Six In The Morning Tuesday November 11

South Korea ferry verdict: Sewol captain sentenced to 36 years in prison

Lee Joon-seok found not guilty of murder but is convicted of gross negligence over deaths of more than 300 people

• Justin McCurry and agencies in Gwangju
• theguardian.com, Tuesday 11 November 2014 07.58 GMT

The captain who abandoned hundreds of schoolchildren as the Sewol ferry capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea in April has been sentenced to 36 years in prison, on the same day as officials called off the underwater search for those still missing.

A court in the city of Gwangju found Lee Joon-seok not guilty of murder, but convicted him of gross negligence.

The overloaded Sewol capsized on 16 April while making a turn during a routine voyage to the holiday island of Jeju. Lee abandoned the sinking ship with hundreds of people, most of them teenagers on a school excursion, on board.

India mass sterilisation: Eight women die and 20 critical after operations at state-run camp

Villagers claim 83 women underwent tubectomy operations in six hours 

HEATHER SAUL 

 

 

Tuesday 11 November 2014

Eight women have died and 20 others are believed to be in a critical condition after undergoing botched sterilisation surgery at a government-run camp in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

Villagers told BBC Hindi 83 women underwent tubectomy operations conducted by just one doctor and his assistant within a six hour period in Bilaspur district on Saturday.

However, the state of Chhattisgarh told The Associated Pressthree doctors have been suspended for performing the operations.

Siddharth Komal Pardeshi, the Bilaspur district magistrate, said the women were sent home after their surgery but some were later admitted to a hospital when they fell ill. By Tuesday, eight women had died.

German police ban anti-Islamist rally in Hanover

Following a recent demonstration in Cologne of "Hooligans against Salafists" that escalated out of control, authorities have banned a similar anti-Islamist rally planned for this Saturday in the western city of Hanover.

Police in Hanover have announced that a demonstration planned for this Saturday of "Europe against the terror of Islamism" will be prohibited, citing a lack of authentic political motivation for the gathering.

"We are not convinced that the demonstration will serve the expression of opinion," said a statement from the Hanover police, adding that the "dominant majority is seeking violent confrontation."

Shocking turnout, escalation in Cologne

The justification for the ban, a rare occurrence in Germany, derives partly from the events in Cologne on October 26. A similar anti-Islamist demonstration, this time of "Hooligans against Salafists," escalated out of control resulting in 49 police injuries and more than a dozen arrests.

Spacecraft Rosetta's comet chase nearly over: rough touchdown expected

November 11, 2014 - 3:57PM

Nicky Phillips

Science Editor

After more than 10 years chasing a comet through deep space, the spacecraft Rosetta will on Wednesday night attempt one of its greatest feats - to drop a small lander on the comet's surface.

Since August the European Space Agency's Rosetta has been orbiting comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, inching ever closer to its surface for the landing.

Just after 7.30pm (AEST) the probe will eject its washing-machine sized lander Philae, having received its final set of signal commands from ground control 18 hours earlier via a satellite north of Perth.

'Enough, I'm tired': Mexico tweets its anger over missing students case

Mexico's attorney general ended a press conference last week about the 43 missing students by declaring that exasperated line, fueling outrage at the government's handling of the case – and launching a new hashtag on social media, #YaMeCansé.

By Whitney Eulich, Staff writer

MEXICO CITY — By Friday night, the hashtag #YaMeCansé, “Enough, I’m tired,” was trending across social media.

After six weeks of protesting the disappearance of 43 students from a rural teacher’s college, the line appeared to make sense: 19 mass graves had been discovered in the search for the students; the government’s response to the abduction was delayed; and the evidence that local officials, police, and organized crime had worked together to target the students resonated nationwide.

Why wouldn’t the public be tired of this?

11 November 2014 Last updated at 00:33

Child immigrants strain New York courts

By Golda ArthurBBC News, New York City

The New York Immigration Court is an extraordinarily busy place.

In long, dimly lit hallways, clusters of people wait anxiously outside courtrooms for their cases to come before a judge.

A stern sign asks for silence whilst the court is in session. Lawyers confer with their clients quietly, and in Spanish, because most are Central American.

Many of these clients are children and teenagers.

They're part of the wave of unaccompanied migrants who crossed the border into the United States earlier this year.

They came without their parents, fleeing violence in San Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.