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  • Israel released 369 Palestinians on Saturday in exchange for three hostages after collapse of fragile ceasefire was averted
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    Tears and joy as released Palestinian prisoners and detainees reunite with families – video

  • Israeli hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen and Iair Horn were seen embracing their families after months of being held hostage in Gaza in the latest stage of a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas that almost collapsed earlier this week.
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    Israeli hostages reunited with families after week of ceasefire tensions – video

  • Olaf Scholz responds strongly in defence of his stance against the far right and says Germany will not accept people who 'intervene in our democracy'
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    German chancellor hits back after Vance tirade at security conference – video

  • The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday that the time has come for the creation of a European army
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    Zelenskyy says time has come to create an 'armed forces of Europe' – video

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Sport

  • A jury found the Chelsea footballer not guilty of racially aggravated harassment
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    Police footage shows officer dismissing Sam Kerr claims before arrest – video

  • The former Spanish football federation boss Luis Rubiales has told a court that he asked the footballer Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her before doing so after the Women’s World Cup final in 2023
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    Luis Rubiales tells court he asked Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her – video

  • The captain of the Australian women’s football team and Chelsea’s star striker is on trial, accused of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer 'stupid and white' when he doubted her claim of being 'held hostage' by a taxi driver
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    Sam Kerr seen leaving court during racially aggravated harassment trial – video

  • The Philadelphia Eagles’ ferocious defense denied the Kansas City Chiefs a Super Bowl three-peat as quarterback Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and ran for a score to earn Super Bowl MVP honours
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    MVP Jalen Hurts credits defense, says last Super Bowl loss 'lit a great flame' – video

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Documentaries

Watch our series of in-depth films exploring in rich detail the stories behind the headlines
  • Harvest tells the intimate story of Sophia on the physically and emotionally gruelling journey into harvesting her eggs, despite being unsure if she ever wants to have children

    Harvest - is freezing my eggs the answer?

  • Out of 6,700 languages spoken worldwide, 40% are in danger of extinction. We join Marvin's unique Haíłzaqv community in British Columbia over two years, as they race against time to save their critically endangered language and culture for future generations.
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    Racing to keep our language alive: H̓ágṃ́ṇtxv Qṇtxv Tx̌ (We’re all we got)

  • Fell running is a demanding endurance sport and Joss Naylor ran with all his heart.  Fuelled by apple cake and Guinness, the English sheep farmer broke multiple long-distance running records. He died this year at the age of 88. His indomitable spirit and unwavering resilience live on in his inspiring athletic legacy
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    King of the Fells: Joss Naylor, the shepherd with an unbeatable running record

  • A group of young adults born during or just after the 1994 genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi people gather to find the courage to break a powerful taboo. Rwanda is one of the few nations in the world providing specialist counselling for children conceived through rape, who number 10,000 across the country. Here, course leader Emilienne, a mother, therapist and genocide survivor, helps the group to imagine a future free from family secrets and societal stigma. In a circle of supportive peers, they tell their individual stories and face their struggles together, in the hope their participation will advocate for others facing similar trauma
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    The Things We Don't Say: children of the Rwandan genocide

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Focus

  • Majdi Fathi is a freelance photojournalist living and working from al-Aqsa hospital, the only functioning facility in central Gaza. He documented his past year living and reporting from the war, travelling all around the Gaza Strip, and also looking after his young family
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    My life behind the lens
    One year reporting from the war in Gaza

  • 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

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On the ground

  • American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator. Ocearch came to Europe for the first time in the summer, hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white
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    The hunt for Europe's great white shark

  • Channel 1 is a new rolling news channel with a difference - its stories are scripted, edited and presented by AI. The Guardian visited the its creators in Los Angeles to find out more - and to audition for a role
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    Artificial news: How to create an AI anchor – video

  • After 30 years of relentless growth and capitalism, a new trend has emerged in China. The search for a simpler, calmer life is leading some Chinese people to seek a life abroad. The trend is so popular that it’s gained its own internet buzzword: the 'run philosophy'.
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    The 'new China' in Thailand: ‘if you want hope, you have to leave’ – video

  • The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a traumatic past
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    Inside Syria’s ‘horror city': Sednaya and a country reborn – video

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Explainers

  • Guardian Australia's Jonathan Barrett breaks down the major fights currently embroiling Coles and Woolworths
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    Coles and Woolworths are fighting claims of fake discounts and a lack of competition - video

  • The Sunshine state is heading to the polls on 26 October. Queensland correspondent Ben Smee sets out how things are looking in the lead-up
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    Queensland's state election is coming up. Here's five things you need to know – video

  • Without a national measurement for poverty or disadvantage, how does a country measure whether things are getting better — or worse?
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    What does it mean to be poor? The Australian government isn't sure – video

  • Chris Stokel-Walker, a technology journalist, explains the implications of Durov's arrest for the tech sector
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    Who is the Russian billionaire founder of Telegram? – video explainer

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It's complicated

  • Josh Toussaint-Strauss explores how immigration can be exploited for business, to boost political agendas, and as a weapon of war
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    How immigration is used as a political weapon – video

  • Why are your favourite products getting smaller but costing the same? From toilet paper rolls to snacks, shrinkflation is the sneaky tactic is affecting many things we buy.
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    How we're getting ripped off by hidden inflation – video

  • Pharmaceutical corporations claim high prices are the cost of innovation, but the reality is far more complicated – and troubling

    How big pharma keeps affordable drugs out of reach – video

  • Neelam Tailor traces the surprising journey of ultra-processed foods from their origins in industrial waste to today's complex ingredient lists and the regulatory loopholes that paved the way
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    How we created ultra-processed food from industrial waste – video

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Anywhere but Westminster

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

  • 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

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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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