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- Politics
- Sky News AU
Scott Pelley ‘drones on' about Trump in unhinged rant to college students
Comedian Alex Stein discusses Scott Pelley's unhinged Trump rant in a commencement speech at Wake Forest University. 'Scott Pelley spent the last four years covering up for Joe Biden, while Joe Biden was senile and had obvious cognitive disabilities,' Mr Stein told Sky News host James Morrow. 'He doesn't have free speech, he doesn't practice free speech. 'They don't want to hear some CNN anchor just drone on about the threat that Donald Trump imposes on the First Amendment give me a break, like anyone at CNN cares about free speech.'
Sky News AU
an hour ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
‘Guilty as sin': Former FBI director James Comey threatens Trump
Comedian Alex Stein discusses former FBI director James Comey's recent bizarre Instagram post which threatens US President Donald Trump. 'James Comey is guilty as sin in my personal opinion,' Mr Stein told Sky News host James Morrow. 'He doesn't care about the First Amendment, doesn't care about actual American citizens. 'He's just a liar … He just seems like a bad cop, there's something very weird and nefarious about him.'
Yahoo
9 hours ago
- Politics
- Yahoo
The fight for the Arctic - where climate change is giving Russia room to manoeuvre
The twin threats of climate change and Russian malign activity in the Arctic must be taken "deadly seriously," David Lammy has warned. Sky News joined him on the furthest reaching tour of the Arctic by a British foreign secretary. We travelled to Svalbard - a Norwegian archipelago that is the most northern settled land on Earth, 400 miles from the North Pole. It is at the heart of an Arctic region facing growing geopolitical tension and feeling the brunt of climate change. Mr Lammy told us the geopolitics of the region must be taken "deadly seriously" due to climate change and "the threats we're seeing from Russia". We witnessed the direct impact of climate change along Svalbard's coastline and inland waterways. There is less ice, we were told, compared to the past. The melting ice is opening up the Arctic and allowing more freedom to manoeuvre. "We do see Russia's shadow fleet using these waters," Mr Lammy said. "We do see increased activity from submarines with nuclear capability under our waters and we do see hybrid sabotage of undersea cables at this time." In Tromso, further south, the foreign secretary was briefed by Norwegian military commanders. Vice Admiral Rune Andersen, the Chief of Norwegian Joint Headquarters, told Sky News the Russian threat was explicit. "Russia has stated that they are in confrontation with the West and are utilising a lot of hybrid methods to undermine Western security," he said. But it's not just Vladimir Putin they're worried about. Norwegian observers are concerned by US president Donald Trump's strange relationship with the Russian leader too. Karsten Friis, a Norwegian defence and security analyst, told Sky News: "If he's too soft on Putin, if he is kind of normalising relations with Russia, I wouldn't be surprised. "I would expect Russia to push us, to test us, to push borders, to see what we can do as Europeans." Changes in the Arctic mean new challenges for the NATO military alliance - including stepping up activity to deter threats, most of all from Russia. More from Sky News: In Iceland, we toured a NATO airbase with the foreign secretary. There, he said maintaining robust presence in the Arctic was essential for western security. "Let's be clear, in this challenging geopolitical moment the high north and the Arctic is a heavily contested arena and we should be under no doubt that NATO and the UK need to protect it for our own national security." This is also about distracting Russia, drawing away resources that could have been used in the war in Ukraine and deterring it in the future. Because the more Arctic opens up, the more this once pristine wilderness is becoming the arena of national rivalry and potentially conflict.
Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Elon Musk's Dad Slams His Son's Whimpering Failure at Politics
Elon Musk's father Errol is once again sounding off about his billionaire son — and as usual, he has nothing nice to say. In an interview with England's Sky News, the elder Musk heaped on the criticism when asked to describe his famous spawn's political prowess. "He's not a very good conversationalist," the patriarch said. "He's not a very good politician at all." The former emerald miner went on to say that Musk doesn't have the "gift of gab" and suggested that he tried to warn his son against going into politics, which he bizarrely characterized as a bottomless "human swimming pool" in which nobody, including Winston Churchill or Donald Trump, can stay afloat. Notably, the Sky interview aired just before the younger Musk announced that his time as a "special government employee" in the United States was up. Soon after, the father — with whom Musk has been estranged since learning that he'd impregnated his step-sister — told GB News that his son and Trump still have a "good relationship." During his Sky interview, the older Musk also argued with broadcaster Gillian Joseph, a Black woman, about whether or not a so-called "white genocide" is taking place in South Africa, his and Elon's home country. When Joseph pointed out that a recent videos Trump shared purporting to show attacks against white farmers in SA was actually filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and taken out of context, Musk — who's shared fond memories of how "well-run" the country was during apartheid — kept insisting that was "not true." "Where's the evidence?" Joseph asked, as the elder Musk kept repeating "no, no, no" and spoke over her. Coincidentally, his billionaire son gave an extremely similar performance when speaking at Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum earlier in the month when reporter Joumanna Bercetche had the audacity to not laugh at one of his dumb jokes. For all their animosity, it seems Elon and Errol have a lot in common when it comes to being weird with women. Maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the emerald mine. More on the younger Musk: You Can Suddenly Sense Elon Musk's Desperation
Sky News AU
14 hours ago
- Climate
- Sky News AU
‘Exceptionally heavy rain': Queensland and Western Australia set to face colossal showers as nail biting temperatures blanket south-east
Millions residing in Queensland and WA have been warned to expect colossal showers and potential flash flooding, whilst those in the south-east are set to experience the coldest temperatures seen all year. Mammoth downpours are expected to thrash vast swathes of Queensland, as a lingering trough that decimated the Northern Territory earlier in the week pushes into the Sunshine State. Sky News meteorologist Wendy John said tropical moisture over the Indian Ocean is fuelling a massive northwest cloud band across the country, producing 'exceptionally heavy rain' for the first time this year. The destructive trough is set to push into Mackay in the early hours of Friday morning and will likely stall once it reaches the coast. 'Widespread cloud cover will be happening across much of Queensland and the top part of NSW with the trough that has moved from the northwest right across the country in the last few days bringing record braking dry season rainfall," she said. Leading into Friday afternoon, John said, "moisture will target the coastline' and will 'allow for some heavy downpours all the way from Mackay down to Rockhampton'. The system will travel south on Friday evening, and will bring intense downpours for Rockhampton, Bundaberg and the Sunshine Coast. John stated the gloomy weather would entrench on Saturday and 'unfortunately won't clear up until at least Sunday'. 'That leaves behind some very high rainfall totals, with potential to see 100mm of showers from Mackay all the way down to Bundaberg,' John stated. Emerald and the Sunshine Coast are likely to see in excess of 50mm by Sunday afternoon. Shifting southwards, Sky News meteorologist Marina Neuman said it was 'just the beginning of wintry conditions' with millions likely to be waking up to dense frost for the next several days. A large high-pressure system sitting in the Great Australian Bite is the culprit, bringing cold air up from the south to the southeast, with a lack of cloud cover meaning the cool conditions have the ability to hang around and keep things 'quite cool, particularly in the morning'. Canberra woke up to a -1C morning on Thursday, its coldest recorded all year, with Neuman stating 'a repeat does look to be on the cards on Friday for the ACT and towns along the NSW-Victorian border". 'It's starting to feel like winter in the south, time to bring out the extra doona,' Neuman said. Widespread morning frost is also forecast for parts of South Australia, southern NSW, the ACT, northern and central Victoria and the entirety of Tasmania on the weekend. A significant shake-up in conditions is also expected for WA, after the state emerges from an unseasonably warm and dry autumn. An incoming low-pressure system is set to clip the south of the state, bringing in substantial rainfall for the southwest for the next couple of days. Neuman said for Friday 'pretty much all of the WA south coast will see rainfall, stretching all the way from Karratha down to Albany thanks to an approaching cold front as well as a trough that is targeting the northern half of the state'. The cold front is likely to bring widespread rainfall, periods of heavy rainfall and much colder temperatures. Heading into Friday evening the cold front will gradually move out, yet the trough is set to push inward with Neuman stating this would allow for 'continued rainfall across Perth as well as the centre of the state, as the dual cold fronts pump air in from the east'. 'Rainfall is expected to stick around well into Saturday with things finally clearing out by Sunday morning,' Neuman said.
