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• The disaster you could see from space: how a podcast went inside an eco catastrophe

  01-03-2024 16:00
  
  Nineteen dead, hundreds homeless and 700,000 taking legal action. Eco true-crime podcast Dead River delves into a Brazilian dam’s collapse – and how it’s led to the UK’s biggest ever class-action lawsuitI listen to Dead River while running home from a quick dip, surrounded by fag butts and Lucozade bottles, in the brown stretch of what Thames Water describes as “our most important water source”. But as I listen to the descriptions of 43.7mn cubic metres of tox
  
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• Politicians from 12 countries unite to press for arms ban on Israel

  01-03-2024 11:00
  
  Letter aims to bring public anger over 30,000 deaths of Palestinians in Gaza into heart of parliamentsMiddle East crisis – live updatesMore than 200 MPs from 12 countries have committed themselves to trying to persuade their governments to impose a ban on arms sales to Israel, arguing they will not be complicit in “Israel’s grave violation of international law” in its assault on Gaza.The letter, organised by Progressive International, is seen as the best practical measure
  
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