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- State of the Union: Pelosi expresses her disdain as Trump pitches for re-election
- Syria: half a million people have fled Idlib offensive, says UN body
- Pete Buttigieg holds early lead in Iowa caucuses after chaos over results
- Hundreds of Salvadorans deported by US were killed or abused, report reveals
- BBC could end up like Blockbuster unless it adapts to digital era, says culture secretary - live news
- New Zealand floods: first ever red weather warning issued as thousands evacuated
- Stop ignoring us: Rohingya refugees demand role in running camps
- Twitter will label and may remove media designed to mislead
- 'Honk more, wait more': Mumbai tests traffic lights that reward the patient driver
- Bunker mentality: the man who built Albania's underground Stalinist city
- Grand Theft Auto mastermind Dan Houser leaves Rockstar Games
- The hardest decision of my life: to end a pregnancy because I had no paid leave
- Welsh police solve 'moo-dunnit' using DNA test on cow
- Biggest atom smasher in the world reveals 'strangeness' - archive, February 1960
- Cast out: the women of Ghana’s ‘witch’ village – in pictures
- Donald Trump's State of the Union address 2020 – video highlights
- Coronavirus live updates: all arrivals to Hong Kong from mainland China face 'compulsory quarantine' – latest news
- Morrison staffer who helped club win grant caught on video urging crowd to vote Liberal
- Coronavirus: cruise ship carrying 3,700 quarantined in Japan after 10 test positive
- The coronavirus lays bare the limits of WHO's health diplomacy with China
- Greece sends more riot police to Lesbos after migrant clashes
- 'I have no regrets': Tanzania politician branded traitor over World Bank loan
- What is coronavirus and how worried should we be?
- Diary of a coronavirus evacuee: 'Everyone's trying to avoid contact with each other' | Daniel Ou Yang
- Is UK overreacting to coronavirus crisis by telling citizens to leave China?
- The treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude Māori women – we must right that wrong | Emma Espiner
- Cruise ships quarantined over coronavirus – in pictures
- Nancy Pelosi rips up State of the Union speech after Donald Trump snubs handshake – video
- Sanders on Buttigeig: 'I don't know how anyone claims victory without results' - video
- Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand's South Island – video
- Iowa Democrats apologise for caucus counting problems – video
- Senate leaders make speeches before final vote – video
- Joe Biden heckled on campaign trail in New Hampshire – video
| State of the Union: Pelosi expresses her disdain as Trump pitches for re-election Posted: 04 Feb 2020 09:16 PM PST Trump used speech to brag about 'the great American comeback' but House speaker said she couldn't find 'one page with truth on it' An emboldened Donald Trump bragged about the "great American comeback" in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, in a speech resembling an 81-minute re-election rally that prompted the most powerful woman in Congress to rip up her copy of the speech on national television. The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said she tore up the address, which he delivered on the eve of the verdict in his impeachment trial, because she couldn't find "one page with truth on it". Continue reading... |
| Syria: half a million people have fled Idlib offensive, says UN body Posted: 04 Feb 2020 02:53 PM PST Renewed bombardment of last rebel enclave has caused one of war's largest displacements A regime offensive in Syria's last rebel enclave has caused one of the biggest waves of displacement in the nine-year war, as tensions spiked between Ankara and Damascus following a deadly exchange of fire. Weeks of intensive aerial bombardment and a bruising ground offensive have emptied entire towns in northwest Idlib and sent huge numbers fleeing north towards the Turkish border. Continue reading... |
| Pete Buttigieg holds early lead in Iowa caucuses after chaos over results Posted: 04 Feb 2020 02:08 PM PST Iowa Democratic party announces partial results with former South Bend mayor trailed closely by Bernie Sanders Pete Buttigieg, the previously little-known former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, held a narrow lead in the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday night, according to a partial release of a majority of the results by the state Democratic party a day after an embarrassing organizational breakdown that marred the biggest night of the election year so far. With 71% of the precincts reporting from all of Iowa's 99 counties, Buttigieg held 26.8% of the state's delegate count, trailed closely by the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders with 25.2%, the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren with 18.4% and the former vice-president Joe Biden falling well behind with 15.4%. Sanders, meanwhile, had so far earned the largest share of total votes cast. Continue reading... |
| Hundreds of Salvadorans deported by US were killed or abused, report reveals Posted: 04 Feb 2020 11:30 PM PST Human Rights Watch says 138 Salvadorans were murdered from 2013 to 2019 and 70 others were abused or sexually assaulted At least 200 Salvadoran migrants and asylum seekers have been killed, raped or tortured after being deported back to El Salvador by the United States government which is turning a blind eye to widely known dangers, a new investigation reveals. Related: How the US helped create El Salvador's bloody gang war Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2020 02:13 AM PST Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen, including Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn at PMQs
Morgan says the media landscape is changing. The only constant is that DCMS secretaries of state keep giving speeches about how the media is changing, she says.
Morgan says broadcasters can also contribute to the government's aim of spreading opportunity across the whole of the country. Broadcasters need to ask what they are doing to benefit the whole of the UK, she says. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand floods: first ever red weather warning issued as thousands evacuated Posted: 04 Feb 2020 06:28 PM PST South Island's southernmost region cut off amid fears paper mill could release toxic ammonia if chemicals mix with floodwaters Part of New Zealand's South Island has become cut off after days of torrential rains washed away roads, forced the evacuation of 2,000 people and saw the country's MetService issue its first ever red weather warning. The flooding across the flat agricultural plains of Southland, in the island's southernmost end, came a day after hikers and tourists were evacuated from another part of the region, Fiordland, where more than a metre of rain had fallen in less than three days. Continue reading... |
| Stop ignoring us: Rohingya refugees demand role in running camps Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Refugees in Cox's Bazar complain the international aid community does not utilise their experience and say the lack of education risks creating a 'lost generation' In a tea room just outside Bangladesh's Rohingya refugee camps, a group of young activists fiddle with their phones, which have suddenly started pinging in chorus now they are finally reconnected to the internet. To circumvent a government internet blackout around the camps in Cox's Bazar, they have to break a ban on travelling to nearby Bangladeshi towns, from where they can communicate and coordinate messages for the international community. Continue reading... |
| Twitter will label and may remove media designed to mislead Posted: 04 Feb 2020 04:00 PM PST Company, along with Google and Facebook, is under pressure to prevent interference in the 2020 US elections Twitter will begin to label and in some cases remove doctored or manipulated photos, audio and videos that are designed to mislead people. The company said on Tuesday that the new rules prohibit sharing synthetic or manipulated material that's likely to cause harm. Material that is manipulated but isn't necessarily harmful may get a warning label. Continue reading... |
| 'Honk more, wait more': Mumbai tests traffic lights that reward the patient driver Posted: 04 Feb 2020 09:15 PM PST Trial resets traffic lights to red when the noise from car horns goes beyond 85 decibels There is a truth universally acknowledged by drivers in India: honk your horn loud enough and the traffic lights will surely change to green. But, fed up of impatient drivers inflicting a deafening roar every time they are forced to stop, police in Mumbai have come up with a new system to punish those who cannot wait at traffic lights in silence. Continue reading... |
| Bunker mentality: the man who built Albania's underground Stalinist city Posted: 04 Feb 2020 09:00 PM PST Feti Gjici and his cousin the local mayor aim to turn relic of Albanian communist paranoia into tourist attraction For nearly two decades, Feti Gjici worked on a project that was so secret he was made to lock the plans away in a safe before leaving his office each evening. He never spoke of it to his friends or family. Gjici was the chief planner of the town of Kukës, in northern Albania, working during the years of the country's communist regime, led by the Stalinist dictator Enver Hoxha. The paranoid and isolationist leader was terrified of impending war and built hundreds of thousands of concrete bunkers to defend his population against the threat of invasion. Continue reading... |
| Grand Theft Auto mastermind Dan Houser leaves Rockstar Games Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:00 AM PST Co-writer of the multimillion-selling series to step down in March, leaving questions over long-awaited sixth instalment Dan Houser, a co-founder of Rockstar Games, is leaving his post in March, according to the developer's parent company Take-Two Interactive. Houser was lead writer on the multimillion-selling Grand Theft Auto series, as well as other Rockstar hits including the acclaimed western adventure Red Dead Redemption. In a statement to investors on Tuesday, Take-Two stated that Houser, who was creative vice president at the studio, would leave Rockstar on 11 March after taking an "extended break", which began in spring last year. Houser's brother Sam, with whom he co-founded Rockstar Games in 1998, will stay on as company president. Continue reading... |
| The hardest decision of my life: to end a pregnancy because I had no paid leave Posted: 04 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST Despite my job at a college and my husband's job at a grocery store, neither of us would get paid parental leave. So we made a difficult choice In the summer of 2018, I was 34 years old. I lived with my husband-to-be in a one room apartment in rural Vermont. After spending almost a year underemployed, I was ecstatic to be offered a full-time job with benefits at a liberal arts college. I began working there a month before our wedding, a small ceremony we had carefully designed for months. A week after we were married, I found out I was pregnant. Related: Maternity leave: US policy is worst on list of the world's richest countries Continue reading... |
| Welsh police solve 'moo-dunnit' using DNA test on cow Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:48 AM PST Stolen heifer is reunited with owner and neighbouring farmer is fined in Carmarthenshire Police in rural south-west Wales have used DNA profiling to solve the mystery of a missing cow. Dyfed-Powys police say they are the first force in the UK to employ a technique more often used in serious crimes such as murder to reunite a heifer with its owner. Continue reading... |
| Biggest atom smasher in the world reveals 'strangeness' - archive, February 1960 Posted: 05 Feb 2020 02:00 AM PST The inauguration ceremony of the proton synchrotron at Cern showed how European cooperation could set the bar for scientific discovery by our own correspondent |
| Cast out: the women of Ghana’s ‘witch’ village – in pictures Posted: 04 Feb 2020 11:00 PM PST As women age in rural Ghana, signs of dementia, mental health issues or even menopausal symptoms can result in them being declared 'witches' and pushed out of their community. Around 80 women live in such exile in Kukuo 'witch village'
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| Donald Trump's State of the Union address 2020 – video highlights Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:50 AM PST Donald Trump has delivered his third State of the Union address, bragging about the 'great American comeback' in a speech resembling an 81-minute re-election rally. It prompted Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in Congress, to rip up her copy of the speech on national television Continue reading... |
| Posted: 05 Feb 2020 02:13 AM PST Thousands on board Diamond Princess cruise ship in offshore quarantine in Japan after 10 people test positive, as China death toll passes 490
AFP is now reporting that travelling from mainland China will be forced to face 'compulsory quarantine' when they arrive in Hong Kong. #BREAKING All arrivals to Hong Kong from mainland China to face 'compulsory quarantine': leader pic.twitter.com/gUviN92VMZ
More readers have got in touch in response to the Foreign Office's advice urging UK nationals to leave China. Liam Dutch, a 26-year-old teacher in Shenzhen, said he was "conflicted" about the British government's advice to leave China. "Many of us have spent a lot of time building new lives here, it is not simply a case of 'booking a flight home to then return at an unknown date'. Continue reading... |
| Morrison staffer who helped club win grant caught on video urging crowd to vote Liberal Posted: 05 Feb 2020 12:45 AM PST Online video emerges as the Senate sets up an inquiry into the Coalition's $100m sports rort grants Video has emerged online of a member of Scott Morrison's electorate staff being lauded for helping Cronulla Sailing Club win an $8,400 grant, as the Senate moved on Wednesday to set up an inquiry into the controversial $100m community sport infrastructure grant program. In the video posted to Facebook, a representative of the club thanks the staffer, identifying her as "Scott Morrison's PA", for helping push her to apply for a grant for a new stainless steel barbecue. GrantConnect shows the grant was approved in December 2017 as part of the stronger communities program. Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus: cruise ship carrying 3,700 quarantined in Japan after 10 test positive Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:20 AM PST Infected passengers removed from Diamond Princess and taken to hospital Thousands of people face spending the next fortnight stuck on a luxury cruise ship quarantined off the Japanese port of Yokohama, after initial results showed 10 passengers have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The Diamond Princess, with more than 3,700 passengers and crew onboard, had been prevented from sailing on Monday after an 80-year-old passenger who had travelled on the vessel late last month tested positive after he arrived home in Hong Kong. Continue reading... |
| The coronavirus lays bare the limits of WHO's health diplomacy with China Posted: 04 Feb 2020 10:00 PM PST The global body is accused of failing to act fast to halt epidemic but the true cost of doing politics with Beijing is still unknown On social media this week the insults were flying thick and fast, some tinged with racism, but all with a common theme: how the World Health Organization, and its head, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, was effectively doing the bidding of the Chinese government in the midst of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak. It is a charge that has also been expressed in less offensive terms elsewhere in columns and articles, some of which have focused on whether, in praising China's response to the deadly Wuhan coronavirus outbreak during a visit to Beijing, Tedros allowed himself to become complicit in China's flawed handling of the outbreak in its early days? Continue reading... |
| Greece sends more riot police to Lesbos after migrant clashes Posted: 04 Feb 2020 08:22 AM PST Government calls in further reinforcements after teargas fired during island protests Greece has rushed in extra squads of riot police to Lesbos amid warnings of potentially explosive tensions on the island following clashes between security forces and thousands of migrants and refugees. As hundreds of mainly Afghan asylum seekers converged on Mytilene, the local capital, on Tuesday to protest against conditions in the island's vastly overcrowded camp, the government ordered in the reinforcements. Continue reading... |
| 'I have no regrets': Tanzania politician branded traitor over World Bank loan Posted: 04 Feb 2020 04:53 AM PST Opposition leader Zitto Kabwe received death threats after asking bank to suspend education fund over human rights concerns An opposition leader in Tanzania said he was taking death threats he received after he urged the World Bank to withdraw a $500m (£382m) education loan to the country over human rights concerns "very seriously". But Zitto Kabwe, leader of the alliance for change and transparency party (Act), added that he would not be intimidated by comments made by the leader of the ruling party and other officials that his request to the bank was an act of betrayal and he should be killed. Continue reading... |
| What is coronavirus and how worried should we be? Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:55 AM PST What are the symptoms of the virus from Wuhan in China, how does it spread, and when should you see a doctor? It is a member of the coronavirus family that has never been encountered before. Like other coronaviruses, it has come from animals. Many of those initially infected either worked or frequently shopped in the Huanan seafood wholesale market in the centre of the Chinese city, which also sold live and newly slaughtered animals. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 04 Feb 2020 11:42 PM PST Australian Daniel Ou Yang, 21, was on the Air New Zealand flight out of virus-struck Wuhan to Auckland. Here he writes about the stress of his evacuation At 2.52pm, we arrived at Wuhan Tianjin airport. The drive here was smooth, all the big wide roads with no cars on them. We made it through the checkpoints and arrived within an hour. Continue reading... |
| Is UK overreacting to coronavirus crisis by telling citizens to leave China? Posted: 04 Feb 2020 07:54 AM PST Decision leaves tens of thousands weighing up huge choice without knowing why they should leave
The British government's surprise announcement telling Britons to leave China "if they can" comes amid mounting international concern about the spread of coronavirus. But the advice came with no detailed guidance about why the UK's position had changed – making it unclear whether this was a political stance, or a position based on new medical guidance that British authorities have not shared publicly. Continue reading... |
| The treaty of Waitangi was forged to exclude Māori women – we must right that wrong | Emma Espiner Posted: 04 Feb 2020 05:00 AM PST The signing of the treaty marks the point at which Māori women began to be written out of history This week, to mark Waitangi Day, the Guardian is publishing five pieces of commentary from Māori writers. This year I'm not interested in the symbolism of what Jacinda Ardern does or doesn't do or say at Waitangi. I'm looking to the Mana Wāhine Kaupapa inquiry. Nearly 30 years since it was instigated, the inquiry investigates the role of the Crown in contributing to the disadvantage that has inequitably burdened wāhine Māori since the Treaty was signed. At the end of this month a judicial conference will be held to consider the claims. Continue reading... |
| Cruise ships quarantined over coronavirus – in pictures Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:32 AM PST Thousands of passengers and crew on two cruise ships in Asian waters have been placed in quarantine after cases of coronavirus were confirmed onboard. About 3,700 people are facing at least two weeks locked away on the Diamond Princess cruise liner anchored off Japan, while 1,800 passengers and crew are being kept onboard the World Dream, docked in Hong Kong Continue reading... |
| Nancy Pelosi rips up State of the Union speech after Donald Trump snubs handshake – video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 09:21 PM PST Donald Trump appeared to snub Nancy Pelosi's request for a handshake during the start of his State of the Union address. At the speech's conclusion, Pelosi was seen tearing up her copy of the speech, later saying 'it was the courteous thing to do'
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| Sanders on Buttigeig: 'I don't know how anyone claims victory without results' - video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 08:53 PM PST Bernie Sanders has questioned the move by Democratic rival Pete Buttigeig to declare victory in the Iowa caucus. The voting has been marred by a technical error that has led to a delay in releasing the results Continue reading... |
| Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand's South Island – video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 06:21 PM PST Drone footage shows extent of flooding in New Zealand's South Island. Southland, on the southernmost tip, has become cut off after floodwaters washed away roads. Two thousand people have needed evacuation amid storms that forced the MetService to issue their first ever red weather warning Continue reading... |
| Iowa Democrats apologise for caucus counting problems – video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 03:52 PM PST The Democratic party in Iowa has apologised after it failed to reveal results from the Iowa caucuses. The system for reporting the votes failed to function, while a back-up telephone line also jammed, leading to no declaration of a winner despite the campaign moving on to New Hampshire Continue reading... |
| Senate leaders make speeches before final vote – video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 02:47 PM PST Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell called for senators to 'vote to reject the House abuse of power' during a speech on Tuesday 4 February before a final vote scheduled for Wednesday afternoon on whether to convict Donald Trump. Democratic minority leader Chuck Schumer said that 'the Republicans refused to get the evidence because they were afraid of what it would show'. Continue reading... |
| Joe Biden heckled on campaign trail in New Hampshire – video Posted: 04 Feb 2020 12:19 PM PST The Democratic presidential candidate said he had had a good night in Iowa and was expecting good results from the caucus. Biden held his speech at a 'get out and vote' event, where he was suddenly heckled by at least one member of the audience who was escorted away as supporters shouted 'get out' Continue reading... |
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