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Video of the day

  • How I survive
    A seven-year-old’s life in Gaza

    Seven-year-old Lina and her family are sleeping on the floor of a tent outside al-Aqsa hospital, in central Gaza. They were forced to flee their home in Jabaliya in the north of the Gaza Strip when the war between Hamas and Israel broke out after Hamas' murder of 1,200 people in southern Israel. Now displaced, Lina and her siblings spend their time searching for food to buy, queueing for water and playing games. The Guardian spent one day on the 9 November with Lina to see how children are surviving in Gaza
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News

  • The Pogues frontman died peacefully on 30 November with his wife and family by his side

    1:11

    Mourners sing at Shane MacGowan's funeral procession – video

  • At least 100 Palestinian men are seen sitting in rows on a street in northern Gaza, stripped down to their underwear with their heads bowed as they are being guarded by Israeli troops

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    Footage shows Palestinian men stripped to underwear after detention in Gaza – video

  • Cramped bakery with barred windows believed to be where enslaved people were forced to work alongside donkeys

    1:01

    Archaeologists unearth ‘most shocking example of Roman slavery’ at Pompeii – video

  • Blinken says it's 'imperative that Israel put a premium on civilian protection'

    Antony Blinken says 'gap' between Israel's intent to protect civilians and 'actual results' – video

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Sport

  • The Masters champion, Jon Rahm, has confirmed he is joining LIV Golf in a massive coup for the Saudi-funded breakaway.

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    'I want golf to succeed': Jon Rahm confirms switch to LIV Golf – video

  • Fans and players were visibly devastated with some fans even burning cars outside of the stadium.

    1:07

    Players and fans devastated as Santos relegated for first time in 111-year history – video

  • James said 'We keep dealing with the same story, this same conversation everybody single time it happens, and it just continues to happen'.

    0:53

    'It's stupid': LeBron James criticises lack of gun control in US – video

  • Alex Chalk apologised for the slow response to Jones’s report but said the charter will be 'embedded in public life'

    1:59

    'Long time coming': Government announce "Hillsborough charter" – video

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Spotlight

  • Seven days to find a home
    The UK’s impending refugee crisis

    As the Home Office attempts to clear its backlog, many people are being evicted from asylum seeker accommodation just seven days after receiving a positive decision on their refugee status.

On the ground

  • I was a terrorist. Now I run a kindergarten

  • Harriet Grant visits Bristol to meet the families fighting for the right for space to play in the streets outside their homes

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    Kids v cars
    The campaign to reclaim children's play space on British streets

    Harriet Grant visits Bristol to meet the families fighting for the right for space to play in the streets outside their homes
  • Seven weeks into the new war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, a four-day ceasefire was called and an exchange began of Israeli hostages and imprisoned Palestinians.On 24 November, the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, witnessed celebrations at the Betunia checkpoint in Ramallah, and was allowed access to a family awaiting the release of their daughter Noorhan. That night, 39 Palestinian women and children were freed from an Israeli jail. Most of the prisoners were held for minor offences, but some were more serious; though none who had murdered Israelis were released

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    'Don't cry, I'm here now': free after eight years in an Israeli prison – video

    Seven weeks into the new war between Israel and the militant group Hamas, a four-day ceasefire was called and an exchange began of Israeli hostages and imprisoned Palestinians.
    On 24 November, the Guardian's Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan, witnessed celebrations at the Betunia checkpoint in Ramallah, and was allowed access to a family awaiting the release of their daughter Noorhan. That night, 39 Palestinian women and children were freed from an Israeli jail. Most of the prisoners were held for minor offences, but some were more serious; though none who had murdered Israelis were released
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Explainers

  • State and territory leaders are spooked that their revenue streams — not just from EVs — could now be legally challenged, putting billions of dollars at risk

    Why a high court decision on EV tax has Australian states and territories panicking – video

  • Asmaa al-Omar, a journalist based in Istanbul, says that these protests show that despite Assad's international rehabilitation and claims that he has emerged from the decade long Syria conflict victor, it is far from over

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    What the recent protests in Syria tell us about Assad's grip on power – video explainer

  • Alex Ibaceta explains how Jorge Vilda came to be sacked just one month after winning the Women's World Cup with Spain

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    Jorge Vilda: The downfall of Spain's 'untouchable' manager – video explainer

  • Since 26 July, when Niger's president was ousted by a military junta, pro-coup demonstrations have been marked by a notable pressence of Russian flags and anti-French chants

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    Niger coup: why do so many want France out and Russia in? – video explainer

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It's complicated

  • 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

  • People of south Asian origin today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people

    How British colonialism increased diabetes in south Asians

  • Based on original reporting by Tobias Jones and Ayo Awokoya, Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores what's behind the Italian mafia's involvement in the tomato industry

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    How the Italian mafia makes millions from tinned tomatoes – video

  • Africa has lost about 90% of its vultures over the past 50 years. Most of these birds are being poisoned, often unintentionally, by humans. It's a crisis that we know can have a deadly impact on people

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    How killing vultures endangers humans – video

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines

  • A Mouthful of Petrol: coming of age in the world of banger racing

  • Laura, a Scottish-Syrian film-maker, reconnects online with her cousin Lujain after 10 years apart. Their paths were separated by war, and now Laura hopes to reconstruct the past by sharing memories and family videos

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    Born in Damascus: the legacy of Syria's war for two separated cousins

    Laura, a Scottish-Syrian film-maker, reconnects online with her cousin Lujain after 10 years apart. Their paths were separated by war, and now Laura hopes to reconstruct the past by sharing memories and family videos
  • A group of young people from Kyiv help a retiree to rebuild her destroyed home in Chernihiv

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    The year that never ended: how a Ukrainian comedian rebuilt a stranger's house – documentary

    A group of young people from Kyiv help a retiree to rebuild her destroyed home in Chernihiv

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Anywhere but Westminster

  • In the midst of the UK's cost of living crisis, John Harris and John Domokos meet the new breed of community activists dealing with hunger, poverty, and loneliness, but who are also trying to push towards a better future

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    These are the people holding Britain together – video

  • As Rishi Sunak's new government warns of "tough decisions" and fear spreads of new austerity, John Harris and John Domokos report from Grimsby - the former fishing town that voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. 

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    The town where Brexit died, but hope survives - video

  • Basingstoke is a seemingly safe Tory seat in the south of England. With Westminster politics gripped by the drama that led to Rishi Sunak's arrival in Downing Street, John Harris and John Domokos headed back on the road. They experienced the rising unease eating away in a town with empty offices, businesses hit by Brexit, rising hunger and an impossible housing situation 

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    How deep in crisis is Britain? This Tory heartland knows the answer - video

  • Far away from pomp and ritual, John Harris and John Domokos spend time in three places where the themes of the Elizabethan age played out: Milton Keynes, inner-city Birmingham, and a former Yorkshire pit village. What emerges is a much more complicated, contradictory story than the one being told elsewhere 

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    ‘I care, but I don't care’: What people in the UK really think about life after the Queen - video

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Made in Britain

  • 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

  • Edinburgh is famous for its festivals. But far from the Royal Mile, in the north Edinburgh communities of Pilton and Muirhouse, a local gala tradition has been lost. The Guardian has collaborated with a film training organisation based in the heart of Pilton to tell the story of residents' fight to bring back their festival

    23:38

    Made in North Edinburgh: bringing a festival back to life – video

  • Kwajo Tweneboa is harnessing the power of social media to make change, with videos exposing atrocious conditions in social housing across London

    21:39

    Made in London: the TikTok star taking on poor social housing – video

  • Tredegar is a town in the Welsh valleys that changed the world. Now, as the cost of living crisis hits, a network of volunteers built during the pandemic asks if politicians can learn from them and change the world again?

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    Made in Tredegar: the Welsh town that changed the world – video

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