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Sensemaker

A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement has become America’s most powerful – and in some quarters most feared – federal agency. 

Writer: Serena Cesareo

Producer: Serena Cesareo

Host: Casey Magloire

Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett 

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America’s war on immigration

On the 8th of January, the Metropolitan Police released a report into failures in vetting and recruitment of officers involved in misconduct or criminal offences. 

Host: Ada Barume

Writer: Amalie Sortland

Producer: Casey Magloire

Additional reporting: Madeleine Parr 

Episode Photography: Sofia Fenton 

Executive producer: Matt Russell

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How applicants that failed vetting became Met police officers

Last week the US inverted its food pyramid, placing high protein foods like meat and dairy at the top. How did we get here and is this good food guidance?

Writer: Jonathan Lewis

Producer: Jonathan Lewis

Host: Ada Barume

Episode photography: Joe Mee

Executive Producer: Gary Marshall

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Is high protein food guidance a bad thing?

Hundreds have reportedly been killed in violent clashes with police as protests demanding regime change erupt across Iran.

Host: Casey Magloire

Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland and Poppy Bullard

Episode Photography: Joe Mee

Executive producer: Jasper Corbett

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A brutal crackdown in Iran

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been generating sexualised images of women and children on X. Can anything be done about it? 

Writer: Jonathan Lewis

Producer: Jonathan Lewis

Host: Casey Magloire

Episode photography: Joe Mee

Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett

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Why do MPs want to boycott Elon Musk’s X over sexualised AI images?

On Wednesday, the US seized a Russian-flagged tanker in the Atlantic on the grounds that it threatened the “security and stability of the Western Hemisphere”.

Host: Casey Magloire

Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland

Episode Photography: Joe Mee

Executive producer: Poppy Bullard

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The seized oil tankers

Conservative and Reform MPs are calling for the British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd El-Fattah to be stripped of his citizenship. At the same time Shamima Begum, who joined Islamic State, is fighting to have hers reinstated. How and why does the government revoke citizenship? 

Writer: Casey Magloire

Producer: Casey Magloire

Host: Casey Magloire 

Reporters: John Simpson and Casey Magloire 

Episode photography: Joe Mee

Executive Producer: Jasper Corbett 

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Why are Brits losing their citizenship?

After attacking Venezuela Donald Trump has suggested he might target Colombia and Cuba, and he wants to get his hands on Greenland too. 

Host: Andrew Butler

Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland

Episode Photography: Joe Mee

Executive producer: Jasper Corbett

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Which countries in Latin America might Trump target next?

For years, local authorities in England have found it difficult to stop the spread of slot machine arcades. But that could be about to change.

Host: Ada Barumé

Writer & Producer: Amalie Sortland

Episode Photography: Sofia Fenton

Executive producer: Rebecca Moore

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Are high streets losing the battle against gambling?

On Saturday morning, the United States of America bombed Venezuela and captured its President, Nicolás Maduro. What happened and why?
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Why did America attack Venezuela?

How a salacious newspaper – full of gossip and dramatic crime stories – is getting the Chinese authorities really worried.
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Ep 113: China's racy but radical tabloid

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