Donald Trump says the US doesn’t need a deal to end the war with Iran, and instructs his Vice-President JD Vance to focus on crime instead.

Also on the programme, two men are convicted of spying for an Iranian intelligence service, after carrying out surveillance on journalists and a lawyer in the UK.

And Iran’s top clerical body backs calls for the country to review its membership of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

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When the Gen-Z protest group the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) forced India’s education minister to resign after demonstrations this summer, they’d said this was just the beginning. Yet, three months on, it has struggled to gather in the face of restrictions, detentions and legal cases.

The BBC’s South Asia Correspondent Azadeh Moshiri sits down with the ruling BJP government’s national spokesperson and former MP Syed Zafar Islam to discuss the clampdown on their protests.

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Pakistan has become a poster child for solarisation, a path that was forged not by the government, but by its own people.

While there are plenty of positives for Pakistan – ability to be more self-sufficient in country that imports huge amounts of fuel, particularly seen with strait of Hormuz closure – there are worries too.

As people move to solar, there are fewer to pay the fixed cost of keeping the national grid running. The prices go up, encouraging more people to move to solar. It’s known as the grid death spiral.

BBC’s Carrie Davies looks at how the country’s solar revolution came to be and where it could be going.

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All flights in the US have been grounded due to “extraordinary circumstances” relating to air traffic control communication issues.

US Federal Aviation Administration issued an order to ground all flights “for reasons of safety”.

The US Transport Secretary Sean Duffy said the issue had hit air traffic control centres and “FAA technicians are investigating the issue. We will provide immediate updates as we have them”.

The US Secretary for Homeland Security has said there was no indication of any kind of threat to the United States and the emergency is not due to terrorism or a cyber attack.

The emergency is having an enormous impact across the United States, with thousands of flights in the air and many more scheduled to arrive and depart in the coming hours.

Passengers are being advised to check their flight status directly with their airline.

Jane Hill presents BBC News at Ten reporting by Sarah Smith in Washington.

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