The World Tonight

Why are England's maternity services struggling so badly?

The "holy grail" of shark science

The UN Security Council is holding an emergency meeting tonight over the downing of a Russian military plane - which Moscow says was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war. Will we ever find out what really happened? We speak to someone who worked on the MH17 case.

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Anger from the families of those killed in attacks in Nottingham last summer after the killer, Valdo Calocane, is going to hospital - rather than prison. We'll ask what families can and should expect from the CPS in tragic cases like these.

A Russian woman has been sentenced to what's thought to be the longest prison term ever imposed on a woman in that country for killing of pro-war blogger. We speak to her husband in exile.

And as The Traitors reaches it's finale we speak to the Dutch TV producer who came up with the original idea.

The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended the government’s plans to expand free childcare after concerns were raised about some parents being unable to apply in time. The rollout for parents of two-year-olds is expected in the spring and will be expanded for children aged nine months from September.

Israel's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has told the US he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state, once the conflict in Gaza comes to an end. It comes amid an intensification of the violence in Gaza and the West Bank - we report from both.

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Two men who were sent to prison because of evidence from a corrupt police officer have had their convictions posthumously quashed. We hear from one of their sons.

A report into one of the worst school shootings in US history has described the police response as a failure. We hear from the father of a ten-year-old boy who survived being shot in the attack.

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South African lawyers accuse Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice

The Austrian heiress giving away almost all of her 25 million euro fortune

Should cuckooing become a separate crime?

Twenty five years since the first episode of The Sopranos aired

With the government under pressure to act quickly in the Post Office IT scandal, a former Lord Chancellor tells us that new legislation is needed immediately.

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Cowbells and tractor horns on the streets of Berlin today - as German farmers expressed their frustrations. We find out why.

And the legendary German footballer Franz Beckenbauer has died. We hear what he was like to play against - from a member of the England team he helped defeat in the 1970 World Cup Quarter Final.

Also on the programme: why the UK floods have stopped the trains; and new post office workers come forward after TV drama throws light on the Horizon scandal