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Martin griffiths, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Now, you've been in that seat on this programme before, but this is the first time that you're talking to us since you stepped down from your role as the un's humanitarian chief injune this year. You have greater liberty, essentially, now to tell us what you think about the situations that you've seen. May we begin in sudan, which is just one of the crises that you've dealt with in recent times? it's a civil war that in the last 18 months has put an extraordinary 25 million people in need of support and strugg...

Particular. Labour focus some changes to planning in particular. Labourfocus on it because they think there are blockages in the system. Too much time taken to make decisions which are holding the whole thing up. Theyve been clear they want to change the Planning System to overcome some of those blockages. They have reintroduced mandatory House Building targets. Local authorities will have a target for the homes they need to get built and will have to meet it. That was scrapped under the last government. While there is an accepted about when and where and how it is built might not be popular w...

Welcome back. Here, Sir Keir Starmer has promised to show how his government will, in his words, fix the foundations and rebuild the uk, as the Labour Conference gets under way in liverpool. The partys first annual gathering while in powerfor 15 years comes amid criticism over donations and gifts accepted by some of the new cabinet and calls from Union Bosses for The Party to U Turn on its decision to cut winterfuel payments for pensioners. Let us go live now to liverpool and our political correspondent for the latest. For the latest. Here in liverpool, for the latest. Here in liverpool, reall...

Following extensive israeli Air Strikes in lebanon on saturday. The rockets targeted the city of haifa, nearly 30km from the border with lebanon, and the ramat david airbase, further south. Israel has told its citizens to restrict gatherings in the city, and in areas near the northern border, in anticipation of a fresh aerial assault. These pictures show part of an intercepted rocket that was launched from lebanon and fell near nazareth in the early hours of sunday. And israel has been carrying out more Air Raids in southern lebanon. Saturday saw constant strikes and counter strikes between th...

Smartphones. Now on bbc news. The travel show. Im toby carr, and over the next year, im going to kayak in all of the areas of the Shipping Forecast. Now, the Shipping Forecast, issued by the met office on behalf of the maritime and coastguard agency, at 0015 on tuesday, the 11th ofjanuary. Around every corner. There s something new. Gps seems to. Be switching around where it says it is. Its kind of funny, ive been charging around this bit of sea a bit like a mad person. I thought it was a brilliant adventure that he was going on. But once i started seeing some of his reports of the faroe islan...