Indholdsfortegnelse for 8 April 2022 i Guardian Weekly

Falklands flashpoint Protesters gather at the British embassy in Buenos Aires to mark 40 years since Argentina’s invasion of the Falkland Islands, a British overseas territory, in the southern Atlantic. The ensuing 74-day war resulted in the deaths of 649 Argentinian military personnel, 255 British troops and three islanders. The Guardian Weekly Founded in Manchester, England 4 July 1919 Vol 206 | Issue№ 15 Guardian Weekly is an edited selection of some of the best journalism found in the Guardian and Observer newspapers in the UK and the Guardian’s digital editions in the UK, US and Australia. The weekly magazine has an international focus and three editions: global, Australia and North America. The Guardian was founded in 1821, and Guardian Weekly in 1919. We exist to hold power to account in…

Russian forces are sending Ukrainian citizens to “filtration camps” before forcibly relocating them to Russia, according to the accounts of two women who said they were transported to Russian territory from the besieged city of Mariupol last month. “On 15 March, Russian troops stormed into our bomb shelter and ordered all the women and children to get out. It was not a choice,” said one woman who had been hiding with her family in a suburb of Mariupol since early March. Ukrainian officials have accused Russian troops of transporting several thousand Mariupol residents through “filtration camps” and forcibly moving them to Russia through the Russian-controlled republics in eastern Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has denied the accusations, claiming “such reports are lies”. Russian officials have previously said 420,000 people have…

This time almost five years ago, Caroline Janvier was a member of the newly elected Emmanuel Macron’s army of would-be parliamentarians. These “novices”, as La République En Marche – the pop-up party created to bring Macron to power – called them, were so green they were sent on a one-day crash course on how to run a campaign and deal with the press. Janvier, 40, a graduate of the elite Sciences Po institute, won her seat in Loiret, south of Paris, despite being a political unknown. Last Saturday, she travelled to see Macron, who is seeking re-election, stage his first and last campaign meeting in Europe’s biggest concert hall in the Paris district of La Défense – an event his team promised would be a Super Bowl-style occasion. About 30,000…

Donald Trump picked up a White House phone at 2.26pm on 6 January last year, and placed a call to Mike Lee, the Republican senator from Utah. The communication was made at a significant moment. Washington DC police had declared a riot 37 minutes earlier. Minutes after that, Mike Pence, then vice-president, was rushed out of the Senate chamber, where he had been presiding over Congress’s certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election, and put into hiding. Fifteen minutes before Trump made the call, his supporters, exhorted by the sitting president to “fight like hell” against what he falsely claimed was a rigged election, broke a window at the Capitol and entered the heart of US democracy. The insurrection was under way. Rousing speech Former President Trump’s remarks…

As some of the biggest names in football gathered in Doha for last Friday’s World Cup draw, commentators pointed out how much money Qatar has lavished on its preparations for the sporting mega-event. They talked of its vast, gas-fuelled wealth and the $500m a week it was at one stage spending on new stadiums, transport links and infrastructure. But despite the billions spent, Qatar’s World Cup infrastructure has been built on the cheap. Hundreds of thousands of workers have been forced to pay for their recruitment and labour for years earning poverty wages. Across south Asia and parts of Africa, young men desperate for work sign up with recruitment agents who, often in collusion with companies or brokers in Qatar, illegally extract huge sums from them in return for a…

A year to the day before this performance, Griff won the 2021 Brit awards Rising Star poll, and her star has duly risen. The pace hasn’t been as meteoric as for previous winners such as Adele and Florence + the Machine, but tonight’s showing proves that the singer/guitarist/keyboardist born Sarah Griffiths has done the groundwork. She’s made herself recognisable, as confirmed by a flock of style magazine front covers. Her mainly self-written and self-produced electro-pop, which tends to focus on the dark corners of past relationships, is arrestingly moreish, and her onstage presence is confident and funny. The only thing she’s failed to secure is a breakout hit, but when that happens, she’ll be a welcome addition to the upper reaches. She’s ready now; heaven knows why the surging heartbreak…

“I’m having my kitchen redone and am torn about whether to get a gas or induction hob. Help!” Hayley, Lancaster, England, UK “I don’t know anyone who has converted to induction and wants to go back,” says food writer Tim Hayward. The benefits of not using gas are myriad, he says, but the first question is how much do you need. “For most of my life, I’ve had big stoves with five burners, and I’ve never used all of them at once,” Hayward says. He went for a Sage Control Freak, a single induction burner that sits on a worktop and has built-in probes to measure the temperature of the pan and the food. His wife insisted on a built-in, single-pan induction hob, too, but it doesn’t get much use: “If…

From her housing estate in northern Marseille, Elisabeth, who once voted for the left, will return a ballot for the far-right Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election this month. “People used to think Marine was nasty,” she said. “Now they realise she’s not. Other politicians are taking her ideas. They all talk like her now.” Elisabeth left school at 16 and worked at a shoemaker’s, in factories and as a housekeeper, but her €800 ($880) pension barely covers bills and food. “I live on credit, over-drawn by the middle of the month,” she said. “I make a weak stew and it lasts me three days. But Le Pen will cut taxes and put money in our pockets.” She feels “Europeans” are becoming outnumbered in multi-ethnic northern Marseille and…

As an amplified La Niña weather event turned life on Australia’s east coast into a flooded misery, it has also played a role in bringing the vast lake near the middle of the continent to life. Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is about 700km north of Adelaide, covers more than 9,000 sq km – an area roughly equivalent to greater suburban Melbourne – and is the lowest point on the mainland. When the monsoon hits, floodwaters usually flow from rivers in the channel country of outback Queensland to the lake. That last happened on a large scale in 2019, when the lake bed was inundated for the first time in decades. This year, the Queensland waterways have not contributed as much to filling the lake, though water is still flowing down from…

Last week, as the sun set over the craggy hills of Spitzkoppe, Namibia, Edith Lemay and her husband, Sébastien Pelletier, stared out over the vast land-scape. The Canadian couple and their four children had spent the day scaling boulders, then cooled off from the desert heat in a nearby rock pool. “There was a sweetness in the air and as the sun disappeared, there were more stars than we’ve ever seen in our lives,” said Lemay. “It was magic.” Their children, Mia, Leo, Colin and Laurent, also gazed at the deep, inky darkness of the sky, awestruck. Three of those children will lose their eyesight in the coming years, making the experience all the more important for Lemay and Pelletier, who plan to travel for the next year to give…

This week, we shall be subjected to further appalling reports from Ukraine: murderous brutality and human suffering and resilience at its receiving end. President Vladimir Putin’s invasion has been condemned as the worst violence in Europe since the second world war. But 30 years ago this week, a similar atrocity was detonated in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On 6-7 April three decades ago, as the US and EU recognised the fledgling Bosnian republic, Russian-backed Serbian and Bosnian Serb snipers and artillery gunners opened fire on the capital, Sarajevo, unleashing the worst carnage to blight Europe since the Third Reich so far; one prays Ukraine will not usurp that awful title, if it hasn’t already. Commemorations in Sarajevo this week could not be more cogently timed: focused on Ukraine, not least because the echoes…

It is not often an actor experiences the high point and the low point of their career on the same night, but you can trust Will Smith to push the boundaries of movie stardom. His win as best actor for King Richard ought to have been the cherry on top of one of the most successful film careers in history, except Smith himself had already sabotaged the moment, the night, and possibly his future when he got up on stage 40 minutes earlier and slapped Chris Rock. Smith could spend the rest of his life looking back on the 2022 Oscars night as the best of times and the worst, but which one will prevail? Is Smith big enough to survive such a jarring incident, or is the Fresh Prince…

Ali Smith revels in etymology. She loves wordplay and puns and homonyms and what Samuel Johnson – another great lexical player – disapprovingly called a “quibble”. I’m sure she knows that “current” means “running” (from the Latin currere). So the proclaimed purpose of her four previous books was always going to be problematic. Four novels, named for the seasons of the year, were written fast and published even faster in an attempt to close the gap between experience and a writer’s response to it. But the trouble with writing about current events is that they keep running away from you. And in directions you might not have foreseen. (Remember when Covid seemed like the world’s worst worry?) Besides, almost as soon as the series began, it became evident that Smith’s…

It’s a long drag up the rutted lane from Ninebanks to Ouston Fell but, with sun clearing the mist, it feels good to be up early and out walking. Peewits cry overhead, flying over the track on rounded wings, swooping and tumbling in exuberant displays. Among the flock a few curlews glide, uttering the double note that inspired their name. Larks rise up from the tufty hillside to trill with musical notes; we strain to spot them against sky and cloud. The moor is boggy after rain. Spongy sphagnum mosses shine in vivid mounds of ruby and emerald. They can hold many times their own weight in water, slowing the flow and reducing flooding. Where a narrow sike runs down, fist-sized white blobs stand out against the moorland green. I…

1 CLIMATE CRISIS Scientists warn it is ‘now or never’ to avoid disaster The world can still hope to stave off the worst ravages of climate breakdown but only through a “now or never” dash to a low-carbon economy and society, scientists have said in what is in effect a final warning for governments on the climate. Greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, and can be nearly halved this decade, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to give the world a chance of limiting future heating to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. The final cost of doing so will be minimal, amounting to just a few percent of global GDP by mid-century, though it will require a massive effort by governments, businesses and individuals. Jim Skea, a professor…

GOVERNMENT Police fine No 10 staff over 2021 lockdown parties Downing Street staff have been issued with fines by police over a party the night before Prince Philip’s funeral, in the first decision by Scotland Yard that Covid laws were broken inside No 10. After the Guardian revealed that fixed penalty notices were handed out to those who attended a leaving do for an aide to Boris Johnson in the Cabinet Office in June 2020, sources said those who partied into the early hours in No 10 on 16 April 2021 had also been warned they would receive fines. Downing Street staff were said to have got so drunk that they broke the swing used by the prime minister’s son, Wilf, in the No 10 garden, while a staff member…

Those seeking a quiet life, tired of the price and pace of Kyiv, once came to live on Vokzal’na Street in the small town of Bucha, 28km north-west of Ukraine’s capital. It was known as “little Switzerland”, so comfortable was the living. Today, Vokzal’na is burned out, its broken homes and the churned-up military hardware littering the muddy quagmire of what was the road make up some of the defining images of the devastation wrought by Vladimir Putin’s war. It is barely conceivable that anyone could have survived what was thrown at Vokzal’na from both sides during what was clearly a vicious battle on the road to Kyiv. There is not a brick unscathed nor a patch of mud that will not have been mixed with blood. But, now that…

Vladimir Putin congratulated Hungary’s strongman leader Viktor Orbán on his decisive election victory, amid signs that European Union authorities will launch a sanctions process against Budapest that is intended to safeguard EU funds at risk from democratic-backsliding member states. Two members of the European parliament said they expected the European Commission to launch the “rule of law conditionality mechanism” against Hungary, a legal process that could ultimately switch off billions in EU payments to Budapest. EU countries that have government-controlled courts and captured state institutions can be deprived of funds, but the law has never been tested. At the European parliament in Brussels on Monday, MEPs expressed shock at Orbán’s victory speech, where he hit out at “opponents”, including a characteristic dig at “Brussels bureau-crats”, but also Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr…

It was late morning when the bullets burst through the cor-rugated roof of Maimouna Kujabee’s farmhouse. First, she hit the ground. Then she took off, running from her village in Ziguinchor, in Senegal’s Casamance region, as fast as her children could manage. Through fields and forest, with only the clothes on her back, Kujabee did not stop until she reached Bajagar, in the Gambia, about 1.5km north of the border. “The sun was hot. I ran until my sandals were cut up,” says Kujabee. She managed to find a room to sleep in, and gracious hosts who gave her, and others, food but says: “I don’t know anyone here.” Hundreds of people like Kujabee have fled the latest flare-up of one of Africa’s oldest continual conflicts – between the Senegalese…

It finally stops snowing just as Tiit Maran parks his orange Dacia Duster next to a bridge on a quiet country road. “Too bad the snow is so fresh,” he says. “We’ll not find any tracks now.” Maran, the director of Tallinn zoo and a European mink biologist, is looking for the critically endangered mammal on an island in the Baltic Sea. Following a stream, he clambers over fallen trunks, his boots sinking into the powder snow. A glorified chicken coop comes into view, one of the three sites where Maran’s team regularly released European minks between 2000 and 2016. Pregnant females were placed in the cages in May, allowing the mink and her brood time to adapt to the smells and the sounds of the forest before the doors…

FOR SOME, IT’S THE SOUND OF A KNOCK AT THE DOOR, or the thud of an explosion, shattering windows and splitting open the earth. For others, it’s the smell of smoke on the wind, or a text typed in capitals signalling that water levels are set to suddenly rise. Whether a human rights defender at risk of arrest, a family living in a conflict zone or a woman planning to flee domestic violence in the middle of the night, they have one thing in common: a bag packed ready with this moment in mind. It does little to dull their fear, they say. But gathering life’s essentials means they know they’re prepared if they have to run. Whatever their warning looks like, however much time they have, they’re ready to…

I have two wonderful sons, aged seven and three. My issue is that my older son does not understand that his brother has additional needs, and resents the extra attention he gets. My youngest is being assessed for autism. He needs constant supervision and has routines that must be followed or he gets distressed. Our eldest finds this frustrating and blames his brother for ruining everything. My eldest is very bright and engaging. He demands attention and has always been melodramatic, even at a young age. He gets frustrated that his brother won’t play with him, and says he’s weird. When the youngest does his routines with chairs, toys, cups etc, the eldest will seek to disrupt things. The youngest will react if what he is doing is messed up,…

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