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Race to become next UK PM begins

Britain's governing Conservative Party is beginning a process to appoint the country’s new leader.

The process to elect a new Prime Minister to replace Liz Truss who resigned three days ago has begun amid reports former Prime Minister Johnson is flying back to London hoping to make a political comeback.
And former US President, Donald Trump, has been summoned to testify before the Congressional committee investigating last year's attack on the US Capitol.
We have the latest on the death of Maltese investigative journalist and campaigner against organised crime, Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was killed in 2017 by a car bomb. We speak to her sister.
Plus a look at what life is like in Haiti amid gang violence that crippled the country and led to the UN imposing sanctions on gangs behind the violence.
Joining Julian Worricker to discuss these and other issues are Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani, a Nigerian novelist and journalist and Bruce Daisley, a British writer, consultant on workplace culture and former Vice president of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Twitter.
(Image: Photo by NEIL HALL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

50 minutes

Broadcast

  • Sat 22 Oct 202206:06GMT