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The ‘heroic’ rail worker who risked his life to save passengers from a mass stabbing on a train has been named as 48-year-old Samir Zitouni. Plus: A leaked report into BBC Panorama says that footage of Donald Trump’s January 6th speech was edited to make the case that he was encouraging the Capitol Hill riot, and New Yorkers head to the polls for what could be the election of the city’s first demo...

Calls For Rachel Reeves To Be Sacked Plus: Wilders’ far-right party and centrist D66 tie in Dutch elections, is the Labour Party dead? And the ‘Your Party’ drama continues. With: @NoJusticeMTG & Dalia Gebrial

Green Party membership has surpassed 150,000 – more than that of the Lib Dems and the Conservatives. Meanwhile, Labour is polling at their lowest in history. Plus: Agency workers hired to cover the Birmingham bin strikes may now go on strike themselves, and Elon Musk could leave Tesla over a $1 trillion pay dispute. With: Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrieu.

Two years on from October 7th, we discuss how the world has changed. Plus: The disaster that is the Tory conference, and why a Gen Z protest movement in Madagascar is taking on the government. With Steven Methven and Barry Malone.

At least nineteen people have starved to death in a single day in Gaza, while Israel launches new air and ground assault on Deir al Balah. Plus: The UK water regulator faces abolition after review, and arrests are made following a protest outside an asylum hotel in Essex. With Michael Walker, NoJusticeMTG, Dr Mohammed Mustafa & Matt Lawrence.

Over 130,000 Los Angeles residents have been ordered to evacuate as wildfires sweep the city and its surroundings. Plus: market instability threatens Labour’s economic plans; and Trump’s counterterrorism chief calls on the UK to repatriate ISIS fighters. With Dalia Gebrial and James Meadway.

Piers Morgan has denied that he knew of phone hacking at the Daily Mirror whilst he was editor after a judge ruled that he did. Plus: the Palestinian ambassador responds after the Israeli ambassadors said “absolutely no” to a two-state solution. With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

The 2023 local elections have seen the Conservatives losing hundreds of seats across England. Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani analyse the results and what it means for Sunak’s government, Starmer’s Labour, the Lib Dems and the Greens. Plus: the WHO say that Covid-19 is no longer an international health emergency, and Peter Hitchens takes on the government over Britain’s poor rai...

In the middle of a grave cost of living crisis, bosses at Royal Mail, BT and across corporate Britain are imposing pay rises for workers way below inflation. On Downstream, Aaron Bastani speaks to CWU General Secretary Dave Ward about corporate greed, the shadowy world of CEOs, the return of the working class and how he plans to coordinate direct action beyond his union’s own disputes.

Over the last few centuries, the global spread of a vast array of different drugs has reshaped how we work, experience pleasure, fight wars, and explore our inner worlds. And from Richard Nixon’s ‘War on Drugs’ to the opium wars to the scuppering of the hippie movement, those drugs have been entangled with politics and power. On Downstream, Michael Pollan, author of The Botany of...