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Updates and news on the fifth day of action from Tokyo
Women’s 200m: Will we get and American 1-2-3 come the final? Maybe. Melissa Jefferson-Wooden, the 100m champion, finishes her heat in first in 22.24sec with countrywoman Thelma Davies finishing second and Ivory Coast’s Jessika Gbai taking third.
Women’s 200m: The first heat has US’s Anavia Battle, the four-time Diamond League winner and no surprise, she leads the pack, winning with heat with a time of 22.07sec, her season’s best. Ivory Coast’s Marie Josée Ta Lou-Smith and Greece’s Polyniki Emmanouilidou qualify alongside Battle.
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© Photograph: Paweł Kopczyński/Reuters
Preteens are parroting influencer speak, stealing and demanding anti-ageing products. Experts say the pressure to fit in is intense – and the beauty stores aren’t helping
Jessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. “Her skin was burning,” Jessica said, “it was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you can think of on the palm of her hand, then all over her face. One of our estheticians had to tend to her skin. Her parents were nowhere to be seen.”
Former Sephora employee KM, 25, has her war stories too. Like the day a woman was caught shoplifting and told the security guard “she was trying to steal because her kid was getting bullied because she didn’t have a Dior lip gloss. [The mom] couldn’t afford it but her daughter told her she is going to get made fun of at school.”
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© Illustration: Min Heo/The Guardian
I hope tonight’s gig will have the same galvanising effect as the 1988 Nelson Mandela concert – and give people courage to speak out about Gaza
In the summer of 1988 the music festival producer Tony Hollingsworth organised a concert at Wembley Stadium in London to celebrate the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela. He offered the BBC the rights to broadcast it live, but the corporation was nervous. Mandela had been in jail since 1962 and, to the extent that he was a well-known figure, he had been branded a “terrorist”. Hollingsworth met BBC executive Alan Yentob, who was wavering. “Alan,” Tony said, “you’ve got to bite the bullet.” Eventually Yentob agreed, replying: “I’ll give you five hours. If the bill improves, I’ll increase the time.”
Conservative MPs were soon organising a parliamentary motion, deploring the BBC’s editorial decision. Opponents of Mandela’s African National Congress (ANC) were right to be worried about the concert. The event was broadcast to a global audience of 600 million people, it made Mandela a household name around the world and, in all probability, hastened his release. Oliver Tambo, then president of the ANC, told Hollingsworth the concert was “the greatest single event we have undertaken in support of the struggle.”
Brian Eno is a musician, artist, composer and producer
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God As My Witness shares survivors’ stories and exposes church cover-ups as it returns to the scandal’s epicenter
A film examining the Catholic clergy molestation crisis in New Orleans recently won the prize for best documentary at Colorado’s Winter Park film festival and has been chosen to be screened in the city where the scandal has unfolded.
God As My Witness makes “clear that those who commit these atrocities cannot hide” while giving “a voice to the survivors, justice to the abused and a platform to be heard,” the Winter Park film festival’s director, Connor Nelson, said in a statement.
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On the first full day of his state visit to the UK, the US president will attend various events in Windsor before a state banquet
Lucy Powell has hit out at the “sexist” framing of her deputy Labour leadership campaign, with people claiming she and her rival, Bridget Phillipson, are standing as “proxies” for two men, Aletha Adu reports.
Most of Donald Trump’s policies horrify progressives and leftwingers in Britain, including Labour party members and supporters, but Keir Starmer has said almost nothing critical about the Trump administration because he has taken a view that maintaining good relations with the White House is in the national interest.
I understand the UK government’s position of being pragmatic on the international stage and wanting to maintain a good relationship with the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Faced with a revanchist Russia, Europe’s security feels less certain now than at any time since the second world war. And the threat of even higher US tariffs is ever present.
But it’s also important to ensure our special relationship includes being open and honest with each other. At times, this means being a critical friend and speaking truth to power – and being clear that we reject the politics of fear and division. Showing President Trump why he must back Ukraine, not Putin. Making the case for taking the climate emergency seriously. Urging the president to stop the tariff wars that are tearing global trade apart. And putting pressure on him to do much more to end Israel’s horrific onslaught on Gaza, as only he has the power to bring Israel’s brazen and repeated violations of international law to an end.
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