Six In The Morning

Migrant crisis: Austria and Germany await more arrivals

 



Austria and Germany are expecting thousands more migrants to arrive from Hungary after Budapest eased restrictions on their travel.

Throughout Saturday, by bus, train and on foot, people travelled to the Austrian border before moving on to Vienna and Munich.

Austrian officials are laying on more trains as needed.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is to hold talks with her coalition partners on a crisis that has divided the EU.

After days of confrontation and chaos, Hungary opened its borders with Austria and bussed thousands of migrants to the frontier.

Up to 10,000 arrived at the border, according to the Austrian authorities, who have said they do not plan to limit the numbers crossing into the country.

 Fear stalks Burundi as besieged regime turns to torture

 Victims say president Pierre Nkurunziza is trying to turn Hutus against Tutsis as protests continue against government



 David Smith

Lie on your back and stare directly into the sun – if you shut your eyes or look away, we will stamp on your toes. This is one of the perversely innovative forms of torture allegedly being practised by Burundi’s secret service in the defence of a besieged regime.

Speaking from a safe house, Stephane Gatekh – not his real name – claims that he also had a vice clamped around his leg and was lashed with an electric cable. He was also threatened with bee stings, a machete and having a five-litre bottle tied to his genitals.

 Toyota Mirai: World’s first mass-produced hydrogen-powered car has a range of 300 miles – and it’s on its way

 It is coming to Britain this autumn, just in time for the opening next month of the UK’s first 24-hour, public hydrogen-refuelling station

Jamie Merrill  Sunday 06 September 2015



The speed limit on the Shuto Expressway that loops around the centre of Tokyo is 60 kph (38mph). The Toyota Mirai hits that in a few seconds, leaving nothing but a thin stream of water in its wake.

Mirai, which means “future” in Japanese, is the world’s first mass-produced hydrogen-powered car. It is coming to Britain this autumn, just in time for the opening next month of the UK’s first 24-hour, public hydrogen-refuelling station, just off the M1 near Sheffield.

 Thailand’s military-backed council rejects new constitution

Thailand’s military-backed legislature has rejected a widely unpopular draft of a new constitution. The country’s return to democracy after last year’s coup is now likely to suffer severe delays.

  DW-DE

The constitution drafters had hoped the proposed charter would move Thailand past almost a decade of political conflicts, but it was met with strong opposition on all sides of the political divide.

The rejection set a tentative plan for Thailand’s transition to electoral democracy back until at least 2017, with the military retaining substantial powers until a new constitution is finally drafted.

The Thai legislature, known as the National Reform Council, voted 135 to 105 against the new constitution, with seven abstentions. The National Reform Council was created, along with the National Legislative Assembly and Constitution Drafting Committee, by the military junta when it took over power in a coup in May 2014.

 Japan reopens radiation-hit Naraha. Who’s returning home?

  Japan’s government says radiation has finally fallen to safe levels in the northeastern town of Naraha, lifting an evacuation order that’s kept residents out since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.

 By Michelle Toh, Staff writer

For the first time in four and a half years, those who lived in the northeastern town of Naraha will be able to return home, the Japanese government announced Saturday.

The town, located 12 miles south of the Fukushima nuclear plant, once held 7,400 residents – all of whom were forced out by the nuclear disaster that triggered mass evacuations.

As officials confirmed that radiation had finally been contained to safe levels, Naraha became the first town to allow all its people to return home permanently, according to the BBC.

African stories told by Africans using manga animations

  Tired of telling stories of other people’s cultures, a Senegalese animator has moved home to develop homegrown mangas.

Nicolas Haque | 06 Sep 2015 07:18 GMT

With more than 500 million books sold worldwide last year, passion for Japanese comics known as ‘manga’ continues to grow.

Despite the increasing appetite from readers for these stories, however, finding mangas in West Africa, let alone Senegal, has been near impossible.

But that is changing.

Tired of telling the stories of other people’s cultures, an animation artist has moved back to Senegal, after working in India’s animation industry.