The robots are taking charge of healthcare, with assessments of NDIS and aged care patients’ needs being done by algorithms that can’t be held accountable. Claudia Weisenberger reports.

One in four Australians being assessed for aged care support right now will never meet their assessor. The assessment is done by phone. The result goes into an algorithm. The algorithm decides how much help they get. If it gets it wrong — nobody is responsible.

The robot decides. The algorithms taking charge of our health

by Claudia Weisenberger

The person at home gets less help than they need — or no help at all. Nobody is accountable for that. Nobody has to fix it.

European leaders and security experts warn that Russian drone attacks, cyber operations and sabotage are becoming more frequent and aggressive.

DW examines Russia's gray-zone warfare across Europe and the three fronts shaping Europe's response: physical security, financial pressure and cognitive defense.

US President Donald Trump has said he cannot forgive enemies he accuses of persecuting him and harming the country, even if forgiveness were the condition for entering heaven.

During a ‘60 Minutes’ interview which aired on Sunday, correspondent Ross Douthat recalled Trump’s speech at the memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead in Utah in September 2025. Trump said at the time that he hated his opponents and did not want the best for them.

Douthat asked whether, standing before God’s judgment throne, Trump could forgive opponents such as former FBI Director James Comey and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if it would allow him to enter paradise.

An anti-Israel activist has hoisted a Palestinian banner outside Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, in Berlin after climbing a nearly 30-meter flagpole, removing the national flag and throwing it to the ground.

The 22-year-old man scaled the pole while two accomplices, aged 20 and 32, filmed the stunt and livestreamed it on TikTok. All three were detained, although the two accomplices were subsequently released.

The activist group Peacefully Against Genocide claimed responsibility, describing the action as an expression of solidarity with Palestinians. The group has previously staged similar demonstrations at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate.

LinkedIn, once a beacon of social media calm, is being turned into a tool of propaganda, political surveillance and professional blacklisting. Andrew Gardiner reports.

A report prepared for the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, describes LinkedIn as a “uniquely significant arena of information warfare, precisely because of its character as a professional networking platform”. The report states:

LinkedIn: Latest sweetspot for doxing, propaganda and political surveilance

by Andrew Gardiner

“Unlike Facebook or X, LinkedIn’s content is understood by its users as professional communication carrying career implications — a dynamic that has been

As frontier AI systems edge towards recursive self-improvement, Australia is moving to legislate oversight while Washington embraces voluntary industry pledges. Leading researchers warn that only binding national and international rules can keep AI under human control.

Connie Peck

Ensuring AI is aligned with human values requires a regulated approach that maintains human control and limits AI’s agency.

The need to limit AI’s agency

The message from the White House is clear: Donald Trump is not backing down. He is doubling down. 

In the days after his Republican Party's crushing midterm defeat, the US president has wasted no time reshaping his administration.

Trump's chief of staff Susie Wiles (considered vaguely moderate by MAGA standards) was replaced with hardliner Stephen Miller.

In a social media post, Trump then offered the job of White House press secretary to his friend, Dana White, the UFC chief executive, though later told reporters he was "kidding".

Some analysts argue that a wounded Trump looking to leverage his final two years in office may be tempted to revamp his team with several changes. 

American voters punished Republicans over petrol prices but neither party offered a path away from oil. China and others are racing ahead on net zero transition. COP31 is the moment for the US to rejoin the world – or watch its economy contract.

What are the options for the US as it faces up to the deeply felt cost of fuel in its midterm election rout of the Republicans? Could they rejoin the world at COP31?

Peter Newman

Germany can’t provide Ukraine with any more US-made Patriot air defense systems because it would dangerously deplete its own stocks, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.

In an interview with the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost published on Friday, Pistorius noted that Berlin had already delivered several Patriot systems and large numbers of guided missiles to Kiev.

“We cannot provide any more at this moment,” the German defense chief stated, explaining that anything Germany supplied now would not be replaced “for the foreseeable future.”

Pistorius urged other Western nations, whom he accused of having “contributed significantly less,” to step up deliveries of air defense systems to Ukraine.

Israel's ⁠President Isaac Herzog ​on ​Saturday chose Gadi Eisenkot, Prime ​Minister ‌Benjamin ⁠Netanyahu's ‌strongest rival, to ⁠try to form ​a ‌new government following ‌a ​deadlocked election that left neither man ​with ​a clear ​path ​to power.

• Jan 1 Massive Chinese and North Korean assault begins on UN lines

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioU0v_p6Zwc

China Warned America. Why Didn't Anyone LISTEN

Few revolutions in the history of European civilization have been of more lasting consequence than the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the fourth century AD, and yet few present greater obstacles to an objective assessment. It was a genuine religious war pitting Christianity against a bewildering variety of traditional religious practices which Christians themselves were the first to group under the single designation “paganism.”

The Christian Revolution of Late Antiquity

by F. Roger Devlin

China’s Massive Election: 1 Billion Voters, 2.6 Million Representatives

While the world focuses on the US midterms, China is quietly running one of the largest elections on Earth. Right now, one billion registered voters are selecting 2.6 million grassroots representatives at the county and township levels. Chinese President Xi Jinping even cast his own vote this week — something almost completely ignored by Western media.

1 Billion Chinese Are Voting Right Now — Here’s How It Works:

REPORTS ON CHINA — ANDY BOREHAM

Many observers of the highly dysfunctional President Donald J Trump administration have noted how a major contributing factor for the foreign policy disasters might well derive from the appointment of two real estate billionaires personally linked to the president as its top negotiators.

by Philip Giraldi