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Oct 28, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
Presented by Michael Safi with Justin Glawe; produced by Tom Glasser, Oscar Boyd and Rudi Zygadlo; executive producers Sami Kent and Elizabeth Cassin Mon 28 Oct 2024 23.00 EDT What happens when an election board in a crucial swing state is infiltrated by supporters of Donald Trump?
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
Donald Trump has furiously accused the Labour party of interfering in the US election, calling it ‘far left’, after party activists travelled to campaign for his opponent. Jonathan Freedland reportsThe Guardian is editorially independent. And we want to keep our journalism open and accessible to all. But we increasingly need our readers to fund our work.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
On Sunday, 50.46% of Moldovans voted yes in a referendum on joining the EU, according to the eastern European country’s central electoral commission. “The referendum asked voters whether they would change the wording of the country’s constitution,” the Guardian’s Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer tells Michael Safi. “The wording would be changed to make joining the EU a main strategic goal of the country.” The referendum campaign was beset by allegations of Russian interference.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
“Polling has consistently indicated throughout this election season that immigration is one of the top issues, obviously for Republicans, because it’s been so deeply politicised on the right for many, many years now – but also for undecided voters and some Democrats as well.” The Guardian’s US southern bureau chief Oliver Laughland visits Tucson in Arizona, near the border with Mexico, to see why the issue of immigration is such a key issue in the presidential election.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
Presented by Michael Safi with Julian Borger; produced by Sami Kent; executive producers Homa Khaleeli and Elizabeth Cassin Thu 17 Oct 2024 22.00 EDT The mastermind of the 7 October attack has been killed. How could his death change the conflict in the Middle East?
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
As Israel fights Hezbollah in Lebanon, another unexpected conflict has been sparked. UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon have complained that Israel has been firing on their positions and the UN has said more than 15 of its soldiers have been injured. Israel has said it is not attacking the peacekeepers but called on them to leave the area, insisting they have failed in their mandate to disarm Hezbollah along the so-called blue line. But the UN says it will not pull out.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
In the last few weeks, the United States has been hit by two hurricanes, Helene and Milton. Oliver Milman, an environment reporter for Guardian US, tells Michael Safi: “The rapid analysis found that global heating had caused the rains to be heavier, the winds to be stronger, and in both the cases of Helene and Milton. Storms of this size were made about twice as likely because of the climate crisis.” Why have these storms not put the climate crisis front and centre in the presidential campaign?
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Oct 13, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
From Keir Starmer to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, every European leader seems keen to have their picture taken with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni. Yet she is the country’s first far right prime minister since the second world war and when she was elected she was talked of as a danger to Europe. Alexander Stille, a former editor of Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper and now a professor of journalism at Columbia University, has been watching her rise.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
By the time Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021, he was frustrated by the limits of his office. As Guardian US’s chief reporter, Ed Pilkington, explains to Michael Safi, Trump felt he had been held back as president not by the standard checks and balances of a democracy, but by a shadowy “deep state”.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Michael Safi with |Michael Safi
About a quarter of kibbutz Nir Oz’s population was killed or kidnapped by Hamas on 7 October last year. Proportionally, nowhere in Israel was affected more. Twelve months later, our Jerusalem correspondent, Bethan McKernan,travels down southern Israel to visit the settlement, just a few miles away from the Gaza Strip, to talk to survivors.
