Plus: Tourists on jet skis 'shot dead', and Nobel brings Russia and Iran in from cold
| | | | | | | Even as the race to find the next Republican candidate for the White House hots up, events surrounding the last presidential election are playing out in US courts. We bring you the latest. We'll also keep you up to date on the English Premier League's transfer deadline day. And can you beat my disappointing 4/7 in this week's quiz? Give it a go. |
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| | | | Top of the agenda | | Longest jail term yet over Capitol riots | | | | Former Infowars correspondent Joe Biggs was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other charges. Credit: Getty Images |
| | Two more members of the far-right Proud Boys will be sentenced later for their role in the US Capitol riot, on 6 January 2021. A group leader - US Army veteran Joe Biggs, 38 - was jailed for 17 years on Thursday. Prosecutors said he was an instigator of the storming of Congress, in support of Donald Trump after his election defeat. Zachary Rehl was sentenced to 15 years for spraying a chemical irritant at officers. Mr Trump, meanwhile, will appear live on TV from a Georgia courtroom when he fights charges that he conspired with 18 others to overturn the state’s election result, after a judge ruled it should be livestreamed. The trial could happen next year, as the former president seeks re-election. | | • | Proud Boys: From storming the Capitol for Trump to protesting drag shows, Mike Wendling profiles a group with violence at its heart. | | • | Watch: BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse analyses what the Proud Boys did on 6 January. | | • | In related news: After Eminem told Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to stop rapping to his songs, the BBC's Professor of Pop Paul Gambaccini joins the Americast team to talk pop in politics. |
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| | | | | | World headlines | | • | School's out: Days before the start of the new term, more than 100 schools in England have been told to shut buildings containing a type of concrete that's at risk of collapse. It's in lots of other public buildings too. Here's the latest. | | • | Tourists killed: Algeria has not commented on reports its coastguard shot dead two French-Moroccan holidaymakers who strayed into its waters on jet skis. A third man is said to have been arrested, with a fourth picked up by the Moroccan navy. | | • | 'So many bodies': As South Africa's president calls the Johannesburg building fire that killed 74 people - including 12 children - a "wake up call", Samantha Granville hears from one traumatised survivor who jumped from a window, then caught his one-year-old baby. | | • | Nobel diplomacy: Russia and Belarus have been invited back to Stockholm's Nobel Prize banquet, having been being left out last year over the Ukraine war. Iran has also been invited back, with the Nobel Foundation seeking to include even those who don't share its values. Read the reaction. | | • | Football frenzy: Is Salah off to Saudi? Will Brighton bag Barcelona's Fati? Who's next in at Chelsea? It's transfer deadline day in England's Premier League, so check our live page for all the hot tips and confirmed deals. And for the best analysis, I'd recommend Football Extra - our daily email about all-things Premier League. Sign up here. |
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| | | | AT THE SCENE | | | Washington, DC |
| | Healing more than bullet wounds | | With the number of young people shot by guns on the rise in the US, a children's hospital in the heart of America's capital is trying to break the cycle of violence. | | | | Rebecca Hartmann, BBC News |
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| | In the emergency room at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC, hospital beds line the corridors as cartoons blare on television sets. Nearby, children with the most traumatic injuries are rushed to the trauma room. These are often victims of road traffic accidents, but in recent years, more and more children have arrived with gunshot wounds. Dr Mikael Petrosyan, a paediatric trauma surgeon who has operated on victims as young as three years old, says it's a near daily occurrence. "It's shocking because it's senseless to me. It's mind boggling," he says. |
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| | Beyond the headlines | | 'Any story could be your last' | | | | Mohammad Sultan believes his son Asif, pictured in 2018, was targeted for his work. Credit: Getty Images |
| | Muslim-majority Kashmir has seen an armed insurgency against Indian rule since 1989. The BBC has spoken to more than two dozen journalists about claims the government is running a sinister and systematic campaign to intimidate and silence the region's press. One tells us they are "treated like criminals... labelled anti-nationals, terror sympathisers", as Yogita Limaye reports, from Srinagar. | | | | |
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| | | | Something different | | The birthday paradox | | What the Women's World Cup tells us about a puzzling peculiarity of probability. | | |
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| | | | And finally... | | If you had to flee your home forever, what would you take with you? We hear from five women, refugees from war and conflict, for whom photographs are a precious reminder of past lives and favourite places they will never see again. Now settled in the UK, they share the evocative images the carried with them. Take a look. |
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