The Israeli government has ratified a ceasefire deal to exchange dozens of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinians in Israeli jails and pause the 15-month war in Gaza for an initial six weeks.

Under the deal, approved after a cabinet meeting that ended in the early hours of Saturday, a six-week ceasefire will take effect on Sunday, though key questions remain, including the names of the 33 hostages to be released during the six-week first phase of the ceasefire and who among them is still alive.

“The government has approved the hostage return plan”, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.

The agreement, which was earlier approved by the security cabinet, came despite an unexpected delay on Friday that sparked fears that last-minute disagreements between Israel and the Palestinian militant group might scuttle the agreement.

Far-right members of the coalition government of the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had threatened to vote against the deal or quit the government, potentially derailing months of work to end the conflict.

The government announced the approval after 1 a.m. Jerusalem time Saturday, following a six-hour meeting of the full cabinet that went well past the beginning of the Jewish sabbath, a rare occurrence and a reflection of the moment’s importance.

At a separate meeting in Cairo, negotiators from Egypt, Qatar, the US and Israel agreed on “all necessary arrangements to implement” the Gaza truce deal, Egyptian state-linked media reported.

Earlier on Friday Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, welcomed the security cabinet’s decision, saying: “This is a vital step on the path to upholding the basic commitment a nation has to its citizens.”

Itamar Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu’s hardline national security minister, who on Thursday announced that he would quit the government if it ratified the ceasefire deal, potentially collapsing the ruling coalition, issued a last-minute plea for other parliamentarians to vote against the agreement. “Everyone knows that these terrorists will try to harm again, try to kill again,” he said in a video statement.

According to Israeli media, Ben-Gvir and the far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, voted against the deal, while the other ministers voted in favour. David Amsalem, a minister who is not part of the security cabinet’s voting plenary, raised his hand in opposition during the vote.

The Israeli high court is scheduled in the 24 hours after the deal passes to hear petitions against the release of Palestinian prisoners, but is widely expected not to intervene.

Under the first phase of the deal, which is to last 42 days, Hamas has agreed to release 33 hostages including children, women (including female soldiers) and men aged over 50, in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.

About 100 of the Palestinian prisoners slated for release are serving life sentences for violent attacks on Israelis; others were incarcerated for lesser offences, including social media posts, or held in administrative detention, which allows for the pre-emptive arrest of individuals based on undisclosed evidence.

Israel has stated that the names of the hostages will be made public only after they have been handed over to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

A list containing the names of those who will be released over the next six weeks has been circulating on the main Israeli news sites since the early hours of Friday morning. Hamas is expected to publish the names of the hostages to be released on the first day, in the evening before the deal comes into effect.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said the French-Israeli citizens Ofer Kalderon and Ohad Yahalomi are in the first group of hostages to be freed.

The releases will be staggered. On Sunday, three Israeli hostages are expected to be released, followed by four more on the seventh day, and again at the end of each week of the ceasefire.

On Friday, Israel’s ministry of justice issued a partial list of 95 prisoners who will be released in the first phase of the deal. It includes Palestinian parliament member and feminist lawmaker Khalida Jarrar, 61, a prominent figure in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation, who was arrested by the Israeli army on 26 December, and has been detained without trial since then.

A Palestinian minor being held in connection with a shooting attack in Jerusalem in 2023 that injured an Israeli soldier will also be released.

According to a copy of the agreement seen by the Guardian, nine ill and wounded Israelis will be released in exchange for 110 Palestinians serving life sentences in Israeli jails.

Men aged over 50 on the list of 33 hostages will be released in return for prisoners serving life sentences at a ratio of 1:3, and 1:27 for other sentences.

Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, two mentally ill Israeli men who entered Gaza a decade ago and have since been held hostage by Hamas, will be released in exchange for 30 prisoners. A further 47 prisoners rearrested after being freed as part of a 2011 deal that brought the Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit home from Gaza will also be released.

The deal will also allow in the first phase Palestinians displaced from their homes to move freely around the Gaza Strip, which Israel has cut into two halves with a military corridor.

Wounded people are supposed to be evacuated for treatment abroad, and aid to the territory should increase to 600 trucks a day, above the 500 minimum that aid agencies say is needed to contain Gaza’s devastating humanitarian crisis.

In the second phase, the remaining living hostages would be sent back and a corresponding ratio of Palestinian prisoners would be freed, and Israel would completely withdraw from the territory. The specifics are subject to further negotiations, which are due to start 16 days into the first phase.

The third phase would address the exchange of bodies of deceased hostages and Hamas members, and a reconstruction plan for Gaza would be launched. Arrangements for future governance of the strip remain hazy.

The Biden administration and much of the international community have advocated for the semi-autonomous West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, which lost control of Gaza to Hamas in a brief civil war in 2007, to return to the strip. Israel, however, has repeatedly rejected the suggestion.

Dozens of relatives of hostages signed a letter delivered to Netanyahu on Friday to commit that “all stages of the deal will be carried out until the return of the last hostage”.

G7 leaders welcomed the approval, describing it as a significant development.

“With a ceasefire soon to take hold, it is also crucial that we seize this opportunity to put an end to the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza,” a statement said.

“We reaffirm our support for a credible pathway towards peace leading to a two-state solution where Israelis and Palestinians live side-by-side in peace, dignity, and security.”

Israeli warplanes kept up intense strikes in Gaza until Thursday night. Palestinian authorities said at least 86 people had been killed in the day after the truce was announced. The IDF said late on Thursday that it had attacked approximately 50 targets throughout the Gaza Strip in 24 hours.

In more than 15 months of war, more than 46,000 Palestinians have been killed and most of Gaza’s infrastructure has been destroyed. The international court of justice is studying claims that Israel has committed genocide.

About 1,200 people in Israel were killed and another 250 taken hostage in the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023 that triggered the war. One hundred of the hostages were freed in exchange for 240 women and children held in Israeli jails as the result of a ceasefire deal struck in November 2023 that collapsed after a week.

A provision to increase the aid entering Gaza under the ceasefire is welcome but insufficient, and shows Israel could have allowed more food, medicine and other supplies into the strip during the war, humanitarian and legal experts have said.

The deal agreed this week allows for 600 trucks a day of aid to enter Gaza, where nine out of 10 Palestinians are going hungry and experts warn that famine is imminent in areas. Israel faces accusations it is using starvation as a weapon of war.

Tania Hary, the executive director of Gisha, an Israeli human rights organisation that petitioned Israel’s high court over the lack of aid entering Gaza, said: “We have said throughout the war that Israel could always have done more to surge the aid response and this clause is effectively an admission of that.

“We don’t deny that in the absence of hostilities it will be safer for the trucks and workers to move around Gaza but that was far from the only or defining factor in how much aid reached people.

“Our understanding is that Cogat [the Israeli authority in charge of coordinating aid] is ready to fast-track responses to aid requests to meet the target in the ceasefire agreement. I can’t think of anything more glaring as an admission that until now they have been doing the opposite.”

The new aid shipments will be divided across Gaza, with about 300 trucks going to the north, 250 to the south, and 50 trucks of fuel divided between the two areas for transportation and basic infrastructure needs, sources told the Guardian.

Supplies sent into northern Gaza are expected to be sourced from Jordan or arrive at Israel’s Ashdod port, while those sent into the south through Kerem Shalom are expected to come from Egypt, the West Bank and Israel.

The situation in Gaza is desperate. Nine out of 10 homes have been damaged or destroyed, 1.9 million people are displaced, the medical system is crippled and there is little access to clean water.

Juliette Touma, the communications director for Unrwa, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said: “People have lost everything, they need everything. Any increase, any improvement from what we have today, is going to be very welcome.”

Still, provisions under the deal are far from enough. Before the war, when Gaza had a functioning economy and farms supplying fresh produce, about 500 trucks entered daily. Over 15 months of fighting, shipments never approached that level. In recent months, UN figures showed just a few dozen trucks entering.

Hassan Jabareen, the director of the human rights NGO Adalah, which is also part of the high court petition on aid access, said: “It is similar to the amounts before the war, but that was to meet routine needs in an organised way. Now, after the war, there are serious shortages and people have much greater needs.”

Israel denies allegations it is deliberately starving Palestinians in Gaza. Officials have repeatedly said they put “no limits” on how much aid entered during the war, blaming shortages on logistical failures at humanitarian organisations and violence inside the strip.

Itamar Mann, an associate professor of law at the University of Haifa, said this was “not a credible argument” even before the ceasefire, and the deal could be evidence of a war crime.

Mann said: “To put it simply, the fact that the deal increases the amount of aid illustrates that Israel is controlling, and has controlled throughout the war, the amount of aid that enters the Gaza Strip.

“This does reflect that Israel has intentionally decreased the amount of aid, which is evidence of a war crime in a situation where parts of the population is suffering from starvation as a consequence.”

Cogat and the Israeli military did not respond to questions about provisions to increase aid or how it would be achieved.

Changes expected to smooth the aid surge include lifting limits on how much cash humanitarians can take into Gaza and opening two border crossings into the north simultaneously.

Getting aid over the border is only the first step to tackling hunger, however. Challenges on the ground include navigating damaged roads, shortages of trucks, ruined warehouses and the breakdown of civil order in some areas.

More than three-quarters of Gaza’s population is sheltering in the south after Israeli evacuation orders, but most of the aid is due for delivery in the north.

A corridor controlled by Israeli forces bisects the strip. If people are not allowed to cross this to return home – or to where their homes once stood – the aid supplies may be separated from much of the population.

The challenges would be magnified under an Israeli law, due to come into force in weeks, that targets Unrwa, which has been the backbone of aid logistics in Gaza for decades.

“This bill should not be implemented,” Touma said. “Unrwa is the largest humanitarian organisation in Gaza and the world is going to need us to do this.”

As an occupying power, Israel is legally responsible for making sure food reaches the hungry, Mann said. “The logistics of distribution inside Gaza is as important as ensuring aid deliveries to Gaza.”

Michael Sfard, an Israeli human rights lawyer, said legal obligation to provide for the basic needs of civilians meant food and other supplies should be a part of military planning, not used as leverage in a deal.

“This [part of the agreement] is astonishing to me,” Sfard said of the provision to surge aid. “Because it is a clause that essentially says Party A agrees to abide by international law.”

News of a ceasefire and hostage release deal between Israel and Hamas has been greeted with joy by Palestinians, but a more wary approach in Israel, where demonstrators both in favour and against the deal have taken to the streets.

The deal, which is supposed to go into effect on Sunday, is made up of three stages: in the first 42-day phase, 33 Israeli hostages are expected to be released in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli jails. In Gaza, the 2.3 million population – nearly all of whom are displaced from their homes – will be allowed to move freely around the territory, and there is expected to be a huge increase in aid supplies.

Israel’s stated objectives in the 15-month war in Gaza, which was triggered by the Hamas attack of 7 October 2023, are to completely destroy the Palestinian group, and to bring the remaining 100 or so hostages home. For many, the compromises made this week in Qatar to get the deal over the line are seen as a betrayal, but for differing reasons.

At Hostage Square, a plaza outside the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, a few hundred friends and relatives of the hostages met on Thursday night for a sombre gathering and music played by friends of 25-year-old Evyatar David, who was taken captive at the Nova music festival.

Volunteers ran stalls giving out pitta sandwiches and neon T-shirts reading: “You are not alone.” On posters of the hostages, ages had been crossed out and updated – in some cases not once, but twice, after two birthdays in captivity.

The mood was tense. Many people held hands and sat or stood in silence, contemplating what the next few days would bring.

“It’s a mix of emotions,” said Matan Eshet, 27, David’s cousin. “Of course we are really glad that people are coming back home, but on the other hand, we don’t know their condition. And Evyatar is not on the first list. We are anxious because every day he stays there, he is in danger.

“A year ago, we had a big push to mark 100 days, and I thought, surely this will end soon. There is still a lot that can go wrong.”

Supporter Andrea, a 54-year-old from Tel Aviv, said that friends abroad had messaged and called to express excitement and relief at the deal, and she was afraid to dampen their spirits.

“It’s good, but it’s not good, at the same time. It’s hard to explain to people who are not here that it’s only partial, and some people may get left behind,” she said.

Meanwhile in Jerusalem, about 1,500 people protested against the deal outside the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, blocking a nearby highway, and were dispersed by police.

Many wore black, and had red paint on their hands, bearing placards saying: “A released prisoner today is a terrorist tomorrow,” and: “You have no mandate to surrender to Hamas.” Earlier in the day, about 40 coffins draped in Israeli flags were placed outside.

The demonstration was led by relatives of hostages in the Tikva Forum, a smaller group which favours total military victory against Hamas over diplomacy, and the pro-settlement Nachala organisation. The major talking point was the same as at the pro-deal demonstration in Tel Aviv: that the agreement brokered this week could effectively abandon some of the hostages.

Shmuel, 27, said: “We are against a deal like this. I’m not demonstrating against the families but against the government. It’s forbidden for a country to be run by the emotions of families. The families have the right to do whatever they think will bring their family members, but as a country, we can’t put in danger the security of the whole state.”

Shmuel said that he had served more than 400 days of reserve duty since the war began, away from his three children, and that he felt the government was in danger of wasting the army’s efforts.

“We need to continue this war … My best friend died a month ago [fighting] in Rafah. I ask myself now if it was for nothing,” he added.

Eshet said he understood why some people in Israel were against the deal.

“They have lost loved ones, they’ve made huge sacrifices. I just hope they can see that doing a deal doesn’t disrespect them. This war started because of the hostages, they are the most important thing. And people coming back from hell is a good thing.”

Russia has sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

The case, which comes amid a widespread crackdown on dissent during the Ukraine offensive, has alarmed rights groups that fear Moscow will ramp up trials against legal representatives in addition to jailing their clients.

The Kremlin has sought to punish Navalny’s associates even after his unexplained death in an Arctic prison colony last February.

Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Liptser and Igor Sergunin were found guilty of participating in an “extremist organisation” by a court in the town of Petushki.

Kobzev, the most high-profile member of Navalny’s legal team, was sentenced to five and a half years, while Liptser was handed five years and Sergunin three and a half years.

The sentences drew outrage in the west.

The trio were almost the only people visiting Navalny in prison while he served his 19-year sentence.

Navalny, Putin’s main political opponent, communicated with the world by transmitting messages through his lawyers, which his team then published on social media.

Passing letters and messages through lawyers is a normal practice in Russian prisons.

Navalny’s exiled widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said the lawyers were “political prisoners and should be freed immediately”.

The US, Britain, France and Germany all criticised the sentences.

“This is yet another example of the persecution of defence lawyers by the Kremlin in its effort to undermine human rights, subvert the rule of law and suppress dissent,” the US state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, said in a statement.

Britain’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, called on the Kremlin to “release all political prisoners”.

France’s foreign ministry called the court ruling “yet another act of intimidation against the legal profession as a whole”, while Germany said that “even those meant to defend others before the law face harsh persecution”.

The lawyers were sentenced after a closed-door trial in Petushki – about 70 miles east of Moscow – near the Pokrov prison where Navalny was held before he was moved to a remote colony above the Arctic circle.

“We are on trial for passing Navalny’s thoughts to other people,” Kobzev said in court last week, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported.

A statement from the court said the three had “used their status as lawyers while visiting convict Navalny … to ensure the regular transfer of information between the members of the extremist community, including those wanted and hiding outside the Russian Federation, and Navalny”.

It said this allowed Navalny to plan “crimes with an extremist character” from his maximum-security prison.

In his messages, Navalny denounced the Kremlin’s Ukraine offensive as “criminal” and told supporters “not to give up”.

He had denounced the arrest of his lawyers in October 2023 as an attempt to further isolate him.

Kobzev last week compared Moscow’s current crackdown on dissent to Stalin-era mass repression.

“Eighty years have passed … and in the Petushki court, people are once again on trial for discrediting officials and the state agencies,” he said.

The OVD rights group that monitors political repression in Russia said the sentences showed Moscow was now intent on making defending political prisoners – a practice that is still allowed but becoming more difficult – outright dangerous.

“The authorities are now essentially outlawing the defence of politically persecuted people,” the group said, a move that “risks destroying what little is left of the rule of law”.

Donald Trump has announced that his second inauguration ceremony will be moved indoors at the US Capitol due to dangerously cold temperatures forecast to hit the nation’s capital on Monday that would make the traditional outdoor swearing-in ceremony unsafe.

“The weather forecast for Washington DC, with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows. There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,” Trump said in a Truth Social post.

“Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather.”

The precise details of how the ceremony will be conducted are uncertain because Trump announced the news before transition officials and the joint congressional planning committee had finalized plans, according to people familiar with the matter.

Trump promised, for instance, that “guests and donors” would be with him in the rotunda to watch him and vice president-elect JD Vance be sworn into office. But the other ticket holders and donors are still without clear guidance.

The rotunda is often used for special events at the Capitol, for instance for state funerals, and there is infrastructure in place to seat around 600 people at maximum capacity.

Trump said in his post that the parade that typically follows, down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House, would be rerouted so he could go to the Capital One Arena nearby where he suggested guests unable to be relocated could watch the inauguration.

The Capital One Arena – a sports venue where the Washington Wizards basketball team play their home games – is already being used for Trump’s first rally since he won the election and has had its security measures upgraded for that event scheduled to take place on Sunday night.

Trump also said that all other events happening on the sidelines of the inauguration would continue as planned. After he is sworn at the Capitol and signs a flurry of executive orders, Trump is expected to attend a number of events culminating with the “Starlight Ball” for major donors.

The last president to be sworn in inside was Reagan in 1985, when temperatures plunged to 7F (-13C). The wind chill forecast for Trump’s second inauguration is expected to make it feel like 8F, and it is also expected to snow the night before.

Trump’s inauguration and his return to the Oval Office is set for Monday as he sweeps back into Washington. In warmer moments, the ceremony draws large crowds and outdoor celebrations – and protests – as America’s transition of power takes place.

Donald Trump’s incoming presidential administration plans to launch a large immigration raid in Chicago the day after he takes office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing four people familiar with planning.

The raid, expected to start on Tuesday, would last all week, the newspaper said, adding that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) would send between 100 and 200 officers to carry out the operation.

Trump’s transition team did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. But a source with knowledge of the incoming administration’s plans said Ice would intensify enforcement across the country and there would not be a special focus on Chicago or surge of personnel there.

“We’re going to be doing operations all across the country,” the person said. “You’re going to see arrests in New York. You’re going to see arrests in Miami.”

Trump’s incoming border czar, Tom Homan, told an event in Chicago that the administration was “going to start right here in Chicago, Illinois”, the Journal reported.

“And if the Chicago mayor doesn’t want to help, he can step aside. But if he impedes us, if he knowingly harbors or conceals an illegal alien, I will prosecute him,” he was quoted as saying.

Immigration was at the center of Trump’s campaign in the lead-up to the 5 November presidential election.

“Within moments of my inauguration, we will begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history,” Trump said in January 2024.

Trump is expected to mobilize agencies across the US government to help him deport record numbers of immigrants, Reuters has reported, building on efforts in his first term to tap all available resources and pressure so-called “sanctuary” jurisdictions to cooperate.

Alejandra Whitney-Smith has plans for president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week: spend a week in a cabin without technology.

“It [inauguration weekend] coincides with my birthday weekend, which I usually do spend in DC, but when the election happened, I told myself, ‘Oh, no, I can’t be here,’” said Whitney-Smith, whose mother was working at the Library of Congress during the January 6 attack on the US Capitol in 2021. “I just remember that feeling of fear for her and then also just concern for me being in the city. I just knew for me – I didn’t want to be around that sort of hostile negative energy.”

The DC resident said she will hunker down in a cabin with four friends during inauguration weekend and do some vision boarding, reflection and reconnection. As for the re-election of Trump, she says it, “represents the ugly side of America that people don’t want to acknowledge”.

“I guess I maybe mistakenly had a lot of faith that people saw what happened during the first administration and I figured we as a country wouldn’t regress,” said Whitney-Smith, who works as an attorney. “But I also know the reality of living in this country as a Black woman. As much as I wanted Harris to win, there was something in me that still told me that America is not ready for their first Black woman president. Not only that, she was running against Donald Trump who has an almost cult-like following that is so powerful.”

While Whitney-Smith and some DC residents continue to process a second Trump presidency and prefer to be away from the city, many conservatives and Republican supporters are excited about the upcoming inauguration. Hotels in the city were 70% booked as of Wednesday and fetching between $900 to $1,500 a night.

Despite holding the highest office in the nation, Trump has consistently distanced himself from Washington DC both physically and ideologically. He was beaten by former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley in the District of Columbia’s Republican primary election and polled only 6.6% against Democratic opponent Kamala Harris in the general election.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump branded Washington as a “filthy and crime ridden embarrassment to our nation”. He has vowed to radically overhaul the capital, recruiting billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk to slash the federal workforce, which some see as a desire to disrupt the city’s established political order.

Trump’s first presidency was marked by events that brought conflict and disruption to the streets of Washington, including holding up a bible at the site of previously dispersed George Floyd protests. He engaged with the city’s cultural and political life less than his predecessors, patronising only his own restaurant – at the Trump International hotel – and shunning traditional events such as the Kennedy Center Honors and the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

The day after the election, Tia Butler, a Washington DC resident, emailed her relatives asking who was interested in “going on a cruise or some other adventure, January 19 – 25”. For Butler, the memories of the January 6 riot in which Trump supporters violently stormed the US Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of electoral votes and encountering pro-life protesters following the 2020 election – makes her not want to be in the city during the inauguration festivities.

Initially, Butler was expecting house guests in January in hopes of a different outcome, but she will now spend the Dr Martin Luther King Jr holiday weekend in California.

“I have a fundamental set of beliefs and values that differ greatly from the supporters of the president-elect, so it is best that I just remove myself,” said Butler, a human resources executive who had worked for the federal government for nearly two decades before leaving to work at a non-profit. “It says to me that we’d rather have a criminal leading our country than a person of color, or a criminal rather than a woman.”

June Williams Colman has similar sentiments. In July 2024, the Houston-based physician was in a clothing boutique in Martha’s Vineyard when she heard screaming around the television in the shop. President Joe Biden had just announced that he was halting his re-election campaign and was throwing his support behind his vice-president Kamala Harris as the Democratic presidential nominee.

“People were jumping up and down. It was such a powerful moment,” remembered Colman, 61. “It was really interesting being in Martha’s Vineyard during that time. Everyone that you ran into was so excited about it [Harris’ presidential candidacy].”

Colman was so confident about Harris’s chances that she purchased airline tickets to DC on 28 July, just a week after Biden’s announcement, in anticipation of a possible Harris inauguration.

A Harris inauguration, she said, would have been “unlike anything we had seen because of the joy, because of the number of people who were going to participate”, pointing to Harris’ connection to historically Black colleges and Black Greek organizations.

Instead of traveling to DC, Colman, who plans to get a refund for her plane tickets, will spend inauguration weekend in Lake Tahoe with her 15-year-old daughter.

“In 2016 when Hillary [Clinton] lost, we still came to DC in 2017 because they had the Women’s March,” Colman said, acknowledging the lingering political grief. “It was so exciting and I really wanted my daughter to see that. But it’s not the same now.”

Donald Trump, the 45th and soon to be 47th president of the United States, will be inaugurated in Washington on Monday, in an event moved indoors by freezing weather from the Capitol steps where he was first sworn into power eight years ago.

Trump will again take the oath of office, and complete an astonishing political comeback.

Here’s everything you need to know about the schedule, attendees and celebrations:

A doorbell camera on a Canadian home has captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple’s walkway.

When Laura Kelly and her partner returned home after an evening walk, they were surprised to find their walkway littered with dust and strange debris, according to the Meteoritical Society, which posted the video with its report.

They checked their security camera and saw something slamming against their entranceway, producing a cloud of smoke and a crackle.

The pair reported what they found to the University of Alberta’s Meteorite Reporting System and the curator, Chris Herd, examined samples of the debris to confirm its interstellar origins.

Meteorites are bits of space rock that hit Earth after surviving a trip through its scorching atmosphere. About 43 tonnes (43,500kg) of similar debris strikes Earth every day, according to Nasa, but is much more likely to plunge into an ocean than on to someone’s front stoop.

The space rocks also streak the night sky as shooting stars during meteor showers that happen several times a year.

The footage from July is believed to be a first. While cameras have captured meteors streaking through the sky, it is rare to capture the sound of a complete meteorite strike on video.

The space rock, officially registered on Monday, was named Charlottetown after the city on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada where it struck.

A doorbell camera on a Canadian home has captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth as it crashed into a couple’s walkway.

When Laura Kelly and her partner returned home after an evening walk, they were surprised to find their walkway littered with dust and strange debris, according to the Meteoritical Society, which posted the video with its report.

They checked their security camera and saw something slamming against their entranceway, producing a cloud of smoke and a crackle.

The pair reported what they found to the University of Alberta’s Meteorite Reporting System and the curator, Chris Herd, examined samples of the debris to confirm its interstellar origins.

Meteorites are bits of space rock that hit Earth after surviving a trip through its scorching atmosphere. About 43 tonnes (43,500kg) of similar debris strikes Earth every day, according to Nasa, but is much more likely to plunge into an ocean than on to someone’s front stoop.

The space rocks also streak the night sky as shooting stars during meteor showers that happen several times a year.

The footage from July is believed to be a first. While cameras have captured meteors streaking through the sky, it is rare to capture the sound of a complete meteorite strike on video.

The space rock, officially registered on Monday, was named Charlottetown after the city on Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada where it struck.

The US Federal Aviation Administration and officials from the Turks and Caicos Islands have launched investigations into SpaceX’s explosive Starship rocket test that sent debris streaking over the northern Caribbean and forced airlines to divert dozens of flights.

“There are no reports of public injury, and the FAA is working with SpaceX and appropriate authorities to confirm reports of public property damage on Turks and Caicos,” said the FAA, which oversees private rocket launch activity.

An upgraded version of SpaceX’s Starship exploded in space over the Bahamas roughly eight minutes into the company’s seventh flight test from Texas on Thursday. It sent fields of blazing debris for miles across the sky over Turks and Caicos, a British overseas territory.

Residents on the South and North Caicos islands described to Reuters intense rumbling that shook the ground and said they received messages from friends in North Caicos who found charred pieces of what they believed to be Starship debris.

“My mirror and the walls were shaking,” said Veuleiri Artiles, a woman who was working in South Caicos when the debris fell. “It was like when you’re on an airplane … my ears were rattling.”

“It felt like an earthquake,” said Ibalor Calucin, who lives on the territory’s Providenciales island. “It was scary … all of the people here in our apartment ran to the parking lot.”

There is a “multi-agency investigation that is ongoing” into the Starship explosion, the commissioner of the royal Turks and Caicos Islands police force, Fitz Bailey, told Reuters. He declined to comment on reports of public property damage from the debris.

The rumbling was from the many orange-glowing shards of debris from Starship’s explosion that were breaking the sound barrier as they plunged through the atmosphere, sending loud booms thundering across the islands, according to seismic ground sensor data analyzed by Benjamin Fernando, a seismology researcher at Johns Hopkins University.

The rumbling in the ground “was about 10mm per second, which is actually quite a lot”, Fernando said. “That’s a relatively substantial ground motion. It’s comparable to a small earthquake.”

The Starship rocket that exploded had multiple new onboard features flying for the first time and carried its first batch of mock satellites that were meant to be deployed in space.

SpaceX’s Starship system launched from Boca Chica, Texas, at 5.37pm ET Thursday, flying east over the Gulf of Mexico. Starship separated from its Super Heavy booster as planned at 40 miles (64 km) in altitude, igniting its six engines to blast deeper into space.

The rocket was bound for a sub-orbital trajectory around Earth to re-enter the atmosphere over the Indian Ocean and attempt a propulsive landing on the water’s surface.

But SpaceX lost communication with the rocket soon after its separation from Super Heavy and later confirmed its demise.

“Initial data indicates a fire developed in the aft section of the ship, leading to a rapid unscheduled disassembly,” SpaceX said in a statement on its website.

TikTok says it “will be forced to go dark on January 19” in the United States unless the Biden administration assures service providers that it will not enforce a law banning the Chinese-owned social media app that was upheld by the US supreme court on Friday.

The nine justices voted unanimously in a decision that sides with the majority of the US Congress and the US Department of Justice that the hugely popular social media app is a threat to US national security.

“We conclude that the challenged provisions do not violate petitioners’ first amendment rights,” the justices wrote. “The judgment of the United States court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit is affirmed.” In December, a Washington DC appeals court upheld the ban.

This means TikTok, which is used by 170 million people in the US, will no longer be available for download in app stores starting on Sunday, unless it sells to an owner in the US, a step it has refused to take.

“There is no doubt that, for more than 170 million Americans, TikTok offers a distinctive and expansive outlet for expression, means of engagement, and source of community,” the ruling reads.

TikTok initially responded to the ruling by posting a video featuring the CEO, Shou Zi Chew, to its official account. “On behalf of everyone at TikTok and all our users across the country, I want to thank President Trump for his commitment to work with us to find a solution that keeps TikTok available in the United States,” Chew said. Donald Trump has pledged to “save TikTok”.

Chew said Trump’s promise “is a strong stand for the first amendment and against arbitrary censorship” and that he was “grateful and pleased to have the support of a president who truly understands our platform”.

In a statement released late on Friday, TikTok said that vague assurances from the Biden administration that it would leave enforcement to the incoming Trump administration were not good enough.

“The statements issued today by both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance” to companies such as Apple and Google, which make the app available to Americans and could be liable for billions of dollars in fines under the law.

“Unless the Biden administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service providers assuring non-enforcement, unfortunately TikTok will be forced to go dark on January 19,” the company said.

The US justice department maintained its position that TikTok is a national security threat and praised the supreme court ruling for protecting the country against foreign adversaries.

“The court’s decision enables the justice department to prevent the Chinese government from weaponizing TikTok to undermine America’s national security,” said Merrick Garland, the attorney general. “We welcome today’s decision by the supreme court. The justice department has long warned about the national security harms from PRC control of TikTok.”

The lawmakers who pushed for the ban say that TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, has the potential to be used as a weapon by the Chinese Communist party. They say China could use the app to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation. The supreme court ultimately agreed.

In their ruling, supreme court justices wrote that the app’s connection to Beijing was sufficient rationale for the ban, “Congress has determined that divestiture is necessary to address its well-supported national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary.”

The ban has caused a huge outcry by creators, first amendment advocates and civil liberties groups. They say banning the app is tantamount to censorship and sets a dangerous precedent in the US.

TikTok has the option to divest or sell its assets to a non-Chinese company. But it has said in legal filings that divestiture “is simply not possible: not commercially, not technologically, not legally”.

The supreme court heard oral arguments in the case last week. The justices spent far more time questioning TikTok about why it believes it should have first amendment rights than asking government lawyers about national security concerns. Noel Francisco, TikTok’s lawyer, argued that the ban was not about China and safety issues, but instead, “the government’s real target, rather, is the speech itself”.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor took issue with that idea. She said the government should be able to say when there is a threat and block it. “We have a right to say ‘you can’t do that, you can’t speak,’” she said.

Last month Trump filed an amicus brief, or “friend of the court” brief, to the supreme court asking the justices the pause the ban. He said he has the “consummate dealmaking expertise” to strike an agreement between TikTok and US lawmakers.

Trump told CNN on Friday: “It ultimately goes up to me, so you’re going to see what I’m going to do. Congress has given me the decision, so I’ll be making the decision.”

Once sworn into office on 20 January, one day after the ban goes into effect, Trump will have the option to direct the justice department to not enforce the law. He is also reportedly exploring an executive order to halt the ban for 60 to 90 days.

Joe Biden’s press secretary said in a statement that the president’s position on TikTok “has been clear for months” – that TikTok should be available to people backed by an owner that doesn’t pose a security threat.

“TikTok should remain available to Americans, but simply under American ownership or other ownership that addresses the national security concerns identified by Congress in developing this law,” she said. “Given the sheer fact of timing, this Administration recognizes that actions to implement the law simply must fall to the next Administration, which takes office on Monday.”

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote in his concurring opinion that “what might happen next to TikTok remains unclear”, alluding to the possibility that Trump might not enforce the ban.

Gorsuch expressed reservations with the law, though he voted to uphold it.

• Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a broad cooperation pact on Friday as their countries deepened their partnership in the face of stinging western sanctions. Russian and Iranian officials say the “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” covers all areas, from trade and military cooperation to science, education and culture. It came ahead of Monday’s inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to broker peace in Ukraine and take a tougher stance on Iran, which is grappling with growing economic problems and other challenges, including military setbacks in its sphere of influence across the Middle East. Russia’s ties with Iran have grown closer after Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine and the west have accused Tehran of providing Moscow with hundreds of drones for use to attack Ukraine, which Moscow and Tehran have denied. “We witness a new chapter of strategic relations,” Pezeshkian said.

• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday that there was no reason to drop sanctions against Russia, as Hungary holds up extending the measures pending Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “We definitely need the sanctions in place. This is our leverage, and it would be very strange to give it away,” Kallas told journalists. “Things haven’t changed. Putin hasn’t changed his goals and nothing has changed on the ground. So there is no basis for lifting the sanctions.” The EU has imposed 15 rounds of unprecedented sanctions on Moscow since the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The next decision on extending the sanctions has to be taken unanimously by the EU’s 27 member states by 31 January.

• Chinese president Xi Jinping has spoken to Donald Trump on the phone in the first direct contact between the two men since 2021 and just days ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Trump in the past has praised his relationship with Xi and suggested China could help mediate international crises such as the war in Ukraine. As well as discussing TikTok, trade, fentanyl and Taiwan, the two leaders exchanged views on the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war and agreed to establish “a channel of strategic communication”, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

• Keir Starmer has urged world leaders to “double down” in their efforts to support Ukraine during a visit to Poland, days before Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency risks jeopardising international solidarity on the issue. Speaking alongside the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, after the pair discussed a proposed defence-focused treaty, Starmer dodged questions on the possible impact of Trump, but insisted the only way forward was “peace on Ukraine’s terms”. Starmer, who held talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday during his first official trip to Ukraine since taking office, said defence and security issues had dominated the talks in Warsaw.

• Outgoing secretary of state Antony Blinken said he hoped the incoming Trump administration would press forward with key points in President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, including on the Middle East and Ukraine. But in an interview with Associated Press on his last workday as America’s top diplomat, he expressed concern that the Trump team might abandon all or some of those policies, including on Ukraine. “When we came in, we inherited partnerships and alliances that were seriously frayed,” he said. “So if past is prologue, yes, it would be a concern.” Trump has been critical of US military aid to Ukraine and has praised Vladimir Putin.

• A Ukrainian drone attack triggered a fire late on Friday in Russia’s Kaluga region south of Moscow, and social media sites showed video footage of what they described as an oil storage depot ablaze. Kaluga regional governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a fire had broken out after an industrial site was hit in the city of Lyudinovo. In a later posting, Shapsha said seven drones had been downed, with one landing in a “non-residential area”. The fire, he said, had been brought under control with no casualties.

• Russia’s defence ministry and the governor of Bryansk region reported that air defence units had destroyed a total of nine Ukrainian drones over the region on the border. No casualties were reported. The governor of Smolensk region, bordering Russian ally Belarus, said air defences had downed five Ukrainian drones with no casualties.

• Ukraine launched an attack on Russia’s Belgorod region with six US-made Atacms missiles on Thursday, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday. It said Russia would retaliate, but that all the missiles had been intercepted, resulting in no casualties or damage. Moscow has said it will respond every time Ukraine fires Atacms or British-supplies Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia.

• Russian seaborne oil product exports fell by almost 10% last year after Ukrainian drone attacks damaged major refineries and as higher funding costs and a government gasoline export ban added to pressure from western sanctions, Reuters reported, citing industry sources. Russia, one of the world’s largest oil and fuel exporters alongside Saudi Arabia and the US, has been trying to access new markets in Asia and South America since the west imposed sanctions over Moscow’s military move on Ukraine in 2022. Lower fuel exports mean Russia’s oil firms have to boost exports of crude to maintain revenues, but such options are limited to just India, China and Turkey, which still buy Russian crude despite sanctions and have their own big refineries.

• Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, signed a broad cooperation pact on Friday as their countries deepened their partnership in the face of stinging western sanctions. Russian and Iranian officials say the “comprehensive strategic partnership treaty” covers all areas, from trade and military cooperation to science, education and culture. It came ahead of Monday’s inauguration of president-elect Donald Trump, who has pledged to broker peace in Ukraine and take a tougher stance on Iran, which is grappling with growing economic problems and other challenges, including military setbacks in its sphere of influence across the Middle East. Russia’s ties with Iran have grown closer after Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine and the west have accused Tehran of providing Moscow with hundreds of drones for use to attack Ukraine, which Moscow and Tehran have denied. “We witness a new chapter of strategic relations,” Pezeshkian said.

• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday that there was no reason to drop sanctions against Russia, as Hungary holds up extending the measures pending Donald Trump’s return to the White House. “We definitely need the sanctions in place. This is our leverage, and it would be very strange to give it away,” Kallas told journalists. “Things haven’t changed. Putin hasn’t changed his goals and nothing has changed on the ground. So there is no basis for lifting the sanctions.” The EU has imposed 15 rounds of unprecedented sanctions on Moscow since the Kremlin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The next decision on extending the sanctions has to be taken unanimously by the EU’s 27 member states by 31 January.

• Chinese president Xi Jinping has spoken to Donald Trump on the phone in the first direct contact between the two men since 2021 and just days ahead of Trump’s inauguration. Trump in the past has praised his relationship with Xi and suggested China could help mediate international crises such as the war in Ukraine. As well as discussing TikTok, trade, fentanyl and Taiwan, the two leaders exchanged views on the war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war and agreed to establish “a channel of strategic communication”, according to the Chinese foreign ministry.

• Keir Starmer has urged world leaders to “double down” in their efforts to support Ukraine during a visit to Poland, days before Donald Trump’s return to the US presidency risks jeopardising international solidarity on the issue. Speaking alongside the Polish prime minister, Donald Tusk, after the pair discussed a proposed defence-focused treaty, Starmer dodged questions on the possible impact of Trump, but insisted the only way forward was “peace on Ukraine’s terms”. Starmer, who held talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday during his first official trip to Ukraine since taking office, said defence and security issues had dominated the talks in Warsaw.

• Outgoing secretary of state Antony Blinken said he hoped the incoming Trump administration would press forward with key points in President Joe Biden’s foreign policy, including on the Middle East and Ukraine. But in an interview with Associated Press on his last workday as America’s top diplomat, he expressed concern that the Trump team might abandon all or some of those policies, including on Ukraine. “When we came in, we inherited partnerships and alliances that were seriously frayed,” he said. “So if past is prologue, yes, it would be a concern.” Trump has been critical of US military aid to Ukraine and has praised Vladimir Putin.

• A Ukrainian drone attack triggered a fire late on Friday in Russia’s Kaluga region south of Moscow, and social media sites showed video footage of what they described as an oil storage depot ablaze. Kaluga regional governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a fire had broken out after an industrial site was hit in the city of Lyudinovo. In a later posting, Shapsha said seven drones had been downed, with one landing in a “non-residential area”. The fire, he said, had been brought under control with no casualties.

• Russia’s defence ministry and the governor of Bryansk region reported that air defence units had destroyed a total of nine Ukrainian drones over the region on the border. No casualties were reported. The governor of Smolensk region, bordering Russian ally Belarus, said air defences had downed five Ukrainian drones with no casualties.

• Ukraine launched an attack on Russia’s Belgorod region with six US-made Atacms missiles on Thursday, the Russian defence ministry said on Friday. It said Russia would retaliate, but that all the missiles had been intercepted, resulting in no casualties or damage. Moscow has said it will respond every time Ukraine fires Atacms or British-supplies Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia.

• Russian seaborne oil product exports fell by almost 10% last year after Ukrainian drone attacks damaged major refineries and as higher funding costs and a government gasoline export ban added to pressure from western sanctions, Reuters reported, citing industry sources. Russia, one of the world’s largest oil and fuel exporters alongside Saudi Arabia and the US, has been trying to access new markets in Asia and South America since the west imposed sanctions over Moscow’s military move on Ukraine in 2022. Lower fuel exports mean Russia’s oil firms have to boost exports of crude to maintain revenues, but such options are limited to just India, China and Turkey, which still buy Russian crude despite sanctions and have their own big refineries.

Over the past few years of professional tennis, the sight of Iga Swiatek annihilating another poor, defenceless opponent has become as sure as the sun will rise. When Swiatek’s game is flowing and her mind is clear, the combined quality of her violent ball-striking, athleticism and unrelenting focus is so great that, at some point or another, she has rendered nearly all of the best players in the world spectators in their own match.

On Saturday afternoon at Melbourne Park, it was Emma Raducanu’s turn to endure such an unpleasant experience. Raducanu cut a lonely, solemn figure on one of the biggest tennis stadiums in the world as she was completely helpless in the face of a supreme Swiatek, who ruthlessly opened up her bakery to reach the fourth round of the Australian Open with a dominant 6-1, 6-0 win.

In her first tournament of the season, after back spasms significantly affected her pre-season preparation, Raducanu had arrived in the third round of the Australian Open for the first time in her career with two solid straight-sets wins over Ekaterina Alexandrova, the 26th seed, and Amanda Anisimova. Both times, the 22-year-old demonstrated her fighting spirit and court sense against an ultra-aggressive but inconsistent opponent, outmanoeuvring them to advance.

But there comes a time when no amount of fight can substitute for pure quality ball-striking and the ability to sustain a consistently high level of play. Since she first reached No 1 nearly three years ago, Swiatek has been the standard bearer for women’s tennis and the 23-year-old has put herself on the path towards all-time greatness. There was never any doubt that Swiatek, a five-time grand slam champion, was going to show up and produce a high level on Rod Laver Arena. The question was what exactly Raducanu could do to make her life difficult.

During the early exchanges, as both players settled down, Raducanu had some reasons to be positive. Despite facing two break points in her opening service game, Raducanu showed her athletic strengths and ability to flip points from defence to attack, absorbing Swiatek’s significant pace and then punching back as she held serve for 1-1.

That hope would prove fleeting. As Swiatek quickly found her range, she completely suffocated Raducanu from the baseline. Raducanu’s serve was soon completely under attack, the Pole decimating Raducanu’s meek second serve and lasering almost every first serve return back with outstanding depth and pace, allowing her to immediately take the initiative in every point. Swiatek also served extremely well – she did not face a single break point – and completely dominated the baseline with her far superior pace and weight of shot.

With the match entirely on Swiatek’s racket until the end, Raducanu looked extremely underpowered and completely out of ideas. When Raducanu tried to snatch the initiative back from Swiatek, swing with freedom and aim for the lines, her error count continued to rise. Whenever she tried to patiently build the point, as is her usual approach, it would not take long until a heavy topspin forehand was flying past her as a clean winner.

As Swiatek rolled through 11 games in a row towards victory, a loud, encouraging call came out from a spectator: “No mercy!” It was not really necessary. Swiatek has long established herself as a peerless frontrunner, always ruthless until the end. As she always does, Swiatek left nothing to chance by sprinting all the way through the finish line, leaving her completely outmatched opponent in the dust.

A former journalist turned senior government minister – who was dubbed a “nasty woman” by Donald Trump after bruising trade negotiations with the US – has announced that she will run for leadership of Canada’s ailing Liberal party.

Chrystia Freeland declared her intention to become the next Liberal leader – and the country’s next prime minister – on Friday with a post on social media, with plans for a formal campaign launch in Toronto on Sunday.

“I’m running to fight for Canada,” she wrote.

Freeland triggered the current leadership race by resigning as the country’s finance minister last month after clashing with the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, over how to handle the looming threat of US tariffs. Her stern rebuke of the prime minister came amid mounting calls for him to step aside. Weeks later, he resigned.

But as Canada gears up for a trade war with the United States, it is unclear how Freeland’s relationship with the incoming US president might help – or harm – her candidacy in Canada, where political leaders of all stripes have called for unity and a strong national response.

In a Friday column published in the Toronto Star, Freeland laid out her plan to push back against Trump.

“Being strong means being clear with our American neighbours: we love our country just as much as you love yours. If you hit us, we will hit back. We will not escalate, but we will never back down,” she wrote, adding the Canadian response to tariffs would be “precisely and painfully” targeted.

“Florida orange growers, Michigan dishwasher manufacturers and Wisconsin dairy farmers: brace yourselves. Canada is America’s largest export market – bigger than China, Japan, the UK, and France combined. If pushed, our response will be the single largest trade blow the US economy has ever endured.”

During the renegotiation of the North American free trade pact in 2018, Freeland sparred with American negotiators, prompting Trump to tell reporters: “We’re very unhappy with the negotiations and the negotiating style of Canada – we don’t like their representative very much.”

The US president-elect greeted her resignation last month by posting: “Her behavior was totally toxic, and not at all conducive to making deals which are good for the very unhappy citizens of Canada. She will not be missed!!!”

In geography-obsessed Canada, where politicians are seen to derive cultural – and even moral – values from their home towns, Freeland has positioned herself is the “proud daughter” of Peace River, a small Alberta farming community in the conservative heartland.

Freeland, 56, a graduate of both Harvard and Oxford, spent her early career as a globe-trotting journalist reporting largely on the collapse of the Soviet Union – work that later saw her banned from entering Russia.

She hails from the Ukrainian diaspora that settled, and has farmed, much of the Canadian prairies for generations and emerged as a fierce supporter of Kyiv after Russia’s full invasion. As prime minister, Freeland would probably continue Canada’s support for Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

After leaving Moscow, she eventually returned to North America, by way of Toronto and New York, with senior editorial positions at the Globe and Mail, the Financial Times and Thomson Reuters.

In 2013, Trudeau, then the newly minted Liberal party leader, pursued Freeland, pleading with her to leave media and enter politics.

After winning a seat in Toronto, Freeland was quickly elevated to ministerial roles in the Trudeau government. She served as minister of foreign affairs before she was promoted to finance minister, also filling the role of deputy prime minister and minister of intergovernmental affairs.

Long seen as one Justin Trudeau’s closest allies, Freeland broke with Trudeau in December over his plans to oust her as finance minister and his response to Trump’s threat of protectionist trade tariffs. Freeland dismissed Trudeau’s promise to temporarily halt certain taxes and to mail cheques to citizens as “costly political gimmicks” and implied that he did not understand the “gravity of the moment”.

If Freeland emerges victorious on 9 March, when the party announces the winner of the leadership race, she will be the second Canadian ever, after Jean Chrétien, to move from deputy to prime minister. She would also be the second female prime minister in the country’s history.

Seen as highly perceptive and blunt, she is known for her tendency to write notes on her hand, with reporters and officials routinely attempting to decipher the scrawl.

Recent polls have her narrowly as the favourite to win the leadership race and a survey by Angus Reid Institute found Freeland “the most appealing candidate” for voters who haven’t ruled out voting Liberal in an upcoming election. Abacus Data found she was by far the most recognizable candidate to Canadians: 51% could identify her from a photograph.

Her main challenge in a general election, would be to portray herself as different from Trudeau, given how closely they worked together.

Despite Trump’s frustration with Freeland, inside Canada she has forged strong relationships across party and ideological lines.

“I absolutely love Chrystia Freeland. She’s amazing. I’ll have her back,” the conservative Ontario premier, Doug Ford, said when she was appointed finance minister in 2020.

Even Robert Lighthizer, her US opposite number in the trade negotations, described her as a “good friend”.

More than a dozen Liberals in parliament say they support her. One lawmaker, Randy Boissonnault, told the Globe and Mail there were “no training wheels needed” for Freeland to engage with Trump in the coming months.

Kevin Lamoureux, a member of parliament from Winnipeg, said in a video posted on Instagram that her savviness as a negotiator made her the best choice.

“I ultimately believe that there’s no one in the House of Commons today … that understands the importance of trade and that has negotiated as many deals as she has.”

A Bolivian judge has ordered the arrest of the former president Evo Morales over his alleged abuse of a teenage girl while in office, raising the stakes in the state’s months-long showdown with the former leader.

The judge in the southern city of Tarija called for Morales, 65, to be arrested after Bolivia’s first Indigenous president ducked out of a hearing on his possible pre-trial detention for a second time.

The ruling, which was broadcast on state television, also included a freeze of Morales’s assets and a ban on him leaving the country.

“There’s been a warrant ordered for his search and arrest,” said Judge Nelson Rocabado after a hearing in Tarija, where the alleged victim lives.

Morales, who rose from dire poverty to become one of Latin America’s longest-serving leaders, has brought thousands of people on to the street in the past few months to protest against the investigation.

He is accused of abusing a 15-year-old girl while president in 2015 and fathering a child with her the following year, which would have constituted statutory rape under Bolivian law. He has neither confirmed nor denied the allegations.

Prosecutors have charged him with trafficking in the belief that the girl’s parents enrolled her in the youth guard of Morales’s political movement when he was president “with the sole purpose of climbing the political ladder and obtaining benefits … in exchange for their underage daughter”.

The charges carry a sentence of between 10 and 15 years in prison, according to the prosecutor in charge of the case, Sandra Gutiérrez.

The girl’s father has been in preventive custody since October.

The hearing on the prosecution’s call for Morales to be placed in preventive custody was originally scheduled for Tuesday but the former president did not show up, with his lawyers saying he was suffering from health problems.

On Friday, the judge rejected the medical reports to press on with the hearing in Morales’s absence.

Morales has claimed he is a “victim” to legal warfare carried out by his ally turned political rival, President Luis Arce, and refused to appear in court.

The populist leader has holed up in the region of Chapare, in central Bolivia, and lives in the headquarters of the coca growers’ unions protected by up to three security cordons to prevent his arrest.

Thousands of his supporters blocked roads leading to his central stronghold of Cochabamba from mid-October to early November, crippling the economy in an attempt to prevent his threatened arrest for statutory rape – the charge used for unlawful sex with a minor – as well as human trafficking.

Outside the courthouse on Friday a group of women who identified themselves as mothers carried banners that read “Evo Morales abuser, girls are not to be touched”. They demanded justice.

Morales’s refusal to give up power in 2019 after two terms led to a tumultuous exit that cast a shadow over nearly 14 years of economic progress and poverty reduction.

Forced to resign after elections tainted by allegations of fraud, he slipped away into exile in Argentina, returning home a year later.

Despite being barred by Bolivia’s courts from seeking a third term, he is seeking the nomination of the leftwing Mas party in the August 2025 presidential elections.

A farm worker in Devon has discovered what she believes to be a “one-in-a-billion” spherical egg.

Alison Greene, who has worked as an egg handler on Fenton Farm near the Somerset border for three years and handled more than 42m eggs, said she had never found a perfectly round one before.

The 57-year-old now plans to send it to auction in Exeter in March with the proceeds going to the Devon Rape Crisis charity.

Discussing the moment she found the egg in December, Greene said: “It was really surprising because they roll in a specific way and this one just didn’t – it just stood out.

“It’s now something that nobody else has. Elon Musk hasn’t got a round egg has he?”

Greene added: “Hopefully, it will sell for a lot of money.”

Brian Goodison-Blanks, an auctioneer at Bearnes Hampton & Littlewood Auctioneers based in Exeter, said: “Spherical chicken eggs are quite unusual and there have been people that have paid north of £100 and sometimes £200 for them.”

Last month, a spherical hen’s egg that a man spontaneously bought after a few pints sold at auction in Berkshire for £200.

Ed Pownell, from Lambourn in Berkshire, shelled out £150 for the egg and then donated it to the Iuventas Foundation, a charity that provides mentoring, life coaching and mental health support to young people across Oxfordshire.

Pownell’s egg was originally discovered in a box bought by a woman from her local supermarket in Ayr. The charity thought the donation “was a joke” initially before putting it up for sale.

Roz Rapp, from the foundation, told the BBC at the time: “We’re delighted and thrilled the egg sold as it means we can continue to do what we are doing.”

In 2015, a spherical chicken’s egg sold for £480 on eBay. The egg was laid in Latchingdon, Essex by a bird belonging to Kim Broughton. The hen was subsequently renamed Ping Pong. Broughton auctioned the egg in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.