South Sudan: UN report accuses leaders of "systematic looting" The government denies the allegations
Why was the Gambia’s auditor general forcibly removed by police from office?
Plus, why domestic worker jobs are on the decline in South Africa
Presenter :Charles Gitonga
Producers: Sunita Nahar, Stefania Okereke, Nyasha Michelle and Mark Wilberforce in London. with Jewel Kiriungi in Nairobi.
Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer
Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga
Editors: Samuel Murunga, Andre Lombard, Maryam Abdalla and Alice Muthengi
On the final day of his visit to Britain, US president Donald Trump has been meeting the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, in talks dominated by trade and business deals.
The US president has also signed what the UK prime minister says is a "groundbreaking" technology partnership between the two countries.
Also in the programme: Thousands more Palestinians are fleeing south in the Gaza Strip, but hundreds of thousands remain in Gaza City; and Australia, one of the world's biggest polluters per capita, will aim to cut its carbon emissions by at least 62% over the next decade.
(Photo shows US president Donald Trump and UK prime minister Keir Starmer as they hold a press conference at Chequers on 18 September 2025. Credit: Leon Neal/Press Association)
Jimmy Kimmel gets canceled over Charlie Kirk comments. Cops targeted in Pennsylvania. President Trump in the U.K. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has those stories and more on the World News Roundup podcast.
Last week Carrie Edwards of Midlothian won $150,000 from the Virginia lottery because she matched four of the first five numbers plus the Powerball number on her lottery ticket on the Sept. 8 drawing. This week Edwards took that money and gave it all to three charities. The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, an affliction that took her husband, Shalom Farms, a non-profit farm and food pantry service and to the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society, which provides financial, educational and emergency assistance for active-duty service members, veterans and their families. Gillian Gonzales from the NMCRS tells us more about what they do and why it was important for Mrs. Edwards to make that gift.
A.M. Edition for Sept. 18. The entertainment giant is pulling ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ after Kimmel accused ‘MAGA-land’ figures of exploiting Kirk’s death, sparking outrage from conservatives. Plus, the WSJ’s Peter Loftus explains how weight-loss pills are going to upend the market, as a Novo Nordisk trial shows the pill is just as effective as its Wegovy shot. And, royalty, lavish dinners and tech CEOs: Britain turns on the charm offensive as Donald Trump’s state visit to the United Kingdom continues. Caitlin McCabe hosts.
Vaccine advisers to the CDC meet today to decide on COVID boosters and childhood shots, with new members raising doubts about long-settled science. The Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by a quarter point to shore up a slowing job market, even as President Trump pushes for deeper cuts. And ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Today’s episode of Up First was edited by Scott Hensley, Rafael Nam, Matteen Mokalla, Mohamad El-Bardicy and Olivia Hampton.
It was produced by Ziad Buchh, Ana Perez and Christopher Thomas.
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The Federal Reserve announces the first in what could be a series of interest rate cuts. Former CDC Director Susan Monarez tells Congress that RFK Jr. had her fired because she wasn’t willing to sign off on vaccine policy changes sight-unseen. And Israel’s military moves in on Gaza, as hundreds of thousands of Palestinians leave town.
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has paused a £200m investment in Britain and could move its primary listing to America. Can the UK maintain its status as a “life-science superpower”? Why autonomous air wings are the future of war in the sky. And how scientists in the Caribbean are restoring the barrier reef through “coral IVF”.
