Israel has accused Hezbollah of keeping hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold in a bunker under a hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, though it said it would not strike the complex.

The Sahel hospital in Dahiyeh was evacuated shortly afterwards, and Fadi Alame, its director, told Reuters that the allegations were untrue.

Israel did not provide evidence for its claim that cash was being kept under the hospital. Instead, it published an animated graphic that purported to show a bunker under the hospital and said it had previously been used to hide the former secretary general of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah. Israel appealed to the Lebanese government to confiscate the money it said the Shia militant organisation had stolen from the Lebanese people.

Shortly after, Israel issued a series of warnings to residents of Dahiyeh that it would begin striking buildings in the area and that they should move at least 500 metres away. Those who remained in the area began to flee.

Airstrikes began about an hour later, with strong explosions heard across the Beirut area. One of the strikes hit just in front of the entrance of the Rafik Hariri university hospital, the largest public hospital in Lebanon. At least four people including a child were killed and 24 injured in the strike, and the hospital suffered “major damage” from the blast.

Despite the strike, the hospital’s activities continued as usual and it was receiving the injured from Monday night’s strikes, according to a source at the hospital.

The initial casualty count was expected to rise as first responders continued digging through the rubble for people. A picture of the building struck in front of Rafik Hairi hospital showed a man covered in blood lying lifeless in a bombed-out building.

Fears had proliferated that hospitals would be struck in the greater Beirut area after the Israeli allegations, which echoed similar claims in Gaza, where the Israel Defense Forces said Hamas ran military operations from medical buildings.

Lebanon’s ministry of health condemned what it said was “attacks on two of Lebanon’s largest hospitals” and part of Israel’s “daily targeting of the Lebanese health sector”. Israel has killed at least 115 healthcare workers and emergency responders since fighting started between Hezbollah and Israel a year before.

It was the second night in a row that Beirut was heavily bombed, with Israel carrying out more than 15 airstrikes on Hezbollah-linked banking institutions the night before.

Israel said on Monday that it struck about 300 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon over 24 hours, ramping up its offensive to hit the group’s finances even as the US called for the war to end “as soon as possible”. The Israeli military also said about 170 projectiles were fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israel on Monday.

It came as Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was heading to Israel and neighbouring countries in the Middle East on Monday for his 11th visit since the Hamas 7 October attacks, in an attempt to kickstart ceasefire negotiations in Gaza and find a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Lebanon.

On Sunday night, Israel said that it would begin targeting a Hezbollah-affiliated bank, Al-Qard Al-Hassan, which provides interest-free loans and banking services to hundreds of thousands of Lebanese – primarily Shia Muslims. It accused the bank of helping finance Hezbollah and said that its branches were used to store weapons.

The announcement that Israel would start targeting the bank, a part of Hezbollah’s civilian institutions, signified an expansion of the scope of Israel’s targets from just the group’s military wing. The institution had sanctions placed on it by the US in 2017 during the Trump administration for giving Hezbollah access to the international financial system, according to the US Treasury.

Al-Qard Al-Hassan was founded in the early 1980s as a charitable institution, part of Hezbollah’s robust social services network.

The banking institution became more popular after Lebanon’s 2019 financial crisis, when commercial banks froze almost all accounts and almost entirely stopped issuing loans. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese people, primarily Shia Muslims, bank with Al-Qard Al-Hassan, many of them giving the bank familial assets such as gold in exchange for loans.

Shortly after saying it would begin striking Al-Qard Al-Hassan, Israel began striking buildings belonging to the bank in greater Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Bekaa valley.

At least 10 airstrikes were carried out in Dahiyeh, causing an entire building to collapse and a jet of fire to stream into the air in the Chiyah neighbourhood. A building close to Lebanon’s only commercial airport was also struck – video footage showed a smoke plume billowing while a nearby plane sat on the runway.

“They struck empty buildings in residential neighbourhoods, and destroyed those surrounding neighbourhoods. These weren’t military centres or weapons caches,” said Ma’an Khalil, the mayor of Ghobeiry municipality in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

The US envoy Amos Hochstein arrived in Beirut on Monday morning, where he met Lebanon’s parliamentary speaker, Nabih Berri, and the country’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, to discuss ways towards a ceasefire.

Hochstein said implementation of the UN security council resolution 1701 was the path towards a ceasefire in Lebanon and rejected calls to amend the UN agreement.

Resolution 1701 ended the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war and has since been the framework that governs security dynamics on the Lebanese-Israeli boundary. Under the terms of the agreement, Hezbollah and other armed militias must not be present past the Litani River, about 18 miles (30km) north of the border. The resolution also dictated that Israeli forces withdraw from Lebanon.

US government officials investigating the leak of two classified intelligence papers assessing Israel’s plans to attack Iran have said they did believe any more documents had been compromised.

However, the Biden administration remained “deeply disturbed” by the unauthorized release, John Kirby, the national security communications adviser, told reporters at a White House briefing on Monday.

Kirby also said that US officials have spoken with Israeli counterparts about the leak, but he did not divulge details of the conversation.

“We’re deeply concerned, and the president remains deeply concerned, about any leakage of classified information into the public domain. That’s not supposed to happen, and it’s unacceptable when it does,” he said.

“He will be actively monitoring the progress of the investigative effort to figure out how this happened, and obviously he’ll be very interested in hearing any mitigation measures and recommendations that come as a result of the investigative efforts.”

Earlier on Monday, a defense department official confirmed to the Guardian that an in-depth inquiry was under way into how the two documents, attributed to the US Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, came to be published on the Telegram messaging app four days ago.

The papers relate to Israel’s military planning for a retaliatory strike on Iran following the 1 October missile barrage that was Tehran’s largest-ever assault on its regional foe and an escalation of the Middle East conflict sparked by the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel in October 2023.

The first document is titled “Israel: air force continues preparations for strike on Iran and conducts a second large-force employment exercise” and the second is “Israel: defense forces continue key munitions preparations and covert UAV activity almost certainly for a strike on Iran”.

Kirby said it was not yet known if the papers, both marked top secret, were deliberately released, or if their publication was the result of a hack. But, he said: “We don’t have any indication at this point that there’s an expectation that there will be additional documents like this finding their way into the public domain.”

Kirby’s update came a day after Mike Johnson, the Republican House speaker, called the leak “very concerning”, and said he was expecting a briefing later on Sunday about the progress of the investigation.

“There’s some serious allegations being made there. We’re following it closely,” the Louisiana congressman said in remarks to CNN’s State of the Union program.

The investigation comes as Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, was heading to the Middle East on Monday for his 11th visit since the Hamas attacks. As well as discussing the leak, Blinken will try to kick-start ceasefire negotiations stalled since Israel’s killing of the Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, last week.

Kirby, however, was cautious about the likely success of Blinken’s mission. “I cannot sit here today and tell you that that negotiations are about to restart in Doha or Cairo or anywhere else for that matter,” he said.

“[We will] continue to engage in intensive diplomacy to see what can be done to try to find a path to a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.”

An Israeli military unit that has been accused of human rights abuses against Palestinian detainees is reportedly under investigation by the US state department in a move that could lead to it being barred from receiving assistance.

The inquiry into the activities of Force 100 was instigated following a spate of allegations that Palestinians held under its guard at a detention centre have been subject to torture and brutal mistreatment, including sexual assault, Axios reported on Monday.

The investigation – a rare occurrence on the part of the US with regard to Israel – could result in the unit being penalised under a landmark peace of legislation known as the Leahy law, which prohibits the state and defence departments from rendering assistance to foreign security force units facing credible accusations of human rights abuses.

Nine members of Force 100, a unit inside the Israeli Defence Forces, are the subject of criminal investigation over allegations that they sexually assaulted a prisoner at the Sde Teiman detention camp in the Negev desert, which human rights groups have dubbed “the Israeli Guantanamo”.

Israeli authorities have begun to wind down the centre, which was established as a holding centre and interrogation site for Palestinians suspected of involvement in last October’s attack on Israel by Hamas, in which about 1,200 people were murdered and another 250 were taken hostage.

The facility is said to have been the site of widespread physical and mental abuse, according to whistleblowers, with detainees kept shackled to hospital beds, blindfolded and forced to wear nappies. Electric shock treatment and force-feedings have also been reported, and detainees have allegedly been forced to stand for hours or sit on their knees.

In one case, whistleblowers reported one man having a limb amputated due to injuries caused by the persistent wearing of handcuffs.

Up to 35 inmates are believed to have died in the facility or at hospitals nearby. About 4,000 prisoners were said to have passed through the facility by last May, the New York Times reported.

Axios, citing two Israeli officials, said the US embassy in Jerusalem had submitted a list of questions to Israel’s foreign ministry regarding several incidents involving violations allegedly carried out by Force 100 members.

The embassy told the Israelis that the questions were part of a review under the auspices of the Leahy law.

“It is part of a consultation process we started with the Israelis about this unit as part of our Leahy law agreement,” Axios quoted a US official as saying.

Named after the former Democratic senator for Vermont, Patrick Leahy, the legislation was passed in 1997 and originally designed to apply only to assistance in combating narcotics. But it was later expanded.

The Guardian reported this year that US officials had taken steps to circumvent the law with regards to Israel to prevent the imposition of sanctions on a close ally.

The state department did not respond to a request for comment.

Reports of the investigation come after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, warned in a joint letter last week that Israel could face consequences – including the potential blocking of future weapons transfers – if it did not take urgent steps to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza within the next month.

Israeli police and the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency say they have arrested a network of Israeli citizens spying for Iran who allegedly provided information on military bases and conducted surveillance of individuals.

The investigators claimed the network had been active for about two years. According to reports in the Israeli press, the suspects are accused of photographing and collecting information about Israeli bases and facilities, including the defence headquarters in Tel Aviv, known as the Kirya, and the Nevatim and Ramat David airbases.

The Nevatim base was targeted by Iran’s two missile attacks this year, and Ramat David has been targeted by Hezbollah.

“This is one of the most serious security cases investigated in recent years,” state prosecutors said. Police said the group had carried out 600 missions over two years.

News of the alleged network, which includes two minors, follows the arrest in September of an Israeli businessman accused of spying for Iran. According to the allegations against him he had travelled twice to Iran to discuss the possibility of assassinating the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the defence minister, Yoav Gallant, or the head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence agency, Ronen Bar.

Reports described the individuals arrested as Jewish immigrants from Azerbaijan living in the Haifa area, some related, who were arrested just over a month ago and are expected to be charged with helping an enemy in wartime.

According to a statement released on Monday, the seven Israeli citizens were arrested for gathering sensitive information on Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bases and energy infrastructure.

According to Haaretz, the suspects allegedly received hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash transfers from Russian intermediaries, as well as in cryptocurrencies.

Three of the suspects were apprehended while allegedly photographing sensitive sites in southern Israel, and the police discovered dozens of documents in their possession.

“Investigations revealed that over a period exceeding two years, the suspects executed multiple security missions under the direction of two Iranian intelligence agents known as ‘Alkhan’ and ‘Orkhan’,” said a statement.

“The network members were aware that the intelligence they provided compromised national security and could potentially aid enemy missile attacks. The network conducted extensive reconnaissance missions on IDF bases nationwide, focusing on air force and navy installations, ports, Iron Dome system locations, and energy infrastructure such as the Hadera power plant.

“These activities were financially compensated with payments totalling hundreds of thousands of dollars, often facilitated through cryptocurrencies,” the statement added, suggesting those arrested had been motivated by “greed”.

“The operation involved photographing and documenting strategic sites, with the collected data being transferred to Iranian agents. Network members utilised advanced equipment procured specifically for these tasks under Iranian guidance.”

“There was a system,” said one of the investigating police officers, Yaron Binyamin. “They collected dozens of documents that noted the exact site to photograph, what information to gather and how much money they would be paid. A real price list.

“The method was first to receive the mission to film a base, then travel there, unload the equipment and find a vantage point, then deliver the photos via encrypted software to their Iranian handlers.”

Those arrested were also allegedly tasked with collecting intelligence on several Israeli citizens at the behest of Iranian agents.

This included conducting surveillance on targeted individuals. Some members were apprehended while attempting to gather intelligence on an Israeli citizen residing near their location, with security assessments indicating potential Iranian plans to harm this individual.

The latest arrests suggest Israel’s well-developed intelligence operations targeting Iran, Gaza and Hezbollah have not been a one-way street, with Iran and its proxies also running operations in Israel.

Israel’s state attorney suggested other cases yet to be disclosed may be under investigation.

• Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, will meet the UN secretary general, António Guterres, on Thursday to discuss the Ukraine conflict, according to the Kremlin, in what would be the UN chief’s first trip to Russia in more than two years. The UN did not immediately confirm the planned meeting, which Ukraine strongly criticised, saying: “The UN secretary general declined Ukraine’s invitation to the first global peace summit in Switzerland. He did, however, accept the invitation to Kazan from war criminal Putin.”

• The meeting was apparently scheduled to take place on the sidelines of the Brics summit in the central Russian city of Kazan. Guterres has previously criticised Moscow’s war on Ukraine but Ukraine’s foreign ministry said meeting Putin now “does not advance the cause of peace” and “damages the UN’s reputation”. Asked at a briefing in New York whether Guterres was intending to travel to Kazan later this week, a spokesperson said: “Announcements on his future travels will be later on down the line.”

• A Russian missile attack on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia killed two people and injured 15 in the city centre while causing huge damage to civilian infrastructure, including a kindergarten and more than 30 residential buildings, said the regional governor, Ivan Fedorov, on Monday.

• It would be a “dangerous and highly concerning development” if North Korea was sending troops to help Russia in Ukraine, the US said on Monday as South Korea and Britain warned of the high price Moscow would likely have to pay Pyongyang. Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor, examines the situation after South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) reported that 1,500 members of Pyongyang’s special forces had crossed the border to Vladivostok in Russia’s far east to begin training and some degree of participation in the war in Ukraine. “They represent the first element of what could be a 12,000-strong, four-brigade deployment,” he writes.

• Regardless of troop commitments, Dan Sabbagh continues, “South Korean intelligence has touched on something more significant, at least for Russia. The NIS believes it has monitored 70 shipments of munitions – shells, missiles and anti-tank rockets – going from North Korea to Russia since August last year, transporting on its estimate 8m rounds of arms, including Russian 152mm and 122mm shells so crucial for Moscow’s destructive frontline assaults.”

• South Korea has summoned the Russian ambassador to protest “in the strongest terms” about the reported dispatch of thousands of North Korean troops to help Russia in its war against Ukraine. The Guardian’s Justin McCurry reports from Tokyo that South Korea’s first vice-foreign minister, Kim Hong-kyun, told the Russian envoy, Georgy Zinoviev, that the participation of North Korean troops in the war violated UN resolutions and demanded their immediate withdrawal.

• Britain is to lend Ukraine an additional £2.26bn to spend on weapons as part of a wider US$50bn (£38.5bn) loan programme expected to be confirmed by G7 members later this week, Dan Sabbagh writes. The loans will be repaid using interest generated by the US$300bn of frozen Russian assets held in the west. Rachel Reeves said: “The profits being made on those assets aren’t being kept for Russia to use in the future. They’re now being used to fund Ukraine.” The British chancellor made the announcement alongside the defence secretary, John Healey.

• Dozens of US representatives from both the Democratic and Republican parties have urged the Biden administration to toughen sanctions on Russian oil shipments and questioned an exception issued to the world’s largest oilfield company, SLB, to operate in Russia. The 52 lawmakers said that since the invasion in February 2022, SLB has signed new contracts, recruited hundreds of staff, and imported nearly $18m in equipment into Russia. “This US-based company is keeping Vladimir Putin’s war machine well-oiled with financing for the barbaric invasion of Ukraine.”

• The lawmakers said they were “cognizant of the arguments often cited that Russian oil provides a critical and irreplaceable segment of the global oil supply … However, allowing Russia to benefit from western technology and expertise only increases the resiliency of their oil and gas sector against western sanctions and prolongs its ability to finance its illegal offensive.” The US state department and SLB did not immediately respond to requests for comment from the Reuters news agency. The US treasury department said: “US firms are prevented from making any new investments in Russia and we plan to enforce all our sanctions against companies within our jurisdiction.”

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday the US was preparing an aid package worth US$800m for the production of Ukrainian drones. The Ukrainian president said the package was in addition to $400m for arms announced as the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, visited Kyiv. Austin said the US “will get Ukraine what it needs” to fight Russia. Zelenskyy, however, is seeking more, asking western allies to invite Ukraine to join Nato and let it use western-supplied longer-range missiles to strike military targets deep inside Russian territory. Ukraine is having difficulty holding back a ferocious Russian campaign along the eastern front, having to give up a series of towns, villages and hamlets. It faces a hard winter after Russia targeted its power grid.

• Ukraine has called for foreign support to stop Russian strikes on its Black Sea ports after a series of fatal attacks, including on Odesa. Visiting Turkey, Andrii Sybiha, the Ukrainian foreign minister, said strikes in recent weeks had damaged four civilian vessels. Sybiha said he and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had discussed safe navigation for shipping in the Black Sea.

A Moscow court has sentenced Oscar-nominated film producer Alexander Rodnyansky to eight-and-a-half years jail in absentia on Monday for spreading “fake” information about the Russian army.

Rodnyansky, 63, was born in Kyiv but spent most of his career in Russia, producing dozens of TV series and movies there including the Oscar-nominated crime drama Leviathan. He has been an outspoken critic of the Kremlin’s offensive since it sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, repeatedly denouncing the invasion on social media.

He left the country shortly after, when he received a tip that his criticism had landed him in the Kremlin’s crosshairs. Later that year, Russia’s Ministry of Justice declared him a “foreign agent” and, in 2023, a Moscow court ordered his arrest in absentia.

Moscow’s Basmanny court found him guilty of “spreading knowingly false information about the use of the Russian armed forces” on Monday, according to a statement by Moscow’s court service.

Rodnyansky said the case was related to his “anti-war posts on Instagram” and said he strongly disagreed with the verdict.

“No Basmanny court can stop me from speaking loudly and doing what I have been doing all my life, making films,” he said in a post on Telegram.

Last year, he wrote in the Guardian, “No other country in the world recognises this crime and I don’t either. I will continue to speak out against the invasion on every platform available to me.”

Russia has detained, fined and jailed thousands of people for opposing its Ukraine offensive since February 2022 – a crackdown rights groups have compared to the Soviet era.

Rodnyansky began his career in Ukraine, where he founded the country’s first independent television network in 1995, but is better known for his film work in Russia.

A producer of more than 30 films, four have been nominated for an Oscar in the best foreign film category: Chief in Love, Est-Ouest, Leviathan and Loveless.

Loveless, about an estranged couple forced to work together after their child goes missing, won the jury prize at the Cannes film festival.

Leviathan, following one man’s battle against Russian corruption after he is evicted from his family’s lands, won the Golden Globe award for best foreign-language film in 2015.

Donald Trump urged Christian voters on Monday to participate in the 2024 election, claiming that a Kamala Harris administration would restrict religious freedoms and casting himself as a protector of Christians.

During an event in North Carolina billed as an “11th-Hour Faith Leaders Meeting”, a series of conservative pastors warmed up for Trump, including Guillermo Maldonado, an “apostle” and longtime Trump ally who cast the election in perilous terms.

“You know, we’re now in spiritual warfare,” said Maldonado, alluding to the idea that Christians are at war on the supernatural plane against dark forces that impact the real world. “It’s beyond warfare between the left and the right. It’s between good and evil. There’s a big fight right now that is affecting our country and we need to take back our country.”

Introducing Trump, Ben Carson, the campaign’s National Faith Chairman for the 2024 election, openly rejected the idea of secular society.

“This election is about whether we are a secular nation or one nation under God,” said Carson, echoing the aims of Christian nationalists who view the US as a Christian nation that must return to God.

In a meandering speech, Trump spoke about the assassination attempt at rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, leaning on the idea embraced by many Christian conservatives that God intervened to save his life.

“My faith took on new meaning on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, where I was knocked to the ground, essentially by what seemed like a supernatural hand,” said Trump. “And I would like to think that God saved me for a purpose, and that’s to make our country greater than ever before.”

He urged Christians to vote.

“You have a reputation of not voting proportionately,” Trump said. “Christians, evangelicals … but Christians and gun owners don’t vote.” The former president vowed, as he frequently does, to roll back the Johnson amendment, which prohibits non-profits, including churches, from endorsing political candidates.

“Within the first week, you’re gonna have that right,” said Trump.

He touted his decision while in office to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, which was widely condemned by world leaders for threatening to inflame tensions in Israel and Palestine. “I said, ‘We are going to do exactly what a lot of people didn’t want me to do,’” said Trump.

Many evangelicals and nondenominational Christians view Israel as the site of the end-times prophecy, and militant support for Israel is common on the Christian right.

Trump also railed against inclusion and gender-affirming healthcare for trans people, vowing to “take historic action to defeat the toxic poison of gender ideology and reaffirm that God created two genders: male and female”.

Earlier on Monday morning, Trump’s son Eric – who co-hosted the event with Carson and Trump – appeared on the Prophets & Patriots podcast on ElijahStreams, a streaming service and hub for prophetic voices on the Christian right.

“One of the things that really bothers me is: you see a constant war in this country against God, from the current administration, from the Obama administration,” Eric Trump said.

“They really have gone after religious liberty in this country unlike anything we’ve ever seen before, and I don’t think you’ve ever had a bigger proponent of religious liberty than under Donald Trump.”

During the call, Eric Trump assured his audience that “there is a hand of God on my father’s shoulder” and said an angel had saved him from the would-be assassin.

One of the minds behind the North Carolina faith leaders meeting, according to Eric Trump, was Clay Clark – an Oklahoma entrepreneur and co-founder of the ReAwaken America tour, a traveling roadshow featuring a lineup of pro-Trump conspiracy theorists and charismatic Christian preachers.

Like Monday’s faith leaders summit, the ReAwaken America tour featured figures in the New Apostolic Reformation – a movement on the Christian right that embraces modern-day prophets and apostles, and seeks to achieve Christian dominion over society and government.

“The faith leader’s event is gonna be incredible,” said Eric Trump on an 11 October episode of Prophets & Patriots show. “Clay’s been the backbone of so much of this event.”

Trump’s faith coalition – in which evangelicals have long been a key force – is closely tied to the leaders of a growing movement of nondenominational charismatic preachers and self-styled prophets who see Trump as a savior figure.

Last month, JD Vance appeared at a stop on Lance Wallnau’s Courage Tour – a pro-Trump tent revival that criss-crossed the swing states in the months ahead of the election, seeking to bolster support for Trump.

The open association with figures like Wallnau, who has written that the US is headed toward civil war and has accused Harris of practicing “witchcraft”, could be a gamble, given the strong influence such figures wield among their followers – and the outrage they stoke among the uninitiated.

Liz Cheney, a former Republican congresswoman and longtime opponent of abortion rights, on Monday condemned Republican-imposed bans on the procedure and urged conservatives to support Democrat Kamala Harris for US president.

Cheney was speaking during three joint events with the vice-president in three swing states aimed at prising suburban Republican voters away from party nominee Donald Trump. She has become the Democrat’s most prominent conservative surrogate and is rumoured to be in contention for a seat in a potential Harris cabinet.

At the final event in Waukesha, Wisconsin, against a blue backdrop patterned with the words “country over party”, Cheney, 58, suggested that Republican-led states have overreached in restricting abortion since the supreme court’s 2022 Dobbs decision ended it as a constitutional right.

“I’m pro-life and I have been very troubled, deeply troubled by what I have watched happen in so many states since Dobbs,” said the former Wyoming congresswoman and daughter of former vice-president Dick Cheney. “I have been troubled by the extent to which you have women who – as the vice-president said, in some cases have died – who can’t get medical treatment that they need because providers are worried about criminal liability.”

The current situation is “untenable”, Cheney said, and America needs a president “who understands how important compassion is, who understands that these shouldn’t be political issues, that we ought to be able to have these discussions and say, ‘You know what? Even if you are pro-life, as I am, I do not believe, for example, that the state of Texas ought to have the right, as they’re currently suing to do, to get access to women’s medical records.’

“There are some very fundamental and fundamentally dangerous things that have happened and so I think that it’s crucially important for us to find ways to have the federal government play a role and protect women from some of the worst harms that we’re seeing.”

Cheney went on to draw a contrast with Trump, who as president appointed three supreme court justices instrumental in overturning the 1973 Roe v Wade precedent and whose rhetoric continues to alienate many suburban women. “Donald Trump at one point called for criminal penalties for women,” she said.

“He’s been now trying to sort of be all over the place on this issue, although he expresses great pride for what’s happened and I think the bottom line on this, as on so many other issues, is you just can’t count on him. You cannot trust him. We’ve seen the man that he is. We’ve seen the cruelty and America deserves much better.”

The remarks echoed comments that Cheney made earlier in the day in Malvern, a suburb of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, in a striking effort to build a permission structure for conservatives to back Harris, who has made reproductive freedom a centrepiece of her campaign. Cheney, by contrast, has an A rating from Susan B Anthony Pro-Life America, a group that grades members of Congress based on their anti-abortion credentials.

Monday’s three events in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, a show of unity designed to cast Trump as a threat to the constitution, were held in counties won by Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary. Haley, a former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the United Nations, had sought to neutralise abortion as an election issue by supporting states’ autonomy and rejecting calls for a national ban.

Cheney has vocally opposed Trump since the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol. Her recent endorsement of Harris fuelled speculation that she could play a part in a future Harris administration.

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Earlier this month, appearing on the popular daytime talkshow The View, Harris said she would differ from Joe Biden by including a Republican in her cabinet. She was asked by radio host Howard Stern if that might be Cheney but avoided a direct answer. Appointing Cheney would carry considerable political risks given her hawkish foreign policy and her father’s role in instigating the Iraq war.

Trump has frequently tried to paint Harris, who is from deep blue California, as a radical liberal but she struck a moderate tone during her appearances with Cheney, who lost her House seat after she co-chaired a congressional committee that investigated the January 6 attack.

Harris promised to “invite good ideas from wherever they come” and “cut red tape,” and she said “there should be a healthy two party system” in the country. “We need to be able to have these good intense debates about issues that are grounded in fact,” she said.

“Imagine!” Cheney responded.

“Let’s start there!” Harris said as the audience clapped. “Can you believe that’s an applause line?”

Foreign policy loomed large over the three conversations as Harris and Cheney described Trump as chaotic, erratic and unfit to lead. In Waukesha, at an event moderated by conservative author and broadcaster Charlie Sykes, Cheney highlighted Trump’s admiration for autocrats such as Vladimir Putin of Russia, Kim Jong-un of North Korea and Xi Jinping of China.

“If you listen to him, he doesn’t just praise those people generally,” she said. “He praises them for their cruelty, for their tyranny. That’s not who we are as a nation. It’s not who we are and the world needs us to be better.”

Harris criticised Trump’s claim that he would end the Russia-Ukraine war in a day as tantamount to “surrender”, explaining: “Vladimir Putin would be sitting in Kyiv if Donald Trump were president and understand what that means, as our allies understand, and that’s why they’re concerned about this election.

“If Putin were to get away with invading the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine … you think he wouldn’t march next right into Poland and the rest of Europe? Because Donald Trump wants to please somebody that he considers to be a strongman who he admires? So on this, and so many issues, the stakes are extremely high.”

But some observers questioned the wisdom of campaigning with Cheney in Michigan, which has the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the country, given her hawkish foreign policy and her father’s role in instigating the Iraq war. Many such voters are now wavering or abstaining because of the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of the crisis in Gaza.

Trump weighed in on Monday, writing on his Truth Social platform: “Arab Voters are very upset that Comrade Kamala Harris, the Worst Vice President in the History of the United States and a Low IQ individual, is campaigning with ‘dumb as a rock’ War Hawk, Liz Cheney, who, like her father, the man that pushed Bush to ridiculously go to War in the Middle East, also wants to go to War with every Muslim Country known to mankind.”

The Michigan event was held in Royal Oak, outside Detroit, and moderated by Maria Shriver, a journalist and former first lady of California.

In a nod to the concept of shy Harris voters who would rather not share their views publicly, Cheney said: “If you’re at all concerned, you can vote your conscience and not ever have to say a word to anybody and there will be millions of Republicans who do that on November 5.”

In a lighter moment, Shriver asked Harris – who turned 60 on Sunday – about what she is doing to de-stress, noting that Americans say they are turning off the news, doing yoga, “eating gummies, all sorts of things”.

Harris replied, “Not eating gummies!” and burst into laughter. She admitted: “I wake up in the middle of the night usually these days, just to be honest with you, but I work out every morning. I think that’s really important to just kind of – you know, mind, body and spirit … My family grounds me in every way.”

But Harris counselled against despair: “Let’s not feel powerless … because then we have been defeated and that’s not our character as the American people.”

More than 100 former Republican officeholders and officials joined Harris last week in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania, not far from where general George Washington led hundreds of troops across the Delaware River to a major victory in the revolutionary war. At a rally there, Cheney told Republican voters that the patriotic choice was to vote for Democrats.

She and Harris appeared to have a good chemistry during their swing-state tour. At one point in Wisconsin, Cheney observed: “If you wouldn’t hire somebody to babysit your kids, you shouldn’t make that guy the president of the United States.” The audience laughed. And no one seemed more amused than Harris herself.

Tim Walz, the Minnesota governor and Democratic vice-presidential candidate, said Elon Musk’s plan to give away $1m a day in support of Donald Trump is a reflection of a ticket with “no plan”.

Musk offered registered voters in swing states a chance to enter a $1m a day giveaway if they sign his Super Pac’s petitions, “in favor of free speech and the right to bear arms”. Experts have questioned whether the plan is legal or, in effect, buying votes.

“Well, I think that’s what you do when you have no plan for the public,” said Walz, when asked about the giveaway on ABC’s The View, a daytime talkshow.

“When you have no economic plan that’s going to benefit the middle class, when you have no plan to protect reproductive rights, when you have no plan to address climate change and produce American energy – you go to these types of tactics,” said Walz.

As to whether Musk’s strategy was legal, Walz said: “I’ll let the lawyers decide.”

This is the second time the Democratic presidential ticket has appeared on The View talkshow in recent weeks. Kamala Harris announced a new “Medicare at home” plan on the show, which she said would help seniors pay for home health aides without driving themselves into destitution.

Walz, known to be chatty in such interviews, also quipped that “one nice thing” about Trump is that “he will not be president again.” He advised JD Vance, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, to “just go in and order the chocolate doughnut”, referring to an awkward campaign stop.

This is one of several recent TV outings for Walz, including an upcoming appearance on The Daily Show and recent appearances on Fox News Sunday. The governor appeared ebullient on The View – akin to the television appearances that helped land him the job as second on the Harris ticket.

In the abbreviated time that Harris had to pick a running mate, and in which Walz has had to introduce himself to the country, he briefly took a more conservative approach to campaigning. Most notably, Walz was panned during the vice-presidential debate.

Walz appeared more confident on Monday, telling voters watching The View: “Choose a future where you’re the center of it not Donald Trump.”

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Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has shrugged off calls from conservative opponents to resign from parliament after interrupting a reception for King Charles, defiantly responding, “I’m not looking to be re-elected – I’m looking to get justice for my people.”

Speaking on Radio National, Thorpe said: “I will be there for another three years, everybody. So, you know, get used to truth-telling.”

A push for the Senate to censure her over Monday’s interjection, where she yelled “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king” during an event at Parliament House, may be short-lived, after a senior Coalition politician hosed down the suggestion on Tuesday.

But Thorpe, the independent senator from Victoria, has apologised after she said a staff member posted a cartoon image of King Charles being beheaded on her Instagram Story.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, claimed Thorpe should resign from parliament following her latest high-profile protest on Monday. At a reception for Charles and Queen Camilla, Thorpe – a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung Indigenous woman – turned her back on the national anthem, then later approached the stage yelling “this is not your country”.

“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,” she shouted, before being escorted out of the hall by security.

Speaking to Channel Seven’s Sunrise program, Dutton claimed: “I think there’s a very strong argument for somebody who doesn’t believe in the system, but is willing to take a quarter of a million dollars a year from the system, to resign.

“If you were really truly about your cause and not just about yourself, then I think that’s a decision that you would make.

“My reaction was that, ‘here we go again’. It was entirely predictable, all about herself. It doesn’t advance any cause that she’s interested in. It’s really just a self-promotion thing, which is why I don’t think we should give it any attention.”

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Thorpe, responding to Dutton’s comments in a Radio National interview, claimed that: “Every time I see him [Dutton] in parliament he walks in the opposite direction, so he never wants to sit down and have a conversation.”

She shot down suggestions she would resign, defending her approach.

“My approach, unfortunately, might upset a few people, but how else do you get your message across when we [are] continually shut down as Blak women? The only people they want to hear from are ones that conform and speak nicely, but do nothing about getting justice for our people.”

Thorpe also defended her decision to criticise the king and the British monarchy in the public forum.

“His family and his kingdom are absolutely responsible for what happened to my people in this country. They came to the shores with guns … Has he done anything about it? If you stay silent, then you are complicit,” she said.

“Why doesn’t he apologise then for his ancestors? Why doesn’t he say, I am sorry for the many, many thousands of massacres that happened in this country, and that my ancestors and my kingdom are responsible for that?”

The Nine newspapers reported that some Liberal politicians were considering whether to seek a censure of Thorpe in parliament over her conduct.

But Simon Birmingham, the shadow foreign minister, appeared to downplay that prospect in a morning press conference.

“One of the problems is Lidia Thorpe would probably revel in being censured by the Senate,” Birmingham, the leader of the opposition in the Senate, said.

“And so, we’ve got to think carefully about how we respond to this in ways that try to prevent such behaviour in the future, but don’t give her the oxygen that she so desires for these types of antics.”

Clare O’Neil, the housing minister, was asked on Radio National whether the government would support a censure. She responded that it wanted to “see what the Liberals come forward with specifically”.

Thorpe overnight did apologise after a social media post – now deleted – appeared on her Instagram Story, with a cartoon image depicting the king being beheaded.

It was posted without her knowledge by a staff member, Thorpe said.

An apology on her Instagram Story reads: “Earlier tonight, without my knowledge, one of my staff shared an image to my Instagram stories created by another account. I deleted it as soon as I saw. I would not intentionally share anything that could be seen to encourage violence against anyone. That’s not what I’m about.”

Independent senator Lidia Thorpe has shrugged off calls from conservative opponents to resign from parliament after interrupting a reception for King Charles, defiantly responding, “I’m not looking to be re-elected – I’m looking to get justice for my people.”

Speaking on Radio National, Thorpe said: “I will be there for another three years, everybody. So, you know, get used to truth-telling.”

A push for the Senate to censure her over Monday’s interjection, where she yelled “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king” during an event at Parliament House, may be short-lived, after a senior Coalition politician hosed down the suggestion on Tuesday.

But Thorpe, the independent senator from Victoria, has apologised after she said a staff member posted a cartoon image of King Charles being beheaded on her Instagram Story.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, claimed Thorpe should resign from parliament following her latest high-profile protest on Monday. At a reception for Charles and Queen Camilla, Thorpe – a Gunnai, Gunditjmara and Djab Wurrung Indigenous woman – turned her back on the national anthem, then later approached the stage yelling “this is not your country”.

“You committed genocide against our people. Give us our land back. Give us what you stole from us – our bones, our skulls, our babies, our people,” she shouted, before being escorted out of the hall by security.

Speaking to Channel Seven’s Sunrise program, Dutton claimed: “I think there’s a very strong argument for somebody who doesn’t believe in the system, but is willing to take a quarter of a million dollars a year from the system, to resign.

“If you were really truly about your cause and not just about yourself, then I think that’s a decision that you would make.

“My reaction was that, ‘here we go again’. It was entirely predictable, all about herself. It doesn’t advance any cause that she’s interested in. It’s really just a self-promotion thing, which is why I don’t think we should give it any attention.”

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Thorpe, responding to Dutton’s comments in a Radio National interview, claimed that: “Every time I see him [Dutton] in parliament he walks in the opposite direction, so he never wants to sit down and have a conversation.”

She shot down suggestions she would resign, defending her approach.

“My approach, unfortunately, might upset a few people, but how else do you get your message across when we [are] continually shut down as Blak women? The only people they want to hear from are ones that conform and speak nicely, but do nothing about getting justice for our people.”

Thorpe also defended her decision to criticise the king and the British monarchy in the public forum.

“His family and his kingdom are absolutely responsible for what happened to my people in this country. They came to the shores with guns … Has he done anything about it? If you stay silent, then you are complicit,” she said.

“Why doesn’t he apologise then for his ancestors? Why doesn’t he say, I am sorry for the many, many thousands of massacres that happened in this country, and that my ancestors and my kingdom are responsible for that?”

The Nine newspapers reported that some Liberal politicians were considering whether to seek a censure of Thorpe in parliament over her conduct.

But Simon Birmingham, the shadow foreign minister, appeared to downplay that prospect in a morning press conference.

“One of the problems is Lidia Thorpe would probably revel in being censured by the Senate,” Birmingham, the leader of the opposition in the Senate, said.

“And so, we’ve got to think carefully about how we respond to this in ways that try to prevent such behaviour in the future, but don’t give her the oxygen that she so desires for these types of antics.”

Clare O’Neil, the housing minister, was asked on Radio National whether the government would support a censure. She responded that it wanted to “see what the Liberals come forward with specifically”.

Thorpe overnight did apologise after a social media post – now deleted – appeared on her Instagram Story, with a cartoon image depicting the king being beheaded.

It was posted without her knowledge by a staff member, Thorpe said.

An apology on her Instagram Story reads: “Earlier tonight, without my knowledge, one of my staff shared an image to my Instagram stories created by another account. I deleted it as soon as I saw. I would not intentionally share anything that could be seen to encourage violence against anyone. That’s not what I’m about.”

Peruvian former President Alejandro Toledo has been convicted of taking bribes from Brazilian construction company Odebrecht and was sentenced to 20 years and six months in prison on Monday.

The verdict marks Peru’s first high-profile conviction related to Brazil’s continent-spanning Operation Car Wash (Lava Jato) corruption investigation.

Toledo, a 78-year-old economist who holds a doctorate from Stanford University, governed the Andean nation between 2001 and 2006.

He was convicted of taking $35m in bribes from the company formerly known as Odebrecht, according to prosecutors, in exchange for letting it win a contract to build the road that now connects Peru’s southern coast with an Amazonian area in western Brazil.

Odebrecht, now known as Novonor, was at the centre of Latin America’s largest graft scandal, after admitting in 2016 that it had bribed officials in a dozen countries to secure public works contracts.

During the year-long trial, Toledo denied the money-laundering and collusion charges.

On Monday he frequently smirked, and at times laughed, particularly when the judge mentioned multimillion-dollar sums central to the case as well as when she struggled to read transcripts and other evidence in the case.

However last week he asked the court with a broken voice and the palms of his hands together to let him return home citing his age, cancer and heart problems. “Please let me heal or die at home,” he said.

Judge Inés Rojas said Toledo’s victims were Peruvians who “trusted” him as their president.

Rojas explained that in that role, Toledo was “in charge of managing public finances” and responsible for “protecting and ensuring the correct” use of resources. Instead, she said, he “defrauded the state.”

The sentence was announced in a room set up in a small Lima prison where Toledo has been detained since last year and which was built specifically to house former Peruvian presidents.

Former president Alberto Fujimori, who died in September, served time there and ex-president Pedro Castillo is also being held there as he faces allegations of “rebellion” after trying to dissolve Congress in 2022.

Two other ex-presidents, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Ollanta Humala, are also being investigated in the Odebrecht case.

Toledo, who famously shined shoes as a child, was arrested in the US in 2019 after officials in Peru requested his extradition.

Prosecutors relied on testimony from former Odebrecht executive Jorge Barata as well as Toledo’s ex-collaborator Josef Maiman, who said Toledo received bribes.

The former president signed the contract with Odebrecht for the construction of the road, though the building took place over two subsequent administrations.

Reuters and Associated Press contributed to this report

Former One Direction singer Liam Payne had multiple drugs including crack cocaine and methamphetamine in his system when he fell to his death from a hotel balcony in Argentina, according to anonymous Argentinian sources familiar with the initial toxicology reports.

The British singer and former One Direction member died last week at the age of 31 after plunging from a third-floor hotel room in Buenos Aires.

ABC News and TMZ reported that a cocktail of drugs called “pink cocaine” – containing methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA – had been found during a partial autopsy, along with crack cocaine and benzodiazepine. Both outlets cited anonymous sources familiar with the preliminary tests.

Associated Press reported an anonymous official had said the preliminary toxicology report suggested evidence of exposure to cocaine, but stressing that these initial results don’t offer an accurate reading of just how much was circulating in his blood when he died.

The final toxicology results are not expected to be made public for some weeks.

Associated Press reported that the official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to brief journalists. The preliminary report was widely reported in local media on Monday.

Argentina’s public prosecution is investigating the case, which is not uncommon when a death is sudden or unexpected.

Payne’s autopsy concluded that the traumatic injuries that caused his death were consistent with his three-story fall from the hotel window. Prosecutors have ruled out anyone else being involved.

Argentinian investigators found what appeared to be narcotics and alcohol strewn about broken objects and furniture in 31-year-old Payne’s hotel room, leading the public prosecution to surmise Payne had suffered a substance abuse-induced breakdown around the time of his fall. The prosecution said Payne could have plunged from his hotel room balcony in a state of “semi or total unconsciousness”.

Photos purportedly taken from inside Payne’s hotel room published by local media showed snowlike powder left on a table and a smashed-in TV screen. Police also discovered a blister pack of clonazepam, a central nervous system depressant, and over-the-counter medications scattered among Payne’s belongings. Shortly before Payne’s death, the hotel manager called 911 to report a guest acting aggressively and under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

Investigators are also trying to figure out who sold Payne the drugs he took at the CasaSur hotel in Palermo, a chic neighbourhood of the Argentinian capital. Police have taken statements from at least three hotel employees, as well as two women who visited Payne’s hotel room a few hours before his death.

Fans and major pop industry figures around the world have reacted with an outpouring of grief.

The late singer’s father, Geoff Payne, was still in Buenos Aires meeting with the prosecutors and other local officials on Monday in an effort to organise the repatriation of the remains.

Argentinian authorities expect to release the body next week, clearing the way for Geoff Payne to fly home and hold a funeral back in England, where on Sunday hundreds of fervent One Direction fans gathered to mourn the musician.

– Associated Press and Agence France-Presse contributed to this report

Canada’s military decided not to apologize to an employee after she was sexually assaulted while working with Nato allies, over fears that any apology would be reported by an Ottawa newspaper.

For years, the country’s armed forces has publicly acknowledged a culture that bred abuse and assault, and a longstanding failure to root it out. The crisis, which prompted a shake-up at the most senior ranks, has eroded public trust in the institution and weakened morale within the military’s ranks.

Kristen Adams, who was working at a canteen for troops in Latvia, was sexually assaulted by a Nato soldier on 3 December 2022. After filing a formal complaint about the assault, she was warned by the army’s morale and welfare services that she should have better understood the risks of the job.

Adams’s contract was terminated two months early “in order to ensure there is no further risk to your health”.

Internal documents obtained by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper confirmed Adams, who is a civilian, was sexually assaulted by an Albanian soldier. Although the assault took place at a Canadian-operated facility within Camp Adazi, near the city of Riga, Adams was told little could be done because under existing Nato rules, Canadian military police did not have the jurisdiction to investigate.

Months afterwards, the army’s morale and welfare services, which works to feed soldiers, told Adams it had “gone above and beyond in its efforts to support you” and that it would “no longer entertain further complaints or correspondence from you regarding this issue”.

But the Citizen’s reporting on the incident spread quickly throughout the ranks, and the army’s mishandling of the assault prompted outrage and disbelief among staff. The head of the army’s morale and welfare services, Ian Poulter, quickly apologized over its mistakes but never apologized to Adams directly for her experience.

New documents obtained by the Citizen show why: upper management in the military were worried about negative media coverage of any apology.

“Because the story was unfolding in the pages of the Ottawa Citizen, we did not want to correspond with Ms Adams in writing because we didn’t want to perpetuate that cycle,” officials at the department of national defense wrote.

In another email, the chief of staff to the country’s top solider warned Poulter in an email: “Ms Adams is likely to be coming back with more media coverage.”

Even though staff had written a formal apology for Adams, it was never sent.

“I never did get [one],” Adams told the Citizen. “That shows you they don’t think they did anything wrong in all of this. It’s disgusting.”

Canada’s military decided not to apologize to an employee after she was sexually assaulted while working with Nato allies, over fears that any apology would be reported by an Ottawa newspaper.

For years, the country’s armed forces has publicly acknowledged a culture that bred abuse and assault, and a longstanding failure to root it out. The crisis, which prompted a shake-up at the most senior ranks, has eroded public trust in the institution and weakened morale within the military’s ranks.

Kristen Adams, who was working at a canteen for troops in Latvia, was sexually assaulted by a Nato soldier on 3 December 2022. After filing a formal complaint about the assault, she was warned by the army’s morale and welfare services that she should have better understood the risks of the job.

Adams’s contract was terminated two months early “in order to ensure there is no further risk to your health”.

Internal documents obtained by the Ottawa Citizen newspaper confirmed Adams, who is a civilian, was sexually assaulted by an Albanian soldier. Although the assault took place at a Canadian-operated facility within Camp Adazi, near the city of Riga, Adams was told little could be done because under existing Nato rules, Canadian military police did not have the jurisdiction to investigate.

Months afterwards, the army’s morale and welfare services, which works to feed soldiers, told Adams it had “gone above and beyond in its efforts to support you” and that it would “no longer entertain further complaints or correspondence from you regarding this issue”.

But the Citizen’s reporting on the incident spread quickly throughout the ranks, and the army’s mishandling of the assault prompted outrage and disbelief among staff. The head of the army’s morale and welfare services, Ian Poulter, quickly apologized over its mistakes but never apologized to Adams directly for her experience.

New documents obtained by the Citizen show why: upper management in the military were worried about negative media coverage of any apology.

“Because the story was unfolding in the pages of the Ottawa Citizen, we did not want to correspond with Ms Adams in writing because we didn’t want to perpetuate that cycle,” officials at the department of national defense wrote.

In another email, the chief of staff to the country’s top solider warned Poulter in an email: “Ms Adams is likely to be coming back with more media coverage.”

Even though staff had written a formal apology for Adams, it was never sent.

“I never did get [one],” Adams told the Citizen. “That shows you they don’t think they did anything wrong in all of this. It’s disgusting.”

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has revealed that his ancestor owned enslaved people on a plantation in Jamaica and was compensated by the British government when slavery was abolished.

Welby disclosed his ancestral links in a personal statement that reiterated his commitment to addressing the enduring and damaging legacies of transatlantic slavery.

The archbishop, who is the leader of the global Anglican church, said he discovered recently that his late biological father, Sir Anthony Montague Browne, a private secretary to Winston Churchill, “had an ancestral connection to the enslavement of people in Jamaica and Tobago”.

In 2016, Welby learned that he had been conceived as the result of a brief fling between his mother and Browne, and that Gavin Welby, whom she married shortly afterwards, was not his biological father. Justin Welby had no relationship with Browne, who died in 2013.

According to the archbishop’s statement, Browne was the great great grandson of Sir James Fergusson, the fourth Baronet of Kilkerran and the owner of enslaved people at the Rozelle plantation in St Thomas.

Fergusson, who died in 1838, received part of a £20m compensation package from the British government for the loss of “property” after slavery was abolished.

The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery says the Rozelle plantation had about 200 enslaved people working on it at its height, and the Fergusson family shared compensation of £3,591 in 1836 – estimated at more than £3m today.

Welby did not receive any money from Browne while he was alive or from his estate after he died.

The archbishop has been at the forefront of the public acknowledgement by the Church of England (C of E) of its historical benefit from transatlantic slavery.

In a report published last year, the church traced the origins of its £9bn endowment fund partly to Queen Anne’s Bounty, a financial scheme established in 1704 based on transatlantic chattel slavery.

At the time, Welby said: “I am deeply sorry for these links. It is now time to take action to address our shameful past.”

The church has pledged £100m to address the legacy of enslavement. It said later it aimed to grow this to £1bn with contributions from co-investors after a report from an oversight group, chaired by Bishop Rosemarie Mallett, said the original amount pledged was not enough.

In Tuesday’s statement, the archbishop reiterated the C of E’s commitment to a “thorough and accurate research programme, in the knowledge that archives have far more to tell us about what has come before us – often in a very personal way”.

He said: “While I sadly only discovered my relationship to Sir Anthony in 2016, three years after his death, I did have the delight of meeting my half-sister and her son.”

The truth about his biological father came to light after Welby took a DNA test, which showed a 99.98% probability that he was Browne’s son. His mother, Jane, who died last year, said the revelation had “come as an almost unbelievable shock”.

Sir Adam Fergusson, the 10th baronet, said on behalf of the Fergusson family that its “involvement in slavery is a horrible part of its past”. He said: “The archbishop’s connection with the family is a surprise to us all. It is sobering that, five or six generations on, very large numbers of us will have links, known and unknown, to this terrible phase of our history.”

Alex Renton, another descendant of Fergusson and the author of Blood Legacy – Reckoning with a Family’s Story of Slavery, said he and other relatives had made personal donations towards repair initiatives in Britain and the Caribbean since becoming aware of the family’s history.

Renton has also helped set up the Heirs of Slavery group, which works “to encourage other families enriched by slavery wealth to acknowledge their history, apologise and support campaigns for reparations in Europe and the Caribbean”.

In his statement, Welby referred to his trip to Jamaica in July, when he received an honorary degree from the University of the West Indies and apologised to Jamaicans for the church’s role in the enslavement of their ancestors.

He was quoted in the Jamaica Observer saying: “I cannot speak for the government of the United Kingdom but I can speak from my own heart and represent what we say now in England. We are deeply, deeply, deeply sorry. We sinned against your ancestors. I would give anything that that can be reversed, but it cannot.”

The news about Welby’s ancestor comes amid growing pressure on Keir Starmer to address reparatory justice when he travels to Samoa this week to attend the Commonwealth heads of government meeting. There has been speculation about whether or not reparations will be on the agenda, with the UK government ruling out issuing an apology at the summit.

Polish musician and teacher Janusz Olejniczak, who played the piano parts in the 2002 Oscar-winning movie The Pianist, has died at the age of 72, his family said on Monday.

The family’s statement to the media said Olejniczak died on Sunday of a heart attack.

The statement said that his “extraordinary musical sensitivity, especially in the interpretations of music by Frédéric Chopin, brought him international fame and recognition.”

Born 2 October 1952, in Wroclaw, Olejniczak began his piano education at the age of 6. He studied in Warsaw, Paris and Essen.

Olejniczak’s international career was launched in 1970 when, aged only 18, he was a laureate of the 8th International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. Commentators said he bore a physical resemblance to the Romantic-era composer, a trait that led Olejniczak to play the role of Chopin in the 1991 movie The Blue Note by director Andrzej Zulawski.

In 2002, Olejniczak recorded the piano parts for Roman Polanski’s The Pianist. His hands can be seen playing the piano in the movie, for which Polanski won the best director Oscar and Adrien Brody won for best actor.

For many years Olejniczak was on the jury of the Chopin piano competitions, and, since 2018, of the two editions of the Chopin competition on period instruments.

Aleksander Laskowski, a spokesperson for the national Frédéric Chopin Institute, said the staff were “deeply saddened” by Olejniczak’s death.

Laskowski described him as “one of the most outstanding contemporary performers of Chopin’s music,” also on period instruments, and a superb teacher.

Composer and conductor Jerzy Maksymiuk, who was a personal friend, said Olejniczak’s “sensitive soul and extraordinary talent transpired throughout his interpretations” in which he created a “unique aura.”

Maksymiuk said he had lunch with Olejniczak on Sunday and they discussed his “great plans” which he was determined to pursue despite his health problems.

He has been one of the UK’s favourite and most prominent refugees for two-thirds of a century. Now Paddington Bear – official name Paddington Brown – has been granted a British passport.

The co-producer of the latest Paddington film said the Home Office had issued the document to the fictional Peruvian-born character – listing for completeness the official observation that he is, in fact, a bear.

“We wrote to the Home Office asking if we could get a replica, and they actually issued Paddington with an official passport – there’s only one of these,” Rob Silva told Radio Times.

He produced the document, complete with Paddington’s photo inside, adding: “You wouldn’t think the Home Office would have a sense of humour, but under official observations, they’ve just listed him as Bear.”

Ben Whishaw, who voices the new British subject in the film Paddington in Peru, revealed that the passport, which is actually a specimen document, was not needed during production – because he spent the whole schedule in a subterranean studio in central London.

Nor did he meet any of his co-stars. “I never met Antonio [Banderas] or Olivia [Colman] for this film, but I hope I will at some point, because I watched their performances and enjoyed them so enormously. On Paddington 2, I never saw Hugh Grant, not once,” he told Radio Times.

And he added: “I would have loved to have gone to Peru and Colombia, but I didn’t get to go. I was just in a basement in Soho the entire time.”

Asked about the secret to Paddington’s voice, Whishaw told the magazine: “I don’t like to think about that really. I have no idea what I’m doing when I do it. It’s not any different to my own voice; it’s not like I’m putting on a voice, but it is somehow different.

“Obviously, he’s saying Paddington-ish things, and then it’s just trial and error. It really comes down to the tiniest little breaths and the tiniest intonations and what works with the animation.”

While some actors claim that a lot of themselves is in the character, Whishaw admitted that he doesn’t like the marmalade that goes into making Paddington’s favourite sandwiches. “It really doesn’t agree with me at all, but I am a big Marmite lover. Marmite with Lurpak butter on toast is, to me, pretty much heaven,” he said.

In the latest film – the third in the franchise – the duffel-coated bear travels to the country of his birth to visit his Aunt Lucy. But he discovers from the guitar-playing nun who runs the home for retired bears that his aunt went missing during a scientific mission.

Olivia Colman plays the nun, while Antonio Banderas plays a swashbuckling sailor who helps them iin their quest to find her.

There were hard stares when the film-makers chose Colombia rather than Peru as the filming location for the segment. New legislation to revitalise Peru’s film industry was proposed by the rightwing lawmaker Adriana Tudela, who cited the “lack of incentives and the high number of national and local bureaucratic barriers to filming in Peru” as the main drivers behind the decision.

Wildlife services are working to rescue a cockatoo called Mickey that has been “living on brioche” inside a Sydney supermarket for four weeks.

The New South Wales environment minister, Penny Sharpe, on Tuesday promised the bird was “not going to be shot” after false rumours of a “kill order” had spread online.

The minister said she had directed the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service to work with grocery retailer Coles and rescue groups to help save Mickey.

“National Parks is in contact with wildlife rescue groups and staff at Coles Macarthur Square,” she said. “Mickey will be freed.”

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Sharpe said wildlife rescue organisation Wires was planning to deploy another team on Tuesday to try and rescue the bird and “release him into the wild where he belongs”.

The bird has been stuck inside the Coles supermarket in Campbelltown for weeks, according to the Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services.

On Tuesday morning, another cockatoo, Old Lady Doris, was taken into the supermarket by the Feathered Friends bird rescue director Ravi Wasan in the hope Mickey would be reassured by her presence.

The plan looked like it could work, with Mickey initially flying down, before being spooked and retreating out of reach.

“He’s really scared because there’s been so many attempts – people trying to catch him,” Wasan said.

“He’s so scared but the other cockatoo, obviously, is so loving that it really reassured him. We got so so close … and then they opened the emergency doors and it spooked him.”

Wasan said Mickey looked “physically fine” and was not hungry because he was eating “really well” in the supermarket.

“He just needs to chill out, relax and come down without thinking that people are going to try and catch him,” he said.

“The exits where the cockatoo would go out are also the exits for patrons, so he just has to realise that the patrons … aren’t terrifying, which is obviously challenging when he sees everyone as a potential threat.”

Members of the Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services on Monday night attempted to lure the bird outside – although they were unsuccessful and described it as a “nightmare”.

“The poor bird hasn’t had any dark for over four weeks and has been living on brioche and water [placed] by the night manager – who is very fond of the bird,” the rescue group stated on social media.

“Two traps left but with so much food in the store, who knows if that will work. Hopefully, we exhausted him so much he will come down to a trap for water.”

Sharpe’s office said the rumours of a “kill order” that had circulated on social media were false. Coles was contacted for comment.