With starvation spreading across Gaza, over a thousand Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid, according to the UN. As negotiations over another ceasefire founder, will there be anything - or anyone - left to save?

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Guest: Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: CNN, BBC, CBS, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, PBS, ABC, FOX, Parliamenttv.live, ITV, YouTube / @politicsJOE.

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With Britain’s resident doctors due to walk off the job tomorrow, the government is planning changes to the law that could make this kind of strike more common.

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Guest: Eleanor Hayward, Health Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Hannah Varrall.

Read more: How much do resident doctors earn? The BMA’s claims examined

Clips: Labour Party, PoliticsJoe, The BMJ, BMAtv, BBC, Sky News.

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With President Trump due to touch down on British soil this week, he seems unable to escape the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. So why is Trump finding this story so hard to shake?

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Guest: Katy Balls, Washington Editor and Columnist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones. 

Producer: Edith Rousselot.

Read more: 

• Jeffrey Epstein is a dead weight Trump needs to shake off
• Why Maga won’t let Trump ignore his Epstein problem

Clips: ABC News, @AcountableGop account via X, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, The New York Times, Tucker Carlson via YouTube. 

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After last week’s shocking revelations that a list of tens of thousands of Afghans who’d helped the British was leaked, has that already led to deaths - and what happens now?

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Guest: Tom Witherow, News Reporter, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: Times Radio, BBC, Sky, ITV, YouTube / Times News. 

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An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that hundreds of parents are being falsely accused of fabricating their child’s illness, facing allegations of abuse when they seek medical or social care. Elly Chapple told our reporter what happened to her family.

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Guest: Emily Dugan - Special Correspondent, The Sunday Times

Host: Luke Jones

Producer: Hannah Varrall

Read more: We demanded help for our sick children. We were accused of abuse

Further listening: 38 years - Britain’s worst miscarriage of justice

Clips: Good Morning Britain

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The city-state of Singapore has been scandalised by a bitter row tearing apart its first family. The two sons of the country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yew, are fighting over the future of a small 19th-century bungalow - their childhood home. The is battle being fought in the law courts, debated in parliament and picked apart in the media - and one brother has fled to London seeking political asylum. With Singapore itself delicately balanced between the US and China, what happens next could affect us all.

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Guest: Josh Glancy

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Shabnam Grewal

Clips: @pmosingapore, channelnewsasia.com

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Born into an aristocratic family, Constance Marten and her unlikely partner Mark Gordon's became the target of a police manhunt launched to find them and their missing baby in January 2023. Their full story can now be told after the couple's criminal trial came to an end this week. Why did her life of privilege descend into such chaos?

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Guests:

• David Brown, Chief News Correspondent, The Times.
• Helen Rumbelow, Feature Writer, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Read more: 

• Who is the real Constance Marten? A life that led to tragedy
• Persecuted by the state? No, Constance Marten was in thrall to conspiracy culture

Clips: Sussex Police, GB News, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, On Demand News. 

Photo: Metropolitan Police / PA Wire.

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Students are getting AI to write their essays and it’s hard to spot the difference. Professor Niall Ferguson says AI is bad for our brains, but he has a plan to save education.

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Guest: Professor Niall Ferguson, Times Columnist.

Host:  Luke Jones.

Producer: Shabnam Grewal.

Further reading: AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back

Further listening:  One day in the life and death of an AI chatbot

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Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife, the employment tribunal that gripped the nation last February, resumed this week. It all started after nurse Sandie Peggie objected to sharing a changing room with Dr Beth Upton, who is transgender.

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Guest: Daniel Sanderson, Scottish Political Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

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For years, the British government used a court superinjunction to conceal a data leak that could have handed the Taliban a “kill list” of innocent civilians. Times defence editor Larisa Brown describes her fight to uncover the truth.

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Guest: Larisa Brown, Defence Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Edward Drummond.

Read more:

• I investigated the Afghan data leak. Ministers were gambling with death
• Revealed: Leak that risked lives of 100,000 Afghans — and £7bn cover-up
• Inside Operation Rubific: ‘kill list’, secrecy and a rescue mission

Further listening: 'The Taliban will kill me': The interpreter trying to flee Kabul

Clips: Times Radio, LBC, Parliament.

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