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  • The Appelbee family were on holiday in Quindalup, 200km (125 miles) south of Perth, when strong winds pushed their inflatable paddleboards and kayak offshore from Geographe Bay

    Teenage boy’s 4km swim to shore to save family captured in aerial footage – video

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  • The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington celebrated the birth of a baby Asian elephant on Monday, its first in nearly 25 years

    Smithsonian National zoo welcomes baby Asian elephant – video

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  • Drone footage shows floodwaters and ongoing rescue operations in the Sidi Slimane province and Ksar el-Kebir in northern Morocco on Monday, following weeks of heavy rain that inundated several cities

    Drone footage shows severe flooding in Morocco after heavy rain – video

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  • A small number of Palestinians from Gaza have started crossing into Egypt for medical treatment after Israel allowed a limited reopening of the Rafah border crossing. Lucy Hough speaks to chief Middle East correspondent Emma Graham-Harrison

    Gaza: Rafah crossing reopens under Israeli restrictions - The Latest

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On the ground

  • It has been 10 years since the migrant crisis began - when thousands of people fleeing war, persecution and poverty sought refuge in Europe. A decade later, migration remains one of the continent’s most divisive and politicised issues

    How Europe’s immigration crackdown is fuelling smuggling gangs – video

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  • Hannah Ellis-Petersen visits communities living in the shadow of Bhalswa’s overfilled landfill heaps to see how they have become reliant on the landfill that is poisoning them

    Life and death on India’s toxic trash mountains – video

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  • Child poverty in the UK is now at record levels, with 4.5 million kids living in poverty. One of the biggest drivers of this is the controversial two-child limit, which caps universal credit and tax credits to a family’s first two children​. With the Labour government’s Child Poverty Strategy due ​imminently, many charities and campaigners have called for this brutal policy to be scrapped, but what’s life actually like for mums under the limit and will the government listen to growing calls to abolish the austerity-era policy? Journalist and poverty campaigner Terri White speaks to women in her area of greater Manchester to find out.

    Raising kids in poverty: The UK’s ‘inhumane’ two-child limit

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  • Reporter Matthew Cassel speaks to Israelis in Tel Aviv, to see what they think of the war, famine and genocide happening next door, and the growing international condemnation against it

    'Our Genocide': How do Israelis feel about the war in Gaza? – video

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Focus

  • Meet Mazyouna, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza who lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack on her home in Gaza. She lost two of her siblings in the attack and was denied access by Israel to life-altering surgery abroad for more than six months

    From Gaza to Texas: the race to save Mazyouna’s face - video

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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

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

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  • 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.

    The Taiwanese civilians training for a Chinese invasion – video

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • Amateur conservationist and social media influencer Theerasak 'Pop' Saksritawee has a rare bond with Thailand’s critically endangered dugongs. Pop raises an urgent alarm — before Thailand’s dugongs vanish forever

    The influencer racing to save Thailand’s most endangered sea mammal

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  • Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort. Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed.

    Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying - documentary

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  • Alan has promised his wife, Sylvia, that they will be cryogenically preserved upon death, and reunited in the future. However, when Sylvia dies all too soon, Alan, now 87, falls in love with another woman and is forced to reconsider his future plans.

    Love Immortal: man freezes late wife but finds new partner

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  • One woman’s courageous fight to protect and rehabilitate vulnerable youths in Washington DC who are victims of sex trafficking through social media platforms

    Give me shelter: protecting trafficked children in the US - documentary

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It's complicated

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss investigates how illegal HMOs contribute to a crisis of poor housing and how local grassroots organisations are trying to help

    How illegal HMO properties are risking lives (and how Guardian readers can help) – video

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  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss digs into the long history behind the practice of skin lightening, and how the beauty industry has used messaging rooted in classism and colonialism to sell its products, as well as investigating what unregulated products are doing to the skin

    How the beauty industry still profits from colonialism – video

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  • In South Dakota, Native American children make up 13% of the child population but 74% of the children in the foster system.Neelam Tailor investigates why, and how a system built on separation is still failing Indigenous families

    How the US is still removing Indigenous children from their families at alarming rates – video

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  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out how Luxembourg became a global hub for space mining, and whether it’s promised ‘gold rush’ will ever materialize

    How a little-known loophole lets corporations own space – video

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Explainers

  • Donald Trump has promised to ‘fix’ Venezuela’s ‘broken’ oil industry – but with analysts estimating that could take up to 14 years and billions of dollars, what is in it for the US president?

    Dense, sticky and heavy: why Venezuela’s oil is valuable to Trump – video explainer

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  • Whether you’re a parent of a child, or a child watching this on a VPN, Guardian Australia’s Matilda Boseley is here to clear up what the social media ban means

    Are Australian kids breaking the law if they sneak on to social media? – video

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  • Kyiv is battling to minimise Putin's maximalist demands, including the cessation of territories in the east

    Ukraine: are we closer to a peace deal? – video explainer

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  • The Guardian's Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, explains what Donald Trump's campaign of aggression might mean for the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro

    'War on drugs' or political agitation? Assessing Trump's actions in Venezuela – video explainer

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Anywhere but Westminster

  • In last week's byelection in the Welsh constituency of Caerphilly, Reform UK were the hot favourites, and the focus of huge attention. But as John Harris and John Domokos saw close-up, a Reform win failed to happen thanks to a story most of the media didn't see: how online fear and loathing were beaten back by community spirit, facts trumping fury, and everyday empathy 

    The Welsh town that saw off Nigel Farage – video

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  • After a long summer defined by flags, protests and tensions over asylum, John Harris and John Domokos go back to Liverpool to explore the lives of people dealing with a huge housing crisis, while trying to stop the issue exploding into hate and division

    The city that reveals Britain's biggest problem: there's nowhere to live – video

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  • As Nigel Farage's party sweeps to victory in Lincolnshire, John Harris and John Domokos take a road trip through anger, sadness and fear – and, despite Reform's triumph, discover people working on a new politics of hope and common humanity

    From absurdity and anger to hope in Reform UK's new heartland – video

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  • As the second Trump presidency begins, John Harris and John Domokos go to a Staffordshire town whose economy went from coal to Amazon warehousing to find out if 21st century populism is cutting through

    Do Trump's politics connect in these English towns? - video

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Anywhere but Washington

  • Following the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis, the Guardian’s Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to the heart of affected neighbourhoods to speak with residents who are fighting to defend their community from violence and intimidation

    The occupation of Minneapolis: how residents are resisting Trump’s ICE 'invasion' – video

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  • In the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing, the Guardian's Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone head to Chicago, where Donald Trump's Ice deployment, codename 'Operation Midway Blitz', has been met by a defiant wave of sustained protests

    How Chicago is resisting Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown - video

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  • Donald Trump's second presidency has led to allegations of pervasive self-dealing. From the acceptance of a luxury jet from the state of Qatar, to the creation of a Trump cryptocurrency, the president has been accused of monetizing the White House while enacting a swath of extreme policy. Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel across south Florida, visiting Turning Point's student action summit, meeting the Republican strategist Steve Bannon, and witnessing events at the harsh new detention centre "Alligator Alcatraz".

    Trump’s new gilded age: fearmongering, mass deportations and self-enrichment – video

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  • The world’s richest person has placed his mission to Mars in a low-income county near the US-Mexico border. As a small cluster of voters connected to SpaceX decide to incorporate their own ‘Starbase city', Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone meet environmental opponents, space enthusiasts and residents who decry the gentrification Musk's expansion has brought

    How Elon Musk ‘colonised’ a corner of Texas to build his own space city - video

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Sport

  • Max Rushden is joined by Barney Ronay, John Brewin and Seb Hutchinson as Arsenal enjoy a healthy lead at the top of the Premier League thanks to a stirring second-half performance from Spurs against Manchester City

    Solanke’s magic stuns City and Arsenal go six points clear | Football Weekly

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  • Core X programme is working to lift match officials from underrepresented communities into the professional game

    'You feel part of the family': inside the scheme helping ethnic minority referees – video

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  • By defeating Djokovic in the Australian Open final, Alcaraz denied the Serbian player from achieving an all-time record of 25 grand slam singles titles

    Carlos Alcaraz celebrates Australian Open triumph by gaming with brother - video

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  • Before transfer deadline day, Guardian football writer Ed Aarons gives his top five moves of the 2026 January transfer window and what they mean for the 25-26 Premier League season

    The top five moves of the 2026 January transfer window – 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

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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 

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

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  • 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.

    Occupy Tottenham: a community defends its home - video

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