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We spoke to Will Kohnen, who was one of the signatories of the 2018 letter featured in our piece in which concerns were raised about Titan. He chairs the peer-review group Marine Technology Society’s (MTS) committee on manned submersibles.

Tributes have been paid today to the five men killed on the Titan submersible which is believed to have been lost after a “catastrophic implosion” on its dive down to the wreck of the Titanic on Sunday.  

While the West has framed the war in Ukraine as a defence of democratic values  – India – the world’s largest democracy – has stopped short of condemning Russia’s invasion. 

Award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about America’s opioid crisis, the devastating impact it has on rural communities and how she set out to write ‘the great Appalachian novel’, tracing back the steps of Charles Dickens.

We spoke to Robert Ray, who was legal counsel to Donald Trump during his impeachment hearings. We began by asking him the chances are it will come to trial in 2024, and come to a conclusion before the election.

For the second time this year, a lawyer for Donald Trump confirmed he’ll surrender to the authorities after being criminally indicted. 

Rishi Sunak has been holding a press conference in the White House with President Biden.  

We spoke to environmental scientist Dr Dan Kneeshaw from the University of Quebec in Montreal and started by asking him if the reason behind the severity of the fires was that they were occurring in late spring.

Millions of people in the east of the United States have been told to stay indoors or wear masks as smoke from hundreds of Canadian wildfires makes breathing hazardous.

Ongoing support for the people of Ukraine will be on the agenda this evening when Rishi Sunak meets Congressional leaders in Washington. And tomorrow the Prime Minister will have talks with President Biden. 

According to the polls, Ron DeSantis is the only other contender with a chance of beating Donald Trump to become the Republican nominee in the 2024 presidential race.

This past week, the G7, the group of the world’s richest democracies, gathered in Japan to discuss Ukraine, Russia, global affairs, and their increasing concerns about a rising power looking out at them from over the water: China.

Twitter may once have been the social media turf favoured by former US president Donald Trump. 

The boss of the company behind the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has been testifying in front of the US Congress about the promise and the peril posed by emerging AI-technologies – as well as the opportunities.

Guillermo Galdos and Ben Westhoff explain a crisis that looks set to get worse before it gets better.