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The programme led with the withdrawal of US bombers from RAF Fairford and the conflicting signals around it. It reported that US Secretary of State Marco Rubio would not directly link the departure to a recent suspected terror plot, while US officials had told the New York Times the redeployment followed more details about weekend threats. Downing Street said the base was safe, Vice President JD Vance attributed the move to an abundance of caution over Iran, and it was noted that five men and later a sixth UK Iranian national had been arrested and released on bail. The segment examined whether UK bases were legitimate targets for Iran and what the move meant for any renewed US bombing of Iran, with an expert describing the step as prudent but not a transatlantic crisis and warning that bases can be vulnerable. It then reported that Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces had attacked Houthi targets and retaken key areas around the Bab al-Mandeb Strait, a vital oil route, with Houthi retaliation on Aramco facilities and a warning to airlines in Saudi airspace, while the UN said 184,000 people had been displaced. The broadcast also reported Russian missile attacks on Kharkiv that killed at least three people and wounded 29, including three children, and Ukrainian claims that long-range strikes had put more than half of Russia's oil refining capacity out of action. It further reported that Hampshire Police arrested 12 people in anti-migrant protests as lifeboats brought nearly 150 people ashore in Gosport, a crossing shadowed by French rescue vessels and the third such crossing in a month.

At the Conservative conference in Birmingham, Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith put tax cutting at the centre of his speech, said he would abolish Labour's new mansion tax and promised to scrap one tax in every budget, and paid tribute to Kemi Badenoch. The political editor described an improved mood but noted the party remained behind in the polls, and an interview with Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately covered acknowledged past mistakes, welfare reform, immigration, the European Convention on Human Rights, regulation and how tax cuts would be funded. The programme also reported that Green Party leader Zack Polanski had been barred from entering Israel after the party conference voted to define Zionism as racism and declared itself anti-Zionist, backing a single democratic Palestinian state in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. The vote was 1,022 in favour and 813 against, with division among its MPs and deputy leaders; interviews included Dr Ashok Kumar of Greens for Palestine and Green MP Adrian Ramsay, who opposed the motion. An inquiry into more than 2,000 deaths under Essex mental health services from 2000 to 2023 was reported to be considering whether the OxeVision camera monitoring system should be stopped, with concerns that it replaced patient-facing care and affected privacy, dignity and human rights. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was reported to have taken legal action against Thames Valley Police over the legality of search warrants used in his arrest earlier this year on suspicion of misconduct in public office, with a High Court hearing due on Thursday and a palace source saying his stipend should not fund the judicial review. BT agreed to buy TalkTalk for £400 million, saving it from collapse, protecting 900 Salford workers and broadband services for 2.5 million households and public services.

In Eastern Russia, hundreds of people were placed in quarantine after laboratory worker Daria Shipilova died of suspected pneumonic plague at the Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia, with nearly 200 contacts reportedly isolated. An investigative journalist said primary pneumonic plague raised questions about aerosolisation or engineering, noted the institute's Cold War dual-use history, and said the key question was what was happening to those quarantined, while Russian authorities said no microorganisms associated with Shipilova's professional activities were found. The broadcast reported that a 15-year-old student in Lens had his hand blown off after picking up a police stun grenade during school protests, as an estimated 500 schools across France were fully or partially closed in a third week of protests over teacher shortages and dilapidated facilities. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a snap general election for 29 November after his government's housing proposals were blocked by right-wing MPs, with his Socialist Party trailing in almost every opinion poll. In Brazil, Flavio Bolsonaro won the first round of the presidential election by 2% over incumbent Lula da Silva, forcing a second round later this month; he was reported to be the strong favourite after other right-wing candidates dropped out, and he promised to free his father, Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving 27 years for his part in an attempted coup.