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News

  • Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the strike was part of a deliberate effort by Moscow to make Ukraine’s second largest city uninhabitable

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    Television tower in Ukraine collapses after missile strike – video

  • Floods have swamped a number of cities in the densely populated Pearl River delta after record-breaking rains

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    Southern China is inundated by floods – video report

  • The UK prime minister admits to a significant delay to his flagship illegal migration policy

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    Rishi Sunak says first Rwanda flight will take off in 10 to 12 weeks – video

  • Doctors have delivered a baby via an emergency caesarean section on a Palestinian woman who was killed in an Israeli attack on Rafah

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    Gaza medics pull baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike – video

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Sport

  • Gukesh Dommaraju became the youngest player to win the men’s Candidates chess tournament

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    Gukesh Dommaraju, 17, becomes youngest challenger for world chess title – video

  • Erik ten Hag admitted Manchester United 'got away with it' after they survived an epic Coventry comeback

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    Ten Hag insists United have more to learn as Coventry manager 'really proud' despite loss – video

  • Casper Ruud beat Stefanos Tsitsipas to earn the 11th and biggest ATP Tour title of his career

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    'Worth all the wait': Casper Ruud secures biggest title of his career at Barcelona Open – video

  • Winners Peres ­Jepchirchir and Alexander Mutiso Munyao were joined by Britain’s Emile Cairess in securing Olympic places

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    London Marathon: Peres Jepchirchir breaks record as elite runners secure Olympic places – video

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Documentaries

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

  • The film offers a poignant glimpse into the life of Vitalii Velychurov, a key worker in the main bread factory of Mykolaiv, once a frontline city. Russian troops destroyed Mykolaiv's major infrastructure and most of the city's residents have left – including Vitalii's wife and children – but the factory has delivered bread to the besieged population every day since the full scale invasion broke out. Lost in memories of the past and an uncertain future, Vitalii finds solace in the continued rhythm of the factory

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    Ukrainian Factory: two years of war for a Mykolaiv key worker

  • Phuntsho Tshering is Bhutan’s glaciologist and the only person authorised to climb the country’s sacred Himalayas. While travelling, he records the changing landscape in moving videos for his daughter

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    Bhutan Mountain Man: video diaries from a lone glaciologist

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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

  • Since London's mayor, Sadiq Khan, extended the capital’s ultra-low emission zone in the pursuit of cleaner air, the backlash has become increasingly ferocious.

    Has London’s Ulez become a magnet for conspiracy theories?

  • 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

  • Masafer Yatta, the most rural and desolate area in the West Bank, is home to about 1,000 Palestinians. But after weeks of intense settler violence in the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and despite the decades-long fight to remain in their homes, these communities are now being forced off their land. Some have described it as “a new Nakba.”The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan travelled to Masafer Yatta and heard from Palestinian families how armed settlers have begun breaking into their homes at night, beating up adults, destroying and stealing belongings, and terrifying children. These West Bank settlements are illegal under international law.

    How Israeli settler violence is forcing Palestinians to flee their homes – video

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Explainers

  • The government insists Australia hasn't supplied weapons to Israel for at least the past five years. But like many political debates, this is one that's clouded by technicalities

    Is Australia exporting weapons to Israel? – video

  • Sarah Basford Canales explains the state of the religious discrimination debate, and the politically fraught path through it

    What is the religious discrimination bill? And why are Australians still talking about it? – video

  • The Guardian's Moscow correspondent Andrew Roth explains why Islamic State might have targeted Russia and what it means for Putin's strongman brand in Russia

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    Why is Islamic State targeting Russia? – video explainer

  • The Guardian's Matilda Boseley explains that, when it comes to the country's binfire of a housing crisis, negative gearing is just the garbage, which needed a lit match to set it alight

    How did Australia's housing market get so bad, and is it all negative gearing's fault? – video

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It's complicated

  • 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

  • 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

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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

  • 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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