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The cost of living alone crisis: We had so many emails and messages into this week’s Money Box Live on the extra cost of being single. Really interesting, do listen

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NEW: BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news & rolling TV coverage. Guardian scoop confirmed! “Premium experience” will give users unlimited news/feature articles & a BBC News channel livestream. Will there be demand in the age of polarisation? Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

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I think you can watch the Westminster Hall debate on the funding of the #BBCWorldService live at 3pm by googling parliamentlive.tv/Guide and clicking on Westminster Hall section. I think you can join in and rewind a little if you miss the beginning.

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Chris Greenway #BBCMonitoring: #BBCWorldService now aired 2000-2100 GMT daily via powerful mediumwave transmitter in Lithuania (1386 AM). Programming is mix of English+Russian. The transmitter is widely heard, inc in western Russia+has been used for years by other broadcasters to reach Russians.

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Checking sources has always been incredibly important - and it seems like some PR tactics are changing

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"We are ready for the most absurd things."

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#BBCPersian's Kasra Naji: "What was it all for, many are asking". Conflict within Iranian govt; its strategic failure; on crackdowns; the potential for compromise or chaos; on a disunited, disorganised opposition, and on the fears and unhappiness of the Iranian people. #Iran

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@johnsimpsonnews.bsky.social + #BBCPersian’s Baran Abbasi: has the Iranian regime successfully weathered the storm caused by the attacks by Israel+US? The state of the #NATO alliance with BBC Defence Corr Jonathan Beale; the ferocious gangland culture of Cape Town in South Africa.

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Matt Cartoons: "The UK has agreed that its defence budget will be 5% of what Jeff Bezos is spending on his wedding."

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Watch: #BBC's Lyse Doucet reports from #Iran on the ceasefire with #Israel Lyse Doucet is being allowed to report in Iran on condition that none of her reports are used on the BBC's Persian service. This law from Iranian authorities applies to all international media agencies operating in Iran.

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Zelenskyy: "I had a long and substantive meeting with President Trump @POTUS. We covered all the truly important issues. I thank Mr. President, I thank the United States." 1/

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Vladimir Putin won’t be heading to Brazil for next week’s BRICS summit due to an outstanding ICC arrest warrant issued against him and the lack of a “clear position” from Brazil on the matter, according to Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov. Sergei Lavrov will head Russia’s delegation.

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NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

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Famous last words? (I don’t think so)

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V interesting briefing 7.10am to Emma Barnett by Michael Mulroy former US Dep Asst Sec of Defence Middle East on intelligence leak on #Trump’s strikes on #Iran’s nuclear facilities. Why leaked? Is it correct/damaging? Are Trump’s claims overstated? Is this over? What next?

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Since President Trump ordered the strikes on Iran, lawmakers have questioned his legal authority to do so. #BBCVerify asked legal experts whether his actions were in line with the US Constitution or whether he should have consulted Congress first:

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Politics UK: ‘🚨 NEW: The vote on the Government’s welfare reform Bill next week is set to be delayed as Keir Starmer’s aides look to find concessions to get the support of rebels [@thetimes]’

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Anyone who cares about the future and funding of the #BBCWorldService, please consider coming to the Westminster Hall parliamentary debate starting 3pm Thursday 26th June and please email your MP and ask them to be there. If you come please allow 20-30 minutes to go through security.

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An 18-hour flight each way, multiple mid-air refuelings, and a series of decoys - this is how the US mission to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities played out, according to the four-star general who helped plan it:

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@bahmankalbasi.bsky.social: “The winner of Nobel Peace Prize in Iran [Narges Mohammadi] says Israel’s attack on Evin prison in Tehran has created a horrific situation for inmates.”1/

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Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BLOCKS JUDGE'S ORDER THAT PLACED LIMITS ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S POLICY OF DEPORTING MIGRANTS TO COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THEIR OWN

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“This is us…We are what we excavate.”Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Director of Pompeii, on coming ‘face to face’ with the ‘bodies’ of those killed by the eruption of Vesuvius. Wonderful, really beautiful music, true culture, compassion and humanity. Much needed.

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