Alan Bates, the campaigner who took on the Post Office to expose flaws in its IT systems which led to wrongful convictions, has appeared before the public inquiry into the scandal.

Can this crucial stage of the inquiry take the victims a step closer to justice?

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Guest: Tom Witherow, news and special projects reporter, The Times.  

Host: Luke Jones. 

Further listening: The Post Office scandal: How a TV drama delivered justice

Clips: Channel 4 News, ITV. 

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Chinese President Xi Jinping's new slogan, "develop new productive forces," aims to bolster the expansion of high-tech sectors to drive economic growth. China already dominates the world of electric cars and controls more than 80 percent of the global solar panel manufacturing market. So, what could China’s technological dominance mean for the West? 

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Guest: Richard Spencer, China Correspondent, The Times.  

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: AP Archive, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, YouTube/RUSI, Sky News, Reuters, BYD Europe, ABC News, CBS News.   

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Christopher Kinahan is the head of a billion dollar international crime cartel and one of the world's most wanted men but he's been sharing his whereabouts and opinions through Google reviews. What is the normally security conscious man doing, and could the information ultimately lead to his capture?

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Guest: John Mooney, crime and security correspondent, Sunday Times Ireland.

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: Raidió Teilifís Éireann, US State Department.

Further listening: Inside the Kinahan crime cartel and their billion euro empire

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President Biden has called for an immediate ceasefire and Rishi Sunak is facing pressure to stop arms sales to Israel after an IDF strike killed aid workers in Gaza. This comes days after the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. What does this mean for Israel as the world marks 6 months since the October 7 terror attacks?

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Guests: 

• Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Times. 
• Gabrielle Weiniger, Reporter, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: Reuters, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Times Radio, IDF.  

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• What if there’s no ceasefire? Manveen Rana reports from Jerusalem
• A diary of war: Three months in Gaza  

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The government says their much anticipated childcare reform, offering two-year-olds 15 hours a week of free childcare, is hitting targets. But parents and providers say the scheme’s rollout has been chaotic. Today, we go to a pre-school to find out what the reality looks like. 

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Guests:

• Rachel Mortimer, Assistant Money Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times.
• Josephine Godbold, owner and director, Sunny Kids Pre-Schools.

Special thanks to Desiree Chantarasak, and the children and teachers at Sunny Kids. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: UK Parliament, BBC Breakfast. 

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Scotland’s new Hate Crime and Public Order Act came into force on Monday - and within 48 hours at least 800 'hate crimes' had been reported to Scottish police. So, what's in it? And why has it put Scotland once again at the centre of the culture wars?

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Guest: Kieran Andrews, Scottish Political Editor, The Times & Sunday Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: BBC, Sky News, This Morning, JRE, The Daily Mail, ITV News, BBC, TalkTV, BBC, GB News, Police Scotland, 

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It's official: With Donald Trump confirmed as the Republican nominee, the US presidential race will be a Trump v Biden rematch. And with the primary contest over, Trump seems to be courting chaos again with some of the most infamous personalities from his 2016 presidential campaign slated to make a comeback. So just who is on Team Trump? And what do they tell us about the kind of race he will run?

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Guest: David Charter, Assistant Editor (US), The Times.

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: Associated Press, NBC News, ABC News, C-SPAN, Guardian News, Lara Trump, BBC News.

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A Times investigation has revealed a worrying lack of security at a prison housing dangerous criminals, prompting an urgent investigation by the Ministry of Justice. The journalist who went undercover at HMP Bedford tells The Story about witnessing fights and drugs - and hearing of a prison escape because of doors being left unlocked.

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Guest: Paul Morgan-Bentley, Head of Investigations, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

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In our new monthly series of interviews, former foreign secretary and Times columnist William Hague speaks to his first guest, prime minister Rishi Sunak in Downing Street about juggling work and life as a dad, the threats and opportunities of AI, and inheriting ‘the worst hospital pass in many decades.’ 

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Guest: Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

Host: William Hague.

Producer: Olivia Case.

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As President Putin repeats his assertion that Ukraine and the West are behind the terrorist attack last week that killed 137 Russians, the evidence is only growing that this was the work of ISIS. The culprits come from a faction that have risen out of the ashes of the former ISIS Caliphate: ISIS-K. So who are they? And how worried should the rest of the world be?

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Guest: Mark Galeotti, historian, journalist and author of ‘We Need to Talk About Putin,’ ‘Putin’s Wars’ and ‘A Short History of Russia.’

Host: Manveen Rana.

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