Good morning.
Vladimir Putin has accused the US of ignoring Russia’s safety proposals in his first public feedback on the rising disaster over Ukraine since December.
Throughout a press convention on the Kremlin on Tuesday, the Russian president instructed journalists he was unhappy with the US response to Moscow’s calls for that Nato take away troops and infrastructure from japanese Europe and agree by no means to just accept Ukraine into the alliance.
“It’s already clear … that Russia’s principal issues had been ignored,” Putin mentioned after talks with the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
Putin additionally mentioned the west was utilizing Ukraine as a “device to hinder Russia” and hypothesised that Ukraine’s entrance into Nato may result in a battle over Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.
What occurs subsequent? Putin mentioned he was able to proceed negotiations with the west, which has mentioned it's prepared for dialogue however views Moscow’s calls for as a non-starter.
However … Russia has additionally continued deploying hundreds of troops and offensive weapons to the Ukrainian border, showing to threaten a strike if the Kremlin doesn't get its approach. Joe Biden has mentioned that he believes Putin has not determined whether or not or to not launch an assault however that he expects that he'll “transfer in”.
Fury over early launch of Chicago officer convicted of Black teenager’s homicide
The early launch from jail of a white Chicago police officer who was sentenced to 6 years and 9 months for the homicide of a Black teenager in 2014 has sparked anger amongst family, neighborhood organizers and politicians who're questioning the choice to shave three years off his sentence for “good habits”.
Jason Van Dyke was convicted in 2018 of the homicide of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, after video confirmed Van Dyke taking pictures the teenager 16 occasions.
Van Dyke is to be launched on 3 February, nearly three years forward of schedule. He'll stay on parole for no less than two years.
McDonald’s grandmother, Tracie Hunter, known as Van Dyke’s punishment a “slap on the wrist”, in keeping with the Chicago Tribune.
Native activists have led a number of protests over the previous week, together with a rally outdoors Illinois governor JB Pritzker’s house final Friday. Quite a few different actions are deliberate for Thursday, when Van Dyke shall be launched.
Republicans to subject greater than 100 far-right candidates this 12 months
Greater than 100 far-right candidates are operating for political workplace throughout the nation as Republicans this 12 months, in keeping with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a non-profit that displays hate teams.
Except for these expressing extremist rhetoric and far-right views, the ADL has discovered no less than a dozen of the candidates had express connections to “white supremacists, anti-government extremists and members of the far-right Proud Boys”. This contains major challengers operating on the precise of some sitting Republicans.
The wave of far-right candidates contains sitting legislators such because the Arizona state senator Wendy Rogers, who has admitted to being a member of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia with 11 members below federal indictment for seditious conspiracy.
Different militia teams have candidates operating or already in native workplace. The Washington Three % militia claims members in dozens of elected workplaces all through the Pacific north-west, the Washington Put up discovered, “together with a mayor, a county commissioner and no less than 5 faculty board seats”.
In different information …
US talkshow host and actor Whoopi Goldberghas been suspended from The View for 2 weeks for saying the Holocaust “isn’t about race” on Monday’s episode. Her suspension from the The View was introduced in a press release launched by US community ABC Information on Tuesday night time, after Goldberg issued a public apology.
Former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores is suing three NFL groups and the league itself, which he claims “is racially segregated and is managed very similar to a plantation”. Flores, who's Black, was fired by the Dolphins final month regardless of main the group to back-to-back successful seasons for the primary time since 2003. The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan federal court docket on Tuesday, seeks unspecified damages.
Among the White Home information turned over to the Home committee investigating the January 6 assault had been ripped up by Donald Trump, the Nationwide Archives mentioned. Trump additionally directed Rudy Giuliani to ask the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) if it may seize voting machines in three key states six weeks after the 2020 election, the New York Instances reported.
Boris Johnson attended a prosecco-fuelled leaving social gathering through the strict post-Christmas lockdown, which is now below police investigation, the Guardian has realized. The revelation locations Johnson at one other occasion below investigation by police as he fights to remain in workplace. Stay protection right here.
Don’t miss this: Why Era Z is popping its again on sex-positive feminism
Photograph: CTK/Alamy
The concept no person needs to be judged for his or her sexual needs lies on the coronary heart of so-called “sex-positive feminism”, writes Gaby Hinsliff. From the gleeful exhibitionism of Love Island contestants to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s exuberant sex-positive anthem Moist Ass Pussy,the concept that having fun with intercourse is nothing to be ashamed of – in principle no less than, if not at all times in apply – has filtered into younger ladies’s on a regular basis lives. But when sex-positive feminism champions ladies pursuing their very own needs with out feeling judged, it additionally calls for that they chorus from judging the way in which different folks have intercourse – no less than between consenting adults. Now, some are questioning who this free-for-all actually serves and the way consent is outlined, in a society the place ladies are nonetheless closely conditioned to please males.
Local weather test: Excessive warmth in oceans ‘handed level of no return’ in 2014
Excessive warmth on the planet’s oceans handed the “level of no return” in 2014 and has grow to be the brand new regular, in keeping with analysis.
Scientists analysed sea floor temperatures during the last 150 years, which have risen due to international heating. They discovered that excessive temperatures occurring 2% of the time a century in the past have occurred no less than 50% of the time throughout the worldwide ocean since 2014.
In some hotspots, excessive temperatures happen 90% of the time, severely affecting wildlife. Greater than 90% of the warmth trapped by greenhouse gases is absorbed by the ocean, which performs a important position in sustaining a steady local weather.
Final Factor: Idaho library has wait record for story eight-year-old hid on a shelf
Photograph: Isabelle Plasschaert/Alamy
When eight-year-old Dillon Helbig completed writing his ebook, The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Crismis, in mid-December, he wished everybody to learn it. So throughout a go to together with his grandmother to the Lake Hazel department of the Ada Group Library in Boise, Idaho, Dillon quietly deposited his ebook, signed “by Dillon His Self”, on to a close-by shelf. Supervisor Alex Hartman and his colleagues found Dillon’s ebook within the “tales” part and browse it, together with to Hartman’s six-year-old son. “Dillon’s ebook undoubtedly match all the standards that we'd search for to incorporate a ebook in our assortment,” Hartman mentioned. And so, with Dillon’s permission, the library stickered and catalogued the ebook and positioned it with its holdings of graphic novels for adults, teenagers and children.
Enroll
First Factor is delivered to hundreds of inboxes each weekday. When you’re not already signed up, subscribe now.
Get in contact
When you have any questions or feedback about any of our newsletters please e mail newsletters@theguardian.com
Post a Comment