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Terrorism police list Extinction Rebellion as extremist ideology Exclusive: Police scramble to recall guide issued to teachers putting climate activists alongside far-right groupsCounter-terrorism police placed the non-violent group Extinction Rebellion (XR) on a list of extremist ideologies that should be reported to the authorities running the Prevent programme, which aims to catch those at risk of committing atrocities, the Guardian has learned.The climate emergency campaign group was included in a 12-page guide produced by counter-terrorism police in the south-east called “Safeguarding young people and adults from ideological extremism”, which is marked as “official”. Continue reading... Go to Source

Samira Ahmed wins sex discrimination equal pay claim against BBC Presenter’s victory leaves broadcaster potentially facing huge bill for similar claimsSamira Ahmed has won a sex discrimination pay claim against the BBC in a landmark case that leaves the BBC facing the prospect of a huge bill for similar claims.In a judgment published on Friday, after the tribunal ended in early November, judges were damning of the broadcaster’s argument that Ahmed’s job as presenter of the audience feedback show Newswatch was significantly different to Jeremy Vine’s as a presenter of Points of View. Continue reading... Go to Source

'Serious concerns' raised over integrity of Iran plane crash site Experts express shock at Iran’s conduct, amid fears Tehran is trying to destroy evidence Visual guide to the Iran plane crashAir crash experts have raised serious concerns over the handling of the crash site of a Ukrainian airliner suspected to have been accidentally shot down by Iranian missiles, as fears grow that Tehran has sought to eliminate evidence from the area.Graham Braithwaite, professor of safety and accident investigation at Cranfield University, said the Iranian handling of the crash site, including the apparent quick removal of evidence, raised “serious concerns over the integrity of the investigation”. Continue reading... Go to Source

Northern Ireland: parties back power-sharing deal Sinn Féin announces support for British-Irish plan while DUP signals that it will also sign upNorthern Ireland’s political parties have agreed to a deal that will lead to the restoration of the power-sharing government in the region following its collapse three years ago.On Friday evening, Sinn Féin confirmed it would back a deal promoted by the British and Irish governments which included plans to put Gaelic on a par with English, its leader, Mary Lou McDonald, announced. Continue reading... Go to Source

Meghan returns to Canada as Queen calls for 'workable solution' Fallout continues over royal couple’s decision to ‘step back’ from monarchyThe Duchess of Sussex has flown back to Canada, leaving senior royals to hammer out a way forward for her and Prince Harry to operate as “hybrid” royals.As Meghan returned to Vancouver, and the embrace of supportive friends, top royal aides were in unprecedented talks with government officials in the UK and Canada to seek a solution to end the latest crisis to engulf the monarchy. Continue reading... Go to Source

Iran plane crash: Ukraine's president calls on US and allies to share evidence – live Volodymyr Zelenskiy to discuss investigation with US secretary of state Mike Pompeo Plane shot down by accident, western officials believeA visual guide to the Iran plane crash 11.55am GMTUkraine’s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, has said on Twitter that he and the Ukrainian president have met with US embassy officials and obtained “important data” about the plane crash.Prystaiko gave no further details but said the data would be “processed by our specialists”.Разом з Президентом Володимиром З ...

Skype audio graded by workers in China with 'no security measures' Exclusive: former Microsoft contractor says he was emailed login after minimal vettingA Microsoft programme to transcribe and vet audio from Skype and Cortana, its voice assistant, ran for years with “no security measures”, according to a former contractor who says he reviewed thousands of potentially sensitive recordings on his personal laptop from his home in Beijing over the two years he worked for the company.The recordings, both deliberate and accidentally invoked activations of the voice assistant, as well as some Skype phone calls, were simply accessed by Microsoft workers through a web app running in Google’s Chrome browser, on their personal laptops, over the Chinese internet, according to th...

Meghan returns to Canada as Queen calls for a 'workable solution' Fallout continues over royal couple’s decision to ‘step back’ from monarchyThe Duchess of Sussex has returned to Canada as the Queen and other senior royals took decisive action and ordered their teams to find a “workable solution” to Prince Harry and Meghan’s future roles.The couple had only recently arrived in the UK after spending an extended festive break in the Commonwealth country but she is now back with the couple’s baby son, Archie, who remained behind, reportedly looked after by a nanny and friends of the duchess. Continue reading... Go to Source

Woman posed as boy to sexually assault up to 50 girls, say police Gemma Watts, 21, faces jail after pleading guilty to seven sexual assault and grooming charges A woman posed as a teenage boy to sexually assault up to 50 girls as young as 14 after grooming them online, police have revealed.Gemma Watts, 21, travelled the country by train to meet the youngsters, who believed they were in a relationship with a boy close to their own age. Continue reading... Go to Source

Clive Lewis: Labour must push for proportional representation Leadership hopeful stresses need for radical change, saying party must act ‘or it will die’Labour must embrace proportional representation and learn to work with other parties among other radical changes, the leadership contender Clive Lewis has said, adding that the party “needs to modernise, or it will die”.In a speech formally launching his campaign, the Norwich South MP said Labour needed to become less centralised and more collaborative, warning that debate was being stifled by “sectarianism and tribalism”. Continue reading... Go to Source