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- Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee
- Prince Harry thought he was talking to Greta Thunberg, Russian pranksters claim
- Trump's travel ban won't have much impact on spread of coronavirus, says Rishi Sunak - live news
- Greece warned by EU it must uphold the right to asylum
- Chelsea Manning hospitalized after suicide attempt, legal team say
- Wastewater tests suggest drop in cocaine use in London
- Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak
- Peruvian leader appeals to watchdog over 'terrible harm' caused by oil firm
- Xbox Series X to be unveiled online after E3 cancellation
- 'It's a fun movie, I promise': behind the elites v 'deplorables' thriller The Hunt
- Coronavirus live updates: Trump suspends all travel from Europe to US for 30 days, excluding UK
- Rocket attack on Iraq base leaves two Americans and one UK soldier dead
- Zambians brace for water shortage despite recent rainfall
- Detroit to turn water back on for poor families over Covid-19 fears
- Russian hoax raises questions over Sussexes' security
- Japan must prepare for possibility of Olympics being cancelled, says senior MP
- Sydney writers' festival 2020: Bernadine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo and Anna Weiner announced
- UN under fire over choice of ‘corporate puppet’ as envoy at key food summit
- Vulnerable prisoners 'exploited' to make coronavirus masks and hand gel
- Advice from a country with regular shortages: stop hoarding toilet paper, get ready for boredom | Dan McGarry
- Sanders stays, so his movement can live on by dragging Biden leftward
- What is a pandemic?
- Millions of Democratic votes were lost in the primaries. Is this the fix? | Mohit Nair and Colin Cole
- Trump announces travel ban from Europe to the US in bid to stem coronavirus – video
- Sanders stays in race and looks forward to debating Biden in Arizona – video
- Harvey Weinstein: how a Hollywood mogul was undone – video explainer
- Coronavirus outbreak described by WHO as 'pandemic' amid 'alarming levels of inaction' – video
- Italy coronavirus lockdown leaves streets deserted – in pictures
| Internet 'is not working for women and girls', says Berners-Lee Posted: 11 Mar 2020 05:01 PM PDT Inventor of world wide web calls for urgent action to make cyberspace safer for women and girls Women and girls face a "growing crisis" of online harms, with sexual harassment, threatening messages and discrimination making the web an unsafe place to be, Sir Tim Berners-Lee has warned. The inventor of the world wide web said the "dangerous trend" in online abuse was forcing women out of jobs, causing girls to skip school, damaging relationships and silencing female opinions, prompting him to conclude that "the web is not working for women and girls". Continue reading... |
| Prince Harry thought he was talking to Greta Thunberg, Russian pranksters claim Posted: 12 Mar 2020 02:54 AM PDT Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov's account of hoax highlights lapse in security and screening The Duke of Sussex gave Russian hoaxers his personal email and phone number and even rang them back on his mobile, it has been claimed. Prince Harry responded to an email sent by Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who told the Sun that none of his advisers checked if they were genuine. Continue reading... |
| Trump's travel ban won't have much impact on spread of coronavirus, says Rishi Sunak - live news Posted: 12 Mar 2020 03:28 AM PDT Rolling coverage of the day's political developments as they happen
Here are the main points from Rishi Sunak's morning interview round. The US is still deciding the details of what exactly that means, but you are right. As I talked about yesterday, there will be an impact on the demand side of our economy as people are unable to spend in the way they normally would and travel, but it also affects the supply chains for businesses and that impacts the supply side of our economy. As those supply chains are disrupted, the productive capacity of our economy will shrink for a period of time. I make absolutely no apology for responding in the short term in scale to the immediate threat that we face from coronavirus. I think that's the right thing to do for the economy, we need to help businesses have a bridge to get to the other side. There is no permanent leader of the opposition at the moment. They're having a leadership contest, so we can' formally start that process until they have one. For those that don't [have access to statutory sick pay] we've strengthened the working of our welfare system so that it works quicker, more responsibly and more generously for those people. We have strengthened our safety net to make sure we have access to benefits easier, quicker, more generously, and also provided an extra £500m to local authorities to distribute to vulnerable people and their local communities if they need extra support. This is a safety net. That is what it's there for, to provide people to fall back on. It's obviously not the same as your day to day life Because what we've done on business rates is target the sectors of the economy which are in the consumption side of the economy, which will see a very significant hit because of people's inability to spend. And what we wanted to do is make sure that they don't go out of business during that period of time. You have to make a judgment about the persistence of low interest rates, that's a judgment I have to make as chancellor. The reality is these interest rates have stayed lower for longer than anyone expected and keep falling, and it's right that I as someone in charge of managing our public finances has a view on that.
Stock markets around the wall are down following President Trump's travel ban announcement. My colleague Graeme Wearden the all the details on his business live blog. Related: Stock markets tumble as Trump's Europe travel ban shocks investors - business live Continue reading... |
| Greece warned by EU it must uphold the right to asylum Posted: 11 Mar 2020 10:00 PM PDT Leaders from Brussels travel to Athens for talks on the migrant crisis at the EU's borders
Ylva Johansson, EU commissioner for home affairs, said she wanted to discuss a detention centre where asylum seekers were reported to have been captured and beaten, before being expelled from Greece without the chance to speak to a lawyer or claim asylum. Continue reading... |
| Chelsea Manning hospitalized after suicide attempt, legal team say Posted: 11 Mar 2020 07:22 PM PDT The former intelligence analyst, who has been jailed for refusing to testify in WikiLeaks investigation, is 'safe' and 'recovering' Chelsea Manning's legal team said that the former intelligence analyst had tried to take her own life on Wednesday but was transported to a hospital where she was recovering. The Alexandria sheriff, Dana Lawhorne, said: "There was an incident at approximately 12.11pm today at the Alexandria adult detention center involving inmate Chelsea Manning. It was handled appropriately by our professional staff and Ms Manning is safe." Continue reading... |
| Wastewater tests suggest drop in cocaine use in London Posted: 12 Mar 2020 03:23 AM PDT Concentration of drug in city's sewers may have fallen by almost a third over three years The concentration of cocaine in London's sewers may have fallen by almost a third over three years, new research has suggested. Wastewater tests taken over a week in April 2019, published by the EU's drugs agency on Thursday, appeared to indicate a drop in consumption in the capital. The study's lead researcher, Dr Leon Barron, from King's College, said the cocaine market in the city may have begun to be saturated. However, he noted tests at other times of the year could have delivered different results and urged caution in extrapolating his findings. Continue reading... |
| Super-rich jet off to disaster bunkers amid coronavirus outbreak Posted: 11 Mar 2020 12:50 PM PDT 'Self isolate' for some of world's richest means Covid-19 tests abroad, personal medics and subterranean hideouts
Like hundreds of thousands of people across the world, the super-rich are preparing to self-isolate in the face of an escalation in the coronavirus crisis. But their plans extend far beyond stocking up on hand sanitiser and TV boxsets. The world's richest people are chartering private jets to set off for holiday homes or specially prepared disaster bunkers in countries that, so far, appear to have avoided the worst of the Covid-19 outbreak. Continue reading... |
| Peruvian leader appeals to watchdog over 'terrible harm' caused by oil firm Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:00 PM PDT Chief representative of Quechua communities in north Peru urges OECD to support battle against 'the tainting of land and rivers' An Amazonian leader has travelled from Peru to the Netherlands to lodge a complaint with the global trade watchdog about an Amsterdam-based oil firm, demanding that the company clean up decades of pollution from his people's lands. . Aurelio Chino has accused Pluspetrol of using "letterbox" holding companies in tax havens like the Netherlands to avoid paying taxes in developing countries such as Peru. Continue reading... |
| Xbox Series X to be unveiled online after E3 cancellation Posted: 12 Mar 2020 01:48 AM PDT Cancellation of LA games convention over coronavirus fears leaves Microsoft hastily redrawing plans to promote new console Microsoft will unveil its Xbox Series X console via an online event in June after it has been confirmed that the major games conference E3 has been cancelled. The launch was set to be a major feature of the annual Los Angeles convention, which attracts 65,000 visitors a year and broadcasts press events to millions worldwide. On Wednesday, the event's organiser, the Electronic Entertainment Association announced on its website that E3 2020 would not be taking place due to concerns over the coronavirus. Continue reading... |
| 'It's a fun movie, I promise': behind the elites v 'deplorables' thriller The Hunt Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:10 PM PDT The director of the controversial film about liberals hunting Trump voters talks intention, assumptions and how it feels when the president tweets about you "I certainly didn't make the movie to try and gin up controversy," said Craig Zobel, director of the most controversial movie of not only this year but last year as well, a potato so hot that it was briefly deemed untouchable. The Hunt, a schlocky thriller that also happens to be a broad satire on political extremism in the US, was originally scheduled for release last September, but after the Dayton and El Paso shootings the month before, it faced an uncertain future. Related: The Hunt review – gory Trump-baiting satire is more hype than horror Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live updates: Trump suspends all travel from Europe to US for 30 days, excluding UK Posted: 12 Mar 2020 03:27 AM PDT Global recession fears intensify; Tom Hanks tests positive in Australia; NBA basketball season suspended indefinitely. Follow the latest.
The chief medical officers from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern have instructed doctors to change the way they work to deal with "very abnormal emergency situation". In a letter they warned that the expected epidemic will be a "challenge" and exacerbate staff shortages in the NHS. As COVID-19 puts pressure on services doctors will have to work differently for their patients. The UK CMOs, medical director NHS, Royal Colleges and GMC are clear that in emergencies doctors must be supported to work in new and unfamiliar ways. This letter is for all doctors. pic.twitter.com/jDVvZR0iLs
Ireland's caretaker taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, is due to meet Donald Trump in the Oval Office this morning, the first meeting with an EU leader since the president's travel ban announcement. Continue reading... |
| Rocket attack on Iraq base leaves two Americans and one UK soldier dead Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:40 PM PDT
Two Americans and a British soldier are reported to have been killed and 12 others injured by a rocket attack on a coalition base in Iraq, according to US defence officials. Within hours airstrikes were reported on an area of the Iraqi-Syrian border used as a base by an Iran-backed militia, raising fears of a fresh round of US-Iranian escalation that brought the countries close to war in January. Continue reading... |
| Zambians brace for water shortage despite recent rainfall Posted: 12 Mar 2020 03:00 AM PDT World's largest artificial lake drops by six metres in three years after lengthy drought Zambia is facing severe water and electricity shortages after a lengthy drought, with reservoir levels remaining worryingly low despite recent rains. Water levels in Lake Kariba, the world's largest artificial lake at more than 5,500 sq km, have dropped by six metres in the past three years. Continue reading... |
| Detroit to turn water back on for poor families over Covid-19 fears Posted: 12 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PDT Water to be temporarily restored to thousands who had service disconnected due to unpaid bills amid public health outcry Running water will be temporarily restored to thousands of poor Detroit residents disconnected due to unpaid bills, amid an outcry about the public health threat posed by the coronavirus outbreak. At least 141,000 Detroit households have been disconnected since 2014 as part of a widely condemned debt-collection programme, according to records obtained by Bridge, a news magazine. Just last year, taps were turned off in more than 23,000 homes, three-fifths of which were still without water by mid-January 2020. Continue reading... |
| Russian hoax raises questions over Sussexes' security Posted: 11 Mar 2020 01:11 PM PDT Royal expert sounds alarm after Prince Harry seemingly duped into thinking he was talking to Greta Thunberg Russian hoaxers who apparently tricked Prince Harry into offering help to take penguins to the North Pole have raised serious questions over security and screening measures for the Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they leave the royal fold, a royal expert said. Pretending to be putting through the Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and her father, Svante, hoaxers Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov managed to reach Harry on his landline at his rented Vancouver Island mansion on New Year's Eve and on 22 January, it has been reported. Continue reading... |
| Japan must prepare for possibility of Olympics being cancelled, says senior MP Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:33 PM PDT Former Japanese defence minister says officials must 'start thinking now about what to do' if Covid-19 leads to delay or cancellation A senior member of Japan's governing party has said Tokyo 2020 Olympics organisers must plan for the possibility that this summer's Games will be postponed or cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, as the city's governor insisted they would go ahead as scheduled. Shigeru Ishiba, a former defence minister who has been tipped as the country's next leader, said any decision on the Games' fate should be left to the International Olympic Committee [IOC], a day after an organising committee official suggested the Olympics could be postponed. Continue reading... |
| Sydney writers' festival 2020: Bernadine Evaristo, Lisa Taddeo and Anna Weiner announced Posted: 12 Mar 2020 02:00 AM PDT Themed around the Doomsday Clock, writers Anna Weiner, Daniel Lavery, Bruce Pascoe and Leslie Jamison will also be appearing The 2019 Booker prizewinner, Bernardine Evaristo, Three Women author Lisa Taddeo and essayist Leslie Jamison are among the Sydney Writers festival lineup, which was announced on Thursday evening. Joshua Wong – a student activist who played a pivotal role in pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong – will be appearing via video link. The program also features Uncanny Valley author Anna Weiner; The Blazing World and Memories of the Future author Siri Hustvedt; Dark Emu author Bruce Pascoe; and Australian actor Yael Stone. Continue reading... |
| UN under fire over choice of ‘corporate puppet’ as envoy at key food summit Posted: 12 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PDT Organisation accused of kowtowing to big business by appointing former Rwandan agriculture minister with links to agro-industry A global summit on food security is at risk of being dominated by big business at the expense of farmers and social movements, according to the UN's former food expert. Olivier De Schutter, the former UN special rapporteur on the right to food, said food security groups around the world had expressed misgivings about the UN food systems summit, which is due to take place in 2021 and could be crucial to making agriculture more sustainable. Continue reading... |
| Vulnerable prisoners 'exploited' to make coronavirus masks and hand gel Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:26 PM PDT Inmates making masks and hand sanitiser to ease shortages are among most vulnerable to Covid-19, prison reformers warn Prison labour is being used to shore up supplies of face masks and hand gels in Hong Kong and the USA as campaigners warn that inmates are among the most vulnerable to Covid-19 infections. Women inmates at the Lo Wu prison in Hong Kong have reportedly been asked to work night shifts to make 2.5m face masks a month after a huge rise in demand according to Reuters. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:50 PM PDT In Vanuatu, where cyclones regularly interrupt trade, we are watching the west's collective panic with bemusement I've lived in the south Pacific island nation of Vanuatu for 16 years. Tropical weather regularly interrupts trade. Even when they're hundreds of kilometres away, cyclones wreak havoc on shipping. Isolation and deprivation define our lives. We know better than most how to cope. So imagine our bemusement when we see ranks of empty shelves in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA, denuded by people who pretty clearly have never dealt with a shortage before. Continue reading... |
| Sanders stays, so his movement can live on by dragging Biden leftward Posted: 11 Mar 2020 11:25 AM PDT Bernie Sanders vowed to attend the upcoming Democratic debate after a string of primary losses, and posed questions for his rival From his hometown of Burlington, Vermont, Bernie Sanders got up to speak on Wednesday afternoon, after a disappointing night of watching the results from Tuesday's primaries roll in. Would he stay or would he go? For now, he stays, determined to fight on and try to drag the Democratic frontrunner, Joe Biden, to the left, so that even as Sanders' race effectively peters out, his movement goes on. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 09:59 AM PDT The WHO has declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a pandemic. But what does that mean? Declaring a pandemic has nothing to do with changes to the characteristics of a disease, but is instead associated with concerns over its geographic spread. According to the World Health Organization, a pandemic is declared when a new disease for which people do not have immunity spreads around the world beyond expectations. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 11 Mar 2020 09:07 AM PDT Americans who vote early may 'waste' their vote on candidates who drop out of the race. There's an easy way to remedy that Across the country, millions of voters turned in early ballots for the US presidential primary elections, often voting for candidates no longer in the race on election day. In Colorado and Texas, early voters for candidates other than Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders might have made a statement, but they didn't have the chance to influence the primary election. Some of the estimated 20% of Californians who voted early asked for a do-over. In Minnesota, 40,000 people had reportedly cast their ballots a week before Super Tuesday – and days before Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar dropped out. Continue reading... |
| Trump announces travel ban from Europe to the US in bid to stem coronavirus – video Posted: 11 Mar 2020 07:00 PM PDT US president Donald Trump has announced a ban on travellers to the United States from Europe during a televised address to the nation. The ban will be in place for the next 30 days in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus Continue reading... |
| Sanders stays in race and looks forward to debating Biden in Arizona – video Posted: 11 Mar 2020 04:40 PM PDT Bernie Sanders will stay in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination despite suffering a series of sweeping losses to Joe Biden, saying on Wednesday he looked forward to a debate with the former vice-president on Sunday. Sanders acknowledged he was falling behind Biden in the count of delegates needed to win the nomination, but he said he was committed to the overarching goal of defeating Donald Trump in November's general election Continue reading... |
| Harvey Weinstein: how a Hollywood mogul was undone – video explainer Posted: 11 Mar 2020 10:48 AM PDT Harvey Weinstein, the titan of Hollywood turned convicted rapist, has been sentenced to 23 years in prison. In February 2020, a New York jury found Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault against two women who had hoped he could help build their careers. The Guardian's Ed Pilkington looks back at how the disgraced producer was able to operate above the law for decades, and what the verdict means for the #MeToo movement and his dozens of accusers. In the US, Rainn offers support at 800-656-4673 or by chat at Rainn.org. In the UK, the rape crisis national freephone helpline is at 0808-802-9999. In Australia, support is available at 1800Respect (1800-737-7328) or 1800respect.org.au. Other international helplines can be found at Ibiblio.org
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| Coronavirus outbreak described by WHO as 'pandemic' amid 'alarming levels of inaction' – video Posted: 11 Mar 2020 10:13 AM PDT The World Health Organization has described the outbreak of the new coronavirus as a pandemic. WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: 'We are deeply concerned both by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alarming levels of inaction. We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterised as a pandemic.' Continue reading... |
| Italy coronavirus lockdown leaves streets deserted – in pictures Posted: 11 Mar 2020 02:41 AM PDT The Italian government has imposed a nationwide lockdown in an effort to tackle the world's worst coronavirus outbreak outside of China. Movements in and out of cities are severely restricted, and streets that are usually busy with life and traffic are almost empty Continue reading... |
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