With Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigning from cabinet and Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham’s route to Westminster becoming clearer, pressure is mounting on UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he faces potential challenges to his leadership following last week’s election results.

A BBC Question Time audience member asks: “Are Labour just rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic?”

Featuring Conservative Michael Gove, Labour’s Jenny Chapman, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union Steve Wright, and Reform UK’s Danny Kruger.

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President Donald Trump has said the US moved its bombers out of RAF Fairford because of “some threats” to the base.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday it had removed its bombers – thought to be about a dozen B-1s – from the base back to their home stations in America.

Speaking to reporters as he departed for Nebraska on Monday, Trump said the US had known of a “threat”, which led them to move the bombers.

Earlier a UK government spokesperson insisted that RAF Fairford was safe and pointed to Trump’s comments last week, where he praised the UK’s “police, defence and security services” in relation to the base.

Trump’s comments appear to confirm reports by US media that a new threat led to the bombers being removed after a major incident on 27 September when police were alerted to three “suspicious vehicles” near the airbase. Six men have been arrested while a police investigation into a suspected terror plot continue. The UK government has suggested a link to Iran is likely.

Speaking to reporters outside the White House, Trump was asked if a “specific threat” had led the US to pull its bombers from the airbase and said: “Yeah I think we can say that. They didn’t fly out by accident…. There were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we’ll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit. Not very far.”

The exact nature of the threat that prompted the aircraft’s removal from RAF Fairfield remains unclear, but sources in suggested that there were fears of a drone strike or sabotage attempts in the event of resumed hostilities with Iran.

One source close to the White House pointed to Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb – a covert drone attack on five Russian bases in June last year – as an example of what a determined enemy force could do.

Clive Myrie presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Frank Gardner and Gary O’Donoghue.

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The co-pilot who attempted to take control of a Flydubai plane travelling to Israel attacked the pilot with a crash axe, the United Arab Emirates prosecutor general has said.

The flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv carrying more than 170 people plunged 17,000ft (5,200m) two and a half hours into its journey, before passengers managed to overpower the attacker and successfully take control of the plane.

Two reserve pilots then landed the plane safely in Saudi Arabia.

The UAE attorney general told state media that investigations were ongoing to determine the full circumstances and motives of the incident.

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Hundreds of prisoners across England and Wales are being released early today under a new scheme designed to free-up prison space.

Offenders serving sentences of up to 19 months are now eligible for release after a third of their term.

Prisoners being released early today will include those convicted of fraud, domestic abuse and coercive control.

Restriction zones will control the movements of the most serious offenders, while the UK government promises a record roll-out of ankle monitors.

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Last week, Tennessee attempted to carry out the execution of Christa Pike, a convicted murderer who had spent three decades on death row. But the execution did not go as planned: After she was injected with two lethal doses of pentobarbital, Pike remained alive. She was then taken to hospital by ambulance.

This isn’t the first time an American execution hasn’t gone as planned. One reason is that the drugs needed for lethal injection have become increasingly difficult for US prison officials to obtain. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want their medicines used in executions — particularly manufacturers in Europe, where governments have opposed the death penalty for decades.

So, without access to regulated drugs, American prisons have had to improvise — sometimes with horrifying results.

The Global Story’s Tristan Redman speaks with investigative reporter Livvy Haydock about the consequences when the pharmaceutical supply chain refuses to feed the machinery of American executions.

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00:00 Introduction
00:38 How a lethal injection is supposed to work
05:05 What went wrong in Christa Pike’s execution
07:16 Why America is struggling to get execution drugs
09:00 The drugs used in lethal injections
10:15 Why European drugmakers stopped supplying the US
12:38 America’s secret hunt for execution drugs
14:47 What happens when execution drugs expire
15:07 The London chemist supplying America
16:58 How the drug shortage can cause botched executions
17:30 Are lethal injections causing suffering?
19:05 Why the US can’t simply make its own execution drugs
21:21 Could prisons start making their own drugs?
21:46 Why Europe rejects the death penalty
22:32 Why Americans still support executions
23:17 When executions fail victims’ families

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