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After the announcement that Reform UK leader Nigel Farage would quit his Clacton constituency and stand in a by-election, the serial election candidate Count Binface posted online: "Game on, Nige."

Jonathan Harvey, the man who dresses as a bin, spoke to BBC Breakfast.

He is one of few people saying he will run against Farage in the contest after Labour, the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats all said they would not field candidates.

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The NHS needs more staff. So why are healthcare grads in Wales struggling to find jobs?

For students like Lorna, years of training haven't led to the career they expected.

She’s trained to save lives but has been left unemployed. So what's behind this growing NHS graduate jobs crisis? And what does it mean for the rest of UK?

In this video:

00:00 - Job for life? Not anymore

01:24 - Meet Lorna, a student paramedic

01:49 - Graduate roles explained

02:48 - 'Disappointed, angry, upset'

04:03 - NHS under pressure

05:12 - Lorna on the impact of long ambulance wait times

06:10 - Vacancies explained

06:39 - So why can't we hire all healthcare graduates?

11:29 - Career bottlenecks

12:32 - The wider impact of the recruitment crisis

14:20 - The human Impact

14:48 - Lorna on what she'll do next

15:29 - Grads, please get in touch

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As Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky attends the Nato summit in Turkey, Russia's war effort appears to be under increasing pressure. Ukraine's drone and missile strikes have reached deep into Russian territory, targeting oil refineries around Moscow and St Petersburg, and leading to widespread fuel shortages and rationing.

But will this push Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table for peace talks, as Kyiv hopes? Or will the Russian leader maintain, or even expand, his war aims?

At the Nato summit, President Donald Trump told Mr Zelensky that he would give Ukraine permission to build its own Patriot missile systems. But he has also been speaking to Mr Putin, as Kyiv and the Kremlin compete for Mr Trump's attention.

We speak to the BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale, in Washington.

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00:00 Introduction

00:21 Who is winning the war in Ukraine?

01:47 Russia's fuel shortage

03:28 Could Putin attack another European country?

05:35 Putin and Trump

06:46 Is Putin losing support in Russia?

08:06 Ukraine presses its advantage

US President Donald Trump said he thinks the US-Iran ceasefire is “over" after both countries exchanged attacks.

Trump - who is at the Nato summit in Turkey - said of the Iranian leadership: "I don't want to deal with them anymore, they're scum. They're sick people, they're led by sick people.”

He added that negotiators on both sides could continue to talk, but "I think they're wasting their time”.

Late on Tuesday, the US said it had fired at more than 80 Iranian targets.

In response, Iran said it was targeting US military sites in Bahrain and Kuwait.

The US strikes on Tuesday followed attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has not directly claimed responsibility.

Last month, Tehran and Washington signed a memorandum of understanding, which extended the ceasefire and aimed to end the conflict "on all fronts”.

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Drugs gangs are flooding the north of England with cheap cannabis grown overseas and sold to mimic slickly marketed, legal marijuana from the United States, a BBC investigation has learned.

A thriving black market for "Cali weed" - high-potency strains originally cultivated in licensed dispensaries in California - has prompted an unprecedented wave of smuggling from dealers growing it in countries including Thailand.

One dealer boasted he made massive profits importing cannabis and described how he sent drug couriers from Thailand to the UK, even though he knew "most will get caught".

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WARNING: This video discusses violence and sexual assault.

A new investigation by the BBC has uncovered details about secret prisons in Russia and Russian-occupied Ukraine, where the torture and ill-treatment of civilians is "systematic and widespread" according to the United Nations. Former detainees have described beatings, mock executions and sexual violence. The allegations date back to 2014, when the Kremlin annexed Crimea and occupied territory in Donetsk and Luhansk.

We speak to reporter Tania Kharchenko. She has interviewed one Ukrainian woman, Liudmyla, who was seized off the street and sent to prison for three years.

The BBC tried to contact the men accused of carrying out abuses as guards at these prisons, but they did not respond. The Russian Embassy in the UK said Russia had "consistently advocated respect for international law and the rule of law" and allegations of crimes during the Ukraine conflict "are documented and investigated".

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Today Nigel Farage resigns as an MP, triggering a by-election in Clacton which he says he plans to stand in. He is currently facing an ongoing parliamentary standards investigation into whether he should have declared a £5 million gift he received from the cryptocurrency billionaire Christopher Harborne.

Making the announcement in a statement streamed online, Farage said that he had done “nothing wrong” and that he needed the money to pay for security. He accused Sky News of harassing his family and said that standards regulations had been weaponised by the “establishment.” Calling the by-election “people versus the establishment”, Mr Farage said “the people of Clacton should be the judges of my actions.”

Adam, Alex and Chris unpack what the move might mean.

00:00 Intro

00:34 Why is Nigel Farage resigning as MP?

01:56 Farage's announcement

07:49 Who else is standing in Clacton?

14:20 Will Burnham and Farage compete for our attention?

20:14 A new side of Nigel Farage?

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As Nato leaders meet in Ankara, is Russia eyeing-up these four strategic locations, as a means of testing Nato's defences?

Defence spending and procurement is top of the agenda at the summit in the Turkish capital, but how vulnerable is Nato's eastern flank? And how can they help replenish Ukraine's depleted air defences without the United States?

This is The Security Brief with Christian Fraser and Mikey Kay.

00:00-00:45 INTRODUCTION

00:45-02:54 HOW MUCH DO NATO MEMBERS SPEND?

02:54-06:36 CAN EUROPE MEET DEFENCE COMMITMENTS?

06:36-11:04 WHY CAN'T EUROPE FILL THE PRODUCTION GAP?

11:04-15:24 WHAT IS EUROPE'S STRATEGIC WEAKNESS?

15:24-18:26 ​THE FOUR LOCATIONS RUSSIA COULD TEST NATO

18:26-18:52 THE SECURITY BRIEF SPEAKS TO SWEDEN'S PM

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A secret inquiry by MI5's watchdog concluded the security service knew an abusive agent it defended in court was a misogynist who was "obsessed" with violence, the BBC can reveal.

The inquiry took place after BBC News originally exposed how MI5 had covered up for the man - a neo-Nazi informant known publicly as agent X.

The government took the BBC to court in 2022 in a failed attempt to block our investigation, but it won agent X legal anonymity.

That year, the BBC first reported how the MI5 spy had used his status to coercively control his girlfriend, including attacking her with a machete, before moving abroad to continue intelligence work while he was still under investigation.

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Ukraine's president plans to use the Nato meeting in Turkey to urge Kyiv's allies to deliver the air defence systems it urgently needs to protect it from escalating Russian attacks.

Volodymyr Zelensky's call for help rings with extra intensity after Russian missiles rained down on the Ukrainian capital twice in less than a week, crashing into blocks of flats and killing more than 50 civilians.

The summit in Ankara will also be a chance for Zelensky to hold a crucial meeting with US President Donald Trump and press home his case that Russia's "brutal" attacks are a show of weakness, not strength, and that Vladimir Putin should be pressured into talks towards a "dignified" peace.

The latest strikes on Ukraine come as it has been stepping up its own long-range drone attacks against Russia, hitting oil refineries and military targets there and causing significant fuel shortages and power cuts.

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