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Coronavirus live news: Morocco opens field hospital for hundreds of patients after spike in cases
Global report: Trump says he ordered coronavirus testing to 'slow down'
Hunger, violence, cramped housing: lockdown life for the poorest children
Covid 'testing inequality' to widen divide between UK rich and poor
Donald Trump sows division and promises 'greatness' at Tulsa rally flop
Reading stabbings: murder inquiry launched after three killed in rampage
September reshuffle expected in effort to stem faltering Tory poll ratings
Exclusive: Saudi dissident warned by Canadian police he is a target
US-Russia nuclear disarmament talks to begin, but no sign of China joining in
Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?
Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheets to slow melting
Britain still failing on climate crisis, warn advisers
Home Office 'uses racial bias' when detaining immigrants
Kurt Cobain ‘MTV Unplugged in New York’ guitar sells for $6m
The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump
Dutch government under growing pressure to take in child refugees
Nigerian scholar calls for halt to auction of sacred Igbo artworks
Seattle's activist-occupied zone is just the latest in a long history of movements and protests
Victoria to extend state of emergency for four more weeks after spike in Covid-19 cases
'My life became a disaster movie': the Bangladesh garment factory on the brink
‘We are facing extermination’: Brazil losing a generation of indigenous leaders to Covid-19
Surviving on a bag of rice: plight of Bangladeshi garment makers
Coronavirus in England: are cases falling or rising near you?
The UK film industry has to change. It's blatant racism | Steve McQueen
Trump calls coronavirus 'kung flu' and says he slowed testing – video
'The pandemic is accelerating': WHO warns of dangerous coronavirus phase – video
Protesters topple statue of Confederate general in Washington DC – video

Coronavirus live news: Morocco opens field hospital for hundreds of patients after spike in cases

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:28 AM PDT

New hospital will receive around 700 patients from Sunday; Chile deaths rise to more than 7,000; six on Trump campaign test positive ahead of rally

10.28am BST

The former Bangladesh cricket captain and two other players revealed they have tested positive for coronavirus.

Mashrafe Mortaza, who stepped down as the one-day international captain in March but remains available for selection, is also a member of parliament, and has been actively supporting people in Bangladesh during the pandemic.

10.19am BST

Saudi Arabia is set to launch a tourism development fund with an initial capital investment of $4 billion, the ministry of tourism has said.

The fund will work with private and investment banks to develop the sector.

Global report: Trump says he ordered coronavirus testing to 'slow down'

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:00 PM PDT

Testing a 'double-edged sword', says Trump; Chile death toll nearly doubles; Australian state 'absolutely at risk' of second peak

Donald Trump told thousands of supporters on Saturday that he had asked US officials to slow down testing for Covid-19 because case numbers in the country were rising so rapidly.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the US president used racist language, referring to Covid-19 as "kung flu", and described testing for the virus as a "double-edged sword" because it led to the identification of more cases.

Hunger, violence, cramped housing: lockdown life for the poorest children

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:17 PM PDT

Many families are enduring terrible hardship, and campaigners fear long-term consequences for the most vulnerable in society

"Before Covid, my three children and I had structure. We would wake up in the morning, they would go to school and do their thing, and I would do mine. We had joy," says Vicky (not her real name), a single parent living in one of the most disadvantaged boroughs in the country, in south London.

The capital has the highest rate of child poverty in any English region – more than 700,000 children, and 43% of children in inner London. Over the past five years, child poverty has risen in every London borough, in part because of the capital's uniquely high housing, childcare and living costs, as well as low pay (72% of children in poverty are in working households) and the impact of £39bn cut nationally from the benefit system since 2010. Then, in March, came Covid-19 and lockdown, deepening and accelerating deprivation across the UK, increasing rates of child abuse, mental ill-health and domestic violence.

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Covid 'testing inequality' to widen divide between UK rich and poor

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:10 PM PDT

Campaigners want affordable kits for all but health experts doubt efficacy of a mass exercise

A new divide is opening up between the "haves" and the "have nots" – this time over Covid-19 testing. While private schools and big businesses have introduced testing for their pupils and employees, allowing them to return to school and work, state schools and small businesses will be left to rely on the state. Campaigners warn that "testing inequality" could fuel greater financial inequality.

Financial giants, such as Credit Suisse, have introduced antibody testing for their employees, while the Premier League restarted its season last week, thanks to rapid antigen testing of players and backroom staff. Ocado bought 100,000 testing kits for its staff when lockdown began and some private schools intend to use testing as part of their plan to get all children back into classrooms at the start of the next academic year.

Donald Trump sows division and promises 'greatness' at Tulsa rally flop

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 08:21 PM PDT

US president's much hyped return turned to humiliation when he failed to fill arena in Republican stronghold of Oklahoma

Donald Trump declared "the silent majority is stronger than ever before" at his comeback rally on Saturday, but thousands of empty seats appeared to tell a different story.

The US president's much hyped return to the campaign trail turned to humiliation when he failed to fill a 19,000-capacity arena in the Republican stronghold of Oklahoma, raising fresh doubts about his chances of winning re-election.

Reading stabbings: murder inquiry launched after three killed in rampage

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:57 AM PDT

Police arrest one man at scene and are not looking for anyone else over attack that they are not currently treating as a terrorism incident

Three people have died and another three have been seriously injured after a stabbing attack on Saturday night in Reading, police have confirmed.

A 25-year-old man from Reading, about 40 miles west of London, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder and is in custody, Thames Valley police said. They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the incident.

September reshuffle expected in effort to stem faltering Tory poll ratings

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:13 PM PDT

Backbenchers and party activists are unimpressed by U-turns and dithering as public support continues to fall

Ministers are expecting a wide-ranging government reshuffle in September in which Boris Johnson will sack key figures who are judged to have underperformed in the Covid-19 crisis.

Cabinet sources said the move was now seen as inevitable. They believe sweeping changes will be made in an attempt to defuse mounting discontent on the Tory backbenches following a stream of U-turns and a fall in the party's poll ratings.

Exclusive: Saudi dissident warned by Canadian police he is a target

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:30 PM PDT

Omar Abdulaziz, who was close to murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi, told of threat posed by Saudi Arabia

A prominent Saudi dissident who is living in exile in Canada said he was recently warned by Canadian authorities that he was a "potential target" of Saudi Arabia and that he needed to take precautions to protect himself.

Omar Abdulaziz, a 29-year-old activist who had a close association with Jamal Khashoggi, the murdered Washington Post journalist, told the Guardian that he believed he was facing a threat to his safety and that the Canadians had credible information about a possible plan to harm him.

US-Russia nuclear disarmament talks to begin, but no sign of China joining in

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:37 AM PDT

Uncertainty surrounds the talks slated to begin in Vienna on Monday, with the US desperate to get China to the table

The US and Russia will restart talks about their nuclear arsenals on Monday after a break of more than a year and uncertainty over whether Donald Trump is interested in salvaging arms control in the last four months before elections.

Trump's new US arms control envoy, Marshall Billingslea will lead a delegation to meet the Russian deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov in Vienna, and has also asked for Beijing to send a representative.

Xi plays tough, but can China afford to make an enemy of India?

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 01:21 AM PDT

The brutal ambush in the Himalayas is the latest aggressive move from Beijing by a nation battling crises on several fronts

The ambush set up by Chinese soldiers for an Indian patrol was medieval. In the high-altitude Himalayan no man's land claimed by both countries, their forces have agreed not to carry guns, to diminish the chance of the long-running territorial dispute flaring into open war.

So the People's Liberation Army had dammed up mountain streams, which they unblocked as the Indian troops approached. The rush of water knocked many off their feet, and then the Chinese soldiers swept down, brandishing sticks encrusted with nails, Indian media reported.

Italian team covers glacier with giant white sheets to slow melting

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 07:05 PM PDT

Every summer, the Presena glacier in northern Italy is protected from the sun with huge reflective tarps

A vast tarpaulin unravels, gathering speed as it bounces down the glacier over glinting snow. Summer is here and the alpine ice is being protected from global warming.

In northern Italy, the Presena glacier has lost more than one third of its volume since 1993.

Britain still failing on climate crisis, warn advisers

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:23 AM PDT

Committee urges that companies must meet green standards to qualify for Covid-19 corporate bailouts

Ministers are bracing themselves for a powerful new rebuke from the government's own advisers over the nation's inadequate response to the climate crisis. In its annual progress report, to be published on Thursday, the Committee on Climate Change will lambast continuing failures by the government to tackle the issues of overheating homes, flash floods, loss of biodiversity and the other threats posed as our planet continues to overheat dangerously.

Last year, the committee complained that no areas of the UK's response to the climate crisis were being tackled properly. "The whole thing is run by the government like a Dad's Army," said the committee's chairman, Lord Deben.

Home Office 'uses racial bias' when detaining immigrants

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:24 PM PDT

Pressure group claims disproportionate number of black people held for longer periods to 'reduce black and brown migration to UK'

Black people are detained significantly longer than white people inside the UK's immigration detention system, prompting fresh claims of "institutional racism".

Although the Home Office does not record ethnicity data for detainees, analysis of nationalities of those recently held within the immigration detention estate found that citizens from countries with predominantly black and brown populations are held for substantially longer periods than those from predominantly white countries.

Kurt Cobain ‘MTV Unplugged in New York’ guitar sells for $6m

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 10:17 PM PDT

Nirvana frontman's 1959 Martin D-18E sold to Australian who will put it on tour, with proceeds going to help struggling artists

The guitar used by Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain during the band's famous MTV Unplugged in New York concert has sold for more than $6m (£4.8m) at auction.

The 1959 Martin D-18E featured in the grunge group's performance in November 1993, five months before Cobain's death aged 27.

The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 11:00 PM PDT

The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be

John Bolton's near-600-page tome is the most damning written account by a Trump administration alumnus, the one that stands to haunt the president come November. In the author's judgment, "I don't think he's fit for office. I don't think he has the competence to carry out the job." Joe Biden couldn't say it better himself.

Dutch government under growing pressure to take in child refugees

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:32 AM PDT

Protests call for coalition to admit 500 unaccompanied minors from Greek islands

They have gathered in city squares, parks and on piers with the water lapping at their feet. In silent, physically distanced protests, demonstrators stand 1.5 metres apart, some holding signs saying "WeesWelkom" (be welcome) and "500 Kinderen" (500 children).

Since April, protests have taken place across the Netherlands to lobby the Dutch government to take in 500 unaccompanied children living in squalid camps on the Greek islands.

Nigerian scholar calls for halt to auction of sacred Igbo artworks

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:04 AM PDT

Chika Okeke-Agulu says sale of sculptures removed during 1960s civil war 'perpetuates violence' of conflict

A prominent Igbo-Nigerian artist and academic has called for the cancellation of a forthcoming auction in Paris of two sacred sculptures taken out of Nigeria during its devastating civil war in the late 1960s.

Chika Okeke-Agulu, a professor of art history at Princeton University, said the sale of the Igbo objects – called alusi or "sacred sculptures" – at Christie's auction house later this month would "perpetuate the violence" of the conflict.

Seattle's activist-occupied zone is just the latest in a long history of movements and protests

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT

The community-controlled Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or 'Chop' has drawn nationwide attention, but the city's radical history goes back as far as 1919

The six blocks of occupied Seattle streets now known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest, or "Chop", have become a focal point of the nationwide anti-racist protests, eliciting both encouragement and concern.

But for this pacific north-west city, it is far from the first time in the radical spotlight.

Victoria to extend state of emergency for four more weeks after spike in Covid-19 cases

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:44 AM PDT

Queensland declares southern state a 'hotspot' while South Australia reconsiders decision to reopen its border

The Victorian government has announced it will extend its state of emergency for at least four more weeks and ramp up its police enforcement of lockdown rules after a spike in Covid-19 cases.

The surge has also prompted neighbouring South Australia to reconsider its decision to reopen its border, while Queensland has declared all of greater Melbourne a Covid-19 hotspot.

'My life became a disaster movie': the Bangladesh garment factory on the brink

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT

One factory owner tells how coronavirus cancellations by UK brands have seen him struggle to pay wages

As high streets across England opened this week and hundreds of people jostled through the doors of clothing shops, thousands of miles away in Chittagong, Bangladesh, Mostafiz Uddin is worrying about how to pay his workers' wages.

At Denim Expert Ltd, the sustainable clothing company he founded in 2009 as a sustainable apparels clothing company, hundreds of boxes of jeans are crammed against walls and packed to the ceiling. These boxes contain 38,000 pairs of Burton jeans, worth more than £200,000 that were ready for shipment in early March. But as the UK went into lockdown that month, an email pinged into his inbox that tore his life apart.

‘We are facing extermination’: Brazil losing a generation of indigenous leaders to Covid-19

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 02:00 AM PDT

Coronavirus has swept through tribes, killing elders – and inflicting irreparable damage on tribal history, culture and medicine

When Bep Karoti Xikrin fell ill with Covid-19, he refused to go to a hospital.

The 64-year-old chief of a Xikrin indigenous village in Brazil's Amazon was plagued by headaches and fatigue and struggled for breath. But according to his daughter Bekuoi Raquel, he was afraid that if he were admitted to hospital he might never return.

Surviving on a bag of rice: plight of Bangladeshi garment makers

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 05:00 AM PDT

Clothing factory workers in Bangladesh were hit twice by Covid-19, once when their factories closed, and again when global retailers cancelled orders

Nazmin Nahar, a 26-year-old garment worker and mother of two in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is living on borrowed rice. She hasn't had the wages to pay for food or rent for more than two months.

Even though the hours were long and the targets relentless, Nahar had been happy working at Magpie Knitwear, where she earned £150 a month, making clothes for UK brands such as Burton and H&M. Then, in late March, Bangladesh went into lockdown and the factory closed. When it reopened on 4 April, Nahar was told she had no job to go back to.

Coronavirus in England: are cases falling or rising near you?

Posted: 21 Jun 2020 12:57 AM PDT

How has Covid-19 progressed where you live?

The map shows local authorities where the number of cases has increased week-on-week and where it has fallen. Some of this is due to natural fluctuations, especially in areas where there are very few cases, and so a rise from 1 to 2 is a doubling. Increased testing also means that more cases may be being detected than previously, although the impact of this between one week and the next is likely to be slight.

The UK film industry has to change. It's blatant racism | Steve McQueen

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 12:00 PM PDT

The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave reflects on lack of diversity in TV and film and says now is the time for real change

Last year, I visited a TV-film set in London. It felt like I had walked out of one environment, the London I was surrounded by, into another, a place that was alien to me. I could not believe the whiteness of the set. I made three films in the States and it seems like nothing has really changed in the interim in Britain. The UK is so far behind in terms of representation, it's shameful.

My first film production in the UK in 12 years is Small Axe, six films commissioned by the BBC about black experience from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. We tried very hard on Small Axe: we created our own training scheme with one trainee per department. But, in terms of heads of departments, it was just myself and a couple of other people who were black British.

Trump calls coronavirus 'kung flu' and says he slowed testing – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 09:06 PM PDT

Donald Trump calls the coronavirus 'kung flu' and 'the Chinese virus' during a campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday night. The US president also tells the crowd that he had asked his people to slow down Covid-19 testing across the country because it would find more cases

'The pandemic is accelerating': WHO warns of dangerous coronavirus phase – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 05:42 AM PDT

The World Health Organization has announced the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating and more than 150,000 cases of Covid-19 were reported in one day on Thursday, the highest single-day number so far.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO director general, told reporters in Geneva refugees were particularly at risk from the pandemic and that nearly half of the newly reported cases were in the Americas, with significant numbers from South Asia and the Middle East

Protesters topple statue of Confederate general in Washington DC – video

Posted: 20 Jun 2020 04:08 AM PDT

Protesters in Washington DC climbed up a bronze statue of Brig Gen Albert Pike and brought it down with ropes before setting it alight on Friday. A US holiday known as Juneteenth that commemorates the end of slavery takes place every year on 19 June. Demonstrators took about an hour to fell the three-metre statue, as Juneteenth celebrations and anti-racist protests took place across the US. The police surrounded the area but did not appear to intervene

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