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Babies and mums died amid ‘toxic’ culture at Telford and Shrewsbury hospital, leaked report says
Babies and mothers died. Others were left permanently disabled. Distraught families were left struggling to find out any information from a hospital that repeatedly failed to learn from mistakes.
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‘My baby was killed by their failings to learn’, says bereaved mother after Telford and Shrewsbury hospital maternity scandal
We are joined now from Hereford by Rhiannon Davies and Richard Stanton – whose daughter Kate died shortly after birth in 2009.
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Hong Kong: Student protesters’ standoff with police continues
1500 tear gas canisters, more than 1000 rubber bullets have been fired – and still the siege goes on. A hardcore group of protesters remains inside Hong Kong’s Polytechnic – preparing, perhaps for the final police showdown. Any adults who leave the campus have been warned they will be arrested on suspicion of rioting –…
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Green Party pledge net zero carbon emissions by 2030
The Green Party has promised to spend £100bn a year to make Britain achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2030 if they form a government
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Israel PM Netanyahu thanks Trump for Israeli settlements decision
Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has travelled to the West Bank to celebrate after the Trump administration declared that Israeli settlements there are not a violation of international law.
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‘The US cannot rewrite international law to fit Trump’s ideology’, says former spokeswoman for Palestinian PM
Well joining me now from Ramallah in the West Bank is Nour Odeh, a political analyst and former Spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s government.
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What actually is the UK’s post-Brexit trade policy?
Getting Brexit done, voting again, or cancelling it altogether – all options at this General Election.
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Trump’s call with Ukraine was ‘improper’ says key White House aide
President Trump has condemned the impeachment hearings on Capitol Hill as a “kangaroo court” – as two key White House aides gave their evidence in public today.
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Over one hundred people killed in Iran protests, say Amnesty
A warning – there are some distressing images in this report. Amnesty International says it believes at least 106 people have been killed in Iran during the wave of protests against the steep rise in petrol prices.
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Human rights protester lodges criminal complaint against Bahrain Embassy
A human rights protester has lodged a criminal complaint against staff at the Bahrain Embassy alleging attempted murder on the night of his rooftop demonstration. Moosa Mohammed claimed he was beaten up and threatened with being thrown from the embassy roof. The embassy has described his claims as baseless and accused him of trespass.
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FactCheck: Labour’s misleading £100bn tax cut claim
It fails to account for the tax rises the government has levied on businesses and top earners.
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Carbon offsets: can you really pay off your carbon footprint?
Can we pay someone else to take responsibility for our carbon emissions?
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Torsten Bell: “People from the FT through to ‘revolutionaries’ think things need to change”
Edwin Morgan, the director of policy at the business organisation the Institute of Directors and Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the left of centre think tank the Resolution Foundation joins Cathy in the studio.
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What is happening to modern capitalism?
‘The constant revolutionising of production, everlasting uncertainty and agitation – all fixed relations are swept away, all that is solid melts into air.’
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The West African children brought up by white foster families in the English countryside
For many migrant families, private foster arrangements have helped them get temporary child care while they find work and establish roots.
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Prince Andrew accused of using N-word by former Downing Street aide
The Duke of York is coming under growing pressure to give a formal statement to the US authorities investigating the Jeffrey Epstein scandal – after his widely-criticised television interview at the weekend.
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Party leaders pitch plans to CBI to win business votes
The two main parties have been defending their big spending plans to a potentially hostile audience today: business leaders.
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Bonnie Leung: “we cannot get peace if the arrogance of the government continues”
China has warned that no one should underestimate its will to safeguard its sovereignty – the Chinese ambassador to the UK said Beijing would not just sit back and watch if the situation in Hong Kong became ‘uncontrollable’. One of the protest leaders Bonnie Leung joins Matt Frei.
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Hong Kong students and police clash on decimated university campus
Around a hundred exhausted, bedraggled young men and women are hunkered down in Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University, the scene of pitched battles between police and activists.
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FactCheck: Johnson wrong about Labour corporation tax
The Prime Minister said Labour would hike corporation tax to the highest rate in Europe.
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Gotabaya Rajapaksa elected President of Sri Lanka
The man accused of running military death squads during decades of civil war in Sri Lanka has been elected President with an overwhelming majority.
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Tories v Labour: Battle of the immigration policies
General election discussion turned to policy debates over immigration and access to dental care.
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Hong Kong Protests: Siege of Polytechnic University
Hong Kong police have launched an operation to drive hundreds of anti government protestors off a university campus – after a day of violent clashes.
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‘It was a really bad interview’, says royal biographer Catherine Mayer
Biographer of Prince Charles and co-founder of the Women’s Equality Party, the writer and campaigner Catherine Mayer, joins Cathy in the studio.
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Prince Andrew Interview: No apologies, no regrets
No apologies, no regrets: the Duke of York’s decision to talk about his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has been widely criticised – ‘a complete public relations disaster’ was among one of the kinder reactions to the BBC interview. Prince Andrew denied having sex with a teenager at the home of socialite…
