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      Undercover film exposing UK far-right activists pulled from London festival

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:55

    Film festival organisers make ‘heartbreaking’ decision not to show Undercover: Exposing the Far Right amid concerns over staff welfare

    A documentary that lifts the lid on a “race science” network of far-right activists in Britain and its links to a rich American funder of eugenics research has been pulled from the London Film Festival (LFF) at the last minute due to safety concerns.

    The organisers have taken the “heartbreaking decision” to cancel the planned screening of the “exceptional” Undercover: Exposing the Far Right this weekend due to fears about the welfare of the staff and security working in the festival venues.

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      Great Britain v New Zealand: America’s Cup 2024, races nine and 10 – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:51

    Their backs are against the waves wall but Ben Ainslie has not given up yet.

    There’s no second chances. We’ve got to win every race from now on in. In some ways, that helps the scenario. The siege mentality really kicks in and you’re in the ultimate fight. We still think we can go further in this competition and we’re determined to do that.

    Emirates Team New Zealand tacked right into the stronger wind down the side of the course and swept ahead into an insurmountable lead. By the start of the last leg of the race, they were almost a kilometre in front.

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      ‘We leave viewers smarter’: fears over plans to close ‘world’s most highbrow’ TV station

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:43

    Unique experiment in German-language public broadcasting 3sat faces pressure from populist right

    In many countries around the world, breakfast TV means cele­brity interviews, soap operas and last night’s football highlights. On the German-language channel 3sat this Sunday morning, it means a one-hour philosophical discussion on trauma psychology, followed by a book review programme and a classical concert by the Munich Radio Orchestra.

    The collaboration between public broadcasters in Austria, Germany and Switzerland is a unique experi­ment in pan-European broadcasting that has defied doubters for almost four decades: highbrow television.

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      UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:40


    Mutant breed, starting to be offered for sale in UK, has short legs, no whiskers and suffers serious health issues

    People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.

    The hybrid breed is understood to be spreading to the UK after being bred to resemble XL bully dogs, mixing the gene that causes hairlessness in sphynx cats with the gene responsible for the short legs of munchkin cats.

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      UK deports record number of Nigerians and Ghanaians in single flight

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:36

    Flight comes as news emerges of plan to send asylum seekers who arrive on Chagos Islands to British territory of Saint Helena

    A record number of Nigerians and Ghanaians were deported to their home countries on one flight, with 44 forcibly removed on Friday, the Home Office has confirmed.

    The news comes as it emerged that any asylum seekers who arrive in Diego Garcia before a treaty between the UK and Mauritius to hand back the Chagos Islands is finalised will be sent to Saint Helena, a British territory in the Atlantic Ocean, described as one of the most remote places on Earth.

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      British Champions Day 2024: horse racing updates from Ascot – live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:12

    • Flat showpiece includes Champion Stakes (3.55pm BST)
    • Read Greg Wood’s preview | And you can email Tony

    It’s squidgy ground (that’s officially soft!) and will be tough going but at least the rain has stopped falling now.

    Good afternoon. These are the races to look forward to on a cracking card at Ascot.

    1.20pm: QIPCO British Champions Long Distance Cup, Group 2

    1.55pm: QIPCO British Champions Sprint Stakes, Group 1

    2.35pm: QIPCO British Champions Fillies & Mares Stakes, Group 1

    3.15pm: Queen Elizabeth II Stakes (sponsored by QIPCO), Group 1

    3.55pm: QIPCO Champion Stakes, Group 1

    4.35pm: Balmoral Handicap (sponsored by QIPCO)

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      ‘No complaints’: England’s McCullum unfazed by Pakistan’s pitch tactic

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:11

    • Hosts opted to re-use pitch in Multan after first Test loss
    • PCB aim to create turning surface for Rawalpindi decider

    Brendon McCullum may believe that only Superman could have saved England from defeat once they found themselves chasing 297 on a turning wicket in the second Test – suggesting at that point they were doomed “save for someone coming out of the telephone box” – but the coach praised Pakistan’s gamble on re-using a tired pitch, describing it as “a good punt”. “I actually don’t mind,” he said. “I think home teams should be allowed to have conditions that suit themselves. I thought they did brilliantly.”

    The series now moves to traditionally less spin-friendly Rawalpindi for Thursday’s decider; in seven Tests played there over the past five years seamers have bowled 56% of the deliveries and taken 64% of the wickets. “I don’t know if I’ve seen a turner in Rawalpindi,” said Shan Masood, the Pakistan captain, though the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chief curator, the Australian Tony Hemming, has been there since the start of the week doing his very best to create one.

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      Mozambique opposition figures killed as protest grows over election results

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:02

    Lawyer Elvino Dias and official Paulo Guambe shot as their party plans a national strike over disputed election

    Attackers killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing rounds at a car in which they were travelling on Saturday, ratcheting up tensions before protests against a disputed election result, rights groups said.

    Mozambique’s new opposition Podemos party and its presidential candidate Venâncio Mondlane have rejected provisional results showing a probable win for Frelimo, the party that has ruled Mozambique for half a century. They have called for a nationwide strike on Monday.

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      Drive-by shootings, arson and murder: Canada accuses India of campaign against Sikh activists

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Saturday, 19 October - 11:00

    Officials point to a string of cases they suspect are part of a cross-border effort sanctioned by Delhi to silence separatists

    On one summer night in Ontario, a Canadian Sikh activist received a panicked call from his wife: police had come to the family home and warned her that his life was at risk.

    Two weeks later and thousands of kilometers away, a gunman in the province of British Columbia filmed himself firing a volley of bullets into the home of a prominent Indo-Canadian singer as two vehicles burned in the driveway.

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