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- New Zealand sends troops to help with Australian bushfires as Pacific nations offer support
- Al-Shabaab kills three Americans in attack on US military base in Kenya
- Golden Globes: 1917 and Fleabag lead British invasion with major wins
- Brexit: Boris Johnson to open trade talks with Ursula von der Leyen
- Labour leadership: Jess Phillips clarifies Brexit stance, saying party won't back rejoin at next election - live news
- Fukushima unveils plans to become renewable energy hub
- China's new top Hong Kong official hopes city will return to 'right path'
- Students injured in India after masked attackers raid top university
- Croatia elects leftist Zoran Milanović to be next president
- Jakarta floods: recovery effort begins as city counts cost of worst deluge in a decade
- Rosanna Arquette set to attend Harvey Weinstein trial
- Apocalypse now-ish: what can we learn from films set in 2020?
- Cave diver found dead in flooded passage in Cumbria
- Huge crowds led by weeping supreme leader mourn Suleimani in Iran
- Turkish troops deploy to Libya to prop up embattled government
- Sleepwalking into 2020: are the media who missed Trump's 2016 rise ready now?
- Maduro accused of parliamentary ‘coup’ after replacing Guaidó as president of assembly
- Australia fires: Another death confirmed as NSW and Victoria bushfires heap pressure on Scott Morrison – as it happened
- Poverty-stricken Hungarians are easy pickings for traffickers on Facebook
- Diplomacy over Iran is still possible – if only to avoid an all-out war
- Trump and the media: will 2020 be different? – podcast
- Massive crowds attend funeral processions as Suleimani's body is returned to Iran – video
| New Zealand sends troops to help with Australian bushfires as Pacific nations offer support Posted: 05 Jan 2020 04:58 PM PST Jacinda Ardern says country ready to repay Australia for its help through a tough 2019 as Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu offer money and troops Australia's neighbouring countries, including New Zealand, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea, have offered support as the country continues to fight massive bushfires burning in New South Wales and Victoria. Members of the New Zealand military are en route to Australia to assist with the efforts, adding to the 157 New Zealand firefighters already deployed in Australia, some of whom have been assisting their Australian colleagues since October. Continue reading... |
| Al-Shabaab kills three Americans in attack on US military base in Kenya Posted: 05 Jan 2020 01:52 PM PST One US serviceman and two US Department of Defense contractors killed, while five attackers were killed Al-Shabaab extremists have overrun a key military base in Kenya, killing three American Department of Defense personnel and destroying several US aircraft and vehicles before they were repelled. The attack on the Manda Bay airfield early on Sunday was the al-Qaida-linked group's first attack against US forces in the East African country, and the military called the security situation "fluid" several hours after the assault. Continue reading... |
| Golden Globes: 1917 and Fleabag lead British invasion with major wins Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:43 AM PST The first big awards show of the year saw British victories across the board, including for Olivia Colman, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Sam Mendes It was a night of stratospherically high star-wattage – Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Elton John, the list goes on – and big wins for British productions at the 77th Golden Globes, a night overstuffed with largely unsurprising awards, host Ricky Gervais's apathy toward award shows, and calls to vote in 2020. Related: Ricky Gervais targets Apple, Epstein and Cats in Golden Globes monologue Continue reading... |
| Brexit: Boris Johnson to open trade talks with Ursula von der Leyen Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:23 AM PST Prime minister also intends to press his Brexit bill through Commons in three days Boris Johnson will host the president of the European commission, Ursula Von Der Leyen, in Downing Street this week as he prepares to take Britain out of the EU at the end of this month, kicking off a race against time to secure a free trade deal. The prime minister will use the comfortable majority he won at last month's general election to press his Brexit bill through the House of Commons in three days when MPs return to Westminster on Tuesday. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:39 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen
In an interview with Sky News this morning Tom Watson, the former Labour deputy leader, refused to say who he would be backing in the Labour leadership contest. But he said that Rebecca Long Bailey, the shadow business secretary, was the candidate he was worried about. He explained: The one that I worry about - but I don't know what she stands for - when I look at Rebecca Long Bailey, she's really the continuity candidate. She stands for Corbynism in its purest sense. And that's perfectly legitimate but we have lost two elections with that play. She hasn't said anything yet; as far as I know she has not formally announced and it might be that she chimes a different note in her opening bid and that she wants to take the party in a different direction and she's very candid about what went wrong, in which case then she's in quite a good position to shift things around. But I think it's fair for me to reserve judgment.
For the record, this is what Sir Keir Starmer, the frontrunner in the Labour leadership contest, said in his Andrew Marr interview (pdf) yesterday when asked if he would back rejoining the EU if he became Labour leader. Well, we are going to leave the EU in the next few weeks and it's important for all of us, including myself, to recognise that the argument about leave and remain goes with it. We are leaving. We will have left the EU ... This election blew away the argument for a second referendum, rightly or wrongly, and we have to adjust to that situation. The argument has to move on and the argument now is, can we insist on that close relationship with the EU, close economic relationship, but collaboration in other areas? And also what is the framework now for future trade relations? Because my concern is less about technical membership of the EU now, it's if we shift our focus from the EU and move away from those standards and arrangements, it is inevitable that Boris Johnson and his government will look to America for a trade deal and we need to know the terms of that because we've had a lot of discussion about the NHS being part of those negotiations, but all public services could be part of those negotiations. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fukushima unveils plans to become renewable energy hub Posted: 05 Jan 2020 03:57 AM PST Japan aims to power region, scene of 2011 meltdown, with 100% renewable energy by 2040 Fukushima is planning to transform itself into a renewable energy hub, almost nine years after it became the scene of the world's worst nuclear accident for a quarter of a century. The prefecture in north-east Japan will forever be associated with the triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on 11 March 2011, but in an ambitious project the local government has vowed to power the region with 100% renewable energy by 2040, compared with 40% today. Continue reading... |
| China's new top Hong Kong official hopes city will return to 'right path' Posted: 05 Jan 2020 10:58 PM PST Luo Huining, newly installed head of Beijing's liaison office, gave little away in his first public statement Beijing's new top envoy to Hong Kong has said he hoped the protest-ravaged city would "return to the right path" in his first statement since taking up his post. Luo Huining replaced Wang Zhimin as head of Beijing's liaison office in Hong Kong – the most significant personnel change by China since violent pro-democracy protests erupted in the city nearly seven months ago. Continue reading... |
| Students injured in India after masked attackers raid top university Posted: 05 Jan 2020 04:55 PM PST Leftists blame 'goons' linked to prime minister Narendra Modi's BJP party as tensions simmer over citizenship law and fee increases More than 20 people have been injured at a prestigious Indian university after masked attackers entered the campus in New Delhi and lashed out at students with batons. Amid simmering tensions over the government's citizenship laws and student fee increases, videos on social media appeared to show the attackers roaming Jawaharlal Nehru university (JNU) in the capital on Sunday and beating students with sticks, leaving 23 students injured. Continue reading... |
| Croatia elects leftist Zoran Milanović to be next president Posted: 05 Jan 2020 04:20 PM PST The former prime minister won a presidential run-off against conservative incumbent Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović Croatia's leftist former prime minister Zoran Milanović, who has pledged to make his nation a more tolerant place and turn the page on its wartime past, will be his country's next president after defeating the incumbent conservative in a run-off vote. Milanović took 52.7% of the vote in Sunday's run-off, while president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, who had tried to unite a fractured right-wing, garnered 47.3%, according to results based on a vote count from nearly all polling stations released by the electoral commission. Continue reading... |
| Jakarta floods: recovery effort begins as city counts cost of worst deluge in a decade Posted: 05 Jan 2020 06:36 PM PST Indonesian soldiers spray disinfectant to battle disease as death toll passes 60, with thousands more living in emergency shelters Mudslides and power blackouts have hampered the search for people missing in massive floods in Indonesia's capital, where more than 60 people have died and some of the tens of thousands of evacuees are living in damp, cramped emergency shelters. More than 1,000 soldiers and health workers sprayed disinfectant in hard-hit areas on Sunday to fend off the spread of disease. Monsoon rains and rising rivers submerged a dozen districts in the greater Jakarta area after extreme New Year's Eve rains, causing landslides in hilly areas on the outskirts of the capital that buried scores of people. Continue reading... |
| Rosanna Arquette set to attend Harvey Weinstein trial Posted: 05 Jan 2020 09:30 AM PST Actor accuses Weinstein of derailing her career after she 'resisted his advances' The actor Rosanna Arquette, one of Harvey Weinstein's most prominent accusers, says she plans to attend the trial of the disgraced film producer when it starts in New York on Monday. Arquette will not be giving evidence in the case, but she said she will be there to lend support to the handful of women who have been allowed to give testimony in court of Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct and abuse. Continue reading... |
| Apocalypse now-ish: what can we learn from films set in 2020? Posted: 05 Jan 2020 11:15 PM PST According to film-makers, the next 12 months is likely to resemble a fiery battleground populated by evil robots, aliens and monsters 2019 and 2020 may only be separated by a year, but linguistically, they're much farther apart. The words "two thousand and nineteen" just don't have the futuristic ring of "twenty-twenty", which at times looks like computer output and sounds like robot-speak. The movies have seized on this much, with a solid handful of sci-fi and other genre titles making use of 2020 as a pinpoint from the abstract beyond of tomorrow that felt a little farther from the 80s and 90s than the old standby of the year 2000. Related: The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen Continue reading... |
| Cave diver found dead in flooded passage in Cumbria Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:53 AM PST Body of man in his 60s was discovered at Lancaster Hole, part of 53-mile cave network Police are investigating after a cave diver was found dead in a flooded section of one of England's largest underground cave networks. The body of a man in his 60s was discovered at Lancaster Hole, near Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria, on Saturday evening. Continue reading... |
| Huge crowds led by weeping supreme leader mourn Suleimani in Iran Posted: 06 Jan 2020 02:00 AM PST Tensions rise as thousands take to streets of Tehran for funeral of general killed in drone strike Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has publicly wept presiding over a vast public funeral procession in Tehran for Qassem Suleimani, the powerful general killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad on Friday. Khamenei's voice cracked with emotion as he recited prayers over the casket of Suleimani, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, as well as others killed in the attack, which has drastically raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. Continue reading... |
| Turkish troops deploy to Libya to prop up embattled government Posted: 05 Jan 2020 02:05 PM PST Move follows deadly air strikes in Tripoli by war lord in bid to oust UN-backed government Turkish troops have begun deploying to Libya in a bid to prop up the UN-recognised government in Tripoli, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has announced. The move followed a vote in the Turkish parliament backing deployment and further deadly attacks in Tripoli by an airforce under the control of Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the warlord who has been trying to oust the government since April. Continue reading... |
| Sleepwalking into 2020: are the media who missed Trump's 2016 rise ready now? Posted: 06 Jan 2020 02:00 AM PST Key figures from major US newspapers, news sites and TV describe their fears about covering this year's election - and ideas on how to get it right In the weeks after the election of Donald Trump in 2016, the American media went through deep soul searching. Most news outlets had been taken by surprise by Trump's victory, had failed to see the rise of the electorate that would put him in the White House, and had been led by the clickbait of his tweets. Then there was Hillary Clinton's emails and an arguable failure to appreciate the importance of misinformation and Russian interference in the election. This time the press has pledged to do better. Yet, with less than a year to go before Americans go to the polls again, there are already signs that mistakes of the magnitude of 2016 may be repeated or new challenges arise. Continue reading... |
| Maduro accused of parliamentary ‘coup’ after replacing Guaidó as president of assembly Posted: 05 Jan 2020 04:04 PM PST Troops blocked presidential rival from entering the parliament building in Venezuela's capital, Caracas Venezuela's opposition has accused president Nicolás Maduro of masterminding an illegal parliamentary "coup" after an apparent bid to decapitate the challenge from his presidential rival Juan Guaidó by replacing him as head of the country's opposition-controlled parliament. Guaidó shot to international prominence last January after he was elected president of Venezuela's national assembly and used that position to declare himself the country's legitimate interim leader. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 06 Jan 2020 01:56 AM PST The PM pledges $2bn for a national bushfire recovery fund as NSW and Victorian towns gain brief reprieve from fires. This blog is now closed • Coalition promises $2bn for bushfire recovery as it walks back from budget surplus pledge • How big are the fires burning in Australia? Interactive map • Scott Morrison's bushfire ad is deceptive and raises serious integrity issues, expert says
That's all from our live bushfire blog for today. There'll be another tomorrow. Here's a quick summary of where things stand, and some of the big stories from the day.
The smoke haze that's been a major issue across NSW and parts of Victoria for weeks is giving organisers of the Australian Open tennis some major concerns. Organisers are hopeful the tournament will be able to start on time. We've just posted this report. Related: Bushfire haze in Melbourne casts doubt on Australian Open starting on time Continue reading... |
| Poverty-stricken Hungarians are easy pickings for traffickers on Facebook Posted: 05 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST Promises of a better life in many social media posts are often a trap for marginalised communities such as the Roma In the village of Bag, north-east of Budapest, the houses along the main street are smart and well-kept. Tucked behind, up a slight hill, where the buildings become bare brick and the tarmac road turns into a dust track, people sit on the ground in the afternoon sun, talking and playing cards. These are the Roma, or the Roma who remain in Hungary, where they live on society's edge, clinging on in the outskirts of towns and villages, shunned and stigmatised as potential criminals. Continue reading... |
| Diplomacy over Iran is still possible – if only to avoid an all-out war Posted: 05 Jan 2020 12:03 PM PST Tehran has vowed revenge for the killing of Qassem Suleimani but conflict is not yet certain The threats emanating from Twitter feeds and podiums in Tehran and Washington might suggest the moment for diplomacy has long passed, and some form of war between the US and Iran following the assassination of Qassem Suleimani is now inevitable. The only consideration that might hold the two sides back is the possible consequences. Tehran has tasted the unpredictability of Donald Trump and however much the desire for revenge beats in the hearts of Iranians, European leaders are pleading with Tehran's leadership, saying it has a responsibility to use its head and recognise any direct attack on US assets in the Middle East is likely to be met with a further escalation by Trump. Continue reading... |
| Trump and the media: will 2020 be different? – podcast Posted: 05 Jan 2020 07:00 PM PST Ed Pilkington hears from some of the most influential journalists in the US on how hard lessons were learned after their coverage of the 2016 election. But will 2020 really be any different? Plus: Carol Anderson on voter suppression and the US election Donald Trump's election victory in 2016 came as a major shock to most news organisations in the US, which had all but anointed Hillary Clinton as the next president. But Trump's ability to garner attention and break rules and norms had resulted in billions of dollars' worth of free coverage, which he combined with an ability to wriggle out of serious scrutiny. All this left a major challenge for how newsrooms across the US should cover his presidency, and how they should now cover his attempt to be re-elected. The Guardian US chief reporter, Ed Pilkington, has been working in partnership with the Columbia Journalism Review and spoken to 30 leading editors, reporters, TV executives and media commentators, asking for their reflections at the start of a year of election coverage. In this podcast, we hear from the Washington Post's Margaret Sullivan, Univision's Jorge Ramos, Teen Vogue's Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Frank Bruni of the New York Times. Continue reading... |
| Massive crowds attend funeral processions as Suleimani's body is returned to Iran – video Posted: 05 Jan 2020 08:21 AM PST In the north-east city of Mashhad, mourners accompanied a casket carrying the Iranian general's remains. Earlier that day, his body had been taken to Ahvaz, in the south-west. Iran has threatened 'harsh retaliation' for the US strike that killed the top military commander. Continue reading... |
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