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Former tech boss turned fugitive Jan Marsalek was living a double life as a Russian spy, having met his handler during a meeting on a yacht in Nice back in 2014. Throughout his time at the company, he is accused of running operations on behalf of the Kremlin, from assembling a Libyan militia and running surveillance on enemies of the state to an alleged audacious plot to hijack the Austrian spy service.In the second instalment of The Daily T Investigates: The Tech Boss who was Russia's Secret Spy, Hayley Dixon examines Marsalek’s relationship with the country and tracks down his closest friend to find out more about the man behind the headlines. Reporter: Hayley Dixon Producer: Georgia CoanExecutive Producers: Adélie Pojzman-Pontay and Louisa Wells Original music by John Cadigan Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A UK-based spy ring of Bulgarian nationals has been found guilty of espionage at the Old Bailey after a three-month trial. For almost three years, they’d been spying for Russia. But the man believed to be behind it all is still on the run. Jan Marsalek was an Austrian tech boss, Chief Operating Officer of a successful payments processing company called Wirecard. Until it collapsed in 2020 amid a massive fraud scandal Marsalek is alleged to have been the mastermind behind. Just days later, he fled Austria, taking a flight to Belarus. Despite international efforts to locate him, Marsalek's precise whereabouts remain uncertain. In a new three-part series for The Daily T, hosted by Special Correspondent Hayley Dixon, we reveal his double life as a spy for the Kremlin and what he’s been up to since he disappeared.Reporter: Hayley Dixon Producer: Georgia CoanExecutive Producers: Adélie Pojzman-Pontay and Louisa Wells Original music by John Cadigan  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a toxic debate that has seen leading academics and feminists cancelled: how to treat children distressed about their gender.Retired psychiatrist Dr David Bell spent 25 years at the now-closed Tavistock and faced intense backlash for raising concerns about the trust’s GIDS clinic prescribing puberty blockers to children.The drugs have since been banned for under-18s and the Cass Review concluded that the Tavistock was implementing "changes in care without a well considered evidence base".But now the NHS has announced plans to trial puberty blockers on children, something Dr Bell says would be unethical and risks causing major harm.In an exclusive interview with the Daily T, Dr Bell talks about how the now-closed Tavistock was “invaded” by gender ideology; the fear amongst colleagues who wanted to speak out; and why he is “frightened” at NHS puberty blocker trial being approved.Read: Why I’m sounding the alarm on the next puberty blockers scandalProducer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Andy MackenzieStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Like or loathe his policies, you can’t deny Donald Trump has star power.It was on full display in his address to Congress on Tuesday night, in which the US president told the audience “America is back” and declared his first month in office the most successful since George Washington.Daily T favourite Tim Stanley stayed up late watching so you don’t have to and joins Camilla and Kamal to explain how Trump made a mockery of Democrats like Al Green and Elizabeth Warren in his 100-minute speech.They also react to the president’s remarks about peace in Ukraine; his plans to “get” Greenland and the Panama Canal; and the now-scrapped DEI scheme in Lesotho, a country he says “nobody has ever heard of”.Kamal is unconvinced by Trump’s policies, but may just have been won over by his showmanship…Read: Trump reigns supreme. His enemies no longer matterProducer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Andy MackenzieStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's been threatening to do it and now he has. Donald Trump has made the decision to pull all military aid from Ukraine.Whether or not it’s just a negotiating tactic to force Volodymyr Zelensky to sign a minerals deal, for the time being at least Ukraine will have to fight the Russian invasion without US support, presumably to the delight of Vladimir Putin.Talking Kamal and Camilla through just how critical that support is, and how long Ukraine can last with just European backing, is The Telegraph's Defence and Foreign Affairs Editor Con Coughlin.Verity Bowman also reports from Dnipro, where she's been speaking to Ukrainian soldiers galvanised by the end to US military aid and promising to keep fighting.Read:If Meghan is an ordinary working mother, I’m Mother TeresaProducer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Andy MackenzieStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s been a seismic weekend in global politics with nothing less than the future of European security at stake.Kamal and Camilla reflect on Donald Trump and JD Vance’s shouting match with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office on Friday, which has left US support for Ukraine in serious doubt.They also take in Sunday’s summit of international leaders in London chaired by Keir Starmer, which saw the PM leading the European response and seeming to pull off a delicate balancing act as a conduit between the American and Ukrainian presidents. Whether Starmer and French president Emmanuel Macron’s plan for a “coalition of the willing” to lead the defence of a post-war Ukraine is feasible very much remains to be seen – especially without American air cover.And few know Trump better than his biographer Michael Wolff, who is in the Daily T studio to mark the publication of his latest book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America (dismissed as “totally FAKE” by Trump). Wolff gives Kamal and Camilla his take on the thinking of a man he describes as “both a moron and a genius”.Read:I attended Zelensky’s private briefing – this is what he told me - by Francis DearnleyUkraine the Latest Special - Trump tears into ZelenskyAll or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America by Michael Wolff is available nowMichael Wolff's documentary on writing the book, 'Rewriting Trump', is on Sky Documentaries and NOW from March 4Producer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: James EnglandStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Keir Starmer has returned from his whirlwind meeting with Donald Trump in Washington DC, and it seems as though the trip was at least a partial success for the PM. Some papers have even gone so far as to describe a new political bromance...Trump cautiously backed the Chagos plan and suggested the UK could avoid tariffs, although there was less clarity on security guarantees for Ukraine.In the room as it all unfolded was Telegraph political editor Ben Riley-Smith, who got off the Prime Minister’s plane and straight into the Daily T studio to bring us up to speed.Also in the studio is new Daily T co-host Cleo Watson, who advised Theresa May and Boris Johnson and helped both prepare for meetings with Trump, and Sir Simon Fraser, a former diplomat who has worked behind the scenes on countless leaders' summits.Read: Trump gives verdict on Starmer after PM’s five-month campaign to woo himOur political editor Ben Riley Smith's full coverage of the Trump-Starmer meetingProducer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Andy MackenzieStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s been billed as one of the most important meetings between a British prime minister and a US president in decades.But Keir Starmer and Donald Trump - the strait-laced Leftie lawyer and the maverick, mouthy businessman - almost couldn’t be more different.As he arrives in Washington, Kamal and Camilla set out which cards the PM has in his deck - not least finally setting out a plan to reach 2.5% of GDP on defence - and ask if he has the political skill to play them.They also consider whether Starmer can handle Trump’s unpredictability and put his personal sensitivities aside to forge a strong relationship with the President.Later, our hosts reflect on their own memories of travelling in the PM’s press pack, and what lessons Starmer can take from his predecessors. Yes, even Theresa May…Read: Gene Hackman’s 10 greatest film roles – rankedObituary: Gene Hackman, rugged Hollywood legend who won Oscars for The French Connection and UnforgivenProducer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyVideo Editor: Valerie BrowneStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is the documentary threatening a full blown crisis at the BBC. Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone featured three supposedly ordinary children who it was later revealed had connections to the Hamas terror group.Kamal speaks to Sharren Haskel, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, who calls the documentary “pure propaganda of a terrorist organisation”. She also calls for the regulator Ofcom to look into all of the BBC’s “biased” coverage of the Israel-Hamas war.Later, shoplifting is at a record level and independent, family-run businesses are the hardest hit. Camilla is in rural Cambridgeshire with one shopkeeper who says theft is costing his business £12,000 a year - and he’s about to be clobbered by Labour’s Budget, too.Producer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyCamera Operator: Andy MackenzieVideo Editor: James MoorheadStudio Director: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the US sides with Russia and North Korea in a key vote at the UN, it’s clear the world order is shifting.Under pressure from Donald Trump, Keir Starmer committed today to upping Britain's defence spending to 2.5pc of GDP by 2027 - an extra £13.4bn a year. The announcement comes at the PM prepares to head to Washington, hot on the tails of Emmanuel Macron who shared a few eye-popping moments with the President.Camilla and Gordon ask whether Starmer can forge a role for Britain in Trump’s global vision and unpack Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s first major foreign policy speech.Plus, what does tax on farmland have to do with global politics? NFU President Tom Bradshaw explains why Labour’s inheritance tax raid is a disaster for British (food) security.Producer: Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Rachel DuffyCamera Operator/Studio Director: James EnglandVideo Editor: Valerie BrowneEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.