's signal. Several eyewitnesses were quoted by Russian media as saying gunfire preceded the explosion, indicating that the drone may have been shot down.

The crash occurred on a beach near the village of Arkhipo-Osipovka on the Black Sea. With its warm climate, long beaches and developed tourist infrastructure it is a popular holiday destination for Russians, in particular since sanctions have curtailed international travel for many.

In the last year Ukraine has had increasing success in carrying out long-range strikes deep into Russia, hitting energy infrastructure and commercial warehouses it says are used for military purposes. These strikes have caused civilian deaths, with eight people in different Russian cities killed at the weekend.

Russia has repeatedly launched attacks on residential areas and cities from the start of its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, killing and injuring many civilians.

Recent Ukrainian strikes have targeted warehouses belonging to Wildberries – a large online retailer known as the "Russian Amazon". Kyiv says Wildberries depots are used to supply the Russian military, which Moscow denies.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by James Landale and Steve Rosenberg.

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Reform UK have announced plans to use the Navy to stop small boat crossings.

They suggest, that if they are elected, military personnel would accompany migrants back across the English channel, overriding French objections if necessary.

Their opponents have said the plans are unworkable and come at a time when the party has been under pressure.

Nigel Farage has been facing questions about his handling of donations and the party’s finances have been under wider scrutiny.

James and Henry unpack the policy and look at why Reform has had a difficult summer.

Plus, what happened when around 60,000 migrants tried to cross into Spanish territory from Morocco in one go?

James is joined by Aitor Hernández-Morales, senior reporter at Politico and Greg Holyoke, Middle East North Africa specialist for BBC Monitoring to discuss Thursday’s migration crisis in Ceuta.

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00:00 Introduction

00:43 What have Reform UK announced?

05:15 Are their plans legal?

10:55 Nigel Farage asked about party finances

12:55 Will Reform and Restore form an alliance?

16:02 Thousands of migrants cross into Ceuta

21:40 Why have they crossed over?

28:40 What have Spain and the EU said?

Iran says it is negotiating with Oman to reach "an understanding" over a temporary route through the Strait of Hormuz to allow commercial shipping to resume.

The statement came after US President Donald Trump said new talks on ending the war in Iran would begin on Monday - and that he had called off "massive" strikes on the country for this purpose.

Trump did not specify who would take part in the talks. Iran, however, said it was not negotiating with the US - and had no plans to do so.

Tehran's denial appears to have enraged the US president, who later wrote on his Truth Social media platform that Iran's leadership was "unbelievably duplicitous".

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South Korea has had its hottest day since records began. Sunday was the fifth day in a row that the country reached more than 40C degrees.

Heatwaves are still having a huge impact in Europe - with Italy putting nearly all of its major cities on the highest "red" alert for high temperatures.

So - how much of the world is being impacted - and what happens next?

00:48 Where has been hit

01:06 Washington State fires

02:42 Record South Korea temperature

03:39 Europe fires latest

05:11 How much of the world is affected?

06:05 How unusual is this heat?

06:37 Implications - Hungary power

08:17 Implications - food and farming

09:43 Is this world heating up?

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The president of Fifa, Gianni Infantino, is under increasing pressure over his now-cancelled plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and other tournaments.

The European football confederation UEFA has said it has no confidence in him, and is threatening legal action. The football associations of Wales, Finland, Sweden and Serbia have withdrawn their support for his re-election as president, and England's football association is set to follow suit.

The BBC's sports reporter Joe Lynskey tells us how Mr Infantino has won favour with football authorities over his decade running Fifa - and what it will take for him to hang on now.

We also hear about Infantino's close relationship with US President Donald Trump, whose extended family was linked to Fifa's partial privatisation plans. The main investor was due to be Joshua Kushner, whose brother Jared Kushner is President Trump's son-in-law.

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00:00 Introduction

00:21 The backlash against Infantino

02:22 Infantino's past controversies

06:03 How has Infantino remained popular until now?

07:15 Can Infantino survive the backlash?

09:20 How damaging has this been for Fifa?

On February 28th, in the opening hours of the first day of the US-Israel war against Iran, an attack on a school in the southern city of Minab killed 156 people, including 120 children.

To date, it is the deadliest single incident for civilians during the Iran war.

Experts say the school was hit by a precision guided Tomahawk missile - a weapon that neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess.

Yet five months on, the US government has not formally accepted responsibility.

The Global Story's Asma Khalid speaks to the BBC’s senior international investigations correspondent, Nawal Al-Maghafi, who recently returned from Iran where she visited Minab and met with survivors of the strike and the families of those who were killed.

She also speaks to the BBC’s State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman, about his attempts to get answers from US officials.

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00:00 Introduction

01:20 Inside Iran

05:42 Hearing from different sides in Iran

06:40 What happened when the school was bombed?

10:06 The impact on the community

15:17 Frustrations with the war in Iran

16:45 Who could be responsible for striking the school?

21:30 US statements on activity in the Iran war

22:42 Questions over timing of the school strike

23:39 Trump administration comments

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An apparent Ukrainian drone strike has hit a warehouse belonging to Wildberries - often called "Russia's Amazon".

 

Video showed an explosion near a warehouse in the Vladimir region, about 112 miles (180km) east of Moscow.

 

Wildberries is Russia's biggest online retailer - its parent group is valued at about $12.6bn (£9.3bn) - and has been repeatedly hit by Ukraine in recent weeks.

 

Ukraine said the depots are used to supply the Russian military - a claim Russia has denied.

 

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Doctors have used ground-breaking surgery on an unborn baby to successfully correct a birth defect while he was still inside the womb.

Baby Theo had gastroschisis, where the belly button does not develop properly, causing the intestines to grow externally.

Watch how this pioneering surgery unfolded.

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Hundreds of people have lost their homes and thousands more have been evacuated from the path of extreme wildfires in and around Spokane, in the US state of Washington.

Officials say it's currently the biggest wildfire emergency in the United States, and among the worst disasters in the city's history.

Washington's governor Ben Ferguson said he's spoken with President Trump, who, he says, expressed concern about the situation.

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