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Nigel Farage and other senior members of Reform UK have been filmed by undercover reporters celebrating secret new foreign donations.

Channel 4 News and @Verbatim_Media, a group of investigative journalists, can today reveal a plot to break the law on party funding at the highest levels of Reform UK.

You can watch the full investigation here: https://t.co/f1g358fN2Y

Channel 4 News approached Reform UK, Mr Farage, Mr Jukes and Mr Orr for comment on the findings of this investigation. They did not comment but we understand they deny the allegations in full.

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At COP13, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband MP said he supports a managed transition in the North Sea, rejecting calls both to end all drilling and to extract every last drop.

The policy aims to balance the shift towards cleaner energy with protecting workers and creating new employment opportunities.

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Two 15-year-old best friends were killed when a Russian missile struck the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Yana was a gymnast. Maria loved to dance. Both were walking through the city when the missile hit.

As Russia continues to attack Ukraine’s infrastructure, families are struggling with power cuts, disrupted water supplies and the challenge of keeping their children warm and fed.

With another winter of war approaching, Lindsey Hilsum reports from Chernihiv, where families are trying to carry on with everyday life despite the constant threat of Russian attacks.

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The Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband MP, has condemned Russell Brand’s actions as ‘horrifying’ and expressed sympathy for his victims, saying he would never have agreed to Brand interviewing him had he known what has since come to light.

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Reform Wales’ leader, Helen Jenner, has backed one of the party’s Members of the Senedd who was barred from speaking in the chamber following claims that white British people were being “replaced” in the UK.

Joe Martin was told he could not speak until he apologised for his remarks, which the Senedd’s Presiding Officer described as “unnecessarily provocative and deliberately offensive”.

Jenner said politicians should not be “silenced” over their views, arguing that freedom of speech should apply to all opinions.

Reform said it would withdraw from most of Wednesday’s proceedings before returning to vote in the parliament later in the evening.

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Why the working class is being shut out of the arts

As new figures show a drop in working class representation in the arts since 2021, award-winning director Shane Meadows tells Frances Read the industry wants ‘stories that aren’t gritty.’

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Almost a fortnight ago, two 15-year-old girls, best friends Yana Pieshkova and Mariia Mozhova, were killed by a Russian cruise missile.

It hit the centre of the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv, as people were on their way to school and work.

Channel 4 News’ International Editor, Lindsey Hilsum, spoke to the girls’ headteacher, Olha Shelest, about how the school is coping with war.

As part of their tribute to Yana and Mariia, the school used AI to create the portraits of the girls featured.

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In Mexico’s cartel-dominated Juárez, children are being drawn into drug addiction before joining the criminal underworld.

Desperate families are turning to unregulated rehab clinics to save them from a lifetime of addiction and crime.

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Around 6,300 schools across Italy received bomb threats, triggering evacuations and sending parents rushing to collect their children.

Similar threats were reported in Ireland and Scotland.

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Donald Trump’s “friend” Vladimir Putin “doesn’t want” a peace deal, he wants to “win” the war and so he’s going to continue “hammering” Ukraine’s cities until they are “uninhabitable”, International Editor Lindsey Hilsum says.

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El Salvador says it has destroyed the headquarters of Haiti’s notorious 400 Mawozo gang in a major ground and air operation near the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The strike marks its first military attack in Haiti since deploying more than 2,000 troops to help rescue four kidnapped Salvadoran technicians.

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The US Department of Justice has issued terror-related charges against three Iran-backed suspects accused of being involved in a series of incidents across the UK and Europe.

The charges include the foiled attack at RAF Fairford in September and the near-fatal stabbing of two Jewish men in north London earlier this year.

Iran has strongly denied any links to the Fairford incident.

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The TV presenter Jonathan Ross has said he is horrified by the allegations of sexual misconduct against David Walliams and the conviction of Russell Brand and said he had been “genuinely unaware” of their behaviour.

Ross said it was deeply shocking to revisit footage of a joke he had made at the British Comedy Awards in 2004, which referred to Walliams “going home” with a 15-year-old.

He said the joke had been submitted to him by a writing team.

David Walliams has denied any wrongdoing.

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The Ukrainian school where pupils are living with war

After two pupils are killed in a Russian missile strike, a Ukrainian head teacher reflects on the devastating human cost of war, telling @lindseyhilsum why she cannot bring herself to forgive.

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‘Now people want safe bets. They want stories that aren’t gritty, aren’t working-class.’

There’s been a significant drop in people from less affluent backgrounds working in television, film and other creative industries since the pandemic, according to figures obtained exclusively for Channel 4 News.

Shane Meadows, who directed ‘This Is England’, tells Frances Read that he’s seen firsthand how the problem is getting worse.

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Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton has visited Egypt’s Rafah border crossing, ahead of a planned visit to organisations delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

He toured Egyptian Red Crescent warehouses, where aid supplies are stored before being sent into Gaza.

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Exclusive: Number of working class in creative industries falls
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COP31: Trump’s war with Iran ‘has turned him into unintentional green campaigner’
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The Metropolitan Police has said a member of the US army has been arrested, as part of a counter-terrorism operation.

The Met said the 41-year-old had been detained near Gloucester under the National Security Act and the country to which the allegations refer is Russia. The FBI director Kash Patel said the organisation had “no tolerance” for anyone whose actions endangered the national security of the US and its partners.

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‘Police don’t have the resources to deal with prison early release’ – Police Superintendent
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