Nexus

On the back of Andrew Tate's release and transition to house arrest, Nexus speaks exclusively to Tam Khan, one of his closest friends and why he now believes Tate that the 'Matrix' is out to kill him. And while Romanian prosecutors suspect the Tate brothers of all sorts of crimes- including rape and human trafficking so far they've not charged them with anything and have until June if they want to bring him to trial.

Five British MPs have been caught on camera salivating over the chance to make well over $10,000 a day! Led by Donkeys, an anti-Brexit group, set up the sting operation. Although the MPs, including Kwasi Kwarteng, Gavin Williamson, and the already scandal-hit Matt Hancock, did nothing illegal, it raises the question as to whether MPs should have second jobs. Considering this expose occurred during the country's cost of living crisis, for many Brits, the whole thing smells really, really bad.

The contest to replace Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland’s first minister has been a pretty nasty affair - especially for Kate Forbes. The committed Christian was well-ahead of her rivals until she revealed her rather traditional views on same sex marriage and other social affairs. Many of her own Scottish Nationalist Party colleagues turned on her as did a good chunk of the press. With just three candidates left in the race, we asked our panel if any of them can unite the party and resurrect the case for independence.

This week on the Nexus, we’re looking at the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence. With the launch of Chat GPT - it’s clear the technology is coming on fast. The online tool is great for research but where does it end? As AI becomes more powerful will it end up taking our jobs? Could it even end up becoming more powerful than humans? We put these questions and many more to our panel of experts.

Journalist Isabel Oakeshott leaked 100,000 of the former health secretary, Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages to The Daily Telegraph, which exposed to the UK public the allegedly scandalous conduct of the government during the pandemic. For example, they reveal that Hancock wanted to 'scare the pants off everyone' to get the public to comply with COVID lockdown rules. But since Hancock trusted Oakeshott with these messages, did she breach journalistic ethics by compromising her source?

George Santos, a Republican congressman, was elected late last year as a representative for New York's 3rd congressional district. He spun an elaborate web of lies to boost his career, which are all unravelling. There are bipartisan efforts calling on him to resign. Among others, we speak to Barbara Hurdas, a former work colleague of the disgraced Congressman and Dr. Christian Hart, a psychologist who will help us understand why Santos felt the need to lie compulsively

Andrew Tate thinks they're trying to kill him and make it look like a suicide. The suspicious deaths of Jeffrey Epstein and more recently John McAfee WHILE IN PRISON suggest he MAY have a point. Can Romania keep him safe in jail? We hear from top human rights lawyers.

Another day, another scandal in British politics... We explain why Prime Minister Rishi Sunak had to fire Nadhim Zahawi, one of his most high profile ministers. Zahawi's been forced to pay a massive tax settlement, a scandal in itself. But what settled his fate was the threats of legal action he made to journalists trying to investigate the story. On our panel this week are former tax inspector Ray McCann, plus political commentators Andre Walker and Ella Whelan.

Sicilian mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro is finally behind bars, after 30 years on the run. This week Nexus finds out the inside story behind his arrest, speaking to former mafia boss Marisa Merico. She tells us about life running the family business. We also hear from Edoardo Zaffuto, who founded an Anti-Mafia organisation, and Felia Allum, an expert on organised crime.

This week on Nexus, we look at Prince Harry's candid memoir Spare. It has fast become the best-selling non-fiction title in the UK. While the Royal Family has mostly maintained a dignified silence about its salacious revelations, many of the media have not. The Prince, once a favourite of the tabloids and the public alike, now ranks as one of the least popular royals. And that's only going to get worse. Alongside claims many dismiss as whining, Prince Harry revealed he had killed 25 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. The Taliban say this is an admission of a war crime, while the media say it puts more British lives at risk. Helping us get to the bottom of these revelations is an expert panel including an Afghan government advisor, Meghan Markle's former bodyguard and Philip Ingram, a former British army colonel and two Royal experts.

But amidst the silence of the Royal Family, there has been a lot of outrage in the national press as many criticise his constant complaining as indulgent as millions of ordinary Britons endure an unprecedented cost of living crisis. We speak to Meghan Markle's former bodyguard Steve Davies and ask whether the revelations, for example plans of Buckingham Palace and 25 Taliban killed will endanger Prince Harry, Meghan and the rest of the Royal Family.