
A POLICEMAN went on trial for involuntary manslaughter in Belgium today for shooting a two-year-old refugee girl dead during a car chase.
Two others are on trial for human trafficking and dangerous driving in a case that rights campaigners say underlines the lethal consequences of criminalising irregular migration.
Kurdish toddler Mawda Shawri died after being shot in the head in May 2018 when the driver of the van she was travelling in through Belgium en route to Britain tried to escape from police trying to inspect it. The officer who shot her, who has not been named, states that the shot was fired to scare the van’s driver but the police car swerved, sending it astray.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers