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      Australia v Pakistan: second men’s one-day international – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024

    • Updates from the 50-over match at Adelaide Oval
    • Play starts at 2:00pm in Adelaide/2:30pm AEDT
    • Any thoughts? Email or tweet @martinpegan

    Australia were racing towards their 204-run target in the first ODI and only needed another 71 with eight wickets and more than 34 overs up their sleeve when Pakistan quick Haris Rauf dismissed Steve Smith for 44. The wheels quickly fell off the Australia innings from there, at least until Pat Cummins took command with the willow in his first ODI since lifting the Cricket World Cup trophy last year.

    Pakistan will surely be better for the run after their entire XI played their first ODI since the same 50-over showpiece event in India. While the first aim today will be to level the three-match series and set up a decider in Perth, Mohammad Rizwan’s are also building towards hosting the ICC’s next 50-over event – the Champions Trophy – in February and March.

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      Susie Wiles: ‘tough, smart’ operator who led Trump back to the White House

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024

    Wiles, 67, who stressed discipline as Trump re-election chief, to become first ever female presidential chief of staff

    Susie Wiles, who was named Donald Trump’s new White House chief of staff, will be the first woman in US history to serve in the role as gatekeeper to the president, a position that typically wields great influence.

    The chief of staff position is usually the first appointee that a president-elect names, and may oversee the transition from one administration. Once Trump is sworn in as president, Wiles will also be in charge of all White House policy, serving as a confidante and adviser and managing day-to-day affairs.

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      Ukraine war briefing: Biden administration confirms surge of military aid to Kyiv will continue

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024 • 3 minutes

    Leaders in Budapest grapple with Ukraine and Europe’s security under Trump; deaths from Russian strikes in Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk. What we know on day 989

    The Biden administration has confirmed that the US will keep surging aid to Ukraine before Donald Trump becomes president in January . “That’s not going to change. We’re going to surge and get that out there to Ukraine. We understand how important it is to make sure they have what they need,” said Karine Jean-Pierre, White House spokesperson. A Guardian editorial on US aid to Ukraine says: “The Biden administration is reportedly attempting to expedite as much as $9bn worth of military aid, agreed but not yet transferred. This is far from straightforward , not least because weaponry and ammunition are still being produced and because the next president could stop agreed shipments. But it is essential.”

    The Nato chief, Mark Rutte, said on Thursday that North Korea’s involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine posed a direct threat to the US , in a first effort to convince Donald Trump to keep backing Kyiv. “What we see more and more is that North Korea, Iran, China and of course Russia are working together, working together against Ukraine,” Rutte said. “At the same time, Russia has to pay for this, and one of the things they are doing is delivering technology to North Korea, which is now threatening in future the mainland of the US, continental Europe … I look forward to sit down with Donald Trump to discuss how we can face these threats collectively.”

    At the same European leaders’ meeting in Budapest where Rutte spoke – covered here by the Guardian’s Jon Henley the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said it would be “unacceptable” for Europe to offer the Kremlin concessions to halt its invasion of Ukraine , after Moscow demanded the west enter direct talks on ending the war. The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has demanded Ukraine cede swathes more territory in its east and south as a precondition to peace talks, while Kyiv has repeatedly ruled out giving up land in exchange for peace. Shaun Walker writes that Putin on Thursday also demanded Ukrainian neutrality , which Zelenskyy rejects.

    Zelenskyy also dismissed as “dangerous” and “irresponsible” the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s call for a “ceasefire” on the battlefield . Zelenskyy accused some European leaders, without specifying which ones, of “strongly” pushing Ukraine to compromise. “We need sufficient weapons, not support in talks. Hugs with Putin won’t help. Some of you have been hugging him for 20 years, and things are only getting worse.”

    The Institute for the Study of War thinktank said on Thursday: “Freezing the Russian war in Ukraine on anything like the current lines enormously advantages Russia and increases the risks and costs to Ukraine and the west of deterring, let alone defeating, a future Russian attempt to fulfil Putin’s aims by force.”

    Leaders at the Budapest meeting emphasised that with Trump becoming US president, Europe must take charge of its own security . Europe together has spent around $125bn on supporting Ukraine , while the US alone has coughed up more than $90bn, according to a tracker from the Kiel Institute.

    Russia carried out a massive drone attack on Kyiv , and killed four people in a strike on a hospital in Zaporizhzhia , in the hours after Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, write Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding . Zelenskyy urged allies to give Ukraine more air defence systems and to lift restrictions on hitting targets inside Russia using long-range western weapons.

    Russia said on Thursday its forces had seized control of Kreminna Balka, a village that had a prewar population of fewer than 50 people, in the industrial Donetsk region where Ukrainian defences have been repeatedly pushed back. The gain could not be independently confirmed, but Ukrainian media reported that Donetsk region authorities were preparing to announce mandatory evacuations from seven more villages in that region, which the Kremlin has claimed since 2022 is part of Russia. Two people were killed in shelling there on Thursday, the local governor reported.

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      Chinese state television lionises Xi Jinping’s father in 39-part serialised drama

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024

    The historical series, Time in the Northwest, chronicles the life of Xi Zhongxun from peasant roots to Communist revolutionary in China

    Xi Jinping’s father is the subject of a rousing new historical drama that premiered on Chinese state television on Tuesday.

    Funded by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist party (CCP), Time in the Northwest chronicles the life of Xi Zhongxun, the father of the Chinese president, who was himself a CCP elder and key figure in the party under Chairman Mao Zedong.

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      Tax unhealthy foods to tackle obesity, say campaigners

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024

    Health and children’s groups urge UK ministers to impose levies on products containing too much salt or sugar

    Dozens of health and children’s groups have urged ministers to tackle obesity by imposing taxes on foods containing too much salt or sugar.

    New levies based on the sugar tax on soft drinks would make it easier for consumers to eat more healthily by forcing food manufacturers to reformulate their products, they claim.

    74% think food firms are not honest about the health impact of their products.

    61% worry about the amount of sugar and saturated fat in what they eat.

    Only 13% believe producers will make their food more nutritious without government intervention.

    72% worry about high levels of processing used in food production.

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      Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 8 November 2024 • 1 minute

    Lucas Paquetá is struggling, Ruud van Nistelrooy nears Old Trafford farewell and will Luis Díaz play as a striker again?

    Brentford have scored nine and conceded six in their past two Premier League home games. Their leaky defence did not cost them in victories over Wolves and Ipswich but they were shown up by Harry Wilson’s injury-time double on Monday night at Fulham to suggest things need to improve at the back. Wilson’s goals both came from crosses. Brentford allowed Fulham to cross the ball 43 times, although Thomas Frank was not too worried about it and was surprisingly relaxed that they led to two goals. With Ethan Pinnock and Nathan Collins, he does have centre-backs capable of dealing with the majority but it is a dangerous game to play. Bournemouth will have taken note and their fine wingers and full-backs will probably target the space afforded out wide. Will Unwin

    Brentford v Bournemouth, Saturday 3pm (all times GMT)

    Crystal Palace v Fulham, Saturday 3pm

    West Ham v Everton, Saturday 3pm

    Wolves v Southampton, Saturday 3pm

    Brighton v Manchester City, Saturday 5.30pm

    Liverpool v Aston Villa, Saturday 8pm

    Manchester United v Leicester, Sunday 2pm

    Nottingham Forest v Newcastle, Sunday 2pm

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      More than an hour of exercise a week may help with ‘baby blues’, says study

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

    Moderate exercise such as brisk walking may almost halve new mothers’ risk of major depression, analysis suggests

    Doing more than an hour of moderate intensity exercise each week may reduce the severity of “baby blues” and almost halve the risk of new mothers developing major clinical depression, the largest analysis of evidence suggests.

    However, researchers behind the study acknowledged that finding the time amid so many new responsibilities and challenges would not be easy, and recovery from childbirth should be prioritised.

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      Boy, 16, charged with manslaughter after alleged gunpoint carjacking near Brisbane

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

    Teenager in custody after 69-year-old woman killed and two police officers injured in Murrumba Downs collision

    A 16-year-old boy has been charged with manslaughter after a fatal crash north of Brisbane that followed an alleged carjacking at gunpoint.

    The teenager was taken into custody after a 69-year-old woman was killed and two police officers injured in the “harrowing” collision on Thursday.

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      I’m a ‘trad wife’ in a happy marriage. How can I get my friends to accept me for who I am? | Leading questions

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 7 November 2024

    To your friends, your relationship is probably the least interesting about you, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith . Try to remember what drew you to these people in the first place

    I think I am in some sort of version of what people call a ‘trad marriage’ but it has its twists and turns . I met my husband when I was 25. I dropped out of university, got involved with drugs and drinking too much, and my self-esteem was at rock bottom.

    One night I ended up at a party with people I didn’t know and someone slipped something in my drink and I lost all memory until the next morning when I woke up on the sofa in a strange man’s apartment. He had rescued me and taken me to his place. I didn’t leave his flat for three months, except to be taken out to dinner and sent off to a gym to get back in shape.

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