The News Agents
Is the White House lying about Trump’s health?
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- Is the White House lying about Trump’s health?
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- 2:44
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- 1 year ago
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- Why does Keir Starmer keep agreeing with Nigel Farage?
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- 36:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Keir Starmer has shaken up his core team in Downing Street today. It's an attempt to grip the agenda, improve the government's messaging and take on Nigel Farage after a difficult first year in office.
"Delivery, delivery, delivery" was what the Prime Minister said was the government's priority for the year ahead - but deliver what? There is a debate taking place in the Labour party between those who believe a more progressive case is needed, that you don't beat Farage by apeing his talking points.
Others are convinced that it is only by addressing these concerns that you can stop them from splintering off to Reform. Will today's reset get us any closer to revealing which side of that divide the PM is on?
Later, what the fevered online speculation about Donald Trump's health this weekend tells us about the White House - has there been a cover up or was it just a campaign by an army of trolls?
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- “I am deeply worried” says AI co-founder
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- 1:57
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- 1 year ago
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- Does America really "want a dictator"?
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- 46:23
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- It's not the first time Donald Trump has overreached, but his latest assertion is that he has the right to do whatever he wants. Trump wants total control - of universities, the police and anyone he perceives to be a threat. He's 'fired' Lisa Cook, the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. The FBI have raided John Bolton's home. Are there any signs anywhere of any checks on Trump? Or is America sliding towards a dictatorship?
Later, we're joined by Patrick Gaspard - Obama’s 2008 national political director. He's the informal advisor to Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Party’s nominee for New York mayor.
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- Are we sleepwalking into an AI 'economic bloodbath'?
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- 33:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- This is the first part of two special Friday episodes on the way AI promises to transform our politics, economies and societies. Lewis has been in San Francisco, where trillions of dollars of investment in AI is fuelling the 21st century equivalent of the space race. Around half a dozen firms are powering this revolution, largely out of sight or scrutiny. While the political and economic implications are profound, politicians seem unwilling or unable to even conceptualise what might be about to happen to their own voters.
In the first of these special episodes, Lewis has been speaking to Jack Clark, one of the founders of Anthropic - one of the big AI firms. These companies don’t speak out that often, but Clark has a sober message for politicians. If politics doesn’t wake up- there could be an economic bloodbath within the next 18 months.
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- Everything wrong with Keir Starmer’s media strategy - and how to fix it
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- 38:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- There's news today of a Downing Street shakeup and speculation too about a ministerial reshuffle next week. Parliament returns on Monday, with Labour MPs hoping that the new term will bring with it a chance to rejuvenate a government that has plummeted in the polls and a party that seems almost mutinous.
This summer, Nigel Farage has planted himself at the centre of the news agenda - with regular press conference, media stunts and interventions. Labour ministers have been doing the round too - but they seem to have less to say in recent weeks than the Reform leader,
Amidst all the talk of a reset, Jon and Lewis break down where Labour's media strategy is going wrong - and what Keir Starmer needs to do to win the messaging war.
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- Has America’s fentanyl crisis landed in the UK?
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- 24:55
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- From coast to coast, America’s towns and cities have been besieged by an opioid epidemic, a crisis which has wrought misery and wielded political consequence.
Deep in the Nevada desert, Las Vegas - a city renowned for its seedy underbelly, has some 1,500 people living in its 600 miles of flash flood tunnels - many addicted to fentanyl. Lewis meets some of the tunnels’ residents to find out how this years-long epidemic is still wreaking havoc and claiming lives. San Francisco has become the emblem for homelessness and social decay, Lewis tours the city’s Tenderloin district to see why.
Despite being insulated from the crisis for so long, British treatment services are sounding the alarm bell. Nitazenes, a family of extremely powerful synthetic opioids, are spiking the drug market with dealers carrying out dangerous experiments on their clients causing overdose after overdose on the streets of Britain.
Has the opioid epidemic, once thought of ...
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- Is a secret US spy ring trying to take over Greenland?
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- 49:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- It's a story that reads like it's jumped out of a thriller novel. Denmark has today summoned America's top diplomat in the country, after reports emerged that figures connected to the Trump administration had infiltrated Greenland to conduct “covert influence operations”.
Denmark's national broadcaster has today come out with a jaw-dropping story alleging that three US citizens are suspected of recruiting Greenlanders for a US-sponsored “separatist” movement. Are they rogue operatives - or are they working on behalf of the US State? Jon and Lewis speak to the journalist who broke the story,
Later, Labour are on the attack over Nigel Farage's mass deportation plan. The minister in charge of UK-EU relations, Nick Thomas-Symonds, has today been slamming Reform and the Tories for their aversion to closer ties with Europe - as well as branding Farage's migration proposals unrealistic and unworkable. He came in to the News Agents studio.
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- Starmer should ‘answer’ for her imprisonment..
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Farage, flags and Connolly: How the Right turned on the State
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- 30:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In an airport hangar in Oxfordshire, Nigel Farage unveiled Reform UK's mass deportation plan. Farage pledged to tear up international treaties, build new removal centres, and strike deals with foreign countries in an effort to drive up returns at pace should he become PM. There was a dark message in his speech - that without his radical programme, Britain faces rising anger, even civil disorder.
Speaking at length about a political class and a legal class pitted against this action, Farage asked: "Whose side are you on?".
It follows a weekend in which Tory politicians have been condemning the British judicial system for convicting Lucy Connolly, who was jailed after calling on people to "set fire" to asylum hotels in the wake of the Southport attack.
When did the British Right turn on the British State? How did the conservative movement become so set on tearing down institutions rather than preserving them? Jon and Lewis discuss.
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- Politicians must be very careful using threat of public disorder for policy
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Do Dems have to sound like Trump to beat him?
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- 35:50
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- We start with the fallout from the unorthodox, perhaps undignifying diplomatic spectacle at the White House earlier this week. We are a million miles away from any peace deal in Ukraine, let alone any concrete shape of the 'security guarantees' Donald Trump has suggested may hypothetically be offered by the US in the event that Europe puts boots on the ground in Ukraine. And yet, already, prominent MAGA voices are coming forward to sound the alarm about American involvement in another foreign war. What do those warnings mean for how Donald Trump confronts the most pressing global crisis?
Later, Gavin Newsom has clearly irritated the President - and Fox News - with his social media imitation of Donald Trump. He's started TWEETING IN ALL CAPS!! and thanking followers for their attention to this matter. It's a novel approach, and does appear to have boosted his personal ratings as speculation heightens that he's eyeing up the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028. Is it ...
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- Q&A: Trump, Putin and 100% inheritance tax
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- 36:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Does Putin have something on Trump? Is Trump deliberately deflecting attention from the Epstein saga? Is Starmer's advisor, Morgan McSweeney, overestimated by the media? And what response has Lewis had to his 100% inheritance tax theory...?
This Friday, Lewis and Jon answer your questions.
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- “You are a complete tit”
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Prince Andrew bombshell: Epstein, Escorts, and Royal Scandals
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- 31:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Jon interviews the historian Andrew Lownie about his bombshell new book 'Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York'.
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- We should be war of Trump’s peace negotiations, says Ed Davey.
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Where are asylum seekers supposed to live now?
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- 34:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Anti-migrant protesters are celebrating today, with The Bell Hotel in Epping set to close its doors to asylum seekers after becoming a battleground over the summer on the issue.
A High Court ruling ordered The Bell to stop housing migrants on a planning technicality. It did not receive the proper permission to switch its use from short-term stays to people living there for more than 30-day stretches, despite having run as such without incident for more than five years.
A failed last-minute attempt by the Home Office to get the case dismissed laid out the department's concerns. The government barrister warned that any injunction could lead to other councils following suit, a development "that would aggravate the pressures on the asylum estate."
He also warned that granting the injunction would “"run the risk of acting as an impetus for further violent protests".
Those appeals were unsuccessful. And now the government is having to wor...
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- Why a Putin-inspired deal could be catastrophic for Europe.
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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Is Palestine Action really a terrorist group?
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- 34:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- There is a growing chorus of opinion - both inside the Labour party and out - which is increasingly uneasy about the recent mass arrests of demonstrators who have been showing their support for the now proscribed group Palestine Action.
Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, banned the direct action group under terrorism legislation in July - but since then hundreds of people have been detained for expressing solidarity with the body and its aims. But that decision has been questioned, with Labour members opposed to the move, Labour MPs critical, and even the author Sally Rooney pledging to fund the organisation. Could the government rethink its strategy? Or does it need to do more to explain why it took the action it did?
We speak to Lib Dem leader, Sir Ed Davey, about why he is now calling for a review of the terrorism legislation following the Palestine Action arrests.
Later, as Donald Trump floats security guarantees "by air" for Ukraine on Fox N...
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- Zelenskyy survives Trump... but has anything really changed?
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- 36:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In a tone entirely different from Zelenksyy’s last visit to Washington in February, this evening saw Trump praising the Ukrainian president. Zelenksyy was on the charm offensive. And it seemed to work. Trump bestowed his other European guests with compliments and promised that America would play a key part in the security guarantees if there is a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
It was in some ways a remarkable event, with European leaders sat around the roundtable kissing the ring of President Trump. But will it amount to anything? Can the US really guarantee the security of Ukraine? Will it? And where does this leave peace talks now?
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- History-defining White House talks take place
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- 1:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Trump's Cultural Revolution: the dismantling of truth
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- 27:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- What is Trump doing to crime figures, jobs numbers, museum archives and the Ivy League universities? A common theme is emerging - the President rewriting history like an authoritarian bored and irritated by fact. He’s been firing officials and replacing them with others who’ll massage the numbers in his favouring. He’s been threatening institutions and pressuring them to stump up cash. Is anyone confused by what the goal is here? Is Trump having to resort to make believe in his attempt to Make America Great Again?
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- Why the hard right hate London
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- 34:59
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Barely a day goes by without a right-wing influencer proclaiming that London has fallen. Crime in the capital, it is said, is rampant, police nowhere to be seen - it's a grim picture painted by those who decry 'Sadiq Khan's London'.
But is any of this actually borne out in reality? Do the facts back up this portrait of the city? And if not, why are there so many on the hard right so determined to trash London's image?
Later, a report from Vegas about a jaw-dropping new AI product, which raises questions about life, death, and the commercialisation of grief.
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- “I’m Being HUNTED!” - Why 50 Democrats have FLED Texas from the FBI!
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- 15:21
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Texas Democrat Jolanda Jones joins Jon Sopel to explain why she and over 50 fellow lawmakers fled the state and went into hiding — a drastic move to block Republican-led efforts to redraw voting districts in a way that could silence Black and Hispanic voters.
Jones, now living in an undisclosed location, reveals how the Texas GOP’s redistricting plan threatens to erase Black congressional districts and hand Donald Trump the votes he needs to control the House in 2026.
She describes how Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued 'Wanted' posters for her and others, and how the FBI is now involved, prompting chilling comparisons to slave patrols and Jim Crow-era tactics.
In a raw, emotional conversation, Jones speaks about the personal cost of taking this stand — being separated from her elderly mother and newborn granddaughter — and why she calls this the "last stand for democracy."
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- Rep. Jolanda Jones will stay away from Texas “as long as necessary”
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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Why is a Texas politician camped out in an undisclosed location, hiding from the FBI, and fearing that democracy is on the line?
Jolanda Jones tells us about the extraordinary standoff taking place in her state - which she says she is prepared to stay away from as lon as necessary to stop what she calls Trump's "racist" redistricting.
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- Why is the US lecturing Britain on free speech?
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- 35:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- While the Vice President holidays in the Cotswolds, Donald Trump's administration has accused the British government of “repeatedly” imposing “serious restrictions” on free speech - and accuses the UK of backsliding on human rights.
The US State Department cites the Online Safety Act and abortion buffer zones, in its rationale for sounding the alarm about Britain's recent record - does it have a leg to stand on? LBC's political editor Natasha Clark joins Jon to explore that report.
Later, with European leaders meeting with President Zelenskyy today, capitals across the continent are bracing for impact ahead of the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska on Friday. Jon and Mark Galeotti, the historian and Russia-watcher, look ahead to that meeting and where it might leave Ukraine.
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- Is Las Vegas dead? Locals reveal why the strip is struggling
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- 9:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A dispatch from Lewis in Las Vegas - already hit by a drop in tourism, and now seeing the effects of AI, which has already started to transform the town. Is it a sign of things to come for us all? And, if so, should we be scared?
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- UK borrowing from USA playbook?
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Why has Trump ordered the army onto the streets of DC?
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- 20:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “Violent gangs", "bloodthirsty criminals", "roving gangs of wild youths", "drugged out maniacs". These may sounds like scenes from a Charles Dickens novel, but they are the words used by Donald Trump to describe Washington DC, as he announced he was sending the National Guard in to the capital.
As recently as May, President Trump was proclaiming a sharp drop in crime in the city. Indeed, the official statistics suggest DC has made significant improvements in safety in the past couple of years. So why is he declaring a war on crime, and taking such drastic action, when the evidence doesn't back him up?
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- Trump “upset” by visual of homeless in DC
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Will Trump and Putin carve up Ukraine – then blame Zelenskyy?
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- 36:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In just a few days time, Vladimir Putin is set to set foot on American soil for the first time in a decade. He's been invited to Alaska by Donald Trump, a man desperate to claim that he has brought the conflict in Ukraine to an end.
There is just one problem with that. Putin hasn't offered any significant concessions, and Ukraine and its allies are demanding that no Ukrainian territory seized by Russian soldiers during the war is given up - a red line it looks like Trump is set to ignore. Ukraine's President Zelenksyy, as it stands, isn't even invited to take part in the talks. It all lends itself to the perception that Putin is going to play Trump - and then paint Zelenskyy as the obstacle to peace. Will Trump buy it?
Later, Jon speaks to a man who knows Putin well. Mikhail Kasyanov was Russia's Prime Minister under President Putin in the early 2000s. He tried to run against Putin, became a target of the regime, and has become an outspoken critic of the Kre...
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- Why don't Americans trust Trump on Epstein?
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- 35:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Trump's inner circle are heading to the Vice President's residence for what was supposed to be a secret summit to discuss the administration's strategy regarding the Epstein crisis that has engulfed the President.
Polling shows that the American public are increasingly convinced that Trump is hiding something, and CNN says his team are now weighing up whether to publish recordings of the interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and the deputy attorney general Todd Blanche.
JD Vance has insisted the President has been "transparent" about Epstein, but Trump's recent actions suggest a man desperate to move the conversation on. He appeared on the White House roof in surreal scenes, shouting answers to the press about lavish plans to build a ballroom on the estate. And in Texas, his Republican allies are now pursuing Democrats resisting efforts to carve up the electoral map in the State -- with calls to get the FBI involved in tracking them down and forcing them back to th...
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- Q&A: the Epstein files, Corbyn as PM, and are Reform clickbait?
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- 38:58
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- This Friday, Jon and Lewis are back with more of your questions. Would the markets take fright at a Jeremy Corbyn or Nigel Farage premiership like they did with Liz Truss? Is the media biased towards Reform over the Lib Dems? And could we ever see Benjamin Netanyahu arrested?
Later - it may feel like we are living in a uniquely settled world, but was there ever a time in the past century where things actually felt any calmer?
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- How a Trump & Putin Meeting Could Change EVERYTHING!
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- 10:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In this episode, Lewis Goodall sits down with Mark Urban, host of the Crisis Room podcast, to unpack the swirling rumours of a potential meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. With war still raging in Ukraine, could a face-to-face between these two powerful figures shift the trajectory of the conflict? Or is this just another diplomatic sideshow with little real-world impact?
Urban explains the significance of such a meeting, the behind-the-scenes manoeuvring that might be bringing it closer, and what it could mean for Ukraine’s future. As Trump’s allies float the idea of an “off-ramp” and Putin seeks legitimacy on the world stage, the stakes are as high as ever. But with no guarantees that Zelensky would even be invited to the talks, is this really about peace – or something more self-serving?
Lewis and Mark dive into what’s really at play, who stands to gain, and why this could be the most consequential handshake the world has seen in y...
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- Did the homelessness minister evict her own tenants for profit?
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- 21:02
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Labour's homelessness minister is facing fury from her own side and calls to resign - not for her track record in government but her track record as a landlord. Rushnara Ali, the MP for Bethnal Green and Stepney, rented out a four-bedroom townhouse in east London, and the tenants have gone to the press to complain about their treatment. One told the I newspaper that they received an email saying that the lease on their tenancy would not be renewed as Ms Ali was looking to sell the property - and yet just weeks after they left, they found that the house back on the rental market at nearly £700 a month more.
To make matters worse, this practice is set to be banned under legislation being introduced by this government. The Tories are suggesting that she exploited her tenants and are accusing her of staggering hypocrisy. Can she survive? And how damaging is this for the government? Lewis speaks to the I's housing correspondent Vicky Spratt, who broke the story, and LBC's pol...
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- “It shows the fury on both sides”
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- 1:56
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Was Hiroshima a war crime?
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- 34:15
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Thousands of people have gathered in Hiroshima - including representatives from 120 countries - to come together with a renewed call for nuclear disarmament.
America's use of the atom bomb on the Japanese city, followed by Nagasaki a few days later, remains the only time in human history that nuclear weapons have been deployed in armed conflict.
To some, it was a decisive turning point in WW2 - the moment where the Axis powers realised they were destined for defeat. But to others, including Jeremy Corbyn, the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were crimes against humanity. Could both things be true?
And why has the long shadow of the second world war made it so difficult for nations to look at their own histories objectively?
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- "This is GENOCIDE": Palestinian Ambassador SLAMS Netanyahu
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- 18:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Palestinian Ambassador Husam Zomlot joins Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall on The News Agents to deliver a blistering attack on Benjamin Netanyahu’s Gaza plans – accusing Israel of “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing.”
In this powerful interview, Zomlot calls on the international community, including the UK, to stop supplying arms to Israel while condemning its actions. He also criticises Keir Starmer’s conditional promise to recognise Palestine as “too late,” arguing that recognition is a fundamental right that has been denied for decades.
Zomlot speaks emotionally about the family members he has lost in Gaza and describes the humanitarian crisis unfolding on the ground. He warns that Netanyahu’s government has fostered a “culture of supremacy” and that Gaza is facing “mass murder, mass destruction and mass starvation,” despite Israel’s denials.
Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall explore whether the UK and the West have failed Pale...
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- Is Netanyahu set on the full occupation of Gaza?
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- 20:37
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “The die has been cast. We’re going for the full conquest of the Gaza Strip – and defeating Hamas." That was the quote from the Israeli Prime Minister's office given to media last night in Jerusalem.
Despite mounting criticism of the plan, including from former military officials, politicians and the families of the hostages still in Hamas captivity, Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to occupy the entirety of Gaza.
Why is he ignoring the pleas, both domestically and internationally, not to escalate the conflict? Would it help or hinder his efforts to free the hostages and eliminate Hamas? And what would it mean for the dire humanitarian situation in the Strip, where famine has taken hold?
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- Palestinian recognition a “gift to Hamas”?
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Why are Tories predicting a revolution?
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- 38:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- More protests at migrant hotels took place this weekend - with people trying to break into a hotel in Canary Wharf on Sunday. As things escalated, rumours started to swirl. Former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi posted that police had banned all protest outside the hotel- only for the Met to point out that no such ban existed. Another Conservative MP quoted a video claiming (incorrectly) to show an illegal Deliveroo worker getting a police escort. So why are some Tories spreading misinformation? And why are they talking about 'revolts' against the 'regime'?
And, as Lewis returns from Japan we take a look at the rise of the far right in the recent Japanese election. Who is behind the party founded on YouTube and taking notes straight from Donald Trump?
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- Title
- A YouGov poll says the number of young people who have a faith has doubled in six years
- Runtime
- 1:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Title
- Why the Trump administration is not a reliable ally to Britain
- Runtime
- 36:31
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this week's episode of The News Agents USA Jon is joined in the studio by Jamie Raskin, a congressman and senior figure in the Democratic Party, who led the impeachment of Donald Trump after January 6th.
In an exclusive interview he discusses the future of the democratic party, free speech, the relationship between Trump and the UK, his role in ousting Joe Biden as the party's nominee for President in 2024, and his recent spat with Nigel Farage.
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- Title
- What's going on with young people and God?
- Runtime
- 16:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Why are more and more young people turning to God? A recent YouGov poll suggests the number has doubled in the past six years from 22% to 45% saying they now actively have faith.
It's being called the “Quiet Revival“. It may be happening under the radar but the numbers suggest a revolution. Is it a response to covid, smart phones, or perhaps a crisis in masculinity? Or has atheism just had its day?
We are at the Wildfires Christian festival to find out what’s going on.
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- Title
- Why are defenders of free speech always shutting people down?
- Runtime
- 34:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Exclusively on The News Agents, we speak to top democrat Jamie Raskin. He's here on a mission to find out if free speech is under threat in Europe. It’s a big talking point in the MAGASphere - he’s visiting with the judiciary committee. So why did he find himself shouted down at a public event by one Nigel Farage?
Later, we talk to Bafta winning actor Adeel Akhtar - famed for Four Lions- about his latest play about money, family, and politics - The Estate.
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- Title
- Is Starmer willing to recognise Palestine or not?
- Runtime
- 38:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- After a ninety minute crisis cabinet meeting - driven by the appalling scenes of starvation in Gaza - Keir Starmer emerged with a plan: the UK would recognise Palestine by September. If Israel hadn’t changed its behaviour before then. So, is statehood for Palestine an end goal for UK foreign policy? Or just a punishment for Israel? And what happens if there ARE moves towards peace in the next six weeks - is that rewarded by the UK stepping back from its pledge? We talk to global historian Peter Frankopan about what “recognition“ really means. And ask Emily Thornberry where it leaves her party.
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- Title
- Donald Trump BLASTS Sadiq Khan in front of Keir Starmer!
- Runtime
- 15:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Did Starmer do enough to defend his friend Sadiq Khan after Trump called him a “nasty person?”
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- Is Nigel Farage really “siding with Jimmy Savile“ by opposing the online safety bill?
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- 13:33
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- 1 year ago
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- Nigel Farage is no stranger to harsh criticism from his political rivals, but never before has he been linked to prolific paedophile Jimmy Savile.
That is, until now.
Cabinet minister Peter Kyle has accused the Reform UK leader of being “on the side” of Savile after Farage said he would repeal the government’s online safety act.
Farage has now demanded an apology - but Kyle’s doubled down.
Are Labour brushing over the genuine unease that many people have about the online safety act? And is their rhetoric making Farage look like the grown up in the room?
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- Title
- “It’s about the girls and getting the hotel closed” says member of Homeland Party
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- 1:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- What do the Epping Protests tell us about 'civil disobedience' in the UK?
- Runtime
- 42:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A wave of anti-migrant protests and counter-protests took place at migrant hotels around the country this weekend, with police being drafted in from all around. So, how close are we to another summer of riots? We sent The Crime Agent's Andy Hughes down to the protests in Epping as tensions in the community have been escalating for weeks.
Later, how safe are the new online age verification measures brought in for the Online Safety Act?
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