Entry#20-31st May, 2014

Title: Meriam Ibrahim: Sudan "to free" death row woman
Date: 31st May, 2014
By: BBC

A woman in Sudan have been sentenced to death for abandoning her faith, Islamic. Meriam Ibrahim, a wife to a US citizen called Daniel Wani. Ms Ibrahim, a 27 year old lady was brought up as a Christain, but a judge said that because her father is a Muslim she must be considered as a Muslim as well, she refused to renounce her faith and was sentenced to death by hanging becasue of apostasy, which is to abandon one's faith. This Wednesday she gave birth to her daughter the second child from her marriage since 2011. The sudanian court earlier revoked her marriage as this was not considered to be valid, therefore she was sentenced to both death and 100 lashing for adultery. In an interview with the British Prime Minister, he said that the act was barbaric and way out of step with today's world. Abdullahi Alzareg, a secretary at a foregn ministry, said that Sudan Guaranteed religious freedom and are committed to protecting woman.

I think that the Prime Minister of Britain made a good point about that this is out of our way of this modern world, and how they are acting is unbelievable and it should not be seen in today's world. Also i am glad that Ms. Ibrhim is supported by the world and she is safely released becasue of humanitarian grounds. Also she stand tall to the ones who told her to change her faith, and refuse to change even though she is facing death. All in all she is a brave woman and i think that she is a woman that we should all look up to.

Entry#19 - 23rd May, 2014

Title: Will "smart gun" technology make firearms safer?
Date: 23rd May, 2014
By: BBC

Smart pistols have been developed by some German Company, in order to make policeman safer and making users of the firearm more secure. This gun can only work with both the watch and the gun, as the watch transmits a signal to the gun in order to shoot, and if the gun is 40cm apart from the watch the gun is going to lock itself. This aim to make a device like this is to make firearms safer, but in some places like America, this "smart gun" tech is proving to be controversial. A survey have been produced by the National shooting sports Foundation, and 74% of the 1200 respondents, said that they would not buy this smart gun, they all believed that this smart gun would affect a very small percentage of gun violence. They are now proposing another device called the Identilock which is basically fingerprint technology on guns.

All in all i think that this device is going to help a lot in regarding the safety of the user of the gun, as you can be in some kind of situations like, if you are a policeman and a thief or thug stole this smart gun from you, you won't be in harms way as he cannot fire this particular weapon. This i think made the gun really safe for the user and can help a lot when tough situations occur. This should be highly promoted in the USA, as a lot of guns incident have happened there.

Entry # 18 - 20th May, 2014

Title: Nigeria Bombing: Death Toll passes 100

Date: 20th May, 2014

By: BBC

The Nigerian Nation's emergency management agency says that at least 118 have died from the bombing that took place the Nigerian City of jos, there has been no other attacks since April 14th, that's when a bus stop was attacked. The first blast took place near a busy market, which local woman love to shop at, which making the 118 remains mostly woman. The second attack took place near a Hospital, and over 56 people were injured in these blasts. No party of any sort have admitted that they have done these terrible deed. Also the intervals between the blasts was 30 mins making some of the injured are the medics and rescue worker sent to help the survivors. Today, the parliament approved a half-year extension of the emergency status in these three states - Adamawa, Borno and Yobe. All in all more than 1000 people have been killed by attacks all over the country.

I think that this is a terrible thing to happen in the world, as these things goes on, like terrorist attacks and such, it makes us realize that we are not safe even with our door locked. Monthly 1000s of people are dying in the country, its a huge number considering its population, the government should really do something to change this fact, as if it get worse, the whole country could fall into years of depression and violence, as citizens tries to get control of the country. All in all this incident is a tragic one and it should be remembered, also the government of this country must do something about this incident, or else its just going to get worse.

Entry # 17 - 14 April, 2014

Title Glow in Dark road unveiled in the Netherlands
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: BBC

Glow in the dark have been unveiled on a 500m stretch on a highway in the Netherlands. The paint that is used contains a photo luminising powder that charges up in daytime and slowly releases a green glow at night, doing away with the need for streetlights. The technology have been tested and the official launch is due later this month. An artist named Daan Roosegaarde teamed up with Dutch civil engineering firm to work on this idea. This is the first time glowing lines tech has been piloted on the road and can be seen on the N329 in Oss, almost 100km south east of Amsterdam. once the road absorbed enough daylight it can glow for up to eight hours in the dark. The UK Highways Agency said that this tech is not suitable to be in the country as the weather and stuff would affect the effect of the paint. Originally the team planned to use a temperature-sensative paint mixture would be used to create giant snow-flakes symbols to warn users that the road may be icy.

This tech is an important invention in human history, as if every single country can use this tech we would save lots of electricity on the street lights, as shown in the passage this technology and completely take over the need of street lights, making it extremely environmental friendly. As this paint won't take any electricity in order for it to light up. Also this is sufficient too for the Netherlands as there's more than enough sunlight in a day to light up the road all night by this paint. All in all this is a fantastic plan and this a good start to save our planet from energy crisis

Entry # 16 - 14 March, 2014

Title: Girl learns lesson about twitter threats
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: BBC

   A 14 year old dutch girl apparently as leaned after she sent the following message to the official American Airlines Twitter account on Sunday morning, "Hello my name's Ibrahim and i'm from Afghanistan. I'm part of Al Qaida and on June 1st i'm gonna do something really big bye." The tweet from Sarah started a social media storm that led the girl's arrest by police on Monday. Originally the airline replies that her IP address and the details of her have been sent to the FBI, what happen next was a bunch of message by the 14 year old girl said that she is kidding and said that she is sorry. She didn't learn her lesson as she is now bidding her twitter account because of the tens of thousands of followers, on Monday Twitter had suspended her account and American Airlines took down its reply, this story was told by a police in Rotterdam who posted this news on twitter.

   What this girl did was unacceptable, as she cost a lot fear among the airlines, also she threatens hundreds of men and women who are going to take a flight on June 1st. She should be fully 100% responsible for her crimes like threatening, also she must learned that everything that you said on the internet have a consequence and she should not see this as as joke where others don't think that this is a joke. Also after she is caught she should be regretful and should change, instead she said that she is famous and auctioned out her account. All in all this girl had no idea what she had done and she should be punished significantly for her crimes.

Entry # 15 - 14 April, 2014

Title: Nigeria Violence: more than 70 killed in Abuja bus blast
Date: 14th March, 2014
By: BBC

More than 70 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a crowded bus station on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. This explosion happened when people were about to board buses and taxis to go to work. Eyewitnesses said there were dead bodies scattered around the area, they suspicion of this attack fell on the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group who staged previous attacks in Abuja. Police said that 16 coaches and 24 minibus were destroyed , 40 bodies have been evacuated and another eyewitnesses said that they saw the police picking up and gathering body parts. The blast ripped a 4 ft hole in the ground of the Nyanya motor park. A lot of the other cars and vans exploded because of the ignition of their fuel tanks. Ambulances have been taking the dead and the injured to nearby hospitals, now the police are on full alert in preperation for the next attack.

I think that this is an outrageous thing that happened, why do these Islamic extremist have to do things like these in order to get people's attention. Also why do they have to murder innocence "indafel" to please their god. Also this attack have caused not only life lost but lots of economics lost for the country too as now the government must repair the broken things from the explosion also they need to pay the victims money for their family. All in all this incident is unacceptable and the Islamic group should be taken out for good in case of any future attacks

Entry # 14 - 14 April,2014

Title: "Haunting" art by Jewish children in WW2 Concentration camp
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: Chris Long

   A collection of sketches by Jewish children who were held at a concentration camp in the former Czechoslovakia during WW2 is going on show at a Lancashire gallery. The images offer an insight into the experiences of the children in the death camps, and many of the children didn't make it out of the camps alive. When someone said that a piece is truly haunting that means that the artist of the painting or piece have captured something immutable. The show gathers together of 40 art works by children who was held in the concentration camps in where used be Czechoslovakia. These images are disturbing as they show how their poor living condition and how they still have to work regarding how young they are. These pictures were without a doubt saddening and moving. 

   I think that these pictures are not only an important history piece for the Jews but it is an important history piece for us the whole of mankind. Although we might have heard of the holocaust no one knows how its like in there ecxept through pictures and stories from the prisoners, but these paintings open my eyes on the condition of the children there in the camps. Also we always think that these camps were made to kill or to enslave the adults of the Jewish population but not children, in these 40 pictures they showed us how bad the situation was for them and how that we cannot allow anything like that to happen in future or now, that no race should be discriminated and massacred. 

Entry # 13 - 14 April, 2014

Title: Mini-Sub starts search for MH370 wreckage
Date: 14th April, 2014
By: BBC

   The detection of crackly ultrasonic "pings" from the depths of the ocean began to suggest the search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was finally reaching a conclusion. These signals usually generated by the plane's black box flight recorder seems to have faded and search teams now have to turn to an alternative way to locate the wreckage under the sea. They started to deploy a sub named Bluefin-21 for the hope that it can track down the faint singnals by the flight recorder of the plane in order to locate the wreckage under the sea. The Bluefin-21 scans the bottom of the sea for any debris its fully automatic and can run under water for a total of 20 hours, which 4 hours are devoted to descending and ascending of the sub to the suitable depth. 

   Well i think that this is a good way to locate the airplane as air searches have been proven to be not too useful, although satellites have spotted large objects floating around in the ocean no plane did ever come in contact with those debris. Also this specific sub can provide detail about where and what is on the bottom of the sea floor by using sonar, this can also save time for the search crews to not look at unimportant stuff that is under the sea bed. I also think that they should use this method a long time ago as it saves time and effort, as the sub is fully automated and also it can cover a large area in a relatively short period of time. 

Entry # 12-26 March, 2014

Title: Flight MH370: 122 new objects spotted - Malaysia minister
Date: 26th March, 2014
By: BBC

   This image are taken on 23 March, showed objects up to 23m in length, Hishammudin Hussein said. Every single aircraft whose part of the search were sent to the so call debris field, but now they have left the area as no plane identify any debris. It was said that seven military and five civilian planes had taken part and a total of six countries were now involved - Australia, New Zealand, the US, Japan, China and the South Korea. This place where these debris were spotted, other satellite have been reporting debris spotted too, but these airplane confirms that no debris were there. More debris were discovered by civilian but the authorities thinks that these information might be faulty. The authorities are looking for floating objects, oil slicks, floating parts of the external layer of the plane and people that may have fallen into the water.
   Well i think that the people on this plane is probably as no one has ever heard of this more than two weeks ago. Also i think that its kind of weird that high tech satellites have spotted these debris but no search planes can see it, they have been combing the ocean surface for at least 2 weeks, and they can't even spot a white 23m debris that is in the water. Also as i have said 3 more different countries have said that they have spotted these debris and that they are debris fields meaning that its not just one single piece of debris but a whole bunch of them. All in all i shall play for the people who are on the plane and hope they have peace.

Entry #11 - 2nd March, 2014

Title: Ukraine's Yanukovych asked for troops Russian tells UN
Date: 3rd March, 2014
By: BBC

   Russians are trying to justify for their actions of deploying troops to Ukraine, which sparked outrage and threats f economics sanctions from the US and the EU. Russians troops and pro Russians Militia continues an blockade of Ukraine military base, and also Ukraine defense department accuse the Russian black Sea Fleet chief Aleksander Vitko of threatening them of a full-scale assault if they did not surrender by Tuesday. Whereas the Russians said that they never sent an ultimatum about the surrendering of Ukraine. The Russians did not recognize the current president of the Ukraine and they claimed that Mar Yanukovych is the rightful president of Ukraine. The US intervened and said that the Russians mobilization of this issue to be an imaginary threat.

   Although i don't usually support the US in this case i am afraid that i must, as the Ukrainian conflict is a problem of their own country, and Russia shouldn't have anything to do with it since Ukraine have already been separated from the Russians a few decades ago. Also a few weeks ago Mr Yanukovych said that he is going to step down and a new government is elected, but Russia insists that Yanu is the rightful government. In this case i don't there's right or wrong, there's only people who can change the current status of the country or cannot, and the current and the last government were basically useless to the nation as there's still heavy conflicts going on in the country and a lot of damage and economic loss have been inflicted to the country. All in all Russian should not "invade" Ukraine and they should let them resolve their issues themselves.

Entry #10 -2nd March, 2014

Title: World War One: Germany's Forgotten war
Date: 2nd March, 2014
By: Stephan Evans

   Germans never went to pay their respects to their fallen soldiers in both wars, and the Brits accused the German government that they are banning the talk about their history. The Brits said that the Germans just wanted the remembrance to go quickly as they are ashamed of their actions in the Second and First world war quote," Official Germany appears to be burying its head in the sand, hoping the anniversary will quickly pass." a professor in London. The view that Germans were especially guilty emerged immediately after the war in the Treaty of Versailles which imposed heavy reparations on Germany. This debate have been reopened to figure out whose fault it is for the wars and to clear Germany's name if possible before August when the memorial service is going to take place.

   Well i think that the Germans have been misunderstood in the first world war. Anyone who knows history knows that Germany went in to war because of their treaties formed by the triple alliance, Germany, Austria and Italy. The treaty stated that if any of their alliances are attacked by Russia then
they would intervene. in 1914 Russia sworn to invade Hungary because the duke of Austria was killed, leading to the first world war. Then after the war the treaty of Versailles come up and it targeted Germany as the main reason that the war started and she was forced to pay reparations that starved her country. The Brits are accusing them falsely and i think that Germany should clear their name. Also i am pro to the idea that they are going to debate about whose fault it was for the start of the first world war.

Entry # 9 - 24th February, 2014

Title: What it Takes to Fly a Spy plane U-2 to the edge of Space
Date: 24th February, 2014
By: Richard Hollingham


This vehicle have already been in service for over 60 years now, its amazing how they are still in service. Remarkably, almost 60 years after its first flight and in today's era of high-definition satellite images, the U-2 is still in service - though it was recently announced that the fleet might be retired in the 2015 fiscal year. These special aircrafts can only be flied by top shelf pilots the best of the best in the air force. Russians cannot shoot them down as the altitude of this plane exceeds their air defense missile systems. This plane is used for strategic reconnaissance. For example, flying along a sensitive border looking into a country of interest, we can take images and we can record signals intelligence that tells us what's going on inside the country, such as North Korea.

All in all i think that this aircraft have been very useful in the cold-war and even now, as we can know what is going on in countries like North Korea and Afghanistan. I also think that this is actually more dangerous as there is always a chance that you can get shot down by anti aircraft fire and anti air missile systems, but although these missions are dangerous i think that they really cannot be replaced as although our satellites are extremely accurate, there are certain places where a satellite cannot detect, where as these planes can just get in and get out and get the information that was needed.

Entry # 8 - 23rd February, 2014

Title: South Korea - US military Drills Begin
Date: 23 February, 2014
By: BBC


 The annual drills between South Korea and the US have begun. South Korea and the US describe these annual drills as defensive in nature, but the North Korean government has described it as "exercise of war". last year this exercise led to a tension between and two Korean Nations, with the North Korean government threatening to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strikes and attack South Korean and US targets. The Pyongyang government have been opposing these drills and even threatens to cancel the reunion for citizens for the two nations. The North Korean government is famous for them to use family reunions as a bargaining tool against the US and the South.
 
  Well actually i support and don't support both sides as its actually quite provoking for two countries to be doing military drills right next to your country, but i think that a country should not use inhuman ways to achieve their goals in this case using the reunions of families members of the two countries as bargain, i think that its absolutely unacceptable. If i was the North Korean government i would be pissed too. If i can organize these drills i wouldn't organize them in a way that's going to make the other nations uncomfortable. All in all i am both pro and con in this matter.

Entry # 7 - 18th February, 2014

Title: Ukraine: Deadly Clashes around Parliament in Kiev
Date: 18th February, 2014
By: BBC

The mood have been calm in Kiev, but protest camps remains on the street and the opposition insisted the immediate resignation from the government or else the government that it risked inflaming tensions if it failed to act. In the worst violence the past week, police used rubber bullets and stun grenades as thousands apon thousands of protestors marched the parliament building. EU said that she is extremely worried about the situation in Ukraine and urged the government and the politicians to address the root cause. Some protestors throw smoke bombs and cobblestones towards the police where the police retaliate by using stun grenade, flashbang and rubber bullets. The protestors marched to the parliament in order to force the government to address constitution reform.

Well i think that this issue is addressed quite well by the Ukrainian police as the protestors casualties are at the minimal thinking of what really happened there as you can see in other countries for example in Egypt their protests cost lives up to 100 to 1000 whereas in this area of the world the police forces are more civilized and got better ways to "repel" these protestors. But all in all these kind of incident is actually very bad for the country as it ruins the trust between the governors of the country and the people governed by them. Also when ever there's casualties no matter if they are police or protestors its bad, no one should die because they are just expressing their anger or the fact that they wanted change. All in all i don't support either side of this conflict and hope that they resolve it quickly before it gets worse.

Entry # 6 - 10th February, 2014

Title: Illegal hunting on the rise in Afghanistan
Date: 11 February, 2014
By: Navin Singh Khadka




  Afghanistan have listed that nearly 150 wild animals and birds are at risk as illegal hunting is starting to grow in this country. The country claimed that the animals have been illegal hunted by locals and by foreign nations in the middle east. Environmentalists have suggested that the problems might not be from the citizens but of politicians using illegal hunting to secure the backing of influential individuals from the gulf for the election campaigns in Afghanistan. In these recent years the country stated that they have lost some wild birds and animals species because of illegal hunting. Some Afghan officials said that illegal hunting has pushed animals like the black bear, cheetah, lynix, ibex, siberian and other rare species to a point where those animals are going to get extinct if this kind of behavior continues.

  Well firstly i think that illegal hunting is an important subject now, as you can see in Africa the number of elephant have decreased as more people are hunting illegally, making profits out of doing these illegal things. Also this brings a lot of negative effects to the environments, if one species become extinct then its like a chain other animals are going to start dying as everything in nature is in a chain, where if one kind of animal got extinct, then all the others are going to follow soon. Back to the topic i think that the government in Afghanistan they should set up patrols or to set up strict laws saying that whoever is illegally hunting should be sentenced to life in prison, and that's the only way that this situation is going to stop.
   

Entry #5 - 5th February, 2014

Title: Koreas agree to family reunions in February
Date: 5th February, 2014
By: BBC


  South Koreans and their relatives in the North finally got a chance to reunite with their family since 2010. Millions of citizens have been split due to the Korean war in the 1950s. The countries have since then host reunions for the relatives on both sides. But this had proven hard as the South Korean and the North Korean government band all sorts of communications between the two sides, email, phone call everything was banned. A lot of times the relatives on one side don't even know that if their relative is alive or not, and also only a few hundred out of more than 72000 are chosen to go to this reunion so there is a high chance that they might not be even able to see their relatives, if they did go to this reunion activity. North Korean said that this is going to be a start on fixing the relationship with South Korea for the first time this year.

  Well i think this is absurd that they got to wait so long to meet their relatives. I think that the North Korean government should let their citizens go back to their relatives in the South. They have been separated because of the war, they are all mainly 70-80 year old men, why won't the North Korean government let them back to South Korea. As i have said they are all old men, when they live in North Korea they can't do anything but to sit there doing nothing and crying and being sad about their relatives in the south. Whereas if the North Korean let the old men back to South Korea then they could live the rest of their life in peace and they can finally be happy about living without strict laws in North Korea.

Entry #4 - 3rd February, 2014

Title: Corruption Across EU "Breathtaking" - EU Commission
Date: 3rd February, 2014
By: BBC

  The extent of corruption in Europe is "breathtaking" and it costs the EU's economy at least 12 billion Euros annually. 3 quarters of Europeans have taken a surveyed commission study said that corruption was wide spread, and more than half said that the problem have increased. Europe's corruption problem is extreme although Sweden is the country with the least problems. 64% of the British respondent of the survey said that they believed that corruption is widespread in the UK, while the EU average for this question was 74%. There's also high levels of bribery in Poland, Slovakia etc. Sweden is one of the countries with the least problems, the anti-fraud association is going to learn from Sweden to deal with this problem.
   This is quite disturbing, as you can see there's actually quite a fuzz going on in EU, with their economics problems and stuff. In the past years the economic have been bad in Europe, for countries like Greece well we found the problems now, as you can see on the chart, 60%-69% of their own citizens think that their country is corrupted. 120 billion dollars is wasted in corruption, this amount of money can be spent on public health and services instead of wasting them. The governments of all the great nations in Europe should think about their anti-corruption policies and make a change, or else the situation is just going to get worse.

Entry # 3 - 30th January, 2014

Title: US "concern" at Syria Chemical Weapons Delay
Date: 30 January, 2014
By:  BBC

   The United State is worried about Syria delayed on handing over their chemical weapons. They believed only 4% of the amount of chemical weapons declare by the Syrian government have been removed. Syria's Chemical weapon is due to all be destroyed before June 30. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal is right now meeting in The Hague discussing the progress. Under the terms set by the UN, Syrian authorities are responsible for packing and safely transporting the chemical weapons to the Mediterranean port of Latakia, where the weapons are going to be destroyed in international waters. The main goal now is to ensure that the Syrian give up their chemical weapons without further delay.

  Firstly i am all pro for this operation, as in WW1 chemical weapon was used, and the damage that these weapons can do is huge. Also after WW1, every country in the world all promised that they are never going to use anymore chemical weapons, this is an international law set by the League of Nations and the United Nations now. I think we all should be concern about Syria right now, as they still possess those weapons, and they can still be used against their own people like what they did few months ago, so its crucial that Syrian government to give up their chemical weapons.
 

Entry #2 - January 28th, 2014

Title: Ukraine Crisis: Parliament abolishes Anti-Protest Law
Date: 28th January, 2014
By: BBC

   The decision comes less than 2 weeks after the measures were introduced.
The measures was that the government banned protestors from wearing of helmets and blocking of public buildings and also it outlawed unauthorized tents in public areas, only fueled more anti - government  activities, now the government tries to appease the protestors by firstly abolishing this law and even Ukraine's Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has offered to quit. Activists in Ukraine have been chatting with the police and to listen to the debate being held in the parliament. The protests have spread in recent days across Ukraine, even to President Yanukovych's stronghold.. Official buildings in several cities have been taken by protestors.

   The government in this country is wiser than any other countries. For example in the middle east or Syria. There they don't know that their people is a huge threat and the government created so much hate between them, and when this anger cannot be held back anymore, it turned into a revolution. But in this case the Ukrainian government abolished laws that's against protestors and even the Prime Minister stated that he is going to resign, in order to appease the protestors, and they did well in order to acquire peace in this country. This time we are lucky that there's no civil war going on in Ukraine, cause you don't know how many would die if they have a civil war there. Tens of thousands would die. The government chose the right way which is to get peace rather than violence and civil war.

Entry #1 - January 24th, 2014

Title: South Sudan Rebels Keen to Fight On
Date: January 23rd, 2014
By: Mark Lowen

 War continues in Sudan, where the government forces clash with the rebels in South of Sudan 10000 people have died already. Although recently a ceased fire have now been signed, soldiers in the rebel army still wanted to fight as they claimed that they must kill the man who killed their women, children and Elders, President Salva Kiir. Civilians were caught in this war and lots of them were injured including Gat Kuath Lul, who had been shot in the legs 6 times, sworn that he is going to kill whoever did this to him and said that the only way to end this war is that President Salva must step down. The people there are willing to fight because they want change and its worth the human costs of this war.
 
  10000 have died already, when will they learned that fighting is not an option, they should use methods like negotiations with the government, "Darkness cannot drive out Darkness, only light can. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can" Martin Luther King, Jr, stated that if you fight with the government nothing can be achieved, but if you use civilized methods like negotiations and talks, things can change. If they just continue to fight, the result is that more people are gonna die and nothing will change. They wanted change but its through sacrificing young soldiers and possibly child soldiers, if they really wanted change they should first change the way they think about solving these problems. Both sides should just lay down their arms and go to negotiate, cause war and fighting is not the solution to everything or anything and peace is.