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Japan lodges protest with Australia, NZ, Netherlands over Sea Shepherd
Saturday 19th February, 06:50 AM JST
TOKYO — Japan lodged protests Friday with Australia and New Zealand, where ships of the Sea Shepherd antiwhaling group make port calls, and the Netherlands, a flag state of its boat, asking them to take effective steps to prevent the group’s obstructive actions that caused Tokyo to halt this season’s so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.
State Foreign Secretary Yutaka Banno summoned the ambassadors of the three countries and conveyed to them Tokyo’s ‘‘strong regret’’ over their failure to stop the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ‘‘violent actions’’ against the Japanese whaling fleet, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara told a press conference.
‘‘Their obstructive actions cannot be condoned because they illegally threaten the life and property of Japanese whaling vessel crews who are engaged in lawful research activities on the high seas and the safe navigation of Japanese whaling ships,’’ Maehara said.
‘‘Although perceptions about whaling are different in each country, reflecting its history and food culture, no country can block Japan’s lawful research whaling, let alone the Sea Shepherd,’’ he said.
He also said Tokyo will strengthen diplomatic efforts to ensure the continuation of its research whaling program.
Japan has hunted whales since 1987 for what it says are scientific research purposes after officially halting commercial whaling in line with an international moratorium. Environmentalists condemn the activity as a cover for the continuation of commercial whaling.
japantoday.com
Shut up :P And they should sink all Japanese whaling vessels, f*** the murdering crews :)
Japan lodges protest with Australia, NZ, Netherlands over Sea Shepherd
Saturday 19th February, 06:50 AM JST
TOKYO — Japan lodged protests Friday with Australia and New Zealand, where ships of the Sea Shepherd antiwhaling group make port calls, and the Netherlands, a flag state of its boat, asking them to take effective steps to prevent the group’s obstructive actions that caused Tokyo to halt this season’s so-called research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean.
State Foreign Secretary Yutaka Banno summoned the ambassadors of the three countries and conveyed to them Tokyo’s ‘‘strong regret’’ over their failure to stop the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ‘‘violent actions’’ against the Japanese whaling fleet, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara told a press conference.
‘‘Their obstructive actions cannot be condoned because they illegally threaten the life and property of Japanese whaling vessel crews who are engaged in lawful research activities on the high seas and the safe navigation of Japanese whaling ships,’’ Maehara said.
‘‘Although perceptions about whaling are different in each country, reflecting its history and food culture, no country can block Japan’s lawful research whaling, let alone the Sea Shepherd,’’ he said.
He also said Tokyo will strengthen diplomatic efforts to ensure the continuation of its research whaling program.
Japan has hunted whales since 1987 for what it says are scientific research purposes after officially halting commercial whaling in line with an international moratorium. Environmentalists condemn the activity as a cover for the continuation of commercial whaling.
japantoday.com
Shut up :P And they should sink all Japanese whaling vessels, f*** the murdering crews :)
No, you understand it is complex, you don't understand the complexity :p
That's true, luckely I've been born about 160 kilometers higher ;P
Even worse things happening in Libya. Planes bombing own people in Tripoli.
Fresh violence rages in Libya
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 10:54 GMT
Protesters say security forces using warplanes and live fire 'massacred' them, as UN warns of possible 'war crimes'.
Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of the capital Tripoli and other cities, while other citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that warplanes were used to "bomb" protesters.
Nearly 300 people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the north African country as demonstrations enter their second week.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned that the widespread attacks against civilians "amount to crimes against humanity", and called for an international investigation in possible human rights violations.
Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.
Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.
Several witnesses said that "mercenaries" were firing on civilians in the city.
Residents of the Tajura neighbourhood, east of Tripoli, said that dead bodies are still lying on the streets from earlier violence. At least 61 people were killed in the capital on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeeera.
Al Jazeeera article and video Libya
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 10:54 GMT
Protesters say security forces using warplanes and live fire 'massacred' them, as UN warns of possible 'war crimes'.
Libyan forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi are waging a bloody operation to keep him in power, with residents reporting gunfire in parts of the capital Tripoli and other cities, while other citizens, including the country's former ambassador to India, are saying that warplanes were used to "bomb" protesters.
Nearly 300 people are reported to have been killed in continuing violence in the capital and across the north African country as demonstrations enter their second week.
Navi Pillay, the UN high commissioner for human rights, has warned that the widespread attacks against civilians "amount to crimes against humanity", and called for an international investigation in possible human rights violations.
Witnesses in Tripoli told Al Jazeera that fighter jets had bombed portions of the city in fresh attacks on Monday night. The bombing focused on ammunition depots and control centres around the capital.
Helicopter gunships were also used, they said, to fire on the streets in order to scare demonstrators away.
Several witnesses said that "mercenaries" were firing on civilians in the city.
Residents of the Tajura neighbourhood, east of Tripoli, said that dead bodies are still lying on the streets from earlier violence. At least 61 people were killed in the capital on Monday, witnesses told Al Jazeeera.
Al Jazeeera article and video Libya
two caza-plane pilots gone to Malta to claim for political asylum, it seems their orders where to bomb civilian population
I thought that was really funny news. Of course it's ridiculous they had to shoot protestors, but it's funny they didn't want to and just flew away with their planes to a neighbour country :)
Libyan diplomats defect en masse
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 09:01 GMT
Envoys at key embassies across the world disown Gaddafi's regime in protest over violent crackdown against protesters.
Ali Aujali, Ambassador to the United States
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations
Ali el-Essawi, Ambassador to India
Bubaker al-Mansori, Ambassador to Malaysia
Musbah Allafi, Ambassador to Australia
Abdel Moneim al-Houni, Ambassador to the Arab League
aticle on english.aljazeera.net
Last Modified: 22 Feb 2011 09:01 GMT
Envoys at key embassies across the world disown Gaddafi's regime in protest over violent crackdown against protesters.
Ali Aujali, Ambassador to the United States
Ibrahim Dabbashi, Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations
Ali el-Essawi, Ambassador to India
Bubaker al-Mansori, Ambassador to Malaysia
Musbah Allafi, Ambassador to Australia
Abdel Moneim al-Houni, Ambassador to the Arab League
aticle on english.aljazeera.net
New Zealand earthquake: 65 dead in Christchurch
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In pictures: Earthquake rocks Christchurch
Survivor: It was so fast
New Zealand's prime minister says at least 65 people have died after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch.
John Key said the toll was expected to rise further, adding: "We may be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day."
The tremor caused widespread damage as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest.
The mayor of New Zealand's second-biggest city says 120 people have been rescued from the ruins.
The country's deadliest natural disaster in 80 years struck at 1251 (2351 GMT on Monday), 10km (6.2 miles) south-east of the city.
Screams from rubble
The damage is said to be far worse than after the 7.1-magnitude quake on 4 September, which left two people seriously injured but no fatalities.
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We've had friends in town call us and say there are just bodies lying around: lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks”
Jaydn Katene
Christchurch resident
Christchurch earthquake: Eyewitness accounts
The epicentre of that quake, which occurred in the middle of the night, was further away from the city and deeper underground, but it still caused an estimated $3bn (£1.9bn) in damage.
TV pictures of the aftermath of Tuesday's disaster showed scores of collapsed buildings in the South Island city of nearly 400,000 people.
Shocked survivors could be seen wandering the rubble-strewn streets, which cracked open as the ground beneath was liquefied by the tremor.
Police said that the dead included people on two buses which were crushed by falling buildings.
Helicopters plucked survivors to safety from rooftops, and dumped water on fires.
Officials said up to 30 people were feared still trapped inside the razed Pyne Gould Guinness building, where screams have been heard from the ruins.
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Trapped under her desk inside the building, Anne Voss told Australia's Channel Seven by mobile phone: "I am hoping they will get me out soon because I have been here so long. And it's dark. And it's horrible."
Asked whether she was injured, she said: "I know I am bleeding and I can feel the ground is quite wet. I think it's blood."
Glacier smashed
A dozen visiting Japanese students are among those reported missing.
Bystanders have been using bare hands to try to free survivors trapped under debris.
Many injured people were carried out on blood-soaked stretchers or in the arms of shocked workmates and strangers.
Some escaped on ropes lowered from office towers. Others managed to crawl out of the rubble.
Continue reading the main story
Analysis
Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
By nature, earthquakes tend to cluster in space and time.
And Tuesday's tremor in Christchurch is almost certainly related to the much more energetic event that hit the region last September.
The critical difference on this occasion is the ground broke almost directly under the country's second city, and at shallow depth, 5km (3 miles) below the surface.
Contrast this with September's magnitude 7 quake: its epicentre occurred some 40km west of the city and at a depth of 10km, and it continued to rupture mainly away from the major built-up areas.
New Zealand lies on the notorious Ring of Fire, the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim.
The country straddles the boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.
On South Island, the location of the latest quake, the plates rub past each other horizontally.
Depth and location key
The tremor sent the spire of Christchurch Cathedral, a landmark in the centre of the city, toppling into the square below.
John Gurr, a camera technician, told Reuters news agency the area outside the cathedral was "like a warzone".
Power and telephone lines have been knocked out, while burst pipes have deluged streets with water.
The suburbs of Lyttelton and New Brighton are reportedly "unliveable".
Queen Elizabeth II said in a statement she had been "utterly shocked" by the news.
"My thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this dreadful event," the statement said.
The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier.
Witnesses say massive icebergs formed when the Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park broke, tossing a nearby lake with huge waves.
Back in Christchurch, emergency shelters were set up in the city's Hagley Park, a race course and schools as night approached.
City Mayor Bob Parker told the BBC: "This is a terrible, terrible toll on our city."
"There is no power in most of the city; there is no water in most of the city," he added.
PM John Key said: "It is just a scene of utter devastation. We have to work as fast as we can to get people out of environments where they are trapped.
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Grant Beedie in Christchurch: "There was no time to run"
"This is a community that is absolutely in agony. We just need this community, as it has done before and as it will do again, to come together, to check and support one another," he added.
Aftershocks
The military has been deployed to help the rescue effort, and the government has accepted an offer of specialist help from Australia.
A series of aftershocks, some as big as magnitude 5, have already rattled the stricken city, and officials warned residents to brace for more.
One Christchurch resident, Jaydn Katene, told the New Zealand Herald: "We've had friends in town call us and say there are just bodies lying around; lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks."
A British backpacker said the city "looked like a bomb had hit it".
New Zealand experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0.
The last fatal earthquake was in 1968, when a 7.1-magnitude tremor killed three people on the South Island's western coast.
Tuesday's was the country's worst natural disaster since a 1931 quake in the North Island city of Napier killed 256 people.
R.I.P. to all that have died
Click to play
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Eyewitness Tania Galbraith: "The whole building began to shake and it just wouldn't stop"
Continue reading the main story
Related Stories
Christchurch earthquake: Your stories
In pictures: Earthquake rocks Christchurch
Survivor: It was so fast
New Zealand's prime minister says at least 65 people have died after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch.
John Key said the toll was expected to rise further, adding: "We may be witnessing New Zealand's darkest day."
The tremor caused widespread damage as it occurred at a shallow depth of 5km (3.1 miles) during lunchtime when Christchurch was at its busiest.
The mayor of New Zealand's second-biggest city says 120 people have been rescued from the ruins.
The country's deadliest natural disaster in 80 years struck at 1251 (2351 GMT on Monday), 10km (6.2 miles) south-east of the city.
Screams from rubble
The damage is said to be far worse than after the 7.1-magnitude quake on 4 September, which left two people seriously injured but no fatalities.
Continue reading the main story
“
Start Quote
We've had friends in town call us and say there are just bodies lying around: lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks”
Jaydn Katene
Christchurch resident
Christchurch earthquake: Eyewitness accounts
The epicentre of that quake, which occurred in the middle of the night, was further away from the city and deeper underground, but it still caused an estimated $3bn (£1.9bn) in damage.
TV pictures of the aftermath of Tuesday's disaster showed scores of collapsed buildings in the South Island city of nearly 400,000 people.
Shocked survivors could be seen wandering the rubble-strewn streets, which cracked open as the ground beneath was liquefied by the tremor.
Police said that the dead included people on two buses which were crushed by falling buildings.
Helicopters plucked survivors to safety from rooftops, and dumped water on fires.
Officials said up to 30 people were feared still trapped inside the razed Pyne Gould Guinness building, where screams have been heard from the ruins.
Continue reading the main story
CLICKABLE Select the images for more details.
Trapped under her desk inside the building, Anne Voss told Australia's Channel Seven by mobile phone: "I am hoping they will get me out soon because I have been here so long. And it's dark. And it's horrible."
Asked whether she was injured, she said: "I know I am bleeding and I can feel the ground is quite wet. I think it's blood."
Glacier smashed
A dozen visiting Japanese students are among those reported missing.
Bystanders have been using bare hands to try to free survivors trapped under debris.
Many injured people were carried out on blood-soaked stretchers or in the arms of shocked workmates and strangers.
Some escaped on ropes lowered from office towers. Others managed to crawl out of the rubble.
Continue reading the main story
Analysis
Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent, BBC News
By nature, earthquakes tend to cluster in space and time.
And Tuesday's tremor in Christchurch is almost certainly related to the much more energetic event that hit the region last September.
The critical difference on this occasion is the ground broke almost directly under the country's second city, and at shallow depth, 5km (3 miles) below the surface.
Contrast this with September's magnitude 7 quake: its epicentre occurred some 40km west of the city and at a depth of 10km, and it continued to rupture mainly away from the major built-up areas.
New Zealand lies on the notorious Ring of Fire, the line of frequent quakes and volcanic eruptions that circles virtually the entire Pacific rim.
The country straddles the boundary between two tectonic plates: the Pacific and Indo-Australian plates.
On South Island, the location of the latest quake, the plates rub past each other horizontally.
Depth and location key
The tremor sent the spire of Christchurch Cathedral, a landmark in the centre of the city, toppling into the square below.
John Gurr, a camera technician, told Reuters news agency the area outside the cathedral was "like a warzone".
Power and telephone lines have been knocked out, while burst pipes have deluged streets with water.
The suburbs of Lyttelton and New Brighton are reportedly "unliveable".
Queen Elizabeth II said in a statement she had been "utterly shocked" by the news.
"My thoughts are with all those who have been affected by this dreadful event," the statement said.
The quake caused some 30m tons of ice to shear away from New Zealand's biggest glacier.
Witnesses say massive icebergs formed when the Tasman Glacier in Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park broke, tossing a nearby lake with huge waves.
Back in Christchurch, emergency shelters were set up in the city's Hagley Park, a race course and schools as night approached.
City Mayor Bob Parker told the BBC: "This is a terrible, terrible toll on our city."
"There is no power in most of the city; there is no water in most of the city," he added.
PM John Key said: "It is just a scene of utter devastation. We have to work as fast as we can to get people out of environments where they are trapped.
Click to play
Click to play
Grant Beedie in Christchurch: "There was no time to run"
"This is a community that is absolutely in agony. We just need this community, as it has done before and as it will do again, to come together, to check and support one another," he added.
Aftershocks
The military has been deployed to help the rescue effort, and the government has accepted an offer of specialist help from Australia.
A series of aftershocks, some as big as magnitude 5, have already rattled the stricken city, and officials warned residents to brace for more.
One Christchurch resident, Jaydn Katene, told the New Zealand Herald: "We've had friends in town call us and say there are just bodies lying around; lots of dead bodies outside shops just lying there just covered in bricks."
A British backpacker said the city "looked like a bomb had hit it".
New Zealand experiences more than 14,000 earthquakes a year, of which only around 20 have a magnitude in excess of 5.0.
The last fatal earthquake was in 1968, when a 7.1-magnitude tremor killed three people on the South Island's western coast.
Tuesday's was the country's worst natural disaster since a 1931 quake in the North Island city of Napier killed 256 people.
R.I.P. to all that have died
R.I.P
i hope everyone from christchurch that is playing sokker is ok
i hope everyone from christchurch that is playing sokker is ok
Girl buried alive after having relationshsip with boys.
Turkish police have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl they say was buried alive by relatives in an "honour" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys.
The girl, who has been identified only by the initials MM, was found in a sitting position with her hands tied, in a two-metre hole dug under a chicken pen outside her home in Kahta, in the south-eastern province of Adiyaman.
Wtf is wrong with such people? Crazy Turks?:o
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Crazy fundamentalists ... :S Good example what religion does to people.
Yesterday, i read another awful news from France :
A employee had received a letter explaining to him that he will be dismiss from his job for "a lack of motivation"... This dad just saw his 10yo son died 4 days ago from head cancer !!! It is a long and hard 3 last years to help and cover with love his son until he saw him died...
And the employer has just not give one word to htat so bad news for the death of his son...
Poor foolish foundamentalists of capitalism !!!!
A employee had received a letter explaining to him that he will be dismiss from his job for "a lack of motivation"... This dad just saw his 10yo son died 4 days ago from head cancer !!! It is a long and hard 3 last years to help and cover with love his son until he saw him died...
And the employer has just not give one word to htat so bad news for the death of his son...
Poor foolish foundamentalists of capitalism !!!!