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A carbon offset pioneer who sold hundreds of millions of dollars in carbon credits has been charged with fraud by US authorities following an investigation by Channel 4 News. 

We spoke to Tess Ingram of Unicef about Lebanon’s brewing humanitarian crisis.

We spoke to Jonathan Powell, the Prime Minister’s special envoy for negotiations between the UK and Mauritius over the Chagos islands.

Now Britain has agreed to give up sovereignty over a group of remote islands described as its last African colony – after a dispute stretching back for fifty years.

We spoke to Amin Salam, Lebanese Economy and Trade Minister.

Israel warned residents of more villages and towns in southern Lebanon to evacuate to areas over 30 miles north of the border.

Nine people were killed during the night here, when an Israeli strike hit a medical centre run by a group aligned with Hezbollah in the heart of the city, not far from the parliament building and western embassies.

Airstrikes have continued to bombard this city throughout today – one apparently hitting Hezbollah’s media department in the south of Beirut.

The Sinaloa cartel is one of Mexico’s most feared groups and there has been increasing evidence that it is expanding its networks in Europe and funnelling drugs through less obvious, more unsuspecting ports.

We spoke to Mike Pompeo, who served as director of the CIA and then as Secretary of State under Donald Trump, and it’s thought he’s likely to take up that role again if Mr Trump wins in November.

Iran’s latest ballistic missile attack on Israel was bigger and more complex than the strikes it carried out in April. It involved more advanced weapons – some of them able to change course after being fired.

We spoke to Ali Vaez – who is the Iran Project Director at the Wilson Centre’s international crisis group.

At the UN Security council – ambassadors for Iran and Israel accused each other of representing “terrorist states” and threatened to launch further military action.

President Biden has declared America’s “full solidarity and support” for Israel, and discussed the rollout of new sanctions against Iran during a phone call with G7 leaders.

For the people of Gaza, the night played out as many others have before, under Israeli bombardment.