Ukraine Update: Zelensky Interview & Ukrainian Special Ops Troops Cross Dnipro River!
In an interview with CNN, President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine's ultimate goal is to liberate Crimea and any "peace scenario" with the peninsula remaining under Russian control would "not be victory."
https://kyivindependent.com/zelensky-war-not-over-until-ukraine-liberates-crimea/
Ukrainian infantry raiding across the Dnipro River, near the southern city Kherson, was locked in firefights on Monday with elements of at least two Russian conventional brigades. Pro-Moscow spokesmen said the bridgehead would soon be crushed, whereas Kyiv officials claimed the diversion tactic had exposed previously hidden Kremlin artillery to counterstrikes. Small boat teams from Ukraine’s elite 73rd Marine Special Operations unit were, according to Russian sources, being pressed into a shrinking perimeter around the south end of the demolished Antonivsky bridge, a span across the Dnipro destroyed by retreating Russian troops in November.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/19027
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French suburbs Fresh protests against police violence rooted in decades of harassment, inequality
When a police officer last week shot and killed a resident of Paris’s suburb of Nanterre, 17-year-old Nahel M., it unleashed a wave of unrest across France – an echo of similar protests launched by youth living in housing projects two decades earlier. Billions of euros of investment in the years since have done little to calm anger over police harassment and poor living conditions in France’s housing projects. Concentrated in the suburbs (banlieues) just on the outskirts of major cities, France’s public housing projects are home to largely young populations – 40% are under 25 years of age – often from immigrant backgrounds, who face a never-ending struggle for acceptance in French society. The facts are damning. Youth from economically disadvantaged areas are a “particularly frequent target” for discrimination from the police, namely stop-and-search checks, “even when there is no sign or evidence of wrongdoing”, Human Rights Watch has found.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230704-nahel
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‘Bothered’ Lisa Nandy wades into Labour sexism row over all white male candidate list
Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy has criticised her own party for selecting five white male candidates for the upcoming by-elections forced by Tory and SNP woes. The senior shadow cabinet member said it “certainly” bothered her Labour had gone with an all-white male slate for the crunch votes in the months ahead – insisting that “diversity matters”. Female Labour MPs are said to be outraged at the decision, warning that it could set back the opposition’s mission to reflect the make-up of the UK population.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/lisa-nandy-white-male-labour-b2363824.html
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‘Countries are drowning’ climate expert calls for urgent rethink on scale of aid on developing world
The world must rethink its approach to the climate crisis, by investing trillions of dollars instead of billions in the developing world, and moving beyond conventional ideas of overseas aid, one of the world’s most influential climate economists has urged. “We need a complete rethink of the whole nexus of climate, debt and development,” Avinash Persaud told the Observer, before a key summit. “What we are seeing today is new – countries affected by climate disaster, this is happening now. Countries are drowning.” He called for a tripling of the finance available from the World Bank and similar institutions, and a huge influx of cash from the private sector, driven by the careful use of public funds and regulation to remove the current barriers to investment. “This is the biggest financial opportunity in the world,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/18/countries-are-drowning-climate-expert-calls-for-urgent-rethink-on-scale-of-aid-for-developing-world
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‘It keeps you up at night’: More than three million taken to court unable to pay their council tax
More than three million people have been taken to court for council tax debt in some of the poorest parts of the country in the past two years, i can reveal. Since Covid, magistrates courts across England have handed out the equivalent of more than 4,500 debt orders a day in what campaigners say is the latest illustration of the scale of the cost-of-living crisis. Figures obtained via Freedom of Information requests show there has been a rise in local authorities taking legal action against people who haven’t paid their bills as coronavirus restrictions ended and inflation began to soar.
https://inews.co.uk/news/council-tax-debt-3-million-uk-2387586
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7 Things You Need to Know About the Kakhovka Dam Disaster
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an the Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine’s Kherson region collapsed, sparking an international blame game, mass evacuations and an unfolding ecological disaster.
Here are the seven critical things you need to know:
1. The dam
2. The blast
3. The blame
4. The human cost
5. The ecological cost
6. The nuclear risk
7. The response
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/17955
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Afghan mother at risk of deportation back to Taliban death squads, blaming UK Government visa delays
An Afghan mother who fled to Pakistan to avoid being killed by the Taliban risks being deported back to Afghanistan due to delays in Government processing of her resettlement to the UK. The ex-British Council teacher is eligible to come to Britain but is stuck in a cramped Islamabad hotel room with her newborn baby son, five-year-old daughter and husband while struggling to get nappies, baby milk, fruit and clean water. Nazila, not her real name, said the family-of-four are sleeping in one bed in the hotel, which houses more than 20 other families whose applications to come to the UK under the Afghan Citizens Resettlement Scheme (ACRS) have been approved.
https://inews.co.uk/news/afghan-mother-risk-deportation-taliban-death-squads-uk-government-visa-delays-2382728
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Alleged Russian intelligence asset living in London with family under Homes for Ukraine scheme
An alleged Russian intelligence agent is living in the UK and his family used the Government’s Homes for Ukraine scheme to join him, an I investigation can reveal. The Ukrainian businessman is suspected by the FBI of being a foreign agent for Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), according to a secret cache of intelligence documents, seen by I. He was able to travel to London after fleeing Ukraine at the start of the war, and his family then joined him through the official UK refugee scheme.
https://inews.co.uk/news/alleged-russian-intelligence-asset-living-london-homes-ukraine-scheme-2374434
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Bank chiefs tell Sunak to make big tech bear cost of fraud 'pandemic'
The bosses of Britain's biggest banks have told Rishi Sunak that technology companies must contribute to the cost of an online fraud "pandemic" that is undermining international investor confidence in the UK economy.
Sky News has obtained a letter to the prime minister signed by the chief executives of nine lenders, including Barclays, NatWest and Nationwide, in which they warned that the UK has become "a global hotspot for fraud and scams". They said the government's National Fraud Strategy, unveiled last month, were inadequate to tackle the scale of the crisis, which they believe is costing more than £1bn every year to tackle.
https://news.sky.com/story/bank-chiefs-tell-sunak-to-make-big-tech-bear-cost-of-fraud-pandemic-12904163
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Boris Johnson 'deliberately' misled MPs over partygate, report finds, and should be banned!
A parliamentary inquiry has concluded that Boris Johnson knowingly misled parliament multiple times with his statements about parties in Downing Street during the COVID pandemic. The privileges committee of MPs found Mr Johnson's breaches serious enough to recommend a suspension of 90 days if he were still an MP - far exceeding the period needed to trigger a recall petition and possible by-election. In the highly anticipated report, published this morning, the committee found that Mr Johnson:
• Misled MPs on multiple occasions by insisting all rules had been followed in Downing Street, despite lockdown-breaching parties
• Was "deliberately disingenuous" when he tried to explain and "justify the gatherings"
• Breached the confidence of the committee
• Committed further contempt in his conduct by impugning the committee - thereby undermining the democratic process of the House of Commons
• Was "complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee"
In a further sanction, the committee also recommended that Mr Johnson should not be given a former member's pass granting access to parliament following his resignation as an MP.
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Disgraced PM: Boris Johnson Resigned but it's never his Fault...
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Boris Johnson Resigns Over PartyGate Triggering A By-Election!
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Boris Johnson tells Sky News new allegations of lockdown rule breaking are 'total nonsense'
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Tories fear Boris Johnson supporters will form rival party as third MP quits
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Covid inquiry Cabinet Office legal bill to censor documents could run to millions
Rishi Sunak is spending potentially millions of pounds on Government attempts to censor documents demanded by the Covid Inquiry.
The Cabinet Office has set up an elaborate process that involves three different legal checks for every “redaction” it proposes, each incurring costs to the taxpayer, i has discovered.
The system was buried in the Government’s “statement of facts and grounds” sent to Covid inquiry chair Baroness Hallett in response to her request for all documents covering the pandemic.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/covid-inquiry-cabinet-office-legal-bill-censor-documents-millions-2412604
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Covid inquiry UK's public services were 'depleted' when Covid hit
A decade of austerity leading up to 2020 meant the health of the nation was already in decline, two experts said. A report from Prof Sir Michael Marmot and Prof Clare Bambra was filed as part of the public hearings exploring the UK's preparedness for a pandemic. Poor regions and ethnic minority groups were disproportionately affected. More attention should have been paid to reduce the added risks Covid brought to such vulnerable groups, their report said.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65929516
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Deposit return scheme Ministers ignored drinks giants by excluding glass
Deposit return scheme Ministers ignored drinks giants by excluding glass from major new recycling project
Exclusive ‘Safe routes’ for refugees so slow that toddler died waiting
Supposedly safe, legal asylum routes that Suella Braverman claims are open to refugees are so inadequate that a toddler died after waiting years to be resettled, OpenDemocracy has learnt. The government has sought to justify harsh new laws that would prevent people from claiming asylum in the UK by arguing that it already provides a safe and legal route for refugees referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). But speaking from Turkey, some of those accepted onto the scheme say they feel abandoned after waiting more than a decade for resettlement.
“Sometimes I think, if I had taken the smuggling route, I would have gotten treatment for my children,” the boy’s mother, Mina*, told OpenDemocracy.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/nationality-borders-bill-refugees-iraq-turkey-unhcr-suella-braverman-child-died/
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Government quietly awards travel firm £1 6bn contract for asylum barges and accommodation
An Australian travel firm previously slammed for its handling of Covid quarantine hotels has been quietly handed a £1.6bn contract covering the UK’s new asylum accommodation ships, The Independent can reveal.
Corporate Travel Management (CTM) was put in charge of the lucrative two-year arrangement in February, weeks before the government revealed it would use a barge as its first offshore accommodation for asylum seekers.
The contract was awarded directly to CTM without competition, and a lawyer with knowledge of the system said the government had pushed a wider deal originally drawn up for official travel “beyond what it was intended to be used for”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/barge-australia-asylum-contract-travel-b2354578.html
Does Braverman Know The HUGE Epic Cost Her Migration Bill Is?
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Great British interest rate rip off Banks pocket £4 8bn by hiking UK mortgages faster than savings
Tory chair of the Treasury select committee chair Harriet Baldwin told i banks must “do more” for savers, as experts including consumer champion Martin Lewis called for action. I analysis compared the publicly declared ‘net interest income’ from the annual accounts published by seven of the major UK high street banks. Net interest income is the profit made by banks from charging higher borrowing costs on mortgages and loans, compared to what they pay out in interest on savings accounts. Annual reports show they collectively raked in £4.8bn in additional earnings during 2022 due to interest rate rises – an increase from £28bn in 2021 to £32.8bn in 2022.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/great-british-interest-rate-banks-mortgages-savings-2417875?ico=editors_picks
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Keir Starmer tries to calm rift with GMB over energy policy
Keir Starmer has moved to calm a growing rift with the GMB union over Labour’s energy policy, even as its leader renewed his attack on the party’s plan to prohibit new North Sea oil and gas developments. The Labour leader has pledged to enact the ban if his party wins power, proposing to invest instead in renewable sources, such as wind farms, and in nuclear power.
The policy has angered some unions concerned over job security for oil and gas workers, with the GMB’s general secretary, Gary Smith, accusing the party on Sunday of “being naive” and risking a possible “cliff-edge with oil and gas extraction”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/05/keir-starmer-gmb-union-energy-policy-north-sea-oil-gas
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Labour rules out universal childcare for young children in fiscal credibility drive
Labour has ruled out offering universal free childcare for children over nine months old but is considering a means-tested offer, sources have told the Guardian, as the party strives to prove its fiscal credibility. Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, told the Sunday Times earlier this year that Labour would guarantee childcare from the end of parental leave until the end of primary school, saying her reforms would resemble the “birth of the NHS”. But shadow ministers are exploring options that backbenchers warn will fall short of that ambition. Instead of offering free or very cheap childcare to every family with a child over nine months old, Labour is looking at giving more support for poorer families, while tapering it off for those on higher incomes.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/13/labour-rules-out-universal-childcare-for-young-children-in-fiscal-credibility-drive
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Ministers seek volunteer social care army to speed up hospital discharges
Health ministers are to recruit a new volunteer army for social care to ferry medical equipment and drugs to people’s homes in a bid to free up congested hospital wards. Volunteers will also be sent to, though not into, people’s homes to tackle loneliness and carry out shopping and other errands. Under the plan, members of the public will be able to sign up on the GoodSam app for roles such as “check in and chat”, which involves support over the phone for people struggling with loneliness. There will also be the chance to “pick up and deliver”, helping to transport medicines or small items of medical equipment to people’s homes from NHS sites so they can be discharged from hospital, and “community response” roles will involve collecting and delivering shopping and prescriptions.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/06/ministers-seek-volunteer-social-care-army-to-speed-up-hospital-discharges
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NEU announces two further teacher strikes in July in escalation of ongoing pay dispute
The UK’s largest teaching union has announced two further teacher strikes for the summer term, claiming its demands for a substantive pay rise have “fallen on stony ground”. Members of the National Education Union (NEU) in England will walk out on Wednesday 5 July and Friday 7 July, marking the seventh and eighth days of industrial action by teachers this year.
The walkouts will not affect formal exams, with all GCSE, AS level and A levels set to wrap up by 27 June at the latest. Most schools will break up for summer several weeks later.
https://inews.co.uk/news/education/neu-announces-two-further-teacher-strikes-july-government-pay-dispute-2419855
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NHS Providers boss warns of health service ‘looking into abyss’ if consultants strike
The NHS will be “looking into the abyss” if hospital consultants follow the example of junior doctors and go on strike over pay, the leader of England’s hospital bosses has said. Hospitals will be left unable to function normally if consultants – the most senior doctors on wards – stage walkouts in pursuit of their pay claim, Sir Julian Hartley said. “If consultants withdraw their labour, as junior doctors are doing again this week, that would be unthinkable without considerable derogations,” said the chief executive of NHS Providers. “It would be incredibly difficult to run a hospital and other critical services.”
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/16/nhs-providers-boss-health-service-abyss-if-consultants-strike
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Poland's legal overhaul violates the right to have an independent and impartial judiciary, ECJ rules
The controversial reform has caused an intense and protracted dispute between the Polish government and the European Commission. Poland's judicial reform infringes upon European law because it undermines the right to have access to an independent and impartial judiciary, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said in a highly-anticipated ruling. "The value of the rule of law is an integral part of the very identity of the European Union as a common legal order and is given concrete expression in principles containing legally binding obligations for the member states," the judges said on Monday afternoon. "The measures thus adopted by the Polish legislature are incompatible with the guarantees of access to an independent and impartial tribunal, previously established by law."
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/06/05/polands-legal-overhaul-violates-the-right-to-have-an-independent-and-impartial-judiciary-e
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Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All- Byline Times
“Democracy fails when your press fails to scrutinise and hold the government accountable, and instead choose to get into bed with them so they can ensure the status quo… The country and the British public deserve to know… We will be better off for it.” Today, the Duke of Sussex was the first senior member of the Royal Family in more than 130 years to give evidence to a civil court. He also became one of the British establishment’s very own – a prince of the realm, no less – to expose what he alleges was illegal information gathering by one of this country’s major tabloid newspaper groups. Will he receive the praise he deserves for speaking the unspeakable? Unlikely. With all his privilege and wealth, Prince Harry is painted as playing the ultimate victim by the press he hopes to hold accountable. In turn, these tabloids can then claim the victimhood they often hide behind when challenged. Who is a prince to tell the free press anything?
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/prince-harry-takes-a-stand-for-us-all-if-theyre-supposedly-policing-society-who-on-earth-is-policing-them/
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Revealed: Bereaved families denied a voice as Covid 19 inquiry begins
Not a single witness offered up by the UK’s largest group for families bereaved by Covid has been called to speak at the official inquiry, OpenDemocracy can reveal. Those representing the voices of the bereaved say they are being “marginalised by the process” just days before the inquiry is set to begin. It follows a scandal sparked by OpenDemocracy’s revelation that Tory-linked PR firms had been hired to manage the voices of the bereaved. The Covid-19 inquiry, which will hear its first evidence next week, has selected experts, politicians and individuals affected by the pandemic to give evidence where the country’s preparedness for a pandemic will be interrogated.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-bereaved-families-witnesses-cut-out-inquiry/
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