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We’re joined by Simon Rosenberg, a party strategist who founded the New Democrat Network.

In a few hours time Chicago will be filled with thousands of delegates and party grandees.

Once Joe Biden’s unpopular Vice President, Kamala Harris is now leading in some polls and has dramatically changed the mood within her party. But it’s not the Democrat faithful in this convention centre who need to be convinced.

British tech tycoon Mike Lynch and his daughter are among six people who are still missing after a luxury yacht sank off Sicily during a fierce storm.

We’re joined by Alon Pinkas, a former Israeli diplomat who has been chief of staff and foreign policy adviser to one Israeli prime minister and four foreign ministers.

In testimony collected for this programme we can reveal shocking allegations of physical, psychological and sexual abuse inflicted on Palestinian detainees.

Back then, there were divisions within the party, anti-war protests on the streets, and a Republican rival talking all about law and order. Sound familiar?

Immigration is already one of the big political issues in the US election, one that Democrats arriving in Chicago for their National Convention will be talking about over the coming days.

In Venezuela the country’s political opposition has been taking to the streets to denounce the results of last month’s election.

We spoke to Dr Mohammad Salha, acting director at Al-Awda hospital in northern Gaza which is running out of fuel, and I began by asking him about the situation there now.

Palestinian health authorities say at least 21 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza overnight, including seven members of one family – a mother and her 6 children.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy insists his troops are ‘strengthening’ their positions in the Kursk region inside Russia’s border.

We spoke to Nomi Bar-Yaacov from Chatham House, who’s travelled the world negotiating and mediating international conflicts, to discuss the prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza.

Aid agencies are calling for an urgent pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, with Palestinians now facing an outbreak of polio to compound their misery.

His book ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’ focused on a school bus crash in 2012, which killed 6 Palestinian children.