Six In The Morning Saturday September 6

6 September 2014 Last updated at 08:13

Ukraine crisis: Ceasefire with rebels holds

A ceasefire agreed by the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia rebels in the east appears to be holding.

There were no reports of fighting overnight, after the deal was struck in Minsk in Belarus on Friday.

Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko says there should now be talks about a long-term solution to the conflict, which has killed about 2,600 people.

However, the rebels said the ceasefire had not changed their policy of wanting to separate from Ukraine.

The BBC's Richard Galpin in Donetsk says that overnight he had not heard any of the heavy artillery barrages that took place before the truce.

The BBC's Fergal Keane tweeted from Mariupol, further south, that the ceasefire was holding there.

Muslim councillor Aicha Mesrar flees Italy in fear for her life after death threats

'I cannot always live under escort,' says Mesrar as she resigned her post

Italy’s first Muslim councillor says she is fleeing the country after a series of death threats, in the latest example of racism suffered by the country’s non-white public figures, from politicians to football players.

Aicha Mesrar, 45, resigned from her post as local councillor for the Democratic Party in Rovereto, in the northern Trentino province, saying she feared for her children’s lives.

The Moroccan-born politician, who has lived in Italy for 23 years, has been an active and effective community liaison worker, according to local media. She was the first woman to wear a veil in the city hall. The city’s Mayor, Andrea Miorandi, had hailed her appointment as president of the local Open City cooperative.

Medical personnel claim Israel tested new weapons during attacks on Gaza

Doctors describe injuries inconsistent with previously used ammunition

Lara Marlowe

Doctors and an ambulance officer believe Israel tested new weapons during its July 8th – August 26th assault on the Gaza Strip.

Ambulance officer Ibrahim Abu Kas of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society has worked through the last three wars between Israel and Hamas. “In this war, I saw things I never could have imagined,” he says. “The five children from the al-Jaal family in Zeitoun were the strangest thing I ever saw in my life.”

The room where three girls and two boys were sleeping was hit by an Israeli tank shell while their mother, father and grandmother sat in another room. “Their bodies were hot. Their hair and skin were black liked charred wood. When their parents arrived at the hospital, they didn’t recognise them,” Abu Kas continues. “But there had been no fire, only white smoke.”

Ebola vaccines may be ready by November, WHO says

September 6, 2014 - 2:39PM

Rick Gladstone

Two vaccines against the deadly Ebola virus that is ravaging West Africa could be available as soon as November, the World Health Organisation has announced. It said the vaccines would be given first to health care workers at the greatest risk of exposure to the disease.

The organisation also said that blood from Ebola patients who have recovered and serums derived from that blood should be exploited to treat the sick, and it called for investment in other experimental therapies to combat the virus, which has escalated into a major health crisis.

The announcements were made at the end of an extraordinary two-day meeting of nearly 200 experts at the organisation's Geneva headquarters.

CNN exclusive: From Glasgow girl to 'bedroom radical' and ISIS bride

By Atika Shubert and Bharati Naik, CNN

Glasgow, Scotland (CNN) -- In November of last year, 19-year-old Aqsa Mahmood gave her father, Muzaffar, a long hug goodbye. He remembers, he says, because she looked especially beautiful. He remarked upon it to his wife, saying there was something different about his daughter.

The night before, she had asked her sisters to sleep together in one big bed. Aqsa gave a lingering farewell to her bedridden grandmother, and that's when Khalida, her mother, knew something was wrong.

Standing in her daughter's empty bedroom, Khalida told CNN, "There was something about the way she said 'Khuda Hafiz' (God's Blessings) while taking leave that day, which made us all wonder. My husband even asked if everything was OK, and I said she is fine."

Egypt accused of torturing teenage prisoners

Human rights group says Egyptian authorities tortured and sexually abused 52 youths who "peacefully" demonstrated.

Egyptian authorities have been accused by a human rights group of being complicit in the torture and sexual abuse of 52 teenagers, jailed for "peacefully" demonstrating against the government.

The Geneva-based pan-Arab rights group, Alkarama, said the 52 youths, aged between 15 and 18, were routinely subjected to torture and sexual abuse by prison guards and military officers in Alexandria's Koum El Dekka prison.

Egyptian authorities must stop this systematic and widespread practice of torture, which ... could make them liable for prosecution for crimes against humanity. Rachid Mesli, Legal Director at Alkarama

Alkarama said the teenagers bore the "signs of torture" and their physical and mental health was degrading "in the appalling hygiene conditions in which they're detained".