These School Girls Just Aren't Going To Take It Anymore: Put The Molester In Jail (video)

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Groping is a big problem on Japanese trains, and despite signs, pins, and women-only carriages sending a big message to the public that touching another person without their consent is never okay, cases of sexual harassment still persist.

The victims are often schoolgirls, who are sadly targeted to such an extent that one victim even wrote an entire book about her traumatic near-daily experiences. Thankfully, though, these schoolgirls are becoming more and more vocal at protecting themselves against “chikan”, the Japanese word for a man who gropes women on trains.

Case in point is this new video, showing a couple of schoolgirls running after a suspected chikan on the platform of Akabane Station in Tokyo’s Kita Ward. Helped out by an impressive assist by an older gentleman on the platform, the chikan goes flying, falling face-down on the concrete while the girls continue their pursuit.

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Six In The Morning Friday 31 May 2019

Trump announces tariffs on Mexico in latest anti-immigration measure

US President Donald Trump has announced tariffs on all goods coming from Mexico, demanding the country curb illegal immigration into the US.

In a tweet, Mr Trump said that from 10 June a 5% tariff would be imposed and would slowly rise "until the Illegal Immigration problem is remedied".

Jesus Seade, Mexico's top diplomat for North America, said the proposed tariffs would be "disastrous".

Mr Trump declared a national emergency at the US-Mexico border in February.

He said it was necessary in order to tackle what he claims is a crisis at the US southern border.

Border agents say they are overwhelmed, but critics say they are mishandling and mistreating migrants.

Tiananmen Square protests: crackdown intensifies as 30th anniversary nears

Authorities expand detention of activists and censorship ahead of 4 June

Helen Davidson in Hong Kong

 @heldavidson

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Fri 31 May 2019 05.13 BST

Chinese authorities have detained dozens of people as part of a ramped-up annual crackdown ahead of the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Tuesday will mark 30 years since the bloody event, which saw Chinese authorities brutally shut down long running student protests, killing thousands of people in and around the central square in Beijing.

Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD), a US-based organisation for domestic and international activists, said the Beijing government’s “pre-emptive strikes” against anyone who might try to mark the anniversary had started in early May.

British far-right extremists being funded by international networks, report reveals

Research warns authorities are ‘overlooking’ far-right funding networks because of focus on Islamist terrorism 

Lizzie DeardenSecurity Correspondent @lizziedearden

Far-right extremists are building international funding networks allowing them to spread hatred while being “overlooked” by authorities, new research has warned.

Analysts at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) found that despite an increase in extreme right-wing attacks, efforts to disrupt terrorist financing was still focused on Islamists.

A report said a lack of work to find the source of money flows and stop them had allowed prolific extremists and groups to build huge platforms in the UK, US and Europe.

Sudan's military rulers say protests threaten stability

Tens of thousands of Sudanese demonstrators converged on central Khartoum on Thursday night demanding civilian rule amid increasing tensions with the country's military rulers who accused a protest encampment of threatening stability.

The protest, which followed a two-day strike organised by demonstrators and opposition groups frustrated by a deadlock in talks on a transition to democracy, underscores the volatility of the situation in Sudan nearly two months after the military overthrew autocrat Omar al-Bashir.

The head of the central Khartoum military region accused "unruly elements" of attacking a vehicle used by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and seizing it near the protest site.

Iran rejects Saudi Arabia's 'baseless' allegations at Arab summit

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson denounces Saudi King Salman's accusations of Tehran meddling in the region.

Iran has rejected what it calls "baseless" accusations made at an Arab summit, saying Saudi Arabia had joined the United States and Israel in a "hopeless" effort to mobilise regional opinion against Tehran, state media reported.

Saudi Arabia's king told an emergency Arab summit on Thursday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations" in the region following attacks on oil assets in the Gulf, as American officials said a US military deployment had deterred Tehran.

Narita airport to use facial recognition in boarding from 2020

NEC Corp said Friday Narita airport will use the company's artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition technology to ease congestion from 2020, with the number of travelers expected to spike as the Tokyo Olympics approach.

The Japanese electronics manufacturer said if a passenger registers an image of his or her face during check-in, they can advance through baggage drop-off, security check and boarding procedures with the systems at the gate and kiosks automatically verifying their identity.

However, passengers will still need to present a passport at immigration screening.

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Six In The Morning Thursday 30 May 2019

'Don't say we didn't warn you:' Chinese state media issues ominous warning to US

By Ben Westcott and Serenitie Wang, CNN

Updated 0611 GMT (1411 HKT) May 30, 2019

As Beijing threatens the United States with the possibility of a rare earths export ban amid rising trade tensions, Chinese state media has sent an ominously worded warning to Washington: "Don't say we didn't warn you."

The People's Daily, the newspaper of the ruling Communist Party, used the loaded phrase in a commentary on Wednesday, in which it said that China would "never accept" the US' suppression of Chinese development.

Revealed: women's fertility app is funded by anti-abortion campaigners

The Femm app has users in the US, EU and Africa and sows doubt over the safety of birth control, a Guardian investigation has found

Jessica Glenza in New York

 @JessicaGlenza

Thu 30 May 2019 07.00 BST

A popular women’s health and fertility app sows doubt about birth control, features claims from medical advisers who are not licensed to practice in the US, and is funded and led by anti-abortion, anti-gay Catholic campaigners, a Guardian investigation has found.

The Femm app, which collects personal information about sex and menstruation from users, has been downloaded more than 400,000 times since its launch in 2015, according to developers. It has users in the US, the EU, Africa and Latin America, its operating company claims.

Budapest boat crash: Seven dead after tourist vessel capsizes and sinks on Danube river

Flooding and strong currents in Danube river impede rescue efforts

Samuel Osborne @SamuelOsborne93

At least seven people have died after a sightseeing boat with South Korean tourists on board capsized on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary.

The boat was carrying 33 passengers and two crew members when it collided with another vessel and sank on Wednesday night.

The South Korean Foreign Ministry said the tourists in the deadly collision weren’t wearing life jackets.

Israeli parliament votes to hold new election in September

Israeli lawmakers have voted in favor of dissolving parliament following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to form a coalition government. The move comes after weeks of difficult negotiations.

Israel's parliament, the Knesset, has voted to dissolve itself, sending the country to an unprecedented second snap election this year after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was unable to establish a majority coalition by a midnight deadline.

Parliament voted 74-45 in favor of dissolving itself and setting elections for September 17.

Questioned by French intelligence, 'Le Monde' journalist refuses to reveal sources

French intelligence on Wednesday questioned a Le Monde journalist who broke the story that became a scandal involving a security aide to President Emmanuel Macron, the latest reporter to be questioned by French authorities.

France's domestic intelligence service on Wednesday questioned a journalist who broke the story of a scandal that shook President Emmanuel Macron, the latest in a growing number of reporters to be quizzed in a trend that has disturbed press freedom activists.

Ariane Chemin, who works for the daily Le Monde, said she was questioned by the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI) for some 45 minutes in the presence of her lawyer after being summoned last week.

Footage of Kawasaki knife attack recorded by school bus dashcam

Footage of a recent mass stabbing attack in Kawasaki that left a schoolgirl and a man dead and more than a dozen others injured has been recovered from a school bus dashcam, police said Thursday.

The video shows the assailant, Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, approaching a group of Caritas Elementary School students from behind as they waited for their school bus. It also captured the attack and its aftermath, the police said.

Iwasaki, who later died of self-inflicted wounds to his neck, wielded two 30-centimeter-long knives in the assault that occurred Tuesday in the city near Tokyo.

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China's secret internment camps

China has been quietly detaining its population of Uighurs, the country’s Muslim minority, in internment camps. First-hand accounts from inside the camps paint a brutal picture of torture and political indoctrination. At first, China denied the existence of these camps and tried to cover them up. But as a network of academics and activists uncovered evidence of the camps' locations, and the reality of what’s going on inside, China changed its story.

Six In The Morning Wednesday 29 May 2019

Australia's 'Egg Boy' gives donations to NZ attack survivors

An Australian teenager who broke an egg on a controversial far-right senator's head says he has given almost A$100,000 (£55,000; $69,000) to survivors of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

Will Connolly egged Fraser Anning in March - prompting people to flood him with donations to pay his legal costs.

Mr Anning had caused fury a day earlier when he said, on the day of the shootings, Muslim migration was to blame for them.

Fifty-one people died in the attacks.

Myanmar police hunt 'Buddhist bin Laden' over Suu Kyi comments

Ashin Wirathu has long been blamed for inciting hatred against Muslims, in particular the Rohingya minority

Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Bangkok

Wed 29 May 2019 06.26 BST

Myanmar police have issued an arrest warrant for Ashin Wirathu, a firebrand monk known as the “Buddist Bin Laden”, over alleged incendiary remarks about Aung San Suu Kyi.

Wirathu has long been accused of inciting sectarian violence against Myanmar’s Muslims, in particular the Rohingya community, through hate-filled, Islamaphobic speeches.

The monk, who is at the forefront of Myanmar’s radical nationalist movement, supported the military crackdown on the Rohingya in August 2017 in Rahkine state. The UN has since defined the military violence as ethnic cleansing which was carried out with “genocidal intent”.

Schwarzenegger teams up with activist Greta Thunberg at climate summit

A top climate summit organized by Arnold Schwarzenegger's environmental organization has opened in Vienna. Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg spoke at the opening of a failure by the leaders in attendance to act.

Swedish youth activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday called on leaders to inform the public about climate change without sugarcoating "the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced."

Most people have no clue about the scale of the climate emergency because they "have not been told, or more importantly, told by the right people," said Thunberg, who has inspired millions of young people across the globe to participate in the Fridays for the Future school strikes.

Over 400 IS group-linked French nationals detained in Syria, Paris says

Around 450 French nationals linked to the Islamic State (IS) are being held by Kurds or detained in refugee camps in northeastern Syria, the French foreign minister said Tuesday.

"In the northeastern zone of Syria, we think that there are between 400 and 450 French people, some in camps, others held as prisoners, including children," Jean-Yves Le Drian told parliament's foreign affairs committee.

He said only the children could be repatriated if they were orphans or if their mothers gave permission.

Everest makes you feel superhuman. But the mountain has other plans

By Arwa Damon, Sugam Pokharel and Rajesh Mishra, CNN

Updated 0721 GMT (1521 HKT) May 29, 2019

Our helicopter lands in Lukla, a small town best known for being the gateway to Mount Everest.

Tucked into the green cascading foothills of Nepal's Himalayas, it boasts a single, hair-raisingly short runway, rumored to be one of the most dangerous landing zones in the world.

A handful of climbers are waiting for their flights out. Those who attempted to climb or have successfully summited Everest are easy to identify by their sunburnt faces and visible exhaustion.

A quarter of world's children robbed of their childhood: Report

About 690 million children denied happy childhood due to early marriage and exclusion from education, charity says.

by Saba Aziz

An estimated 690 million children are being robbed of their childhood today due to conflict, early marriage and exclusion from education among other factors, even as progress was made over the last two decades, according to an international aid group.

In its annual report published on Tuesday, Save the Children, said the overall situation for children has improved in 173 of 176 countries since 2000, but one in four under the age of 18 is still being deprived of the right to a safe and healthy childhood. Those living or fleeing conflict zones are among the most vulnerable, it said.

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Six in The Morning Tuesday 28 May 2019

Japan attack: Child among three dead in Kawasaki stabbing

A knife-wielding man has attacked a group of schoolchildren waiting for a bus in a Japanese city near Tokyo.

At least 18 people were injured on a residential street in Kawasaki. Two of them, a 12-year-old girl and a 39-year-old man, are dead.

A suspect, a man in his 50s, stabbed himself in the neck after his rampage and later died in hospital.

Violent crime is rare in Japan and the motive for the attack is unknown.

The suspect was holding knives in both hands as he attacked the victims - sixteen of whom were schoolgirls.

European elections: triumphant Greens demand more radical climate action

Green politicians to push agenda urging climate action, social justice and civil liberties

Jon Henley European affairs correspondent

 @jonhenley

Tue 28 May 2019 03.00 BST

Europe’s Greens, big winners in Sunday’s European elections, will use their newfound leverage in a fractured parliament to push an agenda of urgent climate action, social justice and civil liberties, the movement’s leaders say.

“This was a great outcome for us – but we now also have a great responsibility, because voters have given us their trust,” Bas Eickhout, a Dutch MEP and the Greens’ co-lead candidate for commission president, told the Guardian.

“Our voters, especially the younger generation, for many of whom we are now their first choice, are deeply concerned about the climate crisis, and they are pro-European – but they feel the EU is not delivering. They want us to change the course of Europe.”

Democracy ten years after the financial crash

Not the world order we wanted

The globalised economy was just about saved in 2008 by state interventions, at the cost of impoverishing most of their citizens. The ensuing resentment, then anger, has since reshaped national politics.


by Serge Halimi & Pierre Rimbert

Budapest, 23 May 2018. Wearing a jacket a bit big for him and a purple shirt, Steve Bannon addressed an audience of prominent and starchy Hungarians: ‘The fuse that lit the Trump revolution started September 15 at nine in the morning [in 2008, when] Lehman Brothers was kicked into bankruptcy.’ Bannon, former chief strategist to Donald Trump, had also been an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and knew that the crisis had hit Hungary hard: ‘The elites bailed themselves out, totally socialised the risk. Did the average person get a bail-out like that?’ Even though many of his current political activities have been paid for by hedge funds, he berates a ‘socialism for the rich’ that provoked ‘a really populist revolt’ around the world. ‘In 2010 Viktor Orbán was voted back into power in Hungary’: Orbán was ‘Trump before Trump.’

Libya: Flight data places mysterious planes in Haftar territory

Al Jazeera Arabic investigation tracks suspicious cargo flights into military bases controlled by Khalifa Haftar.

Cargo planes were discovered flying clandestinely into bases controlled by renegade Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar and dropping off unidentifed payloads at the time his forces attacked Tripoli last month, an Al Jazeera Arabic TV investigation found.

Satellite images and flight data show two Russian-made Ilyushin 76 aircraft registered to a joint Emirati-Kazakh company called Reem Travel made several trips between Egypt, Israel, and Jordanbefore landing at military bases controlled by Haftar's Libyan National Army (LNA) in early April, just as it attempted to seize the capital.

Facebook says Zuckerberg and Sandberg will defy Canadian subpoena, risking contempt vote

By Donie O'Sullivan and Paula Newton, CNN Business

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg will not attend a hearing in Ottawa later this week, despite receiving summonses from the Canadian parliament, Facebook confirmed on Monday.

The decision could result in the executives being held in contempt of parliament, the senior Canadian politician who sent the summons told CNN.

Both executives received formal requests from the Canadian Parliament earlier this month tied to a gathering of an international committee examining Silicon Valley's impact on privacy and democracy. Zuckerberg and Sandberg have testified before the United States Congress on the subject.

Trump expects Japan's military to reinforce U.S. in Asia and beyond

U.S. President Donald Trump said he expects that Japan's military will reinforce U.S. forces throughout Asia and elsewhere, he said on Tuesday, as the key U.S. ally upgrades the ability of its forces to operate further from its shores.

Trump's comments followed his inspection of Japan's largest warship, the Kaga, a helicopter carrier designed to carry submarine-hunting helicopters to distant waters.

The vessel, which will soon be upgraded to handle F-35B short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) jets, sailed to India on a flag-flying mission last year, going through the contested South China Sea, much of which is claimed by Beijing.

How Hard Is It To Live With Censored Internet?

In Vietnam, the internet is controlled, but not nearly to the level of China. Today we talk about how internet censorship actually affects your life.

You’re watching Fox News. You just don’t know it.

Fox News was created to push right-wing nonsense to the mainstream, and now there’s no escape.


We tend to assume that if a story is being covered by major news networks, it’s because journalists have decided that the story is important. But thanks to Fox News, that’s not always true. The network was specifically created to generate scandals that would hurt Democrats and help Republicans. And because most major networks pay attention to what happens in conservative media, those pseudoscandals end up creeping into mainstream coverage. The result is a media ecosystem that advantages Republicans by paying disproportionate attention to right-wing talking points.

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Swindle Kings Of Manila

101 East exposes the foreign fraudsters in the Philippines stealing millions through global financial scams.

It's a scam that starts in the Philippines and stretches across the globe. It ends in financial ruin and shattered dreams.

Shareholders discover their 'investment firm' isn't in London or New York, the firm's website is fake and their financial advisors are criminals based in Manila. The city has become a nexus for sophisticated scammers, fuelled by call centre workers who help fund organised crime.

101 East joins the hunt for the fraudsters as a private investigator and his unlikely ally - a criminal who's turned against his own - secretly gather evidence for the police.

Six In The Morning Monday 27 May 2019

World's rivers 'awash with dangerous levels of antibiotics'

Largest global study finds the drugs in two-thirds of test sites in 72 countries

Natasha Gilbert

 

Mon 27 May 2019 00.01 BSTLast modified on Mon 27 May 2019 02.06 BST

Hundreds of rivers around the world from the Thames to the Tigris are awash with dangerously high levels of antibiotics, the largest global study on the subject has found.

Antibiotic pollution is one of the key routes by which bacteria are able develop resistance to the life-saving medicines, rendering them ineffective for human use. “A lot of the resistance genes we see in human pathogens originated from environmental bacteria,” said Prof William Gaze, a microbial ecologist at the University of Exeter who studies antimicrobial resistance but was not involved in the study.

The rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a global health emergency that could kill 10 million people by 2050, the UN said last month.

Right-wing figures warn of looming 'civil war' over abortion laws

One pastor said: 'A civil war is coming to America, only this time, it will be abortion, rather than slavery, that divides the nation'

Victoria Gagliardo-SilverNew York

As the abortion rights debate continues, some prominent right-wing American Christians have shared an ominous warning: that conflict over abortion access may lead to a new civil war.

With restrictive abortion bills passing around the US - like the Alabama abortion ban and foetal heartbeat bills, which restrict elective abortion at the about six weeks into pregnancy - America seems divided on a woman's right to choose.

Both lawmakers and influential Christians sources have reinforced this narrative. Charisma magazine, a spiritual Christian magazine, ran six or so articles on the potential of an imminent, abortion related civil war in America.

Far-right League becomes Italy's largest party in EU elections

The far-right League became Italy’s largest party in Sunday’s European parliamentary election, surging past its coalition partner the 5-Star Movement, which saw its own support slump.

The vote looks certain to alter the balance of power within the deeply divided government, giving greater authority to League leader Matteo Salvini, who is pushing for swingeing tax cuts in possible defiance of EU budget rules.

“Thank you Italy. We will use your trust well. The first party in Italy will change Europe,” a beaming Salvini said in a video posted on Facebook.

Myanmar soldiers jailed for Rohingya massacre freed after months

Troops released in November 2018 after serving less than one year of their 10-year prison terms, Reuters report says.

Myanmar has granted early release to seven soldiers jailed for the killing of 10 Rohingya men and boys during a 2017 military crackdown in the western state of Rakhine, two prison officials, two former fellow inmates and one of the soldiers told Reuters news agency.

The soldiers were freed in November last year, the two inmates said, meaning they served less than one year of their 10-year prison terms for the killings at Inn Din village.

They also served less jail time than two Reuters reporters who uncovered the killings. The journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, spent more than 16 months behind bars on charges of obtaining state secrets. The two were released in an amnesty on May 6.

Trump breaks with Abe; says he's not bothered by N Korean missile tests

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that he is not "personally bothered" by recent short-range missile tests that North Korea conducted this month, breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on four-day state visit full of pageantry

Trump said he had a good feeling that the nuclear standoff with North Korea will be resolved.

"I may be right, I may be wrong. But I feel that we've come a long way. There's been no rocket testing, there's been no nuclear testing," he said.

Barcelona’s radical plan to take back streets from cars

Introducing “superblocks.”

By David Roberts

In 2016, I wrote a brief story on “superblocks,” a hot new urban-planning idea out of Barcelona, Spain, that would reclaim streets from cars and transform them into walkable, mixed-used public spaces.

Ever since then, I’ve wondered how the city’s effort was progressing. So I jumped at the chance to spend 10 days in Barcelona in October, interviewing city officials, urban planning experts, and residents about the history of the program and its prospects for the future.

What I found was more fascinating than anything I could have imagined: not just an urban plan, but a vision for a different way of living in the 21st century, one that steps back from many of the mistakes of the auto-besotted 20th century, refocusing on health and community. It is a bigger and more ambitious city plan than anything being discussed in America and, more important, a plan that is actually being implemented, with a few solid pilot projects behind it, a list of lessons learned, and a half-dozen new projects in the works.