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The health secretary is under growing pressure to release a long-delayed report into the deaths of learning disabled and autistic people in England. 

A man accused of assaulting three police officers has told a court he was afraid he would be “battered” to death by an officer at Manchester Airport. 

The government says thousands of women and children will be better protected from domestic violence under new measures targeting the most dangerous offenders.

Sir Keir Starmer and the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have signed their first treaty since the Second World War covering everything from mutual defence to migration and bilateral trade. 

We spoke to Ealaf Al-Najar, member of UK Youth Parliament, and Jon Tonge, professor of politics at Liverpool University, who chaired the Youth Citizenship Commission under Gordon Brown.

One and a half million more young people could get the vote at the next general election under government plans to lower the voting age to include 16 and 17-year-olds. 

The Labour MP Diane Abbott has been suspended for a second time from the Labour Party this evening. 

We spoke to Labour peer Helena Kennedy, who arranged the evacuation of more than 500 people from Afghanistan in 2021 and is still in contact with many in the country.

The Liberal Democrats have called for an urgent inquiry into the accidental release of personal details of thousands of Afghans trying to flee the Taliban as well as British spies and special forces. 

The British Prime Minister and German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, today signed a ‘Friendship Treaty’ at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the location chosen for its symbolic reference to a loving, and politically useful, royal marriage between the United Kingdom and Germany.

We spoke to Labour Peer and former director of human rights group Liberty Shami Chakrabarti and began by asking her what she made of the review of the ‘Prevent’ programme.

The counter-terrorism programme ‘Prevent’ needs to rapidly adapt to the online world where so much radicalisation takes place, and focus on the individual, rather than the ideology, according to an independent review.

The newly appointed Windrush Commissioner has told this programme that responsibility for the official compensation scheme shouldn’t be taken away from the Home Office.

The Government has agreed to change the job title of ‘Physician Associates’ in England to Physician Assistants