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GuardianSep 29Preview

Campaigners welcome Miliband’s claim Palestine Action ban not meant to criminalise ‘grannies’ – UK politics live

Defend Our Juries welcomes ‘honesty’ from foreign secretary and says his remarks will help in its legal challengeBurnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid planAngela Rayner, the housing secretary, has apparently confirmed that Andy Burnham will float the prospect of getting rid of the pensions triple lock to help fund the creation of an NHS-style care service.Asked about the prospect on Sky’s Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Rayner said that Burnham was “absolutely right to start the conversation” and that he was being “brave”.The high principle on this is that people have paid in all their lives. They are willing, I think, to look at that.What they don’t want is what they consider to be, quite frankly, incompetent politicians that are going to take something from us to fill a black hole.When we met with Andy [Burnham] this week, it certainly wasn’t mentioned.

Andrew SparrowPoliticsUK news

GuardianSep 29Preview

‘We will not be intimidated,’ says Estonian PM after attributing recent arson attack to Russia - Europe live

Kristen Michal says attack ‘against Milrem Robotics was ordered by Russian special services’, after Kremlin denies involvementRutte begins by recalling a drone shot down in Lithuanian airspace by Nato fighter jets two weeks ago.He says “the repeated drone incidents along our eastern flank showed the evolving nature of the threat, and we are strengthening our integrated air and missile defence.”“We are adapting and reinforcing our posture against drones.” Continue reading...

Jakub KrupaEuropeEstonia

GuardianSep 29Preview

Trump denies offering Iran sanctions relief for nuclear concessions – US politics live

President uses social media post to deny reports that he was willing to ease sanctions in return for ‘concrete’ steps over its nuclear programSign up to the US Breaking News emailDonald Trump will host a meeting today with House speaker Mike Johnson and tech executives like Meta CEO ⁠Mark Zuckerberg and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to discuss AI, as calls ramp up for more regulation of the fast-developing technology.Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and OpenAI president Greg Brockman ⁠are also expected to ⁠attend, separate sources familiar with the planning told Reuters. Continue reading...

Tom AmbroseUS newsWorld news

BBCSep 29Preview

Lives 'will be lost' unless UK does more to combat wildfires, committee chairwoman says

Baroness Brown says there must be better training and planning, after a record year for wildfires in England and Wales.

BBCSep 29Preview

Watch: 'Ship buster' missiles sink old US warship in live fire training off Scotland

The 43-year-old decommissioned frigate was used for target practice off the Outer Hebrides.

GuardianSep 29Preview

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations ends with a false positive and no arrests

Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alertA six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time ended in one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests.More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders. Continue reading...

Phoebe Davis and Daniel BoffeyFacial recognitionLondon

GuardianSep 29Preview

Murdered for their eyes: people with albinism living in terror in Madagascar

The country is struggling to address a rise in attacks, with a record 13 people – mostly children – killed this year for body parts, which some believe can bring good fortuneNot long after midnight in late May this year, three men barged through the door of the small room where Nicole Soalala lived with her family on the outskirts of Toliara, a coastal city in the south of Madagascar. Her husband got up to ask what they wanted, but they attacked him with a piece of wood and an axe.Soalala, 32, grabbed her youngest child, Landricia – an 18-month-old girl with albinism – and hoisted her on to her back, holding her there with a piece of fabric she started to wrap around herself. Her eldest daughter, 15, hid under the table with her other two children, aged six and three. Continue reading...

Sarah Johnson in ToliaraGlobal developmentMadagascar

GuardianSep 29Preview

A leftwing victory in Berlin shows people want freedom, and liberals cannot deliver it | Eva von Redecker

Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far rightThe German leftwing party Die Linke won the state elections in Berlin on 20 September. It’s unclear whether the party will be able to form a coalition, appoint its lead candidate Elif Eralp as mayor, and follow through on her core campaign promise: to socialise the housing stock of the city’s biggest real-estate companies. A barrage of accusations started to circulate immediately after the results came in. Even by the standards of present-day polarisation, the pitch was extreme.On the basis of one leaked chat and one rapper’s performance, the party was described as schmoozing with criminal clans and endangering the lives of Berlin Jews. Accusations of antisemitism prompted the Greens and the SPD – potential coalition partners – to q

Eva von RedeckerGermanyThe far right

GuardianSep 28Preview

Foie gras, live dolphins and toasters: China and US cut reciprocal tariffs on $30bn each of goods

World’s biggest economies release lists of products in latest move away from trade war – but no strategic goods are includedThe US and China have released reciprocal lists of goods worth about $30bn each on which they plan to cut tariffs, ranging from consumer electronics and agricultural products to artificial flowers and live dolphins.The announcements are the latest tack away from the intense trade war between the world’s two largest economies that dominated much of last year, though major strategic products are not included and no timeline has yet been given for the reductions. Continue reading...

Rebecca Bailey China correspondentTariffsTrump tariffs

GuardianSep 28Preview

Sex, drugs and floral fabrics: Celia Birtwell relives her wild times – and wilder outfits – with Ossie Clark

They dressed – and partied with – the innermost in-crowd. As a swirling new show celebrates their fashion creations, Birtwell recalls her happy days with Clark and her sorrow at the loss of David HockneyIn the mythical age of bohemia, the psychedelic decade between Mary Quant’s cheerful miniskirts and the first snarls of punk, Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark were London’s most fashionable couple. Birtwell created the fabrics: daydreamy, botanical doodles that captured the idealism and looseness of the times in wisps of chiffon. Clark magicked these into sensual bias-cut dresses with a freewheeling grandeur that was part Hollywood glamour, part rock’n’roll anarchy.More than just designers, they were a whole vibe. They dressed – and partied with – the innermost of the in-crowd. Talitha Getty, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg hung out at Quorum, their Chelsea boutique. At a catwalk sh

Jess Cartner-MorleyTextile artFashion

GuardianSep 28Preview

‘The same struggles as 100 years ago’: exhibition highlights lives of Sami people in Sweden

Show at Kin Museum in Kiruna marks handover of long-awaited report on abuses committed by the state against the Indigenous peopleFrom a detailed multi-perspectival drawing of reindeer to written accounts of belief systems and childbirth, Johan Turi’s work offers unparalleled insight into his life as a Sami person living in northern Sweden at the start of the 20th century.In the face of racist discrimination, land disputes and the spectre of encroaching industry, Turi wanted his 1910 book Muitalus sámiid birra (An Account of the Sami) to set the record straight about the lives of Europe’s only recognised Indigenous people. Continue reading...

Miranda Bryant in KirunaIndigenous peoplesCulture

NYTSep 29Preview

The Rescuers Keeping Two Ukrainian ‘Fortress Cities’ Alive

Emergency workers have to move fast after Russian attacks in eastern Ukraine. Another could come at any moment.

Tyler Hicks and Marc SantoraRussian Invasion of Ukraine (2022)Rescues