Monday Briefing: Terrorist Arrests After Liverpool Explosion |

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Top story: The streets were closed while MI5 was helping the police

Good morning everyone. I’m Martin Freer and here’s the top news to start the week.

Three men have been arrested under anti-terror laws after a taxi exploded outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital, killing the passenger. Police said the men – aged 29, 26 and 21 – were arrested in the city’s Kensington area and arrested under the Terrorism Act. In the early hours, armed police cordoned off a street in the city’s Sefton Park area and some residents were evacuated as part of an “ongoing investigation”. The explosion occurred just before 11 a.m. when the silence of the remembrance Sunday was due to begin, engulfing the taxi in a fireball. The driver, who managed to escape with minor injuries before the fire spread, is not among those arrested. The dead man was not named.

The focus of police investigations is whether the explosion – which was partially filmed in this video – was intentional and whether there was any significance at the site. The investigation is led by the Counter-Terrorism Police with the assistance of MI5. Here’s everything we know so far about the accident.

Climate deal – Cop26 chief Alok Sharma has warned India and China that they “must explain themselves to poor countries” after the two Asian nations successfully mitigated the Glasgow climate agreement. Sharma almost cried over a last-minute wording change that committed the world to “phasing out” rather than “phasing out” coal use. He said he was “very disappointed” but the final deal is still better than losing the whole deal. Boris Johnson said that even with the weaker wording, the agreement running over two weeks in Glasgow “sounded the death knell” for coal. Some analysts stressed that it is unfair to consider India the villain because it cannot phase out coal at the same pace as more advanced economies. The Pacific nations said the summit was a “miserable failure” that left their island nations in jeopardy. Our environmental reporter looks at how they nearly lost the deal, but why there’s still hope for change.

Ambulance Alarm Report Reveals Delays outside hospital A&E departments are causing deaths, and up to 160,000 additional people a year are harmed because they are stuck outside hospitals and cannot be discharged. Patients also die soon after they are finally hospitalized after spending long periods in the back of an ambulance, while others are not being rescued at home because paramedics are trapped in A&E and unable to answer 999 calls. Meanwhile, nursing leaders highlight 10 pressures on health and social care services, which they say have created “unsustainable and unsustainable” conditions.

Vaccine hope – A British company has developed an easy-to-use Covid vaccine, which could provide immunity that lasts longer than current treatments. The Emergex vaccine will soon begin trials and use T cells to quickly remove infected cells from the body after infection, thus preventing virus replication and disease. While the antibodies produced by current Covid vaccines stick to the virus and prevent it from infecting cells, T cells detect and destroy infected cells.

Tampon protest – An environmental activist is ramping up her campaign against single-use plastics in period products by calling on the world’s best-selling tampon manufacturer to make eco-friendly alternatives. Ella Daish will present Procter & Gamble chiefs with a giant stopper applicator, made from 1,200 discarded Tampax applicators found strewn across British waterways, rivers and beaches. “I wanted to make something you can’t ignore,” she said.

Adele talking to Oprah Winfrey. Photo: Joe Polisi/CBS

“Walking Through Concrete” – Adele opened up to Oprah Winfrey about the divorce, losing weight and how much she could die, as well as explaining the meaning of new songs on her eagerly awaited album, 30, which is set to be released Friday. Questioned about some “black” lyrics, the British star said she has struggled in the wake of her divorce from philanthropic boss Simon Konecki while maintaining her stellar career and looking after her nine-year-old son. “I juggle these things too. And I felt like I wasn’t doing it anymore. It made my feet hurt, I walked in all that concrete.”

Today’s Podcast on Fox: Where Now After Glasgow?

We analyze how the global climate agreement reached in Glasgow is making some progress but not getting close enough to avoid devastating global warming.

Today at FocusCop26: Where do we go from here?

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Lunchtime Reading: James Graham – “I Really Missed Theatre” James Graham: The Next Stop, The Sixties. Photo: David Levine/The Guardian

James Graham, a playwright whose successful works included Quiz, Ink, and Brexit: The Uncivil War, turned his attention to the feverish politics of 1960s America for his new venture. Graham explains what made him write The Best of Enemies, which revolves around the televised debates between Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. in August 1968, why he likes to get back on stage and whether he’s too cute for Dominic Cummings.

sports

Despite the odds and challenging numbers, Lewis Hamilton won the Brazilian Grand Prix, taking the win from 10th on the grid to cut Max Verstappen’s title race to 14 points. Serbia grabbed an automatic position in the 2022 World Cup after a header in the 90th minute from substitute Aleksandar Mitrovic returned it to a 2-1 victory over Portugal. Alvaro Morata scored the only goal in the match against Sweden in Seville to ensure Spain topped Group B and qualified for Qatar. After Australia completed an impressive comeback to win the T20 World Cup for the first time, Aaron Finch insisted that even at her lowest point he had never seen his side but the champions in question.

England rugby union coach Eddie Jones wants his side to make a statement with their victory over South Africa in a grudge match this week. Footballers in England plan to discuss how to voice their concerns about human rights in Qatar once they have qualified for the 2022 World Cup. The WTA tour demanded that the Chinese government investigate allegations of sexual abuse committed by Peng Shuai against the former Chinese vice premier while also calling for an end to Oversight of the highest-ranked former doubles player. Roger Federer is almost certain to miss the Australian Open for the second year in a row as the Swiss maestro is said to be slowly recovering from the third round of knee surgery in 18 months. Essex chief executive John Stephenson is “shocked and deeply saddened” by allegations that former club hitter Zohab Sharif was subjected to racist abuse including being called a “bomber” by his teammates after the 9/11 attacks.

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Weak EU auto emissions targets could allow Europe’s largest automakers to produce millions more petrol and diesel cars than is necessary until 2030 in a “lost decade” to reduce carbon pollution. More than 300,000 UK workers will receive a pay rise from today as the charity behind the voluntary real living wage raises the minimum hourly wage by 40p to £9.90. The FTSE 100 will open about 0.1% lower this morning while the Pound is at $1,343 and €1.172.

Newspapers, front page of The Guardian, Monday 15 November 2021

The explosion at Liverpool has made dramatic progress for many titles today. The Mirror says “terror investigation after taxi explosion”, and The Times has “three of them detained by terror police after fatal explosion”. The Mail links the Memorial Day blast to the “Poppy Stone” “maternity hospital” bomb, as does Express – “terror investigation into Poppy Day explosion” – and The Telegraph: “Remembrance ‘terror plot’: Three taken into custody after fatal explosion.” “The hero of the terrorist hospital explosion,” says the Sun. “Frustration with India and China over easing climate deal” says the Guardian, and Financial Times “business groups add to the chorus of discontent over the softened cop deal”. i splash is ‘railroad plans minimized in a blow for ‘leveling’.

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