Smit Machchhar, the Indian airline captain who was stabbed by his co-pilot onboard a Flydubai plane, has spoken to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from his hospital bed. Mr Machchhar has been described as a “true hero” by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who hailed him for preventing a “catastrophic mid-air disaster” on the flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

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03:32 Student protestors in France clash with police in demonstrations over education conditions
05:35 Kenya’s politicians court Gen Z voters to challenge President William Ruto
09:07 President Trump mulls banning diesel exports, and urges Europe to release its reserves as the US-Iran war puts pressure on fuel supplies
11:48 Starbucks faces backlash over plans to open branches in China’s Xinjiang region, where Beijing is accused of human rights abuses against Uyghur Muslims
15:14 South Koreans fall in love with Bukangi, a huge grey shark stranded in a canal

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Vietnam is one of the world’s most vulnerable countries to climate change.

It’s already having a huge impact on the lives of those in the Mekong Delta, the agricultural heartland of the country and home to 20% of the country’s population.
Ashley John-Baptiste went to meet the families living on the frontlines of climate change.

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Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences was hit by a Russian drone strike, killing one person and leaving three injured, according to city’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.

Footage showed people leaning out of windows as they evacuated the burning building.

Firefighters helped people evacuate through the windows as a plume a black smoke billowed out of the building.

The BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams was at the scene as emergency services attempted to stop the raging fire.

Russia has been carrying out sustained attacks on Ukraine, with explosions reported in the capital Kyiv in the early hours of Tuesday morning, with several buildings damaged.

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A mental health trust where a man was killed by a fellow patient, has been warned further deaths may occur unless staff issues are addressed.

The warning has been made in a coroner’s report sent to the East London NHS Foundation trust after an inquest heard that staff on duty had slept on the job and falsified observation records.

The family of Hugo Flint Cahan, who was killed, says there was a “litany of failures” in the care of both men.

The trust says one staff member has been sacked, others are being investigated and it is making improvements.

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Vladimir Putin began the full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022. In a wide-ranging speech at the Valdai foreign policy forum, Putin told his audience that he believed that international conflicts were highly likely to continue, but would get better as “Western hegemony” weakened.

He also insisted that Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian economic targets were a direct response to Ukraine’s strikes on Russia’s oil refineries and its ships in the Black Sea.

“Now from every direction we’re receiving calls ‘let’s stop’. But they started it,” he said.

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