today's music story

Fan dies in Oasis concert tragedy

What happened?
A man in his 40s died after falling from an upper tier at Wembley Stadium during an Oasis concert on Saturday night. Emergency services were called at 10.19pm and found a man suffering injuries "consistent with a fall". Despite efforts by medics and police, he was pronounced dead at the scene. The sold-out concert was part of Oasis's long-awaited reunion tour, which began last month.

Who said what?
The band said it was "shocked and saddened" by the incident, offering condolences to the fan's family and friends. A "horrified fan" told The Sun: "I thought it was a coat falling, but then I saw a man on the floor." Another concertgoer said on Reddit that the top tier at the venue was extremely slippery due to spilled drinks, describing the floor as being "like an ice rink".

What next?
At last night's show Liam Gallagher dedicated the song "Live Forever" to "all the people who can't be here tonight". The Metropolitan Police is appealing for witnesses or video footage and plans to hand the investigation over to the Health and Safety Executive in the coming days.

Today's media story

Authorities to target porn after Channel 4 backlash

What happened?
A government taskforce will propose new laws this autumn to ban "barely legal" pornographic content following outrage over a Channel 4 documentary about performer Bonnie Blue (pictured above). The film "1000 Men and Me" showed Bonnie Blue, whose real name is Tia Billinger, claiming to have had sex with 1,057 men in 12 hours and included scenes of her preparing to film an orgy in a school-themed setting.

Who said what?
Taskforce chair and Conservative peer Baroness Gabby Bertin said she would seek amendments to the crime and policing bill to outlaw content encouraging child sexual abuse – including adults posing as children.

Bonnie Blue has "built a brand around 'barely legal' content", said The Guardian, but "with a twist". Rather than older men with young-looking women, she offers herself to younger men, filming the encounters for her OnlyFans account. "She is a marketing genius," one of her team told the paper.

What next?
The taskforce will meet to discuss the documentary while Ofcom said it was assessing whether to investigate the matter.

It's not all bad

Brush-tailed bettongs have returned to the wild for the first time in a century at Mount Gibson in Western Australia thanks to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. Last month 147 of the "little kangaroo-looking" marsupials were released from a fenced "safe haven" where their numbers had grown from 162 to about 1,000. Now, with feral predators managed, ecologists hope that they'll thrive outside the enclosure. It's part of an ambitious plan to restore native species and protect 5% of Australia's land by 2035.

under the radar

Missionaries using tech to contact Indigenous people

More uncontacted people live in Brazil's Amazon rainforest than anywhere else in the world. But that isolation has been interrupted in unusual fashion due to the efforts of US-backed Christian evangelical groups, who have turned to technological innovations to circumvent the restrictions.

Many missionary groups are active in the Amazon, said Survival International. But since 1987, Brazil has banned them from making contact with the rainforest's isolated Indigenous peoples in order to protect their culture and health.

But a joint investigation by The Guardian and Brazilian newspaper O Globo discovered that "solar-powered devices reciting biblical messages in Portuguese and Spanish" had appeared among members of the isolated and mostly uncontacted Korubo people in the Javari Valley, near the Brazil-Peru border.

Government agents tasked with policing these regions say they have also spotted seaplanes and drones in the area.

One of the leading missionary organisations operating in the Javari territory is the New Tribes Mission of Brazil, an offshoot of the New Tribes Mission in the US. In 2020, Brazil's highest court prohibited its missionaries from entering the reserve, which Indigenous representatives had warned could bring about a "genocide".

Although the order remains in effect, Nelly Marubo, head of the Javari Valley regional coordination office, told The Guardian that missionaries "frequently" visited the group's base, "arriving directly by aircraft without passing government control posts".

Technological outreach like audio Bibles might seem to be inoffensive curiosities, but Marubo said the infiltration of outside religious and cultural beliefs carried a "destructive power" that threatened Indigenous groups.

on this day

4 August 1936

Jesse Owens won gold in the long jump at the Berlin Olympic Games by leaping 8.06 metres. The victory – in front of German chancellor Adolf Hitler – defied Nazi racial ideology and became a powerful moment in both sporting and civil rights history. The current Olympic long jump record stands at 8.90 metres, set by fellow American athlete Bob Beamon at the Mexico City Games in 1968.

Today's newspapers

'National disgrace'

"Asbestos kills more troops than Taliban", reports the Daily Mail, saying it's a "national disgrace" that "toxic" homes and equipment caused the deaths of nine times the number of troops that died in the 20-year war in Afghanistan. Universities will be "barred" from accepting foreign students if they fail to prevent their courses "being used as a back door" for migrants claiming asylum in the UK, says The Times. Meanwhile, The Sun leads with the death of a fan at the Oasis reunion gig at Wembley, saying the band was "shocked and saddened" by the death.

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tall tale

Accidental happy hour

Thirsty Americans in search of a pick-me-up may have got more than they bargained for after energy drink cans were accidentally filled with vodka spritzer. Drinks brand High Noon issued a recall of its Celsius range after some were mislabelled, warning buyers that "consumption of the liquid in these cans will result in unintentional alcohol ingestion". No adverse events have been reported so far, according to the US Food & Drug Administration.

Morning Report was written and edited by Arion McNicoll, Rebekah Evans, Genevieve Bates, Ross Couzens and Chas Newkey-Burden, with illustrations by Julia Wytrazek.