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Panama has cut long-standing diplomatic ties with Taiwan in favour of China. It's being seen as a major diplomatic victory for Beijing. Also in the programme: Jeff Sessions to testify before Congress; and the Museum of Failed Innovation.

(Photograph shows Panama's Foreign Minister Isabel de Saint Malo and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi shaking hands. Credit: Getty Images)

The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has apologised to members of the ruling Conservative Party, after it lost seats in last Thursday’s general election. She told a meeting of MPs in Westminster: “I got us into this mess, and I’m going to get us out of it.”

Also in the programme: Appeals court in San Fransisco upholds block of Trump’s “travel ban”; Hundreds arrested at anti-corruption rallies in Russia.

(Photo: British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves Downing Street on the way to a meeting of the Conservative Party"s 1922 Committee, in Central London. Credit: EPA/Facundo Arrizabalaga)

What's next for the Brexit negotiations as UK Prime Minister Theresa May tries to form a minority government with Northern Ireland's DUP. Also in the programme: What are Emmanuel Macron's economic policies? Saudi Arabia introduces new 'sin tax'

(Photograph shows a demonstrator wearing a mask depicting Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May while posing with a mock gravestone bearing the words 'Hard Brexit, RIP'. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

Exit polls in France's parliamentary election suggest President Emmanuel Macron's brand new centrist party has won a landslide victory. Also in the programme: Ireland's Prime Minister warns Theresa May over Tory-DUP deal; US man who spent 17 years in jail freed after his lookalike is found.

(Photograph shows French President Emmanuel Macron and wife Brigitte voting in parliamentary elections in Le Touquet. Credit: Reuters)

There's renewed pressure on the British prime minister, Theresa May, after she lost her parliamentary majority in a snap election; one former colleague described her as a dead woman walking. We speak to Lord Heseltine, a former Conservative deputy prime minister.

Also in the programme: there are reports from Libya that Saif-al Islam Gaddafi, the son of the country's deposed leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has been freed by the armed group that's been holding him; and the BBC man who got a rare interview with Chuck Berry.

(Photo: Britain's Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party Theresa May leaves 10 Downing Street after she failed to return a clear overall majority win for her party. Credit: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Theresa May's top advisers quit as small Northern Irieland party agrees to help British government get its programme through parliament.

Also: Catwoman on Batman - we hear from Julie Newmar on the death of her friend Adam West. And is President Trump about to change US policy towards Cuba?

(Photo: Theresa May. Credit: BBC)