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One in four young people are out of work in London, and job vacancies in the UK are at their lowest level since 2021.

Feeling the effects of this are people like Theo – a computer science graduate who applied to over 500 jobs with no success.

So, what’s causing the downturn? And if the rates of unemployment in London are this high, should the rest of the UK be worried?

In this video:

00:00 – Realities of the job hunt
00:39 – Meet Theo – 500 applications… 500 rejections
01:47 – Data dive on job vacancies
02:39 – ‘Economically active’ explained
03:29 – Why the youth unemployment rate is so important
04:17 – Demoralised – the human cost of rejection
05:44 – The legacy of Covid-19
06:50 – Is London the ‘canary in the coal mine?’
07:29 – Resilience of young people
07:59 – Theo gets a job offer

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In Beijing’s Yizhuang district, driverless vehicles have become a common sight.

The district has become one of China’s testing grounds for autonomous driving, with a number of companies operating commercial robotaxi services within designated areas.

While the technology is emerging, so too is a new question: can Chinese companies turn robotaxis into another sector they dominate globally, as they have with electric vehicles (EVs)?

Reporting for BBC Tech Now, Suranjana Tewari heads behind the scenes of a driverless taxi service in Beijing.

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John Healey, Wes Streeting, Shabana Mahmood and Ed Miliband will be in new UK PM Andy Burnham’s top team, also known as the Cabinet.

Between them they will make decisions on economic, foreign and home policy for the UK – which will affect you.

Andy Burnham is still relatively new to the job – so these decisions are some of the our first insights into his thinking and what policies he could pursue.

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A Russian warship carried out live-fire drills off the UK coast this week, in the latest instance of Moscow running military excercises near Nato territory. Last week, Poland scrambled fighter jets after Russian aircraft was spotted over the Baltic Sea. And the British government has said Russian submarines were seen near undersea cables and pipelines north of the UK earlier this year.

We ask Vitaly Shevchenko, chief analyst for BBC Monitoring, why the Kremlin is flexing its muscles so close to Nato countries, and how Europe views the threat of Russian aggression, more than four years after Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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00:00 Introduction
00:19 Fears of a Russian invasion
01:30 Why was a Russian warship so close to the UK?
03:00 Russian operations near Nato territory
04:40 Does everyone conduct exercises near foreign powers?
06:10 Russia and undersea pipelines and cables
07:26 What this says about relations between Russia and Nato

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