Civil rights in China

According to reports, an employee of chinese state TV has posted photos of missing tennis star Peng Shuai on twitter to dispel concerns that Peng hasn’t been seen since she posted on social media that a member of the ruling party had forced himself on her. Reportedly, the employee, who posted the pictures on Friday said they were on Peng’s WeChat message account.

Reportedly, detainment and abuse of women has led to many migrating from China. According to reports, from 1976 there was a struggle between capitalist reformers and the ruling party. Reportedly, an offensive to correct the revolution of ideas around political freedoms led to the torture of female detainees. Those whose family members were abused and those wishing to avoid detainment left.

Mikheil Saakashvilli ends hunger strike

According to reports, Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvilli agreed on Friday to end a fifty day hunger strike and has been transferred to a military hospital in order to receive treatment. Reportedly, Mikheil Saakashvilli who was president of Georgia between 2004-2013, was minister for justice in Eduard Shevardnazde’s government before founding the United national movement. His presidency was characterised as western and pro european.

According to a report, in 2013 he took up a position as a lecturer in the united states. Reportedly, in 2014 he was charged in his absence with exceeding official powers during a 2007 political protest, and involving a police raid and the seizure of Imedia tv, a news channel and other assets. Reportedly, his bank accounts were frozen and he was arrested on entering Georgia in October 2021.

Georgia, who have a long history of turkish and persian oppression were annexed by the russian empire during the nineteenth Century. The first president of post soviet Georgia was Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a philologist, literary critic and political reformist. Reportedly, in 1958 he was arrested and confined for six months in a mental hospital where he was diagnosed as suffering from psychopathy, resulted in accusations of using psychiatry for political purposes. Eduard Shevardnezde replaced him following a coup.

Food crisis in Ethiopia

According to reports, Ethiopia have released seventy detained contract relief drivers to Tigray, working for Catholic aid, and six u.n. employees. Reportedly, thirty- six drivers are still being held along with ten u.n. employees. Reportedly a year of conflict in Ethiopia has resulted in a food crisis in Tigray and forced many from their homes.

According to reports, Tigrayans governed Ethiopia for three decades until 2018, when increased building around the capital resulted in mass protests from farmers as far as 80 km from Addis Ababa.

Reportedly, in October government forces targeted Tigrayan forces, who attacked and took over of an army base in Tigray and advanced towards the capital, taking over cities in the Amhara region. According to a report, electricity and aviation services were cut in Tigray. Recent reports are that 400,000 Tigrayans are starving, much aid is blocked and it is uncertain whether aid reaches Tigray. Reportedly, no journalists are allowed in Tigray, and the few international aid workers permitted aren’t allowed secure communications, USB sticks or to take photos.

According to a report, the Ethiopian government are in the process of privatisation, excluding banking, telecommunication and transportation companies. Reportedly, Ethiopia exports gold, twenty one per cent of total exports.

The u.n. in the Sahel

According to a report, nineteen gendarmes were killed in an attack in Burkina Faso near the border with Mali on Sunday. Reportedly, there have been other attacks in the border regions with Malu and Niger, two Morrocon drivers carrying unknown cargo were killed in Mali in September.

Reportedly, the community of the Sahel Saharan states was established in 1998 in Tripoli during a summit organised by Muammar Gadaffi, attended by the heads of states of Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan. CEN-SAD became a u.n. observer in 2001, according to documentation, a purpose being the establishment of industrial and energy fields.

According to reports, in 2011 a nato offensive resulted in the capture, torture and murder of Gadaffi and his fourth son by national transitional council forces. Reportedly, his last words were, What did I do to you?

According to reports, security concerns relating to transitional crimes such as contraband and trafficking were reasons given for the u.n. military presence in the Sahel.

Green fuels

According to a report, a cop26 draft aims to limit global warming, currently 1.2 Celsius above pre industrial levels to 1.5-2C above pre industrial levels by way of nationally determined contributions, or plans containing targets for emmisions.

Reportedly, net zero relates to a reduction of emmisions as far as possible, and where alternative technologies aren’t available offsetting irreducible emmisions by fostering carbon sinks, that is anything that absorbs carbon such as trees and forests. Reportedly, the amount of carbon on earth has never changed, it flows from the soil to organisms to the air, being released and absorbed. Conclusion being carbon gases will be assimilated, not so any attached pollutants.

According to reports, global warming is caused by greenhouse gases emitting radiant energy with a wavelength of between 3 and 100 micrometres.

Non polluting fuels don’t create a haze, such as wood and oil fired central heating. Nuclear energy uses uranium and burns much hotter than coal. According to reports, light water reactors form the major part of new nuclear reactors for commercial and naval purposes and are available from the us, Russia and France for electricity production. Reportedly, water is taken from a nearby river or ocean as a necessary coolant, and is pumped back in a heated condition or dissipated as steam. According to reports, problems are water becoming contaminated with nuclear fissions, and decay heat, necessitating water to be pumped for one to three years after shutdown. Reportedly, if the temperature exceeds 2200 C the water becomes explosive.

Migrants in no mans land

Reportedly, asylum seekers are building up on the Belarus Polish border. According to a report those interviewed were from Iraq and Syria. Many migrants are probably Kurds, indigenous to the border region of Turkey, Syria and Iraq. Reportedly, Turkey objected to a Kurdish state following world war II.

Northern Ireland protocol

According to a report, the uk claim border checks are causing difficulties for northern Ireland businesses but don’t say why. Border checks protect all consumers.

Reportedly, progress at a meeting to discuss northern Ireland protocol in Brussels was limited according to the uk who are in favour of further intensive negotiations.

Northern Ireland

According to a report, on Monday the dup boycott of meetings of the north south ministerial council was ruled unlawful by a high court judge. Reportedly, the dup said they would boycott nsmc meetings except those focused on health. According to the report, a north south meeting on health matters took place on Thursday.

According to a report, a billion euros has been approved by the nsmc, 75% is backed by the uk. The fund, to be invested over the next seven years is part of a peace plus program supporting projects in northern Ireland, the border counties and Sligo. The innitiative so far has resulted in the redevelopment of the Girdwood barracks in north Belfast and a bridge over the River Foyle, west Ulster connecting unionist and nationalist communities.

According to reports, Britain are against any border checks. Reportedly, a senior Brexit adviser tweeted that the uk could move to entirely suspend protocol dealing with customs, product standards, vat and state aid.

Paul Givan is expected to remain first minister for the summer.

The council of europe

According to a report, the council of Europe, unlike the european council is distinct from the European union. The council which has the same flag and anthem as the eu was created in London and is a permanent observer of the u.n., having free access to most meetings and relevant documents.

The coe says it is the continent’s leading human rights organisation, its best known best body is the european court of human rights, located in Strasbourg, France. The council is involved in overseeing the rule of law, the term relates to a political situation or constitution, and oversees via a judiciary and observation in areas such as internet governance, biological safety and the use of animals, prison standards, data protection, international justice, the evaluation of money laundering and a committee of legal advisers on international law.

Main bodies listed are the committee of ministers and the parliamentary assembly. Reportedly, the comitteeof ministers, made up of ministers for foreign affairs of member states is the coe’s main decision making body and meets weekly. The coe’s parliamentary assembly is made up of 324 parliamentarians from the national parliaments of the 47 member states and has pleanary meetings four times a year.

Foreign truckers suspend travel

According to reports, on Monday three Algerian truck drivers en route from Nouakchott, Mauritania were assassinated. Nouakchott is one of the largest cities in the Sahel. Reportedly, over forty trucks were set on fire during March and April. According to the report, international truckers suspended travel to south Sudan in April following increased attacks resulting in the death of more than fifteen drivers, and dozens injured. Reportedly, between July and August, a Ugandan and three Kenyan truck drivers died of gunshot wounds, dozens more were injured.

According to a report on the Sahel region, corporate capitalism, power transfer, historical injustices and ongoing coloniality needs to be acknowledged and redressed.