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As Israeli strikes have intensified in Lebanon, reporter William Christou has been travelling around the country witnessing the destruction in some of the hardest hit places. In just three weeks more than 1,000 people have been killed, including 121 children. And, as the military bombs vital bridges, Israeli leaders have made no secret of their plan to occupy large parts of southern Lebanon. He speaks to Nour Haydar.

Australia is facing skyrocketing oil prices and demand, as supply is blocked at the strait of Hormuz amid the US and Israel’s war on Iran. With only 30 days of supply onshore, the International Energy Agency says this crunch is worse than the fuel crisis Australia faced in 1979. Business editor Jonathan Barrett and political editor Tom McIlroy join Reged Ahmad to discuss the scale of the economic pain to come, and whether the government will use this moment as an opportunity for bold reform

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation surged ahead of the Liberal party and secured seats in both sides of the South Australian parliament in the recent state election. It’s the first time the rightwing anti-immigration party has won a lower-house seat outside Queensland, leaving many asking whether the fringe party has gone mainstream and whether the weekend’s election result will be replicated in other states. Tory Shepherd and Dan Jervis-Bardy talk to Nour Haydar about whether the SA result will lead to more culture wars and anti-migrant rhetoric nationally

Lucia Osborne-Crowley on what we should learn from Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes

In 2019, a white supremacist murdered 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in what was New Zealand’s worst mass shooting. On the seventh anniversary of the terror attack, New Zealanders gathered once again to commemorate the tragedy. But in Australia, some say we have yet to reckon with the massacre, which was perpetrated by a man raised and radicalised in Australia. Imam Alaa Elzokm and investigations reporter Ariel Bogle speak to Reged Ahmad about why Australia struggles to confront its connection to the massacre and what could be done to confront Islamophobia

The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to raise interest rates once again amid surging costs of living and the war on Iran. Independent economist Nicki Hutley says perhaps it’s time the RBA takes its own advice

On the evening of 29 December 2011, police officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in. They shot him several times, then took off with his gun and police star. A week later, police had their suspects: four men affiliated with a gang called the Spanish Cobras. For hours, under intense police questioning, they all said they didn’t do it. But that didn’t seem to matter. This is episode one of Off Duty, an investigation by the Guardian’s Melissa Segura

Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry examine the fuel crisis and whether the Australian public will blame the Albanese government for the growing economic fallout from Trump’s war on Iran. They also discuss Liberal MP Andrew Hastie’s criticism of – and distancing from – the US president, the RBA’s raising of the cash rate and why the treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is ‘opening the door’ for a recession

Josephine Tovey speaks with Mike Ticher and Sarah Martin about why the electorate is flocking to the rightwing political movement, and what major parties can do to win voters back

The Reform UK leader has a lucrative extra gig sending paid-for Cameo messages. But an analysis of more than 4,000 show they include videos for a neo-Nazi group and a rioter. Henry Dyer reports