Daily briefing Sunday 16th August

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0:45A university spokesman says Arday was offered counselling, support and advice. It says that support continued after Arday resigned as a professor. Professor Sir Simon Baron-Cohen worked with Jason Arday. He's told Times Radio some deep reflection is required. As a community in Cambridge where I am, but also as a wider society, My feeling is that we need to look long and hard at why did his mental health deteriorate? Three years ago he was happy, now he's no longer with us. Why did his mental health deteriorate to the point of suicide? British drones have been used to strike targets on the Russian mainland for the first time.

1:23The weapons are being used as part of Ukraine's deep strike campaign, which is hitting industrial and military targets. The Sunday Times' defence correspondent Dominic Hauschild has written the story. These deep strike attacks have so far hit every single Russian oil terminal in the country. They've hit logistics hubs, military bases, transport infrastructure. It's estimated that in the first six months of the year, deep strikes have caused almost£35 billion of economic damage to Russia. And they've caused fuel shortages and rolling back out. So the fact that Britain is supplying these weapons really marks a new phase in the relationship between the UK and Ukraine.

2:00Reform UK says it would cut£50 billion from the welfare bill. To do that, it says almost 3 million people would have their payments either modified or withdrawn. Times Radio's politics reporter Ali Razamanji has been looking at comments from the party's Treasury spokesman. Robert Jenrick here making the case that actually he thinks that people should be working regardless of the fact whether they may have anxiety or be declared unfit to work effectively. He writes today in The Telegraph, he says, it's a strange perversion of compassion to tell a young man with anxiety that he's beyond work. Work, structure, purpose, the company of others, it's precisely that recovery that anxiety requires.

2:35Police in Morocco have arrested more than 100 people as they tried to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. About 80 ,000 migrants surged into the North African Territory two weeks ago. Times contributor David Sharrock says those making the crossing this time are from a different demographic. The vast majority of the 80 ,000 were Moroccans, mostly young males. Yesterday, in this much, much smaller, although significant, event, the vast majority were sub-Saharan Africans. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online. This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwC.

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