Jackie Long , Social Affairs Editor and Presenter

A coroner has said a “very stark” series of failures by the probation service contributed towards the murder of a mother and three children.

Storm Babet is continuing to cause severe disruption. Hundreds of flood warnings are in place across England with the East Midlands particularly badly affected.

We spoke to the Palestinian academic and activist Refaat Alareer. He’s professor of literature at the Islamic University of Gaza. He has remained in the northern part of the territory despite Israeli warnings to leave. We asked him what life is like in Gaza right now.

We spoke to Udi Goren, whose cousin, Tal Haimi, is missing and believed to be among the hostages being held in Gaza. We  began by asking him what he knows so far about what happened to his cousin?

President Biden has said he is ‘overjoyed’ at the release of the two US hostages Judith and Natalie Raanan – who are now being reunited with family members. More than 200 people are still being held captive in Gaza, including thirty children.

Jackie Long spoke to John Bolton, United States National Security Advisor in 2018 and 2019.

He’s supported Just Stop Oil since it began, donating hundreds of thousands of pounds to the group. And just this summer, the green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince joined the eco-activists, as they slow marched through central London. 

She’s been jailed several times, sentenced to 154 lashes, and hasn’t seen her children for seven years. Narges Mohammadi’s fight against the oppression of women in Iran has won the Nobel Peace Prize. 

Alexander Downer, a former Australian Foreign Minister, who last year conducted a review into the UK’s Border Force for the government. And Enver Solomon is Chief Executive of the Refugee Council. They debate how to stop illegal migration.

Sir John Curtice is a polling expert and professor of politics at Strathclyde University.

Today, she launched a commission to take that fight global – but will the Tories’ rightward tilt see her own achievements go the way of HS2?

She’s a Singer, songwriter, actor and radio presenter.  She released her first album, B-Funk – nearly three decades ago, has had a string of hits, was lauded by the artist formerly known as Prince and sung at the London Olympics opening ceremony. 

Joining us from Brixton in South London is Pastor Lorraine Jones, a youth campaigner who lost her son Dwayne after he was attacked while protecting another person. 

The Home Secretary, Suella Braverman chose to devote most of her conference speech in Manchester today to the issue of illegal migration. She touched on law and order – more and better paid police officers, of ramping up stop and search.

We were joined by Aderonke Apata who herself was an asylum seeker and is now a barrister who works on asylum cases.