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After mounting hostilities and Trump’s threats that ‘a whole civilization will die’ unless Iran backs down, Tehran and Washington have agreed to a two week ceasefire. Now, they’re discussing a ten-point plan to permanently end the war. But is this the end of the fighting or just a pause? What’s in the peace plan? And has this conflict taught Iran that it can hold the world to ransom?
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Guest: Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Olivia Case and Sophie McNulty.

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Read more: What’s in Iran’s ten-point ceasefire plan? Trump’s stumbling blocks examined
Further listening: The West Bank land grab no one’s watching
Clips: BBC, CNN, AP, CSPAN, NDTV, The Mary Trump Podcast.
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With the world’s attention fixed on the war in Iran, Israeli settler gangs are rapidly and violently expanding outposts in the West Bank – seemingly with impunity. So, what’s it like on the ground? Is the Israeli government softening to the ‘extremist’ settler movement? And will settlers ever be held accountable?

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Guest: Richard Spencer, world affairs correspondent, The Times
Host: Manveen Rana
Producers: Sophie McNulty, Taryn Siegel
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Read more: Israel’s settlers seize their chance to snatch land in West Bank
Further listening: The Board of Peace: the new UN or Trump’s vanity project?
Clips: CNN, France 24, BBC, CBS, ABC 7, Middle East Eye.
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Thousands of pensioners invested their life savings into London Capital and Finance before it was revealed to be the UK’s biggest ever Ponzi scheme. Now, new Times reporting shows how the millions in investments were lavishly spent by LCF’s founders. So how was a scheme on this scale allowed to take root in the first place?

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Guests:
Jim Armitage, contributing editor, The Sunday Times.
Antonia Summer, investor in LCF.

Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Harry Stott, Callum Martin.
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Read more: Inside Britain’s biggest Ponzi scheme: where did £237m go?
Clips: Rehman Chisti MP / Facebook.
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Hungary goes to the polls on Sunday and for the first time in sixteen years, Donald Trump’s right-wing ally Viktor Orbán might lose his iron grip on power. But who is this man who’s ruled the country for so long? What do we know about the man who could unseat him? And what would a loss for Orbán mean for the populist right and for Europe as a whole?

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Guests:
Peter Conradi, Europe editor, The Sunday Times
Victor Sebestyen, journalist and author covering Eastern Europe & Russia

Host: Luke Jones
Producer: Sophie McNulty, Olivia Case
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Read more: Who is Peter Magyar, the man hoping to oust Viktor Orban?
Clips: Bloomberg, DRM News, Péter Magyar - YouTube
Photo: Getty Images, The Times.

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It's the trial rocking France's intelligence service. Two guards who had always dreamt of going under cover were allegedly tricked into a plot to kill a ‘Mossad agent’, who was nothing of the sort. It's an unbelievable tale of freemasons, fake missions - and real violence, where personal grudges are dressed up as matters of national security.

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Guest: Adam Sage, Paris correspondent, The Times.
Host: Rosie Wright.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Read more: Freemasons, bored spies and a murder-for-hire scandal at France’s MI6
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