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Action Aid UK’s CEO Halima Begum tells Krishnan Guru-Murthy about her journey from youth activism to NGO work, the West’s ‘moral responsibility’ to humanitarian aid and the need for an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Palestine war, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

The Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has denied trying to escalate tensions with India – after suggesting that the government in Delhi could be linked to the assassination of a Sikh activist on Canadian soil. 

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing a no confidence motion, in the wake of a video showing shocking violence which went viral round the world.  

India’s general election was supposed to be a close-run thing – but Prime Minister Narendra Modi has secured a landslide re-election.

Terrifying footage has has emerged from northern India, where dozens of people were killed by a combination of torrential rain and a dust storm. Many of those who lost their lives were asleep when their homes were destroyed by lightning.

In India, at least 19 people were killed after a residential block collapsed in a heavily populated area of Mumbai this morning, after days of torrential monsoon rains.

Heavy monsoon rains have deluged India, Bangladesh and Nepal in the region’s worst flooding in years. More than a thousand people have died and millions are homeless.