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Has Starmer’s Iran Response Been Too Slow? | BBC Newscast

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has defended his response to the Iran war and announced he will send four additional fighter jets to Qatar.

Adam is joined by Jane Corbin, Panorama film maker; Lucy Fisher, Whitehall editor for the Financial Times, and Mikey Kay, military analyst for the Security Brief, to discuss Starmer’s press conference, and to take a deeper look at the weaponry being used by both sides in this conflict.

00:00 Introduction
00:56 Why did Starmer give a press conference?
08:17 What weapons does the UK have?
11:50 How is Iran retaliating?
15:00 The cost of weapons
19:58 Iran’s missile capability
22:50 What is it like to witness a drone attack?
26:15 How did Israeli and US intelligence networks inform the initial attack on Iran?

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How did this happen again? Inside Spain’s second rail disaster in a year | BBC News

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Two trains crashed on the route from Madrid to Seville with devastating consequences. At least 69 people have died and scores were more injured after the second rail disaster on the same line in a year.

The country is observing three days of mourning, as the families of victims and the survivors of the crash struggle to comprehend how this could have happened.

The BBC looks at how the deadly crash occurred, the rescue operation and the fallout of one of the worst rail disasters in Europe’s modern history.

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Democrat James Talarico projected to win Senate seat in Texas | BBC News

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The Texas Senate seat is projected to go to Democrat James Talarico in the US midterm elections, CBS News says.

This is one of the key Senate races that may prove crucial in determining which party controls the Senate.

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President Trump makes first public appearance since midterm election defeat | BBC News

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Shops looted as German cost of living protests turn violent | BBC News

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Rioters looted shops in central Frankfurt late on Saturday as clashes erupted in German cities over the cost of living.

There were also incidents of violence in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg, with police saying they used water cannon to disperse protesters targeting emergency workers with fireworks, stones and bottles.

Thousands joined largely peaceful demonstrations earlier in the day, organised by the campaign group Gen Z regelt, to protest against underfunding in schools, the high cost of living, public spending cuts and military service.

The unrest in Germany follows similar youth-led mass protests in France, where more than 320,000 people also demonstrated on Saturday.

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Why are two Dan Sullivans running in the midterms? | BBC News

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The Republican governor of Alaska has ordered an investigation into an alleged ‘scheme’ which led to two Dan Sullivans standing in the state’s US Senate race.

Donald Trump says it’s ‘fraud’, an attempt to confuse voters and ultimately pull votes away from the Republican candidate – named Dan Sullivan. 

But what do we know? And what impact will it have on the midterm elections? 

00:00 Intro
01:20 What is going on?
02:52 Was it a Democrat ‘scheme’? 
03:52 Is it legal to ‘ballot stack’?
04:57 Does Trump have a legal argument?
05:26 Why does the Alaska race matter?
07:14 How is voting different in Alaska?
08:25 When will we know the result?
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