Six In The Morning Sunday 6 March 2022

 

Mariupol: Fires, no water, and bodies in the street

By Joel Gunter
in Lviv, Ukraine

A ceasefire, and a chance for civilians to leave, was announced on Saturday morning in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, where an estimated 200,000 people are trapped under heavy bombardment by Russian forces.

The city arranged 50 buses, and many people travelled to the city centre to get them. But after less than two hours, Russia's army began shelling residential areas again, trapping civilians who had begun their escape.

The city is now in its fifth day with no running water, no power, no sanitation, and food and water are fast running out.

Maxim, a 27-year-old IT developer who is caring for his grandparents in their sixth-floor apartment, spoke to the BBC on Saturday night to describe a day that began with hope and ended in despair.

United By DangerHow Vladimir Putin Brought the West Together

The Ukraine war is uniting the West – politically, militarily, morally. But what will the world's democracies do with this newfound unity? Can they succeed in preventing further escalation?

By Markus Becker, Georg Fahrion, Katharina Graça Peters, Ralf Neukirch, René Pfister, Maximilian Popp, Jan Puhl, Britta Sandberg, Lina Verschwele und Bernhard Zand

The small Romanian town of Câmpia Turzii doesn't look like the kind of place where global political developments take place. The bed of gravel in front of the town hall is waiting for new asphalt, the "Asia” market next door has lost its "i," and the hotel on the outskirts of town bears the simple name A3. The town’s biggest attraction stands at the city limits. Once you pass the last single-family homes, you suddenly find yourself in front of a mounted aircraft. A blue, Soviet-produced MiG-21 fighter jet juts into the sky like a signpost.

Câmpia Turzii has been home to an air base for almost 70 years. During the Cold War, Warsaw Pact pilots took off and landed here. These days, though, NATO troops are stationed behind the metal gate.

Mexico: Dozens injured in soccer game brawl

At least 22 people were injured when violence erupted during the Liga MX match between Queretaro and Atlas.

At least 22 people were wounded in a brawl at a soccer game Saturday night in Mexico's Queretaro city, officials from the Queretaro state civil protection agency said.

The agency said two people were "seriously" injured, but there were no deaths.

What happened?

The violence broke out between fans of opposing teams, Querétaro F.C. and Atlas F.C., during a Liga MX match. 

Footage showed chaos unfold first in the stands of La Corregidora stadium, where the game was taking place, with people kicking and punching each other.

Iran, UN nuclear watchdog to adopt 'pragmatic approach', says Grossi

The International Atomic Energy Agency and Iran have agreed to adopt a "practical and pragmatic approach" to resolve outstanding issues, the UN agency's chief said on Saturday in Tehran. 

Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency said Saturday after talks in Tehran that they agreed on an approach to resolve issues crucial in efforts to revive the country's 2015 nuclear deal.

The announcement came shortly before Russia said it would seek guarantees from the United States before it backs the deal, potentially scuppering hopes the agreement could be wrapped up soon.

Putin’s ‘macho doctrine’: Implications for Ukraine

Putin, Russia’s macho modern-day tsar, just couldn’t live with Kyiv’s shameful infidelity – not after all that Moscow had done for Ukraine.

Marwan Bishara

Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera.

Vladimir Putin will have you know that he did not want this war; that it was imposed on him. He did the impossible to avoid invading his beloved Ukraine, but there are things that even a superpower, a super-duper patient leader cannot endure.

The Russian president has long warned that Ukraine belongs to Russia; if it could not have her, then nobody else could.

Alas, no one listened.

Neither he nor Russia had received the respect they deserved, and that was just unacceptable and utterly infuriating to this macho modern-day tsar.

These animals went extinct in the wild. Scientists brought them back

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN

What do North Carolina's red wolves, the Eurasian beaver and Przewalski's horse have in common?

All of them went extinct in the wild -- and all of them came back, thanks to reintroduction programs.

Conservation scientists use translocation and captive breeding to re-establish animal populations that have died out in the wild -- either entirely or in certain areas. Reintroducing extinct-in-the-wild animals to their native territories can be a double win: helping to restore degraded ecosystems, as well as increasing population numbers.