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- Biden inauguration: Trump expected to issue flurry of pardons before leaving office – live
- Calls grow abroad for release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny
- Coronavirus live news: Germany 'a long way from where we want to be,' says minister; 22,857 new cases in Russia
- Uighur campaigners to target 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics sponsors
- Chinese miners trapped by blast a week ago send note to rescuers
- NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’
- Palau's new president vows to stand up to 'bully' China
- Dominic Raab calls QC acting for Hong Kong government 'mercenary'
- Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space eight months after first flight
- Phil Spector, pop producer convicted of murder, dies aged 81
- Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid'
- NHS in most precarious position in its history, says chief executive
- Bolsonaro rival hails Covid vaccinations as 'triumph of science against denialists'
- Eurostar warns of 'risk to survival' without government help
- 'An unmitigated disaster': America's year of Covid
- Noel Clarke: 'Would I play Doctor Who? There's a conversation to be had'
- The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk
- New No 10 team take on Cummings' legacy of chaos and acrimony
- 'We need answers’: why are people living near Dutch goat farms getting sick?
- The Investigation: why my drama about Kim Wall doesn't name her killer
- 'It can unite a nation': Guardian TV writers on why the small screen has prevailed
- Doctor charged over stabbing of fellow plastic surgeon in Nottinghamshire
- G4S migrant workers 'forced to pay millions' in illegal fees for jobs
- Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source
- Scott Morrison suggests Donald Trump’s comments before US Capitol riot were ‘incredibly disappointing’
- 'We are worried': Indians hopeful but anxious as vaccination drive begins
- Bobi Wine's party to challenge Museveni’s Ugandan election victory
- Kremlin could try to keep Navalny locked away for years
- Merkel's successor faces uphill struggle to unite his party
- Alexei Navalny detained after arriving at airport on return to Russia – video
- Covid patients admitted to England hospitals 'every 30 seconds', says NHS chief – video
- All UK adults to get first Covid vaccine dose by September, says Raab – video
| Biden inauguration: Trump expected to issue flurry of pardons before leaving office – live Posted: 18 Jan 2021 02:43 AM PST
A secretive billionaire supporter of Josh Hawley and other rightwing lawmakers suggested he had been "deceived" by the Republican senator from Missouri, who led the effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. Jeffrey Yass is a co-founder of Susquehanna International Group – headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a critical swing state – who has donated tens of millions of dollars to hardline Republican groups who supported Donald Trump's effort to invalidate his defeat at the polls by Joe Biden. Related: Billionaire backer feels 'deceived' by Josh Hawley over election objections
As we build-up to the Biden-Harris administration taking power on Wednesday, we have an event today specifically looking at what the future holds for Kamala Harris. Harris is poised to become the first woman, the first Black and the first person of Asian descent to be inaugurated vice president of the US. As she steps into the White House, millions of voters responsible for her win are asking challenging questions: will she emerge as a brave and powerful voice for the nation's most vulnerable? Or will her embrace of the political center limit her impact? Continue reading... |
| Calls grow abroad for release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:17 AM PST Poisoned Russian opposition leader was detained on return to Moscow from Berlin on Sunday The arrest of Alexei Navalny has provoked condemnation around the world, as the US and Europe, as well as prominent activists including Edward Snowden, called for Russian authorities to release the opposition leader. Navalny was taken into custody on Sunday evening as he returned to Russia for the first time since a suspected poisoning by the FSB last year, risking his freedom in a direct challenge to the Kremlin. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 18 Jan 2021 02:41 AM PST German health minister says more needs to be done to bring virus under control despite falling cases; Russia reaches 3,591,066 cases
Singapore has urged workers at its national airline to help make it the world's first carrier with all staff vaccinated against Covid-19, with Singapore Airlines CEO Goh Phong Choon also encouraging employees to receive shots. Vaccinating Singapore's 37,000 frontline aviation and maritime staff is seen as key to reopening borders of the island-state, which is preparing to host events such as the World Economic Forum's annual meeting and the Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit in a few months' time.
Malawi is set to roll out a first set of anti-coronavirus restrictions this week, the president said, after overruling a court ban on lockdown measures to tackle a surge in cases. Daily life had been unfolding normally in the southern African country since its High Court barred the government from confining citizens to limit the spread of Covid-19, AFP reports. Continue reading... |
| Uighur campaigners to target 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics sponsors Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Activists will write to companies in bid to persuade them to use their influence with Chinese government Campaigners fighting against the persecution of Uighur Muslims in China are to target private companies sponsoring the Beijing Winter Olympics in an attempt to persuade them to use their influence with the Chinese government ahead of the 2022 event. Uighur campaigners in 10 different countries are coming together to write to companies asking them to use their platforms to educate and inform the world of the persecution under way in Xinjiang province. The first to be targeted is the chief executive officer of Airbnb, Brian Chesky. Continue reading... |
| Chinese miners trapped by blast a week ago send note to rescuers Posted: 17 Jan 2021 08:30 PM PST At least 12 of 22 gold miners survived the blast in eastern Shandong province, note sent to surface suggests Twelve workers trapped underground after an explosion at a gold mine in eastern China a week ago are still alive, according to a note retrieved from the site, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing local authorities. A total of 22 workers were trapped in the Hushan mine, in Shandong province, after the blast on 10 January. It was not until 30 hours later that the accident was reported, however, leading to severe criticism of those responsible and the sacking of two senior local officials. Continue reading... |
| NGOs demand action not promises as EU accused of ‘failing to protect seas’ Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:30 PM PST Environmental groups propose urgent plan to stop overfishing and safeguard marine life, as existing laws go unenforced A coalition of NGOs is calling for an urgent ban on destructive bottom trawling in EU marine protected areas, after the failure of member states to defend seas. The ban is part of a 10-point action plan to "raise the bar" to achieve biodiversity targets, which they say will not be met by current promises, such as last year's high-profile pledge by world leaders at the UN summit on biodiversity in New York to reverse nature loss by 2030. Continue reading... |
| Palau's new president vows to stand up to 'bully' China Posted: 17 Jan 2021 05:08 PM PST Former senator Surangel Whipps Jr promises to stand by allies US and Taiwan when he takes office on Thursday Palau's president-elect has vowed to stand up to Chinese "bullying" in the Pacific, and said the small archipelago nation will stand by its alliances with "true friends", the United States and Taiwan. Fifty-two-year-old Surangel Whipps Jr, a supermarket owner and two-time senator from a prominent Palauan family, will be sworn in as the new president on 21 January, succeeding his brother-in-law Tommy Remengesau Jr. Continue reading... |
| Dominic Raab calls QC acting for Hong Kong government 'mercenary' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:02 AM PST David Perry is giving China a PR coup by acting against pro-democracy activists, foreign secretary says David Perry QC, the barrister acting for the Hong Kong government in its efforts to jail pro-democracy activists, is behaving in "a pretty mercenary way" and providing the Chinese government with a PR coup, the foreign secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday. Perry has agreed to represent the Hong Kong government in prosecuting nine activists, including the media proprietor Jimmy Lai, arising from demonstrations in August 2019. The trial is due to begin next month. Continue reading... |
| Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reaches space eight months after first flight Posted: 17 Jan 2021 01:56 PM PST
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit reached space on Sunday, eight months after the first demonstration flight of its air-launched rocket system failed, the company said. Related: Virgin Orbit looks into cause of LauncherOne test failure Continue reading... |
| Phil Spector, pop producer convicted of murder, dies aged 81 Posted: 17 Jan 2021 08:32 AM PST Producer who revolutionised music in 1960s with his 'wall of sound' dies while serving sentence Phil Spector, the music producer behind some of pop music's biggest hits, has died aged 81 while serving a prison sentence for murder. Media reports said Spector, who had been sentenced to 19 years to life for murdering the actor Lana Clarkson, died after being diagnosed with Covid-19 four weeks ago. Continue reading... |
| Man found living in Chicago airport for three months 'due to fear of Covid' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 09:40 PM PST Aditya Singh allegedly stayed in secure area of O'Hare international airport after becoming too afraid to return home to California A man has been living in a secure section of Chicago's international airport for three months, apparently telling police he was too afraid of coronavirus to return home to Los Angeles, according to multiple reports. The 36-year-old man, Californian Aditya Singh, was arrested this weekend and charged with criminal trespass to a restricted area of an airport, a felony, and theft, a misdemeanour, the Chicago Tribune reported. Continue reading... |
| NHS in most precarious position in its history, says chief executive Posted: 17 Jan 2021 02:30 PM PST Hospitals and staff 'under extreme pressure', says Simon Stevens, as over-70s invited to get jabs from Monday Dealing with the deadly second wave of Covid has left the NHS in the most precarious position in its 72-year history, chief executive Sir Simon Stevens has warned, as ministers said they were aiming to get all adults in the UK vaccinated by September. The over-70s and clinically extremely vulnerable, who number more than 5.5 million nationwide, will be invited to receive the vaccine from Monday in areas where most of the first priority groups of care home residents and the over-80s have now had the jab. Continue reading... |
| Bolsonaro rival hails Covid vaccinations as 'triumph of science against denialists' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 04:31 PM PST São Paulo governor João Doria takes aim at Brazil's president after his state beat federal authorities to secure first coronavirus vaccines Brazil's first Covid-19 vaccine has been administered after more than 209,000 deaths, sparking an outpouring of emotion and a ferocious political skirmish that saw one of President Jair Bolsonaro's key rivals accuse him of revelling in the "stench of death". The China-made CoronaVac was injected into the arm of a frontline nurse in São Paulo at 3.30pm local time, after Brazil's health regulator approved the emergency use of vaccines produced by China's Sinovac and Oxford/AstraZeneca. Continue reading... |
| Eurostar warns of 'risk to survival' without government help Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:19 AM PST The cross-Channel train service has seen a 95% fall in passengers during the Covid-19 pandemic Eurostar has said it is facing an existential threat, as business leaders pleaded with the government to step in and save the "vital link" with Europe. A 95% drop in passenger numbers has brought the cross-Channel train service to its knees, and the company reiterated on Sunday that while government loans had been extended to aviation, international high-speed rail had also been severely affected by the pandemic. Continue reading... |
| 'An unmitigated disaster': America's year of Covid Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:00 PM PST On 20 January 2020, the US saw its first confirmed coronavirus case – the beginning of a tsunami of infection that Trump failed to properly address At around 5pm on 20 January 2020, Dr George Diaz received a call from the federal health protection agency, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), bearing alarming news. They had just logged a positive test for a new strain of coronavirus in a 35-year-old man who had recently returned to Washington state from Wuhan, China. CDC officials wanted to bring the patient in to Diaz's hospital, Providence Regional medical center in Everett, outside Seattle. Many people taking that call would have hit the panic button. The positive test was the first ever recorded in the US for this frightening new strain of disease. The virus was so novel it still had no name other than 2019-nCoV, and no one could say for sure how infectious it was, how it was transmitted and critically just how deadly it would prove to be. Continue reading... |
| Noel Clarke: 'Would I play Doctor Who? There's a conversation to be had' Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST He has played a pivotal role in bringing black drama to British screens – but Noel Clarke must still battle for recognition. As his hit cop show Bulletproof returns, he talks about fighting prejudice, returning to the Tardis – and saying no to America "I would love to stay out of the papers," says Noel Clarke. "I don't even like speaking to journalists." It's not what an interviewer wants to hear, but in this case it is understandable. Whether he's pointing out his omission from a movie poster, or simply finding himself the subject of an article about how the 45-year-old has maintained his six-pack, Clarke's name is never out of the headlines for long. His aversion to the press does perhaps explain why he has embraced social media – despite Clarke's belief that Twitter contains "the worst of humanity". "I love all the platforms I have, even if Twitter can be vile," he says. "I'm older and wiser now. You have to be really offensive or catch me on a bad day to get me to bite back. When I was younger I bit back all the time. People would review stuff and I'd be like, 'I'm coming in to find you.'" He laughs – although it's clear that though age might have calmed him, there's still much that he finds grating about the industry he works in. Continue reading... |
| The joy of steps: 20 ways to give purpose to your daily walk Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Has the novelty of a prescribed stroll long since worn off? From tracking animals to uncovering hidden history, here's how to discover a new world in your neighbourhood The weather is rubbish, there is nowhere to go and, bereft of the joys of spring, the daily lockdown walk can feel pointless. But, of course, it is not: the mental and physical health perks of exercise are immune to seasonal changes. We need to gallivant around outside in daylight so that our circadian rhythms can regulate sleep and alertness. (Yes, even when the sky is resolutely leaden, it is still technically daylight.) Walking warms you up, too; when you get back indoors, it will feel positively tropical. But if meeting these basic needs isn't enough to enthuse you, there are myriad ways to add purpose to your stride and draw your attention to the underappreciated joys of winter walking. Continue reading... |
| New No 10 team take on Cummings' legacy of chaos and acrimony Posted: 17 Jan 2021 10:00 PM PST Tories cautiously optimistic about Dan Rosenfield and Allegra Stratton, who want to press reset on PM's tenure A subtle signal was sent across Whitehall last week when Tom Scholar, once identified by aides loyal to Dominic Cummings as on the notorious "shit list" of senior civil servants, was reappointed as permanent secretary to the Treasury. It appeared that the war once waged against opinionated mandarins was over, and the threats of a revolution had left the building with Boris Johnson's senior aide. Continue reading... |
| 'We need answers’: why are people living near Dutch goat farms getting sick? Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:15 PM PST A decade after an outbreak of Q fever killed 95 people in the Netherlands, scientists fear the emergence of a new disease In early 2008, Jeannette van de Ven began to see a slightly higher rate of miscarriages among the goats on her dairy farm in the south of the Netherlands. Van de Ven, who keeps a herd of around 1,700 dairy goats in Noord-Brabant, a province densely populated with goat farms, kept sending samples. Finally, in May 2008 an outbreak of the respiratory infection Q fever was confirmed. It infects livestock including goats, sheep and cattle, and is found in placenta, amniotic fluid, urine, faeces and milk. |
| The Investigation: why my drama about Kim Wall doesn't name her killer Posted: 18 Jan 2021 12:00 AM PST Tobias Lindholm disliked the media circus that followed the murder of the journalist onboard a submarine in Denmark. Instead, his new series tells the story of the police, the divers and her family Had I known how demanding it would be to make my drama series The Investigation, I am not sure I would have done it. But I'm proud I did. Kim Wall was a Swedish journalist and her murder, onboard a submarine in Denmark in 2017, led to a media circus. The Danish press seized on it: there was an obsession with the darkness of what happened, with so many theories flying around. Much of the focus was on the perpetrator. All this made me turn away from the story. Knowing that I was a film-maker, parents I'd meet would say: "Wow, what a story – that would make a great movie." I thought: "Would it?" Here's a story we've heard many times before in fiction, revolving around a man who kills a woman. The name Kim Wall was barely mentioned by the press, compared with the name of the culprit. |
| 'It can unite a nation': Guardian TV writers on why the small screen has prevailed Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:30 PM PST As the art form has come into its own in Covid-19, our writers reflect on surprise hits, what readers are watching, and how it's evolving TV has traditionally been seen as one of the poorer arts. Derided as something that's on in between adverts, the prestige of the big screen simply didn't apply to its smaller cousin. But those boundaries and prejudices – already beginning to fragment before the pandemic – have been shattered during Covid-19. Continue reading... |
| Doctor charged over stabbing of fellow plastic surgeon in Nottinghamshire Posted: 18 Jan 2021 02:13 AM PST Jonathan Peter Brooks accused of attempted murder after break-in at home of Graeme Perks A doctor has been charged with attempting to murder a "highly regarded" fellow plastic surgeon who was stabbed at his home. Graeme Perks, 65, was seriously injured following a break-in at the property in Halam, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, on Thursday at about 4.15am. Continue reading... |
| G4S migrant workers 'forced to pay millions' in illegal fees for jobs Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:45 PM PST UK-based security firm faces calls to repay charges made by recruitment agents for jobs in Gulf states and conflict zones Migrant workers working for the British security company G4S in the United Arab Emirates have collectively been forced to pay millions of pounds in illegal fees to recruitment agents to secure their jobs, the Guardian can reveal. An investigation into G4S's recruitment practices has found that workers from south Asia and east Africa have been made to pay up to £1,775 to recruitment agents working for the British company in order to get jobs as security guards for G4S in the UAE. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Biden to cancel $9bn Keystone XL pipeline's permit, says source Posted: 18 Jan 2021 01:48 AM PST Rescinding permit is on list of executive actions thought to be scheduled for first day in office Joe Biden is planning to cancel the permit for the $9bn Keystone XL pipeline project as one of his first acts as president, perhaps as soon as his first day in office, according to a source familiar with his thinking. Donald Trump had made building the pipeline a central promise of his presidential campaign. Biden, who will be inaugurated on Wednesday, was vice-president in the Obama administration when it rejected the project as contrary to its efforts to combat the climate crisis. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:38 PM PST Australian prime minister laments 'things that were said' to encourage Capitol Hill mob but says it's not for him to lecture anybody The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, has suggested comments by Donald Trump that encouraged an insurrectionist mob to storm the US Capitol were "incredibly disappointing" and led to a "terrible" outcome. In his first media outing since returning from a week's holiday, Morrison distanced himself from the outgoing US president, noting the two weren't friends before he became prime minister. Continue reading... |
| 'We are worried': Indians hopeful but anxious as vaccination drive begins Posted: 17 Jan 2021 08:33 AM PST India launches bid to vaccinate 300m people amid fears over efficacy of domestically produced vaccine Emerging from Holy Family hospital in New Delhi, Ram Verma, a sanitation worker, breathed a deep sigh of relief. As one of the first in India to receive a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday – marking the start of the world's largest vaccination programmes – he had been feeling a little jittery. "I must admit I was nervous," said Verma, who had received his Covaxin jab in a centre set up in the hospital car park. "A lot of us were. I thought I might faint or have side-effects. After all, it is something totally new. But I'm fine. There is nothing to worry about." Continue reading... |
| Bobi Wine's party to challenge Museveni’s Ugandan election victory Posted: 17 Jan 2021 08:27 AM PST As opposition leader's home is surrounded by army and police he says he fears for his life The party of the Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine says it is preparing to challenge President Yoweri Museveni's election victory as it condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine and his wife. Amid growing international concern about the conduct of the election, Wine said in an interview from his house, where he is surrounded by army and police, that he was "worried about my life and the life of my wife". Continue reading... |
| Kremlin could try to keep Navalny locked away for years Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:11 AM PST What happens to Vladimir Putin's opponent after his arrest depends on what officials think they can get away with Since Alexei Navalny emerged as a top critic of Vladimir Putin more than a decade ago, the Kremlin has done its utmost to smother him: tying him up in courtrooms, locking him down under house arrest, and taking his brother as hostage by sentencing him to a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Finally, a decision appeared to have been taken to eliminate him when he was allegedly poisoned by Russia's FSB spy agency. With that operation a failure and Navalny defying the Kremlin to return to Moscow, Putin's dilemma remains what to do with one of his most stalwart and effective critics. Continue reading... |
| Merkel's successor faces uphill struggle to unite his party Posted: 17 Jan 2021 07:43 AM PST Analysis: centrist Armin Laschet, the new leader of Germany's CDU, will need to deliver on promises of reconciliation The election of Armin Laschet as the new leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union has been welcomed by those hoping for a smooth transition after the imminent departure of Angela Merkel from political leadership. But his detractors have warned he faces an uphill challenge to unite not just his party but also the country in the event that he becomes chancellor, at a time of national crisis and division. Laschet, who is now in line to succeed Merkel as chancellor after the parliamentary elections in September, secured victory at the weekend despite the odds having been on Friedrich Merz, a prominent conservative and investment banker. Norbert Röttgen, chair of the Bundestag foreign affairs committee, dropped out after the first round, prompting many of his supporters to back Laschet. The digital vote must still be confirmed by a postal ballot. Continue reading... |
| Alexei Navalny detained after arriving at airport on return to Russia – video Posted: 17 Jan 2021 11:07 AM PST Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been detained at Sheremetyevo airport on his return from treatment abroad after a suspected poisoning attempt by Russia's FSB spy agency. Navalny, whose investigations into corruption in Vladimir Putin's inner circle have angered the country's most powerful men, had vowed to return home despite signs that the Kremlin was preparing to arrest him Continue reading... |
| Covid patients admitted to England hospitals 'every 30 seconds', says NHS chief – video Posted: 17 Jan 2021 07:23 AM PST Speaking on BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, Sir Simon Stevens says the NHS has never been in a more precarious position. With 3.5m doses of the Covid vaccines being delivered by 16 January, Stevens said that meant the NHS was vaccinating four times faster than people were newly catching coronavirus Continue reading... |
| All UK adults to get first Covid vaccine dose by September, says Raab – video Posted: 17 Jan 2021 04:17 AM PST The foreign secretary has said every adult in the UK will be offered a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine by September. In an interview on Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday, Raab said he hoped that by the early spring, some restrictions could be lifted gradually so the country could 'get back to normal'. He added that people arriving in the UK could be asked to stay in quarantine hotels under plans being considered by ministers Continue reading... |
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