US president Donald Trump has floated the idea that Ukraine “may be Russian some day”, as his vice-president JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy later this week.

Pushing for an end to the nearly three-year war with Russia, Trump discussed the conflict in an interview with broadcaster Fox News that aired on Monday.

“They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian some day, or they may not be Russian some day,” he said.

Trump also emphasised reaping a return on investment with US aid to Ukraine, suggesting a trade for Kyiv’s natural resources, such as rare minerals.

“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500bn worth of rare earth,” Trump said. “And they have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

Trump also confirmed on Monday that he will soon dispatch to Ukraine his special envoy Keith Kellogg, who is tasked with drawing up a proposal to halt the fighting.

Trump is pressing for a swift end to the conflict, while Zelenskyy is calling for tough security guarantees from Washington as part of any deal with Russia.

Kyiv fears that any settlement that does not include hard military commitments – such as Nato membership or the deployment of peacekeeping troops – will just allow the Kremlin time to regroup and rearm for a fresh attack.

Zelenskyy’s spokesperson Sergiy Nikiforov told Agence France-Presse the Ukrainian president would meet with Vance this Friday on the sidelines of the Munich security conference.

A source in Zelenskyy’s office said Kellogg would arrive in Ukraine on 20 February, without detailing where in the country he would visit.

His trip would come just days before the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion on 24 February.

Zelenskyy called on Monday for “real peace and effective security guarantees” for Ukraine.

“Security of people, security of our state, security of economic relations and, of course, our resource sustainability: not only for Ukraine, but for the entire free world,” he said.

“All of this is being decided now,” Zelenskyy added in a video address published on social media.

Trump has said he wants to broker an end to the war but has not outlined a detailed proposal to bring the two sides to the negotiating table.

Both Zelenskyy and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, have previously ruled out direct talks with each other, and there appears to be little ground where the two could strike a deal.

Putin is demanding that Ukraine withdraw from swathes of its south and east that Kyiv still has control over, and considers closer ties between Ukraine and Nato inadmissible.

Zelenskyy has, meanwhile, rejected any territorial concessions to Moscow, though he has acknowledged that Ukraine might have to rely on diplomatic means to secure the return of some territory.

Russia says it has annexed five regions of Ukraine – Crimea in 2014 and then Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia in 2022 – though it does not have full control over them.

Zelenskyy said on Monday a meeting with Trump was being arranged though a date had not yet been fixed, while Trump said last week he would “probably” meet Zelenskyy in the coming days, but ruled out personally travelling to Kyiv.

The New York Post reported on Saturday that Trump had told the publication he had spoken on the phone to Putin to discuss bringing an end to the conflict in Ukraine, saying the Russian leader had told him he “wants to see people stop dying”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to confirm or deny the call.

Organisers of the closely followed Munich security conference had confirmed earlier on Monday that Zelenskyy would attend the 14-16 February summit.

The US delegation is set to include the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, as well as Kellogg and Vance, conference chair Christoph Heusgen said in Berlin.

There would be no representatives of the Russian government present, Heusgen said.

US president Donald Trump has floated the idea that Ukraine “may be Russian some day”, as his vice-president JD Vance gears up to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy later this week.

Pushing for an end to the nearly three-year war with Russia, Trump discussed the conflict in an interview with broadcaster Fox News that aired on Monday.

“They may make a deal, they may not make a deal. They may be Russian some day, or they may not be Russian some day,” he said.

Trump also emphasised reaping a return on investment with US aid to Ukraine, suggesting a trade for Kyiv’s natural resources, such as rare minerals.

“We are going to have all this money in there, and I say I want it back. And I told them that I want the equivalent, like $500bn worth of rare earth,” Trump said. “And they have essentially agreed to do that, so at least we don’t feel stupid.”

Trump also confirmed on Monday that he will soon dispatch to Ukraine his special envoy Keith Kellogg, who is tasked with drawing up a proposal to halt the fighting.

Trump is pressing for a swift end to the conflict, while Zelenskyy is calling for tough security guarantees from Washington as part of any deal with Russia.

Kyiv fears that any settlement that does not include hard military commitments – such as Nato membership or the deployment of peacekeeping troops – will just allow the Kremlin time to regroup and rearm for a fresh attack.

Zelenskyy’s spokesperson Sergiy Nikiforov told Agence France-Presse the Ukrainian president would meet with Vance this Friday on the sidelines of the Munich security conference.

A source in Zelenskyy’s office said Kellogg would arrive in Ukraine on 20 February, without detailing where in the country he would visit.

His trip would come just days before the three-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion on 24 February.

Zelenskyy called on Monday for “real peace and effective security guarantees” for Ukraine.

“Security of people, security of our state, security of economic relations and, of course, our resource sustainability: not only for Ukraine, but for the entire free world,” he said.

“All of this is being decided now,” Zelenskyy added in a video address published on social media.

Trump has said he wants to broker an end to the war but has not outlined a detailed proposal to bring the two sides to the negotiating table.

Both Zelenskyy and the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, have previously ruled out direct talks with each other, and there appears to be little ground where the two could strike a deal.

Putin is demanding that Ukraine withdraw from swathes of its south and east that Kyiv still has control over, and considers closer ties between Ukraine and Nato inadmissible.

Zelenskyy has, meanwhile, rejected any territorial concessions to Moscow, though he has acknowledged that Ukraine might have to rely on diplomatic means to secure the return of some territory.

Russia says it has annexed five regions of Ukraine – Crimea in 2014 and then Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia in 2022 – though it does not have full control over them.

Zelenskyy said on Monday a meeting with Trump was being arranged though a date had not yet been fixed, while Trump said last week he would “probably” meet Zelenskyy in the coming days, but ruled out personally travelling to Kyiv.

The New York Post reported on Saturday that Trump had told the publication he had spoken on the phone to Putin to discuss bringing an end to the conflict in Ukraine, saying the Russian leader had told him he “wants to see people stop dying”.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov declined to confirm or deny the call.

Organisers of the closely followed Munich security conference had confirmed earlier on Monday that Zelenskyy would attend the 14-16 February summit.

The US delegation is set to include the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, as well as Kellogg and Vance, conference chair Christoph Heusgen said in Berlin.

There would be no representatives of the Russian government present, Heusgen said.

Donald Trump has warned that if all the Israeli hostages held in Gaza are not returned by Saturday at noon he would propose canceling the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and letting “all hell break loose”.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office late on Monday, the US president also said he might withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt if those countries do not take Palestinian refugees being relocated from Gaza.

Trump’s comments came after Hamas said it was delaying the release of hostages indefinitely over “violations” of the ceasefire deal, prompting Israel’s defence minister to put the country’s military on alert with orders to prepare for “any scenario in Gaza”.

Trump called the statement by Hamas “terrible” and said he would “let that be Israel’s decision” on what should ultimately happen to the ceasefire.

“But as far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday 12 o’clock – I think it’s an appropriate time – I would say cancel it and all bets are off and let hell break out,” Trump said.

The ultimatum could end a three-week-old ceasefire which dictates a strict schedule for the release of the Israeli hostages in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails.

Trump said the hostages should be released “not in dribs and drabs, not two and one and three and four and two”.

“We want them all back. I’m speaking for myself. Israel can override it, but for myself, Saturday at 12 o’clock – and if they’re not here, all hell is going to break out,” he said.

Trump indicated he had not spoken to Benjamin Netanyahu about the timeline he suggested. Asked about any concrete measures he was threatening to take to enforce his demand, Trump said: “You’ll find out. And they’ll find out too. Hamas will find out what I mean. These are sick people.”

He did not directly respond to a question on whether or not that would entail US military action.

Hamas, Israeli and Arab officials have already warned that the ceasefire is at a breaking point, and Trump’s radical intervention could stoke fears that Washington does not have any intent to continue with the phased deal.

A Hamas spokesperson cited past Israeli violations for halting the exchanges, but the militant group’s threat to suspend hostage releases comes against a backdrop of increasingly hardline US and Israeli positions about the long-term future of the strip.

Trump also said that he could “conceivably” withhold aid to Jordan and Egypt – some of the US’s closest allies in the region – unless they agreed to his plan for the US to “take over” Gaza and to relocate millions of Palestinians to the neighbouring states in what would amount to an effective ethnic cleansing.

“If they don’t agree, I would conceivably withhold it,” Trump said.

That threat came after Egypt rejected earlier Monday “any compromise” that would infringe on Palestinians’ rights, in a statement issued after foreign minister Badr Abdelatty met with his US counterpart in Washington.

Egyptian security sources separately told Reuters that mediators fear the ceasefire could collapse and have postponed talks until they receive a clear indication of Washington’s intent to continue with the phased deal.

Israel’s security cabinet has moved forward a meeting to discuss negotiations on the second phase, which had been scheduled for Tuesday evening.

The army has cancelled all leave for soldiers in the Gaza division, the Kan news outlet reported, in another sign that Israeli authorities are preparing for the resumption of war.

Before Trump’s comments, Hamas said the “door remains open” for the next hostage-prisoner exchange on Saturday.

In a statement, the group said it had “intentionally made this announcement five days before the scheduled prisoner handover, allowing mediators ample time to pressure [Israel] towards fulfilling its obligations”.

It added: “The door remains open for the prisoner exchange batch to proceed as planned, once the occupation complies.”

Trump’s comments on the ceasefire were his second apparently unscripted intervention in the crisis on Monday.

Earlier, he said that his plan to “take over Gaza” would not include a right of return for the more than 2 million Palestinians that he has said have “no alternative” but to leave because of the destruction left by Israel’s military campaign.

Asked about Palestinians who refused to leave, Trump said: “They’re all gonna leave.”

Arab states have denounced the plan and the UN’s top investigator told Politico that Trump’s plan for the “forcible displacement of an occupied group is an international crime, and amounts to ethnic cleansing”.

In the interview with Fox’s Bret Baier, Trump said that he would “own” the Gaza Strip and declared it would be a “real estate development for the future”.

Asked if Palestinians would have the right to return to Gaza, Trump told Baier: “No, they wouldn’t, because they’re going to have much better housing.

“Could be five, six, could be two,” he said. “But we’ll build safe communities, a little bit away from where they are, where all of this danger is.

“In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them because if they have to return now, it’ll be years before you could ever – it’s not habitable,” he said.

Qatar had warned Israeli officials at the weekend that even the first stage of the ceasefire deal was being put in jeopardy by provocative statements from Netanyahu and by his government’s approach to talks on a second stage, Haaretz reported. Qatari diplomats sent angry messages to Israeli counterparts, reminding them that as hosts, key mediators and guarantors of the deal’s implementation, they too have a stake in its survival, an Israeli source said.

The next exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners and detainees had been scheduled for this Saturday and would have been the sixth under the six-week-long first stage of the ceasefire deal.

The skeletal appearance of three hostages released on Saturday shocked many Israelis, and increased pressure on the government to reach a deal to bring home those still trapped. Several recently returned hostages have said they fear those still inside Gaza will struggle to survive much longer.

In Tel Aviv, protesters blocked streets on Monday night, demanding the return of all hostages, as some relatives accused their government of sabotaging the deal and endangering their loved ones.

“Abu Obeida’s statement is a direct result of Netanyahu’s irresponsible behaviour,” said Einav Zangauker, the mother of Matan Zangauker, who is a hostage in Gaza and not listed for release under the first stage of the deal. “[Netanyahu’s] deliberate procrastination and unnecessary provocative statements disrupted the implementation of the agreement.”

Hamas is due to release 33 hostages during the first stage of the deal, although eight of them are dead. The list of those who will be released includes women – civilians and soldiers – children, the sick and older men. Israel has agreed to release about 1,900 Palestinian prisoners and detainees.

Sixteen Israelis have been released so far, all alive, and Hamas also released five Thai citizens last week. They had not been included in the negotiations.

The second stage of the ceasefire deal is intended to bring the return of all living hostages and the complete withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza, under a framework agreed days before Trump’s inauguration in January. Negotiations on the details of that stage were always expected to be even more challenging than agreeing the initial ceasefire.

A consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer of wealth from the creative industries to the tech sector, according to a crossbench peer campaigning against the mooted overhauls.

Beeban Kidron said the government was undermining its own growth agenda with proposals to let AI companies train their algorithms on creative works under a new copyright exemption.

Lady Kidron, an award-winning film director whose work includes Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, said the government consultation on amending copyright law appeared to be a foregone conclusion.

“We’ve got an open consultation but that consultation is fixed and inadequate,” she said.

The government has proposed four options in its consultation. It has indicated a preferred scenario where copyright restrictions are relaxed for AI developers, provided they flag what works they use and if the creative industries have the opportunity to “opt out” of the process. It describes such an outcome as “the primary object of this consultation”.

“Why have a preferred choice if it is an open consultation?” said Kidron.

The other options are: to leave the situation unchanged; require AI companies to seek licences for using copyrighted work; and allow AI firms to use copyrighted work with no opt-out for creative companies and individuals.

The row over copyright returns to the House of Commons on Wednesday with the second reading of the data (use and access) bill, which contains amendments from Kidron passed in the Lords last month.

“What I say to MPs is, if you are members of a government that has put all its chips on growth, why is that same government undermining creative industries that bring £126bn to the UK economy and is giving away for free the property rights of 2.4 million people who work in those industries? The creative industries impact every constituency, region and nation,” she said.

Kidron’s amendments aim to tackle the unauthorised use of copyrighted material to train the AI models that underpin products such as chatbots and image generators.

The amendments, which can be removed by the government in the Commons, subject AI companies to UK copyright law wherever they are based and allow copyright owners to know when, where and how their work is used in AI systems. It also requires the naming of web crawlers that are used to scrape copyrighted data for use in AI models.

“For more than 300 years we have had a gold-plated copyright regime but now the tech companies and the government are walking around saying it is unclear,” said Kidron. “Actually, it’s not unclear. Tech firms have come in with their [web] crawlers, taken all the copyrighted material, said ‘whoops it’s unclear’. But it is not unclear.”

She added: “My amendments mandate that companies have to account for where and when they take the material and make it transparent. It makes copyright law fit for the age of AI. It makes tech accountable.”

Campaigners for the protection of the rights of creative professionals have come out against the government proposal to allow AI companies to train the models on copyrighted work – unless creatives opt out of the process in what the government is calling a “rights reservation” system. The opt-out proposal has been met with scepticism from opponents of the government consultation, who say there is no evidence of a “water-tight” rights reservation process in any country.

The consultation also proposes measures that require transparency from AI developers on what content they have used to train their models. AI models such as the GPT-4o model powering the ChatGPT chatbot are “trained” on huge amounts of data taken from the internet, where they in effect learn to spot patterns in that information – allowing them to predict, for instance, the next word in a sentence or to create realistic images.

Kidron said pushing ahead with the changes would benefit the tech sector at the expense of its creative counterpart.

“The government is suggesting a wholesale transfer of wealth from a hugely successful sector that invests hundreds of millions in the UK to a tech industry that extracts profit that is not assured and will accrue largely to the US and indeed China.”

A government spokesperson said it was “important that everyone remains open-minded about this consultation and what it could deliver for all parties”.

The spokesperson added: “This consultation remains open and is part of an ongoing conversation, and no move will be made until we are absolutely confident we have a practical plan that delivers each of our objectives: increased control for right holders to help them license their content, access to high-quality material to train leading AI models in the UK, and more transparency for right holders.”

The technology secretary, Peter Kyle, said he “very, very deeply” respected the work produced by the UK creative industries. Speaking to the Guardian last week before Kidron made her comments, Kyle said the present legal situation regarding copyright was “not tenable”, a situation reflected by legal standoffs between tech businesses and the creative sector.

“I’m working really carefully with the tech sector so that we can produce the reassurance they need, that there will be technical solutions to things like transparency and making sure that those remarkable people, who create remarkable pieces of art, are respected for it.”

Elon Musk escalated his feud with OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, on Monday. The billionaire is leading a consortium of investors that announced it had submitted a bid of $97.4bn for “all assets” of the artificial intelligence company to OpenAI’s board of directors.

The startup, which operates ChatGPT, has been working to restructure itself away from its original non-profit status. OpenAI also operates a for-profit subsidiary, and Musk’s unsolicited offer could complicate the company’s plans. The Wall Street Journal first reported the proposed bid.

“If Sam Altman and the present OpenAI, Inc board of directors are intent on becoming a fully for-profit corporation, it is vital that the charity be fairly compensated for what its leadership is taking away from it: control over the most transformative technology of our time,” said Marc Toberoff, the attorney representing the investors.

Altman posted his reaction on X shortly after the news broke, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.” Musk memorably bought Twitter in 2022 for $44bn and renamed it X. Musk responded to that post, saying: “Swindler.”

Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but left the company in 2019 and started his own AI company called xAI. Over the past several years, he has tussled with Altman over the direction of the company. He sued OpenAI over the company’s restructuring plans last year, dropped the suit, then refiled it.

The bid is backed by xAI and several investment firms, including one run by Joe Lonsdale, who co-founded the stealth government contractor Palantir. Ari Emanuel, who is the CEO of the entertainment company Endeavor, has also joined the group through his investment fund.

“At x.AI, we live by the values I was promised OpenAI would follow. We’ve made Grok open source, and we respect the rights of content creators,” Musk said in a statement. “It’s time for OpenAI to return to the open-source, safety-focused force for good it once was. We will make sure that happens.”

Toberoff told the Wall Street Journal that Musk’s consortium of investors is ready to match or go higher than any other bids on OpenAI that may arise.

OpenAI has maintained that its restructuring is essential to the longevity of the company and being able to access capital. It has said that if it keeps its non-profit structure as is, it will not be able to keep up in the highly competitive world of AI innovation. OpenAI said it planned for the restructuring to be done by 2026.

Although Musk is a close Donald Trump ally, Altman has also met with the president and attended his inauguration. Trump tapped OpenAI to be part of a group of AI companies to work on a $500bn deal called Stargate to invest in the burgeoning technology. Musk’s xAI is not part of this deal.

Emmanuel Macron touted Europe and France as artificial intelligence powerhouses, amid speculation that the US and UK are playing hardball over a diplomatic declaration at the Paris AI summit.

The French president told investors and tech companies attending the summit to “choose Europe and France for AI” as he teased his US counterpart Donald Trump over his swing towards fossil fuels.

Referring to the vast energy consumption needed by AI, Macron said France stood out due to its reliance on nuclear energy. Trump said in his inauguration address that the US will “drill, baby, drill” for oil and gas under his leadership.

“I have a good friend on the other side of the ocean saying ‘drill, baby, drill.’ Here, there is no need to drill. It’s plug, baby, plug. Electricity is available,” he said on Monday.

Macron added that a European AI strategy, to be unveiled by the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, on Tuesday, would be a “unique opportunity for Europe to accelerate” in the technology.

“We have to provide a bigger domestic market to all the startups when they start as Europeans,” he said.

Criticism of a draft communique has threatened to overshadow the summit’s final day on Tuesday, when Macron will be joined by von der Leyen as well as the US vice-president, JD Vance, and the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi. Keir Starmer is not attending.

With the US reportedly unhappy about the wording, which includes phrases such as “sustainable and inclusive AI”, Politico reported on Monday that the UK was also minded not to sign the communique.

Speaking in Paris, the UK tech secretary, Peter Kyle, said the government was “in negotiations” over the statement but “that’s something we don’t comment on while the negotiations unfold”.

A government source said they hoped the negotiations would get to a place over the course of the summit where the UK could sign the declaration and said there was still a considerable amount of time left to have those discussions.

But the source suggested that the UK was prepared to walk away, saying the joint declaration had to be “squarely in British interests” or it would not get its backing. “We always want to get to a place of agreement but it needs to work for the UK,” they said.

The draft statement, seen by the Guardian, also refers to AI technology that is “human rights based, human-centric, ethical, safe, secure and trustworthy”. It places much less emphasis on safety than the declaration at the inaugural AI summit, held in the UK in 2023, which pointed to the technology’s potential to cause “catastrophic” harm.

Max Tegmark, a leading voice in AI safety, urged countries to shun the statement if it was not amended, saying that its lack of focus on risks from powerful AI systems was a “recipe for disaster”.

The Ada Lovelace Institute, an independent research body focused on data and AI, also said the draft’s failure to emphasise safety “fails to build on the mission of making AI safe and trustworthy, and the safety commitments of previous summits”.

The opening day of the summit heard warnings about AI’s impact on the environment and inequality, as political leaders, tech executives, experts and civil society figures gathered at the Grand Palais in the heart of the French capital.

Macron’s AI envoy, Anne Bouverot, opened the two-day gathering with a speech referring to the environmental impact of AI, which requires vast amounts of energy and resources to develop and operate.

“We know that AI can help mitigate climate change, but we also know that its current trajectory is unsustainable,” Bouverot said, adding that sustainable development of the technology would be on the agenda.

The general secretary of the UNI Global Union, Christy Hoffman, said that without worker involvement in the use of AI, the technology risked increasing inequality. The UNI represents about 20 million workers worldwide in industries including retail, finance and entertainment.

“Without worker representation, AI-driven productivity gains risk turning the technology into yet another engine of inequality, further straining our democracies,” she told attenders.

On Sunday, Macron promoted the event by posting a montage of deepfake images of himself on Instagram, including a video of “him” dancing in a disco with various 1980s hairstyles, in a tongue-in-cheek reference to the technology’s capabilities.

One person was killed and others were injured when a private jet owned by the Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil collided with another jet on Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale airport in Arizona, authorities said.

Neil’s jet was landing at the airport when it veered off the runway and collided with another parked plane, Neil’s representative, Worrick Robinson IV, said in a statement. Two pilots and two passengers were on Neil’s plane, but he was not among them.

“Mr Neil’s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved, and he is grateful for the critical aid of all first responders assisting today,” Robinson said.

The arriving jet veered off the runway and collided with the Gulfstream 200 jet that was parked on private property, according to Kelli Kuester, aviation planning and outreach coordinator at the Scottsdale airport. It appeared that the left main landing gear of the arriving jet failed, resulting in the collision, she said.

Kuester said four people were on the arriving jet, which had come from Austin, Texas, and one person was in the parked plane.

Two people injured in the collision were taken to trauma centers and one was in stable condition at a hospital, Capt Dave Folio of Scottsdale fire department said. He said they were working to recover the body of the person killed in the collision.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody involved in this,” Folio said.

The runway has been closed and will remain closed “for the foreseeable future”, Kuester said.

Scottsdale’s mayor, Lisa Borowsky, said in a statement that she was closely monitoring the situation and was in touch with the airport, police and federal agencies.

“On behalf of the city of Scottsdale, we offer our deepest condolences to those involved in the accident and for those who have been taken to our trauma center for treatment,” she said. “We will keep all affected by this tragedy in our prayers.”

The airport is a popular hub for jets coming in and out of the Phoenix area, especially during big sports weekends like the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament, which attracts huge crowds just a few miles away.

The Scottsdale collision comes after three major US aviation disasters in the past two weeks. A commercial jetliner and an army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on 29 January, killing 67 people. A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on 31 January, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground. And last week a small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome, killing all 10 people on board.

One person was killed and others were injured when a private jet owned by the Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil collided with another jet on Monday afternoon at the Scottsdale airport in Arizona, authorities said.

Neil’s jet was landing at the airport when it veered off the runway and collided with another parked plane, Neil’s representative, Worrick Robinson IV, said in a statement. Two pilots and two passengers were on Neil’s plane, but he was not among them.

“Mr Neil’s thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved, and he is grateful for the critical aid of all first responders assisting today,” Robinson said.

The arriving jet veered off the runway and collided with the Gulfstream 200 jet that was parked on private property, according to Kelli Kuester, aviation planning and outreach coordinator at the Scottsdale airport. It appeared that the left main landing gear of the arriving jet failed, resulting in the collision, she said.

Kuester said four people were on the arriving jet, which had come from Austin, Texas, and one person was in the parked plane.

Two people injured in the collision were taken to trauma centers and one was in stable condition at a hospital, Capt Dave Folio of Scottsdale fire department said. He said they were working to recover the body of the person killed in the collision.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody involved in this,” Folio said.

The runway has been closed and will remain closed “for the foreseeable future”, Kuester said.

Scottsdale’s mayor, Lisa Borowsky, said in a statement that she was closely monitoring the situation and was in touch with the airport, police and federal agencies.

“On behalf of the city of Scottsdale, we offer our deepest condolences to those involved in the accident and for those who have been taken to our trauma center for treatment,” she said. “We will keep all affected by this tragedy in our prayers.”

The airport is a popular hub for jets coming in and out of the Phoenix area, especially during big sports weekends like the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament, which attracts huge crowds just a few miles away.

The Scottsdale collision comes after three major US aviation disasters in the past two weeks. A commercial jetliner and an army helicopter collided near the nation’s capital on 29 January, killing 67 people. A medical transportation plane crashed in Philadelphia on 31 January, killing the six people on board and another person on the ground. And last week a small commuter plane crashed in western Alaska on its way to the hub community of Nome, killing all 10 people on board.

Italian police have arrested almost 150 people in a significant operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans.

Warrants were issued against a total of 183 people on Tuesday, 36 of whom were already in custody, for crimes including mafia-type criminal association, attempted murder, extortion, drug trafficking and illegal gambling, police said.

More than 1,200 officers were involved in dawn raids, in what media reports said was the biggest operation against the Cosa Nostra since 1984.

The Sicilian mafia, the inspiration for the Godfather movies, is no longer the force it once was, subject to years of crackdowns by authorities and overtaken in terms of power and wealth by Calabria’s ’Ndrangheta.

But Palermo police said their two-year investigation had revealed how it continued to maintain its grip, these days coordinated by messages on encrypted smartphones.

Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister, hailed the operation, which she said “confirms the state’s constant commitment to the fight against organised crime”.

Tuesday’s operation was aimed at dismantling mafia clans in several districts of the Sicilian capital, Palermo, and its surrounding areas, after an investigation that provides an insight into how they operate.

Police described how the clans cooperated on drug trafficking – a significant source of income – while also working with mobsters elsewhere in Sicily, and with the ’Ndrangheta on the Italian mainland.

Within its territory, the mafia “exercises constant control”, police said.

As in decades past, they demand “pizzo” – protection money – from businesses, and force traders to use their products, often at inflated prices. In one example, investigators revealed how a clan took control of distributing mussels and other seafood to restaurants in two seaside villages.

While Cosa Nostra bosses these days try to resolve disputes peacefully to avoid attracting attention, weapons were found in Tuesday’s blitz, police said, while reporting incidents of brutal beatings.

The old rules of top-down organisation and membership until death still hold sway but police said clan leaders were “up to date”, using encrypted smartphones to communicate to avoid traditional meetings.

Despite numerous arrests over the years, the Sicilian mafia “still manages to attract a large number of young people who embrace its principles” and offer to work for them, police said.

The investigation also revealed a wide network of informants, with a clerk in the Palermo prosecutors’ office arrested last November accused of passing on files.

For many years, the Sicilian mafia terrorised the Italian public and state, and became notorious for the killings of anti-mafia judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino in 1992.

But that led to a fierce state clampdown and the ’Ndrangheta is now considered Italy’s wealthiest and most powerful mafia, controlling the bulk of cocaine flowing into Europe.

Steve Bannon pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud charge related to duping donors who gave money to a private effort to build a wall along the US southern border – a case the conservative strategist has decried as a “political persecution”.

Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, reached a plea agreement that spares him from jail time in the “We Build the Wall” scheme.

He pleaded guilty to a scheme to defraud count and received a three-year conditional discharge, which requires that he stay out of trouble to avoid additional punishment.

Asked how he was feeling as he left the courtroom, Bannon said: “Like a million bucks.”

Bannon spoke to reporters afterward and called on the US attorney general, Pam Bondi, to begin an immediate criminal investigation into the New York attorney general, Leticia James, and the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg.

Bannon’s deal comes just days after Bondi ordered the justice department to investigate what the president called the “weaponization of prosecutorial power”.

The case had been scheduled to go to trial 4 March.

Bragg’s office charged Bannon in state court after a Trump pardon in 2021 wiped away federal charges on the same allegations.

In November, Judge April Newbauer ruled prosecutors could show jurors certain evidence, including an email they say shows Bannon was concerned the fundraising effort was “a scam”.

Bannon had been planning an aggressive defense strategy and recently hired a new team of attack dog lawyers who sought to portray the case to jurors as a selective and malicious prosecution.

In January, Bannon’s lawyers filed papers asking Newbauer to throw out the case, calling it an “unconstitutional selective enforcement of the law”. The judge had been expected to rule on that on Tuesday before Bannon’s plea deal made the request moot.

Bannon, 71, pleaded not guilty in September 2022 to a state court indictment charging him with money laundering, fraud and conspiracy.

He was accused of falsely promising donors that all money given to the “We Build the Wall “campaign would go toward building a wall along the US-Mexico border. Instead, prosecutors alleged the money was used to enrich Bannon and others involved in the project.

The campaign, launched in 2018 after Trump fired Bannon as his chief strategist, quickly raised over $20m and privately built a few miles of fencing along the border. It soon ran into trouble with the International Boundary and Water Commission, came under federal investigation and drew criticism from Trump, the Republican whose policy the charity was founded to support.

Bragg, a Democrat, took up the case after Trump cut Bannon’s federal prosecution short with a pardon in the final hours of his first term in the White House. Presidential pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state offenses.

Early in the fundraising campaign, Bannon pooh-poohed it, prosecutors said at a November hearing.

“Isn’t this a scam? You can’t build the wall for this much money,” Bannon wrote in an email, according to prosecutor Jeffrey Levinson. He said Bannon went on to add: “Poor Americans shouldn’t be using hard-earned money to chase something not doable.”

Two other men involved in the project, Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato, pleaded guilty to federal charges and were sentenced to prison. A third defendant, Timothy Shea, was convicted and also sentenced to prison.

Bannon went to prison in an unrelated case last year, serving four months at a federal lockup in Connecticut for defying a subpoena in the congressional investigation into the US Capitol attack on January 6, 2021. He was released in October.

Bondi last week formed a “Weaponization Working Group” at the justice department to examine cases she said appear to have been motivated by “political objectives or other improper aims”, including Bragg’s pursuit of criminal charges against Trump.

Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claims of being “held hostage” in taxi.

The captain of the Australian women’s football team and Chelsea’s star striker had faced up to a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

The verdict is likely to spark debate about free speech and race, especially in the UK where there has been a recent spate of high-profile cases involving people of colour being charged with racially aggravated offences.

In a six-day trial, Kingston crown court heard that Kerr had called a Metropolitan police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her account of being “held hostage” in a locked taxi that was speeding and swerving.

During the trial it was revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service, the body which has the final say on whether a criminal prosecution can go ahead in England and Wales, initially decided against charging Kerr as the evidence did not meet the required threshold.

The CPS decided to charge her with racially aggravated intentional harassment after a second statement was provided by the officer involved, PC Stephen Lovell.

His second statement had been submitted in December 2023, 11 months after the incident. In it, he said her comments had left him “shocked, upset and humiliated”. His initial statement made no mention of how Kerr’s words affected him.

On 30 January 2023, Kerr and her partner, Kristie Mewis, had been on a night out before hailing a black cab in central London. During the journey, Kerr felt sick and opened the window. She put her head outside and vomited.

While her head was still sitting on the car’s open window frame, Kerr said the driver rolled it back up. A dispute began after they refused the driver’s request to pay for the cleaning up of the mess.

After this, Kerr and Mewis told the court that the driver locked the doors of the taxi and began speeding and swerving. Both said they had feared for their lives. The taxi driver called the police, unbeknownst to the couple. He was told to drive them to Twickenham police station.

Mewis told the court they had “tried everything to get out” before the West Ham player smashed a window after kicking it with both feet. About a minute and a half before the car arrived at the police station, Kerr rang emergency services.

After the car parked up outside the police station, Kerr crawled through the broken window and opened the door from the outside to let Mewis out. They willingly approached a marked police car where two officers, including Lovell, spoke to them. Lovell took them inside while the other officer stayed outside the station to speak to the taxi driver.

The pair told the court they were “relieved” to come into contact with officers. Soon after, however, Kerr said officers were “dismissive” of their claims. After Lovell spoke to his colleague, who had been talking to the taxi driver, Kerr said his tone changed and he made the couple feel as if they “were the ones who had done something wrong”.

Body-worn footage shown to the court, lasting about half an hour, shows Kerr saying: “We could not get out of the car, listen to the recording,” referring to the call they made in the cab, before saying she has “all the fucking people in the world”.

In the course of the exchange, Lovell doubts the pair’s claim of being “held hostage” in the cab. At one point, he says: “Do you think a taxi driver that was going to rape and kill you would drive you to a police station? No.”

Kerr responds: “You’re sick. You’re honestly sick. You’re literally a white privileged person. You’re literally a white privileged man.”

Lovell responds: “You don’t need to be racist towards me.”

Kerr told the court she believed officers were “treating me differently based on what they perceived to be the colour of my skin”. Mewis said she felt officers treated her differently in the station. At one point, Lovell told Kerr to “calm down young missy” and, in the course of the exchange, she said her treatment was a “racial fucking thing”.

Officers also cast doubt on Kerr and Mewis’s assertion that they had called police in the taxi but that the operator had hung up. The officers said they had no record of the call, claiming that phone operators would not hang up. During the trial, evidence emerged that they had called.

In the call, Kerr is heard saying to operators: “Hey, can you help me. He won’t let us out of his cab.” Mewis is also heard saying “let us out, please”. Emergency responders hung up on Kerr, saying they would call back. When they did, the pair were in the police station and the call went to voicemail.

After doubting the pair’s repeated assertion that they had called the police in the taxi, Kerr tells Lovell: “You guys are stupid and white, you guys are fucking stupid and white.” Kerr then looked up at Lovell and said: “I’m looking you in the eyes, I’m looking you in the eyes, you guys are fucking stupid.”

Sam Kerr has been found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment after calling a police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her claims of being “held hostage” in taxi.

The captain of the Australian women’s football team and Chelsea’s star striker had faced up to a maximum sentence of two years in prison.

The verdict is likely to spark debate about free speech and race, especially in the UK where there has been a recent spate of high-profile cases involving people of colour being charged with racially aggravated offences.

In a six-day trial, Kingston crown court heard that Kerr had called a Metropolitan police officer “fucking stupid and white” after he doubted her account of being “held hostage” in a locked taxi that was speeding and swerving.

During the trial it was revealed that the Crown Prosecution Service, the body which has the final say on whether a criminal prosecution can go ahead in England and Wales, initially decided against charging Kerr as the evidence did not meet the required threshold.

The CPS decided to charge her with racially aggravated intentional harassment after a second statement was provided by the officer involved, PC Stephen Lovell.

His second statement had been submitted in December 2023, 11 months after the incident. In it, he said her comments had left him “shocked, upset and humiliated”. His initial statement made no mention of how Kerr’s words affected him.

On 30 January 2023, Kerr and her partner, Kristie Mewis, had been on a night out before hailing a black cab in central London. During the journey, Kerr felt sick and opened the window. She put her head outside and vomited.

While her head was still sitting on the car’s open window frame, Kerr said the driver rolled it back up. A dispute began after they refused the driver’s request to pay for the cleaning up of the mess.

After this, Kerr and Mewis told the court that the driver locked the doors of the taxi and began speeding and swerving. Both said they had feared for their lives. The taxi driver called the police, unbeknownst to the couple. He was told to drive them to Twickenham police station.

Mewis told the court they had “tried everything to get out” before the West Ham player smashed a window after kicking it with both feet. About a minute and a half before the car arrived at the police station, Kerr rang emergency services.

After the car parked up outside the police station, Kerr crawled through the broken window and opened the door from the outside to let Mewis out. They willingly approached a marked police car where two officers, including Lovell, spoke to them. Lovell took them inside while the other officer stayed outside the station to speak to the taxi driver.

The pair told the court they were “relieved” to come into contact with officers. Soon after, however, Kerr said officers were “dismissive” of their claims. After Lovell spoke to his colleague, who had been talking to the taxi driver, Kerr said his tone changed and he made the couple feel as if they “were the ones who had done something wrong”.

Body-worn footage shown to the court, lasting about half an hour, shows Kerr saying: “We could not get out of the car, listen to the recording,” referring to the call they made in the cab, before saying she has “all the fucking people in the world”.

In the course of the exchange, Lovell doubts the pair’s claim of being “held hostage” in the cab. At one point, he says: “Do you think a taxi driver that was going to rape and kill you would drive you to a police station? No.”

Kerr responds: “You’re sick. You’re honestly sick. You’re literally a white privileged person. You’re literally a white privileged man.”

Lovell responds: “You don’t need to be racist towards me.”

Kerr told the court she believed officers were “treating me differently based on what they perceived to be the colour of my skin”. Mewis said she felt officers treated her differently in the station. At one point, Lovell told Kerr to “calm down young missy” and, in the course of the exchange, she said her treatment was a “racial fucking thing”.

Officers also cast doubt on Kerr and Mewis’s assertion that they had called police in the taxi but that the operator had hung up. The officers said they had no record of the call, claiming that phone operators would not hang up. During the trial, evidence emerged that they had called.

In the call, Kerr is heard saying to operators: “Hey, can you help me. He won’t let us out of his cab.” Mewis is also heard saying “let us out, please”. Emergency responders hung up on Kerr, saying they would call back. When they did, the pair were in the police station and the call went to voicemail.

After doubting the pair’s repeated assertion that they had called the police in the taxi, Kerr tells Lovell: “You guys are stupid and white, you guys are fucking stupid and white.” Kerr then looked up at Lovell and said: “I’m looking you in the eyes, I’m looking you in the eyes, you guys are fucking stupid.”

The former Spanish football federation boss Luis Rubiales has told a court that he asked the player Jenni Hermoso if he could kiss her before doing so after the Women’s World Cup victory in 2023.

“I am absolutely sure that she gave me her permission,” Rubiales, 47, told the court in Madrid. “In that moment it was something completely spontaneous.”

Rubiales is accused of sexual assault and then attempting to coerce Hermoso, with the help of three other former football federation officials, into publicly saying the kiss on the lips at the awards ceremony in Australia had been consensual.

He has denied the charges, saying the kiss was consensual, while Hermoso has said it was not.

The ensuing scandal eclipsed Spain’s first Women’s World Cup victory and spurred efforts by Spain’s female players to expose sexism and achieve parity with male counterparts.

In court on Tuesday, Rubiales said he had made an error of judgment.

“It’s obvious now that I made a mistake,” he told the court. “It was spontaneous. I behaved like a sports person, like I was one more member of the team. I should have been more cold-blooded and adopted a more institutional role.”

The sixth day of the trial in San Fernando de Henares in Madrid began with evidence from David Morillo, who has been deaf since birth and was presented by the defence as an expert lip reader.

During the pre-trial, Rubiales claimed he asked Hermoso if he could give her a piquito (a peck). Based on video evidence, Morillo said that the accused asked for a besito (little kiss), the same meaning but a different word, a distinction Rubiales dismissed as irrelevant.

Morillo added that, as Hermoso’s back was to the camera, he couldn’t confirm whether she gave her consent.

Rubiales denied trying to coerce Hermoso into making a statement minimising the incident, saying that, given the media attention the kiss had attracted, he suggested they calm things down by making a joint statement, but Hermoso refused to comply.

The court also heard a recording of an interview Hermoso gave to a Spanish journalist immediately after her team’s victory in which she dismisses the kiss as an “anecdote” in the context of the euphoria of becoming world champions.

However, on the trial’s opening day, the footballer told the court that “one of the happiest moments” of her life had been ruined by the kiss and its aftermath.

If convicted, Rubiales – who resigned as the federation president a month after the incident – could face two and a half years in prison: one year for sexual assault over the kiss, and 18 months for allegedly coercing Hermoso to downplay what happened.

The trial continues on Wednesday with the testimony of the former head coach of the women’s national team Jorge Vilda, the former Spanish football federation sporting director Albert Luque and the federation’s former marketing chief Rubén Rivera, for their suspected roles in putting pressure on Hermoso. All three deny the charges against them.

Reuters contributed to this report

Salman Rushdie took the stand in the trial of the man accused of attempting to kill him at a literary gathering in western New York in August 2022, and described the shocking attack more than 35 years after he was first placed under a death warrant by Iranian religious leaders.

Rushdie, 77, is testifying for the prosecution against Hadi Matar, 27, the man accused of assaulting him with a knife as he was about to address an open-air audience on a theme of shelter and home.

The encounter in Judge David Foley’s courtroom brought Rushdie and Matar together for the first time since, prosecutors say, Matar dropped a bag containing assorted knives as he approached the stage at the Chautauqua Institution amphitheater, and stabbed the author more than a dozen times with a 10in knife.

Speaking in a clear voice, Rushdie described how he was sitting in a chair on the stage, facing co-speaker Henry Reece and the audience, when “this assault began”.

“I was aware of this person rushing at me from my right-hand side. I was aware of someone in dark clothes … I was struck by his eyes which seemed dark and ferocious to me.”

Rushdie added: “He hit me very hard around my jawline and neck. Initially I thought he’d punched me with his fist, but very soon afterwards I saw blood on my clothes.”

He continued: “Everything happened very quickly. I was stabbed repeatedly, and most painfully in my eye. I struggled to get away. I held up my hand in self-defense and was stabbed through that.”

Asked how many times he was stabbed, Rushdie said: “I wasn’t keeping score.”

Rushdie described getting up from his seat to get away from his attacker but fell. “He was trying to strike me as many times as possible.

“I was very badly injured and I couldn’t stand up any more,” Rushdie testified, estimating that he had been struck 15 times by his assailant.

“I was screaming because of the pain,” he said, describing the wound to his right eye that took his sight on that side. Rushdie showed jurors the empty socket beneath an eye patch he now wears.

While lying on the stage, Rushdie continued: “I became aware of a great quantity of blood I was lying in. My sense of time was quite cloudy, I was in pain from my eye and hand, and it occurred to me quite clearly I was dying.”

Rushdie described how he was put on a gurney and later wheeled to an emergency medical helicopter. “I was dimly aware of what was going on until the helicopter landed, then I don’t remember anything until much later.”

Rushdie was hospitalized for more that two weeks, and described how, while on a ventilator, he communicated by wiggling his feet.

Matar, a dual US-Lebanese citizen, is accused of attempted murder and assault. He has pleaded not guilty. Matar muttered: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as he was brought into court. Rushdie’s wife, Rachel Griffiths, and his agent, Andrew Wylie, sat in the gallery flanked by security.

In opening statements, jurors had heard from prosecutors that Matar “almost succeeded in killing Mr Rushdie”.

“Without hesitation, this man, holding his knife … forcefully and efficiently in its speed, plunged the knife into Mr Rushdie over and over and over and over again,” prosecutor Jason Schmidt said.

Assistant public defender Lynn Schaffer told jurors that prosecutors would be unable to prove Matar’s guilt, even using video recordings and photos.

“The elements of the crime are more than ‘something really bad happened’ – they’re more defined,” Shaffer said. “Something bad did happen, something very bad did happen, but the district attorney has to prove much more than that.”

A series of witness were called on Monday by prosecutors looking to place Matar at the crime scene. The Chautauqua employee Jordan Steves said he saw a “violent interaction with someone swinging their arms at an onstage guest …”

Absent from the case so far is any reference to the fatwa that called for Rushdie’s death that was Matar’s motivation, according to an interview he gave after his arrest. Prosecutors say they can secure a conviction without reference to it.

Matar is set to be tried on federal terrorism charges, where the issue of motivation will be hard to exclude. The charges allege Matar was motivated by an endorsement of the fatwa by the Iran-backed group Hezbollah. On Monday, Matar said “Free Palestine” as he entered the courtroom.

A later trial on the federal charges – terrorism transcending national boundaries, providing material support to terrorists and attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization – will be scheduled in US district court in Buffalo.

In an account published last year, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Rushdie recounted how he had a premonition in a dream of of being attacked in an amphitheater.

The trial will last up to two weeks, the lawyers said.

Pope Francis has sharply criticized the second Donald Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and other policies cracking down on immigration, saying they are driving a “major crisis” that “damages the dignity of men and women”.

In the letter on Tuesday addressed to the US Roman Catholic church’s bishops, the pope pushed back against efforts to characterize all migrants as criminals – and urged people “not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters”.

“I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations,” Francis wrote. “The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality.”

Francis acknowledged the right of a nation to defend itself and to keep communities safe from individuals who have committed violent or serious crimes “while in the country or prior to arrival”.

But, he said that the act of deporting people who “in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness”.

He added: “What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly.”

Francis, who has served as pope since 2013, has been a longstanding critic of Trump’s immigration policies.

In 2016, when Trump won his first presidency, the pope stated that Trump was “not Christian” in his approach and views on immigration. Trump responded and called the pope “disgraceful”.

In January, when Trump took office for his second presidency, he described Trump’s plan to deport millions of migrants as a “disgrace”.

Trump’s administration issued a series of executive actions aimed at cracking down on immigration and facilitating mass deportations. He has redirected military resources to bolster these deportation efforts and empowered US immigration officers to make more arrests, including in locations such as schools, churches and hospitals.

The White House said that more 8,000 undocumented immigrants had been arrested by federal agents since Trump retook office on 20 January. Some of these individuals are being held in federal prisons and others are being held at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba.

In Tuesday’s letter, Pope Francis also appeared to indirectly address JD Vance’s defense of deportation efforts.

In January, the vice-president defended the immigration crackdown by referencing an early Catholic theological concept known as in Latin as “ordo amoris”, or “order of love”, suggesting that Catholics should give priority to non-immigrants.

The pope wrote on Tuesday: “The true ‘ordo amoris’ that must be promoted [is] … by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception.”

David Gibson, director of the center for religion and culture at Fordham University, stated on social media that the pope’s letter “takes aim at every single absurd theological claim by JD Vance and his allies in conservative Catholicism (and the Catholic electorate)” and said that in the letter, the pope also “defends the chief target of Trumpism – the rule of law”.

In January, Archbishop Timothy P Broglio, the president of the US bishops’ conference, also put out a statement critical of Trump after he signed his initial executive orders focused on immigration, foreign aid, expansion of the death penalty, and the environment.

Broglio called the actions “deeply troubling” adding that they would have “negative consequences, many of which will harm the most vulnerable among us”.

Also recently, the Vatican’s charity – Caritas International – condemned Trump’s plans to cut USAid. Caritas International warned that millions of people could die as a result of the US’s “ruthless” decision to “recklessly” stop USAid funding – and hundreds of millions more will be condemned to “dehumanizing poverty”.

Caritas asked governments to urgently call on the Trump administration to reverse course.

On Tuesday, the pope also named Bishop Edward Weisenburger, a Catholic prelate known for advocating for immigrants, as the new archbishop of Detroit.

During Trump’s first administration, Weisenburger suggested that Catholic border patrol agents involved in the Trump administration’s family separation policy could be denied communion, a central part of Catholic worship.

The pope also recently appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy as the new archbishop of Washington DC. McElroy has also criticized Trump’s immigration policies, though his handling of clergy abuse cases has been questioned by the survivors’ community.

During Trump’s inauguration in January, at the National Cathedral prayer service in Washington, the Episcopal bishop Edgar Budde made headlines after using her sermon to urge the president to “have mercy upon” immigrants and LGBTQ+ people.

Reuters contributed reporting

The global seafood company Mowi is offering a bounty to fishers who catch escaped salmon after an estimated 27,000 fish went missing from a farm off the Norwegian coast in what campaigners said was a “disaster for wild salmon”.

The world’s largest farmed salmon producer is offering a reward of 500 kroner (£36) per salmon caught after it said a quarter of its 105,000 salmon population escaped from a cage in Troms, north-west Norway.

The Norwegian directorate of fisheries said the escape was reported on Sunday by Mowi, which said it discovered damage to the outer ring of a pen during stormy weather at the Storvika V facility in Dyrøy municipality, Troms. The average weight of the escaped fish was 5.5kg (12.1lbs), they said.

Norwegian authorities were on site on Monday inspecting the facility and issued an order to expand the company’s efforts to recapture the fish.

Vegard Oen Hatten, a spokesperson for the fisheries directorate, said: “Normally, fish farmers are only allowed to conduct recapture operations within a 500-metre zone around the facility in the event of an escape. However, based on the potential scale of this incident, Mowi was instructed to extend recapture efforts beyond this zone.”

Mowi said it was “a serious and very regrettable situation” and that fish caught by registered fishers could be delivered to fish “reception centres” around the area in return for the 500 kroner bounty.

Escaped salmon pose huge environmental problems, campaigners say. They endanger wild salmon by reducing their genetic diversity, increasing infection from sea lice and intensify competition for spawning grounds.

In Norway, which exports 1.2m tonnes of farmed salmon a year, the problem is such that last summer wild salmon numbers dropped to a historic low, resulting in the closure of 33 rivers to salmon fishing. This summer 42 rivers and three fjords have been proposed for closure.

“27,000 farmed salmon on the run is a disaster for wild salmon,” said Pål Mugaas, a spokesperson for Norske Lakseelver (Norwegian Salmon Rivers).

“Science has proved that interbreeding between wild stocks and farmed salmon produce offspring that in the long term has low survival rate in nature.”

The Norwegian scientific advisory committee for Atlantic salmon has classified escaped farmed salmon as one of the major threats to wild salmon. Two-thirds of wild Atlantic salmon stocks in Norway are believed to have genetic interference with escaped farmed salmon.

Despite acknowledging that the wild North Atlantic salmon is under “existential threat”, Norway’s environment minister, Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, last month ruled out a ban on open-net fish farming at sea.

Instead, he said he planned to seek an “acceptable level” of pollution for the wild salmon population.

A Mowi spokesperson, Ola Helge Hjetland, told the newspaper VG: “It is very regrettable and something that should not happen.”

Mowi did not immediately respond to a Guardian request for comment.