Charlotte Gallagher

Democrats release another batch of photos from the estate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

also in this podcast.

Australia announces a scheme to buy back guns after the Bondi Beach terror attack and how researchers are using drones to investigate the health of whales.

After years of uncertainty, TikTok's future in the US may finally be secured.

The White House branded the social media app a national security threat and gave it two options –

distance itself from its Chinese parent company ByteDance, or be banned in the U.S.

Now TikTok has signed a deal to sell part of its U.S.

business to American investors, as our North America technology correspondent Lily Jamali told me.

And what do you think this says about US-China relations at the moment?

As we record this podcast, it's the eve of the deadline for when the US Justice Department is expected to release the Epstein files.

As Americans wait for those documents to drop, Democrats have made public another 68 photographs from the dead sex offender's estate, showing prominent figures, women's passports and island development plans.

Our Washington correspondent, Nomia Iqbal, told Valerie Sanderson about the latest images.

Why are they all being released in something of a drip feed?

And why now this batch?

Nomia Iqbal.

Martial law has been a way of life in Ukraine ever since Russia launched its full-scale invasion almost four years ago.

Elections have been suspended and men of fighting age must remain in the country and be ready to be called on to fight.

Those who die in combat are remembered with military honours.

but others seemingly forgotten.

Soldiers who die by suicide are not considered military heroes and their families don't receive financial support.