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Today in Focus

Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining personal storytelling with insightful analysis, this podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a topic or story in the news, covering: politics, climate change, current affairs, investigations, leaks, scandals involving the royals and interviews. It might cover topics such as: politics and current affairs in the United States of America - Donald Trump, the US presidential election 2024, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; current affairs including Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Russia, Bangladesh, HS2, the police, AI, information technology and the royal family - including King Charles III and Prince Harry; UK politics including UK election 24, Parliament, Labour, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats, Reform UK, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer; GB, Scotland, England and Ireland news, arts and culture, the environment, green issues, the climate emergency and global warming. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Aditya Chakrabortty, Alexis Petridis, Andrew Roth, Emma Graham-Harrison, George Monbiot, John Crace, John Harris, Jonathan Freedland, Kiran Stacey, Larry Elliott, Luke Harding, Marina Hyde, Nesrine Malik, Owen Jones, Peter Walker, Pippa Crerar, Polly Toynbee, Shaun Walker, Simon Hattenstone and Zoe Williams.

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The killing of Yahya Sinwar
‘I am your retribution’: Trump’s radical plan to remake the presidency
Sue Gray is out: will this solve Labour’s problems?
7 October, one year on: a return to kibbutz Nir Oz
Do Israel and Iran really want to go to war?
Who were England’s 2024 rioters?
Will Hezbollah survive Israel’s onslaught?
The mysteries of IBS
Hope, finally? Keir Starmer’s first conference in power
Born to rule? The hereditary peers about to lose their seats
How Lebanon’s pagers and walkie-talkies became deadly weapons
Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority
Should we believe Putin’s war talk?
Revenge of the childless cat ladies
Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit
Why Brazil is taking on Elon Musk
Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it?
The man who fell to Earth
Why Oasis tickets are ‘definitely maybe’ too expensive
The millennials living with their parents
How Bangladesh’s longest-serving leader was toppled by student protests
Tommy Robinson and the evolution of Britain’s far right
Is Ukraine’s incursion into Russia a gamble that could pay off?
The two-child welfare limit: why won’t Labour scrap the cap?
Is AI a bubble?
The imam who reached out to rioters
Inside the prisoner exchange that set an American journalist free
A death at work in the age of extreme heat
A week of escalation in the Middle East
How two assassinations left the Middle East on the edge
Rachel Reeves and the £22bn black hole
Why Spain wants tourists to go home
President Biden steps aside
Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story
The king’s speech: how radical will Labour be?
Has the attempt to kill Trump handed him the election?
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America
Euro 2024: is it coming home?
A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom?
McSweeney and Gray: the powers behind Keir Starmer
The Lib Dems’ surprising strategy to breach the blue wall
The economy and Labour’s post-election dilemma
How a far-right push in Europe triggered a shock election in France
Donald Trump is now a convicted criminal. Do voters care?
Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?
Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?
Why is Sunak’s election campaign so chaotic?
A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic
Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up
What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?
Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble
Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances
Could Netanyahu really be arrested for war crimes?
The 'foreign agents' law that has set off mass protests in Georgia
The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland
Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?
Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge
The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years
Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?
How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?
Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?
Is Labour about to win a local election landslide?
The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses
What Ukraine needs to change the course of the war
Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?
Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner? – podcast
Sudan’s forgotten war
Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?
Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Is the Middle East on the brink?
How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe
Carers scandal: why are so many being prosecuted by the UK government?
Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and the start of the hush money trial
Profits over pipes: who should own our water?
The devil walking on Earth part 2
Should the UK stop arming Israel?
Scotland’s new hate crime law
Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis
What is Reddit really worth?
The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces – podcast
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind – Full Story podcast
Terrorism and the battle for the truth in Moscow
The rise and fall of Vice Media
Why are Indian and Nepali men ending up on the frontline in Ukraine?
What do the Tories consider extreme?
The princess and the pictures
The Ministry of Defence’s multimillion pound Saudi defence deal
Jeremy Hunt’s election year budget – podcast
Gaza’s hunger crisis
Why IVF is under attack in Alabama
Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?
How the cost of living changed the way we eat out
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 1
Is an uprising by Europe’s farmers sowing the seeds for the far right?
The shocking death and extraordinary life of Alexei Navalny
Why is it becoming so hard to retire in the UK?
Israel’s threat to Gaza’s last refuge
What on earth is going on in the Rochdale byelection?
Is Biden too old to be president?
Why does the UK lag behind on cancer care?
Why the military are the real winners of Pakistan’s election
Is Britain fit to fight a war?
Will the ICJ ruling change anything in Gaza?
The mothers and wives of Russian soldiers daring to defy Putin
Why the UK needs to eliminate measles … again
Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror
The Houthis and the Red Sea crisis
Reform UK: the party frightening the Tories from the fringes
The Chinese shadow over Taiwan’s election
Bombs, boat sinkings and assassinations: is the Middle East descending into war?
Why are there so few Black sperm donors in the US?
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 6 – how King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens
Revisited: Cost of the crown, part 3 – the hidden history of the monarchy and slavery
Revisited: From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 2 – podcast
Revisited: From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 1
The ‘cruel’ new visa rules set to break up families
John Crace’s political year
Ukraine’s fight for funds to keep Russia at bay
The Barclays and the battle for the Telegraph
Is Israel deliberately trying to make Gaza uninhabitable? – Podcast
Rishi Sunak, Rwanda and the rebels
Why Argentinians are gambling everything on ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei
The lives and lies of George Santos
Boris Johnson v the Covid inquiry
Why are so many councils going ‘bankrupt’?
Israel-Gaza: a week of tearful reunions and an uneasy truce
The secret plan to ‘hook’ the developing world on oil
How King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens
Can tax cuts save the Tories?
How much legal trouble is Donald Trump in?
The families stuck living in Britain’s unlicensed bedsits
Israel’s raid on al-Shifa hospital
How the UK government’s Rwanda asylum plan came unstuck
Has Putin got the upper hand in Ukraine?
The return of David Cameron
Suella Braverman, the police and the protests
Fear and fury in the West Bank
Crypto on trial: the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Why are Britain’s new homes so rubbish?
How the Israel-Gaza conflict is dividing Labour
Is the AI safety summit already too late?
‘We’re totally isolated’: inside Gaza as Israel’s war intensifies
What we’ve learned so far from the Covid inquiry
The last whale hunter in Iceland
The rise of antisemitism in the UK
In the wake of Storm Babet
Could the conflict in Israel tip into regional war?
Kicking out the populists: how young voters helped swing Poland’s election
Is the SNP’s independence dream fading?
The hidden cost of cancer
Keir Starmer’s plan to rebuild Britain
From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power – part 2
From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 1
How the Israel-Gaza conflict erupted
Why Britain is mourning the Sycamore Gap tree
Do Rishi Sunak's new policies add up?
HS2: how the costly rail project ran out of track
Gangs of Stockholm: the rise of gun crime in Sweden
Nagorno Karabakh: Why a frozen conflict suddenly exploded
Why are London firearms officers laying down their guns?
The Blind Side and Hollywood’s blind spot
Rishi Sunak’s net zero U-turn
The destruction of Derna
Naomi Klein’s doppelganger
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: breaking the Russian lines
A day in the ruins of Morocco’s earthquake
The concrete crisis: is Britain falling apart?
Has the plant-based food revolution lost its sizzle?
How safe are the priceless treasures in our museums?
The chilling rise of AI scams
The final weeks of Yevgeny Prigozhin

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Liam Payne: the heady rise and tragic death of a One Direction star
Will the Chris Kaba murder trial change British policing?
The hurricanes shaking the US election – podcast
How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s favourite far-right leader
One man on his grief for Gaza
Unleashed: John Crace digests Boris Johnson’s memoir
The curiously upbeat Tory leadership race
The deadliest week in Lebanon for decades
The bravery of Gisèle Pelicot in the rape trial horrifying France
Inside a secret summit of Afghan women’s rights activists
The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards
Mehdi Hasan on how to beat Donald Trump in a debate
Grenfell: the lies and greed exposed
The Israeli negotiator who talks to Hamas
Black Box: episode 5 – The white mask
Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I
Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now
Black Box: episode 1 – The connectionists
“Welcome to hell”: inside Israel’s prisons
How Southport’s horror and grief was hijacked by the far right
The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence
The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police
Team GB’s plan for Paris? Air con, ice vests and baristas
In southern Lebanon on the brink of war
Mehdi Hasan on Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump
The ‘brat’ summer takeover
Inside the biggest art fraud in US history
Labour’s landslide victory
Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?
The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1
Returning to Leigh: can Labour rebuild the red wall?
New towns and old ideas: Labour’s housing plan
Has Clacton fallen for Nigel Farage?
The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment
Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland
Election 2024’s battleground: your family WhatsApp group
Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 2
The Israeli protesters trying to stop food aid getting to Gaza
From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story – podcast
Exposing Israel’s secret ‘war’ on the ICC – podcast
How an Indian state became a testing ground for Hindu nationalism – podcast
The children of the contaminated blood scandal
What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?
Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special
Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?
Where does the Cass report leave trans teenagers?
The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
The devil walking on Earth: part 1
Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?
How gangs took control of Haiti
The assisted dying debate: Paola’s story – podcast
How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked
Black Box: The connectionists
The Conservative party’s problem with Islamophobia
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 3
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor - part 3
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 2
How a ceasefire vote led to two days of chaos in the Commons – podcast
How a ceasefire vote led to two days of chaos in the Commons
Why the NHS needs Martha’s rule
Deported and disgraced: the students wrongly accused of cheating
The deal that could transform politics in Northern Ireland
Michelle Mone and the PPE Medpro investigation
Will South Africa’s genocide case against Israel succeed?
2024: what happens when US and UK elections collide?
How to reboot your memory for 2024
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 5 – the coronation of Charles III
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 4 – calculating the king’s wealth
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 2 – duchies, diamonds and Dalís
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 1 – valuing the royal family
How the Guardian covered 2023
How Madonna changed pop culture for ever
The stories behind Europe’s unmarked migrant graves
The stories behind Europe’s unmarked migrant graves – podcast
Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site
Revisited: a conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah
Why is the Israel-Hamas conflict so deadly for journalists?
Geert Wilders and Europe’s lurch to the far right
The spy tech firm managing NHS data
He’s back: Sam Altman and the chaos at the heart of the AI industry
Rebuilding Paradise: five years on from California’s deadliest fire
What will it take to free the hostages taken by Hamas?
How oligarchs use English courts to silence their critics
How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict
How Taylor Swift built her music empire
The deadly stakes of a ground invasion of Gaza
The fight to give Indigenous Australians a voice
Human catastrophe unfolds in Israel and Gaza
Out in the cold: the spy scandal gripping Denmark
Culture 2023: the films, music and TV shows not to miss this autumn
Overcrowded and understaffed: life in England’s crumbling prisons
The horrifying allegations against Russell Brand
What have a year of protests really changed in Iran?
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part three
The scandal of Bangladesh’s missing children – part two
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part one
The curious world of the Guardian’s Experience column
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner?
Rats, fires and floods: why Parliament is falling down