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The Playstation is turning the same age as Justin Bieber. Let that sink in.

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aWhen I said apedo guy,a I didnat mean that he was literally a pedophile; it was just an insult.a

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Supreme court to consider if parliamentas suspension is legal a| Trump tax returns subpoenaed a| and could a short film revive the Jurassic franchise?

Good morning and welcome to this Tuesday briefing with Alison Rourke.

New Zealand village complains to ministry of culture and heritage over planned visit by a replica of the Endeavour

A village in New Zealand has banned a replica of Captain Cookas ship from docking there to mark 250 years since the exploreras arrival after an outcry from the local MAori community.

The vessel is part of a flotilla circumnavigating New Zealand next month for the Tuia 250 a a NZ$13.5m (APS7m) series of events that aacknowledges the first onshore encounters between MAori and PAkehA in 1769-70a. It was due to visit Mangonui, in the North Island, but the stop was cancelled by the ministry of culture and heritage after complaints from indigenous figures.

Netanyahu campaign has demonised Israelas Arab minority and vowed to annex much of Palestinian territories

Israelis have begun voting in the countryas second election this year, following a campaign dominated by Benjamin Netanyahu and his vows to implement a far-right, ultranationalist agenda in exchange for a record fifth term as leader.

Facing the prospect of criminal corruption indictments and hoping to extend his unmatched stint in the prime ministeras office, Netanyahu has promised to declare up to a third of the occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel if he is re-elected.

At least 24,000 people are trapped in vastly overcrowded Aegean island camps in squalid conditions

Children being bitten by scorpions, rats and snakes; hundreds being forced to use a single shower; the stench of human excrement never far away; and food shortages becoming the norm. One by one, Sophie McCann lists the degradations of life for refugees detained on Lesbos, the Greek island on the frontline of a new surge of asylum seekers desperate to reach Europe.

McCann, a British advocacy manager with MA(c)decins Sans FrontiA"res, like other aid workers, is now raising the alarm: at least 24,000 men, women and children trapped in vastly overcrowded Aegean island camps are being subjected to conditions so harrowing they bear all the hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe. Four years after the greatest migration crisis in modern times, there are fears history is repeating itself.

In the middle of Spring 2020 presentations, influential designer announces he is leaving label he co-founded

Fashionas enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia quit his uber-hip streetwear brand Vetements, in a move that shocked the industry.

Related: aI donat think elegance is relevanta: Vetementsa Demna Gvasalia, the worldas hottest designer

Aimee Teese 1988-2019: She was a much-loved mum with a amassive, infectious laugha. So why did Aimee die in a tent in Liverpool city centre?

Aimee Teeseas final words to her friend and outreach worker Michelle Langan were: aLook after yourself.a Hours later, on 8 January this year, she was found dead in a tent on the outskirts of Liverpool city centre. Within three months, on 2 April, Richard Kehoe was discovered comatose in a tent opposite the Royal Liverpool hospital. Soon after, he was pronounced dead.

Three days later, Liverpoolas mayor, Joe Anderson, announced he would remove all tents from Liverpool city centre. aWe are going to give people a warning, give them an hour to take their tent down and say: aHere is a place for you to sleep, we will pick you up, take you with your goods.aa

Demand for ahealinga crystals is soaring a but many are mined in deadly conditions in one of the worldas poorest countries. And there is little evidence that this billion-dollar industry is cleaning up its act.

By Tess McClure

In February, crystals colonised Tucson. They spread out over carparks and gravel lots, motel courtyards and freeway footpaths, past strip malls and burger bars. Beneath tents and canopies, on block after block, rested every kind of stone imaginable: the opaque, soapy pastels of angeline; dark, mossy-toned epidote; tourmaline streaked with red and green. There were enormous, dining-table-sized pieces selling for tens of thousands of dollars, lumps of rose quartz for $100, crystal eggs for $1.50. Crystals were stacked upon crystals, filling plastic trays, carved into every possible shape: knives, penises, bathtubs, angels, birds of paradise.

It was the month of the Tucson gem shows, a series of markets and exhibitions that collectively make up the largest crystal expo in the world. More than 4,000 crystal, mineral and gemstone vendors had come to sell their wares. They were expecting more than 50,000 customers to pass through, from new age enthusiasts with thick dreadlocks and tie-dye T-shirts, to gallery owners, suited businessmen and major wholesalers. Deals done here would determine the fate of tens of thousands of tonnes of crystals, dispatching them across the US and Europe into museums and galleries, crystal healing and yoga centres, wellness retailers and Etsy stores.

Steve McQueen in bed, Ai Weiwei in trouble, Pussy Riot in church and Ragnar Kjartansson in the bath a theyare all included in our countdown of the best art since 2000

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Almost an hour long, Tacita Deanas film is a summation of her work to date. Poet Anne Carson and actor Stephen Dillane move through the world on an imaginary day, as the sun is eclipsed. Set in multiple locations and weathers (Bodmin Moor, Yellowstone Park, Wyoming and Illinois), and with innovative technical manipulations (the entire film was edited in-camera), atmospheres and startling imagery, the whole thing is a delight. AS
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Eight companies turned down opportunity because it would harm their reputations

The Hong Kong government has tried but failed to secure help from any of the global public relations firms it has approached to salvage the financial hubas tarnished reputation, as anti-government protests continued to wreak havoc months into its deepest political crisis in decades.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told a group of business people in the city in late August that the government had approached eight global PR companies to help it relaunch Hong Kong, but four aimmediately declined because that would be a detriment to their reputation to support the Hong Kong government now,a according to a transcript of her speech published by Reuters last week. Two more declined later, she said.

Chlorine-washed chicken from the US has become a totemic issue in the post-Brexit trade deals Britain could look to secure. But is it unsafe? And what does it say about the different attitudes to food production on either side of the Atlantic? Also today: Israelis go to the polls for their second election of the year

Rearing and processing chicken for mass consumption is a messy business. It involves automated plucking, eviscerating and slicing carcasses at rapid intervals. In the US, it also involves washing the finished product in a chlorine solution. And itas this final step that has caused an increasingly fractious debate on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Guardianas Felicity Lawrence has investigated global food production in a series of exposA(c)s and tells Anushka Asthana what is really at stake in this debate. There are concerns about the specific health effects of consuming chicken washed in chlorine. But there are also fears that it could mask other problems with the meat a and rather than disinfecting chicken at the final stage, welfare issues should be addressed much earlier in the process. Itas a symbolic issue that cuts across much of the two countriesa attitudes to food production and one that could ultimately prevent a post-Brexit trade deal.

After 50 years of occupation, our freedom is shrinking every day. But even if Netanyahu loses, little will change

When Boris Johnson announced his plan to suspend parliament, I was visiting Orkney with my wife, Penny. It was the last week of a month-long stay in Scotland, and it took a day for the news to reach us. We were having tea with some English friends on 29 August when they heard what had happened. They began to fume: heas done it again. They worried how this would undermine their countryas democracy. It was a curious twist: I am usually the one bearing bad news about the state of my country. For a brief moment, we traded anxieties a although mine were of a more existential nature. Even in Scotland, the bad news from home was constant: the expansion of Israeli settlements, the threat of annexation, and the steady tally of death and injury in Gaza, all eating away at what remained of my Palestine.

A few days later, just after Johnson had expelled 21 MPs from his party, we flew home. The driver who picked us up from the airport took the usual circuitous route to get us to Ramallah, crossing three checkpoints on the way. At each one, we held our breath and hoped the soldiers were not in a bad mood. As always I felt the shock of returning home, seeing our parched hills at the end of summer and my noisy, crowded city; I had a sudden and pervasive sense of precariousness.

Hundreds of homeless people die on Britainas streets every year. Itas time to recognise this as a societal failing a and to stop just passing by

It started with the tents. From 2010 onwards it seemed they were springing up everywherea in stations, shopping centres, tunnels, parks, wastelands. Blots on every landscape. Tents became a symbol of David Cameron and George Osborneas austerity politics a or the Big Society, where statutory public services and benefits were slashed and replaced by the voluntary sector and well-meaning individuals with sandwich trolleys. In the blink of an eye, tents became normalised. Britain became a society in which those with nothing, and sometimes even those who worked for a wage, were housed in plastic.

Then we discovered that people werenat simply living in tents, they were dying in them too. Aimee Teese in Liverpool overdosed in her tent while Richard Kehoe was found dead in his after he stopped taking his diabetes medication a both in Liverpool. Itas a truism that societyas most vulnerable have been hardest hit by austerity politics. And you donat get more vulnerable than the homeless. And of the homeless, you donat get more vulnerable than the street homeless. And the most vulnerable of them all? They donat get to live. They perish on the streets of Britain, or in hostels if theyare lucky.

Committee calls for ministers to spell out how supplies can be protected from climate crisis

About a fifth of the fresh food the UK imports comes from areas threatened with climate chaos, putting peopleas health and diets at risk, MPs have found.

The environmental audit committee called on ministers to set out a clear plan for how the UKas food supplies could be protected from the climate emergency and to publish information on how food may be affected by Brexit.

Around 12 engines called to multi-storey apartment block in Clapton area of Hackney

Dozens of firefighters tackled a fire burning across five floors of a block of flats in east London.

London fire brigade said 12 engines were called to the Clapton area of Hackney shortly before 10.40pm.

Lib Dem MP Phillip Lee says Chris Grayling was warned repeatedly not to privatise probation

The former justice secretary Chris Grayling was warned repeatedly by members of the Tory party not to part-privatise the probation service, according to an ex-minister.

Phillip Lee, who quit to join the Liberal Democrats earlier this month, has revealed that during his two years in the justice department there were adeep concerns about that policya from within the party itself.

Three-day gathering will explore why movement gained traction and effect it has had

The first major international conference exploring the #MeToo movement is to take place in Reykjavik today, hosted by the Icelandic prime minister, who said she hoped it would contribute to arelegating sexual harassment to historya.

The three-day gathering will explore why the movement first gained traction, and the effect it has had across different countries and sectors. Women with disabilities, care workers and migrant women whose voices have not typically been heard since the movement began as a hashtag in October 2017 will be among the participants from around the world to share their stories, and discuss how to keep up the momentum to tackle sexual abuse and assault.

Three carriages left the tracks and zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon

A passenger train has derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong, forcing the evacuation of 500 passengers and leaving eight people injured.

Images from the scene showed three carriages had left the tracks and were zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon a a busy interchange that provides services to mainland China.

In new short film Battle at Big Rock, a seat-edge setpiece surpasses the two full-length dino-thrillers that came before it

I bring you good news and bad news. The good news is that the new Jurassic World film Battle at Big Rock is by far the best in the series, managing to be wholly original (unlike Jurassic World) without being aggressively, bonk-headedly stupid (unlike Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom). Itas tight, itas tense, itas a perfect fat-free distillation of everything thatas good about the Jurassic World franchise. However a and now for the bad news a itas only eight minutes long.

Related: Can shifting to a female-focused future overcome Terminator: Dark Fate's bad buzz?

Sara Cox helps seven singles find romance in the midst of running busy farms. Plus: the Bake Off rises once more. Hereas what to watch this evening

It is time for the titular swim in this final episode of the charitable series where non-swimming celebrities really are thrown in the deep end (of the Channel) a and one hopes (as do the producers) that they donat sink. Following 12 weeks of training, the cohort, which includes Olympians Linford Christie and Tessa Sanderson, seem relay-ready, although the brutal realities of the freezing cold, murky water might spell failure. Despite the concept, it is strangely emotional viewing. Ammar Kalia

Set in the home of super-rich Americans, The Visitors is 64 hard-partying minutes of songs, cigars and sorrow. As itas named the best artwork of the century, the artist relives its creation

• The 25 best art works of the 21st century

Rokeby is a crumbling 43-room mansion in upstate New York, where the descendants of the grand American families the Astors and the Livingstons a as well as their bohemian friends a participate in everything from puppetry to organic farming. On one gorgeous summer evening, they gathered on the terrace while nine Icelandic musicians, including members of MAom and Sigur Ros, each took over one of the houseas rooms, from the ballroom to the bathroom. Together, they played a song that went aOnce again, I fall into my feminine waysa a over and over.

The result was The Visitors by artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Named after Abbaas final album and presented as a nine-screen video installation in galleries from Londonas Barbican to the Broad in LA, The Visitors mesmerised viewers, most of whom stayed for its entire 64 minutes, moved to tears of euphoria and sorrow. As the New York Times put it, the effect is aalternately tragic and joyful, meditative and clamorous, and that swells in feeling from melancholic fugue to redemptive gospel choira. A memorial to the end of Kjartanssonas marriage, a paean to the twilight of youth, a celebration of friendship, music and America itself, The Visitors is sumptuous and profound.

The essence of dance is a ritual, says the choreographer whose seductively mysterious works embrace everything from the annunciation to the apocalypse

Angelin Preljocaj is celebrated for his precision engineered choreography, but there is one move he canat quite control: the extreme hair flick. aI try to choreograph hair a itas not so easy,a he says, laughing down the phone from Aix-en-Provence, home to his company for more than 20 years. aItas funny how hair can extend the movement of the body in a sequence, but itas also hazardous. There is something that occurs that is a| unexpected. But that is very nice.a

The choreography of his dancersa glossy locks, as well as their limbs, is essential to Preljocajas 2016 piece La Fresque, which has its UK premiere at Sadleras Wells in London this month. It is based on a traditional Chinese tale about a traveller who discovers a painting on the wall of a temple, enters the world of the picture and weds one of the five women it depicts before crashing back to reality. When he looks back at the image on the wall, he discovers that the womanas hair, which once flowed freely, is now fixed in a chignon symbolising that she is indeed married.

UK firm, which provides electric commercial vehicles, claims to be enjoying significant success

As the British automotive industry endures its worst period in almost two decades, it might not seem like a good time to open a new van factory. Investment has come to a virtual standstill as the prospect of a no-deal Brexit looms and commercial vehicle production has plunged by a third in response to waning demand.

But Arrival begs to differ and has put its money where its mouth is with a new factory in Banbury, Oxfordshire. So far it appears to be paying off, with delivery firms Royal Mail, DHL and DPD, as well as telecoms company BT, among those to have trialled the technology. It plans to launch prototypes of the vanas first full version, using full robotic assembly in Banbury, with UPS in December.

Northern Italyas iron paths give hikers the chance to feel like mountaineers but without rope, anchors or knots. Our writer straps in for the high-altitude thrill of his life

I am standing on an enormous limestone plateau almost 3km up, peering over the edge of a cliff that seems to plunge all the way to the centre of the Earth. Behind me in the distance are stratified towers of rock, their tips gleaming through wisps of cloud in the morning sun. And in front of me is this breathtaking drop, the gateway to what our guide Alessio calls athe danger zonea.

When choosing your childas new school, consider whether it might be a nightmare workplace for the staff

The banners are up, the adverts are in local newspapers. No sooner has the autumn term begun than schools are recruiting the next cohort of students. If it sometimes seems that they all say the same things about their engaging curriculum, personalised pastoral care and professional ethos, how can you tell them apart?

For some parents, itas all about outcomes. Which school tops the league table for results? Which has been judged by Ofsted as outstanding? For others, itas more about a culture that will suit their child. Is there a mobile phone ban? Does the school have the dreaded isolation booths?

Made famous by everyoneas favourite assassin, Villanelle, this versatile material has find its way from saccharine to subversive

• Gallery: the seasonas best tulle
• Read more from the autumn/winter 2019 edition of The Fashion, our biannual fashion supplement

What do Villanelle, Carrie Bradshaw and Queen Elsa of Arendelle have in common? Aside from convention-challenging, glass ceiling-shattering, nonconformist ways, their most memorable outfits comprise candyfloss-hued clouds of tulle. And, this season, they are bang on trend.

aThe material itself transcends all eras,a says London fashion week designer Ryan Lo, who has used tulle afor as long as I can remembera. He has found a fanbase in the likes of Elle Fanning and Maisie Williams as a result. aWe knit it, gather it, smock it, use it as a petticoat, make ruffles, flowers a the possibilities are endless.a For AW19 his references run a gamut of epochs, retaining the aserious period dreamy qualitya.

Claxton, Norfolk: You forgive ivy its smothering tendencies when you hear it humming to the drone of feeding bees

To say I have a love-hate relationship with ivy is too simplistic. Because one of the largest organisms in our garden is a much-valued ivy tod (bush), draped over the top of a decapitated 3m-tall cypress stump. Yet I have also had moments of despair, such as the day I realised ivy had choked out the canopy of one of our favourite holly trees, which has never truly recovered.

Come September I forgive ivy its relentless self-promotion and when I walked up the lane today, where it has also smothered a whole section of oak hedge, I fell in love with its imperishable emerald all over again. The flowering bushes at this spot swooned in invertebrate drone. Here in one 4m stretch of Hedera helix were colour, complexity, music and drama a all of it driven by those weird and completely unprepossessing ivy flowers.

US secretaries of state and energy both explicitly blamed Iran for the attack but Trump suggests US did not have definitive evidence

• Everything you need to know about the Saudi Arabia oil attacks

Donald Trump has said the US response to the attack on Saudi oil facilities will depend on the assessment in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia, and downplayed US dependence on Middle East energy supplies.

The US secretaries of state and energy both explicitly blamed Iran for the attack. Unnamed US officials were also quoted in US media outlets as saying Iranian cruise missiles were used in Saturdayas attack on an oil field and processing plant. Estimates of the number of missiles used ranged from anearly a dozena to aover two dozena.

Netanyahu campaign has demonised Israelas Arab minority and vowed to annex much of Palestinian territories

Israel elections: everything you need to know

Israelis have begun voting in the countryas second election this year, following a campaign dominated by Benjamin Netanyahu and his vows to implement a far-right, ultranationalist agenda in exchange for a record fifth term as leader.

Facing the prospect of criminal corruption indictments and hoping to extend his unmatched stint in the prime ministeras office, Netanyahu has promised to declare up to a third of the occupied Palestinian territories as part of Israel if he is re-elected.

Landlords canat evict Musiy Rishin after outrage over his case, following Guardian interview, leads to new tenant protections

An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor fighting eviction in California will get to stay in his longtime home after outrage about his case prompted lawmakers to implement new tenant protections.

Musiy Rishin, who narrowly escaped the Nazisa massacre of Jews in Ukraine in 1941, spoke to the Guardian in August about his landlordas protracted battle to kick him out of his apartment in Alameda, a city in northern California. The owners of his apartment, where he has lived for 17 years, said they were evicting him because he rented through a US voucher program for low-income tenants and they wanted to charge higher rents.

New Zealand prime minister says relationship with US counterpart is strong despite previous run-ins

New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern will hold her first ever formal meeting with Donald Trump next week; the first time the two leaders have sat down together since taking office.

On Wednesday, Ardern will leave Wellington a amid a sexual assault crisis in her party a to visit Japan and the UN leaders general assembly meeting in New York, where she will give the keynote speech at the climate action summit. She will meet Trump in New York on Monday.

Criminals threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people, Human Rights Watch finds

Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon is a lucrative business largely driven by criminal networks that threaten and attack government officials, forest defenders and indigenous people who try to stop them, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.

Rainforest Mafias concludes that Brazilas failure to police these gangs threatens its abilities to meet its commitments under the Paris climate deal a such as eliminating illegal deforestation by 2030. It was published a week before the UN Climate Action Summit.

The state has seen at least 63 cases of vaping-related illnesses as flavored products contribute to a rise in youth smoking

California has announced a $20m public awareness campaign about the dangers of vaping and will step up efforts to halt the sale of illicit products amid a rise in vaping-related illnesses.

The stateas Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, announced the actions Monday as part of an executive order.

President asks CNN commentator Steve Cortes whether he loves US or Hispanics more at New Mexico rally

At a rally in New Mexico, Donald Trump implied that one of his supporters was too light-skinned to be Hispanic.

The US president said of Steve Cortes, a member of his Hispanic advisory council: aHe happens to be Hispanic, but Iave never quite figured it out, because he looks more like a Wasp than I do.a

Demand for ahealinga crystals is soaring a but many are mined in deadly conditions in one of the worldas poorest countries. And there is little evidence that this billion-dollar industry is cleaning up its act.

By Tess McClure

In February, crystals colonised Tucson. They spread out over carparks and gravel lots, motel courtyards and freeway footpaths, past strip malls and burger bars. Beneath tents and canopies, on block after block, rested every kind of stone imaginable: the opaque, soapy pastels of angeline; dark, mossy-toned epidote; tourmaline streaked with red and green. There were enormous, dining-table-sized pieces selling for tens of thousands of dollars, lumps of rose quartz for $100, crystal eggs for $1.50. Crystals were stacked upon crystals, filling plastic trays, carved into every possible shape: knives, penises, bathtubs, angels, birds of paradise.

It was the month of the Tucson gem shows, a series of markets and exhibitions that collectively make up the largest crystal expo in the world. More than 4,000 crystal, mineral and gemstone vendors had come to sell their wares. They were expecting more than 50,000 customers to pass through, from new age enthusiasts with thick dreadlocks and tie-dye T-shirts, to gallery owners, suited businessmen and major wholesalers. Deals done here would determine the fate of tens of thousands of tonnes of crystals, dispatching them across the US and Europe into museums and galleries, crystal healing and yoga centres, wellness retailers and Etsy stores.

Six whistleblowers and ex-government scientists describe how the Trump administration made them bury climate science a and why they wonat stay quiet

From weakening vehicle emissions to blocking warnings about how coastal parks could flood or the impact on the Arctic, the Trump administration is accused of muzzling climate science.

Here six whistleblowers and former government scientists describe being sidelined by the administration a and why they wonat be quiet.

The climate crisis is so severe the actions of the denialists are now an immediate threat to our children

In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed.

But the reality is that we continue to live in a business-as-usual world. Our media is filled with enthusiastic announcements about new fossil fuel projects, or the unveiling of the latest fossil-fuelled supercar, as if thereas no relationship between such things and climate change.

United Auto Workers called a strike on Sunday for the first time in over a decade as contract negotiations reached an impasse

Uncertainty, apprehension and stress were the words people picketing General Motors workers at the car companyas sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant used to describe day one of their strike.

If the strike by United Auto Workers (UAW) members drags on, they could soon end up earning just $250 per week, and thereas fear about what that could mean for their families. But picketers who spoke with the Guardian say theyare also certain about their mission, and accept the need to asacrificea while standing up to what line worker James Cotton called aflat out greeda on managementas part.

Hasbroas new Ms Monopoly, where women will make more than men, and Barbieas inclusive line strive for empowerment, but is it just for profit?

Can a board game help fix gender equality? Hasbro hopes so. The company announced the release of Ms Monopoly last week, athe first-ever game where women make more than mena.

The game attempts to flip gender inequality on its head: female players collect $240 when they pass go, while men collect only $200. Itas a concept that feels like deliberate catnip for online outrage and think piece writers.

Unemployment rate tells a different story about the economy when race is considered, even when job numbers are strong

aWhat Iave done for African Americans in two and a half years, no president has been able to do anything like it,a Donald Trump boasted in August, the latest in a series of statements in which he has claimed to be the best president for black Americans in history.

Bahiyyah Dixon, 36, of Newark, New Jersey isnat feeling it. Even during a period of historic economic growth, the numbers are stacked most heavily against black Americans, like Dixon.

Governments around the world donat need to raise taxes in order to transform their economies and avert climate disaster

In September 2007, as credit was acruncheda and the financial crisis began to unfold, a group of economists and environmentalists, including the future Green party MP Caroline Lucas, met regularly in my small London flat. Supping on comfort food and wine, we argued furiously while drafting a plan we hoped would transform the economy and protect the ecosystem. We called it the Green New Deal. Little did we know that the ideas we seeded then would be adopted by a shooting star of the Democratic party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, as part of her bid for a New York congressional seat in 2018.

Fast forward to 2019 and the Green New Deal is now at the centre of the 2020 US presidential campaign. Bernie Sanders last week declared the climate crisis a national emergency and launched his version of the deal a a $16.3 trillion plan that includes massive investment in renewable energy, green infrastructure for climate resilience and money for research.

After 50 years of occupation, our freedom is shrinking every day. But even if Netanyahu loses, little will change

When Boris Johnson announced his plan to suspend parliament, I was visiting Orkney with my wife, Penny. It was the last week of a month-long stay in Scotland, and it took a day for the news to reach us. We were having tea with some English friends on 29 August when they heard what had happened. They began to fume: heas done it again. They worried how this would undermine their countryas democracy. It was a curious twist: I am usually the one bearing bad news about the state of my country. For a brief moment, we traded anxieties a although mine were of a more existential nature. Even in Scotland, the bad news from home was constant: the expansion of Israeli settlements, the threat of annexation, and the steady tally of death and injury in Gaza, all eating away at what remained of my Palestine.

A few days later, just after Johnson had expelled 21 MPs from his party, we flew home. The driver who picked us up from the airport took the usual circuitous route to get us to Ramallah, crossing three checkpoints on the way. At each one, we held our breath and hoped the soldiers were not in a bad mood. As always I felt the shock of returning home, seeing our parched hills at the end of summer and my noisy, crowded city; I had a sudden and pervasive sense of precariousness.

• Cleveland Browns 23-3 New York Jets
• Odell Beckham Jr has 161 receiving yards in road victory

Odell Beckham Jr had an 89-yard touchdown catch and a spectacular one-handed grab in his return to MetLife Stadium, and Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns did enough to beat the banged-up New York Jets 23-3 on Monday night.

Beckham, traded from the Giants in March, helped the Browns (1-1) bounce back from a 30-point loss to Tennessee in their opener to top the Jets (0-2). New York lost quarterback Trevor Siemian to an ankle injury in the second quarter, and Luke Falk promoted from the practice squad earlier in the day played the rest of the game. Siemian was starting in place of Sam Darnold, whoas sidelined for at least a few weeks while recovering from mononucleosis. The Jets couldnat get anything going on offense, and the Browns blew open the game late in the third quarter.

Chlorine-washed chicken from the US has become a totemic issue in the post-Brexit trade deals Britain could look to secure. But is it unsafe? And what does it say about the different attitudes to food production on either side of the Atlantic? Also today: Israelis go to the polls for their second election of the year

Rearing and processing chicken for mass consumption is a messy business. It involves automated plucking, eviscerating and slicing carcasses at rapid intervals. In the US, it also involves washing the finished product in a chlorine solution. And itas this final step that has caused an increasingly fractious debate on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Guardianas Felicity Lawrence has investigated global food production in a series of exposA(c)s and tells Anushka Asthana what is really at stake in this debate. There are concerns about the specific health effects of consuming chicken washed in chlorine. But there are also fears that it could mask other problems with the meat a and rather than disinfecting chicken at the final stage, welfare issues should be addressed much earlier in the process. Itas a symbolic issue that cuts across much of the two countriesa attitudes to food production and one that could ultimately prevent a post-Brexit trade deal.

The series, focused on two rape investigations - one gone awry, one dogged and empathetic - shows the refreshing power of depicting hard, sensitive work

In the second episode of the Netflix drama series Unbelievable, detective Karen Duvall, played by Merritt Wever, conducts what I imagine could be a high-budget training video for sexual assault investigators. Duvall finds the victim, a college student named Amber, processing in the stairwell of her apartment building in Golden, Colorado, one morning in 2011. Duvall already knows the outline of the crime a breaking and entering, a rape that lasted for hours a but she starts at the beginning, smoothly guiding Amber through an interview step by step, checking her comfort level with each question. Her voice is disarming and pillowy, couching sentences with aif itas all right with youa, aif youare comfortablea and atake your timea. Yet she builds a case, detail by detail. When she visits Amber at the hospital after her physical exam, she requests the nurse on duty to aask her if she wants me to come in, but make it clear that if she doesnat, thatas absolutely fine.a Then she immediately calls the station to block off conference room three for her investigation.

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In new short film Battle at Big Rock, a seat-edge setpiece surpasses the two full-length dino-thrillers that came before it

I bring you good news and bad news. The good news is that the new Jurassic World film Battle at Big Rock is by far the best in the series, managing to be wholly original (unlike Jurassic World) without being aggressively, bonk-headedly stupid (unlike Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom). Itas tight, itas tense, itas a perfect fat-free distillation of everything thatas good about the Jurassic World franchise. However a and now for the bad news a itas only eight minutes long.

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Three carriages left the tracks and zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon

A passenger train has derailed during the morning rush hour in Hong Kong, forcing the evacuation of 500 passengers and leaving eight people injured.

Images from the scene showed three carriages had left the tracks and were zigzagged across the rails near Hung Hom station in Kowloon a a busy interchange that provides services to mainland China.

Visa system for researchers is hostile and costly and risks jamming a pipeline of talent, universities warn

After eight years researching music history at Glasgow University, Elizabeth Ford hoped her request for a visa extension would sail through this summer. Instead, the Home Office gave the American academic two weeks to pack up her life and leave the country.

Ford has held a research fellowship at Edinburgh University a which, like Glasgow is in the elite Russell Group a and is due to begin a new research fellowship at Oxford University. But this is in jeopardy after a letter from the Home Office in July, which said that her leave to remain, granted a year before, was erroneous, and that she must leave within two weeks.

At least 24,000 people are trapped in vastly overcrowded Aegean island camps in squalid conditions

Children being bitten by scorpions, rats and snakes; hundreds being forced to use a single shower; the stench of human excrement never far away; and food shortages becoming the norm. One by one, Sophie McCann lists the degradations of life for refugees detained on Lesbos, the Greek island on the frontline of a new surge of asylum seekers desperate to reach Europe.

McCann, a British advocacy manager with MA(c)decins Sans FrontiA"res, like other aid workers, is now raising the alarm: at least 24,000 men, women and children trapped in vastly overcrowded Aegean island camps are being subjected to conditions so harrowing they bear all the hallmarks of humanitarian catastrophe. Four years after the greatest migration crisis in modern times, there are fears history is repeating itself.

Eight companies turned down opportunity because it would harm their reputations

The Hong Kong government has tried but failed to secure help from any of the global public relations firms it has approached to salvage the financial hubas tarnished reputation, as anti-government protests continued to wreak havoc months into its deepest political crisis in decades.

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam told a group of business people in the city in late August that the government had approached eight global PR companies to help it relaunch Hong Kong, but four aimmediately declined because that would be a detriment to their reputation to support the Hong Kong government now,a according to a transcript of her speech published by Reuters last week. Two more declined later, she said.

In the middle of Spring 2020 presentations, influential designer announces he is leaving label he co-founded

Fashionas enfant terrible Demna Gvasalia quit his uber-hip streetwear brand Vetements, in a move that shocked the industry.

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I remember seeing an Ostrichpillow for the first time. It looked like a bulb of garlic had mated with a football mascot and their spawn had eaten a human. It is an immersive, outsized, semi-portable nap-station a and utterly compelling. Seriously, if you havenat seen one, have a look. The Ostrichpillow website features some profoundly odd promo shots: a woman curled into the foetal position under a table; someone sleeping standing up like a horse, head resting on a wall; another encased in an outsized fist of grey fabric. The plump, segmented gourd totally envelops the head, with openings at the side into which hands can disappear. It looks so odd, and from the first second I saw it I thought: aI want that.a

I didnat buy one, though. As inviting as it looks, you would need courage to use it. An Ostrichpillow in the wild is a bleak snapshot of corporate burnout. The wearer appears to have given up on life, let alone their job. If your boss saw you cosplaying as Toad from Super Mario Bros and sleeping in a corridor, they would assume you were near mental collapse. Thank the Ostrich Lords, then, that the company has come out with a slimline alternative. Ostrichpillow Light (APS32) is a segmented turban stuffed with tiny beads that wraps around the neck or eyes. It is an attempt to capture the engulfing quality of the original in a more elegant form. Rather than a job-jeopardiser, it is marketed as a travel pillow. To test it, I catch an economy flight home from Los Angeles where I had gone to eat cheap tacos. (Financially speaking, Iam good at making bad decisions.)

Fifty galleries from across China and beyond are heading to Shanghai to showcase the best contemporary photography in this yearas Photofairs Shanghai. Here are our favourites