Former Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison, as President Donald Trump sets free more than 1,500 people charged for the US Capitol riot four years ago.

Within less than 24 hours of Trump pardoning or commuting sentences of those who tried to violently overturn the 2020 election, the riot's two most prominent leaders left prison. Trump is also dismissing charges against those charged, but not yet tried, for the riot.

"My son, Enrique Tarrio, has been released officially as of now!" Zuny Tarrio posted on X.

Rhodes, who was not pardoned but had his sentence commuted, is waiting at the jail for defendants to be freed.

Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer, had been charged for leading a contingent of his Oath Keepers members to Washington.

Though Rhodes did not enter the Capitol, he directed his members from outside, and was sentenced in 2023 to 18 years in prison.

Tarrio was found guilty of seditious conspiracy - a rarely used charge of planning to overthrow the government - over the riot. He was not in Washington DC during the riots but directed others involved.

He received a sentence of 22 years, one of the longest given.

Amid the pardons and commutations, Trump also signed an order directing the Department of Justice to drop all pending cases against suspects accused in the riot.

A leading advocate for those defendants - Edward R Martin - was also made the acting US Attorney for Washington DC, showing the depth of Trump's desire to end the years-long prosecutions. The Washington office was in charge of trying the cases connected to 6 January.

Democrats have condemned the release of more than 1,000 people as an attempt to rewrite history and sanitise the violence of the riot which led to multiple deaths.

Trump has described the day as "peaceful" and the jailed or imprisoned rioters as "hostages".

Ukraine has detained its army's chief psychiatrist for "illegal enrichment" charges related to earnings of more than $1m (£813,000) accrued since the start of Russia's invasion in February 2022.

In a statement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said the man sat on a commission deciding whether individuals were fit for military service.

The SBU statement did not name him - however, a man called Oleh Druz was previously identified as the Ukrainian Armed Forces' chief psychiatrist.

The SBU said he owned three apartments in or near Kyiv, one in Odesa, two plots of land and several BMW luxury cars, and investigators searching his home also found $152,000 (£124,000) and €34,000 in cash.

The statement said the man did not declare the property, which was registered in the name of his wife, daughter, sons, and other third parties.

He now faces ten years in jail for the charges of illegal enrichment and making a false declaration.

Druz was implicated in a similar case in 2017 which saw him fail to declare two SUVs and several properties, leading him to be suspended.

Ukraine has long battled endemic corruption.

In May, a Ukrainian MP was charged with embezzling £220,000, while in 2023 more than 30 conscription officials accused of taking bribes and smuggling people out of the country were sacked in an anti-corruption purge.

Last year, the Ukrainian parliament voted to abolish military medical commissions after several officials were accused of accepting bribes in exchange for issuing exemptions from military service.

The chair of the UK's competition watchdog has been ousted by government ministers who felt that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) had failed to convince them it was sufficiently focused on growth.

Government sources said that with the chancellor and business secretary at the World Economic Forum in Davos trying to drum up investment, the government wanted to send a signal that it was serious about growth.

The CMA recently held up a merger between Vodafone and Three Mobile Networks which was eventually approved.

Marcus Bokkerink, who has chaired the CMA since 2022, will be replaced on an interim basis by Doug Gurr, former boss of Amazon UK.

Mr Bokkerink and other regulators met with Chancellor Rachel Reeves last week to deliver their ideas on how to stimulate growth.

It is understood that the submission from the CMA was thought to be underwhelming.

The CMA's primary responsibility is to ensure consumers are well served by effective and fair competition.

The CMA has been contacted for comment.

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the Northern Ireland Assembly have been given a dressing down by the Speaker.

On Tuesday, during a Stormont plenary session, Edwin Poots reminded them that the dress code was "smart."

"Some of you have a very loose interpretation of smart and I would encourage members to dress smartly when it comes to the chamber," he said.

We're not demanding that people, gentlemen, wear shirts and ties, but we're asking (you) to dress smartly and to look up to doing the job."

It comes a day after the inauguration of United Stated President Donald Trump, which saw US senator John Fetterman arrive in a hoodie, shorts and trainers.

Poots also told members off for bringing in coffee cups and cans saying: "I see everything up here. People might not realise it, but I have witnessed over the last number of weeks people bringing in coffee cups and cans and so forth.

"The only thing that you are allowed in this building is the glass of water that is provided for you.

"It's not a committee meeting. It is a plenary session of Parliamentary Assembly. And all other receptacles are not to be in this part of the building."

Mr Poots, who was sporting a tartan tie for Burns' Night, also said some MLAs were not acknowledging him when they are leaving the chamber, adding "that's not following the code".

A 2014 leaflet given to MLAs called "Rules of behaviour and courtesies in the House " warns them "while there is no exact dress code the way in which you dress should demonstrate respect for the House. The Speaker expects Members to wear business attire."

However, the rules have since been relaxed meaning men no longer have to wear jackets and ties.

The opening day of Prince Harry's damages battle against the owners of The Sun newspaper has been delayed after it emerged that the two sides are involved in potential settlement talks after years of legal warfare.

The duke's lawyers were due on Tuesday to open an eight-week trial of his allegations that journalists at News Group Newspapers used unlawful techniques to pry into his private live - and executives then allegedly covered it up.

Moments before they were to begin presenting their case, they asked for an adjournment.

However, after hours of secret discussions, and no sign of a final agreement that could change the nature of the trial, the judge demanded that the two sides begin - leading them both to say they would ask the Court of Appeal to overturn that order.

The practical effect of their objection is that the case has been delayed until at least 10am on Wednesday - which means both sides have more time to negotiate.

It's not clear what has been raised in the 11th hour negotiations.

Prince Harry has repeatedly said he wants a trial so that he can get "accountability" for other alleged victims of unlawful newsgathering of private information by NGN journalists.

NGN has denied there was any wrongdoing at The Sun or that executives across the group covered it up.

The Rupert Murdoch-owned empire has long admitted that journalists at the News of the World, closed down in 2011, did use unlawful techniques but has always denied that it was widespread.

This morning, lawyers for Prince Harry and former Labour MP Lord Tom Watson, the other remaining claimant, asked Mr Justice Fancourt to delay opening the case twice - meaning the court did not sit until 2pm.

David Sherborne, Prince Harry's barrister, said there was potentially a "good prospect" of an agreement that would save the court time.

"We are very close, there is an issue with time and gaining instructions," he said.

"It is not the only factor."

Anthony Hudson KC, for News Group Newspapers, added the parties needed more time because of "time differences" and said that both parties were involved in a "settlement dynamic".

Mr Justice Fancourt - who has repeatedly criticised both sides for long delays and spats over how the case should be conducted - refused to give them more time, saying that the case should start, even if there were still talks behind the scenes that could change the nature of the trial.

"I am not persuaded that if there is a real will to settle this that it could not have been done by today," said the judge.

News Group Newspapers' lawyers then asked for the court to sit in private - without the presence of the media - to hear more about what was going on.

The judge refused, saying he was not going to sit in "secret" - and then both Prince Harry's team and NGN's lawyers said they would ask senior judges to overturn the order to get underway.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to end "birthright citizenship" - which refers to automatic American citizenship granted to anyone born in the US.

Birthright citizenship is protected by the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution.

He has said he wanted to end it by an executive order in recent media interviews as well as in his previous term as president.

The plan was mentioned again in a briefing call by incoming White House administration officials on Monday.

The official provided no details on how the administration hopes to accomplish this.

Though he has vowed to end the practice, attempts to do so would face significant legal hurdles, and any executive order attempting to do so would likely immediately be overturned in court.

The bar to amend the Constitution is extremely high and requires approval from two-thirds of Congress, in both the House and Senate. It must also be ratified by three-fourths of states.

What is 'birthright citizenship'?

The first sentence of the 14th Amendment to the US constitution establishes the principle of "birthright citizenship":

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside."

Immigration hardliners argue that the policy is a "great magnet for illegal immigration", and that it encourages undocumented pregnant women to cross the border in order to give birth, an act that has been pejoratively called "birth tourism" or having an "anchor baby".

How did it start?

The 14th Amendment was adopted in 1868, after the close of the Civil War. The 13th Amendment had abolished slavery in 1865, while the 14th settled the question of the citizenship of freed, American-born former slaves.

Previous Supreme Court decisions, like Dred Scott v Sandford in 1857, had decided that African Americans could never be US citizens. The 14th Amendment overrode that.

In 1898, the US Supreme Court affirmed that birthright citizenship applies to the children of immigrants in the case of Wong Kim Ark v United States. Wong was a 24-year-old child of Chinese immigrants who was born in the US, but denied re-entry when he returned from a visit to China. Wong successfully argued that because he was born in the US, his parent's immigration status did not impact the application of the 14th Amendment.

"Wong Kim Ark vs United States affirmed that regardless of race or the immigration status of one's parents, all persons born in the United States were entitled to all of the rights that citizenship offered," writes Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota. "The court has not re-examined this issue since then."

Can Trump overturn it?

Most legal scholars agree that President Trump cannot end birthright citizenship with an executive order.

"He's doing something that's going to upset a lot of people, but ultimately this will be decided by the courts," said Saikrishna Prakash, a constitutional expert and University of Virginia Law School professor. "This is not something he can decide on his own."

Mr Prakash said that while the president can order the employees of federal agencies to interpret citizenship more narrowly - agents with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for example - that will inevitably invite legal challenges from people whose citizenship is being denied.

That could lead to a lengthy court battle that could ultimately wind up at the US Supreme Court.

A constitutional amendment could do away with birthright citizenship, but that would require a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate and approval by three quarters of US states.

How many people would it impact?

According to Pew Research, about 250,000 babies were born to unauthorised immigrant parents in the United States in 2016, which is a 36% decrease from a peak in 2007. By 2022, the latest year that data is available, there are 1.2m US citizens total born to unauthorised immigrant parents, Pew found.

But as those children also have children, the cumulative effect of ending birthright citizenship would increase the number of unauthorised immigrants in the country to 4.7m in 2050, think tank the Migration Policy Institute found.

In an interview with NBC's Meet the Press, Trump said he thinks that the children of unauthorised immigrants should be deported alongside their parents - even if they were born in the US.

"I don't want to be breaking up families," Trump said last December. "So the only way you don't break up the family is you keep them together and you have to send them all back."

What countries have it

More than 30 countries - including Canada, Mexico, Malaysia and Lesotho - practise automatic "jus soli", or "right of the soil" without restriction.

Other countries, like the UK and Australia, allow for a modified version where citizenship is automatically granted if one parent is a citizen or permanent resident.

After bracing for weeks for a trade war with the US, Canada has - for now - evaded tariffs that Donald Trump threatened to impose on the country as soon as he takes office.

But Trump said on Monday the tariffs on Canada and Mexico could come on 1 February as he ordered federal officials to review US trade relationships for any unfair practices - including relationships with Canada, Mexico and China.

The incoming president has pledged import duties of 25% on Canada and Mexico, as well as 10% on global imports and 60% on Chinese goods.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday: "'If the president does choose to proceed with tariffs, Canada will respond - and everything is on the table."

Canadian officials initially appeared relieved at the reprieve the review that Trump has ordered offered, but warned the tariff threat was still real.

Then in the Oval Office late in the evening, Trump told reporters he was considering 1 February as a date his administration might impose 25% levies on Canada and Mexico.

Canada is highly dependent on trade with the US, with roughly 75% of its exports heading south.

Trudeau, speaking to reporters on Tuesday morning, said there was "always going to be a certain amount of unpredictability and rhetoric coming out from this administration".

He said Canada offered the US "a safe, secure and reliable partner in an uncertain world".

In an appeal to Trump's promise of an American "golden age", Trudeau noted Canada is a source of commodities like energy and critical minerals the "American economy is going to need in order to grow".

In November, Trump said his administration would impose across -the-board tariffs on Canadian and Mexican goods in an effort to force the countries to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the US.

Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly last week had warned the tariffs could spark the "biggest trade war between Canada and the US in decades".

Ottawa is preparing counter-tariffs in response to the threat, reportedly worth billions of dollars.

Trudeau said he supports "the principle of dollar-for-dollar matching tariffs".

Members of Trudeau's cabinet are gathered in Quebec for two days of meetings focused on the US-Canada relationship.

Canadian officials say they will continue with their efforts to lobby US counterparts on the benefits of trade between the two nations, which totaled an estimated $909bn in 2022.

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Canada, the US and Mexico renegotiated a trilateral free trade deal during Trump's first term in office.

The presidential memo Trump signed after his inauguration directs federal agencies to assess how that deal affects American "workers, farmers, ranchers, service providers, and other businesses".

It also asked the commerce and homeland security secretaries to assess the "unlawful migration and fentanyl flows" from Canada and Mexico.

That review is due on 1 April.

While both the northern and southern US borders have reported unlawful crossings and drug seizures, the numbers at the border with Canada are considerably lower than those at the Mexico border, according to official data.

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Southport killer Axel Rudakubana admitted carrying a knife on 10 separate occasions but was still able to buy a blade on Amazon, the home secretary has said.

Yvette Cooper said several agencies failed to identify the danger posed by the teenager as he developed an obsession with extreme violence in the years before the attack.

On Monday, Rudakubana pleaded guilty to killing Bebe King, six, Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, last July. He will be sentenced on Thursday.

Earlier, the prime minister warned of a "new and dangerous threat" from violence-obsessed individuals, which followed the announcement of a public inquiry into missed opportunities to stop Rudakubana.

Cooper told the Commons it was a "total disgrace" that he was able to "easily able to order a knife on Amazon" at the age of 17 despite having a prior conviction for a violent offence against another child at school.

It has also emerged that Rudakubana had been referred to the anti-extremism programme Prevent on three separate occasions between 2019 and 2021.

A review of the programme over the summer found Prevent failed to flag Rudakubana as a serious threat because he did not exhibit a commitment to a single radical ideology, Cooper told the Commons.

"Too much weight was placed on the absence of ideology," she said, in light of Rudakubana's interest in extreme violence.

Cooper said it was "unbearable to think that something more could and should have been done" to stop him, and that "action against him was much too weak".

The home secretary said a public inquiry would be given all the powers it needed to assess whether red flags were missed. Areas of interest are likely to include:

• The five occasions Lancashire Constabulary officers responded to calls from Rudakubana's home address between October 2019 and May 2022, relating to concerns about his behaviour
• Repeated referrals to safeguarding services, children's social care and adolescent mental health services
• A referral to the youth offending team after Rudakubana's conviction for a violent offence
• Concerns passed on to the local authority by Childline following calls by Rudakubana as a teen, including one where he disclosed he planned to take a knife to school because of racial bullying

Speaking in Downing Street earlier on Tuesday, Sir Keir Starmer said failings by public bodies in the lead-up to the Southport murders "leap off the page" and that it was "clearly wrong" Rudakubana was deemed not to meet the threshold for intervention from the Prevent programme.

The circumstances around Rudakubana's offending have led to wider scrutiny over what the government has described as an increasing threat from young people with an interest in extreme violence.

Cooper told the Commons that 162 people were referred to Prevent last year over concerns related to school massacres, amid what she described as a "wider challenge of rising youth violence and extremism".

The number of children investigated for involvement with terrorism has increased threefold in three years, she added.

The government said tech companies must remove the type of extreme material Rudakubana had accessed online.

They "should not be profiting" from hosting content that "puts children's lives at risk", Cooper said.

More than 130 people used the UK's first drug consumption clinic in the facility's first week.

The Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow opened on 13 January, letting people take substances under supervision.

Cllr Allan Casey, the city convener for addiction services, said it had been an "intense first week" for staff, with 131 users.

There were no medical emergencies resulting from drug use within the facility - known as the Thistle - in the first seven days.

It is hoped that the clinic can reduce fatal and non-fatal overdoses by providing a safe and clean place for people to use drugs, while also giving people further support to cope with their addiction.

As well as safer injecting facilities, users were provided with wound care, clean injecting equipment and naloxone as required.

A spokesperson for the facility said some users had already engaged with housing and drug treatment support.

Cllr Casey added that the clinic had made a "promising start" since opening.

He added: "It's been an intense first week for the team as all eyes are on Glasgow.

"I am delighted to hear people are making use of all the facilities available at the Thistle.

"We know this is not a silver bullet - but having a facility that is safe, hygienic and medically supervised will go a long way towards reducing drug-related overdoses, injection-related wounds and infections, and the negative impact that injecting outdoors has on local communities."

The facility was first proposed for Glasgow in 2016 but years of debate between the Scottish and UK governments than ensued.

The facility was finally approved in the autumn of 2023, with running costs expected to reach nearly £7m over the next three years.

It is situated in the city's Hunter Street, next to a clinic where 23 long-term drug users are currently prescribed pharmaceutical heroin.

A previous report by the NHS estimated approximately 400 to 500 people" used drugs publicly in the city centre on a regular basis, while Scotland has consistently had the highest number of drug death overdoses in Europe.

The UK government said in 2023 it did not intend to open any clinics elsewhere, but would not interfere in the Glasgow plan.

'Frosty to Hartley from start of tour'

Donald Trump has promised he will "make heads spin" on his first day back in office on Monday, with a blitz of executive orders expected in the hours after he is sworn in as the 47th US president.

He has offered a preview of some of these yet-to-be-signed directives, saying they will target issues like illegal immigration, climate rules, diversity policies, classified documents and more.

It is common for presidents to sign a range of executive orders when they enter office. Such orders carry the weight of law but can be overturned by subsequent presidents or the courts.

But the scale of what Trump has planned could be unprecedented, with legal challenges expected.

Here is what to know.

Immigration and the border

Deportations

Trump has vowed to "launch the largest deportation program in American history", starting from day one.

He is expected to declare a national border emergency, and order the military to help secure the southern border, according to Fox News.

Trump has also said he will end a longtime policy that has kept federal immigration authorities from conducting raids on churches and schools.

Any mass deportation programme is expected to face logistical difficulties, billions in costs and a flurry of legal challenges.

Remain in Mexico

Trump may quickly move to re-implement his "Remain in Mexico" policy, which during his first term returned about 70,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers across the border to Mexico to await hearings.

End birthright citizenship

Trump has called the 150-year-old constitutional right that says anyone born on US soil is an American citizen "ridiculous" and vowed to scrap it on day one.

But doing that is much more difficult than simply issuing an executive order, because birthright citizenship is explicitly guaranteed by the US Constitution.

Closing the border on health grounds

A 1944 measure called Title 42 allows the US government to curb migration to protect public health. It was last used during the pandemic, but US media reports that the incoming administration is looking for a disease that would help justify its plans to close the southern US border with Mexico.

Drug cartels

Trump is expected to classify drug cartels as "foreign terrorist organisations", putting them on a list alongside groups like Al Qaeda, so-called Islamic State and Hamas.

Build the wall

When Trump was first elected president in 2016, he signed an executive order to build a border wall. Although parts of the wall have been built, there is still much left uncompleted, and he may try to finish what he started.

Trade and economy

Tariffs

Trump has vowed sweeping tariffs on imported goods as part of his promise to prioritise American manufacturing.

Trump introduced tariffs in his first term, including some on China that Joe Biden retained.

But this time he is promising 10% tariffs on all imports, 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods and 60% on things coming from China. He has said he will begin signing executive orders imposing these on day one.

Tariffs are likely to make consumer goods more expensive and could fuel inflation, experts say. Some countries are considering retaliatory tariffs.

Crypto pile

Trump has championed cryptocurrency and his election saw the value of Bitcoin increase by 30%.

Some believe Trump will move quickly to create a federal "Bitcoin stockpile" - a strategic reserve similar to the US's stockpile of gold and oil - that he has said would serve as a "permanent national asset to benefit all Americans".

Climate and energy

Scrap Joe Biden's climate policies

The outgoing president sees the series of directives, laws and funding programmes he championed to boost green jobs, regulate pollution and fund infrastructure as one of his biggest accomplishments.

Trump has made it clear he wants to undo much of it. He is expected to use executive orders to remove drilling restrictions offshore and on federal land - fulfilling his promise to "drill, baby drill" and increase US energy production and independence.

He has also pledged to ban new wind projects and cancel electric vehicle mandates.

Pull out of the Paris Agreement (again)

Within six months of taking office in 2017, Trump withdrew from the Paris climate agreement - a landmark international deal designed to limit rising global temperatures.

Biden moved to rejoin the accord on his first day in office in 2021, but Trump is expected to again pull out of it.

Capitol riot

Free Jan 6 'hostages'

Hundreds of people convicted after the 2021 US Capitol riots are awaiting potential pardons on Monday, when Trump returns to office.

​​"I am inclined to pardon many of them," he told CNN over the summer. "I can't say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control."

More than 1,500 individuals were arrested in relation to the event. At least 600 were charged with assaulting or impeding federal officers.

Secret documents

At his pre-inauguration victory rally on Sunday, Trump said he would release classified documents related to the assassination of President John F Kennedy in 1963, a subject of countless conspiracy theories.

He said he would do the same for files related to the 1968 killings of Senator Robert Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Foreign policy

Ukraine war

Trump claimed during the campaign that he would end the conflict on day one of his presidency. He has since said that he may need six months. It's unclear what he might do in his first days.

Cuba and Venezuela

Trump could use executive orders to undo Biden's recent decision to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. He could also reinstate sanctions against Venezuela. Both countries were frequent targets of his ire during his first administration.

Diversity and gender

DEI

In recent years, schools and businesses across the US have adopted policies designed to support women and racial minorities.

These practices, often classified under "diversity, equity and inclusion" (DEI), have angered many conservatives and faced legal challenges. Trump has promised to dissolve them and major corporations including Meta, Walmart and Amazon have already begun rolling back related initiatives.

Trump could use an executive order to forbid federal funding going to schools or other institutions that have DEI programmes. He could also ban funding for schools that teach "critical race theory" (CRT).

Abortion

Like most Republican presidents before him, Trump is expected to reinstate the "Mexico City policy", which bans federal aid to international groups that provide abortion counselling.

He is also expected to reinstate an abortion rule that prohibits Title X federal health providers, a low-income family planning programme, from mentioning abortion to patients. The change effectively stripped tens of millions of dollars from organisations that offer abortion or provide referrals.

Transgender women in sports

Trump has repeatedly criticised what he calls "transgender lunacy" in schools and healthcare, and has specifically vowed to bar transgender women from competing in women's sports.

TikTok

On Sunday morning, Trump promised to issue an executive order that would postpone a law banning Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok from being implemented.

His order, he said, would give them time to find a US partner to buy a 50% stake in the company.

Trump previously backed a TikTok ban, but recently reversed his stance, pointing to the billions of views he says his videos attracted on the platform during last year's presidential campaign.

A supercharged jet stream

Will this be a named storm?

At least six Palestinians have been killed and 35 injured by Israeli security forces after they launched a major operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel's military, police and Shin Bet security service had launched an "extensive and significant" operation to "defeat terrorism" in Jenin.

Palestinian media said Israeli military vehicles moved into Jenin and its refugee camp on Tuesday morning following several drone strikes.

It comes after a weeks-long operation by Palestinian security forces against armed groups, including Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which they see as a challenge to their authority.

A statement from Israel's prime minister said the operation was "additional step in achieving the objective we have set: bolstering security" in the West Bank.

"We are acting methodically and with determination against the Iranian axis wherever it reaches: in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and [the West Bank] – and we are still active," he added.

An Israeli military statement said the operation was called "Iron Wall" and that it would continue "as long as necessary".

Jenin's governor, Kamal Abu al-Rub, told AFP news agency that "what is happening is an invasion of the camp".

"It came quickly, Apache [helicopters] in the sky and Israeli military vehicles everywhere," he added.

There has been a spike in violence in the West Bank since Hamas's deadly attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 and the ensuing war in Gaza.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed as Israeli forces have intensified their raids, saying they are trying to stem deadly Palestinian attacks on Israelis in the West Bank and Israel.

Israel has built about 160 settlements housing some 700,000 Jews since it occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war. The settlements are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.

More than 130 people used the UK's first drug consumption clinic in the facility's first week.

The Safer Drugs Consumption Facility in Glasgow opened on 13 January, letting people take substances under supervision.

Cllr Allan Casey, the city convener for addiction services, said it had been an "intense first week" for staff, with 131 users.

There were no medical emergencies resulting from drug use within the facility - known as the Thistle - in the first seven days.

It is hoped that the clinic can reduce fatal and non-fatal overdoses by providing a safe and clean place for people to use drugs, while also giving people further support to cope with their addiction.

As well as safer injecting facilities, users were provided with wound care, clean injecting equipment and naloxone as required.

A spokesperson for the facility said some users had already engaged with housing and drug treatment support.

Cllr Casey added that the clinic had made a "promising start" since opening.

He added: "It's been an intense first week for the team as all eyes are on Glasgow.

"I am delighted to hear people are making use of all the facilities available at the Thistle.

"We know this is not a silver bullet - but having a facility that is safe, hygienic and medically supervised will go a long way towards reducing drug-related overdoses, injection-related wounds and infections, and the negative impact that injecting outdoors has on local communities."

The facility was first proposed for Glasgow in 2016 but years of debate between the Scottish and UK governments than ensued.

The facility was finally approved in the autumn of 2023, with running costs expected to reach nearly £7m over the next three years.

It is situated in the city's Hunter Street, next to a clinic where 23 long-term drug users are currently prescribed pharmaceutical heroin.

A previous report by the NHS estimated approximately 400 to 500 people" used drugs publicly in the city centre on a regular basis, while Scotland has consistently had the highest number of drug death overdoses in Europe.

The UK government said in 2023 it did not intend to open any clinics elsewhere, but would not interfere in the Glasgow plan.

'Frosty to Hartley from start of tour'

Stock markets in the Asia-Pacific region have moved higher after President Donald Trump outlined a pro-business agenda for his second term in the White House and stopped short of imposing new trade tariffs on his first day in office.

During his inaugural address, Trump pledged to bring in a new "golden age" for America.

He has promised an ambitious agenda - including trade reforms, lower taxes and cuts to government regulations - which has the potential to boost company profits.

But some economists have warned that the measures may also raise inflation, which in turn could force the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates.

In morning trade, Japan's Nikkei 225 index was about 0.4% higher, South Korea's Kospi was up 0.6% and stocks on Australia's ASX 200 rose by around 1%.

Meanwhile, the dollar was lower against some other major currencies, including the pound and the euro.

US markets were closed on Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr Day holiday.

Trump has not yet enacted any new tariffs but said on Monday that he is considering imposing 25% import taxes on Mexico and Canada on 1 February.

During the election campaign, Trump also pledged tariffs of 10% on all imports into the US and said he would hit China with a 60% import tax.

He has said tariffs will make Americans richer, although critics say the costs are likely to be passed on to consumers.

The President has also said he would create an "External Revenue Service" to collect all tariffs, duties and revenues from foreign sources.

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US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to begin the process of withdrawing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO).

"Oooh, that's a big one," the newly inaugurated US president said as he approved the document after arriving back at the White House. It was one of dozens of executive actions he put his signature to on day one in office.

This marks the second time Trump has ordered the US be pulled out of the WHO.

Trump was critical of how the international body handled Covid-19 and began the process of pulling out from the Geneva-based institution during the pandemic. President Joe Biden later reversed that decision.

Carrying out this executive action on day one makes it more likely the US will formally leave the global agency.

"They wanted us back so badly so we'll see what happens," Trump said in the Oval Office, referring to the WHO, perhaps hinting the US might return eventually.

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The order said the US was withdrawing "due to the organization's mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic that arose out of Wuhan, China, and other global health crises, its failure to adopt urgently needed reforms, and its inability to demonstrate independence from the inappropriate political influence of WHO member states".

The executive order also said the withdrawal was the result of "unfairly onerous payments" the US made to the WHO, which is part of the United Nations.

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A fire at a hotel in the Turkish ski resort of Bolu has left 10 people dead and 32 others injured, according to Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya.

At least two of the victims died after jumping from the hotel's windows, Turkish reports said.

The fire broke out at the 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there, he added.

Footage circulating in Turkey showed linen hanging from windows which was used by those trying to escape the burning building.

Bolu governor Abdulaziz Aydin said initial reports suggested the fire had broken out in the restaurant section of the hotel's fourth floor and spread to the floors above.

The hotel was investigating whether guests had been trapped in their rooms as the fire spread.

The governor told reporters the distance between the hotel, in Kartalkaya, and the centre of Bolu, paired with the freezing weather conditions, meant it took more than an hour for fire engines to arrive.

Rescue efforts continued through the morning, and the interior minister said emergency services had deployed 267 people to respond to the fire.

By mid-morning the local mayor said they were still trying to reach parts of the hotel.

The Bolu mountains are popular with skiers from Istanbul and the capital Ankara and the hotel was operating at high occupancy at the start of two-week school holidays.

The north-western town is about 170km (105 miles) from Ankara.

Although the fire was confined to one hotel, the governor told Turkish media that a neighbouring hotel was evacuated as a precaution.

Ski instructor Necmi Kepcetutan told Turkish TV he had managed to escape because he knew the hotel, while guests who did not know it as well as him were not as fortunate.

"People were shouting at the windows, 'Save us,' because there was intense smoke inside. We pulled 20-25 people out," he told NTV.

The circumstances that led to the fire are not yet clear.

Justice minister Yilmaz Tunc said prosecutors had been allocated to investigate the blaze.

Airports across the UK could be expanded, including the controversial third runway at Heathrow, under government growth plans.

The Treasury is looking at whether to support a third runway at Heathrow, approve a second runway at Gatwick, and increase capacity at Luton airport, although a government spokesperson said it does "not comment on speculation".

The new Labour government has made economic growth a key part of its messaging, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledging to go "further and faster".

Reeves could make an announcement on airports next week in a speech, the BBC understands.

The Chancellor will arrive in Davos on Tuesday for the World Economic Forum, where she will say that the UK is "on the up" as she meets business leaders and investors from around the world.

A government spokesperson said: "We are determined to get our economy moving and secure the long-term future of the UK's aviation sector.

"All expansion proposals must demonstrate they contribute to economic growth, which is central to our Plan for Change, while remaining in line with existing environmental obligations."

The push for growth has become more urgent after international markets cast doubt on the credibility of the UK's economic plans, with UK borrowing costs soaring and the pound falling.

The boss of Heathrow Airport, Thomas Woldbye, said in December that his company needs a "clear steer" from the new government by the end of 2025 over plans to expand the airport and build a third runway.

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Pauline Quirke, famous for starring in TV sitcom Birds of a Feather, has retired from acting following a dementia diagnosis, her husband has said.

"It is with a heavy heart that I announce my wife Pauline's decision to step back from all professional and commercial duties due to her diagnosis of dementia in 2021," Steve Sheen said.

Her diagnosis was not made public at the time.

"Pauline has been an inspiration through her work in the film and TV industry, her charity endeavours and as the founder of the very successful Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA)," Mr Sheen added.

Mr Sheen praised his wife's "talent, dedication, and vision".

He said her drama academy "touched countless lives and will continue to do so through the legacy of her work and through PQA where her vision and guidance has facilitated many young peoples' progression and interest in the arts and enhanced their self-confidence".

Quirke was best-known as an actress for her role as Sharon Theodopolopodous on the long-running sitcom Birds of a Feather, winning a British Comedy Award for the role.

It ran from 1989 to 1998 on BBC One, and then on ITV from 2014 to 2020.

The series followed the lives of sisters Tracey and Sharon, played by Linda Robson and Quirke, who have to fend for themselves after their husbands are arrested for armed robbery.

She also appeared in Broadchurch, Emmerdale and The Sculptress.

In 2022, Quirke was made an MBE for her dedication to charitable causes, contributions to the entertainment industry and work with young people.

PQA has about 250 academies and more than 15,000 students across the UK, and will "continue to operate as normal in accordance with Pauline's ideology", Mr Sheen said.

He requested privacy and understanding for his wife and her family, saying they would not be making further statements.

"Pauline just wants to spend time with her family, children and grandchildren," he added.

Wage growth continued to rise in the UK, driven by strong pay rises in the private sector, official figures show.

Regular pay increased by 5.6% on average between September and November, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), compared with the same period the year before.

However, private sector earnings growth was stronger at 6%, compared with a rise of 4.1% in the public sector.

Despite a risk of higher wages pushing up inflation, the Bank of England is still expected to cut interest rates next month.

Rates are currently at 4.75%, but traders have bet on a cut to 4.5% in February, after inflation, which measures the rate prices rise at over time, unexpectedly fell last month.

Liz McKeown, director of economic statistics at the ONS, said pay growth had picked up for the second consecutive period, "again driven by strong increases in the private sector".

After accounting for the impact of inflation, pay rose on average by 3.4% on the year, the highest rate of growth since 2021.

The mother of murdered nine-year-old, Olivia Pratt-Korbel, is meeting the prime minister on Tuesday to discuss plans for a new law to be created in her daughter's name.

Olivia was fatally shot by Thomas Cashman when he chased a fellow drug dealer into her home in Dovecot, Liverpool, on 22 August 2022.

Cashman refused to attend court when he was jailed for life in April 2023.

Cheryl Korbel is campaigning for new legislation which would force offenders to appear in court for sentencing.

Ms Korbel and the MP for Knowsley, Anneliese Midgley, will meet Sir Keir Starmer at 10 Downing Street to discuss Olivia's Law.

The campaign calls for reforms to prevent convicted criminals avoiding the courtroom.

Olivia's mother has previously said she believed Cashman did not attend his sentencing because "he's a coward". She said she had wanted her daughter's killer to hear her impact statement "to understand the pain he's caused".

The government has committed to introducing a law ensuring offenders appear in court, with Ms Midgley calling Tuesday's meeting a significant step forward in delivering on their promise.

"No family should have to suffer the pain of seeing justice diminished because an offender refuses to appear in court," said the Labour MP .

"Cheryl Korbel's courageous campaign highlights a vital gap in our justice system.

"While nothing can undo the loss of Olivia, this law would ensure dignity and justice for victims and their families."

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US President Donald Trump issued pardons or commutations for more than 1,500 people convicted or charged in connection with the US Capitol riot four years ago.

Fourteen members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, two far-right groups, are among those whose sentences were commuted by the new Republican president as he took office on Monday.

Trump also signed an order directing the Department of Justice to drop all pending cases against suspects accused in the riot.

The executive action came shortly after Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US inside the Capitol, which was stormed by his supporters on 6 January 2021 as lawmakers met to certify Joe Biden's election victory.

During a signing ceremony in the Oval Office on Monday evening, Trump displayed a list of the names of US Capitol riot defendants he said were receiving a pardon.

"These are the hostages, approximately 1,500 for a pardon, full pardon," Trump said. "This is a big one."

"These people have been destroyed," he added. "What they've done to these people is outrageous. There's rarely been anything like it in the history of our country."

The proclamation says that it "ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation".

According to Justice Department figures released earlier this month, approximately 1,583 defendants have been charged with crimes associated with the riot.

More than 600 have been charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing law enforcement, including around 175 charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.

Capitol Police officers were attacked with weapons including metal batons, wooden planks, flagpoles, fire extinguishers and pepper spray.

The 14 defendants who had their sentences commuted - meaning they will be released, but their convictions will remain on the record - include Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer, led a contingent of his militia members to Washington. They stashed weapons in a hotel room across the Potomac River in Virginia while participating in the melee.

Rhodes did not enter the Capitol but directed his members from outside, and was sentenced in 2023 to 18 years in prison.

Trump issued a blanket "full, complete and unconditional pardon" to all others who were involved in the riot.

They include former Proud Boys leader Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, who was jailed for 22 years for seditious conspiracy over the riot.

Tarrio was not present at the riot, instead watching it on TV from a hotel room in Baltimore after being banned from Washington, DC, following an arrest for weapons offenses.

Tarrio's lawyer said his client expected to be released, and in a post Tarrio's mother said he would arrive home in Miami from a federal prison in Louisiana on Tuesday.

The move was swiftly denounced by Democrats as an attempt to re-write history.

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who was among the lawmakers forced to flee during the riot, called Trump's actions "an outrageous insult to our justice system and the heroes who suffered physical scars and emotional trauma as they protected the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution".

The former top Democrat in Congress said Trump "has decided to make one of his top priorities the abandonment and betrayal of police officers" who had physically fought with protesters to defend lawmakers.

Before he was sworn into office, some Trump aides indicated that he would not issue sweeping pardons, but would instead review each conviction on a case-by-case basis.

Just days ago, Vice-President JD Vance told Fox News "if you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn't be pardoned." He also said there was a "grey area" in some cases.

Pam Bondi, Trump's nominee for attorney general, called for a "case-by-case" review last week during her Senate confirmation hearing when asked whether Trump's clemency decisions would include those who attacked police officers.

"I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country," she said.

The Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also recently called for individual case reviews.

Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.

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The melee at the US Capitol, after a Trump rally nearby, lasted several hours. About 140 police officers were injured.

Lawmakers fled during the disorder and an unarmed female rioter, Ashli Babbitt, was fatally shot inside the building by officers.

The Justice Department launched a nationwide manhunt for suspects in its aftermath, which continued until today.

More than half the convictions have been misdemeanours, such as disorderly conduct or trespassing. Most convictions resulted in sentences of under one year in prison or probation, and most of those convicted have already served their sentences.

Trump previously called those prosecuted for the riot "political prisoners", who posed "zero threat".

Democrats describe the day as an attempted insurrection, and an attack on democracy itself.

Washington state Democratic Senator Patty Murray said in a statement: "It's a sad day for America when a President who refused to relinquish power and incited an insurrection returns to office years later only to grant violent criminals a Presidential pardon or commutation."

She also accused Trump of trying to "paper over the history and reality of that dark day".

Meanwhile, supporters and family members of Capitol riot defendants have been waiting outside the jailhouse in Washington DC throughout the cold on Monday, for news that their love ones will be freed by Trump.

A number of those convicted or awaiting trial were being held at the jail, while others were serving sentences in federal prisons across the country.

"Freedom!" one woman shouted earlier, as Trump vowed to release what he refers to as the "J6 hostages" during his speech at the Capitol One arena.

People at the jail said that they expected defendants to begin leaving within hours of Trump's action.

Derrick Storms, chief legal counsel for defendants in Capitol riot cases, told BBC News that he expects prisoners to be released from the DC jail before midnight.

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Elon Musk has caused outrage over a one-armed gesture he gave during a speech celebrating the inauguration of Donald Trump.

Musk thanked the crowd for "making it happen", before placing his right hand over his heart and then thrusting the same arm out into air straight ahead of him. He then turned and repeated the action for those sitting behind him.

Many on X, the social medial platform he owns, have likened the gesture to a Nazi salute.

In response, Musk posted on X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."

Musk, the world's richest man and a close ally of President Trump, was speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC when he made the gesture.

"My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured," he said, after giving the second one-armed salute.

There was immediate backlash on social media.

Claire Aubin, a historian who specializes in Nazism within the United States, said Musk's gesture was a "sieg heil", or Nazi salute.

"My professional opinion is that you're all right, you should believe your eyes," she posted on X, in reference to those who believed the gesture to be an overt reference to Nazis.

Ruth Ben-Ghiat, a history professor at New York University, said: "Historian of fascism here. It was a Nazi salute and a very belligerent one too."

Andrea Stroppa, a close confidant of Musk who has connected him with far-right Italian PM Giorgia Meloni, was reported by Italian media to have posted the clip of Musk with the caption: "Roman Empire is back starting from Roman salute".

The Roman salute was widely used in Italy by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party, before later being adopted by Adolf Hitler in Germany.

Stroppa later deleted his post, Italian media said. He later posted that "that gesture, which some mistook for a Nazi salute, is simply Elon, who has autism, expressing his feelings by saying, 'I want to give my heart to you'," he said.

"That is exactly what he communicated into the microphone. ELON DISLIKES EXTREMISTS!"

The gesture comes as Musk's politics have increasingly shifted to the right. He has made recent statements in support of Germany's far-right AfD party and British anti-immigration party Reform UK.

But some have defended him, including the Anti-Defamation League, an organisation founded to combat anti-Semitism.

"It seems that Elon Musk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute," the group posted on X.

Musk has become one of Trump's closet allies and has been tapped to co-lead what the president has termed the Department of Government Efficiency.

Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was referred to the government's counter-terrorism Prevent programme several times before the attack over his general obsession with violence, government sources have told the BBC.

On Monday the 18-year-old admitted stabbing three young girls to death in July last year at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class.

He also pleaded guilty to a range of charges including the attempted murders of eight children and two adults, producing a biological toxin, ricin, and the possession of an al-Qaeda training manual - a terror offence.

Despite this his case has never been treated as terror-related by police as he did not appear to follow an ideology, such as Islamism or racial hatred, and instead appeared to be motivated by an interest in extreme violence.

After he admitted his crimes the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) described him as a "young man with a sickening and sustained interest in death and violence" and said he had shown no signs of remorse.

Rudakubana was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents in 2006, and moved to the Southport area in 2013.

He attended St Patrick's Primary School after briefly being enrolled at Holy Family Catholic Primary School.

He took acting classes at the Pauline Quirk Academy and appeared in a promotional video for BBC Children in Need in 2018, which has since said it had no affiliation with him.

The BBC removed the video from its websites in the wake of the Southport attack.

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Rudakubana went on to attend Range High School in Formby but he began having problems with violence in Year 9.

He was described as having a volatile character, anger issues, and was prone to act with violence.

Fellow pupils remember him having an obsession with despotic figures including Genghis Khan and Adolf Hitler. He is also known to have accessed information about the IRA.

Rudakubana was excluded from Range High School in October 2019 at the age of 13, after which he returned to the school in December 2019 with a hockey stick and assaulted a pupil, breaking their wrist. He had to be restrained by a teacher.

After this, he attended The Acorns School, which provides specialist education for those with extra needs, and was then enrolled in Presfield High School & Specialist College.

He only attended sixth form there for a few days and was largely dealt with by home visits. The school would sometimes ask for police to attend when they visited.

It was revealed last August that he had an "autism spectrum disorder diagnosis" and had been "unwilling to leave the house and communicate with family for a period of time".

Neighbours on the street where he and his family lived in Banks, West Lancashire, about 6 miles (9km) from Southport, have told the BBC that the police visited the home on several occasions in the months leading up to the Southport attack.

On the day of the attack, a doorbell camera caught him pacing outside of his family home, before catching a taxi to the dance studio where he would carry out the stabbings.

Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, were all killed.

Initially, Rudakubana plead not guilty or had not guilty pleas entered for him to the charges laid against him but changed these to guilty on Monday, the first day of his trial.

He is due to be sentenced on Thursday and is expected to be given a life sentence.

However, he cannot be sentenced to a whole-life term for his crimes because he is under the age of 21.

US President Donald Trump issued executive orders shortly after he was sworn in to change the US government's policies on gender and diversity, following through on promises he made on the campaign trail.

He rolled back orders from the Biden administration that the Trump White House called "unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices within every agency and office of the Federal Government".

Two of the orders he revoked included a Biden directive aimed at preventing discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

Trump also signed an order designating two genders only - male and female – and declaring that they cannot be changed.

"As of today, it will henceforth be the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female," Trump said during his inaugural address earlier on Monday.

Trump has made wider promises about what conservatives decry as "woke" culture, gender and diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) programmes.

Another directive that he revoked had been designed to address "racial equity and support for underserved communities."

An administration official said one of the orders would "end DEI inside the federal government", cutting funding to DEI programmes across all agencies and including a review of offices renamed because of DEI initiatives.

Several large US companies have ended or scaled back their DEI programmes since Trump was elected, including McDonald's, Walmart and Facebook parent company Meta.

Others, like Apple and retailers Target and Costco, publicly defended their existing programmes.

DEI supporters see the programmes as a way to correct lingering discrimination based on race, sexuality and other characteristics.

The idea received renewed attention in the wake of racial justice protests after the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

However, the landscape around diversity programmes has changed since 2023, when the US Supreme Court banned US universities from considering an applicant's race as part of their admissions process.

The policy, known as affirmative action, was intended to counteract historic racial and ethnic disparities in higher education.

Trump's return to power coincided with growing criticism from the right and religious conservatives of the expansion of transgender rights in the US.

Trump espoused a traditional view of gender throughout the 2024 campaign, and he and his allies attacked Democrats for supporting transgender rights.

Project 47, the official policy platform for the Trump campaign, promised to cut federal funding for "radical gender ideology" as well as "inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children."

He has criticised policies that allow transgender athletes - school-age players, college athletes and professionals - to play on teams that align with their gender identity, arguing this could harm women's sports programmes.

Trump and his fellow Republicans also called for banning certain kinds of medical treatment for transgender minors.

One of the Trump's most notable political advertisements declared his opponent, Kamala Harris, was "for they/them" while "President Trump is for you."

The order declaring only two official genders, could have wide-ranging implications. Some US and global health experts have said singling out individuals based on their gender identity or expression can be harmful to physical and mental wellbeing.

The World Health Organisation warns that, "Rigid gender norms also negatively affect people with diverse gender identities, who often face violence, stigma and discrimination as a result, including in healthcare settings."

On Monday, Trump signed a different executive order aimed at withdrawing the US from the WHO.

In the shadow of Iceland’s largest geothermal power station, a large warehouse houses a hi-tech indoor farm of sorts that’s like nothing I’ve ever seen.

Under a strange pink-purple glow, illuminated panels buzz and cylindrical columns of water bubble away, as a futuristic crop of microalgae grows.

It's here that Iceland's Vaxa Technologies has developed a system that harnesses energy and other resources from the nearby power plant, to cultivate these tiny aquatic organisms.

“It's a new way of thinking about food production,” says general manager, Kristinn Haflidason as he gives me a tour of the space-age facility.

For much of our history, humans have consumed seaweed, also know as macroalgae.

But its tiny relative, microalgae has been a less common food source, although it was eaten for centuries in ancient Central America and Africa.

Now scientists and entrepreneurs are increasingly exploring its potential as a nutrition-rich, sustainable food.

About 35 minutes from the capital Reykjavik, the Vaxa site produces the microalgae Nannochloropsis, both as food for people, and for feed in fish and shrimp farming.

It also grows a type of bacteria called Arthospira, also known as blue-green algae, as it shares similar properties with microalgae.

When dried out it's know as spirulina and is used as a dietary supplements, a food ingredients, and as a bright-blue food colouring.

These tiny organisms photosynthesise, capturing energy from light to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.

“The algae is eating CO2, or turning the CO2 into biomass,” explains Mr Haflidason. “It's carbon negative.”

Vaxa's plant has a unique situation.

It's the only place where algae cultivation is integrated with a geothermal power station, which supplies clean electricity, delivers cold water for cultivation, hot water for heating, and even pipes across its CO2 emissions.

“You end up with a slightly negative carbon footprint,” says Asger Munch Smidt-Jensen, a food technology consultant at Danish Technology Institute (DTI), who co-authored a study assessing the environmental impact of Vaxa’s spirulina production.

“We also found a relatively low footprint, both in terms of land and water use.”

Round-the-clock renewable energy, plus a stream of CO2, and nutrients with a low carbon footprint, are needed to ensure the setup is climate-friendly, and he thinks that isn’t easily replicated.

“There is a huge input of energy to run these photo-bioreactors, and you have to artificially simulate the sun, so you need a high energy light source,” he explains.

"My main takeaway is that we should utilise these areas [like Iceland] where we have low impact energy sources to make energy intensive products,” adds Mr Munch Smidt-Jensen.

Back at the algae plant, I climb onto an elevated platform, where I’m surrounded by noisy modular units called photo-bioreactors, where thousands upon thousands of tiny red and blue LED lights fuel the microalgae’s growth, in place of sunlight.

They’re also supplied water and nutrients.

“More than 90% of the photosynthesis happens within very specific wavelengths of red and blue light,” explains Mr Haflidason. “We are only giving them the light that they use.”

All the conditions are tightly controlled and optimised by machine learning, he adds.

About 7% of the crop is harvested daily, and rapidly replenished by new growth.

Vaxa’s facility can produce up to 150 metric tonnes of algae annually, and it plans to expand.

As the crops are rich in protein, carbohydrate, omega-3s, fatty-acids, and vitamin B12, Mr Haflidason believes growing microalgae this way, could help tackle global food insecurity.

Many other companies are betting on the potential of microalgae - it's estimated the market will be worth $25.4bn (£20.5bn) by 2033.

Danish start-up Algiecel has been trialling portable shipping container-sized modules that house photo-bioreactors, and which could link up to carbon-emitting industries to capture their CO2, while simultaneously producing food and feed.

Crops are also being used in cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, biofuel and a replacement for plastic.

Perhaps also microalgae could be produced in space.

In a project funded by the European Space Agency, the Danish Technological Institution plans to test if a microalgae can be grown on the International Space Station.

Despite all the investment, there’s some way to go before micro-algae become an everyday part of our diet.

It still needs a lot of development, according to Mr Munch Smidt-Jensen.

He points out that the texture lacks firmness. Meanwhile the taste can be "fishy" if the algae is a saltwater variety.

“But there are ways of coming overcoming this,” he adds.

There’s also the societal question.

“Are people ready for it? How do we make it so that everyone wants to eat this?"

Malene Lihme Olsen, a food scientist at Copenhagen University who researches micro algae, says its nutritional value needs more research.

"Green microalgae [chlorella] have a very robust cell wall, so it can be difficult for us to digest and get all the nutrients,” she says.

For now she says microalgae is better added to other “carrier products” like pasta or bread to help with taste, texture and appearance.

However, Ms Olsen believes microalgae are a promising future food.

“If you compare one hectare of soy in Brazil, and imagine we had one hectare of algae field, you could produce 15 times more protein a year [from the algae].”

Back at the plant I'm looking at an unappetising green sludge. It's the harvested microalgae with the water squeezed out, ready for further processing.

Mr Haflidason offers me a taste and, after initial reluctance, I try some and find its flavour neutral with a texture like tofu.

“We are absolutely not proposing that anyone should eat green sludge,” jokes Mr Haflidason.

Instead the processed algae is an ingredient for everyday foods, and in Reykjavik one bakery makes bread with Spirulina and a gym puts it in smoothies.

“We’re not going to change what you eat. We're just going to change the nutritional value of the foods that you eat,” he says.