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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. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Kiran Stacey, Pippa Crerar, Alex Hern, Peter Walker, Luke Harding, Andrew Roth, Shaun Walker and Jim Waterson. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a story in the news, covering: current affairs, politics, investigations, leaks, and scandals. It might cover, for example, topics such as: the environment, green issues, climate change, the climate emergency and global warming; American politics including: Biden, Trump, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; UK politics including: parliament, Labour, the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrats, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer; culture; the royals and the royal family, including King Charles III; HS2; the police; Ukraine; Russia; and Bangladesh

  • Newspapers with the headlines 'Guilty' and 'Injustice' on display at a bodega in Brooklyn. Photograph: AP Photo/Ruth Brown

    Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?

  • The ICC prosecutor Karim Khan speaks at a lectern. He is holding up a booklet, Policy on Complementarity and Cooperation

    Exposing Israel’s secret ‘war’ on the ICC

  • Mohammad Aman showing a photo of his 17-year-old brother Mohammed Anas
who was shot in the abdomen by police in Haldwani, Uttrakhand.

    How an Indian state became a testing ground for Hindu nationalism

    Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports from Uttarakhand, which offers a glimpse into what the future might look like if the BJP retains its power in national elections
  • Rishi Sunak playing football during a campaign visit to Chesham United FC

    Why is Rishi Sunak’s election campaign so chaotic?

    Big beasts have stepped down, a sitting MP has endorsed a Reform UK candidate and the PM has already had to have a campaign reset. Peter Walker reports
  • Ozempic

    A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic

    The company behind the weight-loss drug has made millions, but without health insurance it is unaffordable for many. George Chidi reports
  • A Damien Hirst formaldehyde work

    Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up

    Guardian investigations correspondent Maeve McClenaghan discusses her investigation into some of the work of the artist Damien Hirst that has been dated to the 1990s, years before it was actually made. Art critic Jonathan Jones discusses the impact Hirst’s work has had on him
  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

    The sex and relationships educator Jo Morgan discusses what she believes a sex education curriculum should look like
  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London

    Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble

  • A young person jumps while black smoke rises in the background

    Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances

  • Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, arriving for a Likud party meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem

    Could Netanyahu really be arrested for war crimes?

    Prosecutors from International Criminal Court have requested arrest warrants for the leaders of Israel and Gaza. Julian Borger reports
  • A Great Ormond Street sign outside the children's hospital in London

    The rightwing Christian group and the battle over end-of-life care

    The Christian Legal Centre is behind a number of end-of-life court cases that could be ‘prolonging suffering’, according to doctors. Josh Halliday reports
  • Demonstrators hold placards reading ‘It’s time #ContaminatedBlood’ and ‘Recognise all victims #ContaminatedBlood’.

    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

    It is the NHS’s worst treatment disaster – with 30,000 patients infected. Two survivors, Ade Goodyear and Andy Evans, explain why it took so long for it to be brought to light
  • Dr Ruth Cerezo-Mota and the planet (By Tamara Uribe, The Guardian)

    What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?

    Hundreds of climate experts expect global temperatures to rise to at least 2.5C (4.5F) above preindustrial levels by 2100. Damian Carrington reports
  • A woman holds a Georgian national and an EU flag in front of police blocking a street. (Photograph: Zurab Tsertsvadze/AP Photo)

    The ‘foreign agents’ law that has set off mass protests in Georgia

    The bill requires any civil society organisation that receives more than 20% of its funds from abroad to register as being under foreign influence. Daniel Boffey reports
  • Anti-immigrant protesters wave Irish flags while confronting line of police officers

    The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland

    Rory Carroll, the Guardian’s Ireland correspondent, looks at what is fuelling anti-immigrant anger in the Republic of Ireland
  • Young girl using an iPhone

    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?

    Almost all children have them by the time they are 11 years old – and some get them at four. But are they ruining childhoods?
  • Natalie Elphicke and Keir Starmer sitting on armchairs talking one another (Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

    Guardian political correspondent Kiran Stacey tells Helen Pidd what heavy local election losses mean for the PM, and looks at what calculation Keir Starmer made in taking in rightwing Tory Natalie Elphicke
  • People flee the eastern parts of Rafah in Gaza. Photo by Aaed Baker/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

    Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge

    We hear from two Palestinians living in tents in the city of Rafah. As the threat of an Israeli invasion hangs over them, they decide whether to stay or leave
  • Picture of Marc Conway with beard against dark background with shaft of light running through

    The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years

    In 2019, ex-offender Marc Conway helped hold down a knifeman who killed two people in a terror attack. But by doing so he risked being recalled to prison. Simon Hattenstone reports
  • Bassim Haidar

    Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?

    Multi-millionaire Bassim Haidar says ending the non-dom tax status is a mistake. He plans to leave the UK and says other non-doms will do the same. Should the government change their mind?
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