The doctored video of the interaction between CNN’s Jim Acosta and a White House intern, which was posted by the Trump administration and originated from Infowars, hardly pleased many of us, including Jimmy Kimmel.

“She should be forced to resign for that,” Kimmel said on Thursday. “She intentionally disseminated doctored video footage to discredit a reputable journalist … Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be fired and sent to live in a JOANN’s Fabrics store.”

Also in the line of fire was Kellyanne Conway, who also took the side of the intern. It’s “so ridiculous,” in fact, that Kimmel decided to take his qualms straight to Conway herself.

Celtic scored 14 seconds after conceding to secure a dramatic victory over RB Leipzig to keep their Europa League dreams on track.

Leipzig’s Jean-Kevin Augustin equalised with a header on 78 minutes but straight from the restart Odsonne Edouard struck back.

Knowing defeat could eliminate them with two games left, Kieran Tierney had put the hosts ahead early on.

Celtic sit third in Group B, level with Leipzig, but trail on head-to-head.

The Scottish champions travel to Trondheim to face Rosenborg next on November 29, before finishing at home to Salzburg a fortnight later.

In a frenetic finish, Kevin Kampl struck the bar for the visitors and then blazed over when clean through on goal to ensure the Scottish side secured a vital victory.

Celtic rediscover European magic

The much talked about “disco lights” that were installed at Celtic Park in the summer – reportedly worth over £2million – had their European bow, but initially it was RB Leipzig that lit up Celtic Park.

The Germans threatened to spoil the party as they were right on top of Celtic for the first 10 minutes. But it was James Forrest who grabbed this game by the scruff of the neck for the Scottish champions.

The winger drove at Leipzig before flashing a ball across the penalty area for Tierney who more than matched the initiative shown by Forrest by lashing the ball home.

It sent an electrical pulse through the stadium as the home fans suddenly sensed this could be one of those heady nights where the Celtic momentum would sweep a dangerous opponent aside and end with the result that was required.

Alas, life for Scottish sides in European football is rarely that simple.

At times in the second half it felt like there was wave after wave of Celtic attack, but the goals would simply not flow.

And then came the cruel blow as the quality of RB Leipzig sliced Celtic open as the Germans equalised. Kevin-Augustin ghosted in at the back post, unmarked, to nod home.

The reaction from the Scottish champions was fantastic. Up the field they swept, Christie crossed for Edouard who fired home from point blank range.

Suddenly the disappointment of the equaliser was forgotten by the home faithful. It was a goal of real character in a compelling match.

Plenty of work ahead for Celtic to qualify- analysis

This result still leaves RB Leipzig with the advantage over Celtic. Both sides are on six points, but then it comes down to head-to-head and goal difference between tied teams – which means advantage RB Leipzig, 3-2 on aggregate.

After this result, Celtic’s fate is now out of their hands. With them unable to overturn the head-to-head record, they must simply try and replicate this performance which Rodgers has waited for and hope their German counterparts slip up.

It is not over yet for Celtic but they have plenty to do.

Young Scots shine on European stage

Former Scotland defender Willie Miller on BBC Scotland’s Sportsound

Ryan Christie has been handed the chance through circumstances, through injuries, and he’s come into the Celtic team and he’s been outstanding. Not just in playing in a Celtic team that’s playing at a high level, but playing against quality opposition as well.

He’s now really putting in performances that are saying to Brendan Rodgers, even if he’s not going to be starting he’s going to be a big part of his plans going forward.

Kieran Tierney, Callum McGregor, Christie and James Forrest, the four of them were brilliant. And when you throw Craig Gordon in the mix it’s not a bad back-bone of a Scotland team.

Former Celtic goalkeeper Pat Bonner on BBC Scotland’s Sportsound

I think if Ryan Christie keeps performing like he did tonight, it’s going to be very difficult for Brendan Rodgers to leave him out. The energy he put in, the runs tonight, that’s what Stuart Armstrong used to do.

It’s magnificent to see a Scottish player going out and performing against a good Leipzig team. Kieran Tierney, Callum McGregor and James Forrest as well though, all good young Scottish players performing at that level, that’s what we want to see and they did it really well.

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About 40 minutes into the show, right before Kong first appears onstage, the audience at King Kong on Broadway is crackling with excitement.

Ann Darrow (Christiani Pitts) is tied up, seemingly helpless and lost in the middle of a spooky forest when we hear a growl in the darkness. In one brilliant moment the part-animatronic, part-puppet animal that is nearly as tall as the stage appears in all his glory. Ann is lifted up to look the stunning giant in his all-too-human eyes. With the help of both onstage puppetry and behind-the-scenes workers, Kong opens his mouth and roars. The audience cheers. It’s a truly stunning feat. 

If this was an attraction at a theme park, I’d give it five stars. Unfortunately, it’s a Broadway musical, not the latest from Universal. And while Kong the beast is magnificent, the show certainly isn’t.

While Kong the beast is magnificent, the show certainly isn’t.

The musical kicks off on the wrong foot almost immediately, with a ho-hum opening number that seems to throw a lot at the wall just to see what sticks. 

The songs — a key part of any musical —  by Marius de Vries and Eddie Perfect are almost uniformly terrible, a meshing of many styles that result in a score both earworm-free as well as dragged down by lyrics doing basic exposition work. A particular low point, from the first act, involves an almost-literal treading water song, where a bunch of sailors off to the mysterious Skull Island sing “Pressure Up.” It’s a monotonous song about the monotony on the high seas. Ending number “The Wonder” seems to be telling you, despite what you may be feeling, you did in fact see something stunning. 

The plot basically follows the well-worn story we all know of a damsel, an ape, and the horrors of modern society. As Ann, Pitts is strong, doing as much as she possibly can with this material. There was clearly an appreciated effort by book writer Jack Thorne (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) to give the character a bit more agency than she is typically granted, less damsel in distress than spunky heroine. She doesn’t scream in distress, gentlemen! She roars!

One stirring moment involves her initially bonding with her captor Kong after he has vanquished a cobra. Yes, really. It can’t be easy being the only human character on stage for extended periods of time, and she manages to hold her own opposite her 1.2 ton co-star and team. 

Quick note about that team: I certainly can’t think of a better solution, but it was occasionally distracting to watch a group of people dressed all in black running around stage moving Kong’s body with ropes. They didn’t fade to the background or become one with the beast as they do in, say, Lion King, where there are two heads but your brain processes it as one. Sometimes the team moved in unison, as if to suggest they were a physical manifestation of the animal’s internal feelings. Other times, the puppeteers were simply going from point A to point B onstage individually, and it was clear you were to pretend as much as possible they weren’t there. 

Easier said than done when it’s the most interesting thing happening.  

There are other inexplicable choices made by director/choreographer Drew McOnie and the production team: Why are we treated to EDM music whenever Kong is running? Why is the director character Jack (Eric William Morris) boring and completely forgettable for much of the show?  Why is a majority of the second act an extended meta show-within-a-show? 

Perhaps you’ll be able to get past all that. If it’s spectacle and set pieces you’re after, there are a handful of moments that, yes, will wow you. 

But we already have an incredible Kong — both the film original as well as the remakes — full of their own feats of technology. If we’re going to be in the business of turning popular movies into musicals (and the rest of the season suggests, yes, we are), it should bring something new to a familiar story: a compelling backstory or songs that open up the inner worlds of these characters. 

Unfortunately, this has neither.

Canberra, Australia – Opposition to Australia’s policy of confining people on remote Pacific islands if they try to get to the country by boat is coming under increasing pressure as evidence grows of the toll it has taken on the health of those detained.

Outrage in Australia at reports of vulnerable asylum seeker children suffering severe mental and physical illness as a result of being detained on Nauru has forced the government into bringing the children to the country for treatment.

While Prime Minister Scott Morrison insists the migrants won’t be allowed to stay in the country and anyone else, including children, who tries to get to Australia by boat will continue to be detained on remote Pacific islands, the government is under increasing pressure to reconsider its approach.

“Offshore processing is a failure,” George Newhouse, director of the legal and human rights organisation National Justice Project, told Al Jazeera. “It is giving rise to a completely avoidable health crisis and needlessly destroying lives and it must end.”

Legal and medical experts are leading the campaign against a policy that has become increasingly restrictive over the past five years.

‘A fair go’

As Australia prepares for its next election – due by June next year – the treatment of people in the “offshore processing centres” may carry political consequences too.

The Refugee Council of Australia’s spokeswoman Kelly Nicholls said the asylum-seeker policy was a key concern for voters in the recent by-election in the constituency of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.

The ruling Liberal Party experienced a landslide defeat in what was once one of its safest seats.

“Polling data in Wentworth showed that 65.4 percent of a sample of 870 residents want children on Nauru brought to Australia and 55 percent said they would be more likely to vote for a candidate who could deliver that outcome,” Nicholls told Al Jazeera.

“The electorate wants to see that politicians have a clearly distinguished policy that gives all refugees and people seeking asylum a fair go.”

MPs within the Liberal Party ranks, including Julia Banks, whose constituency is in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs, have spoken out too.

“Children are citizens of the world and the children on Nauru are our ultimate responsibility,” she declared during a speech in parliament last month. “Long-term indefinite detention is no place for any child.”

While the Law Council of Australia, Save the Children, and the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) have welcomed the government’s recent measures to move children from Nauru, they all say it isn’t enough.

RACP has stressed all children must be transferred from the island now, not in months. The government has said all children will be off the island by the end of the year.

Danger to health

Nauru is a tiny island country covering just 21-square kilometres located northeast of Australia and close to the equator where hot and humid temperatures prevail all year. Men are sent to Manus island, which is part of Papua New Guinea.

“We know that prolonged immigration detention increases the risk of serious mental health problems for adults and children,” Professor David Isaacs, paediatrician and RACP Fellow, said.

High levels of mental illness among those held in immigration detention facilities on the Australian mainland, Christmas Island, Papua New Guinea’s Manus Island and Nauru have been known for years.

The Forgotten Children report published by the Australian Human Rights Commission in 2014 documented serious levels of mental illness, trauma, depression, self-harm, sexual assault and suicide among detained asylum seekers.

The following year the Australian Medical Association said  holding children in immigration detention was a form of child abuse.

The National Justice Project, which has fought the government through the courts to have 50 children brought to Australia for medical treatment, is also pushing for a change in policy.

“Government officials have explained the ‘turn back [of asylum seeker boats] policy’ will achieve the government’s objectives without the need to punish vulnerable men, women and children on Nauru and Manus Island,” Newhouse said. “If a third country cannot be found to take the asylum seekers, then the only solution is to allow these people to start rebuilding their lives in Australia.”

International obligations

The United States said it would take up to 1,250 refugees from the islands but only 439 have been accepted after a year of screening.

New Zealand has also offered to take some of the detainees, but Australia has declined the offer because it fears it would allow asylum seekers to enter Australia through the “back door”. New Zealanders are allowed to live and work in Australia for as long as they like.

In 2012, Australia’s then prime minister Julia Gillard set up an expert panel to investigate and report on the country’s policy options, yet some of its key recommendations have been ignored.

The government acted on some such as providing “no advantage” to those avoiding regular immigration avenues, but not others, including immediately increasing the humanitarian programme intake to 20,000 places per year and, ideally, 27,000 places by 2017. The projected 18,750 places on offer in 2018-19 are well below those suggested targets.

The report also reinforced “adherence by Australia to its international obligations”.

“By forcing people to live this way, Australia is in breach of its obligations under numerous international human rights treaties in relation to torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, access to adequate healthcare and arbitrary detention, among others,” Newhouse said.

It’s been a year and a half since we first saw Kyle‘s zany sense of humor come to life in the video for his breakout smash, “iSpy.” Since then, we’ve seen him navigate similarly hyper-colorful worlds in the videos for “Nothing 2 Lose” and “Playinwitme,” and now, he’s added to his vibrant video library with “Babies.”

The Alessia Cara-featuring track appeared on Kyle’s debut album, Light of Mine, back in May, but its accompanying video makes it seem brand new. That’s because Kyle and Cara inject loads of quirkiness into the Kid Studio-directed clip, which opens on Kyle and his girlfriend having an argument in a dreary hallway. As Kyle sings about being “babies” in their relationship — insisting, “we don’t have to know… we got time to grow” — he and Cara wander a whimsical world where they picnic with oversized food and dish out free love readings for a heartbreak hotline.

Kyle also gets his (animated) heart operated on, which should hopefully fix those relationship problems of his.

Riding his Light of Mine high, Kyle is currently traveling the country on his Lightspeed World Tour, his biggest headline trek to date. Cara, meanwhile, has been steadily dropping singles — as well as her own colorful visuals — from her sophomore album, The Pains of Growing, which arrives November 30.

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Irresponsible scooter parking is the scourge of any city overrun with the motorized devices. So on Thursday, e-scooter company Bird unleashed “Community Mode” on its app, which includes a way to report or complain about bad parking jobs or damaged Birds blighting city streets.

The new feature is part of Bird’s GovTech platform that lets cities work with the scooters within established transportation systems. That was released a few months ago, but now the Bird reporting is open to anyone on the app. Bird said cities will see the option in the coming weeks.

Through the Bird app you can report a Bird parked in the wrong spot or a broken Bird lying around blocking things. Once it’s reported, the scooter service will send someone out to reposition the vehicle. For damaged scooters, so-called “mechanics” will head out to remove the device and get it repaired. 

For those who want to complain about Birds strewn every which way on city streets, you have to download the app. It’s not a total free-for-all for all the Bird haters out there.

More importantly, will Bird start to track down the last rider on poorly-parked scooters? The company hasn’t said so, but I could see a future with fees added to your account for leaving a Bird in the middle of the sidewalk or in front of a shop door.

It could soon be time to shape up our sloppy parking ways. Bird competitor Lime already claims to have e-scooters that can detect if you’re riding on the sidewalk or in a no-parking zone.

Seoul, South Korea – The sun sets on a cool autumn Sunday afternoon but the action is just getting started at one of Seoul’s oldest establishments – the Gwangjang Market.

The century-old market began its life as the Joseon dynasty was coming to an end with merchants looking to counteract the increasing influence of their Japanese counterparts. It survived Japanese colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910-1945, but part of the market was destroyed in the 1950-1953 Korean War.

What survives today is a bustling market that offers traditional clothes and persimmon-dyed fabrics. Fresh fish, local meats, rice cakes, and huge vats of kimchi are prepared along the covered streets, but the real drawcard these days are the food stalls.

The relatively calm fabric section of the market gives way to a hotbed of steam, thronging crowds, and all manner of traditional street foods. Mungbean pancakes (Bindetteok), spicy rice rolls (Mayak Gimbab), glass noodles (Japchae), pig feet, pig intestines and noodles (sundae), fish gut soups, sashimi and spicy rice cakes (tteokpokki) are just some of the traditional Korean delights on offer.

The rich atmosphere and foods that match are served by hardworking older women (Ajumas). They are the formidable force that keeps business people well fed and topped up with rice wine (Maegeolli) and beer. Often dealing with demanding customers, the women work hard to serve old locals, young students, and foreigners, mostly, with friendly smiles, sometimes through overworked gritted teeth.

Food connection

Mrs Yoon has been working at the market for the last two years, but her stall has been open for more than 20 years. Preparations for the stall start at 4am and run all day until late at night.

She serves chicken feet, bowls of mixed rice with vegetables (Bibimbap), and pork – among other side dishes. She sometimes finds it hard to communicate with foreigners but says people’s hearts always connect through delicious food, and they often come back over and over again.

There are dozens of stalls all competing for business, but many of the women have gatherings once a month and even go on picnics together. Mrs Yoon just does her own work rather than having a sense of rivalry, saying all the food at the market is delicious.

The market manages to keep its original charm despite more and more becoming a tourist attraction for international travellers and celebrity chefs such as Gordon Ramsey.

Australian tourists Judy and Rob Pettiford visited on this late Sunday and remarked on the amazing sights, sounds and smells, noting  in particular the “army of strong women running the food stalls”.

“It’s a joyous place for young and old, full of smiles and encouragement for the visitor, and a unique way to see Korean specialties being cooked and consumed,” Judy Pettiford told Al Jazeera.

The Gwangjang Market in inner city Seoul provides great access to traditional food and Korean people, without feeling like a contrived tourist trap.

Sitting and being welcomed by locals – who love to share their culture, food and especially their rice wine – is a unique experience, one that would not be possible without the women of the Gwangjang Market.

Twenty-two years after the Spice Girls declared “friendship never ends,” another British girl group has updated that sentiment with their own girl-powered jam. On Thursday (November 8), Little Mix released the new song “Told You So,” which is essentially a mix between Spice’s “Wannabe” and Destiny’s Child’s “Girl.” In other words, it’s a sweet ode to friendship that’ll make you feel all the love.

Over a simple, strumming guitar, the girls comfort a friend after a breakup, promising, “Girl, just come round mine tonight / I’ve got wine and make-up wipes / I’ll hold you, I’ll hold you.” But it’s not all sweet talk; they also throw in a few sassy jabs at the ex-boyfriend in question, with Leigh-Anne hilariously noting, “Be honest, his best friend was hotter than him.” Come for the sweet and sassy vibes, stay for the heavenly harmonies and Jade’s sky-grazing high notes.

Prior to releasing “Told You So,” Little Mix wrote on Instagram, “If there was a song on the album to define us it would be this one… true friendship. No matter what we’ll always look out for each other.”

The new song is the latest taste of Little Mix’s upcoming fifth album, LM5, which arrives November 16. The group recently sang the album’s lead single, “Woman Like Me,” alongside Nicki Minaj at the MTV EMAs — check out that sizzling performance below.