Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries”, a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington DC in an attack that authorities suspect was carried out by an Afghan national. It was unclear how he would carry out such a pause, as his previous attempts have been challenged by the courts and Congress. Authorities suspect the shooting was carried out by Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the US in September 2021 after the country’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. He did not identify the countries he intended to target or specify what he meant by the phrase. Sign upSign up for the US morning briefingFirst Thing is delivered to thousands of inboxes every weekday.

Donald Trump has said he will “permanently pause migration from all third world countries” a day after two national guard members were shot in Washington DC in an attack that has become a political flashpoint in the president’s ongoing crackdown on immigration. Earlier in the night, Trump announced the death of Sarah Beckstrom, one of the two national guard members shot in the attack close to the White House on Wednesday. A second national guard member, Andrew Wolfe, 24, is still fighting for his life, according to the president. National guard troops have been positioned across Washington DC since August, when the Trump administration declared a “crime emergency” and ordered them in to support federal and local law enforcement. Soon after the shooting on Wednesday, Trump said he would send 500 more national guard troops to Washington DC.

Jetstar has grounded some of its Airbus fleet in Australia and cancelled domestic and international flights after the aerospace manufacturer ordered software changes to thousands of its A320 planes following a mid-air incident. Ninety Jetstar flights were affected on Saturday with disruption expected to continue until Sunday, the airline’s head of flying operations, Tyrone Simes, told reporters at Melbourne airport. In a statement on Saturday afternoon, Jetstar said 20 of the 34 affected aircraft were ready to return to service. To respond to a precautionary action from Airbus, we have cancelled some Jetstar Airways flights,” the airline said. Two Jetstar flights into Perth and two departures from the same airport were cancelled.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), which is the main certifying authority for A320 aircraft, issued the instruction on Friday night as a precautionary action, saying that “safety is paramount”. The US Federal Aviation Administration also issued an emergency airworthiness directive for certain Airbus planes, requiring the aircraft to replace or modify specific software. At the time Airbus issued its bulletin to the plane’s more than 350 operators, about 3,000 A320-family jets were in the air. The world’s largest A320 operator, American Airlines, said 209 of its 480 A320 aircraft would need the fix. The carrier, along with affiliates such as Peach Aviation, is the biggest operator in Japan of single-aisle Airbus aircraft, including the A320.

Share Updated at 06.13 GMT13h ago 05.24 GMT Nationals MP likens Barnaby Joyce's departure to 'Greek tragedy' The Nationals MP Michael McCormack is on the ABC and has likened Barnaby Joyce’s departure from the party and “almost a Greek tragedy”. You mention the word tragedy, it is almost a Greek tragedy, isn’t it? View image in fullscreen Barnaby Joyce (right) with Nationals MPs Michael McCormack and Flynn Colin Boyce in parliament on Thursday. Share Updated at 04.24 GMT14h ago 04.04 GMT Nick Visser That’s all from me. Photograph: Con Chronis/AAP Share Updated at 04.55 GMT

View image in fullscreen Paul Brown, former environment correspondent of the Guardian, 1991. Photograph: Don McPhee/The GuardianAs I came back, Thatcher was in New York warning the UN about the dangers of climate change. But this pattern of politicians learning the inconvenient truths of climate change and then falling short in the actions required to solve the problem has continued ever since. That summit saw the setup of the climate change convention, the biodiversity convention and much else, although it failed to do enough to protect forests. But as the decade progressed, the Conservatives were ousted in 1997 and then, as John Prescott became environment secretary, the environment news kept moving up the agenda.

Africa’s forests have turned from a carbon sink into a carbon source, according to research that underscores the need for urgent action to save the world’s great natural climate stabilisers. They discovered that Africa gained carbon between 2007 and 2010, but since then widespread forest loss has tipped the balance so the continent is contributing more CO 2 into the atmosphere. The authors said the results show that urgent action is needed to stop forest loss or the world risks losing one of its most important natural carbon buffers. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. after newsletter promotion“Policymakers ought to respond by putting better safeguards in place to protect the world’s tropical forests,” Balzter said.

He repeatedly accused them of breaking their vows of obedience, a claim the nuns denied. View image in fullscreen The three nuns have been helped by local supporters and former pupils since returning to Goldenstein Castle in Elsbethen. Church officials have reportedly said the nuns will be provided with adequate medical care and nursing help, and a priest would be at their disposal to serve regular mass. View image in fullscreen Sister Bernadette leads prayers attended by supporters and former pupils in the chapel at Goldenstein. “Now it’s up to the sisters,” Harald Schiffl, a spokesperson for Grasl, told the Austrian news agency APA.

Vladimir Putin has said that the outline of a draft peace plan discussed by the US and Ukraine could serve as a basis for future negotiations to end the war – but insisted Ukraine would have to surrender territory for any deal to be possible. Speaking to reporters during a working visit to Kyrgyzstan, Putin said Russia would halt its offensive only if Ukrainian forces withdrew from unspecified areas currently under Kyiv’s control. They would require Ukraine to voluntarily cede territory that Moscow has failed to seize militarily. He told the US magazine the Atlantic: “As long as Zelenskyy is president, no one should count on us giving up territory. He will not sign away territory.”

Mark Carney has agreed an energy deal with Alberta centred on plans for a new heavy oil pipeline reaching from the province’s oil sands to the Pacific coast, a politically volatile project that is expected to face stiff opposition. The move proved politically damaging within hours, with the minister of Canadian culture, Steven Guilbeault, who is the former environment minister, announcing he would leave cabinet. He said the agreement “sets the state for an industrial transformation” and involved not just a pipeline, but nuclear power and datacentres. Carney’s government will exempt a possible pipeline project from the existing coastal oil tanker moratorium and emissions cap. Even before Carney and Smith made their announcement, however, First Nations said any new pipeline was effectively dead on arrival.

For the first time since 1988, the US government will no longer commemorate World Aids Day, according to reports. But they should “refrain from publicly promoting World Aids Day through any communication channels, including social media, media engagements, speeches or other public-facing messaging”. “An awareness day is not a strategy,” a state department spokesperson, Tommy Pigott, told the New York Times. World Aids Day is usually when the state department shares Pepfar data about cumulative and annual progress with Congress. The state department has not yet replied to a request for comment.

Police are reviewing GoPro footage from the scene, which may shed more light on how the attack unfolded. Surf Life Saving NSW said Kylies and nearby North Haven and Crowdy Bay beaches reopened at 12.30pm on Friday. “Until then, it’s a really horrific freak incident, but there’s no indication that this shark will keep biting humans. The Department of Primary Industries deployed five “smart” drumlines at Kylies beach after the attack. Meanwhile, other NSW beaches were closed on Friday after numerous bull shark sightings along with bait ball sightings, where schools of fish group together to form a defensive, tight mass to deter predators.

Housed in a remodelled former Citroën garage on the north-western edge of the city centre, the centre is 95% complete. But in recent weeks, the conversation around Kanal’s opening has moved from “when” to “if”. Neither Brussels’ modern art gallery Wiels nor the more classical Bozar Centre for Fine Arts have their own collections. View image in fullscreen The formalised partnership with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, limited to five years, will cost Brussels €2m a year. “Who thinks this is doable?”The formalised partnership with the Centre Pompidou, limited to five years after Kanal’s opening, will cost Brussels €2m (£1.75m) a year.

Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AP Welcoming him to the Kremlin, Putin praised Orbán’s “balanced” position on Ukraine, after Hungary repeatedly tried to block further sanctions on Russia. The rest of Russia’s frozen assets would be invested in a US-Russian investment vehicle focused on joint projects. Germany, Sweden, as well as central and eastern European states and von der Leyen, argue the frozen assets plan is the best option. “These risks are unfortunately not academic but real,” he wrote to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen. Belgium hosts €183bn of Russian assets, around two thirds of Russian assets immobilised in the west, at the Brussels-based central securities depository Euroclear.

Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month. Israel’s genocide is not over.”Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the Israeli foreign ministry did not immediately respond to the allegations. In December 2024, Amnesty concluded that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza by three of those acts – including deliberately inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction. The international court of justice last year ordered Israel “to prevent and punish the direct and public incitement to commit genocide” in Gaza. The Gaza war was sparked by Hamas’s 7 October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,221 people.