The Gaza girl whose face was ‘ripped off’ by an Israeli missile

Last June, Mazyouna was at home in Gaza when an Israeli missile struck her house. The blast threw Mazyouna and her mother out on to the street. Her little sister Tala was buried under the rubble but found alive. The bodies of her siblings Hala, 13, and Mohannad, 10, were pulled out of the wreckage in the hours after the attack. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn For five months, as Mazyou...

The prison system is broken: can the UK escape its cycle of reoffending?

The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years, with overcrowding now endemic across the system. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn But the government's strategy of easing this pressure by granting early release to thousands of offenders has had a knock-on effect. With many lacking stability on the outside, reoffending rates are high, exacerbating the exi...

Disability welfare cuts: ‘They want me to sit in my wheelchair and do nothing’

Disability services in the UK have been consistently cut after 14 years of Tory rule and austerity. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Now disability payments face being frozen as Keir Starmer's Labour party looks to make significant savings to the welfare bill – despite growing opposition in the party. Musician and activist John Kelly is concerned that politicians are ...

The imprisoned Israelis refusing military service in Gaza

For many Israelis, military service is a rite of passage that lasts two to three years. Being such a formative part of the social contract in Israel, it is unusual for eligible young people to refuse their draft orders. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Every year some ask for exemptions, but only a handful openly declare themselves as conscientious objectors, commonly known as refuseniks. However...

How scientists capture polar bears

Each spring since 2003, Jon Aars, senior scientist at the Norwegian Polar Institute, and his team have conducted an annual polar bear monitoring program on Svalbard - collaring, capturing and taking samples from as many bears as they can across several weeks. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn By studying polar bears they get a better understanding of what is happening in this part of the Arctic environment. The bears ro...

My face was ‘ripped off’ by an Israeli missile strike on Gaza

Mazyouna, a 13-year-old girl from Gaza, lost the right side of her jaw in an Israeli attack on her home in Gaza that killed her brother and sister. Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn She was denied access by Israel to life-altering surgery abroad for more than six months. Only after the publication of a Guardian article condemning her treatment were Mazyouna, her mother and her surviving si...

How homes made from mushroom waste could solve Namibia’s housing crisis

“People think the house would smell because the blocks are made of all-natural products, but it doesn’t,” says Kristine Haukongo. “Sometimes, there is a small touch of wood, but otherwise it’s completely odourless.” Subscribe to The Guardian on YouTube ► http://bit.ly/subscribegdn Haukongo is the senior cultivator at the research group MycoHab and her job is pretty unusual. She grows oyster mushrooms ...