US state of Alabama to use controversial new method of execution

In the US state of Alabama the authorities will attempt to execute a convict by smothering him with nitrogen gas after the Supreme Court rejected a request to have the procedure blocked.

Radical economic reforms by Argentinian President Javier Milei have brought strikes and demonstrations on the streets - he says he wants to correct years of spending by previous left wing governments, and many back the populist leader.

And we hear about a young Moroccan boy who has had a congenital hearing defect cured using gene therapy treatment in the United States.