24 Oct
Refugees and migrants queue for processing before police move in at the start of a week-long operation to raze camp in northern France
People queue outside a hangar where they will be sorted into groups and put on buses for shelters across France. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty
The Press Association has filed a few lines on the unrest among people waiting to be processed and transferred away from Calais. Details of what is happening are still very patchy, but according to this PA update from just after 11am:
Dozens of riot police marched in to control the queue, as people started to push and shove at the front just before midday.
While a few punches were thrown in scuffles, most of the crowd waited patiently inside the barriers which police then spread out to give them more space.
Police have formed a barrier to prevent people queuing from behind from joining the fray until the situation becomes less volatile.
Migrants board buses after registering at a processing centre near Calais. Photograph: John Stillwell/PA
Where are they going?
Sixty buses will move the refugees and migrants to 164 reception centres across France. The accommodation centres, which are intended to be temporary, will each hold 40 to 50 people for up to four months while their asylum cases are examined. Those who do not claim asylum will be sent back to their country of origin. Almost two-thirds of those surveyed in the camp have said they do not want to be evicted and taken to French accommodation, while one-third say they will continue to try to get to the UK, according to the Refugee Rights Data Project.
How many people live at the camp?
The authorities say 7,000 people live there but charities put the number closer to 10,000. The French president, François Hollande, appeared to acknowledge that the official figure was an underestimate when he said last month that as many as 9,000 people could be moved from the camp to the reception centres.
How will the camp be demolished?
It is understood that 40 people will arrive on Tuesday to begin dismantling the camp. An additional 3,000 police are expected in and around Calais this week to assist with the process of clearing the camp and to attempt to ensure that migrants who do not want to claim asylum do not flee and/or set up new, smaller camps. With the eyes of the world on Calais, police are expected to try a soft approach, at least to begin with. There are fears that anarchists will stoke the atmosphere if French police are deemed to be heavy-handed.
Leila de Lima tells the Guardian she fears for her own life after challenging president on a mission to wipe out drug dealers
Family and friends grieve as they pay their last respects to alleged drug user Robert Manuel Jnr who was killed by police during an operation. There are calls for President Rodrigo Duterte to be investigated over his war on drugs which has claimed more than 3,800 lives. Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP
Nicola Smith
A leading member of the Philippines’ senate has called for an international criminal investigation into the country’s president in an effort to stop a vicious war on drugs that has killed more than 3,800 people since June.
Senator Leila de Lima, a human rights advocate and former justice secretary, has told the Guardian that foreign intervention was the only hope of putting an end to “state-inspired” extrajudicial murders that have terrorised parts of the population since president Rodrigo Duterte came to power four months ago.
In an interview De Lima urged world leaders to consider sanctions and the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague to launch an investigation into Duterte and those who worked for him.
“It [ICC] should start to think about investigating already or doing an inquiry into the killings as crimes against humanity,” she said.
The senator fears for her own life after she was ousted last month as chair of an inquiry looking into the vigilante death squads targeting drug dealers and users, and her address and mobile number were made public.
“For a few weeks after that I was unable to go home, I slept in other places although I was able to sneak into my house from time to time, so I felt like a thief in the night in my own home,” she said.
“The more unfortunate thing is that ever since they publicised my cellphone number I did receive a lot, almost 2,000, of hate messages and death threats.”
De Lima has become the nemesis of Duterte, who swept to power in May on a mandate to enforce zero tolerance on drugs-related crime. He denies any links to extrajudicial murder, but critics say his inflammatory rhetoric has unleashed a wave of violence.
The Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte appears to compare himself to Hitler saying he would “be happy to slaughter” three million drug addicts in his war on crime. “If Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have…,” he says, pausing and pointing to himself. Duterte was speaking during a press conference in his home city of Davao
Writer and activist, and ex-husband of Jane Fonda, became forever linked with Chicago seven trial of anti-Vietnam war protesters
Tom Hayden served on the California assembly for almost 20 years as a progressive force on issues such as education and the environment. Photograph: Roberts/BEI/BEI/Shutterstock
Associated Press in Santa Monica, California
The 1960s anti-war activist Tom Hayden, whose name became forever linked with the celebrated Chicago seven trial, Vietnam war protests and his ex-wife, actor Jane Fonda, has died aged 76.
Hayden died on Sunday after a long illness, said his wife, Barbara Williams. He had a stroke in 2015.
Once denounced as a traitor by his detractors, he won election to the California assembly and senate where he served for almost two decades as a progressive force on issues such as education and the environment. He was the only one of the radical Chicago seven defendants to win such distinction in the mainstream political world.
He was an enduring voice against war and spent his later years as a prolific writer and lecturer advocating for reform of US political institutions.
The Los Angeles mayor, Eric Garcetti, praised Hayden on Twitter: “A political giant and dear friend has passed. Tom Hayden fought harder for what he believed than just about anyone I have known. RIP, Tom.”
Hayden wrote or edited 19 books, including Reunion, a memoir of his path to protest and a rumination on the political upheavals of the 1960s.
“Rarely, if ever, in American history has a generation begun with higher ideals and experienced greater trauma than those who lived fully the short time from 1960 to 1968,” he wrote.
Hayden was there at the start. In 1960, while a student at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, he was involved in the formation of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), then dedicated to desegregating the south. By 1962, when he began drafting the landmark Port Huron Statement, SDS and Hayden were dedicated to changing the world.
“We are people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably at the world we inherit,” began the statement, which outlined a plan for a revolutionary campus social movement.
Hayden was fond of comparing the student movement that followed to the American revolution and the civil war.
In 1968, he helped organise anti-war demonstrations during the Democratic national convention in Chicago that turned violent and resulted in the notorious Chicago seven trial. It began as the Chicago eight trial, but one defendant, Bobby Seale, was denied the lawyer of his choice and ultimately received a separate trial.
After a circus-like trial, Hayden and three others were convicted of crossing state lines to incite riot. The convictions were later overturned, and an official report deemed the violence “a police riot”.
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