Six In The Morning Sunday November 11

California wildfires: Death toll rises to 25

The death toll in the wildfires raging through California has risen to 25, according to officials.

This comes after 14 more bodies were discovered in or near the decimated town of Paradise in the state's north, bringing the number of confirmed dead there to 23.

Two more people were killed in the south, near Malibu.

An estimated 250,000 people have been forced to flee their homes to avoid three major blazes in the state.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has drawn anger by saying that poor forestry management is to blame for the fires.

'Do you know how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly?' – doctors to NRA

Physician slams organization after it criticized those who want to reduce gun deaths by tweeting ‘stay in your lane’

Vivian Ho in San Francisco

Dr Judy Melinek, a San Francisco-based forensic pathologist, saw the headline on her way into work early Friday.

“‘Stay in your lane’, NRA tells doctors who want to reduce gun deaths,” it read. And though she has a personal policy to never tweet when angry, she couldn’t stop herself.

“Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly?” she quickly typed. “This isn’t just my lane. It’s my fucking highway.”

Iranian women allowed into top Tehran football match for first time in 37 years

Hopes rise of permanent end to ban on female fans attending games

Jane Dalton @JournoJane

Hundreds of Iranian women have been allowed to attend a top-league Tehran football match for the first time in 37 years.

An estimated 500 women – out of a crowd of about 80,000 – were permitted to watch the Asia Champions League football final in Tehran, separated from male fans.

Most were said to be relatives of players or members of women’s teams, but the move is being seen as a possible permanent end to the exclusion of women from top matches.

Football’s world governing body Fifa is working with Iran to halt the ban.

Venture CapitalHow Clubs Profit By Exploiting Young African Talent

Manchester City invests millions in an African football academy. But very few of its attendees make the jump to Europe. Those that do are treated like commodities.

A muddy track lined with goats and chickens leads past corrugated metal huts and mudbrick shacks, the residents of Old Akrade sitting out front in threadbare T-shirts watching the students make their way to school. But it's not just any school they attend. It is the Right to Dream Academy -- a facility that includes eight carefully tended pitches complete with netted goals. Some are even equipped with flood lights.

The contrast between the academy and the poverty surrounding it in this sparsely settled area on the banks of the Volta River in southeastern Ghana could hardly be greater. But the students of the academy take the name at face value: The football stars-in-training have the right to dream -- of scoring spectacular goals, of cheering fans and millions of euros in their bank accounts. They are, after all, the chosen ones, young talents on their way to Europe. Not all of them will make it, of course, as they well know. But they all have the desire.

Turkey's President Erdogan says Khashoggi tapes have been given to key foreign nations

Turkey has shared recordings linked to the murder last month of journalist Jamal Khashoggi with Riyadh, Washington and other capitals, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.

“We gave the recordings, we gave them to Saudi Arabia, we gave them to Washington, to the Germans, to the French, to the English,” Erdogan said in a televised speech.

“They listened to the conversations which took place here, they know,” he said, but added that they were not accompanied by any written documents.

Top Philippines news site and company chief face tax evasion charges

By Carly Walsh and Hilary Whiteman, CNN

Updated 0313 GMT (1113 HKT) November 11, 2018

A move by the Philippines Justice Department to charge investigative news site Rappler with tax evasion is being seen as a thinly disguised attempt to stifle press freedom in the South East Asian country.

On Friday, the Justice Department said it had "found probable cause" to indict Rappler and its CEO and executive editor, former CNN bureau chief Maria Ressa, on charges of tax evasion.

"We are not at all surprised by the decision, considering how the Duterte administration has been treating Rappler for its independent and fearless reporting," Rappler said in statement.