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Liz Truss backtracks on her public sector pay plan.

Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss has scrapped a plan to link public sector pay to local living costs, within hours of announcing it. The 麻豆社鈥檚 Nick Eardley runs us through the latest.

Also, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who plotted the 9/11 terror attacks with Osama Bin Laden, has been killed in a US drone strike. Adam is joined by the 麻豆社鈥檚 Lyse Doucet in Kabul and 麻豆社 Security Correspondent Gordon Corera to discuss what happened.

And George the Poet stops by to discuss his new book, his podcast and his PhD.

Today鈥檚 Newscast was made by Tim Walklate, with Alix Pickles, Danny Wittenberg and Keiligh Baker. The technical producer was Emma Crowe. The editor was Jonathan Aspinwall.

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