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ICC issues arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Hamas commander

The International Criminal Court has issued arrests warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and the former defence minister for crimes against humanity. A warrant has also been issued for a Hamas leader who's believed to be dead. Also on the programme, Russia has struck Ukraine with what may be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, a first in the war; and, is one banana really worth more than $6 million? (Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend a ceremony for the 70th cohort of military combat officers, at an army base near Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, October 31, 2024. REUTERS/Amir Cohen/File Photo)

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Biden agrees to give Ukraine anti-personnel mines

A senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Gregory Meeks, says the US has no choice but to keep bolstering its military support for Kyiv. Also on the programme: The wife of Uganda’s opposition leader Kizza Besigye on her husband’s arrest; a BBC reporter’s encounter with the lookalike of the media personality Logan Paul; and a tribute to guitarist Vic Flick, famous for his riff on the James Bond theme tune. (Picture: Flags signalling landmines on a demining training field at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence training centre in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine. Credit: MARIA SENOVILLA/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai testifies in court for first time

Jimmy Lai, one of Hong Kong's most influential pro-democracy figures, has testified in court for the first time in a national security trial that may see him sentenced to life in jail. Also in the programme: Washington is sending anti-personnel landmines to Ukraine in a reversal of previous policy as the Russian advance gathers pace; and we speak to Richard Flanagan, the first writer to win both the Booker Prize for fiction and the Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. (Picture: Media mogul Jimmy Lai, founder of Apple Daily, arrives at the Court of Final Appeal, in a prison van in Hong Kong. Credit: Reuters).

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Senior Republican Senator on Ukraine and Trump nominations

It is 1000 days since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine and senior Republican on the Armed Forces Committee in the US Senate, Roger Wicker, has welcomed the decision by President Biden to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russia, but argues that it should have come sooner. He tells Newshour: "The best way to combat the illegal breach of international law is to be strong". Also in the programme: Ukraine's former national security adviser on what his country can expect from a new Trump presidency, and linguistics professor David Crystal on what England's King Richard III sounded like. (Photo: US Republican Senator of Mississippi Roger Wicker. Credit: Michael Reynolds/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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Moscow says Ukraine fired US-supplied long range missiles into Russia

Moscow says Ukraine has launched American-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. Also on the programme: we speak to the wife of one of the 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who have been given long jail terms; and, Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of france's mass rape trial, makes her final statement to the court. (Photo: US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) firing a missile into the East Sea during a South Korea-US joint missile drill in 2017. Credit: Getty Images, file photo)

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Russia accuses US of escalating Ukraine war with missile decision

Russia has vowed to respond if Ukraine uses US long-range ATACMS missiles to hit its territory. We'll hear views from Ukraine, Russia and Germany. Also in the programme: armed looters hijacked almost 100 trucks carrying aid supplies into Gaza; and French singer-songwriter Charles Dumont, who composed Edith Piaf's "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien", has died. (Photo: A resident carries outs items from his house heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike on Odesa, Ukraine. Credit: REUTERS/Nina Liashonok)

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Russia anger at US Ukraine missile decision

President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to hit Russia with American long-range missiles has prompted scorn in Moscow. What difference will the move by the outgoing administration make - and might other Western allies follow the US' lead? Also in the programme: We'll hear from Delhi, the Indian city which gasps under unrelenting toxic smog; and he leaders of the world's most powerful countries meet in Brazil - but are they just marking time until Donald Trump returns? (Photo shows a file photo of a missile from the Army Tactical Missile System, a surface-to-surface ballistic system, similar to what Ukraine is going to use. Credit: White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs)

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Biden allows Ukraine to strike inside Russia with US missiles

US media say President Biden has made a major policy change, by letting Ukraine use long-range missiles to hit targets deep inside Russia. Ukraine's leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, has long called for the change. There's been no confirmation from the White House. Also in the programme: An Israeli airstrike in central Beirut is reported to have killed Hezbollah’s media chief; Russian opposition protestors take to the streets in Berlin; and a proposal in the new Zealand parliament, which would impact the rights of Maoris there. (Photo: White Sands Missile Range Public Affairs)

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