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Canada storm: air force arrives to help residents in British Columbia – live
‘Horrific’: 10 people suffocate in overcrowded migrant boat off Libya
Covid live: Austria cases hit new record as provinces prepare full lockdown; Germany ‘heading for emergency’
Support for populist sentiment falls across Europe, survey finds
Inquiry into foundation linked to Prince of Wales launched
Kyle Rittenhouse defense attorneys ask judge to declare mistrial over video
Scepticism as Peng Shuai letter emerges claiming ‘everything is fine’
Indian comedian Vir Das accused of ‘vilifying nation’
Protests mount as Oklahoma prepares to execute Julius Jones
Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa
Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding
‘Zero-Covid is not going to happen’: experts predict a steep rise in US cases this winter
German health chief urges Covid crackdown to avert ‘very bad Christmas’
Rollout of third Covid jabs in England condemned as ‘shambolic’
‘We were in a war’: behind 2021’s most devastating Covid-19 documentary
Rod Stewart: ‘I got Elton a fridge for Christmas. He got me a Rembrandt’
‘We have fallen into a trap’: for hotel staff Qatar’s World Cup dream is a nightmare
Dining across the divide: ‘I think some of the ideas are horrible – but it’s nice to sit and talk’
Meg Ryan films – ranked!
‘I considered having kids with Brad Pitt’: Melissa Etheridge on music, motherhood and coming out
‘Annoying snobs was part of the fun’: Paul McCartney and more on the Beatles’ rooftop farewell
Sign of the times: row over street art shines light on Spain’s divisions
Wales landowner bans trail hunting after huntsman found guilty of
Kamala Harris pushes back on criticism that she’s underused as vice-president – live
Victoria pandemic powers bill debate postponed – as it happened
Pride and poverty: Qatar’s World Cup fever tempered by legacy of labour abuses
Young people more optimistic about the world than older generations – Unicef
‘Critical lifeline’ of migrant cash expected to near £600bn in total
‘People should be helped, not punished’: could Pakistan’s suicide law be about to change?
Dirty dollars: how tattered US notes became the latest street hustle in Zimbabwe
Lukashenko has got the ear of the EU at last – but it won’t help him
The new anti-woke academics say the universities are 'broken'. But they aren't giving up their tenured day jobs | Julia Carrie Wong
Five Tory MPs and peers who referred firms to controversial VIP lane
Rust script supervisor recalls moment of Alec Baldwin film shooting – video
Aerial footage shows aftermath of catastrophic floods that hit British Columbia – video
‘What is so hard about saying this is wrong?’, says AOC over Paul Gosar’s violent tweet – video
Heavy rains in west of Canada and US cause 'devastating' floods and spark evacuations – video
Tense scenes outside court as protesters await verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse – video

Canada storm: air force arrives to help residents in British Columbia – live

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:22 AM PST

Latest updates: Canadian Armed Forces deployed after massive disruption around Vancouver and rest of province

Here is an updated map with the key developments around British Columbia:

Thousands of farm animals have died and many more are trapped by floods in desperate need of food and water after the storm battered a major hub of Canadian agriculture.

‘Horrific’: 10 people suffocate in overcrowded migrant boat off Libya

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST

MSF rescue 99 survivors who spent 13 hours on vessel trying to reach Europe as authorities accused of ignoring distress call

Ten people were found dead in the lower deck of a severely overcrowded wooden boat off the coast of Libya, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has reported.

According to survivors, those who died on Tuesday suffocated after 13 hours on the cramped lower deck, where there had been a strong smell of fuel.

Covid live: Austria cases hit new record as provinces prepare full lockdown; Germany ‘heading for emergency’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:45 AM PST

Austria's daily infections hit a new record; RKI director says Germany heading for 'really terrible Christmas' without new measures

From Washington, David Smith brings us this report about hard-hitting Covid-19 documentary The First Wave:

It is tempting to suggest that the Covid deniers, the hoaxers, the hucksters, the anti-vaxxers, the flat earthers, the merchants of disinformation and the crackpot conspiracy theorists be strapped into a chair and force fed The First Wave, a harrowing documentary about the early toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Support for populist sentiment falls across Europe, survey finds

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 05:22 AM PST

YouGov/Guardian poll finds 'clear pattern of decreasing support for populism' in European countries

Support for populist sentiment in Europe has fallen sharply over the past three years, according to a major YouGov survey, with markedly fewer people agreeing with key statements designed to measure it.

The YouGov-Cambridge Globalism Project's annual populism tracker, produced with the Guardian, found populist beliefs in broadly sustained decline in 10 European countries, prompting its authors to suggest the wider electoral appeal of some may have peaked.

Inquiry into foundation linked to Prince of Wales launched

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:43 AM PST

Charity Commission investigating claims donations intended for Prince's Foundation went instead to Mahfouz Foundation

The Charity Commission has launched an inquiry into allegations that donations intended for the Prince of Wales' Prince's Foundation went instead to the Mahfouz Foundation.

The investigation will examine dealings at the Mahfouz Foundation, which was founded by the Saudi billionaire Mahfouz Marei Mubarak bin Mahfouz.

Kyle Rittenhouse defense attorneys ask judge to declare mistrial over video

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:39 PM PST

Attorneys argue they did not receive the same quality of key drone footage as the prosecution

Defense attorneys for Kyle Rittenhouse asked the judge on Wednesday to declare a mistrial, arguing that they did not receive the same quality of a key drone video as the prosecution.

Defense attorney Corey Chirafisi said they initially received a compressed version of a video taken by a drone that the state prosecutors played for jurors during closing arguments.

Scepticism as Peng Shuai letter emerges claiming ‘everything is fine’

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 09:31 PM PST

Missing tennis star purportedly says she is 'resting at home'
Head of WTA says he has 'a hard time believing' it is from player

The head of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) has said he is now even more concerned for the welfare of Peng Shuai after Chinese state media published a letter purportedly from the Chinese player.

Peng, a former world doubles No 1, has not been heard from publicly since she alleged on social media that a former vice-premier of China, Zhang Gaoli, had sexually assaulted her.

Indian comedian Vir Das accused of ‘vilifying nation’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:37 AM PST

Politicians express outrage over routine that discusses country's contradictions women's safety, religion, Covid and politics

An Indian comedian is facing an onslaught of criticism and calls for police to investigate over a comedy monologue that spoke of the country's contradictions on women's safety, religion, Covid and politics.

The routine performed on a US tour by Vir Das, one of India's most popular comedians, went viral in India this week after it spoke of "two Indias" - conflicting elements of his own country that, he felt, had an element of the absurd.

Protests mount as Oklahoma prepares to execute Julius Jones

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 05:21 AM PST

Jones, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday

Students at high schools across Oklahoma City walked out of their classes. Prayer vigils were held at the state Capitol, and barricades were erected outside the governor's mansion. Even Baker Mayfield, quarterback for the NFL's Cleveland Browns, weighed in on Oklahoma's highest-profile execution in decades.

Julius Jones, 41, who has maintained his innocence for more than two decades, is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Thursday at the state penitentiary in McAlester for the 1999 slaying of Paul Howell, a businessman in the affluent Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond.

Social media creating virus of lies, says Nobel winner Maria Ressa

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:15 AM PST

Filipino journalist and peace prize laureate says sites are biased against facts and in need of overhaul

Social media platforms are biased against facts and creating "a virus of lies" that threatens all democracies, the Nobel peace prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa has said.

Ressa, one of the Philippines' most prominent journalists, said social media platforms were "manipulating our minds insidiously, creating alternate realities, making it impossible for us to think slow".

Fragment of lost 12th-century epic poem found in another book’s binding

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:32 AM PST

Scholars knew the work about Guillaume d'Orange and the bloody siege of his city existed, but until now believed it had been lost completely

A fragment from a 12th-century French poem previously believed to have been lost forever has been found by an academic in Oxford's Bodleian Library.

Dr Tamara Atkin from Queen Mary University of London was researching the reuse of books during the 16th century when she came across the fragment from the hitherto lost Siège d'Orange in the binding of a book published in 1528. Parchment and paper were expensive at the time, and unwanted manuscripts and books were frequently recycled.

‘Zero-Covid is not going to happen’: experts predict a steep rise in US cases this winter

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:00 PM PST

Total US deaths from Covid may reach 1 million by spring as vaccination rates remain lower than 60%

A steep rise in Covid-19 cases in Europe should serve as a warning that the US could also see significant increases in coronavirus cases this winter, particularly in the nation's colder regions, scientists say.

However, there is more cause for optimism as America enters its second pandemic winter, even in the face of likely rises in cases.

German health chief urges Covid crackdown to avert ‘very bad Christmas’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:46 AM PST

Country facing 'extremely dismal days' as it set ninth consecutive record for daily case numbers

The head of Germany's disease control agency has said the country is heading for a "very bad Christmas season" if drastic measures are not taken to dampen the spread of coronavirus.

Lothar Wieler, the head of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said that even if measures were taken Germany faced a period of "extremely dismal days" during which hundreds of people would die out of those currently infected.

Rollout of third Covid jabs in England condemned as ‘shambolic’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:15 AM PST

Charity says unknown number of immunocompromised people have been left without proper protection

A "shambolic" rollout of third Covid vaccinations has left an unknown number of immunocompromised people still without proper protection going into winter, and in other cases even given the wrong type of injection, a leading charity has said.

Blood Cancer UK said poor planning and confusing messaging meant "many thousands" of people with weakened immune systems might have missed out, leaving them at greater risk of serious consequences if they catch Covid.

‘We were in a war’: behind 2021’s most devastating Covid-19 documentary

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 11:32 PM PST

Matthew Heineman's gruelling new film The First Wave takes us back the terrifying early stages of a world-changing virus

Covid-19 has never been a "media-friendly" story: death and suffering happen in intimate spaces behind closed doors, where few cameras or reporters are permitted. It is therefore less spectacular news than the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, even though the current loss of life is still equivalent to a 9/11 every three days.

Rod Stewart: ‘I got Elton a fridge for Christmas. He got me a Rembrandt’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 05:00 AM PST

Answering Guardian readers' questions, the singer discusses his epic railway modelling, his admiration of the Sex Pistols and the secrets of his hair regime

Did you have any heroes in the beginning of your career that you wanted to move or look like? JoeHill

I didn't look at singers and think: "That's how I want to move," but I sorta wanted to sound like 'em. I started off with Eddie Cochran – that rough-edged voice – and moved on to Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Bobby Womack and David Ruffin. I went from being a beatnik to a mod with long hair.

‘We have fallen into a trap’: for hotel staff Qatar’s World Cup dream is a nightmare

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:00 AM PST

Exclusive: Seduced by salary promises, workers at Fifa-endorsed hotels allege they have been exploited and abused

Pride and poverty: Qatar's World Cup fever tempered by legacy of labour abuses

When Fifa executives step on to the asphalt in Doha next November for the start of the 2022 World Cup, their next stop is likely to be the check-in at one of Qatar's glittering array of opulent hotels, built to provide the most luxurious possible backdrop to the biggest sporting event on earth.

Now, with a year to go before the first match, fans who want to emulate the lifestyle of the sporting elite can head to Fifa's hospitality website to plan their stay in the host nation. There they can scroll through a catalogue of exclusive, Fifa-endorsed accommodation, from boutique hotels to five-star resorts.

Dining across the divide: ‘I think some of the ideas are horrible – but it’s nice to sit and talk’

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:30 AM PST

One is a Belgian resident in the UK, the other was a Ukip candidate: can two strangers find any common ground?

Click here if you'd like to dine across the divide

Stijn, 47, Norwich

Occupation Humanitarian aid worker

Meg Ryan films – ranked!

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 04:36 AM PST

As the great romcom queen turns 60, we select her best roles from the low-budget indies to the Tom Hanks big-hitters

By 2007, Meg Ryan was already well into a wilderness period that still hasn't ended. Indeed, it has been more than five years since she was in a film at all (Ithaca, her harmless but forgettable directorial debut). If highlights of this era have been few, her restrained, affecting turn as an unhappily married, cancer-stricken housewife in this uneven indie soap opera was a reminder that the industry did her dirty. At the very least, more little films like this could use her wattage.

‘I considered having kids with Brad Pitt’: Melissa Etheridge on music, motherhood and coming out

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

Eighteen months after she lost her son to opioid addiction, the singer-songwriter has released a new album. She talks about her troubled childhood, the happiness she has found with her wife – and her refusal to grieve

'Helloooooh! How are you? I'm good, I'm good." It takes me about three seconds to warm to Melissa Etheridge. The American singer-songwriter has been through hell in the past few years, but you won't find her moaning. For someone who has endured so much – Etheridge lost her 21-year-old son, Beckett, to opioid addiction last year – she has a remarkable ability to accentuate the positive. And over the next hour and a half, she does just that.

There is a swaggering self-confidence and a soulfulness to Etheridge – she would make a great existential cowboy. She has had hit records across the world (with the notable exception of the UK), won Grammys for her singles Ain't It Heavy and Come to My Window, and in 2007 secured an Oscar for I Need to Wake Up, a song she wrote for Al Gore's climate crisis documentary An Inconvenient Truth.

‘Annoying snobs was part of the fun’: Paul McCartney and more on the Beatles’ rooftop farewell

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 02:45 AM PST

As Peter Jackson's TV series Get Back recasts the Fab Four's final days in a more positive light, the ex-Beatle remembers the responses to their historic gig above the streets of London

It's lunchtime on a cold Thursday in January 1969. After weeks of sometimes difficult rehearsals and recordings, the Beatles and their new songs finally – and spectacularly – collide with the outside world. The occasion is now fixed in their iconography. On 30 January on the roof of 3 Savile Row, the London HQ of their company Apple, the four – joined by the US keyboard player Billy Preston – performed five songs: Get Back (three times), Don't Let Me Down (twice), I've Got a Feeling (ditto), Dig a Pony and One After 909. They played with a tightness and confidence that belied the last-minute nature of events, while a sense of urgency and drama was provided by two police officers, determined to shut everything down.

This magical performance forms the finale of Get Back, Peter Jackson's new three-part documentary series about the Beatles. Neither the band nor the people watching on the rooftop and down below are aware that this will be their last ever live performance. But for the viewer, that knowledge makes everything more compelling.

Sign of the times: row over street art shines light on Spain’s divisions

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 03:59 AM PST

Madrid council orders removal of street art featuring left and rightwing heroes as Socialist-led government proposes prosecution of Franco-era crimes

For the past 11 months, the two walls that make up a street corner in east Madrid have engaged in a mute but bitter debate that mirrors the faultlines, fights and ferocities of Spanish politics.

On the left wall are 24 street signs commemorating poets and writers including Federico García Lorca, Miguel Hernández, Victoria Kent and Carmen Laforet.

Wales landowner bans trail hunting after huntsman found guilty of

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:37 AM PST

Natural Resources Wales says it cannot be sure trail hunting will not be used as smokescreen for illegal activity

One of the biggest landowners in Wales has banned trail hunting after a court ruled that a leading huntsman had encouraged the practice as a smokescreen for illegal foxhunting.

Natural Resources Wales (NRW), a government-sponsored body, said it could not be sure that trail hunting was not still being used as a "cover" for illegal activity so had decided to ban it completely.

Kamala Harris pushes back on criticism that she’s underused as vice-president – live

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 06:53 AM PST

Harris says in interview that 'there is a lot more to do'
House expected to begin formally debating $1.75tn Build Back Better bill
Experts predict a steep rise in US Covid cases this winter

Joe Biden tasked vice president Kamala Harris earlier this year with addressing the root causes of migration, but Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos pointed out that the past year had the highest number of illegal border crossings since they began being recorded since 1960.

"What are you doing to turn that around? How long will it take?" Stephanopoulos asked.

Victoria pandemic powers bill debate postponed – as it happened

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 12:31 AM PST

Mark McGowan closes electorate office and condemns 'deranged' behaviour of anti-vaxxers; Victorian pandemic powers bill debate postponed; search for remains of missing NSW boy William Tyrrell enters fourth day; no new Covid cases in Northern Territory as cluster stands at 19; Victoria records 1,007 new cases and 12 deaths; NSW records 262 new cases. This blog is now closed

There is a choice selection of Victorian state politics memes on the interwebs this morning, let me tell you:

Victorian crossbench MP Fiona Patten has told ABC News Breakfast that the pandemic powers bill will have to be adjourned now that Adem Somyurek plans to vote against the legislation:

Certainly of this morning, the bill is due to be adjourned and the parliament will go on to other bills while the government tries to work out what they're going to do.

They're in a pretty precarious situation now, without, you know, with a state of emergency ending and no other pandemic protections in place.

Pride and poverty: Qatar’s World Cup fever tempered by legacy of labour abuses

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 12:00 AM PST

With a year to go, the new stadiums, hotels and roads are finished and locals are excited, but the low-paid workers who built them are ambivalent

'We have fallen into a trap': Qatar's World Cup dream is a nightmare for hotel staff

When asked if he's looking forward to the World Cup, Mohamed, an Indian salesman, grins as he casts his fishing line off the promenade in the heart of Qatar's capital, Doha. "Very much," he says. "I love cricket!"

With a year to go to until the football World Cup kicks off, Mohamed's response may have the event's organisers worried. After all, about 70% of Qatar's population are from the cricket-loving subcontinent.

Young people more optimistic about the world than older generations – Unicef

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 10:00 PM PST

Despite mental health and climate concerns, youth believe they can improve the world, survey for World Children's Day finds

Young people are often seen as having a bleak worldview, plugged uncritically into social media and anxious about the climate crisis, among other pressing issues.

But a global study commissioned by the UN's children's agency, Unicef, appears to turn that received wisdom on its head. It paints a picture of children believing that the world is improving with each generation, even while they report anxiety and impatience for change on global heating.

The majority of young people saw serious risks for children online, such as seeing violent or sexually explicit content (78%) or being bullied (79%).

While 64% of those in low- and middle-income countries believed children would be better off economically than their parents, young people in high-income countries had little faith in economic progress. There, fewer than a third of young respondents believed children today would grow up to be better off economically than their parents.

More than a third of young people reported often feeling nervous or anxious, and nearly one in five said they often felt depressed or had little interest in doing things.

On average, 59% of young people said children today faced more pressure to succeed than their parents did.

‘Critical lifeline’ of migrant cash expected to near £600bn in total

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 09:01 AM PST

Sum sent back home from former residents of low-income countries surpasses overseas aid and rich nations' direct investment

Migrants from low- and middle-income countries are expected to send almost £600bn to support friends and relatives by the end of the year, after global economic growth spurred a 7.3% rebound in remittance payments.

The increase in cross-border payments, especially from migrants based in Europe and the US, reversed a 1.7% fall in remittance payments last year, the World Bank said.

‘People should be helped, not punished’: could Pakistan’s suicide law be about to change?

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 06:03 AM PST

Criminalisation means survivors are vulnerable to blackmail to avoid imprisonment and stigma, but there is hope the colonial-era legislation could soon be repealed

It was when the police knocked on Aatifa Farooqui's* door and threatened to send her to prison that she first realised suicide was illegal in Pakistan.

Farooqui's father pleaded with the officers to be lenient, explaining that his daughter was just 19 and had made a mistake, but quickly realised the police had other motives for dropping by.

Dirty dollars: how tattered US notes became the latest street hustle in Zimbabwe

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:00 AM PST

In country hit by hyperinflation, a shortage of dollars means those struggling to survive can make a profit dealing torn notes

In time-honoured street hawker tradition, Kaitano Kasani is using charm and persuasion to get people to sell him their tattered US banknotes.

Kasani, 42, bellows through a megaphone as he walks through Glen Norah, a township in Harare, in the sweltering November heat.

Lukashenko has got the ear of the EU at last – but it won’t help him

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 09:00 PM PST

The Belarusian leader may have won phone talks with Angela Merkel but Europe remains united against him

As migrants camped out in the woods prepared for another night of sub-zero temperatures, the Estonian foreign minister, Eva-Maria Liimets, on Tuesday revealed to an evening news programme the gist of what Alexander Lukashenko demanded of Angela Merkel in the first call between a European leader and Belarus's dictator in more than a year.

"He wants the sanctions to be halted, [and] to be recognised as head of state so he can continue," she said he told Merkel.

The new anti-woke academics say the universities are 'broken'. But they aren't giving up their tenured day jobs | Julia Carrie Wong

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 02:52 PM PST

The anti-woke institution has no campus, no course catalog, no students, no accreditation. It does have a website

When the brand-new president of the "University of Austin" announced the establishment of a brand-new institution "dedicated to the fearless pursuit of truth" last week, he painted a bleak picture of American academia.

"So much is broken in America," wrote Pano Kanelos, the former president of a small liberal arts college in Maryland in a post on the Substack of the noted New York Times self-canceller Bari Weiss. "But higher education might be the most fractured institution of all."

Dorian Abbot, a University of Chicago scientist who has objected to aspects of affirmative action, was recently disinvited from delivering a prominent public lecture on planetary climate at MIT. Peter Boghossian, a philosophy professor at Portland State University, finally quit in September after years of harassment by faculty and administrators. Kathleen Stock, a professor at University of Sussex, just resigned after mobs threatened her over her research on sex and gender.

Five Tory MPs and peers who referred firms to controversial VIP lane

Posted: 16 Nov 2021 01:11 PM PST

A number of Conservatives made referrals for firms that won Covid contracts, leaked document shows

A list of the 47 companies referred to the government's VIP fast-track lane for contracts to supply PPE has been revealed. These are five of the significant political figures whose referrals ended up with the companies winning contracts.

Rust script supervisor recalls moment of Alec Baldwin film shooting – video

Posted: 18 Nov 2021 01:06 AM PST

Mamie Mitchell has said she relives the sound of the gun going off on the set of Rust 'over and over again'. Mitchell, who was the first to call 911 after the shooting, has filed a lawsuit against Alec Baldwin and the film's producers, alleging that the script never required the actor to fire the shot that killed the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and injured the director Joel Souza

Rust script supervisor sues Alec Baldwin and producers over shooting

Aerial footage shows aftermath of catastrophic floods that hit British Columbia – video

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 06:22 PM PST

Aerial footage shows the extent of catastrophic floods in mountain areas of Canada's British Columbia province. A powerful storm dumped a month's worth of rain in two days across parts of the Pacific north-west in Canada and the US. Concerns are rising over remote mountain areas that have been hit with freezing temperatures

‘What is so hard about saying this is wrong?’, says AOC over Paul Gosar’s violent tweet – video

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 03:07 PM PST

Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted Republican House minority leader Kevin McCarthy for failing to condemn the violent tweet of fellow Republican Paul Gosar ahead of a censure vote against him. The Democratic-controlled US House of Representatives was poised to punish a Republican lawmaker over an anime video that depicted him killing Ocasio-Cortez and swinging two swords at President Joe Biden. 'What is so hard, what is so hard about saying that this is wrong?' Ocasio-Cortez said. 'This is not about me. This is not about representative Gosar. But, this is about what we are willing to accept.'

'This is not about me,' AOC says as House debates censuring Paul Gosar over violent video – live

Heavy rains in west of Canada and US cause 'devastating' floods and spark evacuations – video

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 07:57 AM PST

At least one person has been killed and several more are feared dead after a huge storm hit the Pacific north-west, destroying highways and leaving tens of thousands of people in Canada and the US without power.

Canada's largest port was cut off by flood waters, as emergency crews in British Columbia announced on Tuesday that at least 10 vehicles had been swept off a highway during a landslide.

Tense scenes outside court as protesters await verdict of Kyle Rittenhouse – video

Posted: 17 Nov 2021 01:23 AM PST

As the jury in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial deliberated, dozens of protesters – some for Rittenhouse, some against – stood outside the Kenosha county courthouse in Wisconsin. Some talked quietly with those on the other side and others shouted. One group was chanting 'Black Lives Matter!' while others responded with 'self-defense is not a crime!' One woman could be heard repeatedly calling Rittenhouse supporters 'white supremacists'