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- Poor countries at Cop26 concerned by G20’s limited climate progress
- Barclays chief Jes Staley steps down after Epstein investigation
- Macron accuses Australian PM of lying over submarine deal
- ‘I’ve got to get to my daughter, I’ve got to hold her’: families reunite at Sydney airport after international border reopens
- Ex-Maldives president to tell Cop26: do not compromise on 1.5C
- France has 48 hours to back down in fishing row, warns Liz Truss
- Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai goes on trial over Tiananmen vigil
- Ruling party of Fumio Kishida wins comfortable victory in Japanese election
- Handball federation changes uniform rules after pressure over ‘sexist’ bikini rule
- Huma Abedin says kiss from unnamed senator was not sexual assault
- Coronavirus live news: global Covid death toll hits 5m; US, Brazil, India, Mexico and UK account for over half of deaths
- ‘We are protected by prayers’: the sects hampering southern Africa’s vaccine rollout
- ‘There could be snakes’: planes mothballed by Covid prepare to fly again
- ‘This is the age of waste’: the show about our throwaway addiction and how to cure it
- The big idea: Is democracy up to the task of climate change?
- ‘Time is running out’: your messages for world leaders at Cop26
- ‘The lights went out and the shooting started’: #EndSars protesters find no justice one year on
- A new start after 60: ‘I decided to transition at 68’
- Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread
- Netflix’s Emily in Paris to focus on diversity, says star Lily Collins
- Salisbury train crash: ‘detailed and forensic’ investigation begins
- Petrit Halilaj: ‘I started to live with fear on a daily basis’
- Sunbathers of Beirut: the photographs celebrating everyday life in the Middle East
- Brazilian police kill 25 suspects allegedly part of bank robbery gang
- TGA recognises two more Covid vaccines as international border reopens – as it happened
- Mothballed planes stored in the Australian desert being returned to service – video
- 'I don’t think, I know': Macron accuses Scott Morrison of lying about submarine contract – video
- Volcanic rocks cover water off Japan's Okinawa after 1,500km journey – video
| Poor countries at Cop26 concerned by G20’s limited climate progress Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Leaders say they hoped for more from talks in Rome and chances of staying below 1.5C are fading The G20 is failing poor and vulnerable countries by not agreeing to a climate plan that would ensure their people's survival, leading figures at the Cop26 climate talks have said. Leaders representing more than a billion of the people most at risk from the climate crisis told the Guardian they were "extremely concerned" and had hoped for more from the G20 summit in Rome. Continue reading... |
| Barclays chief Jes Staley steps down after Epstein investigation Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:48 AM PDT Executive plans to challenge findings of investigation by City watchdog the FCA Barclays chief executive Jes Staley is stepping down after an investigation by the City watchdog over his links to the sex offender and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. The bank said its board reached an agreement over Staley's resignation after being notified on Friday of the preliminary conclusions in an investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation Authority into how Staley had characterised his relationship with Epstein to Barclays. Continue reading... |
| Macron accuses Australian PM of lying over submarine deal Posted: 31 Oct 2021 12:27 PM PDT French president criticises Scott Morrison and expresses scepticism that Aukus pact will deliver on schedule Emmanuel Macron has accused the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, of lying to him over an abandoned $90bn submarine contract, in a significant escalation of tensions between Paris and Canberra. The French president levelled the accusation in impromptu comments to Australian journalists on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Rome. He said he had a lot of "respect and friendship" for Australia and Australians, but that respect between nations needed to be reciprocated. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2021 05:57 PM PDT Fully vaccinated Australians are allowed to fly in and walk straight into arms of loved ones for first time in 583 days
Sydney airport has become the scene of tearful family reunions, with fully vaccinated Australians able to fly home and walk straight out of the airport for the first time in 583 days. Many of the passengers who were onboard the first flights from Singapore and Los Angeles walked into the arrivals terminal shortly after 6am on Monday morning to be greeted by emotional family members and loved ones. Continue reading... |
| Ex-Maldives president to tell Cop26: do not compromise on 1.5C Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PDT Mohamed Nasheed says the island state is already harmed by rising sea levels caused by climate change Five months after narrowly surviving a terrorist bomb attack, the former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed will arrive at the Cop26 summit with a defiant message: no compromise on 1.5C. That level of global heating is the most ambitious target on the table at Glasgow. It will require a global mobilisation of resources at a scale not seen outside wartime and at least a halving of fossil fuel emissions and tree burning by the end of this decade. Continue reading... |
| France has 48 hours to back down in fishing row, warns Liz Truss Posted: 01 Nov 2021 01:10 AM PDT Foreign secretary says UK will begin dispute talks set out in Brexit deal if threats not withdrawn The UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned France it has 48 hours to back down on threats made in the row over fishing licences or the UK will begin dispute talks set out in the Brexit deal. French officials have said they will bar UK fishing boats from some ports and tighten customs checks on lorries entering the country unless more licences are granted for their small boats to fish in Britain's waters. Continue reading... |
| Hong Kong: Jimmy Lai goes on trial over Tiananmen vigil Posted: 31 Oct 2021 11:29 PM PDT Eight pro-democracy activists including the prominent businessman had been charged under national security laws The trial of eight pro-democracy activists, including Apple Daily newspaper founder Jimmy Lai, who were charged over their roles in an unauthorised Tiananmen vigil last year began on Monday. Lai and the seven others, including Lee Cheuk-yan, the former chairman of the now defunct Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, face charges of organising, participating and inciting others to take part in the unauthorised candlelight vigil commemorating the bloody 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Continue reading... |
| Ruling party of Fumio Kishida wins comfortable victory in Japanese election Posted: 31 Oct 2021 06:45 PM PDT Conservative LDP along with coalition partner Komeito retain control of parliament, defying expectations Japan's ruling conservative party defied expectations in Sunday's general election, with a comfortable victory that will boost the prime minister, Fumio Kishida, as he attempts to steer the economy out of the coronavirus pandemic. Kishida's Liberal Democratic party secured 261 seats in the 465-member lower house – the more powerful of Japan's two-chamber Diet – slightly down on its pre-election 276 seats. Continue reading... |
| Handball federation changes uniform rules after pressure over ‘sexist’ bikini rule Posted: 31 Oct 2021 10:30 PM PDT
The International Handball Federation has responded to widespread accusations of sexism by changing its rules around women's uniforms to allow bike shorts and tank tops instead of bikini bottoms and crop tops. The sport's global governing body has been the subject of international pressure since July, when the European Handball Federation made headlines for imposing a €1,500 fine on the Norwegian women's beach handball team for wearing shorts like their male counterparts during the Euro 21 tournament in Bulgaria. At the time, the EHF described the shorts as "improper clothing". Continue reading... |
| Huma Abedin says kiss from unnamed senator was not sexual assault Posted: 31 Oct 2021 07:13 AM PDT
In her first interview to promote her new book, Huma Abedin said she did not think an unnamed senator sexually assaulted her when he kissed her at his apartment, some time in the mid-2000s. She also said she would "take to her grave" her part in the emails investigation which cost Hillary Clinton dearly in the 2016 presidential election, which the candidate lost to Donald Trump, though she knew it was not all her fault. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:07 AM PDT Johns Hopkins University tally hits milestone less than two years into pandemic; 5 million figure is still almost certainly an undercount
Singapore could see as many 2,000 Covid-19 deaths annually over time, mainly among the elderly, but it was focused on avoiding excess mortality, a minister said this morning, as the country battles its biggest surge in infections. Reuters report that at 0.2%, Singapore's Covid-19 case fatality rate is similar to the rate of deaths from pneumonia before the pandemic struck. If we lose staff over the winter period our ability to provide care is compromised. We've got a very, very difficult winter coming up and we know the NHS is going to be at full stretch, so it makes sense to set that deadline once that period has passed. If we lose very large numbers of unvaccinated staff, particularly over the winter period, then that also constitutes a risk to patient safety and quality of care. Continue reading... |
| ‘We are protected by prayers’: the sects hampering southern Africa’s vaccine rollout Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT With millions of followers, the stance of some Apostolic church leaders threatens to undermine fight against Covid Hymnal melodies reverberate around the hillside in Kuwadzana, a Harare suburb. On a blisteringly hot Saturday, members of the Apostolic church, dressed in white, hum and sing together. Songs, long prayers and a little Bible reading punctuate the outdoor service. It's a spectacle for passersby. Continue reading... |
| ‘There could be snakes’: planes mothballed by Covid prepare to fly again Posted: 31 Oct 2021 09:30 AM PDT In deserts in Australia and the US, engineers are dusting off aircraft, testing engines and ridding them of rattlesnakes and insects
In the red dust of the Australian desert, more than a hundred shiny planes are lined up nose to tail, an aviation long-term parking lot. Hundreds more form geometric patterns in California's Mojave Desert, where engineers whack the wheel hubs of Qantas A380s to scare off rattlesnakes. Continue reading... |
| ‘This is the age of waste’: the show about our throwaway addiction and how to cure it Posted: 31 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT It is now 100 times more lucrative to mine gold from e-dumps than from the ground. Yet 70 years ago, we barely threw anything away at all. Can design change our disposable culture? How will this age be remembered? After the stone age, the bronze age, the steam age and the information age, what material or innovation will most define the current era? According to a new exhibition at the Design Museum, the most ubiquitous hallmark of the Anthropocene is not a gamechanging material, nor the mastery of technology. It's trash. Generating waste, the curators argue, has long been a primary engine of the economy. The history of the lightbulb is an illuminating case in point. In the 1920s, bulbs were so long-lasting that they were deemed commercially unviable. General Electric, Philips and others formed the Phoebus cartel in 1924 to standardise the life expectancy of lightbulbs at 1,000 hours – down from the previous 2,500 hours. And so the culture of planned obsolescence was born. Almost a century later, similar practices continue: last year Apple agreed to pay up to $500m, after it was accused of deliberately slowing down older phone models to encourage consumers to buy the latest handsets. Continue reading... |
| The big idea: Is democracy up to the task of climate change? Posted: 01 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT As elected governments fall short on their pledges, some look approvingly to the authoritarian playbook. Are they right? It's time to acknowledge a difficult truth: our democracies are failing us on the climate crisis. As world leaders prepare for the crucial Glasgow summit this weekend, rhetorical commitments abound. But no government has a plan compatible with the goal that they have all agreed is critical to our collective future: limiting global average temperature rises to 1.5C. In some democracies, such as the UK, there is at least a consensus that something must be done; in others, such as Australia, Canada and the US, political debate rages over the most fundamental questions. Faced with a problem of these proportions, some are running out of patience. The veteran Earth scientist James Lovelock puts his faith in eco-authoritarianism. Climate change is so severe, he has said, that "it may be necessary to put democracy on hold for a while". Lovelock may state this explicitly, but in my many years of work on climate policy and politics, I have been struck by how often people make the same argument implicitly. Bill Gates, in his breathlessly upbeat book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, describes how enlightened investment strategies from well-meaning entrepreneurs could save the day. No need to bother, he implies, with winning hearts, minds or votes. Then there are those who look approvingly towards China, a country where the very lack of democratic accountability, they argue, allows leaders to take tough and unpopular decisions. The common theme in all these accounts is that the public are not to be trusted – they do not understand, or care; they are too selfish, or too shortsighted. Better to let the experts decide. Continue reading... |
| ‘Time is running out’: your messages for world leaders at Cop26 Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT Guardian readers implore those at the climate summit to act now and grasp humanity's 'last chance' World leaders must commit to actions rather than promises, renewable energy rather than fossil fuels, and future security rather than present consumption, according to hundreds of messages from Guardian readers and supporters submitted to the Cop26 climate summit. As policymakers gather in Glasgow for the two-week summit, readers and supporters called for rapid divestment from fossil fuels, deeper investment in renewable energy and regenerative agriculture, and an end to the fixation on GDP as a measure of progress in society. Continue reading... |
| ‘The lights went out and the shooting started’: #EndSars protesters find no justice one year on Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:01 AM PDT In the face of government denial, four young people tell their stories. Shot, beaten and terrified, they speak of disillusionment, but also of hope In October last year, thousands of mainly young Nigerians took to the streets to protest against police abuses, particularly among the now-disbanded brutal special anti-robbery squad (Sars) police unit. – Yet the several protests across the country were brutally repressed. At least 12 people were killed in the #EndSars protests, according to Amnesty International, and dozens were injured, including at Lekki tollgate in Lagos on 20 October, where witnesses livestreamed soldiers shooting at protesters draped in or waving Nigerian flags. Continue reading... |
| A new start after 60: ‘I decided to transition at 68’ Posted: 31 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Petra Wenham re-evaluated her life in hospital, confronting an unease she had always felt, before coming out as transgender Sometimes one kind of pain can bring to light another. Stuck in hospital for a month, Petra Wenham resolved to confront an unease she had carried throughout her whole life. She was 68 and had lost 30kg as a result of severe colitis. "My family were very worried. I was evaluating my life." Between morphine injections, Wenham, a retired cybersecurity consultant, had time to wander online, where she found a blog whose author had decided to transition after treading on a shard of glass. Something about the way the pain, vulnerability and sense of mortality galvanised the blogger spoke to Wenham. Continue reading... |
| Why accounts of Philadelphia train passengers not intervening in a rape spread Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT A police narrative of people watching a man rape a woman was 'not true', but it still ran wild in the press – similar to a 1964 murder that prompted the 'bystander effect' The news was horrifying, a parable of inhumanity so grim that it was destined to go viral. Two weeks ago, police said that passengers on Philadelphia's elevated train watched a man rape a woman and did not intervene – and that some riders might have even recorded the 13 October attack with their cellphones. These onlookers did not call for help during the attack. The only person who dialed 911 was an off-duty transit worker, police alleged. Continue reading... |
| Netflix’s Emily in Paris to focus on diversity, says star Lily Collins Posted: 31 Oct 2021 05:01 PM PDT Cliches aside, new hires and storylines add inclusivity to the menu in show's series two It has been criticised for trotting out cliches about France and the French and mocked for its idealised portrayal of Paris. But now the Netflix show Emily in Paris will focus on diversity and inclusion for its second series, according to its star, Lily Collins. The actor, who stars as Emily and is also a producer on the series, said she had heard viewers' concerns about the show, which first hit our screens last year, and efforts had been made to address them. The second series of Emily in Paris is scheduled for release in December. Continue reading... |
| Salisbury train crash: ‘detailed and forensic’ investigation begins Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:08 AM PDT Investigators trying to establish cause of collision between two trains that left 13 people needing hospital treatment Rail investigators are urgently trying to establish the cause of a collision between two trains that led to at least 13 people needing hospital treatment. Firefighters and other emergency workers evacuated 100 people from the trains in Salisbury, Wiltshire, after the accident on Sunday night. One of the train drivers had to be cut free from his cab. Continue reading... |
| Petrit Halilaj: ‘I started to live with fear on a daily basis’ Posted: 01 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PDT The artist was 12 when the Kosovo war destroyed his home, but a chance meeting in a refugee camp led him to document a child's-eye view of the conflict Petrit Halilaj was 12 years old when Serbian troops moved into his Kosovar village, forcing his family to flee and then burning their house to the ground. Piling as much as they could on to a tractor, they took off for his grandfather's home. When that was also invaded they moved again, flitting from refuge to refuge until they arrived at a camp in Albania, where they sat out the rest of the 15-month war between Serbia and Kosovo. It was there, in the spring of 1999, that Halilaj met up with the Italian psychologist who was to change his life. News reached the tent (in which he was living with his mother, grandfather and four siblings) that Giacomo "Angelo" Poli was giving out paper and felt-tip pens to any child who wanted to draw. Before long he was pouring out images so powerful that the then UN secretary general Kofi Annan asked to meet him during a visit to the camp. Continue reading... |
| Sunbathers of Beirut: the photographs celebrating everyday life in the Middle East Posted: 01 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PDT A new collection of photography aims to capture the upbeat, joyous side of life in the Arab world, away from war and suffering. Fouad Elkoury talks us through his project On 4 August 2020, Fouad Elkoury was sitting in his home in Beirut when an enormous explosion at the port shattered his windows and blasted through his living room. Miraculously, the Lebanese photographer survived but his home was destroyed, along with those of an estimated 300,000 others. "When you go through such an explosion," he says, "first, your memory disappears. Second, your hearing is ruined. And third, you stop planning. Things are so big, you realise you are nothing. This is where I am at the moment." One of Lebanon's foremost photographers, Elkoury came to international recognition with his intimate photographs documenting life during the Lebanese civil war in Beirut in the 1970s and early 80s. Travelling in the years following the conflict, he found himself aboard the ship carrying Yasser Arafat during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. He created Atlantis, a nautical series of images featuring the Palestinian leader. Continue reading... |
| Brazilian police kill 25 suspects allegedly part of bank robbery gang Posted: 31 Oct 2021 10:02 AM PDT Congressman hails 'historic clean-up' after police raids on farmhouses in Minas Gerais Police in Brazil have killed 25 suspects as part of what authorities called an unprecedented offensive against heavily armed bank robbers whose brazen heists have brought several major cities to a standstill. The alleged criminals were gunned down in the early hours of Sunday in the south-eastern state of Minas Gerais, where police claimed they had been poised to unleash an attack. Continue reading... |
| TGA recognises two more Covid vaccines as international border reopens – as it happened Posted: 01 Nov 2021 12:39 AM PDT TGA has recognised Covaxin and BBIBP-CorV for the purpose of establishing a traveller's vaccination status; Barnaby Joyce says WA premier 'lost his marbles' when asked about opening the border; Victoria records 1,471 new Covid-19 cases overnight; NSW records 135; vaccine mandate for ACT disability workers. This blog is now closed
Frydenberg: [France's] disappointment is obvious, and it's understandable too. I mean, this was a large defence contract that they were hoping to see through to completion, but it's not going to happen that way – because of the Aukus arrangement. With respect to the next steps, well, the prime minister and the president will, you know, no doubt talk about those in subsequent conversations. But we're thinking about how to build that partnership back, the areas of activity where we can continue to cooperate. Do you believe Emmanuel Macron is lying? Somebody is not telling the truth here. Well, the prime minister has made it very clear that he refutes those claims that have been made. He's also said, in other statements, that the French knew that we were considering various options and that that contract wouldn't necessarily meet our strategic and national interests. Continue reading... |
| Mothballed planes stored in the Australian desert being returned to service – video Posted: 31 Oct 2021 06:25 PM PDT For more than a year Alice Springs airport has been the temporary home for a host of aircraft as airlines parked parts of the fleets in the Australian desert. The dry conditions and low humidity reduce the potential for corrosion on the planes, with carriers including Cathay Pacific and Singapore Airlines storing planes on the site. Qantas stored part of its fleet at Victorville Airport in California's Mojave desert due to having an engineering group already based in Los Angeles two hours away. Alice Springs aerial footage courtesy of Stefan Drury, and Immanuel Debeer of Flight Hacks. Continue reading... |
| 'I don’t think, I know': Macron accuses Scott Morrison of lying about submarine contract – video Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:29 PM PDT Emmanuel Macron has accused the Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, of lying to him over an abandoned $90bn submarine contract, in a significant escalation of tensions between Paris and Canberra. 'I just say when we have respect, you have to be true and you have to behave in line and consistent with this value,' the French president said. When asked whether he thought Morrison had lied to him by not revealing Australia's dialogue with the UK and US over the acquisition of nuclear submarines, Macron was direct in his response. 'I don't think, I know'. Video courtesy of Pablo Viñales Continue reading... |
| Volcanic rocks cover water off Japan's Okinawa after 1,500km journey – video Posted: 31 Oct 2021 06:01 AM PDT A Japanese artist has filmed herself trying to swim in a sea with a layer of pumice rocks about 30cm deep in the water. The stones are believed to have travelled almost 1,500km from an eruption in the Pacific's Ogasawara Islands in August Continue reading... |
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