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- Trump trial shown disturbing footage of lawmakers 'hunted' by Capitol mob
- EU provided crowd control training to Myanmar police units
- Coronavirus live news: US could have prevented 40% of deaths; new China cases at five-month low
- Biden raises Taiwan and human rights with Xi Jinping in first phone call
- Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump party
- Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian after 'abhorrent' social media posts
- Biden orders sanctions on Myanmar generals as key Aung San Suu Kyi aide detained
- Salmon farming harming marine life and costing billions in damage
- Biden policies the same as Trumpism, says Iran's only presidential candidate
- Tokyo 2020 Olympics president expected to resign over sexist comments
- Pigs can be trained to use computer joysticks, say researchers
- 'Pure, liquid hope': what the vaccine means to me as a GP
- US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies
- ‘It’s impossible to pay’: the UK residents trapped overseas by quarantine rules
- Covid-19: love in lockdown – podcast
- 'It is so much bigger than Trayvon': how bereaved mother Sybrina Fulton fought back
- 'We are desperate for human contact': people breaking lockdown for sex
- I found peace in an unexpected corner of the internet: nun Twitter
- 10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Tom Ravenscroft's playlist
- Some people are on the pitch! Sports photos with a twist – in pictures
- Greek students at the barricades in dispute over education bill
- UK weather: temperature hits lowest level in decade after 'extreme freeze'
- President Sisi has destroyed Egyptians' hopes after they ended Mubarak's hellish reign | Amr Darrag
- Trump impeachment: Senate trial to hear second day of prosecution evidence – live updates
- Colombia to grant legal status to Venezuelan migrants
- Pandemic sends lunar new year trips in China plummetting by 74%
- Vales Point coal plant drops controversial bid for government funding
- ‘It’s as if there’s no Covid’: Nepal defies pandemic amid a broken economy
- Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state
- Trump impeachment: police bodycam footage shows Capitol attack – video
- Listen as a 17,000-year-old conch shell is played once more – video
- Trump impeachment: new footage shows Mike Pence and Mitt Romney fleeing Capitol attack – video
- Ursula von der Leyen admits failings in EU Covid vaccine rollout – video
- Hotel quarantine – too little too late? Politics Weekly podcast
| Trump trial shown disturbing footage of lawmakers 'hunted' by Capitol mob Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:10 PM PST
Democrats revealed disturbing new recordings of the mob attack on the US Capitol last month as they presented their case on Wednesday in the historic second impeachment trial of Donald Trump. House impeachment managers constructed a timeline which they said showed that the former president was "singularly responsible" for the deadly assault, which brought a violent mob within footsteps of the nation's political leaders. Continue reading... |
| EU provided crowd control training to Myanmar police units Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:08 AM PST Exclusive: units involved in violent crackdown worked with European police on controlling protests The European Union provided crowd-control training to specialist Myanmar police units alleged to have been involved in a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters, but claims it shared defensive techniques only due to concerns about possible human-rights abuses. European police have been working with their counterparts in Myanmar to develop a manual of crowd-control techniques as part of a wider EU support scheme called Mypol. The project, initiated in 2012, provided training and equipment to help modernise Myanmar's military-controlled police force along the lines of "international best practice and respect for human rights". Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus live news: US could have prevented 40% of deaths; new China cases at five-month low Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:28 AM PST Lancet commission review condemns Trump's virus response; Two masks 'substantially reduce expose US CDC says; cheap asthma drug appears to reduce risk of severe illness. Follow latest updates
The European Union could sign a supply deal with Novavax this week or next for the US company's Covid-19 vaccine candidate, two EU officials involved in the talks with the firm said. The EU concluded in December preliminary negotiations with Novavax for the supply of 100 million doses and an option for another 100 million, Reuters is reporting.
The EC have released their Winter 2021 Economic Forecast projecting that the euro area and EU economies are expected to reach their pre-crisis levels of output earlier than anticipated in the Autumn 2020 Economic Forecast, largely because of the stronger than expected growth momentum projected in the second half of 2021 and in 2022. The report anticipates the euro area economy will grow by 3.8% in both 2021 and 2022. The EU economy, it states, will grow by 3.7% in 2021 and 3.9% in 2022 Continue reading... |
| Biden raises Taiwan and human rights with Xi Jinping in first phone call Posted: 10 Feb 2021 08:11 PM PST The conversation came hours after the US president announced a new Pentagon taskforce on China Joe Biden has affirmed the US's tough line on China's human rights abuses and regional expansionism in his first phone call with president Xi Jinping since taking office. Xi defended China's policies as matters of sovereignty, but told the US leader confrontation would be "a disaster", and called for the two sides to re-establish the means to avoid misjudgments, according to state media. Continue reading... |
| Dozens of former Republican officials in talks to form anti-Trump party Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:44 AM PST Breakaway group would run on 'principled conservatism' platform, say those involved in discussions Dozens of former Republican officials who view the party as unwilling to stand up to Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine US democracy are in talks to form a centre-right breakaway party, four people involved in the discussions have said. The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, George W Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved told Reuters. Continue reading... |
| Gina Carano fired from The Mandalorian after 'abhorrent' social media posts Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:16 AM PST Lucasfilm has 'no plans' to work with the actor again on the Disney+ Star Wars series after she appeared to compare the treatment of Republicans in the US to that of Jews in Nazi Germany Gina Carano will not be returning to the Disney+ television series The Mandalorian, after Lucasfilm announced there were "no plans" for the actor to come back after her "abhorrent and unacceptable" posts on social media. The former mixed-martial-arts fighter and star of the films Deadpool and Haywire appeared to compare the treatment of Republicans in America to that of Jewish people in Nazi Germany. Carano, who played the bounty hunter Cara Dune in both seasons of the Star Wars spin-off, wrote in a post on Instagram that is no longer available: "Jews were beaten in the streets, not by Nazi soldiers but by their neighbours … even by children … Because history is edited, most people today don't realise that to get to the point where Nazi soldiers could easily round up thousands of Jews, the government first made their own neighbours hate them simply for being Jews. How is that any different from hating someone for their political views." Continue reading... |
| Biden orders sanctions on Myanmar generals as key Aung San Suu Kyi aide detained Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:54 PM PST US prevents generals from accessing $1bn in government funds as Kyaw Tint Swe held amid new wave of arrests US President Joe Biden has approved an executive order for new sanctions on those responsible for the military coup in Myanmar, as the army detained another key aide to civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Fresh protests took place on Thursday following days of demonstrations in major cities and towns inside Myanmar calling for the military to cede power following its 1 February coup. Continue reading... |
| Salmon farming harming marine life and costing billions in damage Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST Report says pollution, parasites and fish mortality rates cost an estimated $50bn globally from 2013 to 2019 Salmon farming is wreaking ruin on marine ecosystems, through pollution, parasites and high fish mortality rates which are causing billions of pounds a year in damage, a new assessment of the global salmon farming industry has found. Taken together, these costs amounted to about $50bn globally from 2013 to 2019, according to a report published on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Biden policies the same as Trumpism, says Iran's only presidential candidate Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Hossein Dehghan criticises continuing sanctions by US and says Tehran's approach to nuclear issue will change The only declared candidate in Iran's presidential elections this June has accused Joe Biden of continuing Donald Trump's international policies, and warned that Tehran is preparing retaliatory measures to force the US to change its diplomatic trajectory. In an interview with the Guardian, Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said Washington was not in a position to set preconditions for Iran's return to the 2015 nuclear deal and called for guarantees that the US will not leave the agreement again. Continue reading... |
| Tokyo 2020 Olympics president expected to resign over sexist comments Posted: 10 Feb 2021 08:29 PM PST Yoshiro Mori had insisted for days he would not quit but Japanese media say he will step down amid a growing tide of anger over his remarks The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee, Yoshiro Mori, is expected to resign after derogatory comments he made about women caused an international uproar less than six months before the Games are due to open. Mori, who has led the organising committee since 2014, will step down after insisting for days that he would not resign, the Fuji News Network reported on Thursday. Continue reading... |
| Pigs can be trained to use computer joysticks, say researchers Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:15 PM PST Study found pigs were able to move a cursor to hit a wall on a screen and earn a treat They've long been thought of as smarter than your average animal, but now researchers claim they have taught pigs to use a joystick, suggesting they are even cleverer than previously thought. Pigs have previously been found to be capable of a host of tasks, including solving multiple-choice puzzles, and learning commands such as "sit". Continue reading... |
| 'Pure, liquid hope': what the vaccine means to me as a GP Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST For almost a year our small clinic has been struggling with the horrors of the coronavirus pandemic. So being able to give our staff and most vulnerable patients their first doses of the vaccine has been a real turning point During the week I work in a small, inner-city GP practice in Edinburgh with 14 staff, caring for almost 4,000 patients. Before the pandemic, I used to see 25-30 people in face-to-face appointments every day. A year into the pandemic, the need out there is the same, but my GP colleagues and I manage more like five or six face-to-face (or mask-to-mask) consultations, a home visit or two, and the remainder on the phone or through video calls. It's not the best way to practise medicine, but for the moment, it's the best we have. The first I heard of the vaccine rollout was back in October, when our practice manager received an email from the health board asking if we would have capacity to vaccinate the over-80s among our patients. We said yes, of course: in the past year we've had four patients die of Covid-19, three of them over 80. Continue reading... |
| US could have averted 40% of Covid deaths, says panel examining Trump's policies Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:01 PM PST The country began the pandemic with a degraded public health infrastructure, leading to more deaths than other high-income countries The US could have averted 40% of the deaths from Covid-19, had the country's death rates corresponded with the rates in other high-income G7 countries, according to a Lancet commission tasked with assessing Donald Trump's health policy record. Almost 470,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far, with the number widely expected to go above half a million in the next few weeks. At the same time some 27 million people in the US have been infected. Both figures are by far the highest in the world. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s impossible to pay’: the UK residents trapped overseas by quarantine rules Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST With flights cancelled and travellers having to pay for hotel costs, three people talk about their difficulties returning to Britain With many flights cancelled, and travellers facing hotel quarantine costs of £1,750 to return from high-risk countries that come into effect on Monday, some British residents have become stuck overseas. Three people have spoken about the difficulties they face in returning to the UK, and the costs they may incur. Continue reading... |
| Covid-19: love in lockdown – podcast Posted: 11 Feb 2021 01:40 AM PST Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and for many couples this year will feel very different. Lockdowns, social distancing, and self-isolation have forced those in relationships to choose whether to be together all the time, or stay apart for potentially months on end. Linda Geddes speaks to Dr Deborah Bailey-Rodriguez about how couples have navigated their relationships during the pandemic Continue reading... |
| 'It is so much bigger than Trayvon': how bereaved mother Sybrina Fulton fought back Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:00 PM PST She had a joyful life before the killing of her teenage son, Trayvon Martin, in 2012. Since then, she has been determined to change laws and minds – as an activist, an author and by running for office Few people have acquired such a high-public profile as reluctantly as Sybrina Fulton. Before February 2012, she was content to be an anonymous Floridian, working for the Miami housing department and raising her two sons with her ex-husband, Tracy Martin. Then one of her sons, 17-year-old Trayvon, was shot and killed. Trayvon had been walking to his father's fiancee's house one evening, unarmed, minding his own business; an armed neighbourhood watch coordinator named George Zimmerman decided the teenager was acting suspiciously. Zimmerman called the police, and, against their advice, decided to follow Trayvon. Moments later, after a violent encounter, Trayvon was shot dead. Zimmerman claimed he had acted in self-defence. At the trial, five months later, he was found not guilty of second-degree murder. Continue reading... |
| 'We are desperate for human contact': people breaking lockdown for sex Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST For nearly 12 months, single people have been unable to form new relationships. With their chances to start a family or find love slipping away, many are now ignoring the rules Last summer, shortly after the first lockdown was relaxed enough to allow strangers to meet outdoors, Rosie, 35, an editor based in London, joined a man for a first date on Hampstead Heath. "He said: 'I brought some wine with me, but the glasses are in my flat, round the corner.' I'd only met him for an hour. Even in normal times, I wouldn't be up for that." She can't be entirely sure if he was suggesting an illicit drink or a very quick-off-the-bat shag, but it wasn't a dilemma, at least. "Maybe people's pheromones have gone funny," Rosie says, "or maybe I secretly have Covid and can't smell anyone properly, but I've had more smouldering frisson at the supermarket than I have on a date. I've had sex just four times since March." For nearly a year, give or take the odd month, the rules introduced to fight the spread of coronavirus mean that, in England, sex between single people, or established couples who don't cohabit, has in effect been either illegal, or against regulations, or only allowed outdoors. To give that a sense of scale, 40% of people – rising to 71% among 16- to 29-year-olds – don't live in a couple. Continue reading... |
| I found peace in an unexpected corner of the internet: nun Twitter Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Religious Twitter brings together nuns, monks, bishops and rabbis too and it may have something to teach us There is a Rumi poem – it is my favourite. "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing," writes the 13th-century mystic, "there is a field. I'll meet you there." I feel this way about religious Twitter. Continue reading... |
| 10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Tom Ravenscroft's playlist Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:30 PM PST From Sheffield to Tokyo via New York and rural France, the DJ recalls his adventures with friends and family – and the music that accompanied them We didn't travel as kids, partly because my dad hated flying and also because it was festival season and his job meant our summer holidays were spent being dragged off to muddy fields. It sounds like I'm complaining. I am a bit. This was long before it was commonplace to see kids at festival: we got cold, and drunk people pointed at us. On the odd occasion we went on "holiday", we were squashed into a car and driven around Europe with seemingly no real destination. We once drove all the way to Germany to see where our lawnmower was made. The only joy in these journeys were the mixtapes my dad would spend weeks painstakingly preparing for the journey. A few records for the kids and lots for him. Lonnie Donegan was one of the few tracks on there we all loved. Many years later we got to see him play the Glastonbury festival. I stood in awe. He did a weird amount of encores, double figures. Continue reading... |
| Some people are on the pitch! Sports photos with a twist – in pictures Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:00 PM PST Combining thousands of images, Pelle Cass's photographs of tennis, basketball and more perfectly evoke the chaos and physicality of sport Continue reading... |
| Greek students at the barricades in dispute over education bill Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:00 PM PST Government accused of taking law and order agenda to new heights with plans for campus police force Before the sun had risen over Thessaloniki on Wednesday, Stergios Grigoriou and his fellow students had surrounded the Greek metropolis's main university site and barricaded every entrance to it. The act of defiance was not a one-off. In a country where protest politics reign large, students are on a mission: to overturn a bill that, in the name of bringing order to unruly universities, foresees the creation of disciplinary councils and a special campus police force. "Our demand is simple. The educational bill has to be withdrawn," said Grigoriou. "It's a repressive law that far from serving our needs only serves the fake needs of a conservative few." Continue reading... |
| UK weather: temperature hits lowest level in decade after 'extreme freeze' Posted: 11 Feb 2021 12:23 AM PST Mercury drops to -21.4C in Scotland, the coldest temperature recorded in UK since December 2010 Temperatures plunged to below -21C in Scotland overnight, the lowest level in the UK in more than a decade, following an "extreme freeze". The mercury dropped to -21.4C (-6.5F) in Braemar, Aberdeenshire, the coldest temperature recorded in the UK since 2 December 2010, when -21.3C (-6.3F) was recorded in Altnaharra in the Scottish Highlands. Continue reading... |
| President Sisi has destroyed Egyptians' hopes after they ended Mubarak's hellish reign | Amr Darrag Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:00 AM PST Ten years ago, the Arab spring brought hope to Egyptians – until the former army chief led a coup endorsed by the free world
Following the coup, I spoke to various delegates from the international community. We, elected politicians of Egypt, were simply told to accept the military coup. I met Catherine Ashton, the high representative of the EU for foreign affairs and security policy. I met William Burns, who arrived a week before Sisi's forces killed nearly 1,000 people at Rabaa. (Burns is now the nominee to be Joe Biden's new director of the CIA.) I met many other international delegates. They all said the same thing: "accept reality". John Kerry, then the US secretary of state, said the military takeover had been done in democracy's name. Continue reading... |
| Trump impeachment: Senate trial to hear second day of prosecution evidence – live updates Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:19 AM PST Senate will reconvene at noon for second day of prosecution evidence
Democrats will continue to prosecute their impeachment case in the Senate today, with the trial set to re-start at noon EST, which is 5pm in London. This CNN report underlines from the Republican reactions it quotes that they have an uphill battle to secure a conviction: A number of GOP senators made clear Wednesday evening that they were shaken by what they saw, but still signaled they won't change how they plan to vote as Trump appears headed toward acquittal at the conclusion of the trial. Republican Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana called the video "riveting," saying, "it's just as kind of hard to take now as it was then."
An appellate court has stayed the lethal injection of an Alabama inmate to consider claims that the state failed to give the man required assistance with forms impacting the timing of his execution. The 11th US Court of Appeals issued the stay last night about 21 hours before Willie B. Smith, who has an IQ below 75, was scheduled to be put to death by lethal injection. The court stayed the execution to give a week to consider his claims. The court also issued a separate ruling on religious grounds saying Alabama cannot execute Smith unless they allow his personal pastor in the execution chamber. Continue reading... |
| Colombia to grant legal status to Venezuelan migrants Posted: 10 Feb 2021 11:30 PM PST Move to grant protection status for 10 years described as 'the most important humanitarian gesture' in the region since the 1980s
The near-900-mile journey with her five children was arduous, but without work in Caracas and such a large a family to raise, Colina saw little choice. "In Venezuela we couldn't survive … we had to come here," she said outside a clinic for migrants in Bogotá, having slept rough on the streets since crossing into Colombia at the end of last year. "We just hoped our situation would get easier." Continue reading... |
| Pandemic sends lunar new year trips in China plummetting by 74% Posted: 11 Feb 2021 02:26 AM PST Strict rules and government enticements prevent majority from making annual trip home The number of trips made on the first day of China's lunar new year travel period has plunged by 74% compared with last year, amid panic over the coronavirus pandemic, stringent rules and government enticements not to go home for the holidays. Hundreds of millions of people usually make the annual trip home to see family over the new year break in China, in what is often referred to as the world's largest annual mass migration. For many of the 280 million migrant workers it is the only chance all year to see their families, including children left in home villages while they earn a living in the cities. Continue reading... |
| Vales Point coal plant drops controversial bid for government funding Posted: 11 Feb 2021 01:46 AM PST The Morrison government put the $8.7m upgrade project on its energy underwriting program shortlist before the last election A controversial Morrison government plan to grant up to $8.7m for an upgrade at a coal plant part-owned by power boss Trevor St Baker has been dropped after the company abandoned its bid for the public funding. The government allocated the grant for a turbine upgrade at the Vales Point generator, in New South Wales' Hunter Valley, in the October budget, but told the station's owner, Delta Electricity, it would need to submit a formal application for the money. Continue reading... |
| ‘It’s as if there’s no Covid’: Nepal defies pandemic amid a broken economy Posted: 10 Feb 2021 10:30 PM PST Cases appear low and sports venues are packed, but protests are on the rise as jobs are lost and personal debt soars Traffic jams and soaring pollution levels are back. Political leaders are organising mass rallies, far more focused on fighting each other than any virus. If poorer Nepalis are struggling with the dire economic fallout from Covid-19, on the surface, at least, it appears daily life in the capital, Kathmandu, is back to normal. "It's as if nothing has happened. The nightclubs are crowded. Schools and colleges are reopening. Sports venues are full. It doesn't seem like there is any Covid," says Sameer Mani Dixit, a public health specialist. "It defies logic." Continue reading... |
| Coronavirus map of the US: latest cases state by state Posted: 10 Feb 2021 05:16 AM PST The US emerged as an early hotspot for coronavirus and it continues to have some of the highest case and death rates in the world. Joe Biden took office in January with an ambitious plan to fight back the virus, following a Trump administration that was criticized for being slow to act. The US still currently leads the world in both confirmed Covid-19 cases and deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University. It's important to point out that the actual death toll is believed to be far higher than the tally compiled from government figures. |
| Trump impeachment: police bodycam footage shows Capitol attack – video Posted: 10 Feb 2021 09:25 PM PST Police bodycam footage showing officers under attack at the US Capitol attack has been released during the second impeachment trial for Donald Trump. Democrat congressman Eric Swalell played footage captured from the officer's perspective showing the crowd attacking police with whatever items were at hand, including crutches and a Trump flag. Swalell also revealed vision showing the evacuation of representatives including Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer being ushered away by security Continue reading... |
| Listen as a 17,000-year-old conch shell is played once more – video Posted: 10 Feb 2021 07:21 PM PST After laying silent for more than 17,000 years, an ancient instrument Is heard again – a deep, plaintive bleat, like a foghorn from the distant past. When archaeologists realised that a large conch shell discovered in the Marsoulas cave in the Pyrenees had been modified thousands of years ago to serve as a wind instrument, they invited a French horn player to play the conch in a sound studio. The horn produced clear C, C-sharp, and D notes. Continue reading... |
| Trump impeachment: new footage shows Mike Pence and Mitt Romney fleeing Capitol attack – video Posted: 10 Feb 2021 05:17 PM PST New video shown during the second impeachment trial for Donald Trump has revealed Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman leading Senator Mitt Romney away from the rioters as well as the evacuation of former vice-president Mike Pence. Representative Stacey Plaskett presented the previously unreleased security footage from the 6 January Capitol breach documenting Romney's close call as well as Pence and his family's escape as rioters chanted 'hang Mike Pence'
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| Ursula von der Leyen admits failings in EU Covid vaccine rollout – video Posted: 10 Feb 2021 07:31 AM PST European commission president Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday acknowledged failings in the EU's approval and rollout of vaccines against Covid-19. 'We were late to authorise, we were too optimistic when it came to mass production and perhaps we were too confident that what we ordered would actually be delivered on time,' she told MEPs Continue reading... |
| Hotel quarantine – too little too late? Politics Weekly podcast Posted: 10 Feb 2021 06:27 AM PST Jessica Elgot and John Crace look at why the latest coronavirus travel restrictions might not work the way the government expects. Plus, Helen Davidson and Jon Henley on how the world sees the UK's Covid response In response to the myriad of new Covid-19 variants entering the UK, the health secretary, Matt Hancock, announced in the Commons on Tuesday that travellers arriving from coronavirus hotspots who refuse to adhere to the new restrictions could face £10,000 fines and jail sentences of up to 10 years. The move might seem extreme, but given how long we have known about variants cropping up since the new year, many are asking, is it too little too late? The housing minister, Robert Jenrick, has announced billions of pounds in extra support to address the cladding crisis exposed after the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Will it be enough to help hundreds of thousands of people feel safe again in their own homes? Continue reading... |
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