Toxic political agenda is dehumanising entire groups, Amnesty warns
NGO’s annual report warns that aggressive political rhetoric is creating a ‘hostile climate for refugees and migrants’
Toxic political rhetoric with echoes of 1930s hate speech is stirring up violence worldwide – including in the UK and US, Amnesty International has warned.
Kerry Moscoguiri, Amnesty UK’s director of campaigns, said that campaigning for the Brexit referendum “was a particular low point, with all too real consequences” – pointing to a 57% spike in reported hate crime the week after the vote.
She accused the British government of “creating a hostile climate for refugees and migrants” as it shirked its responsibilities to them, particularly unaccompanied children.
Most Israelis oppose soldier's manslaughter conviction
The trial of Israeli soldier Elor Azaria was contentious from the start. He was found guilty of manslaughter for killing an injured Palestinian assailant and sentenced to 18 months. Calls for a pardon prevail.
An 18-month prison sentence and demotion to the rank of private: Elor Azaria, the Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, an injured and unarmed Palestinian knife attack suspect, was handed down by the military court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday. It was far less than the three to five years prosecutors had requested in a case that revealed deep divisions in Israel and dealt with a rare manslaughter conviction of an active soldier.
While reading out the sentencing, head judge Maya Heller noted that Azaria operated unprofessionally during the incident, and that he violated the army's values. But the panel of judges also took into consideration mitigating facts like the "complicated area." This prompted the jail sentence of 18 months, with 12 months of probation on top of the prison sentence. The defense team plans to appeal the sentence.
22 February 2017
N. Korea more isolated than ever after Malaysia killing
North Korea had few friends even before the assassination of the leader's half-brother at a Kuala Lumpur airport last week, but the fallout from the killing looks set to further isolate the nuclear-armed state.
Pyongyang and Kuala Lumpur have enjoyed relatively warm economic ties, with some bilateral trade and citizens from both countries entitled to travel to the other under a unique reciprocal visa-free deal.
Malaysia has also provided a channel between Pyongyang officials and the wider world, with Kuala Lumpur in recent years serving as a discreet meeting place for talks between the regime and the United States.
Meet the man working with NASA to 3D print a colony on Mars
Updated 0753 GMT (1553 HKT) February 22, 2017
Forget the moon. The next giant leap for mankind could be building a habitat on Mars.
The fourth planet from the sun may be cold -- Martian winters can reach -190 degrees Fahrenheit (-87 degrees Celsius) -- full of deserts and lacking in oxygen, but for Behrokh Khoshnevis it's humans' next destination.
The pioneering professor in engineering at the University of Southern California has been working with NASA on the possibility of building a colony on Mars since 2011.
Can board games tackle corruption in Indonesia?
A group of women are educating bureaucrats, school children and police about the wrongs of corruption.
Makassar, South Sulawesi - At the Al-Ashiri junior high school in Makassar, 40 youngsters, split evenly into groups of boys and girls, pour over scenarios that put their scruples to the test.
"Arun is using the school's only computer and there is no wi-fi, but he won't share," reads one boy into a microphone - unperturbed by the occasional ear splitting feedback. "What value is he lacking?"
The children are playing Semai - the name of a board game that telescopes into one the Indonesian words for "nine" and "values".Life expectancy to break 90 barrier by 2030
South Korean women will be the first in the world to have an average life expectancy above 90, a study suggests.
Imperial College London and the World Health Organization analysed lifespans in 35 industrialised countries.
It predicted all would see people living longer in 2030 and the gap between men and women would start to close in most countries.
The researchers said the findings posed big challenges for pensions and care for elderly people.
"South Korea has gotten a lot of things right," Prof Majid Ezzati told the BBC News website.
"They seem to have been a more equal place and things that have benefited people - education, nutrition - have benefited most people.
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