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Hello, I'm Susan Hume and this is the Today in Parliament podcast from Monday the 19th of May.

Coming up, the Home Secretary warns MPs about the threats foreign nations pose to the UK

and promises to introduce legislation to help stop them.

The Iranian regime poses an unacceptable threat to our domestic security which cannot continue.

Also, peers double down on their attempt to force AI companies to disclose the use of copyrighted

material. Silicon Valley have persuaded government that it is easier for them to redefine theft

than make them pay for what they stole.

And a cyber attack that ministers say has been years in the making.

This House should be in no doubt that the legal aid agency has suffered an unacceptable

attack on its systems at the hands of criminals. But first, the Home Secretary of Vette Cooper

has said she intends to bring in new laws to make it easier to ban malign foreign state

organisations from operating in this country. Hundreds of MPs and peers have called on the Prime Minister to prescribe

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, as a terrorist organisation.

In a statement to MPs, Yvette Cooper turned first to the charges brought against three

Iranian nationals at the weekend. All three

had been charged with actions likely to help a foreign government. Additional charges were brought

in relation to engaging in conduct, including surveillance, reconnaissance, open research, with the

intentions to commit acts of serious violence against a person in the

United Kingdom. She said these were the first Iranians to be charged under the National Security Act,

but there have been a big increase in the number of plots and threats originating from

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