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News

  • Keir Starmer has promised communities 'will be safe' following a Cobra meeting

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    Communities 'will be safe', promises Keir Starmer – video

  • Tim Walz has become Kamala Harris’s pick to run alongside her as vice-president for the US 2024 election

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    Tim Walz on calling Donald Trump weird – video

  • Parts of northern Florida were flooded after Tropical Storm Debby brought torrential rain to the area

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    Florida residents kayak through flooded streets as Storm Debby makes landfall – video

  • Morgan will become the Welsh first minister after the resignation of Vaughan Gething over a donations scandal

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    'I will listen': Eluned Morgan selected as Welsh first minister – video

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Sport

  • Lanús forward Walter Bou scored a potential new contender for the Puskas Award as he secured a 3-2 lead against Tigre in Argentina

    Argentinian forward scores sensational bicycle kick from outside the box – video

  • Noah Lyles' dramatics photo finish in the 100m dash is explained through drawing and data visualisation

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    How Noah Lyles won gold: the closest 100m dash in history explained – video

  • Simone Biles put her fifth place finish in Paris 2024 Olympic beam final down to a 'weird and awkward' atmosphere at Bercy Arena

    Simone Biles says routines affected by 'weird and awkward' atmosphere – video

  • Former England cricketer and coach Graham Thorpe, one of the finest Test batters of his generation, has died at the age of 55

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    Graham Thorpe: one of England's finest and most fluent batters – video obituary

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • Fertility tourism is booming for single Chinese women with hopes of future motherhood. China's birthrate is at a record low, yet unmarried women are not legally allowed to freeze their eggs there. We meet Lei and Abu, as they travel to the US for the procedure, battling self-doubt and scepticism along the way. What does this mean for womanhood and parenting in modern China?

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    Frozen in Time: the motherhood dilemma for single women in China

  • When Naissa tells his mother Daniela that he identifies as a trans man she struggles to understand. Through candid personal letters exchanged over three years, Dear Mamma follows Naissa as he stands firmly for his independence and identity, and Daniela as she wrestles with her fear of losing a child. As Naissa embarks on his professional dance career and proudly embodies his gender, his mother also embarks on a journey of understanding and acceptance of her son’s choices

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    Dear Mamma: a transgender man, his mother and their journey in letters

  • The remote island of St Helena, a British overseas territory, is best known for Napoleon's tomb – the island's biggest tourist attraction. While overseeing the construction of a long-awaited airport on the island, Annina van Neel learns that the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans have been uncovered, unearthing one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade in the world

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    Buried: how we choose to remember the transatlantic slave trade – documentary

  • This film is voiced by three individuals experiencing digital exclusion, revealing how varied and complex the repercussions can be. Through enacted scenes from their lives, it makes visible the expanding digital divide – an issue too often unseen or ignored

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    The Digital Divide: could you live without the internet?

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Focus

  • Milford Towers is a social housing estate in Lewisham, south London, slated for demolition and described by its residents as 'hell'. The residents accuse the council of ignoring them and deliberately running it into the ground. There are frequent leaks, mould infestations, fires, stabbings and violence – and perpetually broken lifts.

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    The London ‘hell’ estate fighting back: murders, fires and broken lifts

  • Samah Khalid Naji is 18, and along with six other members of her family, is living in the bombed-out remains of their house in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. It was destroyed in October by an Israeli missile strike. The Guardian spent two days with Samah and her family in December to see the remains of their house and how they are surviving the war. She told the film-maker Majdi Fathi about why they decided this was the safest place for them to be

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    Why I stay: Living inside the ruins of my Gaza home – video

  • Kuo Chiu, known as KC to his friends, teaches urban design at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He’s also one of many of the country's citizens who practises rifle skills in his spare time, in case of a Chinese invasion. The Guardian's video team spent time with KC to see how he is preparing.

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    The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion – video

  • Palestinian doctor and five-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Izzeldin Abuelaish, has experienced immense personal tragedy. In January 2009, an Israeli tank shell hit his home killing his three daughters and one of his nieces and in November this year, 22 members of his extended family were killed in Jabaliya refugee camp by an Israeli airstrike. Dr Abuelaish speaks to the Guardian about how his personal loss has made him determined to push for peace

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    An Israeli airstrike killed 22 of my relatives, but I refuse to hate – video

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On the ground

  • When the Afghan Taliban ceased production of heroin, global supplies were depleted, with new, powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes flooding in to fill the vacuum.

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    Is a new opioid crisis about to devastate the UK?

  • Ahead of the election in India, the Guardian’s video team travelled through the country to explore how fake news and censorship might shape the outcome.

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    The fake news divide: how Modi’s rule is fracturing India – video

  • Images created by AI are getting exponentially better and already changing industries such as modelling and marketing, but can they offer a more diverse reflection of humanity than has historically been available – or are they destined to reflect the narrow standards of beauty these industries have long been drawn to?

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    Human or AI? The future of beauty standards – video

  • Since the US supreme court's overturning of Roe v Wade, 16 states have enacted stringent bans on nearly all abortions. But that is not enough for a new generation of organised and passionate activists intent on pushing even stricter laws across the country. Carter Sherman spends time with students and organisers at the annual March for Life in Washington DC and meets the influential woman spearheading the national movement

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    Inside the youth anti-abortion movement in the US: 'Victory is on its way' – video

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Explainers

  • How exactly do you pronounce Kamala? Listen up and learn to get it right

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    Kahm-uh-luh: how to pronounce Kamala Harris – video

  • In this video the Guardian US's politics correspondent, Lauren Gambino, explains why Biden has ultimately decided to step aside

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    Why Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race - video explainer

  • The Tory election campaign was doomed to begin with, but this is how it fell apart

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    A failed gamble? How the Tory election campaign imploded – video

  • Who are Reform UK and why are they such a worry for prime minister Rishi Sunak?

    UK election crash course: a quick guide to the major players vying for Downing Street – video

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It's complicated

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss looks back at historical cases of genocide that have been tried in the international courts to find out why the crime is so much harder to prove than other atrocities, and what bearing this has on South Africa's case against Israel and future cases

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    What it takes to prove genocide – video

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet

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    How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – video

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how Vladimir Putin is gaining control of the polar region

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    How Russia is taking control of the Arctic – video

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss examines how Israel took control of the region's water and created a deadly problem for Palestinians

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    How Israel created a water crisis for Palestinians – video

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Anywhere but Westminster

  • On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up those vibes?

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    So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster - video

  • In the third episode of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos travel around the West Midlands, and find a fascinating political mixture: hesitant Labour voters, a new crop of independents focused on Palestine and local cuts  – and, amid deep social problems, lots of people who think the election hardly matters. Here, it seems, is the reality that all those opinion polls get nowhere near

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    Here's what you find under Labour's 'landslide': doubters, abstainers and independents - video

  • In the latest episode of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos go to Woking, Guildford and Aldershot. Most of England's south-east used to be loyally Conservative - now, however, people in the "blue wall" are struggling, cuts are biting, and Toryism today is leaving younger voters behind.

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    Why are the Tories collapsing? These true-blue towns know the answers - video

  • In the first video of a new series of Anywhere but Westminster, John Harris and John Domokos revisit Stoke-on-Trent, the once-loyal Labour city that went totally Tory in 2019. Has 'levelling up' money made up for swingeing local cuts? Will Labour win again? And what do people working hard to turn the place around think  about the future? 

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    This Labour city backed Brexit and went Tory: what did it get in return? - video

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Made in Britain

  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in the asylum backlog, women traumatised by detention and women struggling to find housing. They were all volunteering in their communities, while reckoning with a hostile climate towards refugees and asylum seekers. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain

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    Our lives in the UK asylum system: 'the power of fear' – video

  • The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale in greater Manchester, who turned the lens on a benefits system that they have seen unfairly penalising vulnerable people in their town. The group of reporters from the Elephants Trail met friends, family and others in the community trying to navigate the system, and consider how they can use those stories to advocate for change across the country. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain.

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    Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink – video

  • The Guardian was working with a community reporting team called the Elephant’s Trail in Rochdale on a series about their town when a byelection was called. The contest quickly plunged into chaos after the Labour party and the Green party withdrew support for their candidates and the canvassing was dominated by smaller parties. But how did this affect the voters? The team hit the streets and found evidence of apathy, concerns about homelessness and a desire for politicians who are committed to changing their community for the better 

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    A view from Rochdale: ‘Democracy has gone out of the window’ – video

  • Homegrown was a grass roots community group that stood in the middle of a new housing development in rapidly gentrifying Tottenham in north London. The group was led by Rose and Emma whose message to the young people they helped was to be their best, and never give up. So when they were told they had to leave, there was only one thing to do: occupy.

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    Occupy Tottenham: a community defends its home - video

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