Watch: Stevie Wonder takes a knee ‘for America’ in solidarity with NFL players

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False Flag: the Israeli nailbiter giving Game of Thrones a run for its money

A new spy thriller launched last night in the same slot as GoT – and with its winning mix of wobbly alibis and Israel’s most wanted, it’s a serious rival

Is it audacious or just stupid to go head to head with the biggest TV show in the world? New Israeli drama False Flag launched on the Fox channel in the UK at 9pm last night, just as most peak TV devotees were settling down with some blackberry wine to enjoy the latest Game of Thrones. But if you swiped left on Daenerys and Jon’s date on Dragonstone island, you might just have caught one of the most impressive spy thrillers in years.False Flag’s opening episode was an object lesson in how to whip up a spinning top of mystery, paranoia and conspiracy before letting it fly.

For a subtitled show concerned with an ongoing secret war between distrustful nation states, False Flag starts in a very domestic frame. The harried and slightly hangdog chemist Benny (Ishai Golan) is preparing for the school run over a chaotic family breakfast, somewhere in Israeli suburbia. The rolling news on TV suddenly becomes an unlikely mirror as Benny’s passport photo flashes on the screen, to his befuddlement, his pregnant wife’s concern and his young daughter’s delight.

This is the latest update to a sensational news story about the violent abduction of an Iranian defence minister from a Moscow hotel. According to Russian investigators, Benny and four other Israelis are now considered the prime suspects, glimpsed in blurry CCTV footage but really implicated by their passports being tracked in and out of Moscow. These names and photos are a global newsflash. Suddenly family man Benny, bride-to-be Natalie (Magi Azarzar), party girl Asia (Ania Bukstein), private English tutor Emma (Orna Salinger) and backpacking beach bum Sean (Angel Bonanni) – are the five most wanted people in the world…

Source: False Flag: the Israeli nailbiter giving Game of Thrones a run for its money | Television & radio | The Guardian

BREAKING: Flight from Paris to Birmingham declares emergency after struck by lightening

BREAKING

An Air France flight heading from Paris to Birmingham declared a mid-air emergency after it was hit by a bolt of lightening.

The passenger flight was leaving Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport and was heading to the West Midlands when an alert was sounded.

It later landed safely at Birmingham Airport with no one hurt during the incident.

A spokesman said: ‘I can confirm that AF1064 was hit by lightning during flight from Paris with an emergency being declared as a precaution.

‘The aircraft has since landed safely at Birmingham Airport with no emergency response needed and with no injuries to passengers or crew.

‘All passengers have since disembarked the aircraft safely from the airport stand as usual.

A graphic of the plane’s flight-path was shared on the Nik’s News Twitter account, an aviation-watch site.

Source: Flight heading from Paris to Birmingham declares emergency | Daily Mail Online

Hero tradie prevents tragedy + saves paramedics lives as they treated a driver at the side of a road

Trump officials: ‘extreme vetting’ for tourists: phones, social media passwords and answer questions about your ideology

Visitors planning getaways to the U.S. might have to relinquish their cell phone contacts and passwords under new ‘extreme vetting’ procedures being developed by the Trump administration.

The tightening could even be applied to longtime allies who are part of the State Department’s Visa Waiver program, which provides expedited admissions without a visa to residents of a list of 38 nations including allies like Britain, Australia, and France.

‘If there is any doubt about a person’s intentions coming to the United States, they should have to overcome—really and truly prove to our satisfaction—that they are coming for legitimate reasons,’ Gene Hamilton, senior counselor to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told the Wall Street Journal.

Among the tougher new measures: Visitors would have to answer questions about their ideology, hand over social media passwords and financial records, and their contacts, the paper reported.

Source: Trump officials draw up ‘extreme vetting’ for tourists | Daily Mail Online

Deadly radioactive particles are found across Europe

Deadly radioactive particles are found across Europe, and scientists have no idea where they came from

Source: Radioactive particles have been spotted across Europe | Daily Mail Online