Jem Talbot

Featured in: Favicon

theguardian.com

Articles

How China uses ‘salami-slicing’ tactics to exert pressure on Taiwan - video

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Amy Hawkins |Jem Talbot |Ryan Baxter |Ali Assaf |Elena Morresi

China has dramatically increased military activities around Taiwan, with more than 3,000 incursions into Taiwan's airspace in 2024 alone. Amy Hawkins examines how Beijing is deploying 'salami-slicing' tactics, a strategy of gradual pressure that stays below the threshold of war while steadily wearing down Taiwan's defences. From daily air incursions to strategic military exercises, we explore the four phases of China's approach and what it means for Taiwan's future
Assad’s Syria horror has ended, what’s next? - video

Dec 23, 2024 | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Ayman Abu Ramouz |Jem Talbot |Temujin Doran |Katie Lamborn

A new Syria is emerging from the shadow of the brutal Assad regime. The Guardian’s Bethan McKernan and Ayman Abu Ramouz meet people celebrating their hard-won freedom, but also those grappling with a traumatic past.
'The Syrian regime hit us with chemical weapons: only now can we speak out' - video

Dec 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Bethan Mckernan |Ayman Abu Ramouz |Jem Talbot |Kyri Evangelou |Temujin Doran |Katie Lamborn

Syrian airforce helicopters dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas onto the town of Douma on 7 April 2018. At least 43 people choked to death. For six years, afraid of reprisals, the town has grieved in silence for loved ones lost to chemical attacks and countless others killed by conventional weapons.
The hunt for Europe's great white shark - video

Oct 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Richard Sprenger |Kyri Evangelou |Jem Talbot |Sinead McCausland |Temujin Doran

American research group Ocearch has more than 15 years’ experience in catching, tagging and tracking great white sharks all over the world, contributing to filling in the many gaps in knowledge about the ocean predator. Ocearch came to Europe for the first time in the summer, hoping to study the elusive Mediterranean great white – about which little is known.
So now what does the future look like? | Anywhere but Westminster - video

Jul 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | John Harris |John Domokos |Jem Talbot |Katie Lamborn |Christian Bennett

On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up that spirit?
Will sewage in the Thames hurt the Tories? The view from Henley and Thame - video

Jun 11, 2024 | theguardian.com | Maeve Shearlaw |Christopher Cherry |Jem Talbot

In the run-up to July's general election, the Guardian video team is touring the UK looking at the issues that matter to voters. After swimmers and rowers fell sick from sewage discharges into the River Thames we went to the seat of Henley and Thame to see how environmental concerns rank for voters in a seat that has been Conservative for more than 100 years
Our lives in the UK asylum system: 'the power of fear' - video

Mar 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Folashade Alonge |Agatha Phiri |Patrick Tierney |Olusola Osekitas |Maeve Shearlaw |Bruno Rinvolucri | +4 more

The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in the asylum backlog, women traumatised by detention and women struggling to find housing. They were all volunteering in their communities, while reckoning with a hostile climate towards refugees and asylum seekers.
Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink - video

Mar 14, 2024 | theguardian.com | Patrick Tierney |Andrew Butterworth |Laura Hampson |Shannon Dunn |Jem Talbot |Adam Sich | +4 more

The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale in greater Manchester, who turned the lens on a benefits system that they have seen unfairly penalising vulnerable people in their town. The group of reporters from the Elephants Trail met friends, family and others in the community trying to navigate the system, and consider how they can use those stories to advocate for change across the country. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain.