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Contenders for the £10,000 video art prize offer up a range of work, from explorations of the UK prison system to surreal skin cream advertsFrom Agatha Christie novels to montages of gay porn, the source material for the 2022 Film London Jarman award nominees list is as varied as the work itself.This year’s contenders for the £10,000 prize include British-Kenyan filmmaker Grace Ndiritu, whose 2021 film Black Beauty sets an advert for factor 5,000 skin cream against a hallucinatory television interview with the writer Jorge Luis Borges. And Onyeka Igwe, a London-based artist whose 2022 film The Miracle on George Green tells the story of the children who tried to save an ancient sweet chestnut tree in Wanstead, east London by writing letters addressed to the treehouse inside it. Continue reading...

Government increasingly annoyed by broadcaster’s tactics in ‘phoney war’ before potential saleChannel 4 is preparing to sign a deal to keep its news programme on air for the next five years, meaning any new private sector owner could be locked into producing a show that has repeatedly angered Conservative ministers.It comes as the broadcaster’s management team engage in an uneasy dance over its future, with the government increasingly annoyed that they are openly fighting attempts at privatisation. Continue reading...

Six forcibly recruited men speak out about brutal illegal pushbacks involving threats, beating and lootingIn a militarised border zone, in the dead of night, asylum seekers say they have been coerced into violent, illegal pushback operations run by Greek police.Kept locked up between operations, the asylum seekers claim they were forcibly recruited or lured there by a Syrian man living in a container in the yard of a Greek police station, and then used as boatmen to ferry other migrants back to Turkey. Continue reading...

Dominic Perrottet insists he had nothing to do with hiring process and ‘no recollection’ of being asked for approval

Galleries will showcase designers who are often overlooked, in an effort to acknowledge colonial histories within the museumThe Victoria and Albert Museum will open its first African fashion exhibition this week, more than 170 years after it was founded.Featuring designers who have worked with names including Beyoncé and architect David Adjaye, Africa Fashion aims to look across the fashion of the continent, exhibiting designs, photographs and films from 25 of the 54 countries. Continue reading...

Privately run homes have more police callouts and staff complaints than council ones, data showsSerious incidents involving the police and whistleblowing complaints are more common in private children’s homes run to make a profit than in homes run by charities and councils, data suggests.Analysis of Ofsted data by the Guardian and BBC signals that children’s homes operated by profit-making firms had a disproportionately higher number of police callouts compared with those of not-for-profit providers. There was also a disproportionately higher number of complaints from often concerned staff members. Continue reading...

Putin’s advance on Ukraine’s second city was halted in March, but its defenders sense another offensive is looming

Analysis: Duterte’s popularity remains undented among people in poorer areas despite attacks on human rights, rule of law and mediaSix years ago, the tough-talking mayor of Davao City, known as “the Punisher” because of his merciless approach to crime, was on the brink of taking national power in the Philippines. He promised to move power away from Manila elites, tackle poverty, corruption, and drugs. “When I become president,” Rodrigo Duterte told one rally, “I will order the police to find those people [involved in drugs] and kill them. The funeral parlours will be packed.”The latter prediction was, at least, correct. When Duterte steps down on 30 June, having reached the end of his term limit, he will leave behind a country in which human rights, the media and rule of law have been weakened, say analysts. Continue reading...

Protesters say they’re seeking to make it clear that disruption is going to come from climate collapse

This live blog is now closed, you can find our latest coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war hereUkraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy is set to address world leaders at the G7 meeting virtually today. He has just posted to Telegram pictures of damage from missile strikes in Kyiv, with the message:No Russian missiles, no strikes can break the morale of Ukrainians. And each of their missiles is an argument in our negotiations with partners.Our armed forces continue to destroy the occupiers on the line of contact. In the Kharkiv direction, the invaders attacked in the direction of Dementiivka and Pitomnyk, suffered losses and retreated. In the area of Izium, the enemy does not stop trying to advance. Our defenders are resisting, destroying the occupiers’ manpower and armoured vehicles. Continue reading...

Nazlioglu died in hospital early on Tuesday after being found with gunshot wounds in a residential Rhodes carpark about 6.30pm on Monday

Southwest Chief train crash left at least 40 injured in remote rural area, according to unconfirmed reportsThree people were killed and several others were injured when a passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck and derailed in a remote, rural area of Missouri on Monday, officials said.Two of the people who died were on the train and one was in the truck, Missouri state highway patrol spokesman Corporal Justin Dunn said. It was not immediately clear exactly how many people were hurt, the patrol said, but hospitals reported receiving more than 40 patients from the crash and were expecting more. Continue reading...

Rise of £2.4bn in costs could be ‘disastrous’ and essential services may need to be cut, says LGA chairCouncil leaders in England have said a multibillion-pound financial crisis caused by rising inflation could make local services unviable and even lead to local authorities going bankrupt, unless the government offers emergency funding.The cross-party Local Government Association (LGA) said local services that were seemingly secure just three months ago were now at risk of closure or cuts as councils scramble to manage an unforeseen £2.4bn rise in energy and pay costs. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Union organisation says ministers in talks with 13 countries with poor track recordMinisters have been accused of pushing for post-Brexit trade deals with more than a dozen countries around the world that do not guarantee workers’ rights or systematically violate employee protections.The Trades Union Congress said ministers were in active talks with 13 nations with a worrying track record on employment rights, including Brazil, Burundi, Saudi Arabia and Qatar in order to secure trade deals after leaving the EU. Continue reading...

President Guillermo Lasso announces cut to gas prices in effort to quell protests demanding lower fuel and food pricesEcuadorian Indigenous organizations have said they will meet with the government to discuss demands for lower fuel and food prices which have sparked two weeks of protests, hitting the country’s weakened economy and threatening its oil production.President Guillermo Lasso late on Sunday announced a 10-cent per gallon cut to gasoline and diesel prices, the latest concession to try to quell the sometimes-violent demonstrations, which began on 13 June. Continue reading...

Foreign secretary in the Commons to introduce second reading of the Northern Ireland protocol billIt’s just over six years since years the UK voted to leave the EU. Now, I’m not quite sure back then how you thought the country might look in 2022 but I’d put money on you not imagining a prime minister capable of interpreting two disastrous byelections as a mandate to carry on for two further terms. If only The Convict had lost a few more byelections, then he could have nominated himself as president for life.But say you did make the right calls on Boris Johnson’s “World King” ambitions, surely no one would have dreamed that the UK would be busy trying to break the Brexit treaty it had signed just over two years previously. That was a level of incompetence and stupidity that was surely beyond even the derelicts who were left to make up The Rwanda Panda’s cabinet? Satire not just dead, but completely incinerated. Continue reading...

Hundreds who paid for travel through Motawif system say they missed flights after their bookings ‘failed’Hundreds of British Muslims who booked travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the hajj pilgrimage have described their anger and frustration at being stranded in the UK despite paying thousands of pounds for flights and hotels through a flawed Saudi government-backed system.Earlier this month, Saudi Arabia’s ministry of hajj and umrah announced that pilgrims from Europe, the US and Australia could no longer book hajj packages through travel agencies and would instead have to apply through a lottery system called Motawif. Continue reading...

Mobile and broadband firms make number of commitments amid cost of living crisisThe UK’s biggest mobile and broadband companies have agreed a plan to help customers struggling to pay bills amid the cost of living crisis, including moves to allow switching to cheaper deals without paying a penalty.The package was agreed at a summit at Downing Street, co-chaired by the culture secretary, Nadine Dorries, and the cost of living business tsar, David Buttress, and attended by the top executives of the country’s biggest telecoms firms, including BT, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, Three, Sky and TalkTalk. Continue reading...

Immediate solutions needed for deteriorating staff crisis in sector struggling to maintain basic standards, report finds

Former prime minister tells inquiry no amount of money could compensate for what happenedCampaigners for victims of the infected blood scandal have been left “angry, annoyed and frustrated” at comments by the former prime minister Sir John Major, who said those affected had “incredibly bad luck”.To gasps from those present at the infected blood inquiry in London, Major suggested no amount of money could have offered true compensation for what happened. Continue reading...

Council says it called off Bindel’s talk at library because of her views on transgender rightsJulie Bindel, the veteran feminist and lesbian activist, has said she intends to take legal action after a council cancelled a talk she was due to give.Bindel was scheduled to speak at Aspley library in Nottingham on Saturday but the 90-minute event was cancelled the day before. She says she found out when she was already on the train and ended up speaking in the library car park. Continue reading...

Company given support from fund set up by government to provide loans to startups during pandemicTaxpayers have become shareholders in Killing Kittens, a sex party organiser, alongside a business looking to bring airships back to the skies, as part of the fallout from a government rescue funding scheme set up during the coronavirus pandemic.The taxpayer-backed British Business Bank’s Future Fund, set up by the government to provide loans to startups during the pandemic, has spent about £1.14bn supporting 1,190 companies. Continue reading...

Sole surviving member of cell alleged to have carried out terrorist attacks insists ‘I’m not a killer’The sole surviving member of a cell alleged to have carried out the November 2015 terrorist bombings and shootings across Paris insisted he was not a killer, as the nine-month trial drew to a close.“I’ve made mistakes, but I’m not an assassin. I’m not a killer. If you convict me for murder you will be committing an injustice,” Salah Abdeslam told the special court in Paris on Monday. Continue reading...

Better controls on EU goods needed as impact of Covid and Russia-Ukraine war also put pressure on standardsThe UK is facing “significant risks” to the quality of food being imported and consumed as Brexit, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war put pressure on standards, British watchdogs have warned.Better controls are needed to ensure the quality of “higher-risk” food coming from the EU post-Brexit – such as meat, dairy, eggs and feed – and to avoid “potential safety incidents”, a report by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) said. Continue reading...

About half of city’s decorative fountains targeted amid state of emergency in Lombardy regionAuthorities in Milan are turning off public fountains amid warnings of daytime water rationing as Italy battles one of its worst droughts in decades.The measure, which comes after the wider Lombardy region declared a state of emergency, targets about half of the city’s 100 decorative fountains, with the plug already pulled on several over the weekend and the rest to be switched off in the coming days. Continue reading...

Missile hits busy shopping mall; Zelenskiy addresses G7 leaders via video link

Kremlin owes about $40bn but has been shut out of international financial system since invasion of UkraineRussia is poised to default on its debt for the first time since 1998, further alienating the country from the global financial system after sanctions imposed over its war in Ukraine.The country missed a deadline of Sunday night to meet a 30-day grace period on interest payments of $100m (£81.2m) on two eurobonds originally due on 27 May, Bloomberg reported on Monday morning. Continue reading...

Coalition wins in seven of 13 provincial capitals including traditionally conservative VeronaItaly’s centre-left has secured a series of key wins in local election runoffs, including the traditionally conservative city of Verona, where a former international footballer has been elected mayor.The ballot was the last major test of the strength of political parties before general elections next year. Continue reading...

Tournament will run for full 14 days and record attendance expected after numbers cut by half last yearThousands of tennis fans will cheer on Emma Raducanu and Andy Murray at Wimbledon today as the tournament returns to full capacity for the first time in three years.The grounds will be packed with up to 42,000 people each day after crowds were slashed by 50% last year due to the Covid pandemic. Continue reading...

Analysis: as Soviet-era shells run low, Ukraine appeals for artillery that can use Nato shells, but deliveries are slow

Government plans to recruit several thousand from Turkey as airline industry struggles to meet demandGermany is planning to launch a temporary foreign workers scheme to offset acute staff shortages at the country’s airports over the summer months, ministers have said.The move would allow German airport service providers to recruit several thousand temporary workers from Turkey for several months from July, Bild newspaper reported on Sunday. Continue reading...

Aslef members on London Trams network reject 3% offer from operator FirstGroupTram drivers in south London are to become the latest rail staff to strike when they walk out for 48 hours on Tuesday in a dispute over pay.About 150 members of the Aslef union on the London Trams network, formerly known as the Croydon Tramlink, have rejected a 3% offer from operator FirstGroup. Continue reading...

US-brokered summit discusses shared threat of Tehran’s growing missile and drone capabilitiesTop military officials from Israel and Saudi Arabia have met in secret US-brokered talks to discuss defence coordination against Iran, according to a report.Delegations from Riyadh, as well as Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt, met the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief of staff in the Egyptian town of Sharm el-Sheikh in March, the Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday, citing US and regional officials. Continue reading...

Exclusive: UCLH says Great Ormond Street’s development of ageing site will endanger safety of patientsAn extraordinary row has broken out between two NHS hospital trusts, with one accusing the other of endangering the safety of seriously ill patients through a £190m development scheme.University College London hospital (UCLH) claims Great Ormond Street (GOSH) children’s hospital’s rebuilding of its ageing site will lead to patients being denied time-critical care because they will become stuck in ambulances trapped in construction site traffic. Continue reading...

Trapped warm air and high pressure result in country recording temperature of 40C for first time in the month of JuneThere were scorching conditions across Japan over the weekend, with the 40C threshold breached for the first time in the month of June. A temperature of 40.2°C was recorded on Saturday in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, north-east of Tokyo,which beat the previous June record of 39.8°C set in 2011. Several heatstroke alerts were in place across the region with people rushed to hospital for heat-related illnesses, with many older and young people succumbing to heat exhaustion.High pressure to the east of Japan over the Pacific induced a south to south-westerly airflow that brought warm air up from the equatorial region, which fuelled the high temperatures. High pressure over a number of days contributed to creating a “heat dome”, trapping the warmer air and helping temperatures rise day on day. Continue reading...

The actor has announced he will speak live online to the director on 28 JuneAlec Baldwin has announced he is to interview Woody Allen on Instagram Live on 28 June.The actor made the announcement on his own Instagram account, with a note which sought to pre-empt criticism of the move. Continue reading...

Omicron BA.4/BA.5 likely to become dominant coronavirus strains in Victoria as nation records at least 23 Covid deaths. This blog is now closed

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New data reveals distances to GPs in some metropolitan areas can be more than 9km – and poor planning is to blame, researchers say

Public support has soared for the plain-speaking RMT leader who is leading the fight to protect his members’ living standardsAt 7 o’clock on Saturday morning, union boss Mick Lynch was once again on the picket line at Euston station in London, galvanising colleagues, talking tactics on the pay negotiations and conducting broadcast interviews.Until the biggest industrial action on the rail network for more than 30 years, few people would have even heard of Lynch, general secretary of the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT). This weekend, he is a national figure. Continue reading...

A short but pivotal period of time that saw the Vixens edge the Giants 55-54 to reach the grand final epitomised the 2022 seasonSeventy-five seconds is not a lot of time. It’s not enough time for the world’s fastest runners to finish an 800-metre race. It’s barely enough time for an NRL team to score a try. Maybe if someone was really committed to saving water they could squeeze in a shower in that time.However, the last 75 seconds of Saturday night’s Suncorp Super Netball preliminary final was long enough for hearts to break, find hope and then explode with joy. Long enough for fans to scream in excitement, then in anguish, despair, belief and finally in agony. Long enough for both teams to believe multiple times that the place in the grand final was theirs and to also believe multiple times that all hope was lost. Continue reading...

Treasurer says it is ‘uncontroversial’ for unions to note that wage rises are below inflation, and suggests there may be a place for workers’ representative on RBA board

Vladimir Putin again raises nuclear threat during Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, as Olaf Scholz hosts G7 leaders to discuss energy and food crisisRussia will deliver missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads to Belarus in the coming months, President Vladimir Putin has said as he received Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.“In the coming months, we will transfer to Belarus Iskander-M tactical missile systems, which can use ballistic or cruise missiles, in their conventional and nuclear versions,” Putin said in a broadcast on Russian television at the start of his meeting with Lukashenko in St Petersburg on Saturday. Continue reading...

Lambie, Zali Steggall, One Nation and David Pocock have attacked the Albanese government’s decision, saying they may not support legislation if they don’t have the resources to understand it

Avon and Somerset police say victim died at scene in Charfield after being found badly injuredA man has died after an assault in a village in south Gloucestershire on Friday night, police said.Officers from Avon and Somerset police attended an address on Thames Close, Charfield, just before 11pm and found the victim, who had been badly injured. Continue reading...

Authorities concerned about riders speeding, mounting pavements and abandoning vehiclesAuthorities in Rome are to impose new electric scooter rules, such as restricting use to adults with ID, after a number of crashes and near-misses in the city.The e-scooter rental market has boomed in recent years, with 14,500 scooters currently available in the Italian capital, provided by seven licensed companies. Continue reading...

A survey has found the capital’s eateries to be the loudest in Europe and the second noisiest in the worldCutlery clanging on plates, chairs scraping across a hardwood floor, the boisterous anecdote of a half-cut raconteur: when it comes to restaurants, one person’s idea of a “good atmosphere” has another reaching for their earplugs.But for those who like their food served up along with the decibel levels of a motorbike or lawnmower, London is the place to be. Continue reading...

Zelenskiy welcomes approval of Ukraine’s application to join EU as ‘historic moment’ while battle for two key cities in eastern Ukraine edges towards ‘fearsome climax’