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It's a massive gamble - the prime minister’s Conservative party is 20 points behind in the polls, every expert predicts a Labour victory and scores of Tory MPs are quitting their jobs, not even bothering to stand.
But inflation is down, he's on course to get the first Rwanda flights full of asylum seekers in the air soon, Nigel Farage hasn't got himself organised yet and Labour were not expecting this now.
So pitching himself as the safe option in a dangerous world Rishi Sunak said he will fight for every vote. Keir Starmer told voters this is their opportunity to stop the chaos and rebuild Britain.
Welcome to the start of the General Election 2024.
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We joined two of them, as they watched former Post Office CEO, Paula Vennells give evidence to the ongoing inquiry.
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The ex-CEO broke down in tears four times during her testimony.
Almost a thousand subpostmasters were wrongly prosecuted and many believe Ms Vennells was at the heart of an orchestrated cover-up.
But much of her defence today focused around shifting blame, and in her words, being too trusting.
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From the cost of living to hospital waiting lists, they're the bread and butter issues that really affect people's lives.
Labour needs a national swing of 12.7% to win a majority.
That's also what it needs in Morecambe and Lunesdale, if the Lancashire constituency is to change from blue to red.
We went there to chat with voters ahead of the election campaign
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The latest date for a next general election is 28 January 2025.
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It comes as the UK River Summit & Festival brings together environmentalists, businesses and members of the public to discuss the state of the UK's rivers.
Ruben Reuter went along to challenge the water minister on what he's doing about it.
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What happened next has been turned into a moving play that's reduced audiences in Nottingham to tears.
It tells the story of Jacob Dunne - the 18-year-old who threw the punch, and how James' parents ended up helping him turn his life around
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Now the government is promising urgent payments this summer for people living with infections, and the first full payments for those infected and affected by the end of the year.
Of the 30,000 people given contaminated blood, more than 3,000 have already died.
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One passenger said the plane suffered a "dramatic drop", throwing those not wearing seatbelts onto the ceiling.
Seven of those injured are in a critical condition. The man who died is thought to have had a heart attack.
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But tomorrow, the former head of the Post Office, Paula Vennells, will break that silence when she appears at the Horizon IT inquiry.
Today, it was the turn of the company secretary, Alwen Lyons, who was at every board meeting - and party to many secrets after 34 years in an organisation that caused untold suffering for hundreds of subpostmasters.
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It's divided western countries - with the US vociferously condemning it and France supporting it.
We look at what the request could mean for Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and the ICC itself.
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The infected blood scandal is not unique to the UK.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s many other countries also passed along contaminated blood to thousands of unsuspecting people.
But in most of those places, the reckoning came earlier - with compensation payouts and even criminal convictions secured years, and sometimes decades, ago.
Opportunities missed by successive governments of all parties here in the UK.
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The British lawyer Karim Khan thanked a team of eminent international advisers including Britain's Baroness Kennedy and the lawyer Amal Clooney - and said acts committed in the October 7th raid on Israel, and the subsequent seven months of war in Gaza "demand accountability".
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This morning, officials confirmed his helicopter came down in foggy conditions in the northwest of the country - with the foreign minister also among the dead.
While Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has attempted to project a sense of calm, Raisi's death creates a moment of uncertainty for a regime that's facing both internal and external pressure.
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Today we learned it could largely have been avoided.
The inquiry chair, Sir Brian Langstaff, pointed to the sheer scale of the tragedy, calling it "horrifying".
At least 30,000 people were infected with Hepatitis C over the 1970s and 1980s. And 1,300 were infected with HIV, including 380 children. More than 3,000 people are estimated to have died from infections attributed to blood or blood products, many of them haemophiliacs, given tainted blood as part of their treatment.
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Clubs have already announced next season's ticket prices and most are putting them up. Some are also reducing or removing discounts for certain season ticket holders. It's angered supporters, who say their loyalty is being exploited while clubs make huge profits from commercial deals.
Kiran Moodley has been speaking to fans of Nottingham Forest and Spurs.
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Tomorrow, thousands of victims of the infected blood scandal will get the final report of the inquiry into what happened to them. The government is also expected to approve more than ten billion pounds of compensation this week.
Our Health and Social Care Editor Victoria Macdonald is outside Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, where the inquiry will conclude.
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State media says it came down in a forest in Iran's mountainous East Azerbaijan province, as they returned from inaugurating a dam on the border with Azerbaijan.
Poor weather is hampering efforts to reach the site. The public has been urged to pray for those on board.
Competitors wore heart rate monitors to determine sleep quality and the winner was whoever had the greatest difference between their heart rates before and after the nap. #Seoul #SouthKorea #Sleep #C4News
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In the south, those who haven't fled Rafah say the air strikes and shelling have been almost non-stop as Israeli forces continue their advance.
Troops and tanks have also pushed deeper into Jabaliya in the north - killing and wounding dozens more Palestinians - with ambulances unable to access the area.
But the arrival of desperately-needed aid by sea is offering some hope.
Jonathan Rugman has this report, which contains some distressing images.
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Now, Channel 4 News has spoken to acclaimed singer Yungblud about his new music festival 'Bludfest', which offers cheap, and even free, tickets to people from all backgrounds.
The Doncaster-born rock star says he wants to take music to people across the UK, not just in London.
And a warning, this report from our Culture Correspondent Minnie Stephenson contains flashing images.
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He used to make his puppets professionally and perform in a theatre, now he makes them with whatever he can find and performs in a displacement camp, as Yousef Hammash reports.
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India has the world’s largest YouTube audience and the internet offers the opposition direct access to voters, now that most mainstream media supports the ruling BJP.
But as we report from Madhya Pradesh, it also allows candidates and those who back them, to avoid meaningful scrutiny.
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Speaking during his trip to China, he insisted it's aimed at creating a buffer zone to protect the nearby Belgorod region - which Russia said was hit by Ukrainian drones overnight, along with Crimea.
Meanwhile, Ukraine's President signed two laws allowing prisoners to join the army and increasing fines for draft dodgers, in an effort to increase troop numbers.
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Huge parts of eastern Oregon vote Republican, and they're fed up with being run by liberals that outnumber them in the cities in the west.
So they are campaigning to move the state line and join the heavily Republican state of Idaho next door.
Twelve counties have already voted in favour of breaking away - with one more - Crook County - voting in May.
Kiran Moodley went to find out why so many Oregonians are ready to quit their state.
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On Monday, the inquiry into what happened to some 30,000 people given blood products contaminated with HIV or Hepatitis C - during the 70s and 80s - is due to deliver its final report.
But one victim dies every four days, so many have not lived long enough to see it. And those who have will still have to wait even longer for compensation, which could run into billions.
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While in Israel, heartbreak, but also closure, for the families of three people killed by Hamas - whose bodies troops have recovered from Gaza.
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But why is the ruling party there so intent on pushing this law through? After all, hundreds of thousands are protesting against it and it could put the brakes on EU membership which most Georgians say they want.
Other recent, less noticed legislative changes, may hold the key.
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The authorities say they believe the arrested man, who is 71, was a 'lone wolf' but that he has taken part in anti-government protests.
The prime minister, whose condition stabilised overnight following surgery, is seen as anti-Western and pointedly refused to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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Sir Keir said the policies were a "down payment on change" and he blamed the economic crisis during Liz Truss's premiership for the fact that he was not being more ambitious.
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The first meeting between Vladimir Putin and China's president Xi Jinping since Russia's president was re-elected, effectively unopposed, in March came in a week of huge anti-Russian protests in Georgia and the attempted assassination of Slovakia's anti-western prime minister.
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One stark figure underpinning it all is that only 1.6% of rapes that were reported resulted in someone being charged that same year.
The Prime Minister of the day Boris Johnson apologised to victims and survivors for the failure of the criminal justice system and promised “we are fixing this”.
The pledge was to return to 2016 prosecution numbers. So what happened next? Initially it gets worse.The charge rate at the end of 2021 fell to 1.3%. Then it gets marginally better in 2022. It improves a little again by the end of 2023.
These figures just show cases where there is a charge by the end of that year - they will rise slightly as more investigations end.
Survivors and campaign groups welcome progress but say there is still a very long way to go.
Today the Home Office tells us things are moving ”in the right direction”, with more arrests, more cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service and more prosecutions. That progress, they say, comes from Operation Soteria - a new approach to rape investigations - thousands of officers specially trained, much more focus on the suspect and less on the credibility of the victim.
This is the story of one Sussex Police investigation through the eyes of the victim and the detective constable who helped her get justice.
There are some distressing details from the beginning.
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The Labour leader launched his first steps to change Britain, but will that help the party on the doorstep? And this week saw more culture war issues being flagged by Conservatives. Rishi Sunak wrote about his horror at disturbing gender ideology being taught in schools, as the government brought in new guidance and rules banning classroom teaching about contested gender identity issues.
To talk about this, on The Political Fourcast we're joined by Caroline Nokes, the Conservative Chair of Parliament's Women and Equalities Committee, and from Labour, the Former Culture Secretary, Ben Bradshaw, who is stepping down at the next election.
Produced by Silvia Maresca, Annie La Vespa, Rob Thompson and Nick Jackson.
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Narendra Modi is hoping to secure a supermajority in parliament for the BJP - despite being up against a broad opposition alliance.
In recent weeks, his rivals have suffered a string of raids and arrests - most notably Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, prompting the opposition to accuse the government of using investigative agencies to damage it.
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Critics say the whole situation is further evidence of a criminal justice system on the verge of collapse.
The Ministry of Justice says it's tackling the situation with a scheme known as Operation Early Dawn - which appropriately began at 5.30 this morning.
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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted his forces would press on - saying efforts to root out another four Hamas battalions could take weeks.
While Palestinians have been marking the anniversary of what they call the 'Nakba' or catastrophe - when hundreds of thousands were forced to flee their homes during the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.
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Robert Fico was hit in the stomach after a gunman opened fire during a meeting with supporters in the town of Handlova, just over 100 miles from the capital Bratislava.
He was airlifted to hospital - where the next few hours will prove critical.
A warning - there are shocking images from the very start of this report.
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