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| US briefing: Turkey sanctions, John Bolton and Fort Worth shooting | US briefing: Turkey sanctions, John Bolton and Fort Worth shooting |
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| Good morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s essential stories. | Good morning, I’m Tim Walker with today’s essential stories. |
| Russia’s influence grows as Syrian troops join Kurdish fight | Russia’s influence grows as Syrian troops join Kurdish fight |
| As the violence in northern Syria continued to escalate on Monday, Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Ankara and spoke to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to demand an immediate ceasefire – a move seen as an attempt by the White House to mitigate a historic foreign policy blunder. But with Syrian troops joining the fight against Turkey’s onslaught – under a deal between the Kurds and Damascus, brokered by Russia – a regional power shift from Washington to Moscow is well under way. | As the violence in northern Syria continued to escalate on Monday, Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Ankara and spoke to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, to demand an immediate ceasefire – a move seen as an attempt by the White House to mitigate a historic foreign policy blunder. But with Syrian troops joining the fight against Turkey’s onslaught – under a deal between the Kurds and Damascus, brokered by Russia – a regional power shift from Washington to Moscow is well under way. |
| Nuclear bombs. The tensions between Turkey and the Trump administration are complicated by the fact that the US has approximately 50 nuclear bombs stored at an American airbase in Turkey, which could become bargaining chips. | Nuclear bombs. The tensions between Turkey and the Trump administration are complicated by the fact that the US has approximately 50 nuclear bombs stored at an American airbase in Turkey, which could become bargaining chips. |
| Saudi concerns. The new Saudi ambassador to the UK has said the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria is a disaster that has dented Riyadh’s confidence in the Trump administration. | Saudi concerns. The new Saudi ambassador to the UK has said the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria is a disaster that has dented Riyadh’s confidence in the Trump administration. |
| Nuclear bombs. The tensions between Turkey and the Trump administration are complicated by the fact that the US has approximately 50 nuclear bombs stored at an American airbase in Turkey, which could become bargaining chips. | Nuclear bombs. The tensions between Turkey and the Trump administration are complicated by the fact that the US has approximately 50 nuclear bombs stored at an American airbase in Turkey, which could become bargaining chips. |
| Saudi concerns. The new Saudi ambassador to the UK has said the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria is a disaster that has dented Riyadh’s confidence in the Trump administration. | Saudi concerns. The new Saudi ambassador to the UK has said the Turkish offensive in north-eastern Syria is a disaster that has dented Riyadh’s confidence in the Trump administration. |
| John Bolton ‘sounded alarm’ over Giuliani and Ukraine | John Bolton ‘sounded alarm’ over Giuliani and Ukraine |
| John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, was reportedly so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine that he told one of his top aides to raise the matter with White House lawyers. Fiona Hill, formerly the administration’s top expert on Russia, revealed Bolton’s horror at Giuliani’s shadow foreign policy in testimony to the congressional impeachment inquiry, saying Bolton told her: “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.” | John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, was reportedly so alarmed by Rudy Giuliani’s back-channel efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens in Ukraine that he told one of his top aides to raise the matter with White House lawyers. Fiona Hill, formerly the administration’s top expert on Russia, revealed Bolton’s horror at Giuliani’s shadow foreign policy in testimony to the congressional impeachment inquiry, saying Bolton told her: “Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.” |
| Hunter Biden. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose links to a Ukrainian energy firm are at the heart of Giuliani’s attempts to smear the former vice-president, has given an interview to ABC News that will air on Tuesday, hours before a Democratic presidential debate. | Hunter Biden. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose links to a Ukrainian energy firm are at the heart of Giuliani’s attempts to smear the former vice-president, has given an interview to ABC News that will air on Tuesday, hours before a Democratic presidential debate. |
| Hunter Biden. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose links to a Ukrainian energy firm are at the heart of Giuliani’s attempts to smear the former vice-president, has given an interview to ABC News that will air on Tuesday, hours before a Democratic presidential debate. | Hunter Biden. Joe Biden’s son Hunter, whose links to a Ukrainian energy firm are at the heart of Giuliani’s attempts to smear the former vice-president, has given an interview to ABC News that will air on Tuesday, hours before a Democratic presidential debate. |
| Texas cop who killed Atatiana Jefferson charged with murder | Texas cop who killed Atatiana Jefferson charged with murder |
| The Fort Worth police officer who shot dead a black woman in her own home on Saturday has been charged with murder. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed in her bedroom when officer Aaron Dean fired at her through a window. Body camera footage released by police shows that Dean, who had arrived at Jefferson’s home to conduct a welfare check, had not parked in front of the house, did not identify himself, and appears to have given her no time to respond to his initial command before opening fire. | The Fort Worth police officer who shot dead a black woman in her own home on Saturday has been charged with murder. Atatiana Jefferson, 28, was killed in her bedroom when officer Aaron Dean fired at her through a window. Body camera footage released by police shows that Dean, who had arrived at Jefferson’s home to conduct a welfare check, had not parked in front of the house, did not identify himself, and appears to have given her no time to respond to his initial command before opening fire. |
| ‘Wellness call’. Jefferson had been playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew, Zion, when she was killed. The family’s lawyer, Lee Merritt, said: “It’s beyond me to begin to understand what kind of police force responds to a wellness call with the equivalent of Swat.” | ‘Wellness call’. Jefferson had been playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew, Zion, when she was killed. The family’s lawyer, Lee Merritt, said: “It’s beyond me to begin to understand what kind of police force responds to a wellness call with the equivalent of Swat.” |
| ‘Wellness call’. Jefferson had been playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew, Zion, when she was killed. The family’s lawyer, Lee Merritt, said: “It’s beyond me to begin to understand what kind of police force responds to a wellness call with the equivalent of Swat.” | ‘Wellness call’. Jefferson had been playing video games with her eight-year-old nephew, Zion, when she was killed. The family’s lawyer, Lee Merritt, said: “It’s beyond me to begin to understand what kind of police force responds to a wellness call with the equivalent of Swat.” |
| WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff after IPO fiasco | WeWork set to sack 2,000 staff after IPO fiasco |
| The office rental firm WeWork, until recently America’s most highly valued private company, is expected to sack as many as 2,000 of its 15,000 staff as it tries to staunch massive losses and contain the fallout from a failed IPO. Though WeWork declined to comment, the Guardian obtained online chats among its staff, where much internal ire is being directed at co-founder Adam Neumann, who cashed in $700m of his own shares before the IPO was pulled in September, amid skepticism from prospective investors. | The office rental firm WeWork, until recently America’s most highly valued private company, is expected to sack as many as 2,000 of its 15,000 staff as it tries to staunch massive losses and contain the fallout from a failed IPO. Though WeWork declined to comment, the Guardian obtained online chats among its staff, where much internal ire is being directed at co-founder Adam Neumann, who cashed in $700m of his own shares before the IPO was pulled in September, amid skepticism from prospective investors. |
| Cancer risk. In a further headache for the firm, WeWork has been forced to close about 2,300 phone booths at its north American office spaces, after discovering elevated levels of formaldehyde that could pose a cancer risk. | Cancer risk. In a further headache for the firm, WeWork has been forced to close about 2,300 phone booths at its north American office spaces, after discovering elevated levels of formaldehyde that could pose a cancer risk. |
| Cancer risk. In a further headache for the firm, WeWork has been forced to close about 2,300 phone booths at its north American office spaces, after discovering elevated levels of formaldehyde that could pose a cancer risk. | Cancer risk. In a further headache for the firm, WeWork has been forced to close about 2,300 phone booths at its north American office spaces, after discovering elevated levels of formaldehyde that could pose a cancer risk. |
| Cheat sheet | Cheat sheet |
| Several high-profile figures have criticised Trump for failing to condemn a violent video, shown at an event for supporters at his Florida resort, which depicts the president shooting and stabbing dozens of his political opponents and media outlets. | Several high-profile figures have criticised Trump for failing to condemn a violent video, shown at an event for supporters at his Florida resort, which depicts the president shooting and stabbing dozens of his political opponents and media outlets. |
| The Booker Prize for fiction has been split between two winners for the first time in almost 30 years, after judges were unable to choose between Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. | The Booker Prize for fiction has been split between two winners for the first time in almost 30 years, after judges were unable to choose between Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. |
| Self-reported suicide attempts among black teenagers in the US have increased by 73% since the early 1990s, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics. | Self-reported suicide attempts among black teenagers in the US have increased by 73% since the early 1990s, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics. |
| Russian investigators have staged nationwide raids on more than 200 offices belonging to the country’s political opposition, as the Kremlin ramps up pressure on leading Putin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies. | Russian investigators have staged nationwide raids on more than 200 offices belonging to the country’s political opposition, as the Kremlin ramps up pressure on leading Putin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies. |
| Several high-profile figures have criticised Trump for failing to condemn a violent video, shown at an event for supporters at his Florida resort, which depicts the president shooting and stabbing dozens of his political opponents and media outlets. | Several high-profile figures have criticised Trump for failing to condemn a violent video, shown at an event for supporters at his Florida resort, which depicts the president shooting and stabbing dozens of his political opponents and media outlets. |
| The Booker Prize for fiction has been split between two winners for the first time in almost 30 years, after judges were unable to choose between Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. | The Booker Prize for fiction has been split between two winners for the first time in almost 30 years, after judges were unable to choose between Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. |
| Self-reported suicide attempts among black teenagers in the US have increased by 73% since the early 1990s, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics. | Self-reported suicide attempts among black teenagers in the US have increased by 73% since the early 1990s, according to a study published in the medical journal Pediatrics. |
| Russian investigators have staged nationwide raids on more than 200 offices belonging to the country’s political opposition, as the Kremlin ramps up pressure on leading Putin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies. | Russian investigators have staged nationwide raids on more than 200 offices belonging to the country’s political opposition, as the Kremlin ramps up pressure on leading Putin critic Alexei Navalny and his allies. |
| Must-reads | Must-reads |
| The Americans haunted by zombie debt | The Americans haunted by zombie debt |
| Tens of thousands of people have received demands from a faceless bureaucracy to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits, some of them decades old. For the Guardian’s Automating Poverty series, Virginia Eubanks met the Americans struggling with zombie debt. | Tens of thousands of people have received demands from a faceless bureaucracy to repay alleged overpayments of government benefits, some of them decades old. For the Guardian’s Automating Poverty series, Virginia Eubanks met the Americans struggling with zombie debt. |
| Democrats battle for the suburbs in 2020 | Democrats battle for the suburbs in 2020 |
| The latest Democratic presidential debate is taking place on Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio, an affluent suburb north-east of the state capital, Columbus. Westerville, and other suburbs like it, will be “ground zero” in 2020, the experts tell Lauren Gambino. | The latest Democratic presidential debate is taking place on Tuesday night in Westerville, Ohio, an affluent suburb north-east of the state capital, Columbus. Westerville, and other suburbs like it, will be “ground zero” in 2020, the experts tell Lauren Gambino. |
| The prescience and power of Fight Club, 20 years on | The prescience and power of Fight Club, 20 years on |
| When David Fincher’s film adaptation of Fight Club arrived in cinemas in 1999, it generated widespread concern that it might inspire impressionable young men to commit violent acts. Two decades later, says Scott Tobias, its satirical ambiguities seem more like a warning than an incitement. | When David Fincher’s film adaptation of Fight Club arrived in cinemas in 1999, it generated widespread concern that it might inspire impressionable young men to commit violent acts. Two decades later, says Scott Tobias, its satirical ambiguities seem more like a warning than an incitement. |
| Thomas Chatterton Williams: how and why to ‘unlearn race’ | Thomas Chatterton Williams: how and why to ‘unlearn race’ |
| After years of examining race categories, the American writer Thomas Chatterton Williams has come to identify as an ex-black man. Being black in America “is a category that’s been hurting my family for generations,” he tells Summer Sewell, “but it’s not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.” | After years of examining race categories, the American writer Thomas Chatterton Williams has come to identify as an ex-black man. Being black in America “is a category that’s been hurting my family for generations,” he tells Summer Sewell, “but it’s not a real category and our society is damaged by insisting on it.” |
| Opinion | Opinion |
| The US, UK and Australian governments have asked Facebook to create a “backdoor” to its encrypted messaging apps. If their wish is granted, says Edward Snowden, it would render our private communications – and our public infrastructure – permanently unsafe. | The US, UK and Australian governments have asked Facebook to create a “backdoor” to its encrypted messaging apps. If their wish is granted, says Edward Snowden, it would render our private communications – and our public infrastructure – permanently unsafe. |
| It is striking that when a company as potentially dangerous as Facebook appears to be at least publicly willing to implement technology that makes users safer by limiting its own power, it is the US government that cries foul. This is because the government would suddenly become less able to treat Facebook as a convenient trove of private lives. | It is striking that when a company as potentially dangerous as Facebook appears to be at least publicly willing to implement technology that makes users safer by limiting its own power, it is the US government that cries foul. This is because the government would suddenly become less able to treat Facebook as a convenient trove of private lives. |
| Sport | Sport |
| LeBron James has waded into the spat between the NBA and China by suggesting the Houston Rockets general manager, Daryl Morey, “wasn’t educated on the situation” when he tweeted in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. James later clarified that he was referring to Morey’s grasp of the potential consequences of his tweet, not the substance of his views on Hong Kong. | LeBron James has waded into the spat between the NBA and China by suggesting the Houston Rockets general manager, Daryl Morey, “wasn’t educated on the situation” when he tweeted in support of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. James later clarified that he was referring to Morey’s grasp of the potential consequences of his tweet, not the substance of his views on Hong Kong. |
| The Washington Nationals are just one game away from granting their city its first World Series appearance in 86 years, after crushing the St Louis Cardinals 8-1 on Monday night to take a 3-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. | The Washington Nationals are just one game away from granting their city its first World Series appearance in 86 years, after crushing the St Louis Cardinals 8-1 on Monday night to take a 3-0 lead in the NL Championship Series. |
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