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UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not signal any decision on allowing Ukraine to use long-range missiles to hit targets inside Russia after talks with US President Joe Biden in Washington. Sir Keir said the pair had had a "productive" discussion on Ukraine that concentrated on "strategy", rather than a "particular step or tactic". We hear the view from Moscow and the US.

Also on the programme: Devastating floods in Myanmar push its military ruler to make a rare appeal for foreign aid; and an outpouring of sadness and anger as Uganda buries its olympic star, Rebecca Cheptegei, whose coach tells us her life could have been saved.

(Photo: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with US President Joe Biden in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington DC. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire)

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned against such a move, saying it would represent Nato's "direct participation" in the Ukraine war.

Also on the programme: The capital of Nigeria's north eastern Borno state is half submerged with 2 million people affected by flooding; and we speak to Alexis Bloom, the director of a documentary showing never before seen footage of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu being interrogated by anti-corruption officers.

(Photo: Description US President Joe Biden and UK prime minister Keir Starmer at July's NATO summit in Washington DC. Credit: CHRIS KLEPONIS/POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Vladimir Putin has issued a warning against the UK and US lifting their restrictions on Ukraine using long-range missiles against targets inside Russia. Britain and France have already sent Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, but with the caveat that Kyiv can only fire them at targets inside its own borders.

From the tone of President Putin’s latest remarks, it’s clear he considers that the targeting of internationally recognised Russian territory with Western missile systems would take the conflict to a new level. What he didn’t make clear is how Moscow would respond.

Also in the programme, authorities in Nigeria Borno State say up to two million people affected by floods after the collapse of a dam earlier this week during heavy rainfall; and it's time for the tongue in cheek Ig Nobel awards - amusing studies with serious implications.

Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin Credit: ALEXEI DANICHEV/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN POOL

Ukraine says three employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross have been killed by Russian shelling in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine. The ICRC did not identify who was behind the attack, but Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called it "another Russian war crime".

Also in the programme: Mexican politicians have approved a controversial move to appoint judges by popular election, we speak to a member of Mexico's ruling party; and the American who claimed a new world record as the fastest woman to cycle around the globe.

(Photo: A burning truck of the International Committee of the Red Cross after shelling in the Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine. Credit: NATIONAL POLICE OF UKRAINE HANDOUT/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

The American billionaire Jared Isaacman has led the first-ever privately funded space-walk - and not just for fun, as the mission is testing innovative spacesuits designed to protect humans on Mars.

Also in the programme: we hear from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, after six of its staff were among 18 killed in an Israeli air strike on one of its schools in Gaza that was being used as a shelter; and after the rock star Bon Jovi talks down a suicidal woman, what is the best way to persuade someone not to take their own life?

(IMAGE: Jared Isaacman on the first private space-walk / CREDIT: SpaceX/PA Wire

We speak to pundits and voters in the battleground state of Georgia to get the latest reaction to the clash. Opinion polls suggest the two candidates’ support is evenly matched, but one in 10 voters are yet to make up their minds.

Also on the programme: Mexico is set for a massive change to its judicial system as the country’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, pushes through reforms that will see judges elected by popular vote; and as Kamala Harris wins the coveted backing of Taylor Swift, we hear from one of the founders of ‘Swifties for Trump’.

(Picture: A screen displays the debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., September 10, 2024 Credit: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)

With less than two months left until the 2024 US presidential election, Newshour’s Tim Franks and the team travel to Atlanta.

We get reaction and insight from Georgia – one of the key swing states in the US – on the first TV debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

Also on the programme: Congolese medics say they are struggling to contain the mpox outbreak; and Mexico's senate has given general approval to a sweeping reform that will mean all judges are elected by popular vote.

(Photo: Democratic presidential nominee and US Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff visit a watch party. Credit: Reuters)

With less than two months to go until Americans cast their ballots for president on election day, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris will confront each other in their first debate on Tuesday. We hear from one of those crucial people - the undecided voter – and about the role of younger Gen Z voters in this election. Also on the programme: SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket has launched into space in an attempt to perform the world's first private spacewalk; and a report found that an environmental defender was killed every other day last year worldwide.

(Photo: A billboard advertising the upcoming presidential debate. Credit: JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

Bodies are being pulled from the rubble after Israel struck al-Mawasi humanitarian encampment. Also in the programme, the Indian supreme court has ordered back to work junior doctors striking after the murder of a colleague; and, the actor who played C-3PO in Star Wars remembers James Earl Jones who has died.

(Photo: Palestinians search for missing people following Israeli airstrikes on Al-Mawasi humanitarian zone, Gaza - 10 Sep 2024. HAITHAM IMAD/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock (14709197h))

Ahead of the first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and with less than two months left until polling day, James Menendez and team travel to Missouri, the first state to impose a nearly total ban on abortion, to see if this issue moves voters from one aisle to the other.

Also in the programme: With the Midwest crucial in this year’s presidential election, we ask “what does it mean to be a Midwestener?” ; and we’ll hear from the Afghan hospital struggling to save its starving babies .

(Picture: Newshour’s presenter James Menendez with American businessman Billy Busch. Credit: BBC).

A bonus episode with James Menendez in St. Louis, Missouri. With Midwesterners on both the Democrats' and Republicans' presidential tickets, James asks what it means to be a Midwesterner.

Growing evidence is emerging of record levels of malnutrition affecting children in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The Public Health Ministry has told the BBC seven hundred children died in the past six months at just one hospital in Jalalabad. The BBC's Yogita Limaye has been to the hospital and we carry her distressing report.

Also in the programme: Airstrikes at military facilities in Syria have killed sixteen people - the government in Damascus blames Israel; and the double amputee who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just two years after her injury.

(Photo: Baby Umrah, pictured with her mother Nasreen, died two days later. Credit: BBC Imogen Anderson)

Presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has arrived in Spain where he has been granted political asylum. Venezuela has been in political turmoil since July after an election where Nicolas Maduro declared himself the winner. We hear from Antonio Ledezma, another Venezuelan opposition politician already in exile in Spain. Also in the programme: the legacy of Herbie Flowers who has died at 86 and played with Elton John, David Bowie and Paul McCartney; and Paris has hosted the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. (Photo: Supporters of Edmundo Gonzalez wait for his arrival in Madrid. Credit: BORJA SANCHEZ-TRILLO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

The Spanish foreign minister says his country is offering political asylum to the Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate, Edmundo González. What hope now for the opposition?

Also in the programme: A number of Israeli civilians have been shot dead at a border crossing between Jordan and the Occupied West Bank, after a night of cross-border missile exchanges between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops; and, a warning to the West about the danger of Russian spies.

(Photo: Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez on the day he casts his vote in the country's presidential election, in Caracas, Venezuela. Credit: REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

Officers made the arrest in a building housing refugees located close to the site of the attack and near where a knife was found. Also in the programme: The French president describes an explosion outside a synagogue in the south of the country as an act of terror - and we hear about how Jews see their future in France; and the astronauts who need to stay in space not for the eight days they were expecting, but for eight months.

(Photo: A placard reading 'Why?' among flowers and tributes placed on a sidewalk near the scene after a knife attack, in Solingen, Germany, 24 August 2024. Credit: Volker Hartmann/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)