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The UN says civilians in Yemen’s third largest city, Taiz, are “at grave risk” because of a Houthi siege. We speak to our Senior International Correspondent Orla Guerin and hear her report from the port city of Aden on one family’s struggle for survival. Governments and tech firms are trying to contain the fallout from a critical cyber security flaw in the programming language, PHP, which powers millions of websites. We have the latest. Oscar-winning actress Dame Judi Dench says her eye condition has left her unable to perform on stage or read, more than a decade after she was diagnosed. We speak to people with the similar eye condition. A man in a sinking car has been saved by a TV journalist after driving into deep flood water in Australia. We find out what happened. Presenter: James Reynolds. (Photo: eople sit in a makeshift camp for people displaced by clashes between Iran-aligned Houthi fighters and Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces, near Aden, Yemen October 8, 2026. Credit: Stringer/Reuters)

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