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Faye Carruthers, Suzanne Wrack, Robyn Cowen and Anita Asante chat through the latest weekend of WSL action as the title race got blown wide open

In this week’s pod: lace up your trainers, get to the start line, on your marks, wait for the beep … yes, that’s right – the title race is on!

Manchester City’s win over Chelsea means things just got (even more) interesting!

Three years after much of the world was forced into Covid lockdowns, the precise origins of the virus are still hazy, and the hunt is bringing scientists into confrontation with political forces that many are not prepared for

One of the most compelling clues as to the origins of a once-in-a-century pandemic was uploaded without announcement – without being noticed for weeks – on a scientific database. And then, just as suddenly, it vanished from public view.

The genetic data, from swabs taken at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China, in the weeks after Covid-19 first emerged, was available online for only a few weeks: just long enough for a Parisian scientist to stumble upon it while working from her couch on a Saturday afternoon earlier this month.

We now know both the proposed question and changes to the constitution we would see if Australians vote yes to legislating the Indigenous voice to parliament. Indigenous affairs editor Lorena Allam talks to Jane Lee about what this wording means practically and how it has been received

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Max Rushden is joined by Lars Sivertsen, Troy Townsend and Nooruddean Choudry after a weekend of international football. Plus cameos from Keith Bailie and Elis James.

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Today; England beat Ukraine 2-0, Bukayo Saka shines, Harry Kane scores again and the panel remain positive throughout.

Nisar Ahmed was almost killed in the Delhi riots. But when he became a witness in court cases against the alleged perpetrators, he realised that was only the start of his troubles

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The UK government continues to claim that there were no civilian casualties as a result of its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants in Iraq. Emma Graham-Harrison reports from Mosul on the evidence that cannot any longer be ignored

Britain’s government and military have for years stood by the claim that in terms of protecting ordinary Iraqis, the UK fought a “perfect” war against Islamic State militants in Iraq. For all the bombs dropped on cities such as Mosul, the official position is that only militants were killed. Not a single civilian death is acknowledged.

For the Guardian’s foreign correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison, the claim of a perfect war seemed self-evidently unlikely. She tells Michael Safi how working with the non-profit organisation Airwars, she was able to piece together a very different picture of the war. One where numerous casualties could be inferred from data that showed civilian casualties resulting from bombs that only British missiles could have caused.

The health minister has accused the vaping industry of making a ‘new generation of nicotine addicts’ - with rising reports of vaping addiction in teenagers, and nicotine poisoning in toddlers. This comes as a vaping reform inquiry reveals an ‘overwhelming’ number of health experts and authorities support tighter border controls around nicotine vaping products.

Medical editor Melissa Davey explores what Australia’s vaping crackdown – expected within the year – could look like, and the impact of vaping on kids

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The story of a Ukrainian woman who escaped modern slavery in the UK. Annie Kelly reports

On the morning of the invasion of Ukraine, Julia is on her way home from a night shift when a friend sends her a text. It’s a video of a bombing, just 30 miles away from where her daughter Marta lives.

“My daughter needs me, she needs my help, and I’ve been ready to leave everything,” Julia tells the journalist Annie Kelly, editor of the Guardian’s Rights and Freedom project.

Chris Minns is now the premier of New South Wales. After 12 years in opposition, Labor will form a majority government. With an inexperienced frontbench, it faces a set of immediate challenges, while also having to tackle some of its key election promises – such as bringing in thousands of new nurses, teachers and paramedics amid a nationwide shortage.

NSW state correspondent Michael McGowan explains how the night unfolded and what the state can expect under a Minns government

With Partygate and the former PM back in the news, we ask if we’ve finally reached peak Boris (1m35s)? With one billion streams, what makes John Cooper Clarke’s I Wanna Be Yours possibly the world’s favourite poem (8m27s)? And Viv Groskop navigates the mixed messages of the women’s fiftysomethings clothing market (21m40s)

The story of a Ukrainian woman who escaped modern slavery in the UK. Annie Kelly reports

When Julia is found in a brothel by the Surrey police detective Martyn, she tells him where to find the gang’s boss, Aleksander. Three days later, Martyn and his team get a warrant and go to the address.

“There was a map. He’d actually circled the location of brothels ... ” Martyn tells the journalist Annie Kelly, editor of the Guardian’s Rights and Freedom project. “He’d written the driving distance and the travel time between all of them.”

Last weekend, Donald Trump predicted he would be arrested. This has yet to happen. So why did he bring attention to a hush money case that could put him in handcuffs soon?

Jonathan Freedland and Hugo Lowell discuss why Donald Trump might still face criminal charges next week, and why it might benefit his campaign

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For the past two years, Betsy Stanko has been leading an unprecedented investigation into why the police have been failing so badly to tackle sexual violence. But is there any chance of fixing a system that seems so broken?

Julia, a Ukrainian woman who escaped modern slavery in the UK, tells the journalist Annie Kelly about the years she was shipped between brothels

After seven months in the UK, Julia has not been able to pay off her debts to the traffickers or send any money to her daughter.

She tries to leave the hotel work, applying for other jobs, but is refused because she does not have any documents. She responds to an advert for a job that says no documents are required. It is for a brothel in Slough.

Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, John Brewin and Nicky Bandini as Harry Kane became England’s all-time record scorer in Naples

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Today; England beat Italy in Italy for the first time since 1961 to start their Euro 2024 qualification campaign with three points. England good in the first half, shaky in the second - what, if anything, have we learned?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has once again delivered the world a dire warning. This latest plea has cast fresh light on a long and fraught domestic debate. Is Labor’s key climate policy good enough to significantly curb emissions and will the Greens agree to a deal without a guaranteed ban on any new coal and gas projects?

Gabrielle Jackson talks to the climate and environment editor, Adam Morton, and live news editor, Patrick Keneally, about whether Labor’s key climate policy will address the urgent call to action from the IPCC

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The story of a Ukrainian woman who escaped modern slavery in the UK. Annie Kelly reports

Julia remembers the moment when a lorry driver pointed at a compartment behind his seat and told her to get in.

“He starts screaming at me ‘quickly go here’ and he looks at me and I remember I didn’t know what to think,” Julia tells journalist Annie Kelly, editor of the Rights and Freedom project.

Max Rushden, Barry Glendenning, Paul Watson and Mark Langdon preview the upcoming international fixtures, while Suzy Wrack is here on the BBC’s recent investigation into the Afghanistan women’s national team

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Today: as England face Italy in Naples for the first of their Euro 2024 qualifiers on Thursday, the panel assess the squad, who is likely to start and the state of the hosts.

Last Sunday a group of men dressed in black performed the Nazi salute on the steps of the Victorian parliament, amid a clash between protesters for and against transgender rights.

Jane Lee speaks to Victorian state correspondent Benita Kolovos about what happened and Lydia Khalil, a senior research fellow at Deakin University and project director at the Lowy Institute, about the rise of far-right extremism in Victoria and why they’re targeting LGBTQ+ communities in Australia