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Greek police dispersed a large rally of migrants and refugees during protests on the Greek island of Lesvos on Monday.
The demonstrators protested against what they call terrible living conditions in the state-run camp of Moria.
The UN refugee agency expects a steady rise in the numbers of asylum applications in Greece in 2020. Some 50,000 migrants and refugees are expected to remain in the country by the end of the year.
China is building new hospitals to cater for those infected with the new corona virus. Officially roughly 14,500 people have been infected, but numbers could be much higher. Still, there are hopeful news from Thailand. A 70-year-old Chinese woman came down with the coronavirus. The virus vanished from her body after doctors administered an unusual cure. Meanwhile in Germany, two people evacuated from China on Saturday are in fact infected with the new coronavirus. They were among a group of more than 120 passengers flown to Frankfurt on a military plane from Wuhan, the Chinese city at the center of the outbreak. The evacuees are now in quarantine in a military facility and they will be there for two weeks. The infected are two German citizens, they are being treated in a hospital in Frankfurt, where doctors say they are doing well.
Sky News host Peter Gleeson says “loony lefties” are linking bushfires to climate change to create a “political argument to shut down coal”.
Mr Gleeson said “eco-vandals intent on corporate blackmail” have failed to acknowledge the role a lack of back burning and hazard reduction has played in the recent fires.
“We have loony lefties linking bushfires to climate change and using that as a political argument to shut down coal,” he said.
“Aided and abetted by eco-vandals intent on corporate blackmail, they are so thick that they won’t even acknowledge that a lack of back burning and hazard reduction has also contributed to the bushfires.”
He said Queensland would have to export coal to states which have embraced “hardcore renewable energy targets” in the name of climate change.
“As Australia swelters through summer, the issue around power reliability has once again emerged as Victoria and South Australia are warned to get ready for brownouts.
“Queensland, which relies ostensibly on coal fired power, will embark on its annual load shedding exercise, diverting electricity to the southern states.
“All because Victoria and South Australia have embraced hardcore renewable energy targets, hurting their reliability. “Once again, Queensland will do the heavy lifting on gas, exporting big numbers to Victoria to keep the stoves and lights on.”
Though many pro-remain supporters greeted Friday with sorrow, many in the leave camp turned out to celebrate up and down the country, even in places that originally voted to remain.
“Paranoid” and “obsessive” media organisations and "green left activists" have shown “shameless opportunism” to vent against News Corp media, according to Sky News host Chris Kenny.
Mr Kenny was critical recent reports by media outlets such as Al Jazeera, the Washington Post The New York Post, the ABC, the BBC and other “green-left critics” who have attempted to “shut down the debate” on a myriad of issues, such as climate change, global warming and Australia’s summer of bushfires.
Mr Kenny said the injection of “facts and perspective into [a] conversation … [along with] open disagreement and healthy debate” by News Corp “people” is “not good enough” for critics from the left.
“The green left want to silence dissent, debate, complexities and nuance, it is the opposite of journalistic inquiry,” Mr Kenny said.
“The problem clearly is not a monoculture in News Corp where reporting ... opinion and debate is lively and multi-faceted.
“The problem is in the green left media, where there is only emotive alarmism, a complete lack of perspective and balance and no focus on debating practical policy responses”.
Police have been searching two addresses as part of the investigation into the attack in Streatham on Sunday.
The attacker, Sudesh Amman, 20, was shot dead by police on Streatham High Road after stabbing people in what police called an Islamist-related terrorist incident.
He had been released from prison about a week ago after serving half of a sentence for terror offences.
Three people were injured but none is in a life-threatening condition.
Scotland Yard said officers were searching residential addresses in south London and Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire.
"No arrests have been made and inquiries continue at pace," the Metropolitan Police said.
Amman was under active police surveillance at the time of the attack. He had served half of his sentence of three years and four months when he was released.
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the Turkish military has 'neutralized' dozens of Syrian government troops in retaliation for an attack on Turkish forces in Syria. It comes after a Syrian attack killed four Turkish soldiers in Idlib province. A Syrian war monitor says at least thriteen Syrian troops were killed by Turkey's retaliatory attacks. Turkey has had military observation posts in rebel-held Idlib since 2017. They were set up under an agreement with Russia and Iran. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to continue Ankara's operation in Idlib. Idlib province is home to some three million people many of whom have been displaced from other parts of Syria in earlier waves of the country's civil war. The UN estimates that about 390,000 Syrians have fled the province over the last two months.
After nine years of war, rebel fighters in Syria have been driven to their last stronghold in the northwest. The fighting has caused hundreds of thousands of Syrians to move towards the Turkish border. Our correspondent Obaida Hitto accompanied one man in his search to find a safe place for his family in Idlib province.
Concerns are growing in Libya that the forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar may be preparing to renew full-scale fighting, despite a ceasefire that has loosely been in place for three weeks. Analysts say Haftar has received large supplies of weapons from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On the other side, Turkey has sent naval frigates, troops and weapons to support the internationally-recognised government.
Around 300 Australians are being evacuated from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which is currently the epicentre of an outbreak of a novel coronavirus.
Those who have volunteered to leave Wuhan have been flown first on a Qantas plane to Western Australia's north, and from there they'll head to Christmas Island to be quarantined.
The evacuation raises questions over infection control. How can aircrew be sure they aren't picking up the coronavirus - potentially to pass on to others in Australia?
A gunshot was fired outside the Jamia Millia Islamia, varsity students claimed on Sunday. "Two unidentified persons resorted to firing outside the University gate no. 5. They came on a red coloured Scooty from Shaheen Bagh side," the Jamia Coordination Committee said in a statement. "One of them was wearing a red jacket," it added.No injuries have been reported so far. The Delhi Police has filed an FIR against unidentified persons in the Jamia firing incident. The FIR has been filed under section 307 (attempt to murder) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 (punishment for using arms) of the Arms Act.
On The Listening Post this week: The coronavirus outbreak in China - a public health disaster and a messaging nightmare. Also on the show, the saga of Hong Kong's kidnapped bookseller.
Covering the Coronavirus Contagion On January 23, Chinese authorities shut down the city of Wuhan. In short order, 17 more cities were quarantined, affecting nearly 60 million people.
The orders issued by Beijing were significant, but late in coming: the first official case of the virus was confirmed almost two months ago. That was how long it took for China's state-controlled media to stop downplaying the seriousness of the outbreak and start providing the kind of information that can save lives.
By that stage, however, millions of Chinese citizens had passed through the affected region - unaware of the risks involved.
With the death toll now in the hundreds, the number of infected in the thousands, the coronavirus - like the coverage of this story - has gone global.
Contributors:
Luwei Rose Luqiu - assistant professor, Hong Kong Baptist University; former executive news editor, Phoenix TV
Katrina Yu - China correspondent, Al Jazeera English
Mary Hui - reporter, Quartz
Huiling Ding - associate professor, North Carolina State University; author of Rhetoric of a Global Epidemic: Transcultural Communication about Sars
On our radar: Richard Gizbert speaks to producer Meenakshi Ravi about the Washington Post reporter who was suspended from her job over a controversial tweet, and The Guardian's decision to ban advertising from fossil fuel firms.
The Saga of the Kidnapped Bookseller of Hong Kong For more than 20 years, Lam Wing-kee owned Causeway Bay Books, a store that not only specialised in literature critical of the Chinese Communist Party and the private lives of Beijing's ruling elite, but perfected the art of smuggling those books - which are banned in China - onto the mainland.
His work turned him into a target. In 2015, Lam disappeared along with four of his colleagues, only to resurface months later on Chinese state television, "confessing" to the crime of smuggling contraband.
The Listening Post's Johanna Hoes travelled to Lam's new home, Taiwan, to speak to him about his time in a secret Chinese prison, the bizarre circumstances of his release, and his stated wish to finish what he started - running a bookstore with a mission.
Contributors:
Lam Wing-kee - former owner and manager, Causeway Bay Books
Pro-Scottish independence protesters rallied in Edinburgh on Saturday, a day after the UK’s departure from the European Union.
Protesters were seen holding the Saltire as well as flags of the EU, Wales and Ireland. A banner at the demo reads “Choose Scotland. Big enough, smart enough, had enough.”
The pro-independence organisation ‘Stand Up For Scotland’ called for the rally against UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
A small counter-demonstration was held on the opposite side of the road where participants held British flags and a banner reading “We love British independence.”
On Wednesday, January 29, the Scottish Parliament passed a motion backed by 64 votes to 54 to hold a new referendum on Scottish independence. Boris Johnson has dismissed calls for a second referendum.
Greek farmers protested the government and EU agricultural policy at a rural fair in Thessaloniki on Saturday.
Farmers brought homemade banners and a few tractors to the rally.
The group are angered at rising fuel costs, the price of commodities and the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2021-2027. They have threatened to block the roads on major motorways if they are not heard.
