Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Six In The Morning Tuesday 28 January 2025
BBC travels with first Jordanian helicopter delivering aid inside Gaza
Fergal KeaneSpecial correspondentReporting fromSouthern Gaza
Jordanian helicopters have begun deliveries of aid to Gaza - the first since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was declared.
The scene from the air reveals itself out of the midday haze - grey ruins and a lifeless landscape.
As we land, the Jordanian air force men jump out first and make sure there is someone from the World Food Programme to receive the aid.
A solitary figure in a hi-vis jacket approaches.
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrants over atrocities in Darfur
Karim Khan says civilians being targeted and communities destroyed in western region of Sudan
Tue 28 Jan 2025 11.49 GMT
The prosecutor for the international criminal court has said he is seeking arrest warrants for people accused of atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region, where the US and others have determined that a paramilitary group and its allies have perpetrated genocide.
Karim Khan told the UN security council in New York: “Criminality is accelerating in Darfur. Civilians are being targeted, women and girls are subjected to sexual violence, and entire communities are left in destruction.
“This is not just an assessment; it is a hard-edged analysis based on verified evidence.”
Pakistan Senate votes to ban fake news on social media
Pakistan's upper house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday criminalizing the spread of online misinformation.
The bill was already passed in the National Assembly last week.
What do we know about the bill?
The law would target anyone who "intentionally disseminates" information they have "reason to believe to be false or fake and likely to cause or create a sense of fear, panic or disorder or unrest."
French FM condemns 'unacceptable' attack on embassy in DR Congo
France's foreign minister said on Tuesday that an attack by protesters against the French embassy in DR Congo's capital Kinshasa was "unacceptable".
French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on a post on X that the French embassy in Kinshasa was attacked and briefly caught fire, although the blaze had been brought under control.
What’s DeepSeek, China’s AI startup sending shockwaves through global tech?
DeepSeek, a little-known Chinese startup, has sent shockwaves through the global tech sector with the release of an artificial intelligence (AI) model whose capabilities rival the creations of Google and OpenAI.
DeepSeek-R1’s creator says its model was developed using less advanced, and fewer, computer chips than employed by tech giants in the United States.
Suicidal tendencies and ’80s battlefield tactics: How North Korean soldiers are operating in Russia’s war on Ukraine
Detonating a grenade under the chin rather than being captured. Using a fellow soldier to lure out attack drones. Removing body armor plates and helmets to enable faster attacks on foot. Writing pledges of allegiance to North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un.
These are the brutal and near-suicidal tactics of North Korean soldiers, who have, since November, been deployed to repel Ukraine’s incursion in the southern Russian border region of Kursk.
Up to 12,000 North Korean soldiers have been sent to Russia, according to Western intelligence reports, which say around 4,000 troops have been killed or injured.
Monday, January 27, 2025
The exiled Myanmar artist pleading for the world’s attention
An artist flees Myanmar following the 2021 coup and uses art to keep the world engaged in the plight of his nation.
Six In The Morning Monday 27 January 2025
Israel allows displaced Palestinians to finally return to north Gaza
- Hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians in Gaza eagerly cross the Israeli-militarized Netzarim Corridor and return to destroyed homes in the north of the Strip for the first time since the devastating war began.
- More bloodshed as Israeli soldiers open fire on Lebanese civilians trying to return to their southern residences after the army refused to withdraw despite agreeing to in a truce with Hezbollah.
- An Israeli air strike kills two Palestinians in the city of Tulkarem, underscoring Israel’s renewed focus on armed groups in the occupied West Bank.
- Palestinians condemn US President Donald Trump’s proposal to “clean out” Gaza by forcibly displacing its residents to Egypt and Jordan, which raised concerns of ethnic cleansing.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 47,306 Palestinians and wounded 111,483 since October 7, 2023. At least 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks that day and more than 200 taken captive.
‘Huge challenge’ to deliver aid to many thousands heading to north Gaza: UNICEF
International humanitarian organisations are trying to ramp up efforts in northern Gaza as tens of thousands of Palestinians are going back to their homes.
“Since the beginning of the ceasefire, a lot of aid has entered the north. UNICEF has brought in a range of items like hygiene kits and high-energy biscuits to address malnutrition for young children,” said Jonathan Crickx, chief of communications for UNICEF Palestine.
“When I see how many people are moving north – and I was in the north in September and saw the level of destruction there – it’s going to be a huge challenge to support them,” he told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.
Bird remains found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet, report says
Plane appears to have hit ducks before it crashed in Muan, South Korea, last month killing 179 people onboard
Mon 27 Jan 2025 13.23 GMT
An investigation into the deadliest air disaster on South Korean soil has found duck remains in both engines, according to a preliminary report, suggesting the passenger jet hit birds before slamming down on the runway.
While officials have not yet determined the cause of last month’s Jeju Air crash that killed all but two of the 181 people onboard, the report released on Monday said feathers and bird bloodstains were found inside the Boeing 737-800’s engines.
“The samples were sent to specialised organisations for DNA analysis and a domestic organisation identified them as belonging to Baikal teals,” said the report from South Korea’s Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board.
DR Congo says Rwanda army in Goma
Congolese government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya said Kinshasa wanted to prevent "carnage," with Rwanda's forces in the east of the country. It comes after the M23 group claimed to have taken the city of Goma.
Congo's government on Monday accused Rwanda of an incursion into the North Kivu province in the east of the country, hours after the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels claimed control over the provincial capital Goma.
"The government continues to work to prevent carnage and loss of life in light of Rwanda's clear intentions," government spokesperson Patrick Muyaya said in a post on the platform X.
He spoke of the "presence of the Rwandan army" in Goma.
The liberation of Auschwitz: What the Soviets discovered on January 27, 1945
Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where more than a million people, most of them Jews, had been murdered. They found just a few thousand survivors in a sprawling complex where the SS had tried to erase all traces of their crimes.
In his Holocaust memoir, "The Truce", Italian prisoner Primo Levi recounted his first contact with the Red Army soldiers when Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was liberated.
“The first Russian patrol came in sight of the camp about midday on 27 January 1945,” he wrote. “They were four young soldiers on horseback, who advanced along the road that marked the limits of the camp, cautiously holding their sten-guns. When they reached the barbed wire, they stopped to look, exchanging a few timid words, and throwing strangely embarrassed glances at the sprawling bodies, at the battered huts and at us few still alive."
Fuji TV president, chairman step down over TV host sexual misconduct scandal
The president of Fuji Television Network Inc stepped down Monday, the parent company of the broadcaster said, after allegations that an employee of the broadcaster helped arrange a meal at which Japanese TV host Masahiro Nakai is accused of sexual misconduct.
Koichi Minato's resignation comes as the scandal surrounding Nakai, who rose to fame as a member of the now-defunct pop group SMAP, put the network under intense scrutiny, leading dozens of Japanese companies to stop advertising on the network.
Inside the race for Greenland's mineral wealth
Adrienne Murray
President Donald Trump has said he thinks the US will gain control of Greenland, underlining his persistent claim on the Arctic island, on one occasion pointing to "economic security" as the reason. While the autonomous Danish territory has been quick to say it isn't for sale, its vast and mostly untapped mineral resources are in great demand.
Jagged grey peaks suddenly appear before us, as the motorboat navigates choppy coastal waters and dramatic fjords at Greenland's southern tip.
"Those very high pointy mountains, it's basically a gold belt," gestures Eldur Olafsson, the chief executive of mining company Amaroq Minerals.
After sailing for two hours we stepped ashore at a remote valley beneath Nalunaq mountain, where the firm is drilling for gold.