Newshour

The founder of India's Cockroach Janta Party Abhijeet Dipke speaks to Newshour, saying "brute force" should not be used against India's youth. He tells us Prime Minister Modi feels threatened by the student-led movement.

Also in the programme: The BBC has found evidence that the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan systematically destroyed healthcare infrastructure during the paramilitary group's brutal campaign to capture the city of El Fasher; and treadmill or dreadmill... would you compete in a race to be a treadmill champion?

(Photo: Abhijeet Dipke's youth-led Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) has drawn thousands onto the streets in recent months. Credit: Getty Images)

The discovery of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that underpins much of the internet, has led to governments and businesses taking down their websites to prevent hacks. We hear from the security engineer in residence for the organisation behind PHP, the PHP Foundation.
Also on the programme: next week Israelis will go to the polls in the first elections since the October 7th attacks, but how do the country’s Palestinian citizens feel about the vote?
And we ask whether a celebrated Scottish museum was right to withdraw an ancient Egyptian mummified head from display.
(Picture: "Security Vulnerability" phrase and PHP code appears in this illustration taken October 22, 2026. Credit: REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration)

Ukraine's capital has come under a new missile attack, hours after Russia said it was "ready in principle" to resume peace talks and the US president said the world was "the closest we've been" to ending the war.
Also on the programme, could Arab Israelis hold the balance of power in a new Israeli government? And why the iconic horses and carriages will be banned in the New York.
(Photo: Aftermath of overnight Russian ballistic missiles attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, 22 Oct 2026. Credit: Maxym Marusenko EPA/Shutterstock)

The United States and Russia say they are ready to resume three-way peace talks with Ukraine. Earlier, Russia freed Stephen Hubbard, a retired US schoolteacher, who had been held in custody since 2022. We speak to Mr Hubbard's American lawyer, Martin De Luca.
Also on the programme: the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control has urged countries to share information about Nigeria’s first confirmed case of Ebola; and we hear from one of France's leading public intellectuals, Edouard Louis, on the wider reasons behind the country's demonstrations.
(US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff arrives in Saint Petersburg Credit: Reuters)

The Kremlin says President Putin is ready in principle to resume three-way peace talks between the US, Ukraine and Russia in mid-November. But a Kremlin spokesperson said Ukrainian and European plans lacked substance.
Also in the programme: How Mahvash Sabet, a prisoner from Iran's Baha'i religious minority wrote her memoir in prison; why the British government is giving the green light to more production of natural gas; and how will President Trump's deportation drive play in next month's midterm elections.
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