Daily briefing Saturday 30th May

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands, so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. This is Times Radio's Daily Briefing on Saturday the 30th of May. An attempt by President Trump and his most senior aides to make a final determination about a framework for extending the Iranian ceasefire concluded without clarity on the next stage of the process.

0:51Under the proposed deal, the two sides would agree to a 60-day ceasefire, during which further negotiations would take place. However, key differences over Iran's nuclear programme and its stockpile of enriched uranium remain. Mehran Kamrava is a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar. The bigger question here is the approach that the two sides have. The Americans see negotiations as if they're playing poker. It's a game of bluffs. It's a swift and showy game. The Iranians like to play chess, much more drawn out, kind of who's making what move and where the pieces fall. Younger women who've been diagnosed with insomnia are up to three times more likely to develop hormone-related cancers.

1:39A study highlighted by The Times has found that higher rates of breast, uterine and ovarian cancer exist among women who are under 50 with persistent sleep problems. Researchers, however, say the findings show an association rather than a direct cause, but suggest poor sleep may be a potential risk factor. Three teenage boys convicted of the rape and sexual assault of girls as young as 14 were sentenced to youth rehabilitation orders and fined just£26 in the past 12 months. All three separate cases, which occurred in North East England, were tried under youth court rules. A charity which campaigns for victims of sexual assault has told The Times they were approached by specialist advisers to the girls because they felt they had nowhere to go.

2:23Kieran Mullen is the Shadow Justice Minister. I think we need to think more deeply about how we ensure our justice system is delivering what at the end of the day is a public service for victims and their families that makes them feel like, whilst they won't be satisfied in every case, that more often victims and families feel like justice has been done on their behalf. Thousands of homes in Kent are still without water amid warnings that the supply will stay intermittent over the weekend. South East Water says reservoir levels are critical and businesses in Whitstable have been forced to close.

2:56Earlier this month, South East Water's Chief Executive David Hinton announced plans to step down just a week after the resignation of the company's chair Chris Train following a scathing report by MPs. Jonathan Hawker is the chair of Drywells Action, a consumer group based in Tunbridge Wells. We've had a major outage that ruined Christmas several years ago. And then shortly after the Chief Executive resigned on local election results day, although he's still in charge, we lost water again that weekend. And Novak Djokovic offered no guarantees that he'll return to the French Open next year after a third round defeat by the Brazilian teenager João Fonseca.

3:37Fonseca overturned a two set deficit to end the 39 year old's attempt to secure a record breaking 25th Grand Slam singles title. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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