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Metropolitan police start criminal investigation into Reform UK donations following Channel 4 News documentary. Also how worried should we be about AI? Calls for new safeguards.

A criminal investigation into Reform UK political donations is launched by the Met. If follows allegations in Channel 4 news documentary. Also on PM: Are warnings AI could destroy humanity overblown? University of Cambridge Professor Gina Neff is Deputy CEO of Responsible AI UK - a government-funded research group on AI. Travel disruption continues following air traffic control failure, travel writer Lisa Minot on the latest and independent investigation into its cause.

After the UK announces sanctions on Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, it has started debate in the British Jewish community. Hannah Weisfeld Director of Yachad UK, an organisation which empowers British Jews to support a political resolution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict and Jake Wallis Simons, a columnist for the Telegraph and former editor of the Jewish Chronicle discuss the different viewpoints.

Reaction from a former RNLI volunteer turned Reform councillor on the threats being made against it by anti-migrant protesters. And the Proclaimers return with a new album which they say proves the right to protest in music remains more relevant than ever.

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