Saturday, March 19, 2022

Six In The Morning Saturday 19 March 2022

 

Anatomy of the Mariupol hospital attack


By Katie PolglaseGianluca Mezzofiore and Livvy Doherty, CNN
Design by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN


CNN has verified 14 attacks between February 25 and March 14.


An airike ripped through a maternity and children’s hospital in the southeastern city of Mariupol, which has been under siege by Russian forces.

China reports first coronavirus deaths in over a year amid omicron surge




Two deaths reported on Saturday, the first since January 2021, as China continues to pursue ‘zero-Covid’ strategy


Agencies
Sat 19 Mar 2022 04.01 GMT

China’s national health authorities reported two Coronavirus deaths on Saturday, the first recorded rise in the death toll since January last year, as the country battles an omicron-driven surge.

The deaths, both in north-eastern Jilin province, bring the country’s coronavirus death toll to 4,638.

China reported 2,157 new community transmissions on Saturday, with the majority in Jilin. The province has instituted a travel ban, with people needing permission from police to travel across borders.



Four US Marines die in aircraft crash during Nato training exercise in Norway


Rescue crews bound for crash site, officials say

Josh Marcus
San Francisco

Four US Marines have died after a US Marine Corps aircraft crashed during a Nato training exercise in the mountains of northern Norway on Friday.

Norwegian prime minister Jonas Gahr Stoere tweeted that they died in the crash. The cause of the incident is being investigated, but Norwegian police reported bad weather in the area.

An MV-22B Osprey aircraft was involved in the crash, the Marine Corps said in a statement on Twitter on Friday.


Nissan seeks ¥1.4 bil damages from ex-exec Kelly over Ghosn pay


Nissan Motor Co has filed a lawsuit against its former executive Greg Kelly seeking about 1.4 billion yen ($11.7 million) in damages, accusing him of helping former CEO Carlos Ghosn underreport his remuneration, people familiar with the matter said Friday.

The case was lodged with the Yokohama District Court on Jan 19 before Kelly, an American lawyer who was Ghosn's right-hand man as a Nissan representative director, was given a six-month suspended jail sentence for falsifying the automaker's financial report for fiscal 2017. The first hearing is scheduled on May 12.

Nissan claims in the lawsuit that Kelly had considered ways to avoid disclosing some of Ghosn's remuneration in its financial documents submitted to regulators.


What the truckers’ convoy revealed about policing in Canada


Initial hands-off approach to far-right movement reveals double standards and institutional police biases, experts say.


The occupation of Canada’s capital by the so-called “Freedom Convoy” continues to reverberate, raising questions about pandemic policies, the limits of public protests, and the presence of far-right, white supremacist groups in the country.

It also has spurred an ongoing discussion about the role of police, as many Ottawa residents said they were abandoned amid threats and harassment from convoy participants, who paralysed the city’s downtown core for three weeks.

“This will serve as a catalyst for discussion and debate around the role and function of police, the scope of what they do – as it should,” said Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, a sociology professor at the University of Toronto.


Ukraine: How crowdsourcing is rescuing people from the war zone


By Marc Cieslak & Tom Gerken
BBC News

Finding a safe route out of Ukraine is not easy.

One challenge facing those looking to escape is to find one that is not under heavy bombardment from Russian forces.

The UN says more than three million people have have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion just over three weeks ago.

So how do people actually find safe passage out of the country?

One way is via transport arranged by dozens of volunteers based thousands of miles away, who liaise with fellow volunteers in Ukraine.







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