Toppling of South Korean President Park Geun-hye sparks widespread protests
More than 70 percent of the country wanted Park removed from office but the decision has sown deep divisions. Authorities warned the military to be wary of North Korean attempts to capitalize on the situation.
South Korean authorities deployed more than 20,000 police to the streets of Seoul to maintain order on Friday following the ousting of President Park Geun-hye.
Two people died in the capital city in protests against the Constitutional Court's decision to remove President Park Geun-hye from office.
The eight-judge panel had upheld a Parliamentary vote to impeach Park for a graft scandal, opening the way for criminal proceedings. Park's "acts of violating the constitution and law are a betrayal of the public trust," acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi said. "The benefits of protecting the constitution that can be gained by dismissing the defendant are overwhelmingly big."
Fukushima disaster evacuees told to return to abandoned homes
People who fled after March 2011 nuclear meltdown face losing housing subsidies if they do not go back, despite radiation fears
Thousands of people who fled after the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant six years ago have been told they must return to their homes or lose housing subsidies, despite lingering concerns over radiation in their former neighbourhoods.
The instruction, condemned by campaigners as a violation of the evacuees’ right to live in a safe environment, will affect an estimated 27,000 people who were not living inside the mandatory evacuation zone imposed after Fukushima became the scene of the worst nuclear accident in Japanese history.
The meltdown in three reactors occurred after a magnitude-9 earthquake on 11 March 2011 triggered a powerful tsunami that killed almost 19,000 people along Japan’s north-east coast and knocked out the plant’s backup cooling system.'I need to see my baby survive': Children bearing brunt of South Sudan famine as millions face starvation
Parents struggling against war, drought and soaring prices to feed most vulnerable
“I don’t understand what has happened to my daughter. I see her losing weight, she is losing her body in front of my eyes,” says Josephine Mahmoun.
“I’m so worried that she isn’t recovering and won’t recover.”
Her daughter Dalia is among more than a quarter of a million children starving in South Sudan, where a famine has been declared for the first time in six years.
The six-year-old girl weighs just 13kg – the weight of a healthy 12-month-old baby – and is undergoing emergency treatment in Juba.
Some days Dalia is able to walk, but on others severe acute malnutrition leaves her unable even to sit up, skin stretched over her shrunken frame.
In Japan, young women’s problems are often ignored. But she’s ready to help.
For Kanae, it was so painful to be alive that she wanted to take her own life at the age of 20.
“I always put a smile on my face, but I was ready to end my life,” recalls Kanae, who declined to give her family name.
Before taking such a step, Kanae wanted to meet Jun Tachibana, who has long helped troubled young women in Japan. Kanae yearned to let out all the agony she had never revealed to anyone.
When the two met, “I was surprised she accepted what I said without argument. She then said, ‘Thank you for talking to me. Let’s meet again!’ ” Kanae recalls.
'Crimes against humanity' in Myanmar - UN rapporteur
A top UN official says "crimes against humanity" are being committed by the military and police against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority.
The UN's special rapporteur for human rights in Myanmar, Yanghee Lee, was speaking as part of a joint BBC Newsnight-BBC Our World investigation.
Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in power almost a year, declined an interview.
A spokesman for her party said the allegations were "exaggerated" and an "internal" not "international" issue.
Ms Lee has not been given free access to the conflict area in Myanmar. But after speaking to refugees in Bangladesh she told the BBC that the situation was "far worse" than she expected.
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