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- Coronavirus: 6,000 locked down on cruise ship off Italy – live news
- Most of 11m trees planted in Turkish project 'may be dead'
- Britons in EU remain fearful of post-Brexit healthcare and pension provisions
- Trump border wall between US and Mexico blows over in high winds
- Impeachment trial: House managers and Trump team in first direct clash
- Huawei ruling will cost us £500m, says BT
- Sajid Javid set to back HS2 at crunch meeting - politics live
- Peru: why a fundamentalist sect became an unexpected winner in elections
- The Crown must handle IRA atrocity with 'sensitivity'
- Indian primary school faces sedition charge after play about citizenship law
- Australian cricketers face sanctions after ridiculing non-English speakers
- Unmasked singer: Kelis on music, men and her missing money
- Murder inquiry launched in case of missing Middlesbrough woman
- Smash and grab thieves take Salvador Dalí art from Swedish gallery
- Trump’s ‘peace’ deal flagrantly tramples on Palestinian rights and freedoms | Yara Hawari
- Talking About Trees review – how the lights went out in Sudan's cinemas
- Trump impeachment: Democrats to continue push for Bolton as witness – live
- Wuhan coronavirus grown by scientists in Melbourne – video
- Drought leaves tens of thousands in Lesotho ‘one step from famine’
- Bangladesh grants Rohingya refugee children access to education
- All that's missing from Trump's 'overly good' Middle East plan is Palestinians
- Coronavirus and the voices of Wuhan: 'My anxiety is increasing day by day' – video
| Coronavirus: 6,000 locked down on cruise ship off Italy – live news Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:41 AM PST WHO says whole world must be on alert for Wuhan virus as UK citizens in Hubei told they will not be flown out on Thursday. Follow the latest news and live updates
Downing Street has said that the UK is still negotiating with China over the delayed evacuation flight from Wuhan. A spokesman said: "The UK government is working urgently with China to ensure an evacuation flight from Wuhan can take off as soon as possible."
British Airways has cancelled flights to China for a month. Earlier it said it was only planning to stop China flights until Monday, but after advice from the Foreign Office no BA flights to and from China will happen until 29 February, according to a statement sent to the BBC's Robin Brant. After some confusion yesterday @British_Airways confirms it's cancelled all #China flights for a month #coronarvirus pic.twitter.com/gqDfd0YSKe Continue reading... |
| Most of 11m trees planted in Turkish project 'may be dead' Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:00 AM PST Agriculture and forestry union says up to 90% of saplings they have looked at so far have died Up to 90% of the millions of saplings planted in Turkey as part of a record-breaking mass planting project may have died after just a few months, according to the country's agriculture and forestry trade union. On 11 November last year, which the government declared National Forestation Day, 11 million trees were planted by volunteers in more than 2,000 sites across the country, including by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the parliament Speaker, Mustafa Şentop. Continue reading... |
| Britons in EU remain fearful of post-Brexit healthcare and pension provisions Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST Guardian callout suggests many are worried about key issues settled with withdrawal agreement British citizens living in the EU remain confused and worried about their post-Brexit healthcare and pension provision, despite the fact that both issues were settled satisfactorily in the withdrawal agreement, a Guardian callout suggests. More than 100 of over 600 British nationals on the continent, who responded to the callout, cited fears of shrinking pensions and losing the right to medical treatment. Continue reading... |
| Trump border wall between US and Mexico blows over in high winds Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:08 PM PST Steel panels being installed between Calexico and Mexicali are part of the US president's attempt to enhance the border barrier A section of Donald Trump's much-vaunted border wall between the United States and Mexico has blown over in high winds, US border patrol officers have been reported as saying. The steel panels, more than nine metres (30ft) high, began to lean at a sharp angle on the border between the Californian town of Calexico and Mexicali in Mexico amid gusts on Wednesday. Continue reading... |
| Impeachment trial: House managers and Trump team in first direct clash Posted: 29 Jan 2020 04:31 PM PST Question and answer session focuses on Trump's motivations and calling witnesses – especially John Bolton The opposing legal teams in Donald Trump's impeachment trial locked horns directly for the first time on Wednesday, as an interrogation period began in which senators submitted questions in writing to be read aloud by Chief Justice John Roberts, who is presiding. The format set up clashes over Trump's motivations, the power of Congress to call witnesses from the executive branch and, most of all, the need – or not – for the former national security adviser John Bolton and possibly other witnesses to testify at the trial. Continue reading... |
| Huawei ruling will cost us £500m, says BT Posted: 30 Jan 2020 02:46 AM PST Telecoms group faces big bill for stripping out banned kit from 5G broadband network Limiting the use of Huawei equipment in BT's EE 5G mobile and full-fibre broadband networks will cost the telecoms group £500m over the next five years. BT uses more Huawei equipment in the masts and towers of its mobile network than is allowed under new government rules, meaning it will now have to be stripped out and replaced with hardware from other manufacturers. Continue reading... |
| Sajid Javid set to back HS2 at crunch meeting - politics live Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:45 AM PST The chancellor is set to support the controversial rail project at a meeting with Boris Johnson and the transport secretary, Grant Shapps
The Pompeo-Raab conversation has begun. The US secretary of state says he wanted to be here on the date that Brexit takes place but Raab said Brexit day would be "hectic" so he's here the day before. Having the US say it's all fine by us ...it's great. We intend to put the UK at the front of the line [for a trade deal].
The government has said it is working "urgently" with Chinese authorities to ensure citizens in Wuhan can return on a flight "as soon as possible". The prime minister's official spokesman said: We are doing everything we can to get British people in Wuhan safely back to the UK. A number of countries' flights have been unable to take off as planned including the British repatriation from Wuhan. Continue reading... |
| Peru: why a fundamentalist sect became an unexpected winner in elections Posted: 30 Jan 2020 01:00 AM PST Political party of Los Israelitas wins second largest share in new congress, and prompts concern over their fundamentalist views In a country that takes pride in its colourful folklore, Los Israelitas – a religious sect whose members dress in flowing biblical robes – were regarded as just one more strand in Peru's cultural tapestry. That was until their political party became an unexpected winner in parliamentary elections on Sunday. Continue reading... |
| The Crown must handle IRA atrocity with 'sensitivity' Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:27 PM PST Mother of victim urges Netflix to be respectful and truthful as people still grieving today
Mary Hornsey said she hoped the drama would show sensitivity in portraying the events of 27 August 1979, when a bomb blew up Mountbatten's fishing boat off Mullaghmore, a village in County Sligo on Ireland's north-west coast. Continue reading... |
| Indian primary school faces sedition charge after play about citizenship law Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:48 PM PST Children aged nine and 10 were interrogated by police after allegedly anti-government performance The Indian police are investigating a primary school for sedition over a student play which voiced opposition to the prime minister and his controversial new citizenship law. Students aged nine and 10 at Shaheen school in Bidar, in the state of Karnataka, were interrogated by police over several days for putting on a play that had a theme allegedly opposing the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and included "slurs" against prime minister Narendra Modi. Continue reading... |
| Australian cricketers face sanctions after ridiculing non-English speakers Posted: 29 Jan 2020 08:09 PM PST
Some members of Australia's Under-19 World Cup squad face sanctions for comments on social media that have been branded as casual racism. Cricket Australia's head of integrity and security Sean Carroll has spoken with those players who recently posted broken-English responses to an Instagram post. "We are extremely disappointed that some of the Australian Under-19 squad members have used inappropriate language in posts on social media, which we reported to the ICC as soon as it came to our attention," Carroll said in a statement. "Some of that language could be interpreted as ridiculing non-native English language speakers." Continue reading... |
| Unmasked singer: Kelis on music, men and her missing money Posted: 29 Jan 2020 09:59 PM PST Twenty years after her debut album, the singer talks about refusing to be pigeonholed, her fallout with Pharrell, and why she has moved to a remote farm To find Kelis these days, you don't just have to leave Los Angeles, the city where, until last summer, she had lived and worked for almost all her adult life. You have to go to the opposite of Los Angeles. LA attracts people who believe they exist only if other people are watching them. Kelis wanted to go where no one could see her. "Over in that front corral is where the vegetable garden is, and then I've got my seedlings here. I'm waiting for my greenhouse to be built. We have chickens coming and also baby goats," she says as we sit on her front porch on a cool, cloudy day. She is, she adds, considering "a cow situation". Continue reading... |
| Murder inquiry launched in case of missing Middlesbrough woman Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:00 AM PST Mother appeals for help finding Natalie Jenkins, 32, who was last seen on 10 December A woman has appealed to the public for help finding her daughter as detectives launched a murder inquiry. Natalie Jenkins, 32, was last seen in Middlesbrough on 10 December and although she was close to her family, they have not heard from her since. At a news conference in Middlesbrough, DCI Mark Dimelow said the force was treating her disappearance as a suspected murder. Continue reading... |
| Smash and grab thieves take Salvador Dalí art from Swedish gallery Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:09 AM PST Bronze sculptures and etchings by Spanish surrealist stolen from Stockholm's Couleur gallery Thieves have stolen bronze sculptures and etchings by the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí from a gallery in Stockholm in a smash and grab raid. The Couleur gallery, in the Swedish capital's upmarket Östermalm district, was holding an exhibition of work by Dalí containing about 10 pieces by the Spanish artist, the news agency TT said. Continue reading... |
| Trump’s ‘peace’ deal flagrantly tramples on Palestinian rights and freedoms | Yara Hawari Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:35 AM PST This plan is simply a continuation of US-Israel policy. Palestinians have heard it all before and won't accept it At the White House on Tuesday, Donald Trump laid out his "deal of the century": a plan for total Palestinian capitulation. It calls on Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state with all of Jerusalem as its capital, to give up the right of return that would allow Palestinian refugees to live in Israel, to accept the annexation of the Jordan Valley and the illegal Israeli settlements there, and to live in a series of Bantustans connected by roads and tunnels that would all essentially be controlled by Israel. None of this should be surprising. Not only is the plan simply a continuation of the Trump administration's policy towards Israel and Palestine since the day he took office, but it comes after decades of disregard towards Palestinian aspirations of freedom and sovereignty. Continue reading... |
| Talking About Trees review – how the lights went out in Sudan's cinemas Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST This poignant and witty documentary focuses on four directors whose careers were stalled by a military coup thirty years ago This witty and engaging cinephile documentary begins surreally with its subjects, four older male Sudanese film-makers, recreating the famous "closeup" scene from Sunset Boulevard. None of these directors has worked properly in years, since a military coup in 1989 triggered the collapse of Sudan's film industry for religious and economic reasons. Now a power cut prevents them from even watching a movie, so they make do. Ibrahim Shaddad wraps a blue chiffon scarf coquettishly around his face as Norma Desmond, simpering: "I'm ready for my closeup." Films are oxygen for these men, and Talking About Trees follows their mission to reopen a neglected outdoor movie theatre near Khartoum and give away tickets. There are almost no cinemas left in Sudan. As plans go, it looks as rickety as the 12ft ladders they climb to scrub the crumbling walls of the cinema. The four amigos – Shaddad, Suliman Ibrahim, Eltayeb Mahdi and Manar Al-Hilo – repaint the peeling sign, print posters and canvass the local community to decide what film to show first. (The people pick Django Unchained.) They accept setbacks philosophically, with stoicism and amusement. Shaddad finds it hilarious when the general from the morality police dealing with their request for a permit gives them the runaround, disappearing off to pray for two hours. Continue reading... |
| Trump impeachment: Democrats to continue push for Bolton as witness – live Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:35 AM PST
Here's a poster for an upcoming New Hampshire gig by a live act who exhumed styles and ideas thought to be long-dead and suddenly made them seem fresh and exciting again… and Bernie Sanders.
My colleague David Smith has interviewed Brad Parscale, Trump's formidable and controversial election campaign manager. He says the Republicans have "an advantage in time" over their Democratic opponents going into November's election. The president was extremely smart the day after the election to say why take our foot off the gas? Election day 2016 wasn't the end of the fight. It was the start of the fight. And let's just keep going. Let's keep fundraising. Let's keep building. This is a fight for eight years. This isn't a fight just for a few months. Obviously the formula that they used in 2016 is something they're going to try to duplicate in 2020, which is really the tactic of using social media to try to distort the truth and mislead the American people and con themselves back into the White House. That's part of the reason why he was made the campaign manager. It shows how much of a priority their misinformation digital strategy is to the re-election campaign. Continue reading... |
| Wuhan coronavirus grown by scientists in Melbourne – video Posted: 30 Jan 2020 03:22 AM PST Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity in Melbourne have grown the novel coronavirus from a patient sample, which they plan to share internationally under advice from the World Health Organization to provide data to fight the virus. The virus has also been grown in cell culture in China, but the breakthrough in Melbourne will allow accurate investigation and diagnosis of the virus globally. The project comes from a collaboration between the Royal Melbourne hospital and the University of Melbourne Continue reading... |
| Drought leaves tens of thousands in Lesotho ‘one step from famine’ Posted: 29 Jan 2020 11:00 PM PST Rural areas worst hit as massive fall in food production causes severe hunger for a quarter of country's population Tšepo Molapo gazes into space, worrying about where the next meal will come from. Next to him, his two-year-old granddaughter plays, oblivious of their desperate situation. Molapo's children all died at illegal mines in neighbouring South Africa, where they had trekked in search of work. Continue reading... |
| Bangladesh grants Rohingya refugee children access to education Posted: 29 Jan 2020 03:23 AM PST Children aged 11-13 will be first to benefit as government eases long-standing restrictions in effort to avoid 'lost generation' Bangladesh has confirmed it will lift restrictions on education for young Rohingya refugees, easing bans in place since the existing camps were established 30 years ago. The government's move to allow schooling for children aged 11-13 has been widely welcomed by activists and teachers. Continue reading... |
| All that's missing from Trump's 'overly good' Middle East plan is Palestinians Posted: 28 Jan 2020 12:45 PM PST The unusually detailed 80-page proposal fulfils a wishlist of Israeli demands while abandoning longstanding tenets of US diplomacy Donald Trump pronounced his newly unveiled peace plan "overly good" to the Palestinians but it was the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, who was at his side, grinning broadly. Related: 'Don't talk about history': how Jared Kushner crafted his Middle East 'peace' plan Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus and the voices of Wuhan: 'My anxiety is increasing day by day' – video Posted: 29 Jan 2020 10:05 AM PST Wuhan, the Chinese city identified as the origin of the coronavirus outbreak, has been on lockdown since 23 January. The Guardian spoke to residents, expats and tourists currently in the city about what it's like living in quarantine Continue reading... |
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