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Live News,22 Sep 2025,30 mins

Trump’s “dangerous” autism claim

Newsnight

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President Trump urges pregnant women to stop taking paracetamol as he links the drug to autism in children. Former director of National Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases Dr Demetre Daskalakis tells Newsnight his comments are wrong and dangerous. Plus, in the UK, it’s the Liberal Democrats conference. We speak to their deputy leader Daisy Cooper live. And it's 426 days since army veterans who were exposed to nuclear bomb tests asked to see the Prime Minister. Will he meet them face to face? With Victoria Derbyshire.

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