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• Israeli ambassador protests as Iranian president speaks - live

  19-09-2023 23:50
  
  Ukrainian president addresses UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequencesZelenskiy accuses Russia of genocide and urges world leaders to attend peace summitWorld inching ever closer to a great fracture, says UN chiefBiden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its
  
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• Putin running out of time and losing friends, says UK foreign secretary - live

  19-09-2023 23:18
  
  Ukrainian president addresses UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequencesZelenskiy accuses Russia of genocide and urges world leaders to attend peace summitWorld inching ever closer to a great fracture, says UN chiefBiden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its
  
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• Zelenskiy calls on world leaders to attend Ukraine peace summit to stop future wars - live

  19-09-2023 22:27
  
  Ukrainian president addresses UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequencesBiden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, childre
  
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• Zelenskiy accuses Russia of ‘genocide’ over kidnapping of children and says Ukraine preparing global peace summit - live

  19-09-2023 21:01
  
  Ukrainian president addressing UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequencesBiden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, childr
  
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• Zelenskiy denounces Russia’s ‘genocide’ in Ukraine in first in-person UN speech since war began - live

  19-09-2023 20:48
  
  Ukrainian president addressing UN summit; Biden warns against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequencesBiden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, childr
  
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• Volodymyr Zelenskiy addresses UN in person for first time since Russia invaded Ukraine – live

  19-09-2023 20:11
  
  Ukrainian president appears in person for first time since war began; Biden also pledges to learn example on nuclear weapons Biden vows to lead by example on weapons of mass destructionBrazilians applaud Lula’s return to diplomacyGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, children traum
  
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• Brazilians applaud Lula's return to diplomacy as he addresses UN general assembly

  19-09-2023 18:33
  
  Relief in Brazil as Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks at the UN after four chaotic years of rule by the far-right Jair Bolsonaro“Our world is becoming unhinged,” the UN secretary general, António Guterres, warned as he kicked off the body’s assembly general on Tuesday.But many Brazilians felt that in their country’s case at least, sanity had returned as its president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, took to the rostrum in New York to proclaim a new dawn aft
  
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• Biden warns UN against allowing Russia to ‘brutalize’ Ukraine without consequence - live

  19-09-2023 17:04
  
  US president gives UN general assembly address about Russia-Ukraine war, China and global inequality; Zelenskiy to address summit in personGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, children traumatised, hopes and dreams shattered.”The war in Ukraine has “serious implications&rdqu
  
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• Waste Land: moving documentary sifts through Rio landfill to find human stories

  19-09-2023 17:00
  
  In a film that celebrates the power of creativity, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz collaborates with pickers at a rubbish dump to create art from salvaged materialGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailAs a young man in the 1980s, Brazilian artist Vik Muniz came to the US by chance before making a name for himself as an artist creating works from found objects. From his studio in Brooklyn, he makes art out of all kinds of materials: chocolate, sugar, toy soldiers and, in his documentary Waste Lan
  
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• Biden to warn of Russian ‘brutalizing’ Ukraine without consequence; UN chief says ‘world becoming unhinged’ - live

  19-09-2023 16:25
  
  Ukrainian president to speak amid hopes 78th annual summit will focus on global developmentGuterres says countries such as Russia are creating a “world of insecurity” for everyone following its invasion of Ukraine, which he says has “unleashed the next phase of our lives: historic human rights abuse, families torn apart, children traumatised, hopes and dreams shattered.”The war in Ukraine has “serious implications” for the world beyond Kyiv, he says, pointing
  
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• Coked-up caped crusader: how Hélio Oiticica liberated the art world with drugs, nests and hammocks

  19-09-2023 15:57
  
  He co-founded Brazil’s Tropicalia movement, fled fascism, pioneered immersive art in his flat, became a drug dealer and then died aged 42. Now his wild world is being rebuilt at the English seasideIn the early hours of 13 March 1973, the artist Hélio Oiticica was at his downtown New York loft, high on cocaine, with his friend, the film-maker and fellow Brazilian Neville D’Almeida. He reached for the nearest thing at hand on which to cut another line – Weasels Ripped My F
  
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• UN chief warns ‘our world is becoming unhinged’; Zelenskiy to address UN - live updates

  19-09-2023 15:24
  
  Ukrainian president, US president Joe Biden, Brazil’s president Lula to speak amid hopes 77th annual summit will focus on global developmentGuterres warns that divides are widening within countries. “Democracy is under threat,” he says.Authoritarianism is on the march, inequalities are growing, and hate speech is on the rise.What we need is determination and determination which is in the DNA of our United Nations, summoning gods with the first words of the charter.We the people
  
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• Zelenskiy to address UN general assembly for first time since start of Russia-Ukraine war – live updates

  19-09-2023 14:31
  
  Ukrainian president, US president Joe Biden, Brazil’s president Lula to speak amid hopes 77th annual summit will focus on global developmentThe half-time show in the US is normally associated with the football Super Bowl, superstars and adverts, but the UN in the form of the film director Richard Curtis put on its own version on Monday night in New York and blew the place away.Curtis is of course in the optimism business – his glass is so permanently half full, it overflows – a
  
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