Radio National Breakfast

The Washington Post has confirmed hundreds of journalists have lost their jobs with the paper's sports, local news, and international sections, hardest hit.

The paper which is owned by billionaire Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, laid off about 30 per cent of its 800-strong newsroom amid massive annual losses in the tens of millions of dollars.

• Guest: Jeremy Barr, Guardian US Media Reporter
• Producers: Tyler Hall, Pip Cook, Oscar Coleman

After two days of talking in Abu Dhabi, Russia and Ukraine have agreed to more talks.The Russian and Ukrainian delegations were joined overnight by US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The meeting came after a Russian attack on Ukraine's power grid on Tuesday the biggest in over a year. 

So what have the talks achieved? 

• Guest: Kira Rudik, Ukrainian MP and leader of the Holos party
• Producer: Pip Cook

UN Commissioner Chris Sidoti is leading calls for Australia to arrest the President of Israel Isaac Herzog when he lands in the country this weekend. 

Ahead of the visit, Mr Sidoti shares why he thinks Australia is obliged to act on the head of state's comments about Gaza. We'll get a response from the Foreign Minister Penny Wong and a senior Liberal shadow minister. 

Then, the list of the world's rich and powerful who had alleged links to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is growing as journalists continue to sift through millions of unclassified documents released by the U-S government last week.

And what do you know about Claude AI? We'll find out why its rattled investors around the world. 

Recap the morning's news, politics and global affairs with the Breakfast Wrap.

The United Nations says it will run out of money if countries, namely the United States, do not pay their annual dues which amount to billions of dollars.

The organisation has long faced financial struggles, but insiders warn the new Trump administration is pushing it to the edge.

• Guest: Richard Gowan, head of global issues and institutions at the International Crisis Group
• Producer: Pip Cook

Schoolkids are into the groove of another school year but the startling state of some children's lunch boxes prompted one teacher to write to the ABC with this observation: "one of the most shocking lunches I continually witness from a struggling family was a party pack of salt and vinegar chips or dorritoes." [sic]

While cost and a lack of understanding of healthy eating are known issues, Australia is one of the few high income countries that doesn't have a national school lunch program.

But in Tasmania, dozens of schools and thousands of children are now part of a healthy school lunch program which is also changing how children think about food and improving student behaviour. 

• Guest: Julie Dunbabin, creator of the school lunch program run by School Food Matters in Tasmania 

After months of tense negotiations, the states and territories have been able to secure a deal with the Commonwealth on public hospital funding.

This comes as hospitals around the country face costly bed blocks as patients vie for limited aged care and NDIS placements.

So what does this reality look like for public hospitals in Queensland?

• Guest: Keiran Keyes, chief executive of the Townsville Hospital and Health Service
• Producer: Grace Stranger

Chris Sidoti has said President Herzog should be arrested for the crime of incitement to genocide when he arrives on his visit to Australia next week.

Shadow Minister for Education and a Jewish member of Parliament, Julian Leeser gives his view.

• Guest: Julian Leeser, Shadow Minister for Education
• Producer: Isadora Bogle

Human right lawyer Chris Sidoti says the Israeli President  should be arrested for the crime of incitement to genocide when he arrives on his visit to Australia next week.

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Penny Wong, gives her view.

• GUEST: Penny Wong, Minister for Foreign Affairs
• PRODUCER: Isadora Bogle

US President Donald Trump says "Republicans ought to nationalise the voting", taking constitutionally enshrined powers away from the states. 

Congressional leaders from both parties have said they do not favour the idea.

This weekend, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog will land in Australia to honour the victims of the Bondi terror attack in December

Ahead of the visit calls have intensified for the arrest of the Israeli head of state for allegedly inciting genocide. 

• Guest: Chris Sidoti, Commissioner on the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
• Producers: Eleni Psaltis and Joe Sullivan