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• Cyprus talks on tackling refugee and humanitarian crisis
• Syrian diplomat in Serbia defects
• Opposition to hold banned rally in Bahrain
A Free Syrian fighter sits near an image of President Bashar al-Assad in Saif al-Dawla district, in Syria's northwestern city of Aleppo, September 6, 2012. Photograph: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters Photograph: Youssef Boudlal/REUTERS
Syria
• The head of the criminal security branch in Damascus was one of two senior figures to announce his defection from the Assad regime over the last 24 hours. Speaking after fleeing to Turkey, Awad Ahmed al-Ali, said the Syrian government had lost legitimacy after the "malicious and vicious" killing of civilians. Syria's attaché to Serbia, Bashar Al-Haj Ali, also announced his defection in an interview to al-Jazeera Arabic.
• The UNHCR and the European Commission have announced an increase in emergency aid to those fleeing the violence in Syria. The move came as the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, described his shock at the level of destruction he witnessed this week on a three-day visit to Syria.
• The Free Syrian Army has denied reports that it intends to start treating civilian airports as "legitimate targets". The officer who claimed civilian airlines would be targeted has been dismissed, a deputy commander of the FSA told the Guardian.
• EU foreign ministers are meeting in Cyprus to discuss ways of helping the Syrian opposition and tackle the worsening humanitarian crisis, AFP reports. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton put Syria top of the agenda for two days of informal talks.
• At least 20 people were killed when the Syrian army shelled the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in southern Damascus, Reuters reports citing residents and local emergency workers. Yarmouk camp and the districts surrounding it have seen the most prolonged fighting in the capital since forces loyal to the Assad regime launched a counter-offensive to push rebels out of the city two months ago.
• Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has personally authorised the deployment of 150 senior Revolutionary Guards commanders to Syria, the Telegraph reports citing Western intelligence officials. It claimed the move is part of an increase support, including weapons shipments, made after the assassination of four of Bashar al-Assad's inner circle in July.
Bahrain
• Pro-democracy protesters are heading for a confrontation with the security forces after going ahead with a banned rally today. The rally is being held in response to a court's decision to uphold life prison sentences against several leading opposition activists.
• The UN's human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has added her voice to the chorus of international condemnation at the court's decision. She said: "None of the courts so far adequately addressed the defendants’ allegations that they were tortured in detention and forced to make confessions under duress."
FSA 'will not attack civil airports'
The FSA has dissociated itself from reports that it intends to start treating the airports of Damascus and Aleppo as "legitimate targets". Remarks threatening civilian airports have been attributed to Bassam Dada, who is described in the reports as a political adviser to the FSA. However, Malik Kurdi, deputy commander of the FSA, has told the Guardian that Bassam Dada was relieved of his post a month ago. Kurdi was speaking in a telephone conversation with our colleague Mona Mahmood. He continued:
Civil planes are not a target for the FSA, but we have a problem that some of the warplanes take off from civil airports to target the FSA and civilians.
We will attack these warplanes wherever they are, but not inside civil airports. We are worried a mistake might happen – civil planes might be hit as well as passengers.
We hope that the passengers will not take any civil flights because the regime might use a trick to deceive public opinion by attacking one of the civil planes and blaming the FSA.
We totally confirm that we will never attack civil airports and cause harm to civilians.
You have to know that inside any civil airport in Syria there is a military airport – like Damascus airport and Latakia airport. We cannot by any means target these civil airports but we will be watching warplanes as they take off from these airports and try to target them soon after they get out of the airport.
We can attack these planes inside the airport in one situation only which is to get control of all the areas surrounding the airport by liberating them, then evacuate the airport and the surrounding areas of people and then to attack them to avoid causing harm to civilians. But this idea seems impossible now and impractical, so we will not do that.
Protest under way in BahrainA photo posted on Twitter is said to show a protest taking place today in Sanad, Bahrain, were the temperature is 43 deg C.
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Aid increase for Syrian refugees
The EU and the UN have announced an increase in humanitarian aid to those fleeing the violence in Syria.
The European Commission has announced an extra €50m (£40m) worth of emergency aid.
Kristalina Georgieva, commissioner responsible for humanitarian aid, said:
The humanitarian situation in Syria is worsening almost daily now that the hostilities have slipped into civil war. There are already tens of thousands of Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. This calls for massive and effective humanitarian aid to reach those in urgent need of medical supplies and items such as baby food. This is why we are stepping up our assistance in this desperate situation.
The UN's refugee agency said it was doubling its budget to $41.7m (£26m).
Spokesman Adrian Edwards said:
The help we are seeking includes for household items, financial assistance for 200,000 people considered vulnerable, medical assistance, counselling of displaced populations, rehabilitation of shelters and support to encourage refugee and displaced Syrian children to return to school.
Syrian refugees are pictured at the al-Thunebah village on Jordan-Syria border. Photograph: Mohammad Abu Ghosh/Xinhua Press/Corbis
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2012/sep/07/syria-crisis-eu-talks-live
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