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The 41 workers inside a collapsed road tunnel have been seen alive for the first time amid attempts to create new passageways to free them.

The first images of 41 men trapped for 10 days in a highway tunnel in the Indian Himalayas have emerged, showing them standing in a confined space and communicating with rescue workers.

A 30-second video provided by authorities on Tuesday showed about a dozen of the trapped men standing in a semi-circle in front of the endoscopic camera, wearing helmets and construction worker jackets over their clothes against the backdrop of the lights in the tunnel.

The men looked exhausted and anxious, some with thick beards, while a rescue worker outside could be heard telling them to present themselves one by one to confirm their identities on the walkie-talkie gear that had been sent in.

“We will bring you out safely, do not worry,” rescuers can be heard telling the men as they gather near the camera.

The video was shot through a medical endoscopy camera that was pushed through a second, wider pipeline of 15cm (6 inches) in diameter, drilled through the debris on Monday, authorities said.

Before the camera was introduced, rescuers had been communicating with the men inside using radios.

‘Take care of yourselves’

The 41 men have been stuck in the 4.5km (3-mile) tunnel in Uttarakhand state since it caved in early on November 12 and are safe, authorities said, with access to light, oxygen, food, water and medicines.

They have not said what caused the cave-in, but the region is prone to landslides, earthquakes and floods. Efforts to bring out the workers have been slowed by snags in drilling through the debris in the mountainous terrain.

Rescuers are set on Tuesday to resume drilling horizontally through a 60-metre (195-ft) pile of debris to push through a pipe large enough for the trapped men to crawl out.

Drilling had been suspended on Friday after a machine snag and fears of a fresh collapse.

Authorities are simultaneously working on five other plans to pull out the workers, including drilling vertically from the top of the mountain.

Abhishek Sharma, a psychiatrist sent to the site by the state government, said he had asked the 41 men to walk within the 2km (1.2-mile) area where they are confined, do light yoga exercises and talk regularly among themselves to keep occupied.

“Sleep is very important for them … and as of now they have been sleeping well and not reported any difficulties in sleeping,” Sharma told Reuters, adding that the men were in good spirits and keen to emerge soon.

Another doctor at the site, Prem Pokhriyal, said the men had been asked to avoid heavy workouts that could boost the accumulation of carbon dioxide gas in the confined space as they breathe out.

The trapped men are low-wage workers, most of them from poor states in India’s north and east.

“He said he is doing fine,” Sunita Hembrom, the sister-in-law of one of the workers trapped in the tunnel, Surendra Kisko, told reporters after she spoke to him.

“He said, ‘Take care of yourselves, the children and parents. Just tell us what they are doing to get us out of here.’”

Experts have warned about the effects of extensive construction in Uttarakhand, where large parts of the state are prone to landslides.

The planned tunnel is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s infrastructure plans aimed at cutting travel times between some of the most popular Hindu sites in the country, as well as improving access to strategic areas bordering rival China.

Foreign experts have been drafted in, including Australian independent disaster investigator Arnold Dix, president of the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association.

“Those 41 men are coming home,” Dix told the Press Trust of India news agency. “Exactly when? Not sure.”

The gunman’s name, his motive for the attack and other details were not immediately released.

A gunman has opened fire at a Walmart hypermarket in the US state of Ohio, wounding four people before killing himself, according to police.

The incident took place on Monday night in Beavercreek, a city of about 46,000 people.

“A male walked into the Walmart in Beavercreek around 8:35pm Monday [01:35 GMT, Tuesday] and began firing a gun, injuring four people,” Beavercreek police said in a statement posted on social media.

Witnesses told local media the man had opened fire with an assault rifle.

“The victims were transported to area hospitals and their conditions are unknown at this time,” Beavercreek police said. “A fifth person, the shooter, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

Police said no shots were fired by any responding officers, the building was cleared and secured soon after, and no active threat remained.

The gunman’s name, a motive for the attack and other details were not immediately released.

Pictures of the scene showed a phalanx of police cars with their lights flashing converging on the store.

“I was literally just shopping for Thanksgiving stuff and this guy walked right past me with an assault rifle and started shooting,” one woman said in a video posted on social media.

“I ran … He shot like 10 times … I’m so lucky to be alive,” she said.

Another witness on social media described the attacker as a “tall, young white guy” carrying an army bag.

“My nerves are shot right now,” she said.

Soin Medical Center in Beavercreek received three patients, said Catherine Morris, a spokesperson for parent company Kettering Health.

“We’re heartbroken by what’s happened at our Beavercreek, Ohio store. This remains a developing situation, and we’re working closely with investigators on the scene,” a Walmart spokesperson told local media WHIO-TV.

Beavercreek police said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and families impacted by this horrific tragedy. We will release more information as it becomes available.”

The South Pacific nation downgrades its alert level, but warns the Ulawun outburst could continue ‘indefinitely’.

A volcanic eruption on a remote island of Papua New Guinea has pushed some residents to begin evacuating and the island’s airport to cancel flights.

Ulawun, the South Pacific nation’s most active volcano, spewed smoke up to 15km (9.3 miles) in the air on Monday afternoon, the country’s Geohazards Management Division said, in its first significant blow-up in years.

The eruption on New Britain island prompted officials to coordinate evacuation plans and cancel fights at the region’s Hoskins airport.

The ash plume continued to rise on Tuesday, reaching at least 5km (3.1 miles), but the country’s geological hazard division downgraded its alert level from Level 4 to Level 3 – indicating a “moderate to strong eruption” rather than a “very strong eruption”.

Still, the volcano remained active and the outburst could continue indefinitely, the division said.

The prospect of the blast triggering a tsunami off the coast of Japan was ruled out on Tuesday, the division said.

The erupting volcano is 47km (29 miles) away from the Papua New Guinean town of Bialla, which is built among oil palm plantations on Ulawun’s slopes.

The division said heavy coatings of black ash were causing leaves to droop in oil palm plantations near the volcano and were accumulating on roofs.

‘Ring of Fire’

Papua New Guinea sits on the Pacific “Ring of Fire”, an arc of seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean where much of the world’s earthquake and volcanic activities occur.

Ulawun has repeatedly erupted since the 1700s. Its last significant eruption in 2019 forced more than 5,000 people to evacuate.

The division said there were no known casualties from Ulawun’s history of eruptions.

But major effects in terms of population displacement, infrastructure damage and disruption to services were common, the division said.

‘Come as a guest, leave as a friend’ is the sign that greets visitors as they drive into the grounds of Hope Hostel.

No one has come to stay as a guest since late May 2022 when the UK government first booked out the 50-room building in anticipation of the approval of its plan to deport unwanted asylum seekers here.

And the last people to check out of the hostel did not leave as friends.

Some 22 survivors of the 1994 genocide who lost their families in the violence were evicted and paid a small sum to rehouse themselves by the Rwandan government in the wake of the deal being finalised.

The hostel was previously called the Association of Student Survivors of Genocide (AERG) hostel and built to house them as part of the One Dollar Campaign – a Rwandan diaspora fundraising effort.

The hotel is a symbol of the UK’s 18-month struggle to get its plan approved and the disregard for the long-term stability of those most impacted by it.

When asked how much the UK has been paying to keep the place empty, Hope Hostel’s managing director Bakina Imael let out a squeal of shock.

“This is a confidential matter between the Rwandan government and the Hope Hostel management,” he said.

He insists the hostel was already transforming into a private business when the deal was being closed.

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Rwanda has tough approach to dissent

None of the former residents we reached out to would speak to us out of fear of reprisals – a reflection of Rwanda’s notoriously tough approach to dissent.

This scarred human rights record and accusations of political assassinations in the diaspora was referenced in the UK Supreme Court’s ruling against the government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to the country.

Other key evidence cited in the judgement was legal analysis from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) around threats of deportation with examples of asylum seekers sent back to the danger of their home countries.

“It is ultimately a decision of the UK judicial system,” the spokesperson for the Rwandan government, Yolande Makolo, told Sky News in response to the ruling.

“What we did object to is really being portrayed as unsafe. Rwanda is a safe country – sending asylum seekers back to their countries where they are persecuted, it does not do that.”R

Refugees say they were threatened with deportation

The Rwandan government is currently working on a treaty to address the concerns of the court as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak works to push through emergency legislation.

Ms Makolo said the treaty will “re-emphasise guarantees and address the concerns of the court and reassure anyone who has any worries about asylum seekers being sent back to the countries that they came from.”

Though the Rwandan government insists it will not forcefully deport any asylum-seekers, refugees who have been living here for years say the threat is there.

“For a while we felt safe in Rwanda but recently the Rwandan officials have become harsh towards us and have threatened to deport Burundians,” said one exiled Burundian journalist living here since 2015.

“Rwanda has warned us not to conduct any sort of journalism in Rwanda or to talk out against the Burundian government or else deportation.

“We don’t know what the two governments discuss, so me and my colleagues always feel the fear of deportation.”

Additional reporting by Vauldi Carelse, Africa producer

A Robbie Williams fan has died in hospital after suffering a fall at his concert in Sydney.

The woman, who was in her 70s, was treated for head injuries and taken to hospital after falling over at the Allianz Stadium on the opening night of Williams‘ Australian XXV tour last Thursday.

She died on Monday, St. Vincent’s Hospital confirmed.

A spokesperson from New South Wales Ambulance said: “About 10.30pm Thursday November 16, NSW Ambulance paramedics were called to Driver Avenue, Paddington.

“Paramedics treated a woman in her 70s for head injuries before transporting her to St Vincent’s Hospital in a critical condition.”

Williams is yet to comment on the death.

After the tour opener, he shared a video on Instagram with the caption: “I’m very lucky to be loved as much as I am *by my audience*.

“But Sydney was the most I think I’ve ever received. I’ll store it in my heart for the bumpy nights.”

Sky News has contacted representatives for Williams and Venues NSW for comment.

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It follows the death of a 23-year-old fan at a Taylor Swift concert.

Ana Clara Benevides Machado was attending the Eras tour in Rio de Janeiro on Friday when she fell ill as temperatures inside the stadium reached up to 60C, according to local media.

Concert organisers Time4Fun said Ms Benevides Machado was taken to hospital, where she died an hour later.

Writing on Instagram after learning of the incident shortly before taking to the stage, Swift wrote on Instagram: “I can’t believe I’m writing these words but it is with shattered heart that I say we lost a fan earlier tonight before my show.

“I can’t even tell you how devastated I am by this.”

Swift added she would not be addressing the incident on stage because she was “overwhelmed by grief”.

She postponed her Saturday night show due to “extreme temperatures”.