Six in The Morning Sunday June 21

Charleston church to reopen after deadly shooting

Historic church in US state of South Carolina, where nine people were killed, set to reopen for Sunday service.

21 Jun 2015 08:31 GMT | US & Canada, Gun violence, Racism

An historic church in Charleston, South Carolina, where nine black people were killed when a white man opened fire during a Bible study, will reopen on Sunday.

Arriving from around the US on Saturday to pay respects to those killed, mourners created makeshift memorials as a small step toward healing from the latest US mass shooting.

Cleaning crews worked at the church on Saturday and church members announced they will hold a Sunday service.

Harold Washington, 75, was with the small group that saw the lower-level room where the victims were shot.

"They did a good job cleaning it up, there were a few bullet holes around but what they did, they cut them out so you don't see the actual holes," he said.

Ahmed Mansour: Germany detains al-Jazeera journalist 'on Egyptian warrant'

Qatari network calls for immediate release of Egyptian-British broadcaster, taken into custody at Berlin Tegel airport by police citing Interpol request

Associated Press in Cairo

Sunday 21 June 2015 05.20 BST

Ahmed Mansour, a prominent al-Jazeera Arabic journalist, has been detained in Germany over an Egyptian arrest warrant, the broadcaster reported, in the latest in a long series of legal entanglements between the authorities in Cairo and Qatar’s satellite news channels.

Mansour, a senior journalist with the Arabic service, was detained on Saturday while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight at Berlin’s Tegel airport heading to Doha, the station reported. It said he previously had been sentenced in absentia in Egypt to 15 years in prison over allegedly torturing an unnamed lawyer in Tahrir Square in 2011, a charge both he and the channel rejected.

While not identifying Mansour by name, German police spokesman Meik Grauer said authorities detained a 52-year-old Egyptian-British journalist and that prosecutors would look into the arrest warrant on Sunday.

RICHARD BARRETT

Sunday 21 June 2015

We cannot destroy Isis. We will have to learn to live with it

The PM should look beyond immediate security concerns to understand – and minimise – the appeal of jihad

David Cameron was right to point out, during a speech in Slovakia on Friday, the responsibility that families and communities have to detect and counter the radicalisation of young people by the so-called Islamic State (Isis).

But this is the same responsibility that they have to deter their younger members from joining anti-social gangs or falling into the clutches of cults that offer similar attractions of identity and belonging. The Government also has to do what it can to make it less likely that this will happen. The Prime Minister described Isis as “one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced”, which, although an exaggeration, reinforces the need for all sectors of society to counter its influence.

One problem with the Government’s response to date has been its over-emphasis on the security aspects of its policy, such as legislation to prevent the departure of potential Isis recruits, or the denial of their right to return.

Qiao Shi’s death and China’s rule of law

BY FRANCESCO SISCI

Can the rule of law and democracy live under the same roof as the Communist Party? The western view is that it is impossible: Something has to give — either the party or democracy.

Perhaps Qiao Shi (born Jiang Zhitong in December 1924), the once almost almighty Chinese security chief whom the party celebrated with a grand state funeral on Friday, was fooling himself or others. But he argued that this was the goal.

Current President Xi Jinping apparently agrees. His idea of bringing the rule of law to China comes directly from Qiao.

Perhaps this apparent contradiction between rule of law vs. democracy can be found in Qiao’s origins.

15,000 women surround Diet building in Tokyo to protest security bills

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Some 15,000 women gathered Saturday in Tokyo to protest security bills that would expand the scope of overseas operations by the Self-Defense Forces, organizers said.

Wearing red, the color associated with anger, and carrying placards with slogans expressing opposition to the bills, the protestors formed a human chain around the Diet compound where the bills are under deliberation.

Miho Aoi, a professor at Gakushuin University Law School, said Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government ignores the opinions of many that the bills are unconstitutional.

Mali's Tuareg rebels sign peace deal

Rebels in Mali have signed a peace deal with the government, offering partial autonomy to the north of the country.

Tuareg-led rebels had refused to sign an initial peace agreement last month, but came on board after their demands were met by the government.

Tuaregs seized part of northern Mali, including Timbuktu, in 2012.

But the area was then taken over by Islamist fighters linked to al-Qaeda, until they were removed in a French-led military operation in 2013.

Mali has seen four uprisings since it won independence from France in 1960.

Tuareg and Arab groups in the north - an area rebels call Azawad - say they are ignored by the more prosperous south.

Azawad is sparsely-populated but includes the historic cities of Timbuktu and Gao.