Attacked Australian MP had both legs amputated

Phil Haines, husband of MP Helen Haines, confirmed she has had to have both legs amputated. Brendan Nugent has been charged with dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury, and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official. We speak to three Australian MPs about their security.

An endangered shark has been successfully guided out of a canal in South Korea where it had been trapped for several weeks. We speak to our reporter.

Serbians go to the polls this weekend amid student protests that pose the greatest threat yet to the rule of Aleksandar Vucic, who has dominated Serbian politics since 2014. We hear from Serbians and speak to our reporter about a BBC investigation that has uncovered a number of Facebook pages with paid political ads against the student movement.

And after the Italian city of Pompeii secured funding for restoration work, we speak to people on historical restorations of their own.

Nigeria has recorded a case of Ebola in a female patient who travelled from Uganda in East Africa to Abuja, capital of the West African state. We have the latest.

Presenter: James Reynolds.

(Photo: Tributes and flowers lie outside Independent federal MP Helen Haines' electoral office in Wangaratta, Australia, 20 October 2026. Credit: James Ross/EPA)