Six In The Morning Tuesday January 27

27 January 2015 Last updated at 08:04

Winter Storm Juno: Snow shuts down New York and Boston

New York City and other areas in the north-east US have shut down, with forecasters warning residents to expect "crippling" amounts of snow.

Forecasters say Winter Storm Juno could dump up to 76cm (30ins) in some parts of New Jersey, Maine and New Hampshire.

All non-emergency vehicles were banned in New York City from 23:00 on Monday (04:00 GMT Tuesday) and subway services were suspended. Similar measures were in place in Boston, Massachusetts.

Some 60 million people may be affected.

An emergency has been declared in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Boston, which is forecast to receive some of the highest snowfalls, has also suspended public transport and car travel.

Holocaust survivor recalls desperate battle to stay alive: ‘I just wanted to live’

Sabina Miller hid in the woods after fleeing the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw. As the world marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, she shares her story

• Caroline Davies
• The Guardian, Tuesday 27 January 2015

When Sabina Miller awoke from typhoid fever in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw she had a vivid memory. It was of her mother standing at her bed in the one room the family of six shared, telling her: “You will survive.”

Sitting in her flat in West Hampstead, London, Sabina, now 92, does not know if it was a hallucination. She does know when she came round. After 18 days of fever, both parents were dead of typhoid.

That memory sustained her in the ghetto “where people fell ill very quickly, were hungry and you walked in the middle of the street where they were bodies, covered with newspaper, dead”.

Kobani 'back in Kurdish hands' after Isis militants desert city

Photographs posted on social media appeared to show male and female Kurdish fighters shaking hands and Kurdish flags flying over recaptured territory

KUNAL DUTTA 

Tuesday 27 January 2015

The Syrian border city of Kobani, the site of a totemic four-month battle between coalition-backed Kurdish and Iraqi forces and militant fighters from Isis appeared to be drawing towards a conclusion last night amid reports that the region was back in control of Kurdish forces.

Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) backed by Iraq’s Kurdish peshmerga forces claimed to have wrestled back ownership of the city pushing Isis fighters out of the area in a battle that has killed over 1,300 people, according the London-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

The group yesterday suggested that Isis (also known as Islamic State) militants had deserted much of the area. "I can see the YPG flag flying over Kobani. There are the sounds of jets flying above," Tevfik Kanat, a Turkish Kurd near  the border told Reuters yesterday. "People are dancing and singing, there are fireworks. Everyone feels a huge sense of relief.”

Benjamin Netanyahu's planned US speech a slap in the face to Barack Obama

January 27, 2015 - 11:44AM

Joel Greenberg

Jerusalem: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing growing criticism in Israel for a planned speech to the US Congress about Iran, accused by his political rivals of damaging ties with Washington to promote his election campaign.

Mr Netanyahu accepted an invitation from House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, to address a joint session of Congress on March 3, two weeks before the Israeli elections.

The invitation was not coordinated with the White House and it was widely seen as a Republican attempt to enlist Mr Netanyahu, who advocates tougher measures against Iran, in the dispute with US President Barack Obama over whether to impose new sanctions on Iran.

Fighting extremism in coastal Kenya: a mosque rebounds

Locals have reclaimed a mosque in the port city of Mombasa after it was overrun by young extremists late last year. But the youth won't give it up that easily.

By Ariel Zirulnick, Correspondent

MOMBASA, KENYA — Musa Mosque reclaimed its name on Friday, declaring it was back on track after an eight-month takeover by radical Islamic youth who have surged in number amid increasing extremism along Kenya's coast. 

The building, renamed "Martyr's Mosque" by the youth who overran it, became a symbol last year of Mombasa’s struggle to contain growing extremism among its young men.

The professional sign hung by the steward Khatib Khamis, recognizing the mosque’s founder, Musa, was seen by many in the Majengo neighborhood as a victory lap. But it will take a lot more than a sign to shake off the mosque's reputation as a haven for extremists and to ensure that other mosques in the port city don’t go through the same cycle.

Argentina to dissolve intelligence agency

President announces plans over suspicions rogue agents were behind death of prosecutor probing tragic 1994 bombing.

27 Jan 2015 02:06 GMT

Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez has announced plans to dissolve the country's intelligence agency amid suspicions that rogue agents were behind the murky death of a state prosecutor investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre that killed 85 people and wounded 200 others.

The death of Alberto Nisman this month, just before he was due to answer questions about his allegation that Fernandez conspired to derail his investigation, shone a spotlight on the powerful state spy apparatus which some analysts say operates with too much autonomy.

The government said that Nisman's allegations and demise were linked to a power struggle at the intelligence agency and agents who had recently been fired.