Six In The Morning Sunday April 6

6 April 2014 Last updated at 06:46

MH370: Plane search signal 'important lead'

Australian co-ordinators in the search for the missing Malaysian plane say a Chinese ship has detected a pulse signal for a second time, within hours of it being heard earlier on Saturday.

Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston called the discovery in the southern Indian Ocean an "important and encouraging lead".

He warned that the data were still unverified.

British naval ship HMS Echo is sailing to the area to investigate further.

It is expected to arrive in the early hours of Monday.

Australian aircraft were also on their way, Air Chief Marshal Houston told reporters. Australian naval vessel Ocean Shield would be heading to the latest search area once it had investigated a third acoustic detection elsewhere.

Both HMS Echo and ADV Ocean Shield have technology able to detect underwater signals emitted by data recorders.

PATRICK COCKBURN
Sunday 6 April 2014

World View: Ignore recent revisionism. The Norsemen carried out atrocities to equal those of the German SS

Journalism is said to be the first draft of history, but it is often disappointing to find that the second or third drafts, by historians, move little further in establishing the truth about what happened. Errors made by reporters in the heat of the moment, instead of being eliminated, have become part of the authorised version. Factors that are crucial in creating the context within which events occurred go unmentioned.

That context is the mix of hopes, fears, hatreds and habits, frequently the fruit of an individual's or a community's previous history, which are so important in determining how they will act. This is particularly true of wars when, even a few seconds after being truly frightened, it is so difficult to evoke in one's mind what those moments of terror felt like. "Can a man who is warm understand a man who is freezing?" Alexander Solzhenitsyn famously asks in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.

Advisers to India's Modi dream of a Thatcherite revolution

BY FRANK JACK DANIEL AND RAJESH KUMAR SINGH

NEW DELHI Sun Apr 6, 2014 2:19am EDT

(Reuters) - When Indian opposition leader Narendra Modi gave a speech on the virtues of smaller government and privatization on April 8 last year, supporters called him an ideological heir to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who died that day.

Modi, favorite to form India's next government after elections starting on Monday, has yet to unveil any detailed economic plans but it is clear that some of his closest advisers and many campaign workers have a Thatcherite ambition for him.

These supporters dismiss criticism of Modi for religious riots that killed some 1,000 people in his home state of Gujarat 12 years ago. For them, Modi stands for economic freedom.

Jobbik set for poll boost as Hungary moves to the right

Hungarians go to the polls on Sunday - and four years after the far-right Jobbik made its big electoral breakthrough, it seems the party is in a stronger position than ever, writes Brian Whelan.

Launching its 2014 election campaign Jobbik, long accused of anti-Semitism, chose a former synagogue in Esztergom. The move provoked protests from Hungary's Jewish community, coming against the backdrop of the 70th anniversary of the Holocaust.

Last year Channel 4 News travelled to Budapest, where the World Jewish Congress was holding its annual meeting, in a bid to highlight the controversial right-wing party. Jobbik hosted a rally close to the hotel hosting the conference, with uniformed nationalist militias lining the street to hear MP Marton Gyongyosi speak.

Gyongyosi had issued a controversial call for a list of Jews who pose a "national security risk" to be produced in 2010. He later claimed he was misunderstood and had been referring only to members of government who hold Israeli passports.

Children born of rape: Forgotten victims of Rwanda's genocide

Sapa | 05 April, 2014 09:16

When David, a 19-year-old Rwandan, is asked about his parents, he prefers to conceal being one of thousands of children born from a rape during the 1994 genocide.

"I say I don't have a father," he explained.

It is impossible to say exactly how many women were raped during the genocide -- the majority of them were subsequently killed and many survivors prefer not to talk about it.

It is equally difficult to estimate the number of children born of rape since 20 years after the genocide -- in which an estimated 800,000 people, essentially Tutsis, died -- the subject is still very much taboo.

"Rape was the rule and its absence the exception," said a UN Human Rights Commission report in 1996. "Unfortunately, there are no statistics... rape was systematic and was used as a weapon by the perpetrators of the massacres."

Immigration Advocates Rally to Curb Deportations

BY SUZANNE GAMBOA

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Protesters marched to the White House Saturday with signs labeling President Barack Obama “Deporter In Chief” to pressure him to curb deportations of immigrants.

The protesters walked for about an hour from a park in the district’s Mount Pleasant neighborhood to a park flanking the White House. It was one of several marches staged Saturday by groups hoping to force the president to use his powers to halt deportations of non-criminal immigrants.

“We are bringing the human suffering to the doorstep,” said Marisa Franco, an organizer of the Ni Una Mas Deportación (Not One More Deportation) campaign of the National Day Labor Organizing Network.

But the Washington, D.C., protest of about 250 was small compared to other marches held in the years-long fight for immigration reform.