Wake-up service 30/9: Parliamentary debate on corona • Start Children’s Book Week

“The debates are the last chance to turn the tide for a president who has been firmly behind in the polls for months. It made him militant, but above all nasty and grim,” says correspondent Lucas Waagmeester.

Two more confrontations will follow before the elections on November 3.

Other news from the night:

And then this:

Five parrots in a British wildlife park have been taken apart after scolding visitors. The African Gray Parrots were taken to Lincolnshire Wildlife Park last August and quarantined together. There they took over all kinds of foul language from each other.

According to the park’s director, Steve Nichols, the shocked and laughing reactions from visitors encouraged the birds to do it more often. “Some of the visitors thought it was funny. But because of the children who come to visit on the weekend, we decided to move them,” says Nichols. against the BBC. “I hope they learn different words within the colonies. Because if they teach the others foul language and I end up with 250 swearing birds, I don’t know what to do next.”

The birds are not the first in the park to cause a stir. Parrot Chico from the same wildlife park went viral earlier this year with his imitation of Beyoncé’s hit ‘If I were a boy’.

And so it sounded:

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