This episode discusses allegations involving child sexual abuse, which some listeners may find distressing.

Last week, police in the Philippines confirmed they are investigating Thomas Markle Sr, the 82-year-old father of the Duchess of Sussex, over allegations he possessed child sexual abuse material. He strenuously denies the allegations.

On this episode of Deep Dive, Senior Features Writer Guy Adams joins host Chris Pleasance to unpick what exactly police are investigating, what Scotland Yard did, and didn’t do, with an accusatory letter about Mr Markle it received in 2019, and who’s who among Meghan’s estranged family.

Host: Chris Pleasance

Producer: William Colledge

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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Next Wednesday, Chancellor John Healey will lay out the first Budget of Andy Burnham’s premiership.

Last month, in his first conference speech as Prime Minister, Burnham promised the Labour party faithful ‘a new social contract for the 21st century’: greater public control of water and energy, a National Care Service and more council homes. Although he was careful to say his plans for Britain stretch across multiple Parliaments, next week his Chancellor has to pay for the first step towards that vision - with the nation’s finances under serious strain.

Inflation is higher than in France or Germany, borrowing is £8.1 billion above forecast for the first five months of the year, and national debt is close to 95% of GDP. The 30-year gilt yield, the same bond market measure that brought down Liz Truss, briefly topped 6%, its highest level since the late 1990s.

So, with financial markets breathing down Healey’s neck, what can we actually expect? Tax and spend? Steady as she goes? Or something totally unexpected? And what can you do to protect your hard-earned cash? On this special episode of Deep Dive, This Is Money’s Simon Lambert is joined by Political Editor James Tapsfield, fresh from Prime Minister’s Questions, to speculate.

Host: Simon Lambert

Producer: William Colledge

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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Donald Trump caught the world’s press by surprise last week, announcing a shock diesel deal with Russia after a phone call with Vladimir Putin meant to be about a suspected plague outbreak in Siberia.

In a Truth Social post, the President promised that 300,000 tonnes of highly coveted diesel would immediately enter global markets, with a further 4.5 million mooted for release in time.

Reaction to the deal at home and abroad has been far from enthusiastic. Six senators, four of them Republicans, demanded it be immediately reversed. Volodymyr Zelenskyy branded it a ‘weak decision’, and in the Mail on Sunday, Trump admirer Boris Johnson described the President’s behaviour as ‘sickening’.

With the backlash still coming thick and fast, we ask: is the deal worth it? Will cheaper diesel actually help Republicans at the ballot box? And how do Ukrainians feel about their biggest backer bankrolling their enemy?

To answer these questions, Chris Pleasance is joined by Chief Foreign Correspondent Andy Jehring, just back in London from Ukraine, and White House Correspondent Jon Michael Raasch.

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Producer: William Colledge

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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In 2017, reports emerged that Britain’s Special Air Service - the country’s most celebrated regiment - was being investigated over allegations that its soldiers had executed scores of captives in Afghanistan. These accusations led to a damaging shift in perceptions of the armed forces, with soldiers widely castigated as war criminals.

But Daily Mail Defence Editor Mark Nicol argues these reports misrepresented the reality of operations in Afghanistan, and the impossible position the SAS was put in.

His new book, Blades: The Untold Story of SAS Operations in Afghanistan, lifts the lid on what really happened and details why he believes Britain’s most elite soldiers were failed by their government.

Mark joins host Chris Pleasance to reveal what he’s uncovered, and the troubling questions his investigation raises about the state of Britain’s armed forces.

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Producer: William Colledge

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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With Israel three weeks from one of the most consequential elections in its history, the Daily Mail's Middle East Correspondent Natalie Lisbona has secured an exclusive interview with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Can the great survivor of Israeli politics triumph once again? And why has he compared Burnham's Britain to a 'rogue state'?

Chris Pleasance is joined by Natalie to discuss her interview, along with i24NEWS Diplomatic Correspondent Guy Azriel, to explain what's at stake in this election after three years of war.

Host: Chris Pleasance

Editor: Buddy Peace

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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This episode contains distressing descriptions and audio of violence.

For more than eight hours, the crimes Iran's regime tried to hide from the world play out, unfiltered.

Snipers aim at protesters' heads and pull the trigger. Machine-gun fire rips through the crowds. Teenagers cower indoors as armed paramilitaries maraud outside, wounded friends bleeding out in their arms. Bodies are left where they fall.

These are just some of the scenes in This Is Our Story, a new four-part documentary from London-based Iranian opposition channel Manoto. Built from more than 2,000 videos smuggled out of Iran, it charts the nationwide protests that erupted on December 28 last year over a collapsing currency, and the regime's brutal response, culminating on January 8 and 9, when it cut the internet and opened fire on its own people. Doctors on the ground estimate as many as 30,000 were killed.

On this episode of Deep Dive, Chief Foreign Correspondent Andrew Jehring and Middle East Correspondent Natalie Lisbona, who were given exclusive early access to the film, join host Chris Pleasance to reveal who the victims really were and what the footage tells us about a regime that barely clings to power.

Host: Chris Pleasance

Editor: Buddy Peace

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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The largest drone attack ever launched on Moscow. That's how the city's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, described Ukraine's overnight assault on Saturday, which left one of Russia's largest oil refineries in flames. Volodymyr Zelensky hailed it as a blow to the billions of petrodollars fuelling Russia's war machine.

Donald Trump was less jubilant. He reportedly rang his Ukrainian counterpart to urge him to stop hitting Russia's refineries. With the midterms six weeks away, the President is acutely aware that the world's energy supply is already under enormous strain.

The Strait of Hormuz remains in Iran's grip, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have overrun one of Saudi Arabia's last escape routes for its oil, and American diesel has hit a record $6.51 a gallon.

How bad could this get? Defence Editor Mark Nicol and financial journalist Simon Lambert join host Chris Pleasance to ask what it means for America's economy as voters head to the polls, what it means for your bills this winter, and whether there's any respite in sight.

Host: Chris Pleasance

Editor: Buddy Peace

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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'Las Malvinas son Argentinas' - the Falklands are Argentine - read the banner paraded by Argentina's World Cup stars after they knocked England out in July's 2-1 semi-final.

It's a slogan that usually falls on deaf ears outside Buenos Aires. But not this summer.

In early September, Donald Trump hinted the US could abandon its neutrality over the islands. Days later, Argentina's president and Trump ally Javier Milei vowed in a televised address to 'recover' the Falklands and threatened sanctions on oil firms drilling nearby, before Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir urged Benjamin Netanyahu to back Argentina's claim.

On this episode of Deep Dive, the Daily Mail's Defence Editor Mark Nicol joins host Chris Pleasance to ask why, 44 years after the Falklands War, Britain's claim is back under scrutiny - and whether we still have the political will and military firepower to defend the archipelago.

Host: Chris Pleasance

Editor: Buddy Peace

Executive Producer: Joseph Luke Palmer

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