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en | Electricity generator problem assessed
BY WILLIAM HARWOOD
STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS "SPACE PLACE" & USED WITH PERMISSION
Posted: September 6, 2006 @ 2:48 a.m. EDT;
Updated at 3:55 a.m. with scrub
NASA managers stopped the shuttle Atlantis' countdown early today and put launch on hold for at least 24 hours because of problems with one of the ship's three electricity producing fuel cells. Engineers are continuing to troubleshoot the issue in hopes of getting Atlantis off the ground Thursday or Friday, the end of the current launch window. But if the powerplant has to be replaced, NASA could be forced to haul Atlantis back to its hangar for repairs, a move that would delay launch several weeks. Earlier update from 2:48 a.m.: Engineers at the Kennedy Space Center are troubleshooting a problem with fuel cell No. 1 aboard the shuttle Atlantis. The loading of rocket fuel is on hold and if the problem is not resolved by 4 a.m. or so, today's launch attempt likely will be scrubbed, officials said. The shuttle is equipped with three electricity producing fuel cells that combine oxygen and hydrogen to produce electricity. All three must be operating normally for a countdown to proceed. During powerup early today, a problem showed up in fuel cell No. 1's phase A power bus, one of three power sources within the device. Engineers may shut down and restart the powerplant in a bid to clear the problem or at least understand the unexpected "signature." Launch remains targeted for 12:29 p.m., assuming the fuel cell problem can be resolved by 4 a.m. or so. Updates will be posted here as new information becomes available.
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U.S. - U.K. - E.U. - Worldwide | pl | Kierownictwo NASA odwołało dzisiejszy start promu kosmicznego '''Atlantis'''. Powodem jest awaria jednego z ogniw paliwowych wytwarzających energię elektryczną na potrzeby promu. Aby prom mógł wystartować, wszystkie trzy ogniwa musza być sprawne. Przyczyny awarii dotąd nie są znane. Inżynierowie i technicy cały czas ją badają. Jeśli zajdzie potrzeba wymiany całego ogniwa, '''Atlantis''' zostanie zawrócony do hangaru, a start opóźni się o kilka tygodni. Kolejna podejście do startu zapowiedziano na razie na jutro, na godzinę 18:03 czasu polskiego. |
pl | Zwierzchnik Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego patriarcha Cyryl oświadczył w moskiewskiej katedrze Chrystusa Zbawiciela na spotkaniu z Sekretarzem Generalnym Rady Europy Thorbjornem Jaglandem, że Kościół prawosławny akceptuje każdy ludzki wybór, włączając w to orientację seksualną. Taki wybór jest prywatną sprawą. Fakt akceptacji – uściślił patriarcha – nie zmienia tego, że według Kościoła prawosławnego praktykowanie homoseksualności jest grzechem. Religijna tradycja praktycznie wszystkich ludzi postrzega homoseksualność w kategorii grzechu. Co nie znaczy, że musi on być karany. Dlatego Kościół prawosławny wypowiada się przeciw jakiejkolwiek dyskryminacji ludzi nietradycyjnej orientacji seksualnej. | pl | '''Podczas oficjalnego spotkania z Sekretarzem Generalnym Rady Europy Thorbjørnem Jaglandem, patriarcha Cyryl I, zwierzchnik Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego oświadczył, że jego kościół akceptuje każdy ludzki wybór, również orientację seksualną, a taki wybór uznał za sprawę prywatną. Spotkanie odbyło się w cerkwi Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Moskwie, 23 grudnia 2009 r.'''
: ''Akceptujemy wszelkie ludzkiego wybory, w tym w dziedzinie orientacji seksualnej. To jest prywatna sprawa jednostki. Ale uznanie tego faktu w żaden sposób nie zmienia naszego stanowiska w odniesieniu do samego zjawiska.''
Patriarcha Moskwy i Wszechrusi zaznaczył, że ''tradycje religijne wszystkich narodów, pokazują, że homoseksualizm jest grzechem, że to utrata orientacji moralnej jednostki'' jednak uważa, iż nie powinien on być karalny i zawsze stał mocno przeciwko wszelkim represjom i dyskryminacji ludzi różnych orientacji seksualnych. Uściślił przy tym, że fakt akceptacji nie zmienia stanowiska kierowanego przez niego kościoła, że praktykowanie homoseksualizmu jest grzeszne i zdecydowanie sprzeciwia się zrównywaniu stosunków homoseksualnych z naturalnymi.
Takie słowa to złagodzenie tonu oficjalnych wypowiedzi hierarchów Cerkwi. W 2005 r ustami urzędnika moskiewskiego patriarchatu Wsiewołoda Czaplina ostrzegali ostro organizujących "Gay Pride" w Moskwie, że "homoseksualizm to grzech skazujący na wieczną śmierć". |
pl | Choć rzeczywiście władze Moskwy na każdym kroku podkreślają swą europejskość, to bez wątpienia jest ona mocno skażona radziecką przeszłością. Wolności zgromadzeń odmawia się tu nie tylko mniejszościom seksualnym, ale i niektórym partiom politycznym oraz organizacjom obrony praw człowieka. O ile jednak opozycja nie zawsze "zasługuje" na wyjaśnienie zakazu demonstracji, to w sprawie homoseksualistów władze miasta mają jasno określoną politykę.
Co Jurij Łużkow ma przeciwko gejom? - Ich parada groziłaby porządkowi publicznemu. Wywołałaby protesty społeczne niekorzystne dla naszego miasta - argumentował przed czterema laty, gdy po raz pierwszy poproszono go o zgodę na paradę.
Świadome rosyjskich realiów organizacje gejowskie nawet nie usiłowały się odwoływać do sądu, a do pomysłu marszu powróciły dopiero w tym roku. - Domagamy się zezwolenia. To będzie nowy test na tolerancyjność władz - mówił wczoraj Nikołaj Aleksiejew z grupy GayRussia. Łużkow odpowiedział wczoraj krótko: - Będę bronić interesów moskwian. Żadnych marszów!
Celem kampanii na rzecz parady jest sprowokowanie publicznej dyskusji o prawach homoseksualistów, ale mało kto liczy na to, że rzeczywiście doprowadzi ona do uzyskania zezwolenia. Dla Rosjan telewizyjne doniesienia o masowych gejowskich demonstracjach na Zachodzie, legalizacji związków jednopłciowych czy też nawet publicznych sporach są bowiem egzotycznymi ciekawostkami, których w żaden sposób nie odnoszą do "swojskiej" Rosji. - Gejowska demonstracja? Rosja to nie Holandia, a Moskwa to nie Amsterdam. Po co zaogniać sytuację? - dziwił się wczoraj Siergiej Mitrochin, szef moskiewskiego oddziału opozycyjnego, liberalno-lewicowej partii Jabłoko.
Homoseksualizm został wykreślony z rosyjskiego kodeksu karnego dopiero w 1993 r., a jeszcze w latach 80. wykorzystywano go jako "hak" wobec nieposłusznych obywateli. Choć dziś w dużych miastach działa po kilka organizacji mniejszości seksualnych, to Rosji daleko nawet do polskich standardów. Aluzje do homoseksualnej orientacji przeciwników politycznych pojawiają się w wystąpieniach ludzi z wokółkremlowskich elit, ale dokładnie tym samym obozowi władzy odpłacają się niektórzy znani publicyści związani z opozycją.
Opór wobec "zachodniego zepsucia" to również kolejny element zbliżający rosyjskie władze do Cerkwi, która chętnie godzi się na czynienie z prawosławia państwowej ideologii. Wysoki urzędnik moskiewskiego patriarchatu Wsiewołod Czaplin ostrzegał wczoraj, że "homoseksualizm to grzech skazujący na wieczną śmierć". Co ciekawe, wspólna obrona "tradycyjnych wartości" pojawia się też ostatnio często w wypowiedziach prawosławnych dostojników o dialogu ekumenicznym z katolicyzmem. - Łączy nas wspólne zagrożenie. Musimy razem działać w Europie na rzecz normalnej rodziny, a przeciw tym wszystkim nowinkom - mówią prawosławni.
Źródło: Gazeta Wyborcza | pl | '''Podczas oficjalnego spotkania z Sekretarzem Generalnym Rady Europy Thorbjørnem Jaglandem, patriarcha Cyryl I, zwierzchnik Rosyjskiego Kościoła Prawosławnego oświadczył, że jego kościół akceptuje każdy ludzki wybór, również orientację seksualną, a taki wybór uznał za sprawę prywatną. Spotkanie odbyło się w cerkwi Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Moskwie, 23 grudnia 2009 r.'''
: ''Akceptujemy wszelkie ludzkiego wybory, w tym w dziedzinie orientacji seksualnej. To jest prywatna sprawa jednostki. Ale uznanie tego faktu w żaden sposób nie zmienia naszego stanowiska w odniesieniu do samego zjawiska.''
Patriarcha Moskwy i Wszechrusi zaznaczył, że ''tradycje religijne wszystkich narodów, pokazują, że homoseksualizm jest grzechem, że to utrata orientacji moralnej jednostki'' jednak uważa, iż nie powinien on być karalny i zawsze stał mocno przeciwko wszelkim represjom i dyskryminacji ludzi różnych orientacji seksualnych. Uściślił przy tym, że fakt akceptacji nie zmienia stanowiska kierowanego przez niego kościoła, że praktykowanie homoseksualizmu jest grzeszne i zdecydowanie sprzeciwia się zrównywaniu stosunków homoseksualnych z naturalnymi.
Takie słowa to złagodzenie tonu oficjalnych wypowiedzi hierarchów Cerkwi. W 2005 r ustami urzędnika moskiewskiego patriarchatu Wsiewołoda Czaplina ostrzegali ostro organizujących "Gay Pride" w Moskwie, że "homoseksualizm to grzech skazujący na wieczną śmierć". |
es | Ana Carrasco se ha convertido en la primera mujer de toda la historia en ganar una carrera de un mundial FIM de motociclsimo de velocidad al imponerse en la carrera de Portimao del Mundial de Supersport 300.
Tras pasar toda la carrera en un terceto cabecero junto a Marc García y Dani Valle, al final de carrera se unieron el italiano Alfonso Coppola y el también español Mika Pérez. Aun así, Carrasco se puso primera al comenzar la última vuelta, y mantuvo la posición hasta más de la mitad de la misma, cuando la superó Coppola.
Lejos de ponerse nerviosa, la piloto murciana de sólo 20 años aguantó la segunda posición y entró en la recta de meta cogiendo el rebufo de Marc García y entrando victoriosa en meta con 53 milésimas sobre Coppola y 63 sobre García para sumar su primera victoria.
Taru Rinne, Tomoko Igata o Katja Poensgen abrieron el camino en los grandes premios, y ya el año pasado la neozelandesa Avalon Biddle competia de tú a tú con los chicos de la European Talent Cup, predecesora del Mundial de Supersport 300, donde Carrasco se inscribió con el ETG Racing de la Escola Técnica de Girona.
Sus tiempos indicaban que este día podría llegar, pero le faltaba rematar en carrera, donde su mejor resultado había sido el séptimo puesto de Assen, llegando undécima en la general después de haber logrado puntuar en las seis primeras carreras.
A la séptima fue la vencida. Partiendo desde primera fila, Carrasco ha visto la oportunidad para meter su Kawasaki Ninja 300 entre las Yamaha YZF-R3, claras dominadoras del campeonato, y llevarse una victoria que le eleva a la séptima posición de la general, pero que sobre todo es una victoria que ya quedará para la historia. Pero que seguramente no será la última.
También te puede interesar María Herrera, Ana Carrasco y Beatriz Neila, un trío de ases internacional Las tres pilotos españolas competirán contra los mejores del mundo en tres campeonatos.... | es | El pasado 17 de septiembre asistimos en el en a la rúbrica de una nueva página en el mundo del motociclismo. , murciana de 20 años, se alzó con la victoria en la categoría del Mundial de Supersport 300, siendo la primera mujer en lograr ganar una carrera de un mundial FIM de motociclismo de velocidad.
En la última vuelta de carrera, la piloto española se disputaba el triunfo con un numeroso grupo de rivales, afrontando el último giro en cabeza; Alfonso Coppola le arrebató la posición de liderazgo, pero lejos de tirar la toalla, Carrasco aprovechó el rebufo de Marc García y entró primera a tan solo 53 milésimas sobre el segundo clasificado y 63 sobre el tercero.
En 2013 mostraba su lado más guerrero peleando con los pilotos de Moto3 del mundial de MotoGP, siendo la segunda española en conseguir llegar a la categoría reina del motociclismo. De la mano de , y con 16 años, se convertía en la mujer más joven en ascender al mundial e incluso logró puntuar en una carrera: fue en el GP de Malasia de ese mismo año, cuando acabó en el decimoquinto puesto.
Otras pilotos también buscan su sitio en un deporte a priori dominado por hombres, como es el caso de , que compite en Moto3, en el . Actualmente, comanda su propio equipo, el MH6 team, donde lucha por acabar dentro de los puntos en cada carrera. María consiguió cinco podios con 3 victorias incluidas en el entonces conocido CEV (Campeonato de España de Velocidad) lo que demuestra que tiene opciones para optar por una buena plaza dentro de su nueva competición.
Ambas pilotos luchan por hacerse un hueco; lo ha logrado en su séptima prueba de la temporada, a falta de dos carreras para finalizar el año. La moral de la murciana está más alta que nunca, lo que puede favorecer que su Kawasaki Ninja 300 se sitúe en las mejores posiciones del podio antes de finalizar el año. |
es | Una murciana de 20 años acaba de pasar a la historia. Su nombre es Ana Carrasco y el pasado domingo la joven, originaria de Cehegín, se convirtió en Portimao en la primera mujer en ganar una prueba del Campeonato Mundial de Superbike en la categoría de Supersport300 junto al equipo ETG Racing (Escola Tècnica de Girona). Por 53 milésimas superó al italiano Alfonso Coppola y por 63 al español Marc García. Pasó así de la undécima a la séptima posición en la clasificación general, cuando quedan dos carreras para el final de la temporada.
“Para mí es un orgullo ser la primera mujer en conseguirlo”, dice Carrasco. “Espero que sirva para abrir la puerta a más mujeres en el futuro”, amplía entusiasmada la piloto, que a su vez apunta a la falta de patrocinios como el principal escollo al que se enfrenta. “Lo más difícil es encontrar las marcas que apuesten por el triunfo de una mujer en el Mundial”, puntualiza la española.
Montada en su Kawasaki, Carrasco lideró la prueba al comienzo de la última vuelta y utilizó el rebufo en la recta final, gracias a lo que cruzó la línea de meta en primer lugar. No obstante, Coppola continúa siendo líder de la clasificación general, seguido por el español García.
El circuito luso del Algarve era para la joven un nuevo reto en su carrera profesional. “Es un trazado muy técnico y rápido, pero me adapté muy bien y me sentí cómoda”, expresa Carrasco, a quien le quedan dos carreras esta temporada: la primera en Magny-Cours (Francia) y la segunda en Jerez. Su meta inmediata es volver a ganar y ascender al podio, y su sueño poder coronarse en su propio país. Sin embargo, los resultados obtenidos en la carrera anterior, en Lausitzring (Alemania) no fueron tan positivos. Allí concluyó decimocuarta debido a, desliza la piloto, problemas técnicos con la moto.
La inspiración paterna
El Mundial de Moto3 de 2013 fue uno de los principales hitos en su carrera profesional. Con tan solo 16 años, se convirtió en la mujer más joven en competir en una prueba del Campeonato del Mundo y la primera española en puntuar en el Mundial
La pasión por el motor ha marcado su vida desde los tres años, cuando experimentó por primera vez la velocidad sobre las dos ruedas. Su padre, mecánico de motociclistas profesionales y en su día también piloto, fue quien le transmitió la pasión. “Con esfuerzo y sacrificio el resultado tiene que llegar”, cierra convencida Carrasco, que para llegar hasta donde hoy se encuentra ha tenido que dejar los estudios a un lado. | es | El pasado 17 de septiembre asistimos en el en a la rúbrica de una nueva página en el mundo del motociclismo. , murciana de 20 años, se alzó con la victoria en la categoría del Mundial de Supersport 300, siendo la primera mujer en lograr ganar una carrera de un mundial FIM de motociclismo de velocidad.
En la última vuelta de carrera, la piloto española se disputaba el triunfo con un numeroso grupo de rivales, afrontando el último giro en cabeza; Alfonso Coppola le arrebató la posición de liderazgo, pero lejos de tirar la toalla, Carrasco aprovechó el rebufo de Marc García y entró primera a tan solo 53 milésimas sobre el segundo clasificado y 63 sobre el tercero.
En 2013 mostraba su lado más guerrero peleando con los pilotos de Moto3 del mundial de MotoGP, siendo la segunda española en conseguir llegar a la categoría reina del motociclismo. De la mano de , y con 16 años, se convertía en la mujer más joven en ascender al mundial e incluso logró puntuar en una carrera: fue en el GP de Malasia de ese mismo año, cuando acabó en el decimoquinto puesto.
Otras pilotos también buscan su sitio en un deporte a priori dominado por hombres, como es el caso de , que compite en Moto3, en el . Actualmente, comanda su propio equipo, el MH6 team, donde lucha por acabar dentro de los puntos en cada carrera. María consiguió cinco podios con 3 victorias incluidas en el entonces conocido CEV (Campeonato de España de Velocidad) lo que demuestra que tiene opciones para optar por una buena plaza dentro de su nueva competición.
Ambas pilotos luchan por hacerse un hueco; lo ha logrado en su séptima prueba de la temporada, a falta de dos carreras para finalizar el año. La moral de la murciana está más alta que nunca, lo que puede favorecer que su Kawasaki Ninja 300 se sitúe en las mejores posiciones del podio antes de finalizar el año. |
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editar] Por tema | es | El pasado 17 de septiembre asistimos en el en a la rúbrica de una nueva página en el mundo del motociclismo. , murciana de 20 años, se alzó con la victoria en la categoría del Mundial de Supersport 300, siendo la primera mujer en lograr ganar una carrera de un mundial FIM de motociclismo de velocidad.
En la última vuelta de carrera, la piloto española se disputaba el triunfo con un numeroso grupo de rivales, afrontando el último giro en cabeza; Alfonso Coppola le arrebató la posición de liderazgo, pero lejos de tirar la toalla, Carrasco aprovechó el rebufo de Marc García y entró primera a tan solo 53 milésimas sobre el segundo clasificado y 63 sobre el tercero.
En 2013 mostraba su lado más guerrero peleando con los pilotos de Moto3 del mundial de MotoGP, siendo la segunda española en conseguir llegar a la categoría reina del motociclismo. De la mano de , y con 16 años, se convertía en la mujer más joven en ascender al mundial e incluso logró puntuar en una carrera: fue en el GP de Malasia de ese mismo año, cuando acabó en el decimoquinto puesto.
Otras pilotos también buscan su sitio en un deporte a priori dominado por hombres, como es el caso de , que compite en Moto3, en el . Actualmente, comanda su propio equipo, el MH6 team, donde lucha por acabar dentro de los puntos en cada carrera. María consiguió cinco podios con 3 victorias incluidas en el entonces conocido CEV (Campeonato de España de Velocidad) lo que demuestra que tiene opciones para optar por una buena plaza dentro de su nueva competición.
Ambas pilotos luchan por hacerse un hueco; lo ha logrado en su séptima prueba de la temporada, a falta de dos carreras para finalizar el año. La moral de la murciana está más alta que nunca, lo que puede favorecer que su Kawasaki Ninja 300 se sitúe en las mejores posiciones del podio antes de finalizar el año. |
pl | Kruzenshtern & Parohod (avant jazz, Izrael)
+ lokalny support S.I. Układ Wrocław - wtorek - 5 lutego 2008
Ośrodek Postaw Twórczych (OPT) - ul. Działkowa 15
godz. 20:00, wstęp: 10 pln profil wydarzenia na Last.fm
Kruzenshtern & Parohod
Od Tel-Avivu do Jerozolimy przez Wrocław? Tak!
Kruzenshtern & Parohod to młoda avant jazzowa formacja powstała w 2002 r. w Tel-Avivie. W swojej dotychczasowej karierze grupa uzbierała na koncie 4 albumy, z czego ostatni to winylowo-kompaktowy split z kanadyjsko-francuską Vialką.
Podobnie jak w przypadku vialkowego duetu, Kruzenshtern obiera ten sam kurs muzycznej przygody - wyrusza w nieznane trasy. Na szczęście zespoły odważne mają to do siebie, że bez względu na to, co się stanie, zawsze są w stanie grać i nie istotne czy grają dla jednej osoby na squocie, czy dla stu w teatrze. Zawsze dają z siebie wszystko.
Podczas wrocławskiego koncertu z pewnością możemy spodziewać się żonglerki klezmerskim jazzem, w avantgardowym, czasami wręcz hardocore'owym wydaniu. Twórczość znanego nowojorskiego Tzadika przełożymy na rodzimy grunt zespołu - wydawnictwo Auris Media. Poznamy świeże spojrzenie młodych Żydów na muzykę i kulturę w ogóle. Zobaczymy, co oznacza punk w języku jidisz.
Kruzenshtern & Parohod:
Igor Krutogolov - bas, głos
- bas, głos Ruslan Gross - klarnet
- klarnet Guy Schechter - perkusja
- perkusja Olya Yelensky - akordeon
Linki:
Najbliższe plany koncertowe:
31.01 - Tel-Aviv (IL) @ Tmu-na Theatre
02.02 - Ryga (LV) @ Alkatraz
03.02 - Wilno (LT) @ New Style
05.02 - Wrocław (PL) @ OPT
06.02 - Gdynia (PL) @ Ucho
07.02 - Warszawa (PL) @ Plan B
08.02 - Warszawa (PL) @ Pretekst
09.02 - Poznań (PL) @ Meskal
10.02 - Zakopane (PL) @ Ampstrong
12.02 - Pilzno (CZ) @ Divadlo Pod Lampou
27.02 - Jerozolima (IL) @ Yellow Submarine
S.I. Układ
Info & Kontakt: | pl | 5 lutego 2008 we Wrocławiu w Ośrodku Postaw Twórczych (ul. Działkowa 15), godz. 19:00 odbędzie się koncert zespołu Kruzenshtern & Parohod. Jest to młoda avant jazzowa formacja powstała w 2002 r. w Tel Awiwie.
==== Skład zespołu ====
* Igor Krutogolov - bas, głos
* Ruslan Gross - klarnet
* Guy Schechter - perkusja
* Olya Yelensky - akordeon |
de | Zukunft des Autos
Honda hakt Elektroautos ab
von Martin Kölling (Tokio)
Honda sieht die Zukunft der Autobranche nicht im Elektromotor. Stattdessen will Honda in spätestens zehn Jahren mit Brennstoffzellenautos die Nachfrage nach sogenannten Nullemissionsautos bedienen, die kein als Klimakiller verrufenes Kohlendioxid (CO2) mehr ausstoßen.
"Wir erwägen zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kein batteriebetriebenes Elektroauto", sagte Konzernchef Takeo Fukui am Mittwoch vor Journalisten in Tokio. Der japanische Konzern verzichtet damit auf die Entwicklung einer Technik, in der fast alle Wettbewerber angesichts endlicher Ölreserven die Zukunft des Autos sehen. Die Suche nach neuen Antriebstechniken ist wegen steigender Benzinpreise und härteren Klimaauflagen zur überlebenswichtigen Aufgabe für die Autobranche geworden.
In die Forschungsabteilungen von BMW, Daimler, Ford, General Motors (GM), Toyota oder Volkswagen fließen Milliarden, um neue Lösungen als Ersatz für den Verbrennungsmotor zu entwickeln. Derzeit sieht es nach einer Koexistenz verschiedener Antriebsarten aus: von schlanken Benzin- und Dieselmotoren über Hybridantriebe, die Verbrennungs- und Elektromotoren kombinieren, bis hin zu reinen Elektroautos, die mit Batterie oder Brennstoffzelle betrieben werden.
Dabei setzen Hersteller unterschiedliche Schwerpunkte, die in den kommenden Jahren eine wichtige Rolle bei der Neuordnung des Automarkts haben könnten. So wetten beispielsweise Nissan, Mitsubishi oder GM bei ihrer Zukunftsstrategie vor allem auf kleine Elektroautos für den Stadtverkehr.
Honda vertraut der Brennstoffzelle. Brennstoffzellenautos stellen Strom aus Wasserstoff und Sauerstoff her und geben als Abgas nur Wasser ab. Der Preis für derartige Modelle dürfte selbst bei größeren Stückzahlen horrend sein: Honda-Chef Fukui sagte, dass bei rund 100.000 $ eine große Nachfrage einsetzen könnte. | de | Der Automobilkonzern Honda hat sich im internationalen Wettrennen um den besten alternativen Antrieb zum reinen Verbrennungsmotor für Autos eindeutig positioniert. Die Manager des Konzerns setzen auf das Brennstoffzellenauto. Deutlich wird dies bei einer Äußerung des Konzernchefs Takeo Fukui, die er am Mittwoch, den 2. Juli in Tokio tätigte. „Wir erwägen zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt kein batteriebetriebenes Elektroauto“, sagte er gegenüber Journalisten. Außerdem bezeichnete Fukui das Brennstoffzellenauto als „langfristig einzige Alternative“.
Schlagzeilen machte Honda zuletzt mit der Mitteilung, dass die Serienproduktion des Wasserstoffautos „FCX Clarity“ angelaufen sei. Zurzeit hat Honda mit zwei großen Herausforderungen zu kämpfen: Die Stückpreise pro Fahrzeug sind zu hoch, und es fehlt zurzeit noch an einem Tankstellennetz. Beide Faktoren sprechen momentan noch gegen eine schnelle Verbreitung der Fahrzeuge. Auf dem US-amerikanischen Markt punktet Honda mit spritsparenden Modellen. Im Gegensatz zu den großen US-amerikanischen Herstellern gelang es dem Unternehmen, seine Verkaufszahlen zu halten. |
en | Gyanendra became king after the notorious 2001 palace massacre
Under the deal, Nepal will be declared a republic after a general election has been held next year and a new constituent assembly established.
The Maoists pulled out of the government in September, demanding an immediate end to the monarchy.
The latest deal was signed by Nepal's main parties, including the Maoists.
But no date has been set for the ex-rebels to rejoin the government.
Milestone
The six-party ruling alliance and the Maoists said in a statement: "Nepal will be a federal democratic republic nation and the decision will be implemented after the first meeting of the constituent assembly."
The Maoists have not stopped using violence from time to time
Elections for the new 601-member assembly are due to be held in April.
The BBC's Nepal correspondent Charles Haviland says that, while a milestone, the move is no surprise.
The Maoists walked out of the government three months ago, vowing not to return unless the royal system was scrapped.
They have now secured what they wanted, even though the other parties in the ruling coalition had said, up to now, that voters should decide on the issue via the new assembly, our correspondent adds.
Analysts say that many Nepalis will be happy to have a republic.
Unpopular monarchy
The monarchy's popularity has sunk since the death of the well-loved King Birendra in a notorious palace massacre of 2001.
Efforts by his brother, Gyanendra, to tackle the Maoist insurgency led to a worsening of the country's human rights situation.
Analysts say the king lost popular support after his decision in 2005 to sack the government and assume absolute power - only to back down after huge protests.
The Maoists called a ceasefire after the king ended his controversial direct rule in April 2006 and restored parliament.
Political parties - who were then in opposition and are now in government - had promised to work with the Maoists as a prelude to bringing them into government.
The political crisis came amid a rise in ethnic and religious tension, as regional groups strove to assert their authority in advance of the elections.
More than 13,000 people died during Nepal's decade-long insurgency, many of them civilians caught in cross-fire with security forces. | fr | Gyanendra du Népal
Après 10 années de guerre civile entre les guerilleros communistes et les troupes gouvernementales, les principaux partis politiques du Népal sont tombés d'accord pour abolir la monarchie dans le pays, dirigé par le roi Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, permettant le retour des rebelles maoïstes du parti communiste du Népal au gouvernement et la création d'une république.
Cet accord a été conclu après que les maoïstes, qui constituent une organisation militaire réclamant un état socialiste avec un gouvernement républicain, avaient quitté le gouvernement en septembre en demandant l'abolition de la monarchie, ont conclu un pacte en 23 points avec les six partis politiques principaux du Népal.
Ce traité stipule qu'une assemblée constitutionnelle devra être constituée en avril pour réécrire la constitution, abolir de manière officielle la monarchie et rédiger les détails du nouveau système politique.
La nouvelle alliance des sept partis a indiqué : .
De plus, il a été décidé que l'assemblée serait constituée de 601 membres : 240 membres directement élus par le peuple, 365 membres désignés par un système de représentation proportionnelle, dans laquelle chaque parti obtiendra des sièges en proportion avec le nombre de votes obtenus et le reste sera désigné par le Gouvernement.
Les rebelles maoïstes déclareront un ''cessez-le-feu'', consolidant un accord de paix et donneront leur accord pour confiner ses combattants et armes dans des camps surveillés par l'ONU.
;Les problèmes de la monarchie
Selon la BBC, les analystes indiquent que la décision d'abolir la monarchie n'est pas une surprise. Depuis l'assassinat du roi Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev et d'une grande partie de la famille royale en 2001 et l'accession de Gyanendra au pouvoir, la monarchie est devenue moins populaire, causant la retour à la violence de certains groupes comme les maoïstes.
La goutte qui a fait déborder le vase fut lorsqu'en 2005 Gyanendra abolit le régime démocratique du Népal pour assumer les pleins pouvoirs. En 2006, les opposants à la monarchie ont amorcé une série de manifestations exigeant son renoncement au trône, en plus d'autres coups d'éclats ayant paralysé la vie économique du pays.
La même année, il annonça dans un discours télévisé qu'il retournait le et convia les partis politiques à nommer un nouveau Premier ministre.
Beaucoup de ses privilèges lui furent retirés, il se vit obligé de payer des impôts, et fut privé de titres, comme celui de descendant des divinités hindoues. |
en | By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
Associated Press Writer
KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - Nepal's former communist rebels agreed Sunday to rejoin the government, officials said, signaling an end to a political crisis that led to the indefinite postponement of elections. The pact will also abolish Nepal's monarchy.
No date has been set for the ex-rebels, usually referred to as Maoists, to rejoin the government. They left in September, demanding the immediate abolition of the monarchy and changes to the election system.
An agreement for them to rejoin has been signed, however, by leaders of the seven main political parties - including the Maoists - said Arjun Narsingh of Nepali Congress, the Himalayan country's largest party.
The 23-point pact said the leaders also agreed that once a constituent assembly is elected by mid-April, its first meeting will declare Nepal a republic state and end its centuries-old monarchy. That change had been widely expected for months.
The constituent assembly would rewrite Nepal's constitution and hammer out the details of a new political structure for the country.
The parties agreed that the assembly would have 240 members directly elected by the voters and 335 who will get seats under a proportional representation system, with parties receiving seats in proportion to the number of votes they receive.
The rebels began their armed insurgency in 1996. It left at least 13,000 people dead in 10 years of fighting between the communist guerrillas and government troops.
The rebels formed links with the main political parties last year, joining pro-democracy street protests that forced King Gyanendra to give up direct rule.
The rebels later declared a cease-fire, signed a peace agreement and confined their combatants and weapons to United Nations-monitored camps. They joined Nepal's parliament in January and the government in April this year. | fr | Gyanendra du Népal
Après 10 années de guerre civile entre les guerilleros communistes et les troupes gouvernementales, les principaux partis politiques du Népal sont tombés d'accord pour abolir la monarchie dans le pays, dirigé par le roi Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, permettant le retour des rebelles maoïstes du parti communiste du Népal au gouvernement et la création d'une république.
Cet accord a été conclu après que les maoïstes, qui constituent une organisation militaire réclamant un état socialiste avec un gouvernement républicain, avaient quitté le gouvernement en septembre en demandant l'abolition de la monarchie, ont conclu un pacte en 23 points avec les six partis politiques principaux du Népal.
Ce traité stipule qu'une assemblée constitutionnelle devra être constituée en avril pour réécrire la constitution, abolir de manière officielle la monarchie et rédiger les détails du nouveau système politique.
La nouvelle alliance des sept partis a indiqué : .
De plus, il a été décidé que l'assemblée serait constituée de 601 membres : 240 membres directement élus par le peuple, 365 membres désignés par un système de représentation proportionnelle, dans laquelle chaque parti obtiendra des sièges en proportion avec le nombre de votes obtenus et le reste sera désigné par le Gouvernement.
Les rebelles maoïstes déclareront un ''cessez-le-feu'', consolidant un accord de paix et donneront leur accord pour confiner ses combattants et armes dans des camps surveillés par l'ONU.
;Les problèmes de la monarchie
Selon la BBC, les analystes indiquent que la décision d'abolir la monarchie n'est pas une surprise. Depuis l'assassinat du roi Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev et d'une grande partie de la famille royale en 2001 et l'accession de Gyanendra au pouvoir, la monarchie est devenue moins populaire, causant la retour à la violence de certains groupes comme les maoïstes.
La goutte qui a fait déborder le vase fut lorsqu'en 2005 Gyanendra abolit le régime démocratique du Népal pour assumer les pleins pouvoirs. En 2006, les opposants à la monarchie ont amorcé une série de manifestations exigeant son renoncement au trône, en plus d'autres coups d'éclats ayant paralysé la vie économique du pays.
La même année, il annonça dans un discours télévisé qu'il retournait le et convia les partis politiques à nommer un nouveau Premier ministre.
Beaucoup de ses privilèges lui furent retirés, il se vit obligé de payer des impôts, et fut privé de titres, comme celui de descendant des divinités hindoues. |
en | By Gopal Sharma
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's government agreed on Sunday to abolish the centuries-old monarchy in a political deal with Maoist former rebels, but the decision only comes into effect after next year's elections, party officials said.
The Himalayan nation plunged into a fresh political turmoil three months ago when the anti-monarchy Maoists, who ended their decade-long civil war last year, quit the government.
They were demanding an immediate declaration of a republic, a step that indefinitely delayed the constituent assembly elections that had been set for November.
Those polls, Nepal's first national vote since 1999, were meant to map the country's political future, including that of the monarchy, and expected to cap the landmark peace deal.
Government leaders met with Maoist chief Prachanda to break the deadlock that has dealt a blow to the 2006 pact ending the conflict which caused more than 13,000 deaths.
"Nepal will be a Federal Democratic Republic nation ... and the decision will be implemented after the first meeting of the constituent assembly," the six-party ruling alliance and the Maoists said in a statement.
"But if the king creates serious hurdles to the constituent assembly elections a two-third majority of the (interim) parliament can remove the monarchy even before the polls," it said.
The popularity of King Gyanendra plunged when he sacked the government and assumed absolute powers in 2005 only to bow down after weeks of protest last year. The monarch has traditionally being viewed as an incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu. Continued... | fr | Gyanendra du Népal
Après 10 années de guerre civile entre les guerilleros communistes et les troupes gouvernementales, les principaux partis politiques du Népal sont tombés d'accord pour abolir la monarchie dans le pays, dirigé par le roi Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, permettant le retour des rebelles maoïstes du parti communiste du Népal au gouvernement et la création d'une république.
Cet accord a été conclu après que les maoïstes, qui constituent une organisation militaire réclamant un état socialiste avec un gouvernement républicain, avaient quitté le gouvernement en septembre en demandant l'abolition de la monarchie, ont conclu un pacte en 23 points avec les six partis politiques principaux du Népal.
Ce traité stipule qu'une assemblée constitutionnelle devra être constituée en avril pour réécrire la constitution, abolir de manière officielle la monarchie et rédiger les détails du nouveau système politique.
La nouvelle alliance des sept partis a indiqué : .
De plus, il a été décidé que l'assemblée serait constituée de 601 membres : 240 membres directement élus par le peuple, 365 membres désignés par un système de représentation proportionnelle, dans laquelle chaque parti obtiendra des sièges en proportion avec le nombre de votes obtenus et le reste sera désigné par le Gouvernement.
Les rebelles maoïstes déclareront un ''cessez-le-feu'', consolidant un accord de paix et donneront leur accord pour confiner ses combattants et armes dans des camps surveillés par l'ONU.
;Les problèmes de la monarchie
Selon la BBC, les analystes indiquent que la décision d'abolir la monarchie n'est pas une surprise. Depuis l'assassinat du roi Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev et d'une grande partie de la famille royale en 2001 et l'accession de Gyanendra au pouvoir, la monarchie est devenue moins populaire, causant la retour à la violence de certains groupes comme les maoïstes.
La goutte qui a fait déborder le vase fut lorsqu'en 2005 Gyanendra abolit le régime démocratique du Népal pour assumer les pleins pouvoirs. En 2006, les opposants à la monarchie ont amorcé une série de manifestations exigeant son renoncement au trône, en plus d'autres coups d'éclats ayant paralysé la vie économique du pays.
La même année, il annonça dans un discours télévisé qu'il retournait le et convia les partis politiques à nommer un nouveau Premier ministre.
Beaucoup de ses privilèges lui furent retirés, il se vit obligé de payer des impôts, et fut privé de titres, comme celui de descendant des divinités hindoues. |
de | Die Fluggesellschaft Ethiopean Airlines, deren Flugzeug vor der Küste des Libanon mit 90 Menschen ins Meer stürzte, geht davon aus, dass es keine Überlebenden gibt. Absturzursache: Blitzeinschlag.
Bild vergrößern Vor der Küste des Libanon ist am frühen Morgen ein Flugzeug ins Meer gestürzt. Mit Schiffen und Hubschraubern suchen Rettungsteams nach Leichen und Überlebenden. Foto: dpa
Ein äthiopisches Passagierflugzeug mit etwa 90 Menschen an Bord ist am frühen Morgen kurz nach dem Start in Beirut ins Meer gestürzt. Mehrere Leichen wurden Stunden nach dem Unglück aus dem Wasser vor der libanesischen Küste geborgen, wie ein Militärsprecher mitteilte. Offenbar hat niemand den Absturz überlebt. "Ich hatte Kontakt zu den libanesischen Behörden, die aber keine Überlebenden bestätigen konnten", sagt der Chef der Ethiopian Airlines, Girmma Wake.
Nach Angaben eines Flughafensprechers wurde das Flugzeug von einem Blitz getroffen, bevor es ins Mittelmeer stürzte. Seit Sonntagabend gab es starken Regen und Gewitter in Beirut. Ein Anschlag sei unwahrscheinlich, erklärte Präsident Michel Suleiman. Er schloss Sabotage weitgehend aus.
Lokale Medien berichteten von sieben Überlebenden, die die libanesische Armee gefunden habe. Einzelheiten waren zunächst nicht bekannt. Nach Worten des libanesischen Verkehrsministers Ghazi Aridi waren an Bord des Jets 83 Passagiere und sieben Besatzungsmitglieder.
Aridi sagte weiter, es seien 54 Libanesen und 22 Äthiopier gewesen. Es seien aber auch Menschen aus dem Irak, Syrien, Großbritannien und Frankreich an Bord gewesen. Auch die Frau des französischen Botschafters im Libanon, Marla Sanchez Pietton, saß in der Unglücksmaschine, wie aus der Botschaft in Beirut und von libanesischen Sicherheitskräften bestätigt wurde.
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Das Flugzeug der Ethiopian Airlines war auf dem Weg von Beirut in äthiopische Hauptstadt Addis Abeba, als die Maschine etwa 15 Kilometer südlich der libanesischen Hauptstadt abstürzte. Hubschrauber und Schiffe der libanesischen Marine suchten nach der
Maschine und möglichen Opfern oder Überlebenden.
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Ein Luftfahrtsprecher sagte, die Boeing 737-800 der Ethiopian Airlines sei kurz nach dem Start in Beirut von den Radarschirmen verschwunden. Die Maschine sei um 3:10 Uhr (Ortszeit) gestartet.
Augenzeugen berichteten von einem lauten Geräusch und sahen dann
ein brennendes Flugzeug ins Wasser stürzen. Am Rafik Hariri International Airport versammelten sich besorgte Angehörige. Am frühen Morgen trafen Rettungsteams in der Nähe der vermutlichen Absturzstelle ein. Ein Helfer sagte: "Das Wetter hilft uns überhaupt nicht, aber wir hoffen, einige Überlebende zu finden." Im Libanon arbeiten viele Äthiopier als Haushaltshilfen.
(sueddeutsche.de/dpa/DAPD/vbe/gal/abis) | de | Eine baugleiche Boeing 737-800 auf dem Flughafen Entebbe
Kurz nach dem Start auf dem Rafiq-al-Hariri-Flughafen in Beirut gegen 2:30 Uhr Ortszeit (1:30 Uhr Mitteleuropäische Zeit) ist eine Boeing 737-800 der Ethiopian Airlines ins Meer gestürzt. An Bord der Maschine waren 82 Passagiere und acht Besatzungsmitglieder, davon 22 Äthiopier und 54 Libanesen sowie einige Angehörigen anderer Nationen, darunter jedoch keine Personen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum. Inzwischen wird davon ausgegangen, dass niemand den Absturz überlebt hat. Lokale Medien gaben zunächst an, die libanesische Armee habe sieben Personen gerettet, die libanesischen Behörden konnten diese Angaben jedoch nicht bestätigen. Die französische Botschaft bestätigte, dass die Ehefrau des französischen Botschafters in Beirut, Marla Sanchez Pietton, in dem abgestürzten Flugzeug gesessen habe.
Der libanesische Präsident Michel Sulaiman schloss sowohl einen Anschlag als auch Sabotage aus. Ein Flughafensprecher gab an, das Flugzeug sei von einem Blitz getroffen worden. Seit Sonntagabend herrschte in Beirut schlechtes Wetter mit Gewitter und Regen. Augenzeugen berichteten, sie hätten das Flugzeug brennend ins Meer stürzen sehen. Die Absturzstelle liegt nach Angaben der libanesischen Armee etwa dreieinhalb Kilometer von der Küste entfernt in der Nähe der Ortschaft Na'ameh. An der Suche nach Überlebenden nahmen Hubschrauber und Schiffe der libanesischen Streitkräfte sowie Schiffe der internationalen Friedenstruppe UNIFIL teil, darunter auch zwei Schiffe der Deutschen Marine, das Minensuchboot „Laboe“ und das Versorgungsschiff „Mosel“, das die Suchaktion koordinierte.
Ethiopian Airlines wurde 2008 als beste Fluggesellschaft auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent prämiert und verfügt über eine relativ junge Flotte. Die Airline fliegt außerhalb Äthiopiens 56 Flughäfen auf vier Kontinenten an. |
de | Bei dem Absturz der "Ethiopian Airlines"-Boeing vor der libanesischen Küste sind vermutlich alle 90 Insassen ums Leben gekommen. Der Pilot soll Instruktionen des Flughafen-Towers in Beirut ignoriert haben.
Der Kontrollturm am Flughafen Beirut habe den Piloten der "Ethiopian Airlines" wegen eines Sturms zur Umkehr aufgefordert, doch die Maschine sei weitergeflogen, erklärte der libanesische Verteidigungsminister Elias Murr. "Wir wissen nicht, was passiert ist und ob der Pilot das Flugzeug noch unter Kontrolle hatte", fügte Murr hinzu.
Vom Blitz getroffen?
Libanons Staatspräsident Michel Suleiman teilte mit, es gebe keine Anzeichen für einen Anschlag oder Sabotage. Ein Flughafenvertreter sagte, die Maschine vom Typ Boeing 737-800 sei möglicherweise von einem Blitz getroffen worden. Augenzeugen hätten ein lautes Geräusch gehört und einen Feuerball am Himmel gesehen, dann sei die Maschine ins Meer gestürzt. Es kommt allerdings sehr selten vor, dass ein Blitz ein Flugzeug zum Absturz bringt.
Bundesmarine koordiniert Suche
Die Boeing, die in die äthiopische Hauptstadt Addis Abeba fliegen sollte, war am frühen Montagmorgen (25.01.2010) in Beirut gestartet. Bereits wenige Minuten später verschwand die Maschine von den Radarschirmen.
Vor der Küste des Libanon suchte eine Armada von Schiffen, Flugzeugen und Hubschraubern nach Überlebenden - vergeblich. Bei der Suchaktion übernahm das deutsche Versorgungsschiff "Mosel" die Koordinierung.
Die Bundesamarine ist im Rahmen der UN-Mission UNIFIL vor der libanesischen Küste im Einsatz, um dort vor allem den Waffenschmuggel zu unterbinden.
Frankreichs Botschafter verliert Gattin
An Bord befanden sich laut Fluggesellschaft 82 Passagiere und acht Besatzungsmitglieder - vor allem Libanesen und Äthiopier, aber auch Fluggäste aus Großbritannien, Frankreich, der Türkei, Russland, Kanada, Syrien und dem Irak. Unter den Toten ist auch Marla Sanchez Pietton, die Ehefrau des französischen Botschafters in Beirut.
Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel kondolierte dem äthiopischen Regierungschef Meles Zenawi. In einem am Montagabend veröffentlichten Schreiben drückte sie Meles Zenawi und den Familien der Opfer ihr Beileid aus. Auch Außenminister Guido Westerwelle übermittelte seinen Kollegen im Libanon und in Äthiopien sein Mitgefühl, wie das Auswärtige Amt in Berlin mitteilte.
Auszeichung als beste Fluggesellschaft Afrikas
"Ethiopian Airlines" gilt als modernes Unternehmen mit einer vergleichsweise neuen Flotte. Die Fluglinie wurde 1945 gegründet. Ein Jahr später nahm sie den Flugbetrieb auf.
Derzeit fliegt die Gesellschaft 56 internationale Ziele auf vier Kontinenten an. In Deutschland steht Frankfurt am Main auf dem Flugplan. 2008 gewann das Unternehmen eine Auszeichnung als beste Fluggesellschaft des afrikanischen Kontinents.
Autoren: Christian Walz / Stephan Stickelmann (afp, rtr, dpa, apn)
Redaktion: Oliver Samson | de | Eine baugleiche Boeing 737-800 auf dem Flughafen Entebbe
Kurz nach dem Start auf dem Rafiq-al-Hariri-Flughafen in Beirut gegen 2:30 Uhr Ortszeit (1:30 Uhr Mitteleuropäische Zeit) ist eine Boeing 737-800 der Ethiopian Airlines ins Meer gestürzt. An Bord der Maschine waren 82 Passagiere und acht Besatzungsmitglieder, davon 22 Äthiopier und 54 Libanesen sowie einige Angehörigen anderer Nationen, darunter jedoch keine Personen aus dem deutschen Sprachraum. Inzwischen wird davon ausgegangen, dass niemand den Absturz überlebt hat. Lokale Medien gaben zunächst an, die libanesische Armee habe sieben Personen gerettet, die libanesischen Behörden konnten diese Angaben jedoch nicht bestätigen. Die französische Botschaft bestätigte, dass die Ehefrau des französischen Botschafters in Beirut, Marla Sanchez Pietton, in dem abgestürzten Flugzeug gesessen habe.
Der libanesische Präsident Michel Sulaiman schloss sowohl einen Anschlag als auch Sabotage aus. Ein Flughafensprecher gab an, das Flugzeug sei von einem Blitz getroffen worden. Seit Sonntagabend herrschte in Beirut schlechtes Wetter mit Gewitter und Regen. Augenzeugen berichteten, sie hätten das Flugzeug brennend ins Meer stürzen sehen. Die Absturzstelle liegt nach Angaben der libanesischen Armee etwa dreieinhalb Kilometer von der Küste entfernt in der Nähe der Ortschaft Na'ameh. An der Suche nach Überlebenden nahmen Hubschrauber und Schiffe der libanesischen Streitkräfte sowie Schiffe der internationalen Friedenstruppe UNIFIL teil, darunter auch zwei Schiffe der Deutschen Marine, das Minensuchboot „Laboe“ und das Versorgungsschiff „Mosel“, das die Suchaktion koordinierte.
Ethiopian Airlines wurde 2008 als beste Fluggesellschaft auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent prämiert und verfügt über eine relativ junge Flotte. Die Airline fliegt außerhalb Äthiopiens 56 Flughäfen auf vier Kontinenten an. |
fr | Monde Monde L'armée irakienne aux prises avec les milices chiites Par Aref Mohammed Par Aref Mohammed BASSORAH, Irak (Reuters) - Les miliciens chiites de l'Armée du Mahdi continuaient mercredi de défier l'armée irakienne à Bagdad, Bassorah et d'autres villes du sud du pays, où les combats ont fait plus de 70 morts et des centaines de blessés en deux jours. Les affrontements se sont étendus à d'autres villes du Sud, Hilla, Kout et Diwaniya, où l'Armée du Mahdi, fidèle à l'imam chiite Moktada al Sadr, détient une grande influence. Le Premier ministre irakien Nouri al Maliki, qui s'est rendu à Bassorah afin d'y superviser l'offensive militaire destinée à reprendre le contrôle de la deuxième ville d'Irak, a donné 72 heures aux miliciens pour se rendre, une mise en demeure aussitôt rejetée par les combattants chiites. Un proche collaborateur de Sadr, Louwaa Soumaïssem, a pourtant déclaré à Reuters dans la ville sainte de Nadjaf que pour le groupe chiite la trêve conclue en août dernier était toujours officiellement en vigueur. Un autre dirigeant sadriste de Bassorah, Hariss al Issari, a même précisé que des discussions étaient ouvertes avec le gouvernement. "Des négociations sont en cours avec le Premier ministre. Maliki a demandé à rencontrer des responsables du mouvement de Sadr à Bassorah et les choses en vue d'un règlement vont dans le bon sens", a-t-il dit. Egalement proche de Sadr, Hassan al Zargani a lu à Reuters un communiqué, venant selon lui de l'imam, demandant à Maliki de quitter Bassorah et de nommer une délégation pour négocier. Dans la grande ville du Sud, où se déroulent les combats les plus violents, un responsable médical a indiqué que 40 personnes avaient été tuées et 200 blessées depuis mardi. Selon un responsable de la Southern Oil Company, la production pétrolière pourrait être perturbée si les combats durent encore plus de trois jours, les employés ne pouvant se rendre à leur travail. La région de Bassorah produit 80% des exportations irakiennes de pétrole. A Bagdad, le bilan des combats à Sadr City, quartier de la ville nommé d'après le père assassiné de Moktada al Sadr, est de 14 tués et 140 blessés. NOUVEAUX TIRS SUR LA "ZONE VERTE" "Nous manquons de docteurs, les soldats américains les empêchent d'entrer dans Sadr City", a déploré Ali Boustan, directeur des services de santé de Bagdad-Est. Trois employés américains du gouvernement des Etats-Unis ont été grièvement blessés mercredi par un obus de mortier tiré contre la "zone verte", enclave administrative et diplomatique de la capitale, a indiqué une porte-parole de l'ambassade américaine. Dans les quartiers de Karrada et de Risala, toujours dans la capitale, la police a fait état de tirs de mortier qui ont fait respectivement cinq et quatre morts. Selon la police, l'Armée du Mahdi s'est par ailleurs emparée de plusieurs quartiers de Kout, à 170 km au sud de Bagdad. Un témoin a signalé de violents combats près d'un édifice gouvernemental dans le centre. Dix personnes, dont une petite fille, auraient été tuées et 31 blessées dans cette ville. L'opération de l'armée irakienne est la plus vaste jamais lancée sans assistance américaine ou britannique et a de ce fait valeur de test aux yeux de Washington, qui envisage de rapatrier 20.000 soldats, et de Londres, qui a remis l'an dernier aux Irakiens le contrôle de Bassorah. Les affrontements ont repris mercredi dans cinq quartiers de cette ville après une brève accalmie. Des tirs de roquettes et de mortiers visent fréquemment les postes de contrôle de l'armée. Le général Ali Zaidan, qui commande l'offensive, a déclaré à Reuters que ses hommes avaient tué plus de trente activistes au premier jour de combats. Plus de 25 ont été blessés et une cinquantaine ont été capturés, a-t-il ajouté. "L'opération se poursuit et ne s'interrompra pas tant que nous n'aurons pas atteint nos objectifs". Les combats atteignent selon lui "la même ampleur qu'hier". "En ce moment, il y a des tirs nourris et j'ai entendu des explosions. J'ai aussi vu un groupe d'hommes installer des bombes au bord de la route", a déclaré Abbas, un habitant de Bassorah qui n'a accepté de donner que son prénom. Plusieurs obus de mortier se sont abattus sur un poste de police de Bassorah où se trouvaient plusieurs détenus. Trois d'entre eux, ainsi que sept policiers, ont été blessés. Deux groupes chiites rivaux, l'Armée du Mahdi et le Conseil islamique suprême irakien, se disputent le contrôle de Bassorah. Les partisans de Sadr accusent l'armée irakienne et les forces de la coalition de se liguer avec le Conseil contre eux. Dans un communiqué lu mardi, Sadr avait appelé les Irakiens à organiser des sit-in dans l'ensemble du pays et menacé de lancer une "révolte civile" si les attaques des armées irakienne et américaine se poursuivaient. Avec Oualid Ibrahim, Asil Kami, Ahmed Rachid et Peter Graff, version française Gregory Schwartz et Guy Kerivel
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Depuis deux jours, de violents affrontements opposent l'armée irakienne et les milices chiites dans le sud du pays et principalement dans la ville pétrolière de Bassorah où plus de 40 morts et 200 blessés, principalement des civils, ont été comptés, mais également le quartier de Sadr City à Bagdad et les villes de Kout, Diwaniyah et Hilla.
Quatre brigades dont une blindée venue de Bagdad et stationnant dans la région de Bassorah depuis décembre et les forces de polices locales, soit militaires et policiers, appuyées logistiquement par les troupes des États-Unis d'Amérique, sont opposées à une partie de l'Armée du Mehdi forte au total d'environ hommes du chef radical chiite Moqtada Sadr qui ont rompu la trêve unilatérale qu'il avait décidée en août 2007. Le Premier ministre Nouri al-Maliki, qui s'est rendu à Bassorah pour superviser personnellement l'offensive militaire, a lancé un ultimatum de 72 heures aux miliciens chiites pour qu'ils déposent les armes, faute de quoi comme il l'a annoncé dans un communiqué. Un porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur a expliqué que cet ultimatum doit donner la possibilité à de se rendre. Cette opération, baptisée ''la charge du chevalier'', est un test pour le gouvernement de Nouri al-Maliki, au moment où les États-Unis d'Amérique pensent rapatrier des soldats engagés en Irak.
Le jeune chef religieux Moqtada Sadr a demandé, dans un communiqué lu par le chef du bureau politique du mouvement sadriste à Najaf, au Premier ministre de quitter Bassorah tout en désignant une délégation . Dans le même communiqué, il annonce la tenue de différentes manifestations de protestation jeudi dans plusieurs villes du pays au cas où l'offensive des forces gouvernementales se poursuivrait.
Le commandement américain sur place a, pour sa part, appelé mercredi l'Iran à user de son influence pour faire cesser la résistance chiite. En effet, si la grande majorité des partis chiites locaux sont liés à l'Iran d’une façon ou d’une autre, l’Armée du Mehdi semble de plus en plus proche du régime iranien. |
fr | Irak: plus de 50 morts dans les combats, ultimatum de Maliki aux sadristes
BAGDAD (AFP) — Deux jours de combats entre partisans du chef radical chiite Moqtada Sadr et forces irakiennes et américaines ont fait plus de 50 morts, alors que le Premier ministre Nouri al-Maliki a lancé mercredi un ultimatum aux miliciens chiites pour qu'ils déposent les armes.
Dans le même temps, Moqtada Sadr a appelé M. Maliki à négocier pour mettre fin aux affrontements qui ont commencé mardi à Bassorah (550 km au sud de Bagdad) puis gagné Bagdad et d'autres villes irakiennes.
Son mouvement, qui conteste la légitimité du gouvernement Maliki et exige d'être associé plus étroitement aux structures du pouvoir, a annoncé des manifestations jeudi dans la capitale irakienne, notamment.
Au moins 51 personnes ont été tuées depuis mardi dans les affrontements, selon un bilan provisoire établi par l'AFP auprès de différentes sources.
Ces combats, qui touchaient mercredi Bassorah, le quartier de Sadr City (à Bagdad) et les villes de Kout (175 km au sud-est de Bagdad), Diwaniyah (180 km au sud Bagdad) et Hilla (120 km au sud de Bagdad), ont fait également des centaines de blessés. La majorité des victimes sont des civils.
L'opération lancée mardi à Bassorah, principal centre pétrolier du sud de l'Irak, visait à mettre au pas la milice de Moqtada Sadr, l'Armée du Mahdi.
M. Maliki, qui y supervise les opérations militaires, a donné mercredi 72 heures aux miliciens chiites pour déposer les armes.
"S'ils ne déposent pas les armes, la loi sera appliquée", a annoncé le Premier ministre dans un communiqué.
Abdel Karim Khalaf, le porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur, a expliqué devant la presse que M. Maliki voulait donner la possibilité à "ceux qui n'ont pas de sang sur les mains" de se rendre.
Moqtada Sadr a demandé à M. Maliki de quitter Bassorah, selon le chef du bureau politique du mouvement sadriste à Najaf (centre-sud), Liwa Sumaysim. Le jeune chef chiite veut également que le Premier ministre envoie une délégation "pour résoudre la crise".
Liwa Sumaysim a par la suite annoncé que les sadristes organiseraient jeudi des manifestations à Bagdad et Amara (365 km au sud de Bagdad) pour exprimer leur défiance à l'égard du gouvernement Maliki.
Moqtada Sadr, qui respecte depuis fin août 2007 un cessez-le-feu unilatéral, avait menacé de lancer une campagne de protestation à travers le pays si l'offensive des forces gouvernementales se poursuivait.
Sa milice, la plus puissante du pays, s'est abstenue depuis de toute opération contre les armées irakienne et américaine. Celles-ci accusent toutefois des éléments incontrôlés de la milice de poursuivre leurs attaques.
Le commandement américain en Irak a appelé mercredi l'Iran à user de son influence pour stopper les violences à Bassorah.
"Nous aimerions que le gouvernement iranien honore ses engagements en aidant à améliorer la sécurité et la stabilité (de Bassorah), a déclaré le général Kevin Bergner lors d'une conférence de presse à Bagdad.
Bassorah, une ville d'1,5 million d'habitants, et sa province, riche en pétrole et véritable poumon économique du pays, sont l'objet d'une violente concurrence entre factions chiites depuis le retrait à la mi-décembre des forces britanniques qui occupaient cette région stratégique depuis mars 2003.
Dans le même temps, deux soldats américains ont été tués mercredi à Bagdad, a annoncé l'armée américaine, qui n'a pas précisé s'ils étaient morts dans les combats avec les activistes chiites.
Par ailleurs, plusieurs projectiles ont visé la "zone verte", l'enclave fortifiée au centre de Bagdad qui abrite les institutions irakiennes et l'ambassade américaine. Trois responsables américains ont été blessés.
Selon des sources de sécurité irakiennes, un obus qui a explosé à l'extérieur de la zone contre un immeuble d'habitation a également fait un tué et blessé quatre résidents. Deux autres attaques au mortier ont fait cinq morts dans la capitale.
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Depuis deux jours, de violents affrontements opposent l'armée irakienne et les milices chiites dans le sud du pays et principalement dans la ville pétrolière de Bassorah où plus de 40 morts et 200 blessés, principalement des civils, ont été comptés, mais également le quartier de Sadr City à Bagdad et les villes de Kout, Diwaniyah et Hilla.
Quatre brigades dont une blindée venue de Bagdad et stationnant dans la région de Bassorah depuis décembre et les forces de polices locales, soit militaires et policiers, appuyées logistiquement par les troupes des États-Unis d'Amérique, sont opposées à une partie de l'Armée du Mehdi forte au total d'environ hommes du chef radical chiite Moqtada Sadr qui ont rompu la trêve unilatérale qu'il avait décidée en août 2007. Le Premier ministre Nouri al-Maliki, qui s'est rendu à Bassorah pour superviser personnellement l'offensive militaire, a lancé un ultimatum de 72 heures aux miliciens chiites pour qu'ils déposent les armes, faute de quoi comme il l'a annoncé dans un communiqué. Un porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur a expliqué que cet ultimatum doit donner la possibilité à de se rendre. Cette opération, baptisée ''la charge du chevalier'', est un test pour le gouvernement de Nouri al-Maliki, au moment où les États-Unis d'Amérique pensent rapatrier des soldats engagés en Irak.
Le jeune chef religieux Moqtada Sadr a demandé, dans un communiqué lu par le chef du bureau politique du mouvement sadriste à Najaf, au Premier ministre de quitter Bassorah tout en désignant une délégation . Dans le même communiqué, il annonce la tenue de différentes manifestations de protestation jeudi dans plusieurs villes du pays au cas où l'offensive des forces gouvernementales se poursuivrait.
Le commandement américain sur place a, pour sa part, appelé mercredi l'Iran à user de son influence pour faire cesser la résistance chiite. En effet, si la grande majorité des partis chiites locaux sont liés à l'Iran d’une façon ou d’une autre, l’Armée du Mehdi semble de plus en plus proche du régime iranien. |
fr | Les milices chiites ravivent la guerre civile en Irak
JEAN-PIERRE PERRIN
QUOTIDIEN : jeudi 27 mars 2008
Chaos meurtrier à Bassora, le grand port pétrolier du sud, où l’on compte rait jusqu’à 40 morts et 200 blessés. Sanglants affrontements dans plusieurs banlieues de Bagdad, dont Sadr City. Menaces sur la production de pétrole. Risque de fermetures des universités… En quelques jours, la guerre civile a repris dans les zones chiites de l’Irak mettant à mal l’autosatisfaction du commandement américain sur l’amélioration fragile de la situation sécuritaire.
En principe, la trêve unilatérale décidée en août par le jeune religieux chiite Moqtada al-Sadr tient toujours. Elle avait permis de réduire sensiblement le niveau des violences, notamment contre l’US Army, et les généraux américains avaient même félicité le leader radical, qui leur est pourtant hostile. Ces derniers mois, la tension avait peu à peu repris. Rien de comparable, toutefois, avec l’explosion de ces deux derniers jours. Jusqu’à présent, les combats opposaient principalement les milices de Moqtada al-Sadr et celles du Conseil suprême de la révolution islamique en Irak (CSRII) et du Dawa. Les premières, rassemblées dans une structure très lâche, l’Armée du Mehdi, comptent environ 60 000 hommes et sont largement plus combatives que les groupes du CSRII et du Dawa.
Trêve. Cette fois, ce sont les forces de sécurité irakiennes qui affrontent directement l’Armée du Mehdi. C’est même la première fois que celles-ci sont engagées dans une aussi vaste opération, baptisée «la charge du chevalier». C’est donc un test de la première importance pour le gouvernement de Nouri al-Maliki, qui appartient lui-même au Dawa. Si les armées américaine et britannique - les troupes anglaises ont évacué Bassora mi-décembre -, n’interviennent pas directement, elles apportent un soutien logistique aux troupes irakiennes. «Il y a un an, les forces de sécurité irakiennes auraient eu du mal à engager cette action […] et le gouvernement à la mettre sur pied», s’est félicité à Bagdad le général Kevin Bergner, porte-parole de l’armée américaine.
En fait, Al-Maliki est sous pression à l’heure où Washington pense rapatrier 20 000 des 160 000 soldats engagés. Hier, le Premier ministre a lancé un appel aux miliciens de l’Armée du Mehdi, leur garantissant la vie sauve s’ils se rendaient sous soixante-douze heures et s’ils n’avaient pas de sang sur les mains. Mais les partisans de Moqtada ont rejeté l’ultimatum.
Ce qui étonne, c’est ce soudain déferlement de violence alors qu’une trêve était en cours. Certes, ce cessez-le-feu n’a jamais empêché les différentes milices chiites de s’affronter, à coups de kidnappings et d’assassinats, pour le contrôle de la ville de Sinbad le Marin, par laquelle transite 80 % du pétrole irakien. Nouri al-Maliki, qui s’est rendu sur place pour diriger personnellement les opérations, a dénoncé une «brutale campagne accompagnée de contrebande de pétrole, d’armes et de drogues», ajoutant que Bassora était devenue une ville où «les civils n’ont aucune sécurité pour leurs vies et leurs biens». Mais l’ampleur des combats interchiites laisse penser que l’enjeu n’est pas seulement irakien.
Si tous les partis chiites locaux sont liés d’une façon ou d’une autre à Téhéran, l’Armée du Mehdi semble de plus en plus avoir sa préférence, en particulier les branches de Sadr City et Bassora. En outre, Moqtada apparaît plus proche que jamais du régime iranien. Il vient de s’installer dans la cité sainte de Qom, dédaignant Najaf, où il compte pourtant nombre de partisans.
«Nucléaire». «La trêve unilatérale décidée en août par Moqtada semble la contrepartie de la soudaine et inattendue modération des Américains sur le programme nucléaire iranien, telle qu’on a pu le voir dans le récent rapport des agences de sécurité américaines», affirme une source diplomatique occidentale. Depuis, Washington a de nouveau durci le ton à l’égard de Téhéran, ce qui pourrait expliquer pourquoi le cessez-le-feu vient de voler en éclats. | fr | Les installations pétrolières de Bassorah (ici en juin 2007) sont menacées par les combats.
Depuis deux jours, de violents affrontements opposent l'armée irakienne et les milices chiites dans le sud du pays et principalement dans la ville pétrolière de Bassorah où plus de 40 morts et 200 blessés, principalement des civils, ont été comptés, mais également le quartier de Sadr City à Bagdad et les villes de Kout, Diwaniyah et Hilla.
Quatre brigades dont une blindée venue de Bagdad et stationnant dans la région de Bassorah depuis décembre et les forces de polices locales, soit militaires et policiers, appuyées logistiquement par les troupes des États-Unis d'Amérique, sont opposées à une partie de l'Armée du Mehdi forte au total d'environ hommes du chef radical chiite Moqtada Sadr qui ont rompu la trêve unilatérale qu'il avait décidée en août 2007. Le Premier ministre Nouri al-Maliki, qui s'est rendu à Bassorah pour superviser personnellement l'offensive militaire, a lancé un ultimatum de 72 heures aux miliciens chiites pour qu'ils déposent les armes, faute de quoi comme il l'a annoncé dans un communiqué. Un porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur a expliqué que cet ultimatum doit donner la possibilité à de se rendre. Cette opération, baptisée ''la charge du chevalier'', est un test pour le gouvernement de Nouri al-Maliki, au moment où les États-Unis d'Amérique pensent rapatrier des soldats engagés en Irak.
Le jeune chef religieux Moqtada Sadr a demandé, dans un communiqué lu par le chef du bureau politique du mouvement sadriste à Najaf, au Premier ministre de quitter Bassorah tout en désignant une délégation . Dans le même communiqué, il annonce la tenue de différentes manifestations de protestation jeudi dans plusieurs villes du pays au cas où l'offensive des forces gouvernementales se poursuivrait.
Le commandement américain sur place a, pour sa part, appelé mercredi l'Iran à user de son influence pour faire cesser la résistance chiite. En effet, si la grande majorité des partis chiites locaux sont liés à l'Iran d’une façon ou d’une autre, l’Armée du Mehdi semble de plus en plus proche du régime iranien. |
en | The Iraqi military deployed one of its two tank brigades to Basrah, yet this goes unreported. AFP Photo. Click to view.
There are four factors in determining when to transition a province to Iraqi control: the threat, Iraqi Security Forces capability, governance, and politics. The reporting on the turnover of Basrah province addresses three of the four factors in determining PIC; yet the established press leaves out one of the most important changes of the last year.
The reporting on the transition of Basrah province to Provisional Iraqi Control (PIC) has been filled with stories on the influence of the Jaish al Mahdi (the Mahdi Army), the Badr Brigades, various militias, criminals, United Kingdom forces, and politics. But the reporting has omitted a significant development in Basrah, and a crucial element of the story: the greatly expanded Iraqi Army presence.
The security situation in Basrah is certainly in need of being addressed, as Iran's attempts to influence the region, coupled with the extensive militia and criminal activity threatens the government's writ. The Iraqi government has committed significant resources to the southern city. Many of these units have been redeployed from regions where the Sunni insurgency is strongest.
One year ago the Iraqi Army had one brigade in Basrah, and it was reported as corrupt. The 1-10 Motorized Brigade has since been replaced by one of the three best brigades in the Iraqi Army. The 1-10 was sent to Wassit province to break its ties to the militias in Basrah.
The Iraqi Army now has four brigades and an Iraqi Special Operations Forces battalion in Basrah province. And the Iraqi Army is not finished; another brigade for Basrah is forming. The current and future units in Basrah include:
• 3-9 Tank Brigade (deployed from Baghdad to cover until 4-14 is formed)
• 1-14 Motorized Brigade (formerly the 3-8 Brigade from Wassit, replaced the 1-10)
• 2-14 Motorized Brigade (formerly the 5-10 Brigade, formed in May 2007)
• 3-14 Brigade (assembled in November 2007)
• 4-14 Brigade (forming by July 2008)
• Basrah ISOF Battalion (assembled from Anbar/Ninawa/Baghdad in August 2007)
• 14th Division Headquarters elements (diverted from Salahadin 12th Division formation; established Nov. 7, 2007)
The 3-9 Tank Brigade is the one of two tank-equipped Iraqi Army units, and it was temporarily deployed from Baghdad to Basrah. Yet the reporting continues to omit this very important factor.
In addition, the Iraqi National Police has sent two battalions of the 1st National Police Mechanized Brigade to Basrah. These forces are in addition to the Basrah based 2/IV Border Guards Brigade and the Umm Qasr-based Iraqi Marine Battalion.
All of this data is public knowledge and published. When discussing the security situation in Basrah and the transfer of provincial control, the Iraqi government's efforts to buttress the security forces must also be mentioned to tell the full story. | fr | Les installations pétrolières de Bassorah (ici en juin 2007) sont menacées par les combats.
Depuis deux jours, de violents affrontements opposent l'armée irakienne et les milices chiites dans le sud du pays et principalement dans la ville pétrolière de Bassorah où plus de 40 morts et 200 blessés, principalement des civils, ont été comptés, mais également le quartier de Sadr City à Bagdad et les villes de Kout, Diwaniyah et Hilla.
Quatre brigades dont une blindée venue de Bagdad et stationnant dans la région de Bassorah depuis décembre et les forces de polices locales, soit militaires et policiers, appuyées logistiquement par les troupes des États-Unis d'Amérique, sont opposées à une partie de l'Armée du Mehdi forte au total d'environ hommes du chef radical chiite Moqtada Sadr qui ont rompu la trêve unilatérale qu'il avait décidée en août 2007. Le Premier ministre Nouri al-Maliki, qui s'est rendu à Bassorah pour superviser personnellement l'offensive militaire, a lancé un ultimatum de 72 heures aux miliciens chiites pour qu'ils déposent les armes, faute de quoi comme il l'a annoncé dans un communiqué. Un porte-parole du ministère de l'Intérieur a expliqué que cet ultimatum doit donner la possibilité à de se rendre. Cette opération, baptisée ''la charge du chevalier'', est un test pour le gouvernement de Nouri al-Maliki, au moment où les États-Unis d'Amérique pensent rapatrier des soldats engagés en Irak.
Le jeune chef religieux Moqtada Sadr a demandé, dans un communiqué lu par le chef du bureau politique du mouvement sadriste à Najaf, au Premier ministre de quitter Bassorah tout en désignant une délégation . Dans le même communiqué, il annonce la tenue de différentes manifestations de protestation jeudi dans plusieurs villes du pays au cas où l'offensive des forces gouvernementales se poursuivrait.
Le commandement américain sur place a, pour sa part, appelé mercredi l'Iran à user de son influence pour faire cesser la résistance chiite. En effet, si la grande majorité des partis chiites locaux sont liés à l'Iran d’une façon ou d’une autre, l’Armée du Mehdi semble de plus en plus proche du régime iranien. |
pl | Premier Grecji Aleksis Cipras ogłosił w sobotę, że referendum ws. porozumienia z międzynarodowymi kredytodawcami odbędzie się 5 lipca. Wezwał on wszystkich Greków, by kierując się patriotyzmem i dobrem kraju zdecydowali o przyszłości swojej ojczyzny.
Cipras w sobotę w telewizyjnym wystąpieniu do narodu podkreślił, że już za 8 dni wszyscy Grecy w ogólnokrajowym referendum zdecydują, czy przyjąć lub odrzuć plan ratunkowy oferowany przez greckich wierzycieli.
"Grecki rząd został poproszony o zaakceptowanie propozycji, która nakłada na Greków nowe obciążenia, które nie są możliwe do przyjęcia" - powiedział Cipras.
Jak podkreślił, obecnie w rękach wszystkich Greków spoczywa historyczna odpowiedzialność, dotycząca de facto przyszłości całej Grecji. "Ta odpowiedzialność zobowiązuje nas do odpowiedzi (kredytodawcom) na ultimatum w oparciu o suwerenną wolę greckiego narodu" - zaznaczył.
W jego ocenie propozycje greckich wierzycieli "wyraźnie naruszają europejskie zasady i podstawowe prawo do pracy, równości i godności oraz pokazują, że celem niektórych partnerów i instytucji nie było zawarcie korzystnego dla wszystkich stron porozumienia, lecz prawdopodobnie upokorzenie całego narodu greckiego".
Cipras poinformował, że jego rząd na piątkowym nadzwyczajnym posiedzeniu odrzucił ostatnią wersję porozumienia z Komisją Europejską, Europejskim Bankiem Centralnym oraz z Międzynarodowym Funduszem Walutowym. Dodał, że w związku z planowanym na przyszły tydzień referendum poprosi wierzycieli o przedłużenie do tego czasu, wygasającego 30 czerwca porozumienia w sprawie programu pomocowego.
Cipras, który w sobotę ma poprosić grecki parlament o zatwierdzenie referendum oświadczył także, że o decyzji greckiego rządu poinformował już kanclerz Niemiec Angelę Merkel i prezydenta Francji Francois Hollande`a. oraz że wysłał w tej sprawie list do szefa Europejskiego Banku Centralnego Mario Draghiego.
Do odrzucenia w referendum porozumienia z kredytodawcami wezwali w sobotę Greków niektórzy członkowie rządu Aleksisa Ciprasa.
Lider koalicyjnej partii Niezależni Grecy Panos Kammenos zwrócił się do wszystkich rodaków o odrzucenie w referendum obecnego programu pomocowego. "Podobnie jak w 1940 roku, kiedy Grecy postanowili powiedzieć swoje +nie+ obcym wojskom, tak i teraz (...) wzywam wszystkich do udziału w tym wielkim święcie demokracji, jakim jest referendum i do zagłosowania na nie" - apelował Kammenos.
Do udziału w referendum przekonywał także minister ds. rozwoju Grecji Panajotis Lafazanis. "Wszyscy Grecy będą głosować na nie" - powiedział, dodając, że w ten sposób Europa może w końcu usłyszy wolę greckiego narodu.
"Nasi ludzie będą głosować +nie+. To jest bardzo dobra noc, Grecy będą w końcu mogli zdecydować sami o swojej przyszłości" - powiedział z kolei starszy doradca rządu Nikos Pappas.
Przeciwko referendum opowiada się z kolei grecka opozycja, która wezwała Ciprasa by podał się do dymisji i rozpisał nowe wybory. Zdaniem byłego premiera i lidera Nowej Demokracji Antonisa Samarasa obecny rząd doprowadził kraj do całkowitego impasu, który może skończyć się nie tylko wyjściem Grecji ze strefy euro, ale także z Unii Europejskiej.
"Referendum sprowadzać się będzie w zasadzie do odpowiedzi na pytanie, czy Grecja pozostanie w Europie, czy też nie" - podkreślił Samaras.
W ocenie greckich ekspertów decyzja ws. referendum jest dość ryzykowna. "Decyzja ta rodzi kilka pytań. Po pierwsze, czy Grecy nadal będą uważać, że głosując przeciw propozycjom instytucji (europejskich) mają szansę na lepszą ofertę. Po drugie, czy to referendum jest w ogóle możliwe, bowiem konstytucja grecka mówi, że referendum nie może być ogłoszone w sprawach fiskalnych" - napisał na twitterze grecki komentator Jannis Kutsomitis.
Kutsomitis zastanawia się także, czy greckiemu rządowi uda się uzyskać przedłużenie kończącego się programu pomocowego i czy w przypadku odpowiedzi odmownej ze strony wierzycieli referendum będzie dalej miało sens.
Z kolei w ocenie Faisala Islama, dziennikarza greckiej telewizji Sky TV istnieje możliwość, że Niemcy i Francja będą chciały, aby pytanie zadane Grekom w referendum dotyczyło przynależności do strefy euro, a nie przyjęcia propozycji kredytodawców, jak tego chce Cipras.
W sobotę w Brukseli, już po raz piąty w ciągu ostatnich dziewięciu dni, spotkają się w sprawie pomocy dla Grecji ministrowie finansów strefy euro. Warunkiem odblokowania ostatniej transzy pomocy w wysokości 7,2 mld euro jest kompromis w sprawie reform, jakie ma przeprowadzić Grecja. Przed spotkaniem ministrów ma dojść do spotkania greckich negocjatorów z szefem Europejskiego Banku Centralnego. | pl | W sobotę 27 czerwca 2015 roku premier Grecji Aleksis Cipras ogłosił referendum ws. porozumienia z międzynarodowymi kredytodawcami, które odbędzie się 5 lipca. Grecy zdecydują, czy są gotowi wziąć na siebie kolejne cięcia emerytur i podwyższenie podatków, czyli zaakceptować warunki planu ratunkowego oferowanego przez międzynarodowych wierzycieli.
Grecji grozi ''Grexit'', czyli wyjście ze strefy euro i powrót do drachmy, jeśli nie otrzyma nowej pożyczki w wysokości 7,2 mld euro.
Referendum nie będzie dotyczyło pozostania tego kraju w strefie euro, ale kwestii akceptacji warunków programu pomocowego. Premier wezwał wszystkich Greków, by kierując się patriotyzmem i dobrem kraju zdecydowali o przyszłości swojej ojczyzny. Sugestia greckiego lewicowego rządu jest taka, by Grecy dali odpowiedź negatywną. Mieszkańcy tego kraju już masowo wycofują depozyty z bankomatów. Grecji grozi niewypłacalność, czyli bankructwo.
Grecy głosujący w niedzielnym referendum, zaznaczając na karcie do głosowania „Oxi” (Nie) lub „Nai” (Tak), zadecydują czy chcą zagranicznej pomocy mającej ratować kraj przed bankructwem i dalszego zaciskania pasa oraz reform (cięcia budżetowe, ograniczenie wydatków budżetowych).
Od poniedziałku przez tydzień Giełda Papierów Wartościowych w Atenach i banki będą zamknięte.
Próg frekwencji, aby referendum było ważne, wynosi w Grecji 40% uprawnionych do głosowania. Ciekawostką jest fakt że, będzie to pierwsze referendum w Grecji od 41 lat.
Co dalej z Grecją? Czy Grecja nadal będzie w strefie euro po referendum?
* Jeśli w referendum Grecy powiedzą „TAK”, może to oznaczać nowe wybory parlamentarne w Grecji i nową rundę rokowań troiki z Atenami.
* Jeśli w referendum Grecy powiedzą „NIE”, może to oznaczać, że UE może udzielić Atenom kredytów ratunkowych, by uniknąć chaosu.
Powrót do drachmy może oznaczać, że grecka gospodarka odzyskałaby konkurencyjność, wzrost eksportu. Spadłoby bezrobocie a gospodarka mogłaby się rozwijać.
Jedno jest pewne, że bez międzynarodowej pomocy w nadchodzących tygodniach Grecja będzie mieć trudności z obsługą długu z tytułu wykupu obligacji krótkoterminowych, zaś 20 lipca najpewniej nie zdoła spłacić części należności wobec EBC w wysokości 3,5 mld euro. |
en | Tropical Depression ADRIAN Public Advisory Home Fcst/Adv Discussion Maps/Chrts Archive 000 WTPZ31 KNHC 201437 TCPEP1 BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION ADRIAN ADVISORY NUMBER 13 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 8 AM PDT FRI MAY 20 2005 ...ADRIAN DISSIPATING OVER HONDURAS...STILL PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS... AT 8 AM PDT...1500Z...THE CENTER OF TROPICAL DEPRESSION ADRIAN WAS DISSIPATING NEAR LATITUDE 15.0 NORTH... LONGITUDE 87.5 WEST...OR INLAND OVER WESTERN HONDURAS. THE DISSIPATING DEPRESSION IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST NEAR 17 MPH...28 KM/HR...AND THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE TODAY. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS ARE NEAR 30 MPH... 45 KM/HR...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. ESTIMATED MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE IS 1007 MB...29.74 INCHES. ADRIAN IS EXPECTED TO PRODUCE ADDITIONAL RAIN ACCUMULATIONS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES OVER HONDURAS DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. ISOLATED MAXIMUM STORM-TOTAL AMOUNTS OF 20 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS IN ASSOCIATION WITH ADRIAN. REPEATING THE 8 AM PDT POSITION...15.0 N... 87.5 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTHEAST NEAR 17 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS... 30 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...1007 MB. THIS IS THE LAST PUBLIC ADVISORY ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER ON THIS SYSTEM UNLESS REGENERATION OCCURS. FORECASTER KNABB/AVILA $$ | en | Image of Tropical Storm Adrian On May 18, 17:45 UTC; animation.
Tropical Storm Adrian, the first named storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, formed 440 miles (710 km) southwest of Guatemala and El Salvador on Tuesday. The storm is expected to track northeast towards Central America.
The government of El Salvador has upgraded the tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for all of El Salvador. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for the entire Pacific coast of Guatemala. The government of Honduras has issued a tropical storm watch for the Pacific coast of Honduras, including the Gulf of Fonseca.
As of 11 am Pacific Time on Thursday, it was moving northeast at 9 mph (15 km/h) with maximum sustained wind speeds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with gusts at higher speeds. It is expected to strengthen slightly, possibly becoming a minimal hurricane at landfall.
The current location of the center of the storm is 12.6° N, 90.6° W; about 120 miles (195 km) southwest of San Salvador, El Salvador.
Additional strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours. Outer rain-bands containing gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall are already affecting the coastal areas of Guatemala, and should begin affecting El Salvador tonight.
Rainfall accumulation of 6 to 10 inches, with isolated higher amounts of up to 20 inches in the mountains, can be expected in association with Adrian. This system also has the potential to produce torrential rainfall over other portions of Central America during the next few days, triggering flash flooding and mudslides. Storm surge flooding of 2 to 4 feet above normal tide level is possible near and to the east of where the center makes landfall.
Meteorologists expect the storm to be in the Caribbean by Friday. |
en | Southeast News
Experts Predict 70 Percent Above Normal Hurricane Activity
As the season's first tropical storm now brews in the Pacific and is about to cross-over into the southern Gulf of Mexico toward Cuba, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted there will be 12 to 15 tropical storms this season, with seven to nine becoming hurricanes. NOAA predicts hurricane activity will be 70 percent above normal.
According to National Hurricane spokesman Frank Lepore, early projections show the atmosphere is now more conducive for hurricanes.
"A hurricane is a collection of vertical thunderstorms," Lepore said. "The reduced vertical wind sheer in the deep tropics makes the Atlantic more conducive for hurricanes. The Gulf (of Mexico) is equally conducive."
Dr. William Gray, a leading meteorologist with Colorado State University's Tropical Meteorology Project predicted to attendees at the recent Governor's Hurricane Preparedness Conference in Tampa a 73 percent likelihood for a hurricane to hit the Florida's Gulf coast.
In comparison, Florida's eastern coast has a higher probability of hurricane landfalls with an 82 percent probability. Gray also summarizes the possibility for the more dangerous storms in the Gulf and in Florida's eastern coast. In the report, he said there's a greater chance for more dangerous hurricanes to occur on the east coast rather than in the Gulf.
Gray believes that the Category 3 to 5 storms will most likely occur on the east coast.
"It doesn't matter how many hurricanes are projected," Lepore said. "I would say that it doesn't matter what the numbers are. We could have many (hurricanes) that won't create much damage or we could have one that could ruin your year. The objective is to be prepared." | en | Image of Tropical Storm Adrian On May 18, 17:45 UTC; animation.
Tropical Storm Adrian, the first named storm of the 2005 Pacific hurricane season, formed 440 miles (710 km) southwest of Guatemala and El Salvador on Tuesday. The storm is expected to track northeast towards Central America.
The government of El Salvador has upgraded the tropical storm watch to a tropical storm warning and a hurricane watch for all of El Salvador. A tropical storm watch remains in effect for the entire Pacific coast of Guatemala. The government of Honduras has issued a tropical storm watch for the Pacific coast of Honduras, including the Gulf of Fonseca.
As of 11 am Pacific Time on Thursday, it was moving northeast at 9 mph (15 km/h) with maximum sustained wind speeds of 75 mph (120 km/h), with gusts at higher speeds. It is expected to strengthen slightly, possibly becoming a minimal hurricane at landfall.
The current location of the center of the storm is 12.6° N, 90.6° W; about 120 miles (195 km) southwest of San Salvador, El Salvador.
Additional strengthening is expected over the next 24 hours. Outer rain-bands containing gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall are already affecting the coastal areas of Guatemala, and should begin affecting El Salvador tonight.
Rainfall accumulation of 6 to 10 inches, with isolated higher amounts of up to 20 inches in the mountains, can be expected in association with Adrian. This system also has the potential to produce torrential rainfall over other portions of Central America during the next few days, triggering flash flooding and mudslides. Storm surge flooding of 2 to 4 feet above normal tide level is possible near and to the east of where the center makes landfall.
Meteorologists expect the storm to be in the Caribbean by Friday. |
en | Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, co-sponsor of the Senate legislation, said he believed that the president’s actions would give a boost to the Copenhagen talks and help move the Senate bill. He called the decision to declare an American target a “game changer,” domestically and internationally.
“By announcing a provisional target, contingent on the support of Congress, the president has defined a path to an international agreement that challenges the developed and developing nations to fulfill their obligations,” he said. “It lays the groundwork for a broad political consensus at Copenhagen that will strip climate obstructionists here at home of their most persistent charge, that the United States shouldn’t act if other countries won’t join with us.”
But Senator James M. Inhofe, the Senate’s most outspoken skeptic on climate change, said that Mr. Obama’s public pledge would do little to speed an international agreement and foolishly prejudged the outcome of a Senate debate that had barely started. Mr. Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, said that Senate climate legislation was “dying on the vine” and that the Senate would never ratify a treaty that did not require strong emissions reductions from major developing countries.
“The U.S. Senate has made clear on numerous occasions that unilateral action by the United States is unacceptable, because it will harm our economy and have virtually no effect on climate change,” Mr. Inhofe said.
Mr. Obama takes little risk in appearing briefly at the Copenhagen conference because he and other world leaders punctured expectations for the session 10 days ago in a side meeting of leaders of Pacific nations. The leaders agreed that they would work at Copenhagen toward an interim political declaration on climate change that stopped short of a binding international treaty. Delegates are expected to pledge to complete work on a treaty next year.
Mr. Obama came to office promising to end eight years of relative inaction on climate change under the Bush administration, but the inaction of Congress has limited the administration’s ability to negotiate with other nations. At the Kyoto climate conference in 1997, the Clinton administration joined other industrialized nations in pledging to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 5.2 percent by 2012, but Congress refused to ratify the agreement because it made no demands of developing nations.
Many foreign leaders, particularly those in European nations that have been more aggressive in dealing with climate change, have become critical of Mr. Obama’s seeming passivity on the issue. The White House appears to hope that the announcement of the targets and the trip to Copenhagen will quiet some of the dissension and help Mr. Obama re-establish American leadership on what he calls one of the signature issues of the time. | en | Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, taken shortly before he assumed office.
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international climate meeting next month, and is going to offer these figures as an official climate change policy.
Obama has also set interim targets for better intermediate control. These are a 30% cut by 2025 and a 42% cut by 2030. But Obama's climate change speeches aren't going very far: Mr Obama is not planning to be present at the summit during the last days, when the world leaders might most possibly finally make a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
To compare, the European Union speaks about cutting its emissions by 20% cut by 2020 and 80% by 2050. But the starting point of the EU and of most of other nations is 1990, while Obama's numbers are in terms of 2005 emissions. The plans proposed by Obama are with a steeper end compared with EU, thus making a slower start.
'''Emissions cuts targets'''
Year
USA in terms of 2005
USA in terms of 1990
European Union in terms of 1990
2020
17%
4%
20%
2050
83%
80%
80%
Observers say some accumulation effect can be caused by domestic policies, which take long to implement on a proper scale, but then give a faster emissions cut. Such policies can include improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, industries-specific limitations, etc.
The White House announcement also contains the list of US representatives at the Copenhagen conference:
*President Barack Obama
*Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
*Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
*Energy Secretary Steven Chu
*Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
*Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley
*Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren
*Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner
A schedule of US Center presence was made up for certain dates in December, so that the exact ways to achieve the cuts will be discussed. |
en | Barack Obama: cuts not quite what they seem (Image: White House)
President Barack Obama has given a major boost to next month’s UN climate change negotiations in Copenhagen by offering firm targets for cuts in US greenhouse gas emissions. The move, announced today, has been widely welcomed by climate change campaigners. But although they may seem generous, the proposed targets are in fact far from what developing nations and climate scientists have called for.
Obama said the US was prepared to cut its emissions of greenhouse gases by 17 per cent by 2020 and by 83 per cent by 2050 “in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies”.
At first glance, that sounds similar to commitments made by other wealthy nations. The European Union, for instance, is aiming to cut its emissions by 20 per cent cut by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050. But the US president is measuring his cuts against 2005 emissions; most other nations use 1990 as a baseline.
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The difference is subtle but significant: US emissions grew by almost 15 per cent between those dates. Using 1990 as a baseline, Obama’s pledge translates into a cut of around 4 per cent.
That is well short of the 25 to 40 per cent cuts that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says are required from developed nations to avoid the most dangerous consequences of climate change.
More cuts may come
The US may, however, achieve bigger cuts than Obama’s statement makes apparent. It is likely that the pledge relates to a scheme to limit emissions from specific industries, such as the energy sector. Alexia Kelly, a climate policy expert at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC, points out that other domestic policies, such improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, will bring further reductions.
The White House announcement does not say how the cuts will be achieved. The House of Representatives has, however, passed a bill containing similar reductions, and the Senate is considering legislation with a slightly more ambitious target. The presence of those bills will at least allow Obama to point to domestic action when negotiating at Copenhagen. He also has the option of bypassing Congress and imposing cuts through existing legislation, such as the Clean Air Act. “I suspect that it will be a combination of the two,” says Kelly.
Obama’s pledge also contains interim targets for the US: a 30 per cent cut below 2005 levels by 2025 and a 42 per cent cut by 2030. This addresses one major complaint from developing nations, which have been calling for a more detailed reductions timetable for the next few decades.
Will all this add up to enough incentives to bring China and India – two major polluters that have so far resisted calls to regulate their emissions – on board a global deal? “That we don’t know,” says Kelly. With the UN climate negotiations less than a fortnight away, we may not have to wait long to find out. | en | Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, taken shortly before he assumed office.
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international climate meeting next month, and is going to offer these figures as an official climate change policy.
Obama has also set interim targets for better intermediate control. These are a 30% cut by 2025 and a 42% cut by 2030. But Obama's climate change speeches aren't going very far: Mr Obama is not planning to be present at the summit during the last days, when the world leaders might most possibly finally make a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
To compare, the European Union speaks about cutting its emissions by 20% cut by 2020 and 80% by 2050. But the starting point of the EU and of most of other nations is 1990, while Obama's numbers are in terms of 2005 emissions. The plans proposed by Obama are with a steeper end compared with EU, thus making a slower start.
'''Emissions cuts targets'''
Year
USA in terms of 2005
USA in terms of 1990
European Union in terms of 1990
2020
17%
4%
20%
2050
83%
80%
80%
Observers say some accumulation effect can be caused by domestic policies, which take long to implement on a proper scale, but then give a faster emissions cut. Such policies can include improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, industries-specific limitations, etc.
The White House announcement also contains the list of US representatives at the Copenhagen conference:
*President Barack Obama
*Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
*Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
*Energy Secretary Steven Chu
*Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
*Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley
*Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren
*Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner
A schedule of US Center presence was made up for certain dates in December, so that the exact ways to achieve the cuts will be discussed. |
en | US pledges carbon emissions cuts
President Barack Obama is to pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the US in several stages, beginning with a 17% cut by 2020, the White House has said.
The offer will be made at December's UN climate talks in Copenhagen, which Mr Obama will attend.
But he does not plan to be there for the crucial last days, when delegates including other world leaders are hoping to pull together a deal.
The talks aim to draw up a new treaty to supplant the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
UN climate chief Yvo de Boer said his attendance could be vital for a deal.
"The president may regard climate change as a pressing problem, but many Americans don't"
"It's critical that President Obama attends the climate change summit in Copenhagen," he told journalists.
The cuts Mr Obama has proposed are similar to those included in a bill passed by the US House of Representatives in June.
But with legislation currently stuck in the Senate, correspondents say the president will be unable to commit to any of the figures he is proposing at the summit.
So far more than 60 world leaders have said they will attend.
Observers say the presence of such figures as Mr Obama will raise hopes for action on climate change, although the talks are not expected to result in a new treaty.
'Momentum for talks'
Officials said the US would pledge a 17% cut in emissions from 2005 levels by 2020, 30% by 2025, 42% by 2030 and 83% by 2050.
EU - 20% cut from 1990 levels, rising to 30% in the event of a global agreement
Australia - 25% from 2000 levels
Japan - 25% from 1990 levels
Mr Obama will outline a "pathway" towards the US goals at the summit, a White House statement said.
It described the cuts as "a significant contribution to a problem that the US has neglected for too long".
But most other countries' targets are given in comparison with 1990 figures.
BBC environment correspondent Richard Black says that on that basis the US figure amounts to just a few percentage points, as its emissions have risen by about 15% since 1990.
This is much less than the EU's pledge of a 20% cut over the same period, or a 30% cut if there is a global deal; and much less than the 25-40% figure that developing countries are demanding.
The US president will be in the Danish capital on 9 December, a day before receiving his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
But he does not plan to return for the key last stages of the 7-18 December summit.
Major priority
Responding to the announcement, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said: "I welcome that President Obama has committed to come to Copenhagen.
" I'm sure the event in Copenhagen will be beneficial for Planet Earth "
"I have made clear that we need as many world leaders present as possible. I hope that others will follow suit."
Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, the host of the talks, said he hoped Mr Obama could "contribute to an ambitious global deal in Copenhagen".
The announcement was also welcome by environmental group Friends of the Earth.
"Obama's pledge to go to Copenhagen is a welcome and significant development - but he must adopt a 'Yes we can' attitude in the UN climate talks if he is to earn his Nobel prize," spokesman Tom Picken said.
Leaders of United States, Britain, Germany, France, Spain, Australia, Japan, Indonesia and Brazil
Leaders of China and India
"The US is the world's biggest per capita polluter. It has a moral responsibility to take the lead in securing a strong and fair agreement."
The decision follows intense speculation about whether the US president would go at all.
Delegations from 192 countries will be attending the summit.
Leaders saying they will attend include UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva.
Hu Jintao, president of the world's largest polluter, China, is yet to commit to attending.
The US is the second largest polluter after China.
Mr Obama has made climate change a major priority for his administration, after previous incumbents had failed to ratify the Kyoto treaty.
A bill to cap US emissions and establish a national carbon trading scheme is currently stuck in the Senate and is not expected to pass before the end of the year.
But Senator John Kerry, co-sponsor of the Senate bill, said Mr Obama's move could have an impact on domestic politics.
"This could be one hell of a global game changer with big reverberations here at home," he said.
Correspondents say most nations have given up hope of a legally binding treaty because of uncertainty about the US position.
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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites | en | Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, taken shortly before he assumed office.
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international climate meeting next month, and is going to offer these figures as an official climate change policy.
Obama has also set interim targets for better intermediate control. These are a 30% cut by 2025 and a 42% cut by 2030. But Obama's climate change speeches aren't going very far: Mr Obama is not planning to be present at the summit during the last days, when the world leaders might most possibly finally make a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
To compare, the European Union speaks about cutting its emissions by 20% cut by 2020 and 80% by 2050. But the starting point of the EU and of most of other nations is 1990, while Obama's numbers are in terms of 2005 emissions. The plans proposed by Obama are with a steeper end compared with EU, thus making a slower start.
'''Emissions cuts targets'''
Year
USA in terms of 2005
USA in terms of 1990
European Union in terms of 1990
2020
17%
4%
20%
2050
83%
80%
80%
Observers say some accumulation effect can be caused by domestic policies, which take long to implement on a proper scale, but then give a faster emissions cut. Such policies can include improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, industries-specific limitations, etc.
The White House announcement also contains the list of US representatives at the Copenhagen conference:
*President Barack Obama
*Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
*Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
*Energy Secretary Steven Chu
*Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
*Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley
*Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren
*Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner
A schedule of US Center presence was made up for certain dates in December, so that the exact ways to achieve the cuts will be discussed. |
en | The White House Office of the Press Secretary
President to Attend Copenhagen Climate Talks
Administration Announces U.S. Emission Target for Copenhagen
The White House announced today that President Obama will travel to Copenhagen on Dec. 9 to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference, where he is eager to work with the international community to drive progress toward a comprehensive and operational Copenhagen accord. The President has worked steadily on behalf of a positive outcome in Copenhagen throughout the year. Based on the President’s work on climate change over the past 10 months – in the Major Economies Forum, the G20, bilateral discussions and multilateral consultations – and based on progress made in recent, constructive discussions with China and India’s Leaders, the President believes it is possible to reach a meaningful agreement in Copenhagen. The President’s decision to go is a sign of his continuing commitment and leadership to find a global solution to the global threat of climate change, and to lay the foundation for a new, sustainable and prosperous clean energy future.
The White House also announced that, in the context of an overall deal in Copenhagen that includes robust mitigation contributions from China and the other emerging economies, the President is prepared to put on the table a U.S. emissions reduction target in the range of 17% below 2005 levels in 2020 and ultimately in line with final U.S. energy and climate legislation. In light of the President’s goal to reduce emissions 83% by 2050, the expected pathway set forth in this pending legislation would entail a 30% reduction below 2005 levels in 2025 and a 42% reduction below 2005 in 2030. This provisional target is in line with current legislation in both chambers of Congress and demonstrates a significant contribution to a problem that the U.S. has neglected for too long. With less than two weeks to go until the beginning of the Copenhagen conference, it is essential that the countries of the world, led by the major economies, do what it takes to produce a strong, operational agreement that will both launch us on a concerted effort to combat climate change and serve as a stepping stone to a legally binding treaty. The President is working closely with Congress to pass energy and climate legislation as soon as possible.
Underscoring President Obama’s commitment to American leadership on clean energy and combating climate change, the White House also announced today that a host of Cabinet secretaries and other top officials from across the Administration will travel to Copenhagen for the conference. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson are all scheduled to attend, along with Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley, Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren, and Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner.
For the first time, the U.S. delegation will have a U.S. Center at the conference, providing a unique and interactive forum to share our story with the world. In addition to working with other countries to advance American interests, U.S. delegates will keynote a series of events highlighting actions by the Obama Administration to provide domestic and global leadership in the transition to a clean energy economy. Topics will range from energy efficiency investments and global commitments to renewables policy and clean energy jobs. The following keynote events and speakers are currently scheduled:
Wednesday, December 9th: Taking Action at Home, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
Taking Action at Home, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson Thursday, December 10th: New Energy Future: the role of public lands in clean energy production and carbon capture, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
New Energy Future: the role of public lands in clean energy production and carbon capture, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Friday, December 11th: Clean Energy Jobs in a Global Marketplace, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
Clean Energy Jobs in a Global Marketplace, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Monday, December 14th: Leading in Energy Efficiency and Renewables, Energy Secretary Steven Chu
Leading in Energy Efficiency and Renewables, Energy Secretary Steven Chu Tuesday, December 15th: Clean Energy Investments: creating opportunities for rural economies, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
Clean Energy Investments: creating opportunities for rural economies, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Thursday, December 17th: Backing Up International Agreement with Domestic Action, CEQ Chair Nancy Sutley and Assistant to the President Carol Browner
These events will underline the historic progress the Obama Administration has made to address climate change and create a new energy future. In addition to passage of the American Clean Energy and Security Act in the House of Representatives this summer, Administration officials will highlight an impressive resume of American action and accomplishments over the last 10 months, including:
DOMESTIC LEADERSHIP
Recovery Act: The U.S. is investing more than $80 billion in clean energy through its Recovery Act – including the largest-ever investment in renewable energy, which will double our generation of clean renewable energy like wind and solar in three years.
Efficiency Standard for Automobiles: President Obama announced the first ever joint fuel economy/greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks in May. The new standards are projected to save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program with a fuel economy gain averaging more than 5 percent per year and a reduction of approximately 900 million metric tons in greenhouse gas emissions.
Advancing Comprehensive Energy Legislation: Passing comprehensive energy and climate legislation is a top priority for the Administration and significant progress has been made. In June, The U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act that will promote clean energy investments and lower U.S. greenhouse gas emissions more than 80 percent by 2050. The Senate continues to advance their efforts to pass comprehensive legislation and move the U.S. closer to a system of clean energy incentives that create new energy jobs, reduce our dependence on oil, and cut pollution.
Appliance Efficiency Standards: The Obama Administration has forged more stringent energy efficiency standards for commercial and residential appliances, including microwaves, kitchen ranges, dishwashers, lightbulbs and other common appliances. This common sense approach makes improved efficiency a manufacturing requirement for the everyday appliances used in practically every home and business, resulting in a significant reduction in energy use. Altogether, about two dozen new energy efficiency standards will be completed in the next few years.
Offshore Energy Development: Within the Administration’s first 100 days, a new regulatory framework was established to facilitate the development of alternative energy projects in an economic and environmentally sound manner that allows us to tap into the vast energy potential of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). The National Renewable Energy Lab estimates that development of wind energy alone on the OCS may provide an additional 1,900 gigawatts of clean energy to the U.S.
Emissions Inventory Rule: For the first time, the U.S. will catalogue greenhouse gas emissions from large emission sources – an important initial step toward measurable and transparent reductions.
INTERNATIONAL LEADERSHIP | en | Official presidential portrait of Barack Obama, taken shortly before he assumed office.
Barack Obama has set tougher emission targets in a White House speech. He said, the USA intends to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions "in the range of" 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83 percent by 2050. Obama will attend the Copenhagen international climate meeting next month, and is going to offer these figures as an official climate change policy.
Obama has also set interim targets for better intermediate control. These are a 30% cut by 2025 and a 42% cut by 2030. But Obama's climate change speeches aren't going very far: Mr Obama is not planning to be present at the summit during the last days, when the world leaders might most possibly finally make a treaty to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
To compare, the European Union speaks about cutting its emissions by 20% cut by 2020 and 80% by 2050. But the starting point of the EU and of most of other nations is 1990, while Obama's numbers are in terms of 2005 emissions. The plans proposed by Obama are with a steeper end compared with EU, thus making a slower start.
'''Emissions cuts targets'''
Year
USA in terms of 2005
USA in terms of 1990
European Union in terms of 1990
2020
17%
4%
20%
2050
83%
80%
80%
Observers say some accumulation effect can be caused by domestic policies, which take long to implement on a proper scale, but then give a faster emissions cut. Such policies can include improvements in vehicle fuel efficiency, industries-specific limitations, etc.
The White House announcement also contains the list of US representatives at the Copenhagen conference:
*President Barack Obama
*Interior Secretary Ken Salazar
*Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
*Commerce Secretary Gary Locke
*Energy Secretary Steven Chu
*Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson
*Council on Environmental Quality Chair Nancy Sutley
*Office of Science and Technology Policy Director John Holdren
*Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change Carol Browner
A schedule of US Center presence was made up for certain dates in December, so that the exact ways to achieve the cuts will be discussed. |
pl | Informację o śmierci Jana Kobuszewskiego przekazała PAP dyrekcja stołecznego Teatru Kwadrat, który przebywa na gościnnym tournee w Holandii. Smutną wiadomość przekazała też telewizja TVN24.
Agnieszka Osiecka nazywała Jana Kobuszewskiego "zmarnowanym Chaplinem polskiego kina", wielu określało go mianem "największego aktora komediowego w Polsce". Zagrał pamiętnego majstra w kabarecie "Dudek" i przezabawnego Pana Janka w Kabarecie Olgi Lipińskiej.
POLECAMY: Andrzej Duda o śmierci Kobuszewskiego: jakiś ciepły promyk zgasł
Jan Kobuszewski ur. 19 kwietnia w 1934 r. w domu przy ul. Nadwiślańskiej 3 na warszawskim Nowym Bródnie. Jego ojcem był Edward Kobuszewski, a matką - Alina z Kowalskich. Jan miał dwie starsze siostry - urodzoną w 1920 r. Marię i półtora roku młodszą od niej Hannę.
W 1952 r., "świetnie przygotowany ponownie stawił się na egzamin" w warszawskiej PWST i dostał się bez problemu. Studia aktorskie ukończył w 1956 r. W tym samym roku - 21 stycznia - zadebiutował rolą dyplomową Cara Dormindonta w "Żołnierzu i biedzie" Samuela Marszaka na scenie Teatru Młodej Warszawy, w którym występował przez dwa sezony, by następnie na rok przenieść się do Teatru Klasycznego.
Jan Kobuszewski - na deskach teatrów
Kobuszewski przez ponad 20 lat pracował w teatrach dramatycznych: w latach 1958-64 i 1969-75 grał w warszawskim Teatrze Polskim, w okresie 1964-69 występował w Teatrze Narodowym, sezon 1975-76 spędził w Teatrze Nowym w Łodzi.
W 1976 r. - jak się okazało do końca kariery scenicznej w 2013 r. - związał się z Teatrem Kwadrat w Warszawie. Do dokonań Kobuszewskiego na tej scenie należą, m.in.: Rotmistrz w "Damach i huzarach" Aleksandra Fredry (1977), tytułowy "Wstrętny egoista" Francoise Dorin (1977) w jego reżyserii, Człowiek ze sztuki "Czy zna pan Mleczną Drogę" Karola Wittlingera (1979) czy tytułowy "Czarujący łajdak" Pierre'a Chesnota (1985) we własnej reżyserii.
W ostatnich dekadach w Teatrze Kwadrat współpracował m.in. z Marcinem Sławińskim, u którego zagrał Elwooda Dowda w spektaklu "Mój przyjaciel Harvey" (1995, 2006) i Anioła Stróża w "Przyjaznych duszach" Pam Valentine (2008). Wcielił się w postać Spriggsa w "Złodzieju" Erica Chappella w reż. Janusza Majewskiego (2001). W 2003 r. powrócił do repertuaru klasycznego i wystąpił w roli Pantalona w "Słudze dwóch panów" Carla Goldoniego w insc. Waldemara Matuszewskiego.
Wybitny Jan Kobuszewski. Wiele nagród i odznaczeń
Aktor otrzymał wiele odznaczeń. W 1975 r. przyznano mu Złoty Krzyż Zasługi, w 1979 r. - Krzyż Kawalerski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski, a w 1998 r. - Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski (1998). W 2012 r. odznaczono go Krzyżem Komandorskim z Gwiazdą Orderu Odrodzenia Polski "za wybitne zasługi dla kultury polskiej, za osiągnięcia w pracy artystycznej".
W 1981 r. wręczono mu Odznakę Zasłużonego Działacza Kultury, a w 2006 r. - Złoty Medal - Zasłużony Kulturze Gloria Artis. W 1977 r. w jego ręce powędrował Złoty Ekran, a w 2005 r. - SuperWiktor. Rok wcześniej odcisnął też swoją dłoń na Promenadzie Gwiazd w Międzyzdrojach. W 2016 r. Jan Kobuszewski otrzymał Nagrodę im. Cypriana Norwida - "Dzieło Życia", przyznawaną za całokształt twórczości.
(MW) | pl | '''W wieku 85 lat zmarł Jan Kobuszewski, polski aktor filmowy, teatralny i telewizyjny oraz artysta kabaretowy.'''
Zdaniem Agnieszki Osieckiej artysta był „zmarnowanym Chaplinem polskiego kina”. Kobuszewski określany był także „największym aktorem komediowym w Polsce”.
Związany był z Teatrem Kwadrat w Warszawie. To właśnie dyrekcja tego teatru potwierdziła informację o śmierci Kobuszewskiego. |
en | THERE was confusion last night over whether Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa (59) had died in a French hospital.
The reports of his death, it would seem, were premature.
South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki yesterday asked for a minute’s silence for Mwanawasa at a ceremony for those killed in a recent wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa.
In a Reuters report, Mbeki said: "The executive secretary of Sadc called me to say the president of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa, had passed away this morning."
But the foreign affairs department later issued a "clarification":
"The South African Government has been informed that President Mwanawasa has not passed on.
"President Mbeki regrets the misunderstanding; and on behalf of the government and on his own behalf, wishes President Mwanawasa a speedy recovery."
South African radio earlier quoted a spokesman who said he was from Zambia’s High Commission as saying Mwanawasa had died.
Zambia’s Vice-President Rupiah Banda said Mwanawasa had had a "satisfactory night (on Wednesday)" in Paris. He was flown there from Egypt, where he had suffered a stroke on Sunday ahead of an African Union summit.
Mwanawasa has come to international prominence recently for being critical of the violence in Zimbabwe. — BBC News. | en | South African president Thabo Mbeki has been asked for an explanation from Zambia after announcing wrongly that the nation's leader Levy Mwanawasa had died. Mbeki asked for a minute's silence for Mwanawasa during a ceremony in honour of those killed during recent violence against foreigners in South Africa.
Mwanawasa was flown into Paris, France on Sunday for emergency treatment after he suffered a stroke in Egypt before an African Union summit. On Wednesday, the night he was supposed to have died, he in fact had a "satisfactory night" according to Rupiah Banda, Zambia's vice president.
Mbeki said he had been informed of the death by the Southern African Development Community's executive secretary. He has since telephoned Zambia's high commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula, to apologise personally.
Zambian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kabinga Pande has sent a letter to the South African government requesting a full explanation for the misunderstanding. |
en | COTONOU (Reuters) - Benin will vote for a new president on Sunday in a crowded race focused on boosting the flagging economy, though logistical problems may keep hundreds of thousands from casting their ballots. | en | South African president Thabo Mbeki has been asked for an explanation from Zambia after announcing wrongly that the nation's leader Levy Mwanawasa had died. Mbeki asked for a minute's silence for Mwanawasa during a ceremony in honour of those killed during recent violence against foreigners in South Africa.
Mwanawasa was flown into Paris, France on Sunday for emergency treatment after he suffered a stroke in Egypt before an African Union summit. On Wednesday, the night he was supposed to have died, he in fact had a "satisfactory night" according to Rupiah Banda, Zambia's vice president.
Mbeki said he had been informed of the death by the Southern African Development Community's executive secretary. He has since telephoned Zambia's high commissioner to South Africa, Leslie Mbula, to apologise personally.
Zambian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kabinga Pande has sent a letter to the South African government requesting a full explanation for the misunderstanding. |
de | Von Olaf Wedekind und Benjamin Jendro
Straftaten linker Gewalttäter nehmen zu: Im Zeitraum von 2009 bis 2013 gab es insgesamt 1523 Fälle, mehr als doppelt so viele wie von 2003 bis 2008. „Die meisten politisch motivierten Gewaltdelikte kommen aus der linken Szene“, sagt Innensenator Frank Henkel (52, CDU).
Der Verfassungsschutz hat jetzt in einer neuen Studie den linken Durchschnitts-Täter ermittelt, die B.Z. exklusiv vorliegt. Ergebnis: Sie sind männlich, zwischen 21 und 24 Jahre alt, haben trotz mittlerer Reife meist keinen Job – und 92 Prozent von ihnen wohnen noch bei Mutti.
Weitere Fakten über die Täter:
► 873 Verdächtige wurden ermittelt, 84 Prozent Männer, 16 Prozent Frauen. 72 Prozent sind zwischen 18 und 29 Jahren alt, darunter entfallen 35 Prozent auf 21- bis 24-Jährige.
► Neun von zehn gaben bei einer freiwilligen Aussage als Beziehungsstatus ledig an.
► Jeder zweite stammt aus Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg oder Neukölln. 34 Prozent haben mittlere Reife, 29 Prozent Abitur. Jeder dritte ist arbeitslos.
► Einer von zehn hat nachweislich mehr als eine Tat begangen, ein Täter sogar zwölf. Vier von zehn waren bereits vorher straffällig.
Das sind ihre Delikte:
► Bei 95 Prozent der Gewalt-Fälle geht es um Landfriedensbruch, Körperverletzung, Brandstiftung und Widerstand gegen Vollstreckungsbeamte.
► Die meisten werden in Friedrichshain, Kreuzberg und Mitte (58 Prozent) begangen, mehr als die Hälfte im Zusammenhang mit Demonstrationen und Kundgebungen.
► Zwischen 2009 und 2013 verübten linke Täter elf Mordversuche und zwei versuchte Totschlagsdelikte. Neun passierten auf öffentlichen Straßen, 70 Prozent von 18 bis 6 Uhr, mehr als ein Drittel am Sonnabend.
Wer sind ihre Opfer?
► 902 Gewalttaten (59 Prozent) richten sich gegen Personen. Vier von fünf allein gegen Polizisten.
► 15 Prozent gegen Rechtsextreme.
► Bei Gewalt gegen Sachen bleiben Auto-Brandstiftungen mit 62 Prozent das häufigste Delikt. In 58 Fällen wurden Polizeiwagen angezündet. | de | Frank Henkel, Berlins Innensenator
Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat eine neue Studie zu politisch motivierten Gewalttaten aus der linken Szene vorgelegt. Interessant ist dabei das Täterprofil: von 873 Verdächtigen sind 84 Prozent Männer, 72 Prozent sind zwischen 18 und 29 Jahren alt. Der politisch linke Durchschnittstäter ist männlich, 21 bis 24 Jahre alt, und 92 Prozent der Befragten wohnen noch bei den Eltern.
Die Studie trägt den Titel „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2009-2013“, und die Ergebnisse wurden mit der vorhergehenden Studie „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2003 bis 2008“ verglichen. Als Schwerpunkte wurden die Stadtteile Nord-Neukölln, Kreuzberg und nördliches Friedrichshain ausgemacht, in denen viele Linksradikale wohnen und auch Taten verüben. Berlins Innensenator Frank Henkel erklärte dazu: „Diese Untersuchung soll einen Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen Debatte über linke Gewalt liefern.“ Insgesamt wurden 1.523 Delikte ausgewertet. |
de | Nach 2009 veröffentlicht der Berliner Verfassungsschutz zum zweiten Mal eine Studie, die sich empirisch mit politisch links motivierter Gewalt in Berlin auseinandersetzt.
Die Studie untersucht Daten zu Ausmaß und Charakteristika linker Gewalt in Berlin. Dafür wurden 1.523 Delikte ausgewertet, die im Zeitraum vom 1. Januar 2009 bis zum 31. Dezember 2013 von der Polizei als Politisch motivierte Gewaltkriminalität – links eingestuft wurden.
Analysiert werden die Taten, Tatverdächtige und Opfer. Zentrale Ergebnisse werden mit der Vorgängerstudie „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2003 bis 2008“ verglichen sowie Maßnahmen gegen linke Gewalt und Linksextremismus in Berlin aufgezeigt. Methodisch schließt diese Studie an die Studie „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2003 bis 2008“ und die 2014 erschienene Studie „Rechte Gewalt in Berlin 2003 bis 2012“ an.
Linke Gewalt in Berlin hat viele Facetten, deren deliktspezifische, räumliche und zeitliche Schwerpunkte sich verändern. Brandstiftungsdelikte, das Geschehen rund um den 1. Mai oder auch Auseinandersetzungen im Zusammenhang mit der Flüchtlingssituation sind nur drei Beispiele für den Einfluss aktueller Entwicklungen.
Der regionale Schwerpunkt liegt in den Regionen Nord-Neukölln, Kreuzberg und nördliches Friedrichshain, wo verdichtete Räume linker Gewalt existieren, in dem Wohn- und Tatorte der PMK – links mit Wohn- und Trefforten von Linksextremisten korrelieren.
Berlins Innensenator Frank Henkel: „Diese Untersuchung soll einen Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen Debatte über linke Gewalt liefern. Während die Ächtung politisch rechts motivierter Gewalt zu einem gesellschaftlichen Konsens geworden ist, steht eine ähnliche Übereinkunft für linksmotivierte Gewalt nach wie vor aus. Das haben mir auch wieder einige Debatten der vergangenen Tage gezeigt.
Vor dem Hintergrund der steigenden Fallzahlen und zunehmenden Schwere dieser Gewalttaten ist eine solche Übereinkunft allerdings dringend notwendig. Besonders besorgniserregend ist, dass sich immer mehr und schwerere Fälle linker Gewalt auf Polizeibeamte konzentrieren. Wer Gewalt zur Durchsetzung seiner wie auch immer begründeten politischen Vorstellungen anwendet, stellt sich klar außerhalb unseres demokratischen Wertekanons.“ | de | Frank Henkel, Berlins Innensenator
Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz hat eine neue Studie zu politisch motivierten Gewalttaten aus der linken Szene vorgelegt. Interessant ist dabei das Täterprofil: von 873 Verdächtigen sind 84 Prozent Männer, 72 Prozent sind zwischen 18 und 29 Jahren alt. Der politisch linke Durchschnittstäter ist männlich, 21 bis 24 Jahre alt, und 92 Prozent der Befragten wohnen noch bei den Eltern.
Die Studie trägt den Titel „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2009-2013“, und die Ergebnisse wurden mit der vorhergehenden Studie „Linke Gewalt in Berlin 2003 bis 2008“ verglichen. Als Schwerpunkte wurden die Stadtteile Nord-Neukölln, Kreuzberg und nördliches Friedrichshain ausgemacht, in denen viele Linksradikale wohnen und auch Taten verüben. Berlins Innensenator Frank Henkel erklärte dazu: „Diese Untersuchung soll einen Beitrag zur gesellschaftlichen Debatte über linke Gewalt liefern.“ Insgesamt wurden 1.523 Delikte ausgewertet. |
es | El vicepresidente de la Nación y actual titular de la Cámara alta, Julio Cobos, tomó juramento este miércoles a los 24 senadores electos el 23 de octubre.
La Comisión de Asuntos Constitucionales, que casi ni se reunió durante 2011 y cuyo presidente es el senador kirchnerista Nicolás Fernández, había dictaminado el día anterior, de manera favorable, en relación con los pliegos de las 13 caras nuevas y las 11 que lograron la reelección.
Junto con la renovación del tercio del cuerpo, también se eligieron algunas autoridades que conducirán el Senado durante los próximos dos años. Lo más importante –lo confirmó este martes por la tarde parlamentario.com- fue que la legisladora kirchnerista Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich juró como presidenta provisional de la Cámara alta.
Por su parte, el radicalismo continuará con la vicepresidencia del Senado, aunque cambió de manos: en vez del pampeano Juan Carlos Marino, el puesto será ocupado por Gerardo Morales. Además, el jujeño dejó de ser el jefe del bloque, y su lugar será ocupado por el formoseño Luis Petcoff Naidenoff.
En la sesión preparatoria de febrero, el oficialismo recuperará la vicepresidencia primera, que actualmente está en manos del senador del Peronismo Federal Juan Carlos Romero. También se decidirá ese día la vicepresidencia segunda, que la disputarán el Peronismo Federal –Roberto Basualdo ocupa actualmente dicho cargo- y el bloque del Frente Amplio Progresista (FAP), que impulsa a la cordobesa Norma Morandini.
Antes de la jura de los senadores, Aníbal Fernández le confirmó parlamentario.com que presidirá la Comisión de Presupuesto de la Cámara alta. Ante la consulta, el bonaerense dijo: “Voy a la de Presupuesto”.
La jura de los senadores
El proceso se realizó por orden alfabético de las provincias. La primera fue Buenos Aires, con Aníbal Fernández a la cabeza, que juró sin estar acompañado de familiares.
Luego vino el turno de Formosa –estará seis años más representando a dicha provincia, por la UCR, el nuevo jefe de bloque, Luis Petcoff Naidenoff- y de Jujuy, donde juró el gobernador saliente, Walter Barrionuevo.
Todas las miradas –incluidos aplausos previos- estuvieron también en la jura del aliado del kirchnerismo en el Senado Carlos Menem. El ex presidente de la Nación estuvo acompañado por su hija y su nieto. Después se presentaron los nuevos legisladores de Misiones y San Juan.
Curioso fue el cruce de los senadores Daniel Pérsico y Adolfo Rodríguez Saá. Ambos renovaron bancas por San Luis. El primero, por el FpV; el segundo, por el Peronismo Federal. Varias veces discutieron en el recinto. Esta vez hubo un apretón de manos y un beso.
La última provincia fue Santa Cruz, donde los dos senadores electos del kirchnerismo dieron la nota. Pablo González juró por “la memoria de Néstor Carlos Kirchner”, mientras que María Esther Labado lo hizo, además, por “Perón y Eva Perón”.
Senadores que entrarán en la Cámara alta el 10 de diciembre:
-Buenos Aires: Aníbal Fernández y María Laura Leguizamón (FpV); Jaime Linares (FAP).
-San Juan: Ruperto Godoy y Marina Riofrío (FpV); Roberto Basualdo (Peronismo Federal).
-Misiones: Sandra Giménez, Salvador Cabral Arrechea y Juan Manuel Irrazábal (FpV).
-San Luis: Adolfo Rodríguez Saá y Liliana Negre de Alonso (Peronismo Federal): Daniel Pérsico (FpV).
-La Rioja: Carlos Menem e Hilda Aguirre de Soria (el primero continuará siendo aliado del bloque kirchnerista; la segunda directamente se unirá a la bancada oficialista); Teresita Luna (FpV).
-Formosa: José Mayans y Graciela de La Rosa (FpV); Luis Petcoff Naidenoff (UCR).
-Jujuy: Walter Barrionuevo y Liliana Fellner (FpV); Gerardo Morales (UCR).
-Santa Cruz: Pablo González y María Esther Labado (FpV); Alfredo Martínez (UCR). | es | Este miércoles juraron los senadores electos en las elecciones de Argentina del mes pasado. Julio Cobos les tomó juramento, en una ceremonia que duró desde las 11.20 hasta las 12:25.
Juraron: Aníbal Fernández, María Laura Leguizamón y Jaime Linares por Buenos Aires, José Mayans, Graciela de La Ros y Luis Petcoff Naidenoff (quien ademas fue electo como sucesor de Gerardo Morales en la presidencia de la bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical) por Formosa, Walter Barrionuevo, Liliana Fellner y Gerardo Morales por Jujuy, Carlos Menem, Hilda Aguirre de Soria y Teresita Luna por La Rioja, Sandra Giménez, Salvador Cabral Arrechea y Juan Manuel Irrazábal por Misiones, Pablo González, María Esther Labado y Alfredo Martínez por Santa Cruz, Ruperto Godoy, Marina Riofrío y Roberto Basualdo por San Juan, y Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Liliana Teresita Negre de Alonso y Daniel Pérsico por San Luis. Además lo hicieron Inés Blas de Zamora (Catamarca), en reemplazo de la gobernadora electa, Lucía Corpacci, Borello de Nicolini (Córdoba) en reemplazo de Ramón Mestre quien fue electo intendente de la ciudad de Córdoba y Elsa Ruiz Díaz (Entre Ríos) quien reemplaza a Blanca Osuna, que fue electa intendenta de Paraná.
En la sesión especial también fue designada Beatriz Rojkes de Alperovich (Frente para la Victoria) como nueva presidenta provisional, en reemplazo de José Pampuro quien deja el senado. Rojkes de Alperovich podría ser quien le tome juramento a la presidenta de la república, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, el 10 de diciembre. También se definió la vicepresidencia del senado, que ira para el senador Gerardo Morales, jefe de bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical y expresidente del partido, y la compartirá con el actual vicepresidente de la cámara, Juan Carlos Marino, un año cada uno.
Todavía quedarían por definir las vicepresidencia primera y la segunda que se definirían en febrero y podrían ir para el Frente para la Victoria, la primera, y el Peronismo Federal o el Frente Amplio Progresista, que impulsa a Norma Morandini, la segunda. Por ahora, Roberto Basualdo, seguirá provisoriamente como vicepresidente segundo de la cámara hasta febrero.
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Los senadores electos ya prestaron juramento. En la misma sesión especial, fue electa la nueva presidente provisional de la Cámara alta. La flamante designada, Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, dijo que “aún no está definido” si será ella quien tome juramento a Cristina Fernández, en lugar de Julio Cobos.
“Estoy muy feliz, muy emocionada. Tengo gran agradecimiento a la presidenta por haber confiado en mí. Espero estar a la altura de las circunstancias”, dijo Rojkés sobre su designación al llegar al Congreso.
Respecto de la asunción del nuevo período de Cristina Fernández, la tucumana senaló: “Eso no está definido, seguramente me voy a reunir con alguien que me va a indicar”. Luego contó que la noticia de su nuevo cargo fue comunicada por el presidente del bloque Miguel Ángel Pichetto. “En este período la cosa va a ser más fácil porque tenemos mayoría, algunos aliados, y un gobierno consolidado”, consideró Rojkés, y adelanto su posición en torno a uno de los temas que seguro estará en la agenda 2012: “Contrapongo educación al aborto”.
La puntana Liliana Negre de Alonso -una de las legisladoras reelectas- fue la encargada de izar la bandera nacional para dar inicio a la ceremonia. Aníbal Fernández fue el primero en prestar juramento, en lo que puso de nuevo cara a cara a Julio Cobos con una de las principales figuras del Gobierno.
A partir de allí, fueron varias las "perlitas" encontradas: como las juras de las senadoras María Laura Leguizamón (Buenos Aires) y María de La Rosa (Formosa) y el senador Ruperto Godoy (San Juan), todos del Frente para la Victoria. Es que al día de hoy los tres son diputados nacionales (esta tarde deberán participar de la sesión de la Cámara baja) y, según la Constitución, para asumir en una Cámara primero deben renunciar a la otra.
Cuando le hicimos notar esa particularidad, el actual titular de Diputados (y gobernador electo de Jujuy), Eduardo Fellner, dio una explicación técnica: "Sí, juraron hoy, pero para ocupar sus bancas a partir del 10 de diciembre. Lo que pasa que esto (por la ceremonia de esta mañana) se adelantó demasiado", señaló. Y al respecto puso el ejemplo de Walter Barrionuevo: "También juró como senador y es gobernador (de Jujuy) hasta el 10 de diciembre", subrayó. Todo bien: pero los nuevos senadores que siguen siendo diputados hoy ocuparon sus bancas y dieron quórum...
Cuando juró el riojano Carlos Saúl Menem los aplausos fueron más que tibios. El ex presidente estuvo acompañado por su hija Zulemita y el pequeño y muy elegante hijo de ella, quien en todo momento tuvo tomado de la mano a su abuelo senador. Al concluir la jura, Menem saludó a casi todos, pero le pasó por la naríz al gobernador de su provincia, Luis Beder Herrera, sin mirarlo siquiera.
Otra de las "notas" la dio el misisonero Salvador Cabral. Aunque, como la gran mayoría, juró "por Dios y por la Patria", se tomó la licencia de hacer un agregado: "Por la memoria de Juan Domingo Perón y Abelardo Ramos, sí, juro", dijo casi en un grito, ante la pequeña pero sincera ovación de sus allegados.
En plena ceremonia, y cuando el secretario parlamentario Estrada llamó a jurar al bonarense del FAP Jaime Linares, una "camarógrafa" se destacó del resto. La siempre sonriente diputada Margarita Stolbizer decidió inmortalizar ese momento para lo cual comenzó a filmar la escena con su propio celular.
Durante toda la jura, dos senadoras asistieron pacientemente...de pie. La porteña de la CC María Eugenia Estenssoro y la radical mendocina Laura Montero -dos verdaderas damas, ellas-, a falta de escanios, se bancaron la ceremonia paradas. Y no solo eso: al término de la sesión, no se les oyó ningún reproche. Esto último, quizá, para que el oficialismo no diga que la oposición se queja de cualquier cosa. | es | Este miércoles juraron los senadores electos en las elecciones de Argentina del mes pasado. Julio Cobos les tomó juramento, en una ceremonia que duró desde las 11.20 hasta las 12:25.
Juraron: Aníbal Fernández, María Laura Leguizamón y Jaime Linares por Buenos Aires, José Mayans, Graciela de La Ros y Luis Petcoff Naidenoff (quien ademas fue electo como sucesor de Gerardo Morales en la presidencia de la bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical) por Formosa, Walter Barrionuevo, Liliana Fellner y Gerardo Morales por Jujuy, Carlos Menem, Hilda Aguirre de Soria y Teresita Luna por La Rioja, Sandra Giménez, Salvador Cabral Arrechea y Juan Manuel Irrazábal por Misiones, Pablo González, María Esther Labado y Alfredo Martínez por Santa Cruz, Ruperto Godoy, Marina Riofrío y Roberto Basualdo por San Juan, y Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Liliana Teresita Negre de Alonso y Daniel Pérsico por San Luis. Además lo hicieron Inés Blas de Zamora (Catamarca), en reemplazo de la gobernadora electa, Lucía Corpacci, Borello de Nicolini (Córdoba) en reemplazo de Ramón Mestre quien fue electo intendente de la ciudad de Córdoba y Elsa Ruiz Díaz (Entre Ríos) quien reemplaza a Blanca Osuna, que fue electa intendenta de Paraná.
En la sesión especial también fue designada Beatriz Rojkes de Alperovich (Frente para la Victoria) como nueva presidenta provisional, en reemplazo de José Pampuro quien deja el senado. Rojkes de Alperovich podría ser quien le tome juramento a la presidenta de la república, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, el 10 de diciembre. También se definió la vicepresidencia del senado, que ira para el senador Gerardo Morales, jefe de bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical y expresidente del partido, y la compartirá con el actual vicepresidente de la cámara, Juan Carlos Marino, un año cada uno.
Todavía quedarían por definir las vicepresidencia primera y la segunda que se definirían en febrero y podrían ir para el Frente para la Victoria, la primera, y el Peronismo Federal o el Frente Amplio Progresista, que impulsa a Norma Morandini, la segunda. Por ahora, Roberto Basualdo, seguirá provisoriamente como vicepresidente segundo de la cámara hasta febrero.
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es | Este miércoles, junto con los senadores electos, también juraron los legisladores que reemplazarán a los que dejan la Cámara alta por haber obtenido otros cargos. Inés Blas de Zamora estará en el lugar de la gobernadora electa de Catamarca, Lucía Corpacci, que forma parte de la bancada oficialista; Elsa Ruiz Díaz, irá por la futura intendenta de Paraná, Blanca Osuna, también del bloque del Frente para la Victoria (FpV); mientras que Marta Borello de Nicolini reemplazará al intendente electo de la ciudad de Córdoba, el radical Ramón Mestre.
Al término de la jura, Borello de Nicolini señaló a parlamentario.com: “Voy a continuar con la tarea que inició Ramón Mestre como senador y trabajaré con iniciativas que beneficien a la provincia de Córdoba. Además trataré de realizar una tarea de nexo entre las distintas intendencias y los ministerios nacionales”. | es | Este miércoles juraron los senadores electos en las elecciones de Argentina del mes pasado. Julio Cobos les tomó juramento, en una ceremonia que duró desde las 11.20 hasta las 12:25.
Juraron: Aníbal Fernández, María Laura Leguizamón y Jaime Linares por Buenos Aires, José Mayans, Graciela de La Ros y Luis Petcoff Naidenoff (quien ademas fue electo como sucesor de Gerardo Morales en la presidencia de la bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical) por Formosa, Walter Barrionuevo, Liliana Fellner y Gerardo Morales por Jujuy, Carlos Menem, Hilda Aguirre de Soria y Teresita Luna por La Rioja, Sandra Giménez, Salvador Cabral Arrechea y Juan Manuel Irrazábal por Misiones, Pablo González, María Esther Labado y Alfredo Martínez por Santa Cruz, Ruperto Godoy, Marina Riofrío y Roberto Basualdo por San Juan, y Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Liliana Teresita Negre de Alonso y Daniel Pérsico por San Luis. Además lo hicieron Inés Blas de Zamora (Catamarca), en reemplazo de la gobernadora electa, Lucía Corpacci, Borello de Nicolini (Córdoba) en reemplazo de Ramón Mestre quien fue electo intendente de la ciudad de Córdoba y Elsa Ruiz Díaz (Entre Ríos) quien reemplaza a Blanca Osuna, que fue electa intendenta de Paraná.
En la sesión especial también fue designada Beatriz Rojkes de Alperovich (Frente para la Victoria) como nueva presidenta provisional, en reemplazo de José Pampuro quien deja el senado. Rojkes de Alperovich podría ser quien le tome juramento a la presidenta de la república, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, el 10 de diciembre. También se definió la vicepresidencia del senado, que ira para el senador Gerardo Morales, jefe de bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical y expresidente del partido, y la compartirá con el actual vicepresidente de la cámara, Juan Carlos Marino, un año cada uno.
Todavía quedarían por definir las vicepresidencia primera y la segunda que se definirían en febrero y podrían ir para el Frente para la Victoria, la primera, y el Peronismo Federal o el Frente Amplio Progresista, que impulsa a Norma Morandini, la segunda. Por ahora, Roberto Basualdo, seguirá provisoriamente como vicepresidente segundo de la cámara hasta febrero.
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es | Los nuevos senadores -13 reelectos y 11 que estarán por primera vez- juraron hoy en la Cámara Baja ante el vicepresidente Julio Cleto Cobos. También lo hizo Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, esposa del gobernador tucumano, quien será la segunda persona en la sucesión presidencial hasta 2013. En tanto, el senador Roberto Basualdo (San Juan) seguirá como vicepresidente segundo hasta febrero, cuando lo reemplazaría la cordobesa Norma Morandini.
Por su parte, el radicalismo continuará con la vicepresidencia del Senado, aunque cambió de manos: en vez del pampeano Juan Carlos Marino, el puesto será ocupado por Gerardo Morales. Además, el jujeño dejó de ser el jefe del bloque, y su lugar será ocupado por el formoseño Luis Petcoff Naidenoff. En la sesión preparatoria de febrero, el oficialismo recuperará la vicepresidencia primera, que actualmente está en manos del senador del Peronismo Federal Juan Carlos Romero.
Los primeros en prestar juramento fueron los senadores por la provincia de Buenos Aires: Aníbal Fernández y María Laura Leguizamón (Frente para la Victoria), y Jaime Linares (Frente Amplio Progresista). Luego juraron los representantes de Formosa, José Mayans y Graciela de la Rosa (Frente para la Victoria) y Luis Naidenoff (UCR). Por Jujuy, juraron Walter Barrionuevo y Liliana Fellner (Frente para la Victoria), y el actual jefe del bloque radical que renueva su mandato, Gerardo Morales (UCR).
Acompañado de su hija Zulemita y de su nieto Luca, juró también Carlos Menem, quien renueva su mandato. Por La Rioja también juraron las legisladores Hilda Aguirre de Soria (Frente Popular Riojano) y Teresita Luna (Frente para la Victoria).
Por Misiones, juraron Sandra Giménez, quien además de jurar por la Patria y la Constitución nacional lo hizo por su provincia; seguida de Salvador Cabral Arrechea (Frente Renovador de la Concordia) y Juan Manuel Irrazábal (Frente para la Victoria).
Por San Luis, prestaron juramento Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Liliana Negre de Alonso (Compromiso Federal), y Daniel Pérsico (Frente para la Victoria).
Por Santa Cruz, dieron su palabra los legisladores del Frente para la Victoria Pablo González -quien juró también por la memoria de Néstor Kirchner- y María Labado -quien juró por Juan y Eva Perón y por "Kirchner y sus convicciones". Por la minoría de esa provincia juró Alfredo Martínez (UCR), quien renueva su mandato.
Esta mañana, la flamante presidencia provisional del Senado, Beatriz Rojkés de Alperovich, dijo que ayer a la tarde se enteró que Cristina la había elegido para reemplazar a Amado Boudou cuando haga falta. "Me llena de orgullo y sobre todo de agradecimiento a la Dra. Kirchner por haber confiado en mí”, contó.
La senadora, que se convirtió en la primera mujer en ocupar ese puesto clave, señaló que “ofrecemos la incondicionalidad y el compromiso de saber que estas políticas que comenzaron en el 2003, han demostrado ser las mejores para nuestro pueblo. Así que desde un profundo compromiso y agradecimiento a la Dra. Kirchner es que lo que le ofrezco en nombre personal y de mi pueblo que ya lo ha demostrado, es esa profunda incondicionalidad que necesitamos los políticos para poder llevar a cabo nuestras convicciones”.
Respecto de quién le tomará juramento a Cristina y al vicepresidente electo, la senadora por Tucumán aseveró: “Para mí sería un gran honor tomarle juramento a la Presidenta y Amado Boudou, pero la verdad no lo sé. Me encantaría, creo que jamás hubiera soñado con eso”.
Al ingresar a la sesión, el jefe de Gabinete y senador electo Aníbal Fernández, dijo desconocer si va a presidir la comisión de Presupuesto y Hacienda de la Cámara. Y en una de sus originales declaraciones, señaló: "Nunca que toquen el timbre de la política van a caer en un baldío conmigo". | es | Este miércoles juraron los senadores electos en las elecciones de Argentina del mes pasado. Julio Cobos les tomó juramento, en una ceremonia que duró desde las 11.20 hasta las 12:25.
Juraron: Aníbal Fernández, María Laura Leguizamón y Jaime Linares por Buenos Aires, José Mayans, Graciela de La Ros y Luis Petcoff Naidenoff (quien ademas fue electo como sucesor de Gerardo Morales en la presidencia de la bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical) por Formosa, Walter Barrionuevo, Liliana Fellner y Gerardo Morales por Jujuy, Carlos Menem, Hilda Aguirre de Soria y Teresita Luna por La Rioja, Sandra Giménez, Salvador Cabral Arrechea y Juan Manuel Irrazábal por Misiones, Pablo González, María Esther Labado y Alfredo Martínez por Santa Cruz, Ruperto Godoy, Marina Riofrío y Roberto Basualdo por San Juan, y Adolfo Rodríguez Saá, Liliana Teresita Negre de Alonso y Daniel Pérsico por San Luis. Además lo hicieron Inés Blas de Zamora (Catamarca), en reemplazo de la gobernadora electa, Lucía Corpacci, Borello de Nicolini (Córdoba) en reemplazo de Ramón Mestre quien fue electo intendente de la ciudad de Córdoba y Elsa Ruiz Díaz (Entre Ríos) quien reemplaza a Blanca Osuna, que fue electa intendenta de Paraná.
En la sesión especial también fue designada Beatriz Rojkes de Alperovich (Frente para la Victoria) como nueva presidenta provisional, en reemplazo de José Pampuro quien deja el senado. Rojkes de Alperovich podría ser quien le tome juramento a la presidenta de la república, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, el 10 de diciembre. También se definió la vicepresidencia del senado, que ira para el senador Gerardo Morales, jefe de bancada de la Unión Cívica Radical y expresidente del partido, y la compartirá con el actual vicepresidente de la cámara, Juan Carlos Marino, un año cada uno.
Todavía quedarían por definir las vicepresidencia primera y la segunda que se definirían en febrero y podrían ir para el Frente para la Victoria, la primera, y el Peronismo Federal o el Frente Amplio Progresista, que impulsa a Norma Morandini, la segunda. Por ahora, Roberto Basualdo, seguirá provisoriamente como vicepresidente segundo de la cámara hasta febrero.
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en | Greece turns down Finnish firefighting aid package
29.8.2007 at 7:51
The Greek government told the Finnish one on Tuesday that Greece did not need the firefighting helicopters and 25 firefighters that had been offered by Finland to combat the wildfires ravaging the country.
Responding to a request for aid from Greece, Finland had offered three helicopters together with wildfire and rescue professionals.
Greece had stressed in the request that its most pressing need was for heavy water-bombing fixed-wing aircraft, a capability Finland lacks.
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Send feedback on this item to: STT | es | Grecia ha rechazado la oferta de Finlandia para enviar tres helicópteros especializados para incendios y 25 bomberos.
La oferta fue hecha luego de que Grecia pidiera ayuda para apaciguar a las llamas que devoran Grecia.
Grecia además hizo hincapié en que necesitaba aviones con capacidades de bombear agua, instrumentos de los cuales Finlandia carece. Las autoridades griegas añadieron que el equipamiento que Finlandia ofrecía no era adecuada para la tarea por la que se necesitaba.
Ole Norrback, actual embajador finés en Grecia, ha dicho que Finlandia está en una mejor posición para ayudar con la reforestación una vez que se apaguen los incendios. |
en | Greece Turns Down Finnish Fire-Fighting Help Published 28.08.2007, 17.42 (updated 29.08.2007, 10.26) Image: Reuters
Greece has turned down Finland's offer of assistance in the battle against the wildfires on the Peloponnesian peninsula. The Greek Foreign Ministry told Finland on Tuesday that the equipment offered was unsuitable for the task. Greece had made a plea to other EU countries for heavy aircraft to fight the fires. Finland offered three light helicopters and a group of 25 professionals, including wildfire experts.
Greece's Peloponnesian peninsula, south-west of Athens, has been engulfed by flames fuelled by tinder-dry conditions and spread by strong winds.
Finland's Ambassador to Greece, Ole Norrback, said last weekend that Finnish know-how could be of better use in re-foresting the devastated areas.
YLE | es | Grecia ha rechazado la oferta de Finlandia para enviar tres helicópteros especializados para incendios y 25 bomberos.
La oferta fue hecha luego de que Grecia pidiera ayuda para apaciguar a las llamas que devoran Grecia.
Grecia además hizo hincapié en que necesitaba aviones con capacidades de bombear agua, instrumentos de los cuales Finlandia carece. Las autoridades griegas añadieron que el equipamiento que Finlandia ofrecía no era adecuada para la tarea por la que se necesitaba.
Ole Norrback, actual embajador finés en Grecia, ha dicho que Finlandia está en una mejor posición para ayudar con la reforestación una vez que se apaguen los incendios. |
fr | La joueuse de tennis française l'a annoncé ce jeudi au cours d'une conférence de presse
Tauziat : "Mauresmo a apporté beaucoup au tennis"
La Française Amélie Mauresmo, 30 ans, 21e mondiale, a annoncé jeudi qu'elle mettait un terme à sa carrière , au cours de laquelle elle a notamment remporté deux tournois du Grand Chelem à Melbourne et Wimbledon en 2006."Si je vous ai réunis, c'est pour vous annoncer la fin de ma carrière. C'est un peu émouvant. C'est une décision qui a été réfléchie. Il y avait peut-être un peu de lassitude qui s'installait", a déclaré Amélie Mauresmo lors d'une conférence de presse à Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine), avant d'écraser un sanglot."Aujourd'hui, concrètement, je n'ai plus envie d'aller sur le terrain pour m'entraîner. J'ai la chance d'avoir eu une carrière extraordinaire", a-t-elle indiqué.Première joueuse française classée N.1 mondiale (en 2004), Amélie Mauresmo a également remporté le Masters en 2005 et décroché une médaille d'argent aux jeux Olympiques d'Athènes en 2004.Sa dernière apparition sur un court remontait au 2 septembre, lorsqu'elle avait été battue par la 39e mondiale la Canadienne Aleksandra Wozniak (6-4, 6-0) au deuxième tour de l'US Open.Elle avait annoncé début octobre qu'elle mettait fin à sa saison, faisant part de ses doutes quant à une éventuelle reprise, évoquant un manque d'envie."Je sens que j'étais au bout du chemin", a poursuivi Amélie Mauresmo. "Je crois que dans ma tête, c'était déjà arrêté après Wimbledon", où elle fut éliminée en huitième de finale par la Russe Dinara Safina le 29 juin.Elle avait ensuite observé une coupure, jusqu'à la mi-août et la reprise à Toronto (Canada). "Depuis que j'avais repris la tournée américaine, c'était vraiment dur", a-t-elle glissé.Interrogée sur un éventuel retour après une coupure, comme les Belges Justine Henin et Kim Clijsters, elle a répondu: "la vie m'a appris qu'il ne fallait jamais dire jamais, mais au-delà de cela, je n'y crois pas trop. Je ne suis pas là pour dire : 'dans trois mois, je vais repartir comme en 40'"Amélie Mauresmo, qui a amassé plus de 15 millions de dollars de gains en tournois depuis le début de sa carrière, n'a pas précisé ce que serait son avenir. "Le futur n'est pas défini. J'aime bien prendre mon temps. On verra ce qui va se présenter", a-t-elle dit.Elle souhaite cependant faire ses adieux au public : "On verra comment on s'organisera. A Coubertin (Open de Paris du 8 au 14 février), il y aura peut-être quelque chose qui se fera. Mais en tant que joueuse de tennis, je crois que cela ne se fera pas".Amélie Mauresmo, qui se retire avec le plus beau palmarès de l'ère open du tennis français hommes et femmes confondus, a remporté 25 titres sur le circuit WTA depuis ses débuts en 1993, le dernier en 2009 à l'Open de Paris. | fr | Amélie Mauresmo au tournoi de Wimbledon en 2006.
La joueuse de tennis française Amélie Mauresmo a annoncé ce matin qu'elle mettait un terme à sa carrière.
Âgée de 30 ans, elle a remporté 25 tournois en simple, dont 2 tournois du Grand Chelem en 2006 : l'Open d'Australie et Wimbledon. Elle a également gagné la Fed Cup en 2003, ainsi qu'une médaille d'argent aux Jeux olympiques d'Athènes en 2004. Enfin, elle a été numéro un mondiale en 2004 et 2006, pendant 26 semaines au total.
Son dernier match est la défaite concédée 6-4 6-0 face à la canadienne Aleksandra Wozniak au 2 tour de l'US Open en septembre dernier. Elle est actuellement 21 mondiale et numéro 3 française. |
en | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The international community should avoid confrontational rhetoric and deal with Iran's nuclear ambitions with the diplomatic approach used with North Korea, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told CNN in an interview that talk of war could spur Iran to accelerate its nuclear work and fuel tensions that could lead to disaster in the Middle East.
"My fear is that if we continue to escalate from both sides that we will end up into a precipice, we will end up into an abyss," he said.
Iran's critics should "stop spinning and hyping the Iranian issue because that's an issue that could have a major conflagration, and not only regionally but globally," ElBaradei told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer."
Washington announced sanctions on Thursday against more than 20 Iranian companies, banks and individuals as well as the Defense Ministry, hoping to increase pressure on Tehran to stop uranium enrichment.
The sanctions followed a sharpening of rhetoric by the Bush administration on Iran, including a controversial remark by President George W. Bush that a nuclear-armed Iran could lead to World War Three.
Bush has insisted he wants a diplomatic solution, although he has not ruled out military action if all else fails.
"We're committed to a diplomatic process in dealing with Iran," White House spokesman Tony Fratto said on Friday. "We would never take options off the table, but the diplomatic process is what we want to move forward with."
ElBaradei repeated on CNN his earlier remarks that Iran was still years away from having the ability to produce a nuclear weapons and that there was still no evidence Tehran was building a bomb.
"We are working now with Iran to clarify the past and the present, but I have not received any information that there is a complete active nuclear weapon program going on right now," he said.
The international community still had time for "creative diplomacy," said ElBaradei. He contrasted the invasion of Iraq over suspicions of illicit weapons to the regional diplomacy with North Korea that have made tentative progress this year.
"The earlier we go into negotiation, the earlier we follow the North Korean model, the better for everybody," he said.
Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, one of the more hawkish presidential candidates on Iran, backed the Bush administration's tough approach, but said Washington should exhaust all other options.
"Before we continue to talk about the military option, before we really seriously say we're going to use it, then we ought to explore all these other options to try to dissuade them," he told ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos." | fr | Mohamed El Baradei, directeur de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie nucléaire (AIEA), a indiqué dimanche qu'il n'avait pas vu de que l'Iran développe des armes nucléaires.
Mohamed El Baradei a discuté du programme nucléaire iranien lors d'une entrevue accordé à Wolf Blitzer de CNN dimanche. À la question , Mohamed El Baradei a répondu
Les tensions entre les États-Unis et l'Iran se sont accrues récemment, le Président américain George W. Bush a averti de la menace d'une possibilité de si l'Iran développait l'arme nucléaire. Jeudi, les États-Unis ont imposé des nouvelles sanctions à l'Iran afin de les empêcher d'enrichir de l'uranium.
Mohamed El Baradei a recommandé d'entamer des négociations avec l'Iran aussi tôt que possible afin de résoudre le conflit : . |
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Um terremoto de 6,9 graus sacudiu o norte de (ex-), a e , segundo o (''United States Geological Survey'', ''USGS'') às 20:25 hora local (13:55 ). O epicentro situou-se 74 quilômetros a sudeste Mawlaik, perto da fronteira com a e foi sentido na capital de , , a cidade indiana de . Não foram relatados danos ou vítimas.
Vários edifícios foram evacuados durante o terremoto, e o serviço do metrô de Calcutá foi suspenso. O terremoto também foi sentido no , , afirma a agência de notícias . |
es | Un sismo de magnitud 6,9 en la escala de Richter ha sacudido el noroeste de Myanmar (Birmania), a unos 100 kilómetros de la ciudad noroccidental de Monywa, ha reportado el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS).
Según la información preliminar, el epicentro del terremoto se ha registrado este miércoles a las 13:55 (GMT) cerca de la frontera con La India —74 kilómetros al sureste de la localidad birmana de Mawlaik— y a una profundidad de 134,8 kilómetros. No se ha informado de víctimas.
La gente se amontona en la calle en Agartala (La India), donde se ha sentido el terremoto.
Por el momento, no hay más datos sobre daños o víctimas. Los fuertes temblores se han sentido en La India y Bangladés, así como en Katmandú y otras partes de Nepal.
tmv/mla/hnb | pt | Shakemap do Serviço Geológico dos Estados Unidos.
Um terremoto de 6,9 graus sacudiu o norte de (ex-), a e , segundo o (''United States Geological Survey'', ''USGS'') às 20:25 hora local (13:55 ). O epicentro situou-se 74 quilômetros a sudeste Mawlaik, perto da fronteira com a e foi sentido na capital de , , a cidade indiana de . Não foram relatados danos ou vítimas.
Vários edifícios foram evacuados durante o terremoto, e o serviço do metrô de Calcutá foi suspenso. O terremoto também foi sentido no , , afirma a agência de notícias . |
de | Niels Stolberg ist hellwach, seine Augen funkeln, er ist kampfbereit. Das war der Eindruck vor ein paar Tagen. Jetzt hat er erfahren, dass sein Prozess bald beginnt, im Januar schon, und er ist froh darüber: „Die Zeit des Wartens ist vorbei.“ Seit fast fünf Jahren wird gegen ihn ermittelt, die Staatsanwälte haben Anklage erhoben und mussten sich ebenfalls lange gedulden, bis das Gericht nach fast zwei Jahren gründlicher Prüfung endlich so weit war.
Niels Stolberg am Zwischenahner Meer, wo er früher gewohnt hat. Mittlerweile lebt der Ex-Beluga-Chef in Oldenburg und betreibt von dort aus neue Geschäfte. (Krishan Förster)
Seit Donnerstag steht fest, wann die Hauptverhandlung gegen Stolberg und drei weitere Verantwortliche der Beluga-Reederei beginnt. Es ist der 20. Januar, von diesem Tag an muss sich das Quartett vor der Großen Wirtschaftskammer des Landgerichts Bremen wegen Betrugs, Untreue und Kreditbetrugs verantworten. Der Strafrahmen liegt bei bis zu zehn Jahren Gefängnis.
Stolberg sagt, dass er in den vergangenen Jahren durch die Hölle gegangen sei. Von einem Tag zum anderen das geliebte Unternehmen verloren, eine Reederei, die zuletzt mit 72 Schiffen gewirtschaftet hat und in der Schwerlastbranche eine der größten in der Welt war. Die Früchte von 15 Jahren Arbeit zunichtegemacht. Und schlimmer: Stolberg, dieser erfolgreiche Unternehmer und Mäzen, stand wegen der Vorwürfe der Staatsanwaltschaft in der Öffentlichkeit plötzlich als Krimineller da. Die meisten seiner Freunde wollten nichts mehr mit ihm zu tun haben. Er geriet ins Abseits und hatte Mühe, so erzählt er das, trotzdem den Kopf hochzuhalten.
"Ich bin zuversichtlich"
Stolberg verlor sein gesamtes Vermögen, er musste Privatinsolvenz anmelden. Es war die Hölle, das sagt er noch mal, aber wenn man ihn trifft und ihn erlebt, ist ihm die Hölle so schlecht offenbar nicht bekommen. Der Mann sieht gut aus, braun gebrannt und erholt, er wirkt tatendurstig und tut ja auch schon wieder was. Das, was er kann, Geschäfte in seiner alten Branche, Beratertätigkeit. Er spricht von ersten Abschlüssen und will diesen Weg weitergehen: „Ich bin sehr zuversichtlich, dass sich hier noch so einiges bewegen lässt.“
Doch zunächst einmal wird er sich jetzt um seinen Prozess kümmern müssen. Ein Mammutverfahren, für das 56 Verhandlungstage angesetzt sind. Es können auch mehr werden, viel mehr, das kann das Gericht nicht absehen. Mindestens wird aber wohl ein ganzes Jahr vergehen, bis die Urteile gesprochen sind.
Stolberg hat sich Topanwälte ins Boot geholt, die am Donnerstag Optimismus verbreiteten: „Wir sind zuversichtlich, dass sich die Vorwürfe der Anklage vom September 2014 vor Gericht als haltlos erweisen werden“, ließ die Kölner Kanzlei Feigen/Graf verbreiten. Doch wer am Ende recht behält, Anklage oder Verteidigung, können selbst gewiefte Juristen schwer abschätzen. Die Materie ist derart komplex und kompliziert, dass sich drei Richter der Großen Wirtschaftsstrafkammer fast zwei Jahre lang mit nichts anderem beschäftigen konnten. Sie sind mit Anklageschriften konfrontiert, die mehrere Hundert Seiten umfassen und haben selbst bis in die feinsten Verästelungen des Beluga-Imperiums recherchieren müssen, um den Gehalt der Anklagen zu überprüfen, um sie nun „in vollem Umfang“ zuzulassen, wie das Gericht mitteilt.
Stimmen die Vorwürfe, hat Stolberg Banken und Investoren jahrlang an der Nase herumgeführt. Er hat ihnen weisgemacht, dass seine Geschäfte prima laufen, und dass es lohnt, daran teilzuhaben. Die Bilanzen sind demnach aufgepumpt worden, ohne zuletzt noch viel realen Gehalt zu haben. So kam frisches Geld in den Kreislauf, das dringend benötigt wurde, um an der einen und der nächsten Stelle Löcher zu stopfen.
Ein Drama wie bei den Buddenbrooks
Beluga war in den Jahren bis zur Pleite im Jahr 2011 genauso von der Weltwirtschaftskrise betroffen wie die anderen Reedereien. Offiziell wurde aber abgewiegelt. Die Schwerguttransporte auf dem Meer seien ein Spezialgeschäft, und das laufe weiterhin gut, hieß es ein ums andere Mal aus der Firmenzentrale auf dem Teerhof. Stolberg war da längst auf seine Tricks verfallen, wenn die Staatsanwaltschaft mit ihren Anschuldigungen richtig liegt. Klären müssen das die Richter, auch ob der Reeder mit krimineller Energie handelte oder sich möglicherweise verheddert hat, als er retten wollte, was noch zu retten war. Das spräche ihn nicht frei von Schuld, sie würde nur nicht so schwer wiegen.
Stolberg äußert sich nicht zum Prozess und zu den Details der Vorwürfe. Nur dies: „Vieles wird sich im Zuge der Verhandlung relativieren, davon bin ich überzeugt.“ Doch selbst wenn es so sein sollte, sein Lebenswerk, zu dem auch viel soziales Engagement gehörte, ist perdu.
Es ist ein Stoff, aus dem Bücher gemacht sind: Der steile Aufstieg und jähe Absturz eines Unternehmers. Ein Drama wie bei den Buddenbrooks von Thomas Mann, nur dass diese Familie vier Generationen gebraucht hat, bis sie sich zugrunde gewirtschaftet hat. Bei Stolberg waren es nur 15 Jahre.
Eine Zeit, in der er es in Bremen zunächst schwer hatte. Stolberg galt als Emporkömmling, als einer von außen, dem man nicht so recht trauen wollte. Irgendwann wurde er mit seiner Reederei aber so groß, dass niemand mehr an ihm vorbeikam. Er heimste Auszeichnungen ein, wurde Unternehmer des Jahres und erreichte 2008 schließlich den Höhepunkt der gesellschaftlichen Anerkennung. Mehr geht nicht unter den Kaufleuten in Bremen. Stolberg wurde Schaffer bei der Schaffermahlzeit, er hielt bei dem Brudermahl die Rede auf Bundespräsident und Vaterland. Mit hochrotem Kopf und voller Stolz stand er in der Oberen Rathaushalle. Sie hatten ihn aufgenommen, er war dabei. Doch dann kam der Rest der Geschichte. | de | Der großzügige Neubau der ehemals eigenständigen Bremer Landesbank von 2016
Der Gerichtsprozess um den ehemaligen Chef einer Bremer Reederei dauert nun schon zwei Jahre. Der 55jährige Ex-Reeder und drei weitere Manager müssen sich wegen des Verdachts auf Kreditbetrug, Bilanzfälschung, Untreue und Betrug verantworten. Es war bereits im September 2014 zur Anklage geklommen, nachdem zuvor von der Staatsanwaltschaft jahrelang ermittelt worden war. Die Reederei war im Jahr 2011 nach der Weltwirtschaftskrise in Schwierigkeiten geraten, ein neuer Investor war zwar gefunden, doch stellte dieser offenbar überraschende Forderungen in Höhe von über 130 Millionen Euro, so dass die Reederei Insolvenz anmelden musste. Insgesamt fordern die Gläubiger im Insolvenzverfahren rund 2,2 Milliarden Euro.
Gegenwärtig ist wieder die Frage aufgetaucht, inwieweit die Bremer Landesbank sich als Kreditgeber mitschuldig gemacht bzw. den lockeren Umgang mit dem Geld begünstigt hat. Gegenstand der Beweisaufnahme ist ein Revisionsbericht der Bank. Einer der Verteidiger des Reeders fällt jetzt ein vernichtendes Urteil über den Bericht: „Entweder sind die BLB-Prüfer unfähig oder sie halten uns für dumm.“ Die Bremer Landesbank war 2015/2016 selbst in die Krise geraten und wurde im August 2017 mit der Norddeutschen Landesbank (Nord/LB) mit Sitz in Hannover vereinigt. Offenbar hatte die Bank teilweise über 100 Prozent des Gegenwerts der Schiffsneubauten der insolventen Reederei als Kredit gegeben. Nach der Insolvenzeröffnung soll es sogar noch unzulässige Zahlungen an den Reeder seitens der Bank in Millionenhöhe gegeben haben.
Wann und mit welchem Ausgang des Prozesses, der nach Angaben des Hamburger Abendblatts als „einer der größten Wirtschaftsprozesse der Schifffahrtsbranche“ gilt, zu rechnen ist, bleibt vorerst offen. |
de | Spiekeroog – Pinsel und Ölfarben liegen an ihrem Platz. Doch seit Juni vergangenen Jahres wurde im Künstlerhaus Spiekeroog kein einziges Bild mehr gemalt. Das Prestige-Objekt des früheren Beluga-Chefs und Pleite-Reeders Niels Stolberg (51) kommt unter den Hammer.
ZWANGSVERSTEIGERUNG!
Interessenten können im Februar nächsten Jahres im Amtsgericht Wittmund mitbieten. Ob sich ein Käufer findet, steht allerdings in den Sternen. Der Verkehrswert des rund 2500 Quadratmeter großen Gebäude-Komplexes liegt bei 3,2 Millionen Euro. Das ist auch die Summe, die mindestens geboten werden muss.
Die Zwangsversteigerung ist ein weiterer trauriger Höhepunkt der Beluga-Pleite. Dabei fing alles so schön an. Im Juni 2007 wurden auf der Nordsee-Insel mit dem Künstlerhaus ein Treffpunkt für Kulturschaffende und Kunstliebhaber feierlich eröffnet. Das ganze Jahr über boten Künstler, Professoren und Dozenten Seminare an.
Jetzt ist die Zukunft des Künstlerhauses ungewiss. Spiekeroogs Bürgermeister Bernd Fiegenheim: „Wir hatten bei einer Ratssitzung darüber diskutiert, dort Wohnungen einzurichten. Doch unsere Gemeinde hat nicht das Geld, um Stolbergs Gebäude zu kaufen.“
Stolberg wollte sich nicht zu der Zwangsversteigerung äußern. Bei der Beluga-Pleite wird der Erlös seines Künstlerhauses nur ein Tropfen auf den heißen Stein sein. Die Gesamtforderung aller Gläubiger im Insolvenzverfahren liegt bei 2,2 Milliarden Euro.
Mehr aktuelle News aus Bremen und Umgebung lesen Sie hier auf bremen.bild.de. | de | Der großzügige Neubau der ehemals eigenständigen Bremer Landesbank von 2016
Der Gerichtsprozess um den ehemaligen Chef einer Bremer Reederei dauert nun schon zwei Jahre. Der 55jährige Ex-Reeder und drei weitere Manager müssen sich wegen des Verdachts auf Kreditbetrug, Bilanzfälschung, Untreue und Betrug verantworten. Es war bereits im September 2014 zur Anklage geklommen, nachdem zuvor von der Staatsanwaltschaft jahrelang ermittelt worden war. Die Reederei war im Jahr 2011 nach der Weltwirtschaftskrise in Schwierigkeiten geraten, ein neuer Investor war zwar gefunden, doch stellte dieser offenbar überraschende Forderungen in Höhe von über 130 Millionen Euro, so dass die Reederei Insolvenz anmelden musste. Insgesamt fordern die Gläubiger im Insolvenzverfahren rund 2,2 Milliarden Euro.
Gegenwärtig ist wieder die Frage aufgetaucht, inwieweit die Bremer Landesbank sich als Kreditgeber mitschuldig gemacht bzw. den lockeren Umgang mit dem Geld begünstigt hat. Gegenstand der Beweisaufnahme ist ein Revisionsbericht der Bank. Einer der Verteidiger des Reeders fällt jetzt ein vernichtendes Urteil über den Bericht: „Entweder sind die BLB-Prüfer unfähig oder sie halten uns für dumm.“ Die Bremer Landesbank war 2015/2016 selbst in die Krise geraten und wurde im August 2017 mit der Norddeutschen Landesbank (Nord/LB) mit Sitz in Hannover vereinigt. Offenbar hatte die Bank teilweise über 100 Prozent des Gegenwerts der Schiffsneubauten der insolventen Reederei als Kredit gegeben. Nach der Insolvenzeröffnung soll es sogar noch unzulässige Zahlungen an den Reeder seitens der Bank in Millionenhöhe gegeben haben.
Wann und mit welchem Ausgang des Prozesses, der nach Angaben des Hamburger Abendblatts als „einer der größten Wirtschaftsprozesse der Schifffahrtsbranche“ gilt, zu rechnen ist, bleibt vorerst offen. |
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Der Gerichtsprozess um den ehemaligen Chef einer Bremer Reederei dauert nun schon zwei Jahre. Der 55jährige Ex-Reeder und drei weitere Manager müssen sich wegen des Verdachts auf Kreditbetrug, Bilanzfälschung, Untreue und Betrug verantworten. Es war bereits im September 2014 zur Anklage geklommen, nachdem zuvor von der Staatsanwaltschaft jahrelang ermittelt worden war. Die Reederei war im Jahr 2011 nach der Weltwirtschaftskrise in Schwierigkeiten geraten, ein neuer Investor war zwar gefunden, doch stellte dieser offenbar überraschende Forderungen in Höhe von über 130 Millionen Euro, so dass die Reederei Insolvenz anmelden musste. Insgesamt fordern die Gläubiger im Insolvenzverfahren rund 2,2 Milliarden Euro.
Gegenwärtig ist wieder die Frage aufgetaucht, inwieweit die Bremer Landesbank sich als Kreditgeber mitschuldig gemacht bzw. den lockeren Umgang mit dem Geld begünstigt hat. Gegenstand der Beweisaufnahme ist ein Revisionsbericht der Bank. Einer der Verteidiger des Reeders fällt jetzt ein vernichtendes Urteil über den Bericht: „Entweder sind die BLB-Prüfer unfähig oder sie halten uns für dumm.“ Die Bremer Landesbank war 2015/2016 selbst in die Krise geraten und wurde im August 2017 mit der Norddeutschen Landesbank (Nord/LB) mit Sitz in Hannover vereinigt. Offenbar hatte die Bank teilweise über 100 Prozent des Gegenwerts der Schiffsneubauten der insolventen Reederei als Kredit gegeben. Nach der Insolvenzeröffnung soll es sogar noch unzulässige Zahlungen an den Reeder seitens der Bank in Millionenhöhe gegeben haben.
Wann und mit welchem Ausgang des Prozesses, der nach Angaben des Hamburger Abendblatts als „einer der größten Wirtschaftsprozesse der Schifffahrtsbranche“ gilt, zu rechnen ist, bleibt vorerst offen. |
en | Nine dead in Egypt tourist coach inferno
ABU ZINEMA, Egypt (AFP) — At least nine people were killed and 29 injured when a coach carrying Europeans and North Americans overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Thursday, a security official said.
The coach, carrying 40 people, was travelling from the Sinai resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo when it left the road, hit a concrete barrier, rolled over and burst into flames about 70 kilometres (45 miles) south of Suez.
Three of the dead were burnt beyond recognition. An AFP photographer at the scene in Abu Zinema said the mangled wreck was lying right side up in the rocky landscape after being completely gutted by a raging fire.
One of the coach's wheels lay a dozen metres (yards) from the wreck, and skid marks were visible where the coach left the road on a tight bend.
The Egyptian security official said eight Russians and one of two Egyptian drivers had died. But state-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti quoted reports that only two Russians were among the dead.
For its part, Russia's foreign ministry made no mention of fatalities, but said 16 Russians had been hurt. The Egyptian source spoke of only 14 injuries.
In Kiev, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said one Ukrainian woman had died while in Bucharest reports said that a 41-year-old Romanian woman had been killed.
Some of the casualties were taken to Suez hospital, where an official told AFP by telephone that two Britons were "in a serious condition."
In Cairo, a British embassy spokeswoman confirmed that two Britons had been hurt, but added that their injuries were not life threatening.
The Canadian embassy in Cairo said it knew of two injured Canadians.
All tour buses in Egypt have at least one armed policeman on board.
The coach was owned by Azure Travel, Egypt's official MENA news agency said, adding that the accident occurred at about 6:00 am (0300 GMT) as the vehicle was negotiating a sharp bend.
Security and traffic officials, civil defence troops and ambulances all rushed to the scene, MENA added.
Other casualties were taken to hospitals near Sharm, where police prevented journalists and photographers from entering.
Three were in a serious condition and one later died in the hospital, the official said, adding that a Canadian woman also had to have a hand amputated.
Each year about 6,000 people die and 30,000 are hurt in road accidents in Egypt. In March, 23 people were killed when two trucks collided head on.
In February, 29 people were killed in a pile-up on a road south of Cairo in an accident blamed on fog.
Traffic regulations in Egypt are often badly enforced and vehicles poorly maintained. Many coastal and desert roads allow for high speeds, and accidents caused by reckless overtaking are frequent.
Millions of tourists visit the country every year, with their spending accounting for almost 20 percent of foreign currency receipts.
Egypt launched a plan last month aimed at welcoming 14 million tourists by 2011, compared with 11 million in 2007.
The tourism industry has recovered strongly after being hit hard by Islamic militant attacks during the 1990s. However, bomb attacks on Sinai resorts, including Sharm, between 2004 and 2006 left dozens dead and many more wounded.
Copyright © 2013 AFP. All rights reserved. More » | en | Nine people have died in a fiery tourist bus crash in Egypt on Thursday. The bus was carrying 40 North American and European passengers when it crashed in the Sinai peninsula.
The bus left the road when it skidded off a tight bend and struck a concrete barrier, rolling over and catching fire. The bus ended the roll back the right way up and was completely destroyed by the fire. One wheel lay twelve metres from the main wreckage and skid marks were left on the road. The coach had been travelling from a resort at nearby Sharm el-Sheikh to the capital Cairo when it crashed at Abu Zenima, with some reports suggesting the cause was a blowout on a tyre.
According to the Egyptian security official eight Russian nationals were killed, as was one of two drivers on board, both of whom were Egyptian. This was contradicted by Russian state owned service ''RIA Novosti'', which stated just two Russians were among the dead. The Russian foreign ministry only said 16 Russians were injured and none killed, also contradicting the Egyptian security official who said only 14 people were injured in total. The Ukrainian foreign ministry said a Ukrainian woman had been killed and the Romanian foreign ministry said a 41-year-old Romanian woman was amongst the dead. The driver behind the wheel at the time survived the accident.
The crash occurred at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) about 70km (45 miles) from Suez, and many of the injured were rushed to hospital there. Traffic officials, security personnel, civil defence soldiers and ambulances all responded to the crash. In addition, the Azure Travel coach, like all Egyptian tour buses, had at least one armed police officer travelling on board.
Other injured passengers were taken to Sharm. Two Canadians and two British citizens are reported to be amongst the injured. The Brits are in a serious condition and one Canadian woman had her hand amputated. At least one person died in hospital. It is also reported that Italians were injured in the crash.
Road accidents claim around 6,000 lives and injure 30,000 every year in Egypt. This high accident rate is fed by poor maintenance and regulatory enforcement and reckless driving, with many roads allowing high rates of speed to be achieved. A fog-triggered pile-up killed 29 in February, and 23 died in March in a head-on collision between two lorries. |
en | · Passengers jump for their lives after crash in desert · Envoy says two Britons were slightly injured
A tourist bus in Egypt burst into flames after rolling off a desert highway embankment yesterday, killing nine people and injuring about 30, including two British travellers.
The bus, which was carrying about 40 people, overturned on the Sinai peninsula when it was travelling from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo at about 6am local time.
Passengers described how they were forced to jump from the vehicle after it flipped over about 40 miles south-east of the Suez canal. Among the injured were Russians, Romanians, Canadians, Italians, Egyptians and Ukrainians, many of whom suffered burns. They were taken to hospitals near Sharm. One Romanian and one Russian were believed to be among the dead.
The Foreign Office confirmed that two Britons had been on the bus, but neither was seriously hurt. Sandra Palmer, 49, suffered a broken finger, suspected broken ribs, and extensive bruises, while her husband, Philip, 43 suffered cuts and bruises. A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said: "They are receiving consular assistance and both have been visited in hospital."
The driver of the bus described how he lost control of the vehicle on a sharp curve at Abu Zenima. Reports have suggested the incident was caused by a tyre bursting.
Dr Said Issa, head of emergency services in the Sinai, said many of the victims suffered severe burns.
Diana Argentieri, an Italian, said the bus exploded moments after she got away from the wreckage. "The bus was going very fast and the road was in bad condition. We were immediately scared by the speed," she said. Most of the passengers had been sleeping.
"When we woke up the bus was turning upside-down. After that, it was hell," she told the Associated Press from hospital. "It all seems like a nightmare." The bus rolled off the road, down an incline and on to a rocky spur. As she tried to get out, "there was a person on the floor, lying still, and other people bleeding. We wanted to go back in to see if there was still somebody alive, but the bus was on fire."
She had to jump more than three metres to avoid the flames. "We had no choice, so we plucked up our courage and jumped. Immediately after that the bus exploded."
Egypt's official news agency, Mena, said the bus was owned by a company called Azure Travel.
Frances Tuke, a spokeswoman for the UK travel trade organisation Abta, said: "We understand this was a privately sold coach trip and was not part of any UK tour operator programme."
The Foreign Office warns British tourists in travel advice that road accidents are common because of poor vehicle maintenance and speeding drivers.
Last month 23 people were killed when two trucks collided head-on. There have been five serious bus crashes in Egypt since the beginning of 2006, in which 95 people have been killed. | en | Nine people have died in a fiery tourist bus crash in Egypt on Thursday. The bus was carrying 40 North American and European passengers when it crashed in the Sinai peninsula.
The bus left the road when it skidded off a tight bend and struck a concrete barrier, rolling over and catching fire. The bus ended the roll back the right way up and was completely destroyed by the fire. One wheel lay twelve metres from the main wreckage and skid marks were left on the road. The coach had been travelling from a resort at nearby Sharm el-Sheikh to the capital Cairo when it crashed at Abu Zenima, with some reports suggesting the cause was a blowout on a tyre.
According to the Egyptian security official eight Russian nationals were killed, as was one of two drivers on board, both of whom were Egyptian. This was contradicted by Russian state owned service ''RIA Novosti'', which stated just two Russians were among the dead. The Russian foreign ministry only said 16 Russians were injured and none killed, also contradicting the Egyptian security official who said only 14 people were injured in total. The Ukrainian foreign ministry said a Ukrainian woman had been killed and the Romanian foreign ministry said a 41-year-old Romanian woman was amongst the dead. The driver behind the wheel at the time survived the accident.
The crash occurred at 6:00 am (0300 GMT) about 70km (45 miles) from Suez, and many of the injured were rushed to hospital there. Traffic officials, security personnel, civil defence soldiers and ambulances all responded to the crash. In addition, the Azure Travel coach, like all Egyptian tour buses, had at least one armed police officer travelling on board.
Other injured passengers were taken to Sharm. Two Canadians and two British citizens are reported to be amongst the injured. The Brits are in a serious condition and one Canadian woman had her hand amputated. At least one person died in hospital. It is also reported that Italians were injured in the crash.
Road accidents claim around 6,000 lives and injure 30,000 every year in Egypt. This high accident rate is fed by poor maintenance and regulatory enforcement and reckless driving, with many roads allowing high rates of speed to be achieved. A fog-triggered pile-up killed 29 in February, and 23 died in March in a head-on collision between two lorries. |
en | There were conflicting reports about the circumstances: the Americans said they were returning fire from a nearby building and found the two dead men there afterward. However, the Nineveh provincial operations center said that the policemen were at a checkpoint when the Americans suddenly opened fire.
Over all, there seemed much eagerness to vote, but also confusion. Some voters showed up at the polling place closest to their home instead of the one they were assigned to because of the ban on driving. Others were turned away because their names were not on voter rolls.
Voter registration is organized around a national system for delivering food rations, a holdover from the Saddam Hussein era. Voters have to consult two lists to find out if they are registered at a given polling station. First, each person has to find the name of his or her food ration distributor. Then the voter must consult a much larger list of all of the families served by that distributor. If the voter’s name is missing, he or she cannot vote at that station.
Some frustrated Iraqis gave up, while others reported going from center to center before finding the one associated with their distributor.
Nasreen Yousif, a 54-year-old Christian, visited three polling places in the New Baghdad district of the capital but could not find her name at any of them. “Now I am going home,” she said. “Maybe there is a fourth school, but it is too far and I can’t walk any more.”
She added: “It is obviously a mess. If it is not a mess, where is my name?”
The Iraqi government and election officials blamed voters for the confusion. | en | Nouri al-Maliki with then-President George W Bush of America in 2006
Voters in Iraq have gone to the polls today, the first time in four years, to elect provincial councils.
There have been few reports of the violence or intimidation that have marred previous polls, although there has been violence in the run up to the election. A curfew is in place and airports and borders are closed. Security is tight, with the army guarding polling stations. Three mortar shells (or four flash bombs) are reported to have fallen near a polling station in Tikrit, but without causing injuries. A civilian and six policemen were injured by a bomb in Tuz Khurmatu, north of the capital Baghdad.
There are more than 14,000 people standing in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, with 440 seats up for election. The three Kurdish-controlled provinces are not voting and the election in Kirkuk province has been postponed. Provincial councils in the country have a large workforce, meaning that changes of control lead to changes in workforce. This gives winning candidates a lot of power in their local area. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimated that unemployment rates in the country were between 18% and 30% in 2006.
Analysts have said that voters are likely to turn away from religious parties and focus instead on nationalist and secular issues. In previous elections, the Sunni minority in the country had boycotted the polls. Reports say that they are turning out this time, with high turnouts in Sunni-dominated provinces like Anbar, and voting has been extended by an hour to allow more time.
Iraq was a one-party state following a revolution in 1968. Former dictator Saddam Hussein came to power in an internal coup in 1979. He was removed from power in 2003 following the controversial American-led invasion of the country. After the invasion, the economy and civil structure of the country collapsed but now appears to be stabilising, with more areas being returned to local control and plans by new U.S. President Barack Obama for American troops to withdraw. |
en | Iraqis vote in key test of nation's progress
BAGHDAD (AFP) — Millions of Iraqis voted in provincial elections on Saturday in a largely violence-free test for a nation struggling to emerge from years of sectarian strife and to boost its fledgling democracy.
US President Barack Obama hailed the polling as an "important step forward" which "should continue the process of Iraqis taking responsibility for their future."
Security for the country's first ballot since 2005 was extremely tight with Iraqi police and military deployed in force as part of ramped-up measures aimed at preventing militant attacks, and turnout was forecast to be high.
Only a few incidents of violence marred what was an otherwise peaceful vote which ended at 1500 GMT, an hour later than planned.
About 15 million people were eligible to vote to elect councils in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces.
Initial results are expected to start rolling in next week, but the complete tally will take several weeks, Iraq's electoral commission chief Faraj al-Haydari told reporters.
The UN special envoy to Iraq, Staffan de Mistura, described voter turnout as "heavy" but declined to provide exact figures until Sunday. Haydari said the turnout would be announced on Sunday at 1000 GMT.
The turnout is being watched carefully, particularly among minority Sunni Arabs who massively boycotted the last parliamentary elections in 2005, then still angry about the US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
"This is a victory for all the Iraqis," Shiite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said after casting his ballot in the highly fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.
He said an expected high turnout will be an indicator of "the Iraqi people's trust in their government and in the elections" and "proof that the Iraqi people are now living in real security."
Security has much improved in recent months, but insurgents still mount attacks on civilians and security forces, especially in the mainly Sunni Arab areas of Diyala province and the northern city of Mosul.
"The people are afraid to come to vote because of the terrorists, but I came to vote to show to the people that they don't have to be afraid," said Mushtar Jabar, a 32-year-old taxi driver in Baquba, the capital of Diyala.
Sargun Hanna, 53, a Christian in Hamdaniyah, a town near Mosul, said she had not intended to vote but changed her mind.
"I did not intend to go to give my vote, but I came today to send a message to the terrorists who attacked Christians -- we want to tell them that we are citizens of Iraq."
Saturday's election is seen as a key test of Iraq's steadily improving security and political system as Obama looks to redeploy American troops to Afghanistan, with a target withdrawal date of end-2011.
The president "believes that the provincial elections this weekend mark another significant milestone in Iraq's democratic development," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Friday.
The authorities sealed Iraq's borders, closed airports and imposed transport bans and night-time curfews as part of a massive security lockdown for the election.
In the worst incident on Saturday, US soldiers killed two out-of-uniform Iraqi policemen in a shootout shortly before polls opened near Mosul, the American military said.
Six policemen and a civilian were wounded in a bombing in the mainly Shiite Turkmen town of Tuz Khurmatu north of Baghdad, while in Khanaqin in Diyala hundreds of Kurds stormed an election office demanding to vote.
And in the Sunni Arab town of Tikrit, the hometown of executed dictator Saddam, four flash bombs exploded near several polling centres, but police said there were no casualties.
About 800 international observers oversaw the ballot.
More than 14,400 candidates stood for 440 seats in councils, which appoint the provincial governor and oversee finance and reconstruction, with a combined budget of 2.5 billion dollars.
The vote is also seen as a quasi-referendum on Maliki, who has emerged as a stronger leader promoting a secular agenda in response to sectarian strife that tore Iraq apart after the invasion.
Voting did not however take place in the three autonomous Kurdish provinces -- Arbil, Dohuk and Sulaimaniyah -- and polling has been postponed in oil-rich Kirkuk, which the Kurds want to incorporate into their own region. | en | Nouri al-Maliki with then-President George W Bush of America in 2006
Voters in Iraq have gone to the polls today, the first time in four years, to elect provincial councils.
There have been few reports of the violence or intimidation that have marred previous polls, although there has been violence in the run up to the election. A curfew is in place and airports and borders are closed. Security is tight, with the army guarding polling stations. Three mortar shells (or four flash bombs) are reported to have fallen near a polling station in Tikrit, but without causing injuries. A civilian and six policemen were injured by a bomb in Tuz Khurmatu, north of the capital Baghdad.
There are more than 14,000 people standing in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, with 440 seats up for election. The three Kurdish-controlled provinces are not voting and the election in Kirkuk province has been postponed. Provincial councils in the country have a large workforce, meaning that changes of control lead to changes in workforce. This gives winning candidates a lot of power in their local area. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimated that unemployment rates in the country were between 18% and 30% in 2006.
Analysts have said that voters are likely to turn away from religious parties and focus instead on nationalist and secular issues. In previous elections, the Sunni minority in the country had boycotted the polls. Reports say that they are turning out this time, with high turnouts in Sunni-dominated provinces like Anbar, and voting has been extended by an hour to allow more time.
Iraq was a one-party state following a revolution in 1968. Former dictator Saddam Hussein came to power in an internal coup in 1979. He was removed from power in 2003 following the controversial American-led invasion of the country. After the invasion, the economy and civil structure of the country collapsed but now appears to be stabilising, with more areas being returned to local control and plans by new U.S. President Barack Obama for American troops to withdraw. |
en | Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has hailed a largely peaceful vote for new provincial councils across the country as a victory for all Iraqis. Voting was extended by one hour due to a strong turnout, including among Sunni Muslims who boycotted the last polls. The first nationwide vote in four years is seen as a test of stability before a general election due later this year. US President Barack Obama hailed the poll as an "important step forward" for Iraqi self-determination. "I congratulate the people of Iraq on holding significant provincial elections today," he said in a statement. Quasi-referendum Thousands of soldiers and police were deployed around polling stations. The election is also being seen as a quasi-referendum on the leadership of Mr Maliki. "This is a victory for all the Iraqis," he said, after casting his vote in Baghdad's highly-protected Green Zone. He said a high turnout would be an indicator of "the Iraqi people's trust in their government and in the elections" and "proof that the Iraqi people are now living in real security".
This time we won't let those people who have let us down in the past reach power again
Lubna Naji
Medical student In pictures: Iraq's landmark poll
A peaceful vote could also set the stage for further coalition troop withdrawals, says the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad. Up to 15 million Iraqis are eligible to cast votes. The elections are being held in 14 of the country's 18 provinces, with more than 14,000 candidates competing for just 440 seats. There is no voting in the three provinces of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of the north and the ballot has been postponed in oil-rich Kirkuk province. Iraq's provincial councils are responsible for nominating the governors who lead the administration and oversee finance and reconstruction projects. Security tight While the recent level of violence around Iraq is significantly lower than in past years, a major security operation took place across the country. Iraq's international borders were shut, traffic bans were put in place across Baghdad and major cities, and curfews introduced. Hundreds of women, including teachers and civic workers, were also recruited to help search women voters after a rise in female suicide bombers last year, according to the Associated Press. Voters had to pass through stringent security checks to reach the polling stations, which were mostly set up in schools, our correspondent says. IRAQI ELECTIONS 2003: US appoints Governing Council 2004: Governing Council elects interim government Aug 2004: National conference elects interim national assembly Jan 2005: First general elections for transitional national assembly and provincial councils - Sunnis boycott vote Dec 2005: General elections for first full-term government and parliament Jan 2009: Elections for provincial councils - key test of security gains Late 2009: General elections due Vote could mark Iraq turning point Iraq voices: provincial elections Iraq: Key facts and figures
Despite warnings from Iraqi and US military commanders that al-Qaeda posed a threat to the elections, there were relatively few incidents reported. As voting got under way, several mortar rounds landed near polling stations in Tikrit, hometown of late ruler Saddam Hussein, but no casualties were reported. Associated Press news agency reported a shooting incident at a polling station in Baghdad, but it was unclear if one man had been killed or two injured. There were also reports that a number of people were not listed on voter rolls, preventing them from casting ballots. Hundreds of international observers are monitoring the vote, as well as thousands of local observers from the various political parties. After a slow start to voting, the pace picked up and there was a holiday atmosphere among voters walking to the polling stations, our correspondent says. "People here are so excited by the feeling that their vote can make a difference," Lubna Naji, a Baghdad medical student, told the BBC News website. She added that people knew better who to vote for than in 2005: "This time we know who cares for Iraq and its people and who only cares for their own interests and benefit. "This time we won't let those people who have let us down in the past reach power again." Sunni participation The turnout was reported to be brisk even in Sunni areas. The head of the Iraqi electoral commission in Anbar province - a centre of the Sunni resistance to the US occupation - said he was expecting a 60% turnout. Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Fewer than 2% voted in the 2005 election, with the result that Shia and Kurdish parties took control of parliament. Some Sunnis, like Khaled al-Azemi, said the boycott last time had been a mistake. "We lost a lot because we didn't vote and we saw the result - sectarian violence" he told the BBC. "That's why we want to vote now to avoid the mistakes of the past." The drawing of alienated Sunnis back into the political arena is one of the big changes these elections will crystallise, the BBC's Jim Muir reports from Baghdad. On the Shia side, the results will also be closely watched amid signs that many voters intend to turn away from the big religious factions and towards nationalist or secular ones. Did you cast your vote in Iraq today? What are your hopes for your ballot? If you are in Iraq, tell us about your voting experience by filling in the form below. Name
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StumbleUpon What are these? E-mail this to a friend Printable version | en | Nouri al-Maliki with then-President George W Bush of America in 2006
Voters in Iraq have gone to the polls today, the first time in four years, to elect provincial councils.
There have been few reports of the violence or intimidation that have marred previous polls, although there has been violence in the run up to the election. A curfew is in place and airports and borders are closed. Security is tight, with the army guarding polling stations. Three mortar shells (or four flash bombs) are reported to have fallen near a polling station in Tikrit, but without causing injuries. A civilian and six policemen were injured by a bomb in Tuz Khurmatu, north of the capital Baghdad.
There are more than 14,000 people standing in 14 of Iraq's 18 provinces, with 440 seats up for election. The three Kurdish-controlled provinces are not voting and the election in Kirkuk province has been postponed. Provincial councils in the country have a large workforce, meaning that changes of control lead to changes in workforce. This gives winning candidates a lot of power in their local area. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimated that unemployment rates in the country were between 18% and 30% in 2006.
Analysts have said that voters are likely to turn away from religious parties and focus instead on nationalist and secular issues. In previous elections, the Sunni minority in the country had boycotted the polls. Reports say that they are turning out this time, with high turnouts in Sunni-dominated provinces like Anbar, and voting has been extended by an hour to allow more time.
Iraq was a one-party state following a revolution in 1968. Former dictator Saddam Hussein came to power in an internal coup in 1979. He was removed from power in 2003 following the controversial American-led invasion of the country. After the invasion, the economy and civil structure of the country collapsed but now appears to be stabilising, with more areas being returned to local control and plans by new U.S. President Barack Obama for American troops to withdraw. |
pl | 1 seria mieszanego konkursu P¦ zaczęła się od zawodniczek. Z 20 belki znakomicie spisała się 18-latka z Lillehammer - Maren Lundby 101,5 metra. Norwegia objęła prowadzenie. NieĽle skakały też Seifriedsberger (94 m), Francuzka Julia Clair i Amerykanka Lindsey Van (po 93,5 m).
Wyniki po 1 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 126.9 2 Austria 123.6 3 USA 119.0 4 Włochy 117.2 5 Francja 113.3 6 Niemcy 113.0 7 Japonia 110.6 8 Słowenia 106.3 9 Finlandia 103.4 10 Kanada 100.3 11 Szwajcaria 100.0 12 Czechy 87.1 13 Rosja 80.2
Wyniki po 2 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 250.3 2 Austria 242.2 3 Japonia 236.2 4 Niemcy 232.7 5 Szwajcaria 220.3 6 USA 216.0 7 Finlandia 213.5 8 Francja 204.4 9 Słowenia 204.3 10 Włochy 202.2 11 Czechy 197.2 12 Rosja 179.5 13 Kanada 100.3
Wyniki po 3 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Japonia 377.4 2 Austria 371.4 3 Norwegia 370.7 4 Włochy 332.9 5 USA 323.1 6 Słowenia 320.2 7 Francja 314.5 8 Szwajcaria 300.6 9 Niemcy 296.6 10 Czechy 291.1 11 Finlandia 288.9 12 Rosja 266.9 13 Kanada 206.6
Wyniki po I serii kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 504.2 2 Japonia 499.2 3 Włochy 444.2 4 Słowenia 443.3 5 Niemcy 431.2 6 Szwajcaria 426.6 7 Czechy 424.3 8 USA 420.3 9 Francja 417.5 10 Finlandia 393.8 11 Rosja 377.4 12 Austria 358.9 13 Kanada 305.2
Wyniki po 5 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 614.6 2 Japonia 596.2 3 Słowenia 554.7 4 Włochy 546.5 5 Niemcy 541.3 6 USA 535.6 7 Szwajcaria 532.4 8 Czechy 520.7 9 Francja 417.5 10 Finlandia 393.8 11 Rosja 377.4 12 Austria 358.9 13 Kanada 305.2
Wyniki po 6 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 748.1 2 Japonia 717.7 3 Słowenia 666.5 4 Niemcy 656.1 5 Włochy 654.7 6 Szwajcaria 642.6 7 USA 637.0 8 Czechy 630.6 9 Francja 417.5 10 Finlandia 393.8 11 Rosja 377.4 12 Austria 358.9 13 Kanada 305.2
Wyniki po 7 kolejce kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 849.6 2 Japonia 842.2 3 Włochy 790.2 4 USA 764.0 5 Słowenia 757.7 6 Niemcy 748.4 7 Czechy 735.4 8 Szwajcaria 710.9 9 Francja 417.5 10 Finlandia 393.8 11 Rosja 377.4 12 Austria 358.9 13 Kanada 305.2
Wyniki końcowe kraj punkty 1 Norwegia 983.1 2 Japonia 966.0 3 Włochy 899.0 4 Niemcy 875.7 5 USA 869.9 6 Czechy 849.1 7 Słowenia 836.9 8 Szwajcaria 834.3 9 Francja 417.5 10 Finlandia 393.8 11 Rosja 377.4 12 Austria 358.9 13 Kanada 305.2
Nieoficjalne wyniki indywidualne
Wyniki końcowe zawodnik kraj odl. 1 odl. 2 punkty 1 Anders Bardal 101.5 99.0 267.0 2 Evelyn Insam 101.5 102.5 266.2 3 Sara Takanashi 100.0 92.0 265.7 4 Severin Freund 101.5 96.5 261.9 5 Tom Hilde 88.5 99.5 256.9 6 Simon Ammann 97.5 95.0 249.4 7 Yuta Watase 95.5 94.0 247.1 8 Lukas Hlava 102.5 90.5 246.9 9 Taku Takeuchi 93.5 100.0 245.6 10 Maren Lundby 101.5 92.0 237.3 11 Richard Freitag 95.5 91.5 234.5 12 Lindsey Van 93.5 92.0 234.3 13 Sarah Hendrickson 86.0 96.5 234.1 14 Gregor Deschwanden 96.5 90.5 230.5 15 Ulrike Graessler 89.0 88.5 223.1 16 Anette Sagen 92.5 97.5 221.9 17 Sebastian Colloredo 92.5 98.5 220.1 18 Roman Koudelka 88.5 87.5 220.0 19 Elena Runggaldier 91.0 85.5 219.5 20 Maja Vtic 85.0 89.5 217.7 21 Matjaz Pungertar 82.0 92.0 209.8 22 Yuki Ito 88.0 83.5 207.6 23 Eva Logar 93.5 83.0 207.1 24 Bigna Windmueller 84.5 88.0 205.8 25 Peter Frenette 83.0 87.5 203.1 26 Peter Prevc 95.0 76.5 202.3 27 Michaela Dolezelova 83.5 86.0 198.7 28 Anders Johnson 83.5 84.0 198.4 29 Andrea Morassi 84.0 85.5 193.2 30 Vladena Pustkova 79.5 84.5 183.5 31 Carina Vogt 68.0 82.0 156.2 32 Sabrina Windmueller 79.5 71.0 148.6 33 Daniela Iraschko 98.5 129.2 34 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger 94.0 123.6 35 Julia Clair 93.5 113.3 36 Dimitry Vassiliev 89.5 110.5 37 Coline Mattel 93.0 110.1 Sami Niemi 89.0 110.1 39 Taylor Henrich 87.0 106.3 40 Gregor Schlierenzauer 84.5 106.1 41 Janne Happonen 84.5 104.9 42 Julia Kykkänen 85.0 103.4 43 Emmanuel Chedal 84.0 103.0 44 Alexandra Pretorius 84.0 100.3 45 Anton Kalinitschenko 83.0 99.3 46 Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes 81.5 98.6 47 Ronan Lamy Chappuis 80.0 91.1 48 Irina Avvakumova 81.0 87.4 49 Anastasiya Gladysheva 74.0 80.2 50 Jenny Rautionaho 72.5 75.4 51 Andreas Kofler 93.0 0.0 Matthew Rowley 73.5 0.0
Do 12 belki obniżono rozbieg przed skokami panów. Tutaj dobre skoki oddali: Deschwanden 96,5 m, Watase 95,5 m i Freitag 95,5 m. Jednak Norwegia utrzymała prowadzenie - Tom Hilde poleciał na 88,5 metra, ale dostał aż +13 pkt. za niekorzystny wiatr.Kolejne panie znów miały wysok±, tym razem 19. belkę. Niezły skok, choć prawie podparty, uzyskała Coline Mattel. Francuska poleciała na 93 metry. Jednak dużo lepiej zaprezentowała się Włoszka Evelyn Insam - aż 101,5 metra i Włochy znów były lepsze od Francji. Udało się też wyprzedzić Szwajcarię, gdzie siosty Windmueller nie dopasowały się do wysokiej dyspozycji Deschwandena.Form± nie błysnęła Sarah Hendrickson. Amerykanka poleciałan na 86 metr, co nie dało im lepszego wyniku od Włoch. Znacznie lepiej poleciała Takanashi - 100 metrów. Był to rewelacyjny wynik i Japończycy objęli prowadzenie z ogromn± przewag±. Udało się też wyprzedzić Norwegię (Sagen 92,5 m) i Niemcy (fatalny wynik Cariny Vogt - 68 metrów). Daniela Iraschko stanęła na wysoko¶ci zadania szybuj±c na 98,5 metra. Mimo tego Austria była za Japoni±.Ostatnia odsłona odbyła się z 12. rozbiegu. Niemcy musieli walczyć o awans, a wydawało się, że s± jednymi z faworytów.W międzyczasie okazało się też, że Andreas Kofler tak jak Matthew Rowley zostali zdyskwalifikowani za zły kombinezon. Austriacy tak jak Niemcy stracili szanse na zwycięstwo!Tymczasem Simon Ammann uzyskał 97,5 metra i dał Szwajcarii dobr± pozycję do walik w II serii. Jeszcze lepiej spisał się zwycięzca kwalifikacji - Lukas Hlava. 102,5 metra dały Czechom awans do finałowej serii.Spokojny Takeuchi poleciał na 93,5 m, a Anders Bardal uzyskał 101,5 i to gospodarze wrócili na pozycję lidera.Taki sam wynik jak Bardal, uzyskał Freund i Niemcy znaleĽli się w ¶rodku stawki z szansami na podium. Podobnie musieli zrobić Austriacy. Schlierenzauer jednak uzyskał zaledwie 84,5 i Austrii nie zobaczyli¶my w II serii. Ucieszyli się z tego Amerykanie,Pocz±tek II serii to starty pań z 20. belki. Do¶ć niespodziewanie Włochy zajmowały 3. miejsce, a rozpoczynaj±ca kolejkę Elena Runggaldier poleciała jednak tylko na 85,5 metra. Dobrze latały za to Lindsey Van i Maren Lundby po 92 metry.Panowie znów oddawali skoki z 12. belki. Tutaj znakomity Deschwanden tym razem uzyskał 90,5 metra, co nie dało Szwajcarom wyniku lepszego od sensacyjnych Włochów. Japończyk Watase zgłosił akces Kraju Kwitn±cej Wi¶ni do zwycięstwa - 94 metry. Norwegowie musieli się wspinać na wyżyny umiejętno¶ci.. i tak zrobili. Tom Hilde uzyskał 99,5 metra.Przedostatnia grupa skakała z 19 belki. Już na pocz±tku 102,5 metra uzyskała Evelyn Insam i Włoszki miały apetyt na pierwsze podium w historii.Znakomity skok oddała też Sarah Hendrickson - 96,5 m. Amerykanka dała awans swojemu krajowi, choć na podium nie mieli już szans...Zupełnie co innego Japończycy. Chociaż Takanashi poleciała tylko 92 metry. Mogło być to za mało na znakomite Norweżki i było. Sagen poleciała aż 97,5 metra, ale niestety upadła. Na szczę¶cie nic jej się nie stało i Norwegia utrzymała prowadzenie.Ostatnia grupa skoczków skakał tradycyjnie wg miejsc zajmowanych przez ich państwa w klasyfikacji po 7. kolejce. Rozpocz±ł Simon Ammann z wynikiem 95 metrowym. Lukas Hlava skoczył krócej, ale mimo tego Czesi nie stracili swojej pozycji.Przed skokiem Freunda, trener zdecydował o obniżeniu rozbiegu. Nowo¶ć regulaminowa stała się faktem. Niemiec uzyskał 96,5 metra i miał sporo punktów. Niemcy zachowali zatem szanse na podium. Wyprzedzili Słoweńców (Prevc tylko 76,5 m) i Amerykanów (Frenette - 87,5 m). Wydawało się, że nie pokonaj± Włochów, bo Colloredo uzyskał 98,5 metra. Niestety przewrócił się tuż przed lini± jury... Po chwili okazało się, że mimo tego Włosi s± na podium przed Niemcami!Taku Takeuchi musiał odbrobić 7 punktów do Norwegów. Spisał się znakomicie - 100 metrów. Wszystko zatem było w nogach zdobywcy kryształowej kuli. Anders Bardal poleciał na 99 metrów i bez problemów przypieczętował triumf gospodarzy w pierwszym konkursie Pucharu ¦wiata! | pl | Severin Freund, zwycięzca konkursu indywidualnego mężczyzn
'''W pierwszych tej zimy indywidualnych konkursach Pucharu Świata w skokach narciarskich, rozegranych na normalnej skoczni w norweskim Lillehammer zwyciężyli: Sara Takanashi z Japonii oraz Niemiec Severin Freund. Zaś we wczorajszym konkursie drużyn mieszanych triumfowała reprezentacja Norwegii. W dzisiejszej wyrównanej rywalizacji mężczyzn kilku znaczących zawodników nie zdobyło punktów, najlepszy z Polaków Maciej Kot na 25. pozycji.'''
Puchar Świata w Lillehammer otworzył drużynowy konkurs mieszany. Zwycięstwo odniosła w nim reprezentacja gospodarzy w składzie: Maren Lundby, Tom Hilde, Anette Sagen i Anders Bardal. Zdobyli łącznie 983,1 pkt. Na drugim miejscu uplasowała się reprezentacja Japonii (Yuki Ito, Yuta Watase, Sara Takanashi i Taku Takeuchi), a trzecie zajęła włoska drużyna (Elena Runggaldier, Andrea Morassi, Evelyn Insam i Sebastian Colloredo).
Na kolejnych pozycjach uplasowały się następujące drużyny: Niemcy, USA, Czechy, Słowenia, Szwajcaria, Francja, Finlandia, Rosja, Austria i Kanada. Austriacka drużyna nie zapunktowała z powodu dyskwalifikacji Andreasa Koflera.
W indywidualnym konkursie kobiet triumfowała Sara Takanashi (skoki na 96 m i 98 m, nota 265,2 pkt). Drugie miejsce zajęła prowadząca po pierwszej serii obrończyni tytułu, Sarah Hendrickson (98,5 m, 95 m, nota 261,4 pkt), a na trzecim uplasowała się reprezentantka gospodarzy Anette Sagen, skacząc na 99,5 m, 97 m i zdobywając 258,9 pkt. Na dalszych pozycjach w pierwszej dziesiątce uplasowały się: Carina Vogt, Evelyn Insam, Daniela Iraschko, Coline Mattel, Lindsey Van, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger i Katja Pozun.
W konkursie mężczyzn po pierwszej serii prowadził debiutujący Niemiec Andreas Wellinger, po skoku na 103 m. Ostatecznie zajął jednak piąte miejsce, po skoku na 98,5 m w drugiej serii. Zwycięstwo odniósł jego rodak Severin Freund, skacząc na 99 m i 100,5 m i zbierając łącznie 268,5 pkt. Za nim uplasował się Austriak Thomas Morgenstern (99 m, 102 m, 267,2 pkt), a trzeci był obrońca Kryształowej Kuli, Norweg Anders Bardal (98 m, 101 m, 267 pkt). Czwarte miejsce, ze stratą 0,6 pkt do podium zajął powracający do sportu Anders Jacobsen. Piąty był wspomniany Wellinger, a pozostałe miejsca w pierwszej dziesiątce zajęli: Anders Fannemel, Manuel Fettner, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Taku Takeuchi i Petr Prevc.
Kilku zawodników z czołówki uplasowało się na niższych miejscach niż spodziewane. Robert Kranjec, Tom Hilde, Roman Koudelka czy Andreas Wank nie awansowali do drugiej serii konkursowej. Natomiast 30. miejsce zajął Kamil Stoch, piąty zawodnik klasyfikacji generalnej zeszłego sezonu.
Pięć miejsc wyżej uplasował się odnoszący sukcesy tego lata Maciej Kot.
Jutro rozegrany zostanie konkurs na skoczni dużej.
Po pierwszych dwóch konkursach w klasyfikacji Pucharu Narodów panów prowadzi Norwegia (373 pkt), drugie są Niemcy (317 pkt), a trzecia Japonia (223 pkt). |
pl | Pierwszy konkurs P¦ kobiet w tym sezonie rozpoczęła Austriaczka Chiara Hoelzl skokiem na 83,5 metra, co nie dawało jej nadzei na drug± próbę. Dużo lepiej spisała się jedna z faworytek - Alexandra Pretorius (91,5 m), jednak po jakim¶ czasie została zdyskwalifikowana.
Wyniki po I serii zawodnik kraj odl. 1 punkty 1 Sarah Hendrickson 98.5 134.8 2 Anette Sagen 99.5 133.9 3 Sara Takanashi 96.0 132.9 4 Evelyn Insam 103.0 131.9 5 Coline Mattel 98.0 130.7 6 Daniela Iraschko 95.5 129.7 7 Lindsey Van 94.5 129.3 8 Carina Vogt 100.0 128.8 9 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger 98.0 122.5 10 Katja Pozun 94.0 121.1 11 Elena Runggaldier 94.0 120.3 12 Svenja Wuerth 95.5 120.0 13 Maja Vtic 97.0 118.9 14 Maren Lundby 93.0 118.7 15 Line Jahr 94.5 118.5 16 Ursa Bogataj 92.5 117.6 17 Spela Rogelj 94.0 116.6 18 Yuki Ito 93.0 116.1 19 Wendy Vuik 91.5 114.7 20 Eva Logar 92.0 112.9 21 Jessica Jerome 90.0 112.8 22 Irina Avvakumova 91.0 112.7 23 Anja Tepes 90.5 111.7 24 Julia Kykkänen 90.0 111.2 25 Abby Hughes 91.0 110.2 26 Atsuko Tanaka 89.0 109.4 27 Taylor Henrich 89.0 108.0 28 Ayumi Watase 90.0 107.0 29 Juliane Seyfarth 89.0 106.9 30 Bigna Windmueller 88.0 106.8 31 Roberta D'Agostina 89.5 106.7 32 Anastasiya Gladysheva 88.5 106.2 33 Sonja Schoitsch 88.5 105.5 Michaela Dolezelova 88.5 105.5 35 Julia Clair 89.0 105.1 36 Ulrike Graessler 86.5 105.0 37 Yoshiko Kasai 88.5 102.8 38 Melanie Faisst 85.5 102.1 Yurina Yamada 86.5 102.1 40 Alissa Johnson 85.5 101.9 41 Lea Lemare 85.5 100.2 42 Katharina Keil 84.5 99.1 43 Gyda Enger 85.5 98.7 44 Nina Lussi 84.0 98.5 45 Katharina Althaus 84.0 97.3 46 Yurika Hirayama 84.0 96.8 47 Chiara Hoelzl 83.5 95.7 48 Sabrina Windmueller 83.5 92.7 49 Dana Vasilica Haralambie 80.0 85.6 50 Alexandra Pretorius 91.5 DSQ
Wyniki końcowe zawodnik kraj odl. 1 odl. 2 punkty 1 Sara Takanashi 96.0 98.0 265.2 2 Sarah Hendrickson 98.5 95.0 261.4 3 Anette Sagen 99.5 97.0 258.9 4 Carina Vogt 100.0 99.5 256.0 5 Evelyn Insam 103.0 96.5 255.3 6 Daniela Iraschko 95.5 93.5 250.8 7 Coline Mattel 98.0 92.0 249.1 8 Lindsey Van 94.5 92.0 246.4 9 Jacqueline Seifriedsberger 98.0 95.5 242.8 10 Katja Pozun 94.0 93.5 234.7 11 Maren Lundby 93.0 92.0 233.8 12 Svenja Wuerth 95.5 90.5 233.0 13 Jessica Jerome 90.0 91.5 227.1 14 Maja Vtic 97.0 88.5 226.9 Elena Runggaldier 94.0 88.0 226.9 16 Line Jahr 94.5 88.5 226.3 17 Yuki Ito 93.0 89.0 226.2 18 Ursa Bogataj 92.5 89.0 225.5 19 Wendy Vuik 91.5 90.0 225.4 20 Eva Logar 92.0 90.0 221.3 21 Spela Rogelj 94.0 86.0 219.5 22 Julia Kykkänen 90.0 89.5 219.1 23 Juliane Seyfarth 89.0 91.0 217.4 24 Abby Hughes 91.0 90.0 217.2 25 Anja Tepes 90.5 87.5 215.2 Atsuko Tanaka 89.0 89.0 215.2 27 Bigna Windmueller 88.0 89.0 212.4 28 Taylor Henrich 89.0 88.0 212.0 29 Irina Avvakumova 91.0 84.0 208.5 30 Ayumi Watase 90.0 86.0 205.1 31 Roberta D'Agostina 89.5 106.7 32 Anastasiya Gladysheva 88.5 106.2 33 Sonja Schoitsch 88.5 105.5 Michaela Dolezelova 88.5 105.5 35 Julia Clair 89.0 105.1 36 Ulrike Graessler 86.5 105.0 37 Yoshiko Kasai 88.5 102.8 38 Melanie Faisst 85.5 102.1 Yurina Yamada 86.5 102.1 40 Alissa Johnson 85.5 101.9 41 Lea Lemare 85.5 100.2 42 Katharina Keil 84.5 99.1 43 Gyda Enger 85.5 98.7 44 Nina Lussi 84.0 98.5 45 Katharina Althaus 84.0 97.3 46 Yurika Hirayama 84.0 96.8 47 Chiara Hoelzl 83.5 95.7 48 Sabrina Windmueller 83.5 92.7 49 Dana Vasilica Haralambie 80.0 85.6 50 Alexandra Pretorius 91.5 DSQ
Dobre skoki oddały Słowenki Eva Logar (92 m) i Anja Tepes (90,5 m). Przez dłuższy czas prowadziły w konkursie. Wyprzedziła je dopiero 20-ta na starcie Holenderka Wendy Vuik - 91,5 pkt.Do czołówki doł±czyły też Irina Avvakumova (91 m), Ursa Bogataj (92,5 m) i Elena Runggaldier (94 m). Włoszka została now± liderk± konkursu.Pierwszy 100-metrowy skok oddała Carina Vogt. Niemka, która wczoraj zawaliła w drużynie szanse na medal, dzi¶ chciała zrehabilitować się kibicom. Trzecie miejsce zajmowała Maren Lundby z Norwegii po skoku 7 metrów bliższym.Godne odnotowania były też wyniki Svenji Wuerth (95,5 m), Speli Rogelj (94 m) i Line Jahr (94,5 m), ale wszystkich zdeklasowała rewelacja pocz±tku sezonu - Evelyn Insam. Włoszka uzyskała 103 metry i pobiła rekord skoczni.Włoszki nie przeskoczyły Maja Vtic (97 m), Jacqueline Seifriedsberger (98 m) i Coline Mattel, która z niższej belki poleciała na 98 metrów. Dało to jednak Francuzce 2. pozycję.Lepiej i dalej skoczyła faworytka gospodarzy - Anette Sagen. Norweżka objęła prowadzenie po skoku na 99,5 metra. Tuż za ni± uplasowała się Sara Takanashi (96 m). Japonka miała tylko 1 punkt straty do liderki.Nieco słabiej, choć blisko czołówki wyl±dowała Daniela Iraschko (95,5 m). Ostatnia na starcie Sarah Hendrickson miała niekorzystny wiatr, a mimo tego poleciała na 98,5 metra. Dzięki temu wygrywała po 1. serii, ale czołówka była bardzo blisko siebie i wszystko mogło sie zdarzyć.Drug± serię konkursu kobiet po dłuższej przerwie spowodowanej zmaganiami mężczyzn w 1. serii rozpoczęła Bigna Windmueller z 17. belki. Jedyna Szwajcarka w finale uzyskała 89 metrów i nie mogła liczyć na dużo lepsz± lokatę.Pierwsza punkt konstrukcyjny przeskoczyła Juliane Seyfarth - 91 metrów i zwiększyła swój dorobek punktowy. Kolejnymi liderkami były: Julia Kykkaenen (89,5 m) i Jessica Jerome (91,5 m). Amerykanka znacznie awansowała w klasyfikacji.Wyprzedziła j± dopiero reprezentantka gospodarzy - Maren Lundby. Norweżka poszybowała na 92 metr.Przed czołow± dziesi±tk± do¶ć niespodziewanie podwyższono rozbieg do 18. belki. Katja Pozun uzyskała z niej 93,5 metra i pokonała prowadz±c± Norweżkę. Jeszcze lepiej spisała się Jacqueline Seifriedsberger - 95,5 metra i to ona była na prowadzeniu.Niesamowicie skakała dzi¶ Carina Vogt. Po pierwszym skoku na 100 metrów, teraz poszybowała na 99,5 metra i była zdecydowanie na czele z szansami na podium.Niemka okazała się lepsza nawet od do¶wiadczonej Iraschko. Austriaczka poleciała na 93,5 metra i traciła do Vogt ponad 5 punktów.Czołowa pi±tka miała małe różnice punktowe. Coline Mattel l±dowała na 92 metrze i straciła swoj± pozycję. Była za Daniel± Iraschko. Natomiast Evelyn Insam obniżyła rozbieg i poszybowała na 96,5 metra. Mimo tego przegrała z liderk± o 0,7 punktu...Sara Takanashi potrzebowała ok 95 metrów. Udało się znacznie to przeskoczyć. Japonka wyl±dowała trzy metry dalej i miała ogromn± przewagę nad rywalkami. Zagrozić jej już mogły tylko dwie skoczkinie. Anette Sagen poleciała jednak 97 metrów i miała pewne podium. Hendrickson uzyskała 95 metrów i była druga. Konkurs wygrała zatem młodziutka Sara Takanashi. | pl | Severin Freund, zwycięzca konkursu indywidualnego mężczyzn
'''W pierwszych tej zimy indywidualnych konkursach Pucharu Świata w skokach narciarskich, rozegranych na normalnej skoczni w norweskim Lillehammer zwyciężyli: Sara Takanashi z Japonii oraz Niemiec Severin Freund. Zaś we wczorajszym konkursie drużyn mieszanych triumfowała reprezentacja Norwegii. W dzisiejszej wyrównanej rywalizacji mężczyzn kilku znaczących zawodników nie zdobyło punktów, najlepszy z Polaków Maciej Kot na 25. pozycji.'''
Puchar Świata w Lillehammer otworzył drużynowy konkurs mieszany. Zwycięstwo odniosła w nim reprezentacja gospodarzy w składzie: Maren Lundby, Tom Hilde, Anette Sagen i Anders Bardal. Zdobyli łącznie 983,1 pkt. Na drugim miejscu uplasowała się reprezentacja Japonii (Yuki Ito, Yuta Watase, Sara Takanashi i Taku Takeuchi), a trzecie zajęła włoska drużyna (Elena Runggaldier, Andrea Morassi, Evelyn Insam i Sebastian Colloredo).
Na kolejnych pozycjach uplasowały się następujące drużyny: Niemcy, USA, Czechy, Słowenia, Szwajcaria, Francja, Finlandia, Rosja, Austria i Kanada. Austriacka drużyna nie zapunktowała z powodu dyskwalifikacji Andreasa Koflera.
W indywidualnym konkursie kobiet triumfowała Sara Takanashi (skoki na 96 m i 98 m, nota 265,2 pkt). Drugie miejsce zajęła prowadząca po pierwszej serii obrończyni tytułu, Sarah Hendrickson (98,5 m, 95 m, nota 261,4 pkt), a na trzecim uplasowała się reprezentantka gospodarzy Anette Sagen, skacząc na 99,5 m, 97 m i zdobywając 258,9 pkt. Na dalszych pozycjach w pierwszej dziesiątce uplasowały się: Carina Vogt, Evelyn Insam, Daniela Iraschko, Coline Mattel, Lindsey Van, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger i Katja Pozun.
W konkursie mężczyzn po pierwszej serii prowadził debiutujący Niemiec Andreas Wellinger, po skoku na 103 m. Ostatecznie zajął jednak piąte miejsce, po skoku na 98,5 m w drugiej serii. Zwycięstwo odniósł jego rodak Severin Freund, skacząc na 99 m i 100,5 m i zbierając łącznie 268,5 pkt. Za nim uplasował się Austriak Thomas Morgenstern (99 m, 102 m, 267,2 pkt), a trzeci był obrońca Kryształowej Kuli, Norweg Anders Bardal (98 m, 101 m, 267 pkt). Czwarte miejsce, ze stratą 0,6 pkt do podium zajął powracający do sportu Anders Jacobsen. Piąty był wspomniany Wellinger, a pozostałe miejsca w pierwszej dziesiątce zajęli: Anders Fannemel, Manuel Fettner, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Taku Takeuchi i Petr Prevc.
Kilku zawodników z czołówki uplasowało się na niższych miejscach niż spodziewane. Robert Kranjec, Tom Hilde, Roman Koudelka czy Andreas Wank nie awansowali do drugiej serii konkursowej. Natomiast 30. miejsce zajął Kamil Stoch, piąty zawodnik klasyfikacji generalnej zeszłego sezonu.
Pięć miejsc wyżej uplasował się odnoszący sukcesy tego lata Maciej Kot.
Jutro rozegrany zostanie konkurs na skoczni dużej.
Po pierwszych dwóch konkursach w klasyfikacji Pucharu Narodów panów prowadzi Norwegia (373 pkt), drugie są Niemcy (317 pkt), a trzecia Japonia (223 pkt). |
pl | Severin Freund triumfował w pierwszym konkursie Pucharu Świata 2012/2013. Choć po pierwszej serii zanosiło się na sensację (prowadził mało znany Andreas Wellinger), to po drugiej rundzie do głosu doszli wyjadacze. Za Niemcem uplasowali się bowiem Thomas Morgenstern i Anders Bardal. Warto zwrócić uwagę na wysoką czwartą lokatę powracającego Andersa Jacobsena. Z kolei na występy Polaków nie da się patrzeć z optymizmem - Maciej Kot był 25., Kamil Stoch - 30., a pozostali nie zakwalifikowali się do finału...
Wyniki po I serii zawodnik kraj odl. 1 punkty 1 Andreas Wellinger 103.0 134.9 2 Anders Jacobsen 100.5 133.3 3 Severin Freund 99.0 131.9 4 Anders Bardal 98.0 129.9 5 Thomas Morgenstern 99.0 129.0 6 Manuel Fettner 97.0 124.7 7 Anders Fannemel 96.0 124.0 8 Peter Prevc 95.5 123.6 9 Gregor Schlierenzauer 96.0 123.0 10 Michael Hayboeck 96.0 122.5 11 Richard Freitag 95.5 122.4 12 Michael Neumayer 95.5 122.2 13 Simon Ammann 94.5 121.6 14 Taku Takeuchi 94.0 120.3 15 Noriaki Kasai 94.5 118.6 16 Wolfgang Loitzl 92.0 118.4 17 Lukas Hlava 93.5 118.2 18 Andreas Kofler 94.0 117.3 19 Jaka Hvala 94.0 117.0 20 Karl Geiger 94.0 116.5 21 Janne Happonen 91.5 116.1 Sebastian Colloredo 92.5 116.1 23 Maciej Kot 93.0 115.8 24 Rune Velta 92.0 115.3 Reruhi Shimizu 93.0 115.3 26 Ole Marius Ingvaldsen 93.5 114.8 27 Andreas Stjernen 92.5 114.7 28 Kento Sakuyama 93.0 114.2 29 Anton Kalinitschenko 93.5 113.9 30 Kamil Stoch 91.5 113.6 31 Tom Hilde 91.5 113.4 32 Vegard Swensen 92.0 113.3 33 Roman Koudelka 91.0 113.1 34 Dawid Kubacki 91.5 112.5 35 Jan Matura 91.5 112.1 36 Piotr Żyła 90.5 111.2 37 Andreas Wank 90.0 110.6 38 Martin Koch 90.0 110.3 39 Danny Queck 91.0 110.0 40 Vladimir Zografski 90.0 108.6 41 Jurij Tepes 89.5 108.4 Gregor Deschwanden 90.0 108.4 43 Robert Kranjec 89.0 107.8 44 Krzysztof Miętus 89.0 107.1 45 Atle Pedersen Roensen 89.0 106.0 Junshiro Kobayashi 89.0 106.0 47 Fredrik Bjerkeengen 89.5 105.4 48 Peter Frenette 88.0 104.1 49 Denis Kornilov 92.0 94.6 50 Sami Niemi 82.5 84.6
Wyniki końcowe zawodnik kraj odl. 1 odl. 2 punkty 1 Severin Freund 99.0 100.5 268.5 2 Thomas Morgenstern 99.0 102.0 267.2 3 Anders Bardal 98.0 101.0 267.0 4 Anders Jacobsen 100.5 99.0 266.4 5 Andreas Wellinger 103.0 98.5 266.1 6 Anders Fannemel 96.0 100.0 256.4 7 Manuel Fettner 97.0 99.5 255.8 8 Gregor Schlierenzauer 96.0 98.5 255.2 9 Taku Takeuchi 94.0 100.0 252.9 10 Peter Prevc 95.5 97.5 251.7 11 Richard Freitag 95.5 97.0 251.6 Wolfgang Loitzl 92.0 99.5 251.6 13 Simon Ammann 94.5 96.5 249.2 14 Lukas Hlava 93.5 99.0 248.6 15 Andreas Kofler 94.0 100.0 247.5 Michael Hayboeck 96.0 95.5 247.5 17 Jaka Hvala 94.0 98.0 246.3 18 Michael Neumayer 95.5 96.0 245.8 19 Noriaki Kasai 94.5 95.0 241.2 20 Rune Velta 92.0 92.0 237.5 21 Karl Geiger 94.0 93.5 234.7 22 Janne Happonen 91.5 94.0 234.5 23 Sebastian Colloredo 92.5 92.0 232.2 24 Ole Marius Ingvaldsen 93.5 92.0 232.0 25 Maciej Kot 93.0 92.0 231.1 26 Andreas Stjernen 92.5 91.5 230.8 27 Kento Sakuyama 93.0 89.5 225.1 28 Reruhi Shimizu 93.0 88.5 224.5 29 Anton Kalinitschenko 93.5 89.0 224.1 30 Kamil Stoch 91.5 87.5 220.0 31 Tom Hilde 91.5 113.4 32 Vegard Swensen 92.0 113.3 33 Roman Koudelka 91.0 113.1 34 Dawid Kubacki 91.5 112.5 35 Jan Matura 91.5 112.1 36 Piotr Żyła 90.5 111.2 37 Andreas Wank 90.0 110.6 38 Martin Koch 90.0 110.3 39 Danny Queck 91.0 110.0 40 Vladimir Zografski 90.0 108.6 41 Jurij Tepes 89.5 108.4 Gregor Deschwanden 90.0 108.4 43 Robert Kranjec 89.0 107.8 44 Krzysztof Miętus 89.0 107.1 45 Atle Pedersen Roensen 89.0 106.0 Junshiro Kobayashi 89.0 106.0 47 Fredrik Bjerkeengen 89.5 105.4 48 Peter Frenette 88.0 104.1 49 Denis Kornilov 92.0 94.6 50 Sami Niemi 82.5 84.6
Konkurs rozpoczęli Norwegowie z grupy narodowej. Reprezentanci gospodarzy poradzili sobie bardzo dobrze - każdy z nich, startując z dziewiątej belki, przekroczył punkt K położony na tym obiekcie na dziewięćdziesiątym metrze. Zdecydowanie najlepszy okazał się Anders Jacobsen, który uzyskał aż 100,5 metra.Norweg prowadził jednak tylko krótką chwilę - kolejny na liście startowej Andreas Wellinger spisał się jeszcze lepiej, lądując na 103 metrze. Jego przewaga nad Jacobsenem nie była jednak duża - wynosiła tylko 1,6 punktu.Pierwszym z pięciu Polaków w konkursie, Dawid Kubacki, przeskoczył punkt K o półtora metra (91,5 m). Jego siódma pozycja w tym momencie nie dawała powodów do optymizmu - szanse na awans do drugiej serii były niewielkie...Przez dłuższy czas nie mieliśmy zmian na czołowych lokatach. Tę falę krótszych skoków przerwał Noriaki Kasai, który z odległością 94,5 metra wszedł na trzecie miejsce. Liczyliśmy, że podobnie spisze się Krzysztof Miętus - niestety, zawodnik AZS AWF Krak Zakopane wylądował metr przed czerwoną linią i był dopiero czternasty.Lepiej spisał się Maciej Kot. Podopieczny Łukasza Kruczka wylądował na 93 metrze i zajmował ósme miejsce, dające dużą nadzieję na punkty do klasyfikacji generalnej Pucharu Świata. Po kilku minutach mieliśmy już zresztą pewność, że Polaka zobaczymy w finale.Zdecydowanie poniżej naszych oczekiwań spisał się Piotr Żyła - odległość 90,5 metra dała mu dopiero 23. lokatę, a o jego ewentualnym awansie do drugiej serii można było tylko pomarzyć.Swoje skoki rozpoczęła już czołowa dziesiątka poprzedniego sezonu, tymczasem na pierwszych dwóch miejscach cały czas pozostawali Andreas Wellinger i Anders Jacobsen - startujący z numerami piątym i czwartym! Do ich wyników zbliżył się dopiero Severin Freund, jednak 99 metrów w bardzo dobrym stylu to było nieco za mało, aby rozdzielić tę dwójkę - Niemiec był trzeci. W tym samym miejscu wylądował Thomas Morgenstern (czwarte miejsce).Bardzo słabo spisał się Kamil Stoch. Odległość 91,5 metra sprawiła, że zaczęliśmy się zastanawiać, czy Polaka zobaczymy w drugiej serii. Po chwili mogliśmy odetchnąć z ulgą - zajmował 27. miejsce, a więc rzutem na taśmę awansował do finału.Kończący serię zawodnicy nie zdołali wyprzedzić Wellingera i Jacobsena Andreas Kofler uzyskał 94 metry (16.), Gregor Schlierenzauer - 96 metrów (ósmy), a broniący Pucharu Świata Anders Bardal - 98 metrów (czwarte miejsce).Drugą serię z dziesiątej belki rozpoczął Kamil Stoch - Polak skoczył niestety w jeszcze słabszym stylu, niż w pierwszej serii. 87,5 metra sprawiło, że nasz zawodnik spadał w klasyfikacji po występach każdego kolejnego sportowca.Po Stochu na prowadzenie wychodzili Anton Kalinitschenko (89 m), Kento Sakuyama (89,5 m) oraz Norwegowie - Andreas Stjernen (91,5 m), Ole Marius Ingvaldsen (92 m) i Rune Velta (92 m). Ten ostatni prowadził przez kilka chwil - na pierwszym miejscu nie zmienił go nawet Janne Happonen, który wylądował na 94 metrze.Świetny skok oddał Jaka Hvala. Słoweniec poleciał na odległość 98 metrów i objął wyraźne prowadzenie. Jeszcze lepiej spisał się Andreas Kofler - 100 metrów!Zawodnicy wyraźnie się rozkręcili - tuż przed linią setnego metra lądowali Lukas Hlava (99 m) i Wolfgang Loitzl (99,5 m), dokładnie na tej linii zeskoku dotknął Taku Takeuchi - i to Japończyk przez kilka minut był liderem, awansował też do czołowej dziesiątki.Miejsce w czołówce utrzymał też Gregor Schlierenzauer, jednak 98,5 metra to chyba mniej, niż oczekiwał utytułowany Austriak. Ta odległość wystarczyła mu, aby wyjść na pierwsze miejsce, ale nie pozostawał na tej pozycji długo. Wkrótce na setnym metrze wylądował bowiem Anders Fannemel, który odebrał prowadzenie Schlierenzauerowi.Schlierenzauer nie był jednak ostatnim podopiecznym Alexandra Pointnera w tym konkursie. Rewelacyjnie skoczył Thomas Morgenstern - 102 metry w pięknym stylu dały mu wyraźne prowadzenie. Blisko poprawienia tego wyniku był Anders Bardal (101 m), stracił jednak do Austriaka 0,2 punktu.Na odległość 100,5 metra poleciał Severin Freund - to był nowy lider. Bliżej, bo na 99 metrze, lądował Anders Jacobsen - w tym momencie dawało to dopiero czwarty wynik.Wiedzieliśmy już więc, że zawody wygra reprezentant Niemiec, bowiem na górze skoczni pozostał już tylko Andreas Wellinger. 98,5 metra wystarczyło tylko na piątą lokatę. Pierwszym indywidualnym triumfatorem w sezonie 2012/2013 został więc Severin Freund! | pl | Severin Freund, zwycięzca konkursu indywidualnego mężczyzn
'''W pierwszych tej zimy indywidualnych konkursach Pucharu Świata w skokach narciarskich, rozegranych na normalnej skoczni w norweskim Lillehammer zwyciężyli: Sara Takanashi z Japonii oraz Niemiec Severin Freund. Zaś we wczorajszym konkursie drużyn mieszanych triumfowała reprezentacja Norwegii. W dzisiejszej wyrównanej rywalizacji mężczyzn kilku znaczących zawodników nie zdobyło punktów, najlepszy z Polaków Maciej Kot na 25. pozycji.'''
Puchar Świata w Lillehammer otworzył drużynowy konkurs mieszany. Zwycięstwo odniosła w nim reprezentacja gospodarzy w składzie: Maren Lundby, Tom Hilde, Anette Sagen i Anders Bardal. Zdobyli łącznie 983,1 pkt. Na drugim miejscu uplasowała się reprezentacja Japonii (Yuki Ito, Yuta Watase, Sara Takanashi i Taku Takeuchi), a trzecie zajęła włoska drużyna (Elena Runggaldier, Andrea Morassi, Evelyn Insam i Sebastian Colloredo).
Na kolejnych pozycjach uplasowały się następujące drużyny: Niemcy, USA, Czechy, Słowenia, Szwajcaria, Francja, Finlandia, Rosja, Austria i Kanada. Austriacka drużyna nie zapunktowała z powodu dyskwalifikacji Andreasa Koflera.
W indywidualnym konkursie kobiet triumfowała Sara Takanashi (skoki na 96 m i 98 m, nota 265,2 pkt). Drugie miejsce zajęła prowadząca po pierwszej serii obrończyni tytułu, Sarah Hendrickson (98,5 m, 95 m, nota 261,4 pkt), a na trzecim uplasowała się reprezentantka gospodarzy Anette Sagen, skacząc na 99,5 m, 97 m i zdobywając 258,9 pkt. Na dalszych pozycjach w pierwszej dziesiątce uplasowały się: Carina Vogt, Evelyn Insam, Daniela Iraschko, Coline Mattel, Lindsey Van, Jacqueline Seifriedsberger i Katja Pozun.
W konkursie mężczyzn po pierwszej serii prowadził debiutujący Niemiec Andreas Wellinger, po skoku na 103 m. Ostatecznie zajął jednak piąte miejsce, po skoku na 98,5 m w drugiej serii. Zwycięstwo odniósł jego rodak Severin Freund, skacząc na 99 m i 100,5 m i zbierając łącznie 268,5 pkt. Za nim uplasował się Austriak Thomas Morgenstern (99 m, 102 m, 267,2 pkt), a trzeci był obrońca Kryształowej Kuli, Norweg Anders Bardal (98 m, 101 m, 267 pkt). Czwarte miejsce, ze stratą 0,6 pkt do podium zajął powracający do sportu Anders Jacobsen. Piąty był wspomniany Wellinger, a pozostałe miejsca w pierwszej dziesiątce zajęli: Anders Fannemel, Manuel Fettner, Gregor Schlierenzauer, Taku Takeuchi i Petr Prevc.
Kilku zawodników z czołówki uplasowało się na niższych miejscach niż spodziewane. Robert Kranjec, Tom Hilde, Roman Koudelka czy Andreas Wank nie awansowali do drugiej serii konkursowej. Natomiast 30. miejsce zajął Kamil Stoch, piąty zawodnik klasyfikacji generalnej zeszłego sezonu.
Pięć miejsc wyżej uplasował się odnoszący sukcesy tego lata Maciej Kot.
Jutro rozegrany zostanie konkurs na skoczni dużej.
Po pierwszych dwóch konkursach w klasyfikacji Pucharu Narodów panów prowadzi Norwegia (373 pkt), drugie są Niemcy (317 pkt), a trzecia Japonia (223 pkt). |
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David Rooke from the UK's Environment Agency (EA) said that "We're giving a very strong message to stay away from coastal areas," and that "There will be huge waves, a lot of spray and it will be a very dangerous place to be."
On its website the Met Office said that "the Met Office continues to expect an intense low pressure system to move east across the UK during Monday, bringing severe gales and potentially damaging gusts across some areas, more particularly the west and south of England and Wales. Southerly winds are expected to strengthen during the early hours of Monday to give severe gales for a time, coinciding with the morning rush hour in some areas." |
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It has been forecasted that winds of up to 130 km/h will hit the southern and western areas of the United Kingdom in what has been predicted by some to be the worst storm this winter. The Met Office has said that there is a 60% risk of disruption for much of southern England and Wales, although the figure for Scotland is less then 20%.
David Rooke from the UK's Environment Agency (EA) said that "We're giving a very strong message to stay away from coastal areas," and that "There will be huge waves, a lot of spray and it will be a very dangerous place to be."
On its website the Met Office said that "the Met Office continues to expect an intense low pressure system to move east across the UK during Monday, bringing severe gales and potentially damaging gusts across some areas, more particularly the west and south of England and Wales. Southerly winds are expected to strengthen during the early hours of Monday to give severe gales for a time, coinciding with the morning rush hour in some areas." |
en | 1 of 3. Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, (R) 1st platoon sergeant, Blackhorse Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, is seen during an exercise at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, in this August 23, 2011 DVIDS handout photo.
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KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S. Army staff sergeant was charged on Friday with 17 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder over a shooting spree in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, U.S. military forces in Afghanistan said in a statement.
Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, a 38-year-old veteran of four combat tours, is accused of walking off his base on March 11 under cover of darkness and opening fire at civilians in at least two different villages in Panjwai district.
(Reporting by Rob Taylor; Editing by Jack Kimball) | de | Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, hier in Ft. Irwin, Kalifornien, wird Mord in 17 Fällen zur Last gelegt
Die US-Armee hat in Kabul mitgeteilt, dass sie wegen Mordes in 17 Fällen und versuchten Mordes in sechs Fällen Anklage gegen den 38-jährigen Staff Sergeant Robert Bales erhoben hat. Der Soldat hatte sich in der Nacht vom 11. März 2012 unerlaubt von der Truppe entfernt, war in ein Dorf im Distrikt Panjway in der südlichen Provinz Kandahar eingedrungen und hatte dort vier Männer, vier Frauen und neun Kinder getötet. Zwei weitere Erwachsene und vier weitere Kinder wurden durch Schüsse verletzt. Bales ist derzeit im Hochsicherheitsmilitärgefängnis Fort Leavenworth in Kansas inhaftiert.
John Henry Browne, der Strafverteidiger des Angeklagten, sagte im Frühstücksfernsehen des amerikanischen Fernsehsenders CBS: „Das wird meiner Meinung nach in der Beweisführung ein sehr schwieriger Fall werden für die Regierung. Es gibt kein CSI-Material. Es gibt keine DNA. Es gibt keine Fingerabdrücke. Es wird interessant werden, wie die Regierung die Schuld beweisen will.“ Browne deutete an, dass der „mentale Zustand“ seines Mandanten Teil seiner Verteidigungsstrategie sein wird. Bales war bei einem seiner drei Einsätze im Irak am Kopf verletzt worden. Der Einsatz in Afghanistan war Bales′ vierter Kampfeinsatz.
Die Militärstaatsanwaltschaft hat keine öffentlichen Angaben über die Motive des Täters gemacht, doch wird ermittelt, ob Alkoholkonsum ein Faktor gewesen ist. Das Führungszeugnis des Angeklagten weist drei Fälle auf, in denen Alkohol eine Rolle gespielt haben könnte, berichtete die Washington Post. 2002 soll er in Tacoma, Washington, in einem Spielkasino einen Rausschmeißer tätlich angegriffen haben. 2008 hat er ein Verkehrsschild umgefahren und einen Baum gestreift und war dann vom Umfallort geflohen. Zwei Jahre später soll er angetrunken eine Frau belästigt haben.
Das Massaker hatte zu diplomatischer Verstimmung zwischen Afghanistan und den Vereinigten Staaten geführt. Der afghanische Präsident Hamid Karzai hatte danach gefordert, dass die NATO-Truppen sich in ihre Stützpunkte zurückziehen sollen. Die Morde kamen in einer Phase, in der sich die Beziehungen zwischen beiden Ländern nur langsam verbesserten, nachdem im Internet ein Video aufgetaucht war, in dem US-Soldaten auf tote Taliban urinierten und kurze Zeit später Angehörige der US-Streikräfte Exemplare des Koran verbrannt hatten. Dieser Vorfall hatte tagelangen Aufruhr ausgelöst, in dessen Verlauf mehrere Dutzend Afghanen und zwei US-Militärberater getötet wurden. |
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Army Sgt. Robert Bales charged with murdering 17 Afghans
The U.S. military on Friday charged Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales with murdering 17 Afghans during a village massacre this month but did not shed light on a possible motive for the worst U.S. atrocity of the decade-long war.
Bales, 38, a member of an infantry unit and the married father of two young children, was formally presented with the charges at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., where he is being held in a maximum-security military prison.
In a statement from Kabul, the U.S. military said Bales was also charged with assaulting and attempting to murder six other Afghan civilians during a rampage in the early morning hours of March 11. Most of the dead were women and children, and some of the bodies were burned, U.S. and Afghan officials have said.
Col. Gary Kolb, a U.S. military spokesman in Kabul, said Bales is alleged to have walked off base armed with a 9mm pistol and an M4 rifle with a grenade launcher.
The U.S. military released charging documents in the case but redacted the names of victims in the shootings. Military officials have not provided a timeline of the events surrounding the killings or offered a motive for the alleged crimes.
The massacre, in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province, has roiled relations between the United States and Afghanistan at a time when American commanders are seeking to stabilize the country in preparation for an eventual U.S. exit. President Obama has promised to hold accountable “anyone responsible” for the killings.
In its statement, the military said Bales acted with pre-meditation and that he could be subject to the death penalty if the case proceeds to court-martial and he is convicted.
Bales’s civilian attorney has said his client does not remember much about what happened on March 11, when the military alleges he committed the massacre and returned to the base on his own to surrender.
“This is going to be a very difficult case for the government to prove, in my opinion,” the lawyer, John Henry Browne, said on “CBS This Morning” on Friday. “There is no crime scene. There is no, you know, there’s no ‘CSI’ stuff. There’s no DNA. There’s no fingerprints. It’s just going to be interesting to see how the government’s going to prove this.”
Bales had deployed three times to Iraq. He arrived in Afghanistan for the first time in December with other members of the 3rd Stryker Combat Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, a unit from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.
Bales called his wife, Kari, from Afghanistan after U.S. forces took him into custody March 11, and told her “something terrible happened,” a Seattle attorney for Kari Bales said Friday.
But the soldier uttered that phrase “in the context that he was custody in jail and not in the sense of ‘I did something terrible,’ ” said Seattle attorney Lance S. Rosen, who is representing Kari Bales in dealings with the media.
The lawyer said Bales was told he could call his wife briefly by military officials detaining him. “I know very little about the call and what was said,” said Rosen, who is not on the defense team for Robert Bales.
Authorities had previously said 16 Afghans were killed and several others critically wounded. They did not offer a public explanation for why Bales was charged with 17 counts of murder.
But a U.S. military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the case, said forensic investigators subsequently determined that 17 bodies were at the scene. The dead included 10 females and seven males. The ages of the dead were not disclosed in the charging documents, but those wounded in the massacre included eight children.
The decision to formally charge Bales did nothing to dampen the anger of Mohammed Wazir, who lost 11 family members — including his mother, wife, four daughters and two sons — in the rampage.
Wazir, 35, said he did not believe that a military trial in the United States could ever bring justice.
“This is not acceptable for us,” Wazir, said in an interview Friday from the Afghan town of Spin Boldak. “We want him to be tried in Afghanistan, in our presence.”
A farmer and trader, Wazir lived in a mud home in Najeeban, one of the two tiny villages in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province that Bales allegedly targeted. Also shot and killed in Wazir’s home were his brother, his brother’s wife and their child, according to Wazir and other villagers.
At the time of the attack, Wazir was in Spin Boldak, about 85 miles south, with his 4-year-old son, Habib Shah. Habib is now his only surviving child.
Four others apparently were killed in Alokozo, a neighboring village of 20 homes. Samisami-Ullah, a 30-year-old farmer, identified those victims as his mother, uncle and two cousins. Three others in his family were wounded, he said, along with three from his neighbors’ families. Five of the six wounded were transported to a U.S. military hospital, where three victims remain.
To date, the U.S. military has not contacted any witnesses or those who lost relatives, said Wazir, provincial officials and others who have talked to the massacre victims’ families.
“None of them have come to investigate, or to talk to us, or seen the village,” Wazir said angrily. “We want justice.”
Leiby reported from Kabul. Correspondent Ernesto Londoño in Kabul and staff writers Mary Pat Flaherty and Julie Tate in Washington contributed to this report. | de | Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, hier in Ft. Irwin, Kalifornien, wird Mord in 17 Fällen zur Last gelegt
Die US-Armee hat in Kabul mitgeteilt, dass sie wegen Mordes in 17 Fällen und versuchten Mordes in sechs Fällen Anklage gegen den 38-jährigen Staff Sergeant Robert Bales erhoben hat. Der Soldat hatte sich in der Nacht vom 11. März 2012 unerlaubt von der Truppe entfernt, war in ein Dorf im Distrikt Panjway in der südlichen Provinz Kandahar eingedrungen und hatte dort vier Männer, vier Frauen und neun Kinder getötet. Zwei weitere Erwachsene und vier weitere Kinder wurden durch Schüsse verletzt. Bales ist derzeit im Hochsicherheitsmilitärgefängnis Fort Leavenworth in Kansas inhaftiert.
John Henry Browne, der Strafverteidiger des Angeklagten, sagte im Frühstücksfernsehen des amerikanischen Fernsehsenders CBS: „Das wird meiner Meinung nach in der Beweisführung ein sehr schwieriger Fall werden für die Regierung. Es gibt kein CSI-Material. Es gibt keine DNA. Es gibt keine Fingerabdrücke. Es wird interessant werden, wie die Regierung die Schuld beweisen will.“ Browne deutete an, dass der „mentale Zustand“ seines Mandanten Teil seiner Verteidigungsstrategie sein wird. Bales war bei einem seiner drei Einsätze im Irak am Kopf verletzt worden. Der Einsatz in Afghanistan war Bales′ vierter Kampfeinsatz.
Die Militärstaatsanwaltschaft hat keine öffentlichen Angaben über die Motive des Täters gemacht, doch wird ermittelt, ob Alkoholkonsum ein Faktor gewesen ist. Das Führungszeugnis des Angeklagten weist drei Fälle auf, in denen Alkohol eine Rolle gespielt haben könnte, berichtete die Washington Post. 2002 soll er in Tacoma, Washington, in einem Spielkasino einen Rausschmeißer tätlich angegriffen haben. 2008 hat er ein Verkehrsschild umgefahren und einen Baum gestreift und war dann vom Umfallort geflohen. Zwei Jahre später soll er angetrunken eine Frau belästigt haben.
Das Massaker hatte zu diplomatischer Verstimmung zwischen Afghanistan und den Vereinigten Staaten geführt. Der afghanische Präsident Hamid Karzai hatte danach gefordert, dass die NATO-Truppen sich in ihre Stützpunkte zurückziehen sollen. Die Morde kamen in einer Phase, in der sich die Beziehungen zwischen beiden Ländern nur langsam verbesserten, nachdem im Internet ein Video aufgetaucht war, in dem US-Soldaten auf tote Taliban urinierten und kurze Zeit später Angehörige der US-Streikräfte Exemplare des Koran verbrannt hatten. Dieser Vorfall hatte tagelangen Aufruhr ausgelöst, in dessen Verlauf mehrere Dutzend Afghanen und zwei US-Militärberater getötet wurden. |
en | Launch Result of M-V-6
July 10, 2005
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
The M-V Launch Vehicle No. 6 (M-V-6) with the 23rd scientific satellite (ASTRO-EII) onboard was launched at 12:30 p.m. on July 10, 2005 (Japan Standard Time, JST) from the Uchinoura Space Center (USC). The launcher was set to a vertical angle of 80.2 degrees, and the flight azimuth was 87.6 degrees.
The launch vehicle flew smoothly, and the third stage motor was ignited at 205 seconds after liftoff. The third stage flight was also smooth, and after its motor burnout, it was confirmed to be safely injected into its scheduled orbit of an apogee altitude of approximately 247 km and a perigee altitude of approximately 560 km with an inclination of approximately 31.4 degrees.
JAXA received signals from the ASTRO-EII at the Santiago tracking station and the USC, and from those signals we verified that the ASTRO-EII had successfully separated.
The in-orbit ASTRO-EII was given the International Designator of 2005-025A and a nickname of "Suzaku."
We would like to express our appreciation for the cooperation and support from all related personnel and organizations that helped contribute to the successful launch of the M-V-6.
The weather at the time of the launch was slightly cloudy with a wind speed of 7m/s from the west-south-west, and the temperature was 31.7 degrees Celsius.
For more information:
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Tel: +81-994-31-6978
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* This information is also available on the following websites: | de | M-V Rakete startet ASTRO-E2
Eine japanische Trägerrakete vom Typ M-V ist heute um 03:30 Uhr GMT vom Uchinoura Space Center mit dem Röntgenteleskop ASTRO-E2 gestartet. Der Satellit soll die Entstehung und die Struktur von Schwarzen Löchern und Galaxienhaufen untersuchen. Dazu gehört auch die Untersuchung von Neutronensternen und Supernovae. Ein wichtiges wissenschaftliches Ziel besteht aus der Beantwortung der Frage, wie und wo die chemischen Elemente entstehen. Auch soll geklärt werden, was passiert, wenn Materie in ein Schwarzes Loch fällt.
ASTRO-E2 ersetzt den im Februar 2000 bei einem Fehlstart verloren gegangenen Satelliten ASTRO-E. Dieser wurde als fünfter japanischer Röntgensatellit vom japanischen Institut für Weltraumforschung ISAS, seit 2003 Teil der JAXA, gemeinsam mit der NASA entwickelt. ASTRO-E2 deckt mit drei Instrumenten den Energiebereich 0.2-600 keV ab. Gegenüber anderen Röntgensatelliten zeichnet er sich besonders durch sein empfindliches und hoch auflösendes Spektrometer aus, das die Energie der eintreffenden Röntgenphotonen über ihre Wärmefreisetzung in einem gekühlten Detektor sehr genau misst.
Traditionsgemäß wird in Japan der Name der Mission nach einem erfolgreichen Start geändert. Diesmal wurde der Name „Suzaku“ vergeben. |
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BY JUSTIN RAY
SPACEFLIGHT NOW
Posted: July 10, 2005
Five years after the first attempt to launch an observatory with a telescope colder than space itself ended in heartbreak, Japanese and American astronomers are celebrating at last. Their replacement satellite successfully shot into orbit today to study the colors of X-rays and give new insights into the some of the universe's most violent places. The international ASTRO-E2 spacecraft rode a Japanese M-5 rocket launched from the Uchinoura Space Center, located on the southern tip of the Kyushu island. This was a do-over launch following the original ASTRO-E spacecraft's demise in February 2000. During that doomed ascent, heat-resistant graphite material mounted in the M-5 rocket's first stage engine nozzle cracked and blew out. The vehicle lost its proper orientation during launch, robbing the booster of speed. The second and third stages were unable to make up the velocity deficit, leaving the observatory in a helpless free fall back into the Earth's atmosphere before completing a single orbit. Today's flight appeared to be trouble-free beginning following its 0330 GMT (11:30 p.m. EDT Saturday) blastoff. The three-stage rocket deployed the 3,500-pound satellite into an initial orbit of 348 x 153 miles inclined 31.4 degrees to the equator. Researchers will use ASTRO-E2's sensitivity and high resolution to understand how supermassive black holes, neutron stars and supernova remnants work and test astronomers' theories about the velocities and materials inside super-hot X-ray sources. The spacecraft builds furthers the ongoing research by the much larger Chandra X-ray Observatory operated by NASA and the European XMM-Newton space telescope. ASTRO-E2 will perform spectroscopy to study the "colors" of X-ray light. The questions that the mission could help answer: When and where are chemical elements created?
How do clusters of galaxies merge?
What happens when matter falls into a black hole?
How do you heat gases to X-ray-emitting temperatures? The X-ray Spectrometer, or XRS, is the craft's primary instrument. This revolutionary cryogenically-cooled device allows the heat from individual high-energy X-ray light particles to be measured with a precision about 10 times greater than previous sensors. These remarkable observations are possible by cooling the detector to 0.060 degrees Kelvin, or -460 degrees Fahrenheit. That makes the instrument the coldest object in space. "Incoming light particles will raise the temperature of the detector by only a few thousandths of a degree," said Dr. Richard Kelley, Principal Investigator for the U.S. contribution to ASTRO-E2. "Knowing the precise energy that these light particles carry, we can infer new information about their origins." Similar to using a prism to separate colors of light, ASTRO-E2 will reveal the colors of X-rays to determine their temperature and contents of material in death spirals around black holes, new elements blasted from star explosions and the gases between the individual galaxies that make up clusters of galaxies. A quarter century has been spent developing such a spectrometer instrument. It was supposed to fly aboard the NASA Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility. In the early 1990s, however, the monster space probe was split into two smaller ones. Congress would kill the second craft that the featured the spectrometer, leaving the other -- Chandra -- to actually fly in space. American scientists looked elsewhere to fly their instrument, prompting collaboration starting 12 years ago with the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science. ASTRO-E2 is Japan's fifth X-ray spacecraft mission. "ASTRO-E2 will showcase an entirely new technology that will not only serve as a test bed for future missions but produce some spectacular science to boot," said Dr. Anne Kinney, director of the Universe Division in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "This is the highly anticipated complement to NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Europe's XMM-Newton." Joining the XRS instrument are four X-ray Imaging Spectrometer instruments and the Hard X-ray Detector. The mission is expected to last five years. | de | M-V Rakete startet ASTRO-E2
Eine japanische Trägerrakete vom Typ M-V ist heute um 03:30 Uhr GMT vom Uchinoura Space Center mit dem Röntgenteleskop ASTRO-E2 gestartet. Der Satellit soll die Entstehung und die Struktur von Schwarzen Löchern und Galaxienhaufen untersuchen. Dazu gehört auch die Untersuchung von Neutronensternen und Supernovae. Ein wichtiges wissenschaftliches Ziel besteht aus der Beantwortung der Frage, wie und wo die chemischen Elemente entstehen. Auch soll geklärt werden, was passiert, wenn Materie in ein Schwarzes Loch fällt.
ASTRO-E2 ersetzt den im Februar 2000 bei einem Fehlstart verloren gegangenen Satelliten ASTRO-E. Dieser wurde als fünfter japanischer Röntgensatellit vom japanischen Institut für Weltraumforschung ISAS, seit 2003 Teil der JAXA, gemeinsam mit der NASA entwickelt. ASTRO-E2 deckt mit drei Instrumenten den Energiebereich 0.2-600 keV ab. Gegenüber anderen Röntgensatelliten zeichnet er sich besonders durch sein empfindliches und hoch auflösendes Spektrometer aus, das die Energie der eintreffenden Röntgenphotonen über ihre Wärmefreisetzung in einem gekühlten Detektor sehr genau misst.
Traditionsgemäß wird in Japan der Name der Mission nach einem erfolgreichen Start geändert. Diesmal wurde der Name „Suzaku“ vergeben. |
en | Image above: Artist's conception of Astro-E2 in orbit. Image credit: ISAS/JAXA
The Astro-E2 spacecraft will help us to learn in detail about the X-ray sky.
Launch Information
The launch times scheduled for July 8th and July 9th have been scrubbed due to bad weather predictions. The next possible launch attempt will be July 10th.
Scheduled launch date: July 10, 2005 at 12:30 pm Japan time (July 9 at 11:30 pm EDT)
Launch window: July 6 - July 15 and July 22 - August 2
The Japanese will provide a live launch webcast at ISAS TV.
Mission Overview
The Universe holds an enormous number of extremely energetic objects like neutron stars, active and merging galaxies, black holes, and supernovae. The Astro-E2 satellite will provide scientists with information to study these events in the X-ray energy range. Astronomers hope it will help answer several important questions: When and where are the chemical elements created? What happens when matter falls onto a black hole? How does nature heat gas to X-ray emitting temperatures? Among other instruments, Astro-E2 carries a new type of X-ray spectrometer, which will provide for the first time both high resolution (allowing scientists to see much finer detail in the spectrum) and high throughput (measuring a very large percentage of all of the photons that strike it). Astro-E2 is a re-flight of Astro-E, lost during launch in 2000. It is the successor to the ASCA X-ray satellite. Astro-E2 was developed at the Japanese Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS, which is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA.) in collaboration with Japanese and US institutions including NASA. It is scheduled for launch between July 6 and August 2, 2005. In the Japanese tradition, the mission will be renamed after launch, with the name remaining a secret until that time. | de | M-V Rakete startet ASTRO-E2
Eine japanische Trägerrakete vom Typ M-V ist heute um 03:30 Uhr GMT vom Uchinoura Space Center mit dem Röntgenteleskop ASTRO-E2 gestartet. Der Satellit soll die Entstehung und die Struktur von Schwarzen Löchern und Galaxienhaufen untersuchen. Dazu gehört auch die Untersuchung von Neutronensternen und Supernovae. Ein wichtiges wissenschaftliches Ziel besteht aus der Beantwortung der Frage, wie und wo die chemischen Elemente entstehen. Auch soll geklärt werden, was passiert, wenn Materie in ein Schwarzes Loch fällt.
ASTRO-E2 ersetzt den im Februar 2000 bei einem Fehlstart verloren gegangenen Satelliten ASTRO-E. Dieser wurde als fünfter japanischer Röntgensatellit vom japanischen Institut für Weltraumforschung ISAS, seit 2003 Teil der JAXA, gemeinsam mit der NASA entwickelt. ASTRO-E2 deckt mit drei Instrumenten den Energiebereich 0.2-600 keV ab. Gegenüber anderen Röntgensatelliten zeichnet er sich besonders durch sein empfindliches und hoch auflösendes Spektrometer aus, das die Energie der eintreffenden Röntgenphotonen über ihre Wärmefreisetzung in einem gekühlten Detektor sehr genau misst.
Traditionsgemäß wird in Japan der Name der Mission nach einem erfolgreichen Start geändert. Diesmal wurde der Name „Suzaku“ vergeben. |
es | Neil Armstrong falleció este sábado unos días después de cumplir 82 años. Así lo anunció su familia en un comunicado en el que no desveló el lugar de la muerte del astronauta ni la ciudad donde se celebrará su funeral. Hace unas semanas Armstrong se había sometido a una operación para desbloquear sus arterias coronarias cuyas secuelas no ha logrado superar.
Al astronauta se le recordará siempre como el primer ser humano que caminó por la superficie lunar. Un honor que le introdujo en el imaginario colectivo y que él mismo definió para quienes vieron su hazaña en directo como "un pequeño paso para el hombre" pero "un paso gigante para la humanidad".
La caminata lunar de Armstrong apenas duró dos horas y media. Pero su hazaña cautivó a millones de personas en todo el mundo y devolvió a sus compatriotas el orgullo que les había arrebatado la puesta en órbita del 'Sputnik' ruso en octubre de 1957. La carrera espacial estaba entonces en el corazón de la batalla estratégica de la Guerra Fría y Armstrong enseguida se transformó en el símbolo de la superioridad moral de Estados Unidos en su lucha contra Moscú.
Héroe a su pesar
Pero al astronauta nunca le gustó la etiqueta de héroe y siempre prefirió hablar lo menos posible sobre aquella misión. "Fue algo especial y memorable pero momentáneo porque había trabajo que hacer", explicó este año el propio Armstrong a una televisión australiana en una de sus contadas apariciones públicas desde su jubilación.
El presidente Obama ha lamentado la muerte de Armstrong y lo ha situado entre "los grandes héroes americanos de todos los tiempos". "Cuando él y sus compañeros despegaron en el 'Apollo 11', llevaban con ellos las aspiraciones de la nación entera", ha dicho el presidente, "demostraron al mundo que el espíritu americano puede ver más allá de lo que parece inimaginable y que cualquier cosa es posible con suficiente pasión y creatividad".
Antes de Obama, expresó su pesar Michael Collins, que ejerció como piloto en aquel viaje y fue el único de los astronautas del 'Apollo 11' que no pisó la Luna. "Fue el mejor", ha comentado Collins según transcribe la web de la NASA, "le echaré mucho de menos". Unos minutos después se pronunció Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, el tercer hombre de la misión, que expresó su tristeza por su muerte: "Es muy triste que no podamos estar juntos los tres en el 50 aniversario de la misión. Le recordaré como un gran comandante".
Carácter reservado
La familia de Armstrong saludó su legado en un comunicado en el que intentó contextualizar la fama de persona huraña que siempre arrastró desde la edad dorada de la carrera espacial: "Fue un héroe americano a su pesar que siempre creyó que sólo hacía su trabajo. Sirvió a su país con orgullo como piloto naval, piloto de pruebas y astronauta. Nunca dejó de ser un defensor de la aviación y de la exploración durante su vida y nunca perdió la pasión infantil que sentía por ellas. Siempre fue muy celoso de su intimidad. Pero siempre apreció las expresiones de buena voluntad de personas de todo el mundo".
Armstrong casi siempre prefirió el silencio sobre su misión lunar y se centró en llevar una vida a salvo de una atención que no soportaba. "No solía dar entrevistas pero no era una persona extraña o con la que fuera difícil charlar. Era sólo que no le gustaba ser el centro de atención", decía recientemente su colega Ron Huston.
Sería injusto reducir la carrera de Armstrong a sus fructíferos años como astronauta. Antes fue piloto de pruebas y aviador militar en Corea y se graduó como ingeniero astrofísico en la Universidad de Perdue. Unos sueños que nunca habría alcanzado si no fuera por una pasión por los aviones que cultivó desde niño. Voló por primera vez con apenas seis años y con 16 ya se había sacado su primer permiso de vuelo.
Armstrong se enroló en la segunda hornada de astronautas de la NASA en 1962 y debutó en el espacio con la misión Gemini 8, que logró salvar con un exitoso amerizaje de emergencia.
Trabajo de despacho
Al volver de la Luna, la NASA lo nombró vicepresidente. Pero Armstrong apenas aguantó un año antes de volverse a dar clase a la Universidad de Cincinnati y presidir su propia empresa informática.
Unos años antes de ir a la Luna, se le murió una hija por las secuelas de un tumor y quienes le conocen recuerdan que volvió a la oficina unos días después y se refugió en su trabajo sin decir nada. Un extremo que concuerda con las palabras de sus vecinos, que lo recuerdan hablando de golf y comiendo con su segunda esposa siempre en el mismo restaurante.
A principios de 2010, Armstrong rompió su silencio para protestar contra el recorte del presupuesto de la NASA del presidente Obama. El astronauta llegó a expresar sus "reservas" ante el Congreso y firmó una carta que definía el plan como una "propuesta errónea".
Fue la última batalla pública de Armstrong, que en 2003 presidió en Dayton los actos que celebraban el centenario de la aviación. Entonces el astronauta habló apenas unos segundos y ni siquiera mencionó su viaje a la Luna. Su familia expresó su pesar por la muerte de Armstrong e hizo una petición especial a sus admiradores: "La próxima vez que caminéis al aire libre en una noche despejada y veáis que la Luna os sonríe, pensad en Neil Armstrong y hacedle un guiño". | es | Neil Armstrong en 1969.
Archivo:Apollo 11 Landing - first steps on the moon.ogv|thumb|Neil Armstrong cuando decendió del módulo lunar el 20 de julio de 1969, convirtiéndose en el primer hombre en la Luna.
Neil Armstrong en 1969.
Neil Armstrong, primer ser humano en pisar la , falleció este sábado a los 82 años. Según indicó su familia, falleció debido a unas complicaciones de la operación a la que fue sometido a principios de mes para desbloquear sus arterias coronarias.
Armstrong había alcanzado la fama cuando el 20 de julio de 1969 se convirtió en el primer hombre en pisar la Luna, acción que famosamente describió como «un pequeño paso para un hombre pero un gran salto para la humanidad». Armstrong iba al mando de la expedición Apolo 11, compuesta por Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr y él. Armstrong y Aldrin habían caminado alrededor de 2 horas y media por la superficie de la Luna, trayendo rocas, sacando fotos y plantando la bandera estadounidense sobre la superficie lunar.
El haber pisado por primera vez la Luna se vio luego enredado en la política, como una muestra de «superioridad de los Estados Unidos sobre la Unión Soviética» en la carrera espacial de llegar a la Luna entre ambos países. Armstrong siempre demostró su desagradó por esta cuestión y dijo que era «charlatanería y otras tonterías adjuntas».
Sus ex-compañeros, Michael Collins y Edwin Aldrin, expresaron sus condolencias por la muerte de Armstrong. Así como también el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, quien lo sitúo «entre los grandes héroes estadounidenses de todos los tiempos» y dijo:
Armstrong nació el 5 de agosto de 1930 en Wapakoneta, Ohio. Había sido piloto de aviones de la marina y luego de la expedición fue nombrado vicepresidente de la NASA, de la cual se retiró en 1971. Luego de su retiro fue profesor de ingeniería aerospacial y ocupó cargos en consejos de administración de empresas aeronáuticas. Recibió la la medalla Langley para la Aviación de manos de Al Gore, la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad y en el 2011, tras estar varios años alejado de la vida pública, la medalla de Oro del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. |
es | En 1969, Neil Armstrong se convirtió en el primer hombre en pisar la Luna y posiblemente el hombre más famoso del universo.
Al preguntársele cómo se sintió ese día, respondió "muy, muy pequeño".
Más adelante cuestionó el valor de su legado, al ser testigo de cómo la sed por la exploración espacial se vio cada vez más enredada en la política y las batallas por fondos, que él llamó " charlatanería y otras tonterías adjuntas".
Neil Alden Armstrong nació en Ohio el 5 de agosto de 1930. Su padre trabajaba para el gobierno estatal y la familia tenía que mudarse constantemente, conforme iba cambiando de puesto.
Armstrong hizo su primer vuelo a los seis años con su padre y desde entonces desarrolló una pasión por la aeronáutica que lo acompañó toda su vida. Su héroe era Charles Lindbergh, y a los 16 años ya podía volar, incluso antes de conducir un auto.
Ya era un héroe condecorado por volar aviones de la Marina en la Guerra de Corea, cuando Armstrong se convirtió en piloto de prueba para el Comité Consejero Nacional para la Aeronáutica, antecesor de la NASA.
"Un pequeño paso para un hombre…"
Armstrong formó parte de un grupo de elite seleccionado para empujar a la tecnología contra las limitaciones de la naturaleza.
En 1962, John F. Kennedy prometió poner un hombre en la Luna para fines de la década.
Mientras los rusos ya estaban enviando hombres al espacio, los estadounidenses estaban decididos a cumplir con este compromiso, así que había abundante dinero y apoyo para el programa Apollo de la NASA.
Durante una previa misión Gemini 8, Armstrong había logrado corregir la rotación de una cápsula espacial y salvar su vida y la de su copiloto. Se destacaba por su timidez, que lo hacía casi taciturno, pero su habilidad para volar lo hizo el comandante natural de Apollo 11.
Para 1969, el equipo estaba listo para cumplir la promesa de Kennedy. En una nave especial que tenía sistemas de control con menos de una milésima del poder de computación de una moderna laptop, Armstrong y sus colegas Buzz Aldrin y Michael Collins partieron hacia la Luna.
La gente en todo el mundo compró televisores por primera vez para ser testigos de su esfuerzo, y más de 500 millones de personas vieron cada momento del alunizaje de Apollo 11 el 20 de julio.
Privado
Después de maniobrar para evitar rocas grandes, a Armstrong sólo le quedaba combustible para 20 segundos cuando finalmente colocó el módulo sobre la luna con seguridad entre las piedras. Desde dentro de la cápsula, reportó a una emocionada Misión de Control en Houston "Ha llegado el águila".
Y mientras desembarcaba de su nido lunar, he pronunció su frase cuidadosamente preparada, que lo que estaba haciendo era "un pequeño paso para el hombre, pero un gran salto para la humanidad". Quiso decir "un hombre" pero, dadas las circunstancias, la casi todos le perdonaron el error.
En cambio, observaron sobrecogidos cuando, con Aldrin a su lado, Armstrong plantó una bandera estadounidense en el Mar de la Tranquilidad y hasta jugó un poco de golf.
De regreso en la Tierra, la tripulación fue objeto de adulación y honor global, y los tres fueron festejados como estrellas de cine a donde iban. Pero después de la primera ronda de publicidad, Armstrong se negó a sacar provecho de su singular celebridad.
El hombre venerado como un héroe por el pueblo estadounidense y condecorado con la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad por su trabajo, rechazó el protagonismo y la fortuna potencial que venía con él.
En lugar de eso, vivió recluido en su casa de campo de Ohio, enseñando ingeniería en la Universidad de Cincinnati y más tarde se dedicó a los negocios.
Inspiración
Se negó a conceder entrevistas o firmar autógrafos y decepcionó a muchos admiradores con sus pedidos de privacidad. Sólo daba discursos ocasionales y su salida a la escena pública más sorprendente llegó en la forma de una serie de comerciales de Chrysler.
Una vez explicó: "No quiero ser un monumento vivo", y mientras sus compañeros astronautas recorrían una senda precaria a través de la fama después de la Luna -Buzz Aldrin sufrió de alcoholismo y una depresión nerviosa- Armstrong se mantuvo feliz "disfrutando en la oscuridad".
Sólo a regañadientes se unió a sus compañeros para celebrar el aniversario del alunizaje. En 1999, 30 años después, recibió junto a Aldrin y Collins la medalla Langley para la Aviación de manos del entonces vicepresidente Al Gore.
Caracterizado por una humildad personal por la cual rara vez mencionaba sus propios viajes espaciales, Armstrong fue capaz de todos modos de inspirar a un grupo de estudiantes que conoció aquel día. Les dijo: "Ustedes tendrán oportunidades que pueden imaginar".
Nadie ha vuelto a caminar en la Luna desde 1972 y, para mucha gente de hoy en día, la idea de regresar ha sido superada por la perspectiva de las misiones a Marte y más allá.
Pero los millones de personas en todo el mundo que estuvieron pegados a sus asientos frente al televisor en julio de 1969, vieron sus sueños más fantásticos hacerse realidad. Para ellos, el hombre tímido de Ohio abrió una frontera fresca y nadie olvidará los impresionantes logros de Neil Armstrong.
Armstrong murió a la edad de 82 años, por complicaciones derivadas de una cirugía al corazón.
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Archivo:Apollo 11 Landing - first steps on the moon.ogv|thumb|Neil Armstrong cuando decendió del módulo lunar el 20 de julio de 1969, convirtiéndose en el primer hombre en la Luna.
Neil Armstrong en 1969.
Neil Armstrong, primer ser humano en pisar la , falleció este sábado a los 82 años. Según indicó su familia, falleció debido a unas complicaciones de la operación a la que fue sometido a principios de mes para desbloquear sus arterias coronarias.
Armstrong había alcanzado la fama cuando el 20 de julio de 1969 se convirtió en el primer hombre en pisar la Luna, acción que famosamente describió como «un pequeño paso para un hombre pero un gran salto para la humanidad». Armstrong iba al mando de la expedición Apolo 11, compuesta por Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr y él. Armstrong y Aldrin habían caminado alrededor de 2 horas y media por la superficie de la Luna, trayendo rocas, sacando fotos y plantando la bandera estadounidense sobre la superficie lunar.
El haber pisado por primera vez la Luna se vio luego enredado en la política, como una muestra de «superioridad de los Estados Unidos sobre la Unión Soviética» en la carrera espacial de llegar a la Luna entre ambos países. Armstrong siempre demostró su desagradó por esta cuestión y dijo que era «charlatanería y otras tonterías adjuntas».
Sus ex-compañeros, Michael Collins y Edwin Aldrin, expresaron sus condolencias por la muerte de Armstrong. Así como también el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, quien lo sitúo «entre los grandes héroes estadounidenses de todos los tiempos» y dijo:
Armstrong nació el 5 de agosto de 1930 en Wapakoneta, Ohio. Había sido piloto de aviones de la marina y luego de la expedición fue nombrado vicepresidente de la NASA, de la cual se retiró en 1971. Luego de su retiro fue profesor de ingeniería aerospacial y ocupó cargos en consejos de administración de empresas aeronáuticas. Recibió la la medalla Langley para la Aviación de manos de Al Gore, la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad y en el 2011, tras estar varios años alejado de la vida pública, la medalla de Oro del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. |
en | Astronaut Neil Armstrong, who uttered one of history's most famous proclamations when he became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, died Saturday.
Armstrong was commander of the Apollo 11 mission that made the first manned lunar landing on July 20, 1969. He had undergone heart surgery Aug. 8, three days after his 82nd birthday. His family said that Armstrong had passed from post-surgery complications.
As he stepped off the lunar module and set foot on the moon's surface, he said "that's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,'' underscoring a centuries-old fantasy among human kind and a high point in the Cold War era space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. An estimated 500 million TV viewers watched the event, televised in grainy, black-and-white.
The notoriously publicity shy Armstrong was a reluctant hero. In an era of celebrity adulation, Armstrong refused to sign autographs or grant interviews, giving only infrequent speeches. "I don't want a living memorial,'' he once said. He reluctantly joined fellow Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins in anniversary celebrations of the moon landing.
Armstrong flew Navy fighter jets during the Korean War, flying nearly 80 misssions and later became a test pilot before joining the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, becoming one of its first astronauts. Armstrong commanded Gemini 8 in 1966, which suffered near disaster until he cooly used a back-up system to stop an uncontrolled capsule spin and made an emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean.
Armstrong's prowess was again demonstrated following the moon landing, when it was later revealed that lunar module had just 20 seconds of fuel left when he steered to avoid large boulders before touching down in the Sea of Tranquility.
Born in tiny Wapakoneta, Ohio, Armstrong took his first flight as a six year old, fueling a lifetime passion for aviation. The lunar landing made him more popular than his hero, aviator Charles Lindberg, but Armstrong shunned the spotlight.
After walking on the moon, he lived a mostly private life, teaching erospace engineering at the University of Cincinnati and later becoming chairman of Virginia-based Computer Technologies for Aviation. | es | Neil Armstrong en 1969.
Archivo:Apollo 11 Landing - first steps on the moon.ogv|thumb|Neil Armstrong cuando decendió del módulo lunar el 20 de julio de 1969, convirtiéndose en el primer hombre en la Luna.
Neil Armstrong en 1969.
Neil Armstrong, primer ser humano en pisar la , falleció este sábado a los 82 años. Según indicó su familia, falleció debido a unas complicaciones de la operación a la que fue sometido a principios de mes para desbloquear sus arterias coronarias.
Armstrong había alcanzado la fama cuando el 20 de julio de 1969 se convirtió en el primer hombre en pisar la Luna, acción que famosamente describió como «un pequeño paso para un hombre pero un gran salto para la humanidad». Armstrong iba al mando de la expedición Apolo 11, compuesta por Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr y él. Armstrong y Aldrin habían caminado alrededor de 2 horas y media por la superficie de la Luna, trayendo rocas, sacando fotos y plantando la bandera estadounidense sobre la superficie lunar.
El haber pisado por primera vez la Luna se vio luego enredado en la política, como una muestra de «superioridad de los Estados Unidos sobre la Unión Soviética» en la carrera espacial de llegar a la Luna entre ambos países. Armstrong siempre demostró su desagradó por esta cuestión y dijo que era «charlatanería y otras tonterías adjuntas».
Sus ex-compañeros, Michael Collins y Edwin Aldrin, expresaron sus condolencias por la muerte de Armstrong. Así como también el presidente de Estados Unidos, Barack Obama, quien lo sitúo «entre los grandes héroes estadounidenses de todos los tiempos» y dijo:
Armstrong nació el 5 de agosto de 1930 en Wapakoneta, Ohio. Había sido piloto de aviones de la marina y luego de la expedición fue nombrado vicepresidente de la NASA, de la cual se retiró en 1971. Luego de su retiro fue profesor de ingeniería aerospacial y ocupó cargos en consejos de administración de empresas aeronáuticas. Recibió la la medalla Langley para la Aviación de manos de Al Gore, la Medalla Presidencial de la Libertad y en el 2011, tras estar varios años alejado de la vida pública, la medalla de Oro del Congreso de los Estados Unidos. |
es | En la conmemoración de los 19 años de la muerte del fundador de la UDI Jaime Guzmán, el Presidente Sebastián Piñera hizo una crítica a los gobiernos de la Concertación, señalando que un progresismo ambiguo debilitó los valores de la sociedad chilena.
"Recuperar, fortalecer y reestablecer valores que un progresismo ambiguo y, a veces, muy poco identificado con el alma de nuestro país ha ido debilitando y yo quiero reivindicar los valores fundamentales que son los valores por los cuales luchó Jaime Guzmán", aseguró el Presidente.
Las palabras de Piñera provocaron molestia en la Concertación, siendo consideradas por el senador socialista Camilo Escalona, como ambiguas y atribuibles a un ejercicio académico.
"No puedo comentar una declaración tan ambigua, porque él debería definir a lo que se refiere de hablar de un progresismo ambiguo y yo siento que la tarea del jefe de Estado, más allá de incursionar en la teoría política que siempre puede ser dudoso y controvertido, es aunar los esfuerzos del país en pos de la reconstrucción", indicó Escalona.
Por su parte, la ex ministra del Sernam del gobierno de Bachelet, Laura Albornoz, señaló que la sociedad chilena no necesita que el gobierno les imponga valores, sino que respete y dignifique las iniciativas de ley que protegen a la familia, como la condena a la violencia intrafamiliar, el término de las diferencias entre hijos concebidos dentro del matrimonio y el avance en los derechos de las mujeres.
UDI pidió agilizar trámites sobre el caso Guzmán
La UDI pidió al Gobierno de Sebastián Piñera agilizar los trámites para que lo asesinos de Jaime Guzmán cumplan condena en Chile. Sin embargo, desde el mismo partido hay quienes prefieren no distraer al ejecutivo de las tareas propias de la reconstrucción tras el terremoto.
El presidente de la UDI, Juan Antonio Coloma, manifestó que los gobiernos de la Concertación no tuvieron la voluntad para extraditar a los causantes del asesinato, por lo que se lo solicitó a Piñera.
"Se lo hemos solicitado a las autoridades que agilicen los trámites que llevan cinco años esperando la extradición y tenemos el convencimiento y la esperanza de que sí lo vamos a tener", aseguró.
No obstante, el senador Jovino Novoa dijo que prefiere no distraer al Ejecutivo con este caso, para no desviar sus esfuerzos de la reconstrucción posterremoto. | en | Sebastián Piñera during a speech in the Homage to Guzmán.
Jaime Guzmán inaugurated in 2008, located in the entering to Sanhattan, in Vitacura, Santiago de Chile.
The Chilean President Sebastián Piñera and other center-right politicians attended last Thursday morning the Memorial to Jaime Guzmán to celebrate the 19th anniversary from the death of the founder of the Unión Demócrata Independiente (UDI) (''Independent Democratic Union'').
After the ceremony, a pilgrimage to the General Cemetery and a mass, place that in the past the ceremony was made completely in memoriam to the dead senator. In the monument, the President Piñera and Juan Antonio Coloma, UDI president, did some speeches, in which they emphasized the Guzmán politic figure and they emphasized it as the first remembrance from his death in a center-right government.
Jaime Guzmán was a constitutionalist lawyer, collaborator in the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, one of the redactor of the Chilean Politic Constitution of 1980, and founder of the UDI. Guzmán was killed in April 1, 1991 when he was going out the Western Campus of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He was taken to the Militar Hospital of Santiago, but he died 3 hours later. He was killed by the Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez (Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front), and according to recent investigations, he was killed specifically by Ricardo Palma and Raúl Escobar, and his assassination was being planned since the eighties. |
en | Among persons who received a first dose and for whom sufficient time had elapsed to receive the second dose, 88.0% had completed the series; 8.6% had not received the second dose but were still within the allowable interval to receive it. Among all 2-dose recipients, 95.6% received the second dose within the recommended interval. Differences in missed doses or second doses administered outside the recommended interval were identified among jurisdictions and demographic groups.
In December 2020, two COVID-19 vaccines (Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) received Emergency Use Authorization from the Food and Drug Administration.*,† Both vaccines require 2 doses for a completed series. The recommended interval between doses is 21 days for Pfizer-BioNTech and 28 days for Moderna; however, up to 42 days between doses is permissible when a delay is unavoidable.§ Two analyses of COVID-19 vaccine administration data were conducted among persons who initiated the vaccination series during December 14, 2020−February 14, 2021, and whose doses were reported to CDC through February 20, 2021. The first analysis was conducted to determine whether persons who received a first dose and had sufficient time to receive the second dose (i.e., as of February 14, 2021, >25 days from receipt of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine or >32 days from receipt of Moderna vaccine had elapsed) had received the second dose. A second analysis was conducted among persons who received a second COVID-19 dose by February 14, 2021, to determine whether the dose was received during the recommended dosing interval, which in this study was defined as 17–25 days (Pfizer-BioNTech) and 24–32 days (Moderna) after the first dose. Analyses were stratified by jurisdiction and by demographic characteristics. In the first analysis, among 12,496,258 persons who received the first vaccine dose and for whom sufficient time had elapsed to receive the second dose, 88.0% had completed the series, 8.6% had not received the second dose but remained within the allowable interval (≤42 days since the first dose), and 3.4% had missed the second dose (outside the allowable interval, >42 days since the first dose). The percentage of persons who missed the second dose varied by jurisdiction (range = 0.0%−9.1%) and among demographic groups was highest among non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons (5.1%) and persons aged 16−44 years (4.0%). In the second analysis, among 14,205,768 persons who received a second dose, 95.6% received the dose within the recommended interval, although percentages varied by jurisdiction (range = 79.0%−99.9%). Public health officials should identify and address possible barriers to completing the COVID-19 vaccination series to ensure equitable coverage across communities and maximum health benefits for recipients. Strategies to ensure series completion could include scheduling second-dose appointments at the first-dose administration and sending reminders for second-dose visits.
During December 14, 2020−February 14, 2021, a total of 40,517,900 persons initiated the COVID-19 vaccination series and had vaccine administration data reported to CDC by February 20, 2021. Providers submitted COVID-19 vaccine administration data to CDC via immunization information systems (IIS), the Vaccine Administration Management System (VAMS), or direct data submission.¶ First and second doses were linked based on a recipient ID assigned by the reporting entity (e.g., jurisdictions, territories, and federal entities) and the three-digit reporting entity code.**
Two analyses were conducted that included 58 jurisdictions (49 states, the District of Columbia, and eight territories or freely associated states††; 37,421,619 persons) (Figure). The first analysis assessed the series completion status among 12,496,258 persons who had received the first vaccine dose and for whom sufficient time had elapsed to receive the second dose. The second analysis examined the interval between the first and second doses among 14,205,768 persons who had received a second dose. Persons for whom the manufacturer of the first dose was unknown (0.2%; 86,480) were excluded from both analyses. Persons with mismatched vaccine manufacturers for the first and second doses (0.2%; 90,484) were categorized according to the first-dose manufacturer’s recommended vaccination schedule. Persons for whom sufficient time to receive the second dose had not elapsed were excluded from analysis of completion status (66.4%; 24,838,881); persons who did not receive a second dose by February 14, 2021, were excluded from the second-dose interval analysis (61.8%; 23,129,371).
To assess second-dose completion status, persons who had sufficient time to receive the second dose (i.e., received the first dose on or before January 12 [Moderna] or January 19 [Pfizer-BioNTech] and >32 days or >25 days, respectively, had elapsed between the first dose and February 14) were included and categorized into three mutually exclusive groups: 1) completed series (received 2 doses on separate days within any time interval); 2) no second dose received but remained within the allowable interval (26–42 days [Pfizer-BioNTech] or 33–42 days [Moderna] after first dose); or 3) missed the second dose (>42 days after first dose) (Supplementary Figure 1, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103854).
To examine the interval between doses, persons who received the second dose at any time during December 14, 2020−February 14, 2021, were categorized into four mutually exclusive groups according to timing of receipt of the second dose: 1) early (before the recommended interval), 2) during the recommended interval, 3) after the recommended interval but within the allowable interval, or 4) late (outside the allowable interval). Both analyses were conducted at the national level and analyzed by jurisdiction and demographic characteristics (race/ethnicity, age, and sex) using information reported with the first-dose record. Persons with missing data for race/ethnicity, age, or sex were excluded from the respective demographic analyses. Analyses were conducted using SAS (version 9.4; SAS Institute). This activity was reviewed by CDC and was conducted consistent with applicable federal law and CDC policy.§§
Among 12,496,258 persons who received a first COVID-19 vaccine dose and for whom sufficient time to receive the second dose had elapsed (Figure), 88.0% had completed the series, 8.6% had not received the second dose but remained within the allowable interval, and 3.4% had missed the second dose (Table 1). Substantial differences in completion status were observed across jurisdictions (median = 88.9%, range = 75.3%−99.7%) (Table 2) (Supplementary Figure 2, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103854). In 10 jurisdictions, <85%¶¶ of persons who received a first dose had completed the series. In addition, the percentage of persons who missed the second dose varied by jurisdiction, ranging from 0.0% to 9.1% (median = 2.8%), with >5% of persons having missed the second dose in eight jurisdictions.
Race/ethnicity was reported for 6,764,604 (54.1%) persons who had sufficient time to receive the second dose. Among persons for whom information on race/ethnicity was reported, demographic differences in completion status were also observed (Table 2) (Supplementary Figure 3, https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/103854). The lowest series completion rate (83.7%) and the highest prevalence of missing the second dose (5.1%) was among AI/AN persons. Series completion rates among non-Hispanic persons of multiple/other races (86.1%) and Hispanic persons (87.0%) were lower than the rates among non-Hispanic Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander (90.3%) and non-Hispanic White (90.3%) persons. Age was reported for >99% of vaccine recipients. Series completion was lowest among adults aged ≥65 years (87.2%); however, adults in this age group also had the lowest percentage of missed second doses (2.3%). Among persons aged 16–44 years, 4.0% missed the second dose. Differences in series completion and missed second doses by sex were minimal.
Among 14,205,768 persons who received a second COVID-19 vaccine dose, 95.6% received the second dose within the recommended interval, 1.5% received the dose early, 2.8% received it after the recommended interval but within the allowable interval, and 0.1% received the dose late. Differences in receipt of the second dose within the recommended interval were observed across jurisdictions (median = 96.4%; range = 79.0%–99.9%), with >10% of vaccine recipients receiving the second dose outside the recommended interval in four jurisdictions. A median of 1.0% of persons across jurisdictions received the second dose early (range = 0.1%–8.7%); >2% of persons received the second dose early in 10 of the 58 jurisdictions. Late receipt of the second dose ranged from 0.0% (14 jurisdictions) to 0.8% (median = 0.1%); approximately 0.4%–0.8% of vaccine recipients received the second dose late in three jurisdictions. Differences in receipt of the second dose within the recommended interval by demographic characteristics were minimal. | pt | A vacinação contra vai bem nos Estados Unidos, que não só lidera o ranking em número absoluto de doses aplicadas, como também tem tido apoio da população na imunização.
Em dados divulgados hoje, o CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) anunciou que "entre as pessoas que receberam a primeira dose e para as quais havia decorrido tempo suficiente para receber a segunda dose, 88,0% completaram" o esquema vacinal.
Por outro lado, apenas 3% perderam - ou até podem ter recusado - a aplicação da 2ª dose.
Atualmente há duas vacinas covid-19 em uso no país, que imunizou até ontem, segundo dados do Our World In Data, 107 milhões de pessoas com ao menos uma dose, a da e a da .
Ambas as vacinas requerem 2 doses para a imunização completa, sendo o intervalo recomendado entre as doses de 21 dias para a da Pfizer-BioNTech e de 28 dias para a da Moderna. No entanto, segundo o CDC, em casos inevitáveis, até 42 dias de intervalo são permitidos.
A vacina da , liberada há poucos dias, deve começar a ser aplicada nas próximas semanas. |
fr | ats | 04.03.2009 | 21:09
Au moins vingt détenus sont morts lors d'une mutinerie dans la prison de la ville frontalière de Ciudad Juarez, dans le nord du Mexique. Il a fallu l'intervention de l'armée, de la police fédérale et des forces de l'ordre de l'Etat pour rétablir l'ordre.
"Jusqu'à présent, vingt cadavres portant des traces de coups et de blessures à l'arme blanche ont été retrouvés. Il y a de nombreux blessés car c'était une bagarre entre détenus", a annoncé une source policière sous couvert de l'anonymat.
Près de 80 militaires ont encerclé le bâtiment, certains se postant sur les toits, afin d'éviter la fuite éventuelle des prisonniers. Deux hélicoptères survolaient également la zone, a constaté un journaliste de l'AFP.
Ciudad Juarez, située près de la frontière américaine, est l'une des localités les plus violentes du Mexique. | fr | Une mutinerie dans une prison de Ciudad Juárez, au Mexique, a fait au moins 20 morts parmi les prisonniers. Le bilan fait état de plusieurs blessés parmi les détenus. Ciudad Juárez est une ville située à la frontière américano-mexicaine, où la violence fait rage entre les trafiquants de drogue. Des prisonniers ont réussi à dérober les clés d'un surveillant pénitentiaire avant d'ouvrir les cellules de 170 détenus. Selon Victor Valencia, représentant du gouvernement dans la ville, . L'armée et la police de l'État de Chihuahua et du Mexique sont entrées pour rétablir l'ordre, alors que deux hélicoptères survolaient le secteur. |
fr | EDITO - Ils sont entrepreneurs indépendants, font peu de bruit, disposent de peu de couverture sociale et ont particulièrement souffert de la crise. Il serait plus que de temps de penser enfin à eux... | fr | Une mutinerie dans une prison de Ciudad Juárez, au Mexique, a fait au moins 20 morts parmi les prisonniers. Le bilan fait état de plusieurs blessés parmi les détenus. Ciudad Juárez est une ville située à la frontière américano-mexicaine, où la violence fait rage entre les trafiquants de drogue. Des prisonniers ont réussi à dérober les clés d'un surveillant pénitentiaire avant d'ouvrir les cellules de 170 détenus. Selon Victor Valencia, représentant du gouvernement dans la ville, . L'armée et la police de l'État de Chihuahua et du Mexique sont entrées pour rétablir l'ordre, alors que deux hélicoptères survolaient le secteur. |
fr | Au moins vingt détenus sont morts et plusieurs autres ont été blessés, mercredi 4 mars, au cours d'une mutinerie dans une prison, dans la ville frontalière de Ciudad Juarez (nord du Mexique), a annoncé une source policière.
"Jusqu'à présent, vingt cadavres portant des traces de coups et de blessures à l'arme blanche ont été retrouvés. Il y a de nombreux blessés car c'était une bagarre entre détenus", a indiqué cette source, sous couvert de l'anonymat.
L'intervention de l'armée, de la police fédérale et des forces de l'ordre de l'Etat de Chihuahua a été nécessaire pour rétablir l'ordre dans la prison, située dans l'une des localités les plus violentes du Mexique, près de la frontière états-unienne.
Près de quatre-vingts militaires ont encerclé le bâtiment, certains se postant sur les toits, afin de parer à la fuite éventuelle de prisonniers. Deux hélicoptères survolaient également la zone. | fr | Une mutinerie dans une prison de Ciudad Juárez, au Mexique, a fait au moins 20 morts parmi les prisonniers. Le bilan fait état de plusieurs blessés parmi les détenus. Ciudad Juárez est une ville située à la frontière américano-mexicaine, où la violence fait rage entre les trafiquants de drogue. Des prisonniers ont réussi à dérober les clés d'un surveillant pénitentiaire avant d'ouvrir les cellules de 170 détenus. Selon Victor Valencia, représentant du gouvernement dans la ville, . L'armée et la police de l'État de Chihuahua et du Mexique sont entrées pour rétablir l'ordre, alors que deux hélicoptères survolaient le secteur. |
en | The bombs in Ahwaz exploded over a two-hour period
Four blasts targeted public buildings in the south-western city of Ahwaz, killing at least eight people and wounding more than 70 others.
Hours later, a bomb exploded in the capital Tehran, killing two people. Three other bombs were defused.
Bombings have been rare in Iran since the war with Iraq ended in 1988. No group has claimed responsibility.
Ahwaz, which is close to the Iraq border, was the focus of unrest between Arabs and Persians in April, when several people were reportedly killed.
'Failure'
The bombings in Ahwaz took place over a two-hour period.
One of the bombs exploded outside the governor-general's headquarters.
Two went off near government offices and a fourth exploded near the home of a local state television executive.
The interior ministry also confirmed that a bottle filled with explosives blew up in Vali Asr square in central Tehran, but there were no reports of casualties.
A spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council, Iran's top security decision-making body, blamed the attacks on separatist Arabs aided by members of the armed Iraq-based opposition group, the People's Mujahideen, and remnants of the Baath Party.
The spokesman, Agha Mohammadi, told the BBC he was sure the Americans were behind the attacks and also suggested that Britain might be involved - but he gave no evidence to support his claims.
The People's Mujahideen denied any involvement in the attacks.
"Whoever is responsible for this, the target of the blasts is to undermine Friday's presidential elections," said interior ministry spokesman Jahanbaksh Khanjani.
Rumour
Iranians go to the polls on Friday to elect a successor to President Mohammad Khatami.
Opinion polls put former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in the lead.
April's trouble in Ahwaz - the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province - started after a letter circulated on the internet suggested that non-Arabs were being-relocated to the city to dilute its ethnic Arab population.
Crowds attacked government offices and banks, setting them on fire, and hundreds of people were arrested.
The official who was supposed to have written the letter said it was a forgery. | en | Four separate bombs have exploded in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, killing more than five people and wounding up to 87 others. The presidential election is due in five days time.
Later, an additional bomb was detonated in Teheran, killing three and wounding several others.
Earlier news reports reported a lower number, but reports from two major international agencies are now reporting much higher injury numbers. Bombings in Iran have been extremely rare, since the war with Iraq ended in 1988.
One bomb exploded outside the governor general's office. Three more bombs exploded near government buildings in a period of two hours. Some reports put the official death toll at eight, and official reports confirm that up to 30 were injured; but final numbers are not yet known.
"We cannot say for now who committed these attacks, but the intelligence ministry is investigating," The deputy governor of Khuzestan said in a statement to state television. He went on to say that "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse."
The Ahwaz attacks have been claimed by a previously unknown group known as the "Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades," while a group protesting the bombings outside the Khuzestan governor's residence chanted "Death to the hypocrites" - a slogan applied to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) organization.
Ali Agha Mohammadi, head press secretary for the security services at first refused to implicate the MeK in the attacks, but later asserted that the bombs “may have been the work of people who belong to the ." The MeK, which has admitted responsibility for previous attacks, have disclaimed any part in the latest string of bombings.
The MeK is currently listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department and has received similar designations from other governments and the European Union. However, according to two prominent security analysts, the bombings seen this weekend are not their style. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” according to Mustafa Akmal. “The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said, adding “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Akmal's colleague, Walter Murray of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor agreed, saying it would be foolish for the group to alienate potential supporters in the West and endanger the fruits of years of lobbying western governments with such attacks. Murray felt the bombers were more likely "...loose cannons..." in Iran's military or intelligence services.
According to Iranian top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi, "the terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq." He added that "these terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq."
These attacks seem to represent a new capability of anti-Tehran forces to strike inside of Iran that did not exist before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
There has been no official US denunciation of the attacks. |
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Modi sees election danger in India's 'Dalit Queen' LUCKNOW, India When Amit Shah, president of Narendra Modi's ruling party, meets with the Indian prime minister, he is sometimes asked a question he struggles to answer: "What is behenji thinking?" | en | Four separate bombs have exploded in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, killing more than five people and wounding up to 87 others. The presidential election is due in five days time.
Later, an additional bomb was detonated in Teheran, killing three and wounding several others.
Earlier news reports reported a lower number, but reports from two major international agencies are now reporting much higher injury numbers. Bombings in Iran have been extremely rare, since the war with Iraq ended in 1988.
One bomb exploded outside the governor general's office. Three more bombs exploded near government buildings in a period of two hours. Some reports put the official death toll at eight, and official reports confirm that up to 30 were injured; but final numbers are not yet known.
"We cannot say for now who committed these attacks, but the intelligence ministry is investigating," The deputy governor of Khuzestan said in a statement to state television. He went on to say that "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse."
The Ahwaz attacks have been claimed by a previously unknown group known as the "Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades," while a group protesting the bombings outside the Khuzestan governor's residence chanted "Death to the hypocrites" - a slogan applied to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) organization.
Ali Agha Mohammadi, head press secretary for the security services at first refused to implicate the MeK in the attacks, but later asserted that the bombs “may have been the work of people who belong to the ." The MeK, which has admitted responsibility for previous attacks, have disclaimed any part in the latest string of bombings.
The MeK is currently listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department and has received similar designations from other governments and the European Union. However, according to two prominent security analysts, the bombings seen this weekend are not their style. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” according to Mustafa Akmal. “The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said, adding “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Akmal's colleague, Walter Murray of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor agreed, saying it would be foolish for the group to alienate potential supporters in the West and endanger the fruits of years of lobbying western governments with such attacks. Murray felt the bombers were more likely "...loose cannons..." in Iran's military or intelligence services.
According to Iranian top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi, "the terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq." He added that "these terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq."
These attacks seem to represent a new capability of anti-Tehran forces to strike inside of Iran that did not exist before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
There has been no official US denunciation of the attacks. |
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Death toll in Iran explosions rises to 10 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) The death toll from weekend explosions days before Iran's presidential election rose to 10 when one of the injured died, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Monday. A car damaged by an explosion in Ahvaz, Iran, Sunday where at least eight people were killed. AP At least 98 people in provincial capital of Ahvaz were wounded — 26 in serious condition, state-run radio quoted Gov. Mohammad Jafar Sarrami as saying. Ahvaz is the capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province, bordering Iraq. Related video: Four bomb attacks rock Iran The overnight death in the hospital brought the number killed in Sunday's bombings to 10 — nine in Ahvaz and one in Tehran. Another four were wounded in the Tehran blast The bombings, which came ahead of Friday's election, were the deadliest in more than a decade in Iran. Police said one suspect had been arrested, but did not give further details. A spokesman for the Supreme National Security Council blamed groups affiliated with Saddam Hussein's former Baathist regime in Iraq. State TV quoted spokesman Ali Agha Mohammadi as saying those behind the Ahvaz bombings had infiltrated Iran from Basra in southern Iraq. Some Sunni leaders in Iraq have accused Shiite Iran of meddling in Iraqi affairs by backing Shiite Muslim clergy and politicians in a bid to sway Iraq's politics toward an Islamic establishment. Iran denies the allegations, but some speculate that Saddam loyalists could be trying to create insecurity in Iran ahead of the election. Others pointed to a more local cause. Ahvaz was the site of recent violent protests over alleged plans to alter the proportion of Arabs and non-Arabs in the region. Amir Hossein Motahar, director of security at the Interior Ministry, said one car bomb went off in front of the Ahvaz governor's office. He said two separate bombs blew up in the city's housing department and planning department. The fourth bomb, planted in a handbag on the street, exploded as experts tried to defuse it. The fourth site was near the home of the head of the provincial radio and television station. The two days of violent protests in Ahvaz took place after reports circulated of an alleged plan to decrease the proportion of Arabs in the area. Officials at the time confirmed one death but opposition groups said more than 20 demonstrators had been killed. Some 250 were arrested. The protests were sparked after copies of a letter allegedly signed by Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi circulated in the area. The letter ordered the relocation of non-Arabs to the Ahvaz to make them the majority population. Abtahi denied writing the letter. Arabs make up about 3% of Iran's population; Persians account for 51% of the population of 69 million. Bombings have been rare in Iran since the end of the 1980-88 war with Iraq. Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. | en | Four separate bombs have exploded in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, killing more than five people and wounding up to 87 others. The presidential election is due in five days time.
Later, an additional bomb was detonated in Teheran, killing three and wounding several others.
Earlier news reports reported a lower number, but reports from two major international agencies are now reporting much higher injury numbers. Bombings in Iran have been extremely rare, since the war with Iraq ended in 1988.
One bomb exploded outside the governor general's office. Three more bombs exploded near government buildings in a period of two hours. Some reports put the official death toll at eight, and official reports confirm that up to 30 were injured; but final numbers are not yet known.
"We cannot say for now who committed these attacks, but the intelligence ministry is investigating," The deputy governor of Khuzestan said in a statement to state television. He went on to say that "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse."
The Ahwaz attacks have been claimed by a previously unknown group known as the "Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades," while a group protesting the bombings outside the Khuzestan governor's residence chanted "Death to the hypocrites" - a slogan applied to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) organization.
Ali Agha Mohammadi, head press secretary for the security services at first refused to implicate the MeK in the attacks, but later asserted that the bombs “may have been the work of people who belong to the ." The MeK, which has admitted responsibility for previous attacks, have disclaimed any part in the latest string of bombings.
The MeK is currently listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department and has received similar designations from other governments and the European Union. However, according to two prominent security analysts, the bombings seen this weekend are not their style. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” according to Mustafa Akmal. “The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said, adding “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Akmal's colleague, Walter Murray of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor agreed, saying it would be foolish for the group to alienate potential supporters in the West and endanger the fruits of years of lobbying western governments with such attacks. Murray felt the bombers were more likely "...loose cannons..." in Iran's military or intelligence services.
According to Iranian top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi, "the terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq." He added that "these terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq."
These attacks seem to represent a new capability of anti-Tehran forces to strike inside of Iran that did not exist before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
There has been no official US denunciation of the attacks. |
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Tehran, Jun. 12 – An hour after a state-run news agency reported a second explosion in Tehran, eye-witnesses reported that the blast near the capital’s Vali-Asr Square seemed to have been an accidental fire in the basement of a computer shop.
A local police chief’s account seemed to confirm suspicions that mysterious hands within Iran’s clerical regime wanted to present the incident as the latest in a series of bombings that took place in Tehran and the provincial city of Ahwaz, claiming eight lives in a single day and wounding 75 others, according to official statements.
“The fire in the computer shop was not the result of an explosion,” Col. Khancherli of Tehran police told the state-run ISNA news agency.
Four bombs went off in Ahwaz, capital of Khuzistan Province, where most of Iran's oil reserves lie.
Hours later, a bomb in Tehran’s Imam Hussein Square killed one person and wounded five others. The Tehran bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin.
Responsibility for the Ahwaz blasts was claimed by a shadowy group calling itself the Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades.
After the blasts, 150 persons gathered outside the governor's office in a government-organized demonstration, waving Iranian flags and chanting "Death to the hypocrites" -- a term used for the opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) Organisation.
Asked if the Mojahedin were to blame for the blasts in Ahwaz, Ali Aghamohammadi, the government’s chief security spokesman, said earlier today, “We are not blaming this on them at this juncture.”
But the government’s version of the events seems to have changed by the evening, when Aghamohammadi told journalists that some of the bombings “may have been the work of people who belong to the [Mojahedin]”.
In statements sent to international news agencies, the MeK strongly denied any involvement in the blasts in Ahwaz and Tehran.
“It’s just a measure of the mullahs’ despair over what looks set to be a solid boycott of their sham elections on June 17 that they are falsely blaming these bombings on the Mojahedin,” Shahin Gobadi, a spokesman for the coalition National Council of Resistance that includes the MeK among its members, said in a telephone interview.
The government’s precipitous steps to blame the blasts on the MeK and opposition groups calling for a boycott of the elections seemed to lend credence to the exiles’ claims.
Later in the day, Aghamohammadi tied the bombings to the growing calls for a national boycott of the elections and blamed opposition groups who had called for a boycott for the bombings. He also suggested infiltrators had come from parts of neighbouring Iraq under U.S.-British control.
"Based on intelligence we received, a network was trying to create problems before the election," he said.
Aghamohammadi said it appeared that some of the infiltrators belonged to the MeK, a claim strongly denied by the opposition group.
Iran experts reacted with strong scepticism to Aghamohammadi’s allegations. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” Mustafa Akmal, a Middle East terrorism expert based in Cologne said in a telephone interview.
“The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said. “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Walter Murray of the London-based risk assessment group Gulf Intelligence Monitor concurred with Akmal’s view.
“These guys have been committed to a strategy of political and propaganda pressure against Tehran, while trying to garner support in the West,” he said. “It would be foolish for them to undo all that with a few pointless bombings. This looks much more like an Iranian intelligence operation, or the work of some loose cannons in Iran’s huge military-security complex.” | en | Four separate bombs have exploded in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, killing more than five people and wounding up to 87 others. The presidential election is due in five days time.
Later, an additional bomb was detonated in Teheran, killing three and wounding several others.
Earlier news reports reported a lower number, but reports from two major international agencies are now reporting much higher injury numbers. Bombings in Iran have been extremely rare, since the war with Iraq ended in 1988.
One bomb exploded outside the governor general's office. Three more bombs exploded near government buildings in a period of two hours. Some reports put the official death toll at eight, and official reports confirm that up to 30 were injured; but final numbers are not yet known.
"We cannot say for now who committed these attacks, but the intelligence ministry is investigating," The deputy governor of Khuzestan said in a statement to state television. He went on to say that "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse."
The Ahwaz attacks have been claimed by a previously unknown group known as the "Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades," while a group protesting the bombings outside the Khuzestan governor's residence chanted "Death to the hypocrites" - a slogan applied to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) organization.
Ali Agha Mohammadi, head press secretary for the security services at first refused to implicate the MeK in the attacks, but later asserted that the bombs “may have been the work of people who belong to the ." The MeK, which has admitted responsibility for previous attacks, have disclaimed any part in the latest string of bombings.
The MeK is currently listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department and has received similar designations from other governments and the European Union. However, according to two prominent security analysts, the bombings seen this weekend are not their style. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” according to Mustafa Akmal. “The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said, adding “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Akmal's colleague, Walter Murray of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor agreed, saying it would be foolish for the group to alienate potential supporters in the West and endanger the fruits of years of lobbying western governments with such attacks. Murray felt the bombers were more likely "...loose cannons..." in Iran's military or intelligence services.
According to Iranian top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi, "the terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq." He added that "these terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq."
These attacks seem to represent a new capability of anti-Tehran forces to strike inside of Iran that did not exist before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
There has been no official US denunciation of the attacks. |
en | LONDON, June 13 (IranMania) - Iran was struck by a wave of deadly bombings in this restive southwestern city and the capital Sunday, with the Islamic regime accusing US-backed "terrorists" of seeking to destabilise the country just days ahead of presidential elections, according to AFP. At least eight people were killed and 75 wounded by a series of four blasts outside several public buildings in Ahvaz, an ethnic Arab majority city close to the Iraqi border that is capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province. Later Sunday, another blast hit a busy square in Tehran, killing two people and seriously wounding at least two others, official media said. Two smaller home-made bombs were reported to have exploded in other parts of the capital, without causing any casualties. "The terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq, top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi told AFP. "These terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq," he charged, adding that Iran suspected British troops across the border might also have links to the separatist group -- the London-based Ahvaz Arab People's Democratic-Popular Front. "We call on the Americans and the British to condemn these attacks and hand over the terrorists in Iraq. Sadly, they have so far not said anything," Mohammadi said. He said "several terrorists have been arrested", but gave no further details. Ahvaz was hit by several days of ethnic unrest in April, with the 26-year-old Islamic regime then blaming "counter-revolutionaries". Iran's main armed opposition group, the People's Mujahedeen, is based across the border in Iraq, and Mohammadi said he believed they were involved in some of Sunday's attacks in Tehran. "The calls for a boycott of the vote had failed, so the terrorist groups based in Iraq are trying to use attacks to disrupt the election and prevent a strong voter participation," he said. Iran is due to go to the polls to elect a new president on Friday. "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse," said Khuzestan's deputy governor, Gholam Reza Shariati. An AFP reporter in Ahvaz said the area around the local governor's office, one of three public buildings targeted, was strewn with shards of glass and rubble. Scores of police had sealed off the area, and by early evening municipal workers were already clearing the scene and mopping up pools of blood. "It was inhuman, a horrible thing. There was a small child walking around looking for his dead mother," said Abdol Hossein Kord-Zanghaneh, a male nurse at an Ahvaz hospital where many of the casualties were taken. "This is an American plot," he said, adding that many of the wounded had suffered concussion and blown ear drums. The huge blasts occurred between 9:00 am and 11:00 am (0430 to 0630 GMT), hitting the governor's office, two other public buildings and a residential area which is home to the director of state television operations in Ahvaz. The explosion in Tehran occurred at Imam Hossein square, interior ministry spokesman Jahanbaksh Khanjani told AFP. Witnesses said the blast was heard after 8:00 pm (1530 GMT), adding the bomb was hidden in a rubbish bin. Ahvaz, situated 500 kilometres (320 miles) southeast of Tehran and 50 kilometres (32 miles) from the Iraqi border, was rocked by ethnic violence from April 15-18. According to official figures, five people were killed in those clashes, which appeared to have been sparked by a forged letter, dating back seven years and attributed to then vice president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, calling for changes to Khuzestan's ethnic make-up. On Friday, Iran is due to go the polls to elect a successor to reformist President Mohammad Khatami. Informal opinion polls in the Iranian press suggest that none of the eight candidates will be able to secure the more than 50 percent of the vote needed to win. That means the top two would have to go into a run-off -- unprecedented in the 26-year history of the Islamic republic. Tipped as the frontrunner is powerful ex-president and pragmatic conservative Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Trailing him are the main reformist candidate Mostafa Moin and the hardline former national police chief, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. The close-run campaign has been heating up, with regular reports of politicians suffering violent attacks. But Iran vowed it would "shame" the United States by drawing a huge turnout in the polls and disprove predictions of a voter boycott. The United States has dismissed the election as rigged. | en | Four separate bombs have exploded in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, killing more than five people and wounding up to 87 others. The presidential election is due in five days time.
Later, an additional bomb was detonated in Teheran, killing three and wounding several others.
Earlier news reports reported a lower number, but reports from two major international agencies are now reporting much higher injury numbers. Bombings in Iran have been extremely rare, since the war with Iraq ended in 1988.
One bomb exploded outside the governor general's office. Three more bombs exploded near government buildings in a period of two hours. Some reports put the official death toll at eight, and official reports confirm that up to 30 were injured; but final numbers are not yet known.
"We cannot say for now who committed these attacks, but the intelligence ministry is investigating," The deputy governor of Khuzestan said in a statement to state television. He went on to say that "The attacks are a failure, because in the past the regime has been confronted by far worse."
The Ahwaz attacks have been claimed by a previously unknown group known as the "Ahwazi Revolutionary Martyrs' Brigades," while a group protesting the bombings outside the Khuzestan governor's residence chanted "Death to the hypocrites" - a slogan applied to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MeK) organization.
Ali Agha Mohammadi, head press secretary for the security services at first refused to implicate the MeK in the attacks, but later asserted that the bombs “may have been the work of people who belong to the ." The MeK, which has admitted responsibility for previous attacks, have disclaimed any part in the latest string of bombings.
The MeK is currently listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation by the U.S. State Department and has received similar designations from other governments and the European Union. However, according to two prominent security analysts, the bombings seen this weekend are not their style. “These don’t have the MeK’s fingerprints on them,” according to Mustafa Akmal. “The MeK has not engaged in any violent action for the past four years,” he said, adding “Even before ceasing its armed activities in Iran, it had a policy of claiming responsibility for all its operations.”
Akmal's colleague, Walter Murray of the Gulf Intelligence Monitor agreed, saying it would be foolish for the group to alienate potential supporters in the West and endanger the fruits of years of lobbying western governments with such attacks. Murray felt the bombers were more likely "...loose cannons..." in Iran's military or intelligence services.
According to Iranian top national security official Ali Agha Mohammadi, "the terrorists of Ahvaz infiltrated Iran from the region of Basra" in southern Iraq." He added that "these terrorists have been trained under the umbrella of the Americans in Iraq."
These attacks seem to represent a new capability of anti-Tehran forces to strike inside of Iran that did not exist before the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.
There has been no official US denunciation of the attacks. |
en | BRUSSELS, May 11 — Vice President Dick Cheney used the deck of an American aircraft carrier just 150 miles off Iran’s coast as the backdrop today to warn the country that the United States was prepared to use its naval power to keep Tehran from disrupting off oil routes or “gaining nuclear weapons and dominating this region.”
Little of what Mr. Cheney said in the cavernous hangar bay of the aircraft carrier U.S.S. John C. Stennis, one of two carriers whose strike groups are now in the Persian Gulf, was new. Each individual line had, in some form, been said before, at various points in the four-year-long nuclear standoff with Iran, and during the increasingly tense arguments over whether Iran is aiding the insurgents in Iraq.
But Mr. Cheney stitched all of those warnings together, and the symbolism of sending the administration’s most famous hawk to deliver the speech so close to Iran’s coast was unmistakable.
It also came just a week after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked briefly and inconclusively with Iran’s foreign minister, a step toward re-engagement with Iran that some in the administration have opposed. | en | U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney
Speaking on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney sent a strong warning to the Iranian leadership. He said that the U.S. would not permit Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. The USS John C. Stennis is currently in Abu Dhabi. The comments are considered more poignant because Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to visit Abu Dhabi in the next few days. |
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Arrêt n° 1185 du 18 juin 2008
Cour de cassation - Chambre sociale Rejet Communiqué Demandeur(s) à la cassation : société Corporate Express SA, anciennement dénommée ANFA SA
Défendeur(s) à la cassation : Mme Marlène X... et autre Demandeur(s) à la cassation : société Corporate Express SA, anciennement dénommée ANFA SADéfendeur(s) à la cassation : Mme Marlène X... et autre Attendu selon l'arrêt attaqué (Paris, 16 février 2007) que Mme X... a été engagée par la société ANFA devenue société Corporate Express à compter du 3 avril 1995 en qualité d'assistante commerciale ; qu'elle a exerçé les fonctions de VRP monocarte du 1er septembre 1997 au 5 février 2001 ; que M. Y... y a été employé du 1er juin 1996 au 16 février 2001 en qualité de VRP monocarte ; qu'ils étaient rémunérés sur la base de commissions calculées selon une annexe au contrat, en pourcentage (6,5%) sur le chiffre d'affaires HT réalisé avec des commandes d'un montant supérieur à trois cent cinquante francs HT valeur 1996 avec une marge égale ou supérieure à 3,5% auquel s'appliquait diverses corrections selon que l'objectif était ou non atteint et que la marge était ou non supérieure à 35% ; qu'ils ont pris acte de la rupture se prévalant notamment de l'impossibilité de vérifier la justesse du commissionnement versé par rapport à celui qui est effectivement dû ; qu'ils ont saisi la juridiction prud'homale ; Sur le premier moyen : Attendu que la société Corporate Express fait grief à l'arrêt d'avoir décidé que la prise d'acte par M. Y... et Mme X... de la rupture de leurs contrats de travail produit les effets d'un licenciement et de l'avoir condamnée à leur verser diverses sommes au titre de la rupture alors, selon le moyen, que : 1°/ sauf abus ou mauvaise foi lors de l'exécution du contrat de travail, un employeur peut refuser de communiquer à un salarié certaines données intégrées dans le calcul de sa rémunération si la divulgation de ces informations est de nature à porter atteinte aux intérêts légitimes de l'entreprise ; qu'en l'espèce, la cour d'appel décide en substance que le refus de l'employeur de communiquer au salarié en raison du secret des affaires des chiffres intégrés dans le calcul de sa rémunération constitue un manquement contractuel justifiant que la rupture lui soit déclarée imputable ; qu'en statuant ainsi, la cour d'appel viole l'article L. 120-4 du code du travail, l'article 1134 du code civil ensemble l'article 7 du décret d'Allarde du 2-17 mars 1791 ; 2°/ et pour les mêmes raisons, en statuant ainsi, sans caractériser l'abus ou la mauvaise foi de l'employeur lors de l'exécution du contrat de travail, la cour d'appel ne justifie pas sa décision au regard des textes cités au précédent élément de moyen ; Mais attendu que le salarié doit pouvoir vérifier que le calcul de sa rémunération a été effectué conformément aux modalités prévues par le contrat de travail ; Et attendu que la cour d'appel a constaté que les salariés se trouvaient dans l'impossibilité de vérifier la justesse de leur rémunération faute pour l'employeur de leur en communiquer l'ensemble des bases de calcul et, qu'au surplus, la société n'avait jamais appliqué, dans la réalité, le coefficient multiplicateur unique de marge qu'elle indiquait avoir retenu ; D'où il suit que le moyen n'est pas fondé ; Sur le second moyen : Attendu que la société Corporate Express fait encore grief à l'arrêt de l'avoir condamnée à verser à M. Y... et à Mme X... une somme au titre des commissions de retour sur échantillonnage, alors, selon le moyen que : 1°/ dans ses conclusions devant la cour d'appel (cf p.9) la société intimée sollicitait le débouté des appelants s'agissant des demandes d'indemnité de retour sur échantillonnage ; que ce faisant la prétention de chacun des appelants sur ce point précis était contestée, qu'en jugeant le contraire la cour d'appel méconnaît les termes du litige dont elle était saisie et partant viole l'article 4 du code de procédure civile ; 2°/ il résulte de l'article L. 751-8 du code du travail qu'un VRP a droit à une indemnité de retour sur échantillonnage seulement sur les ordres transmis à l'entreprise postérieurement à la rupture du contrat de travail et qui sont la suite directe de son activité ; qu'en l'espèce, pour condamner la société Corporate Express qui contestait devoir quoique ce soit à ce titre, à verser une indemnité de retour sur échantillonnage à M. Y... et à Mme X..., la cour d'appel se borne à relever l'absence de contestation sur le montant de l'indemnité ; qu'en statuant ainsi nonobstant une contestation, sans caractériser l'existence du droit à commissions des salariés selon les prévisions de la loi, la cour d'appel méconnaît son office au regard de l'article 12 du code de procédure civile et par là-même ne justifie pas légalement sa décision au regard de l'article L. 751-8 du code du travail, violé ; Mais attendu que la cour d'appel a vérifié le bien-fondé des demandes au titre des commissions du retour sur échantillonnage ; que le moyen n'est pas fondé ; PAR CES MOTIFS : REJETTE le pourvoi ; Président : Mme Collomp
Rapporteur : Mme Quenson, conseiller
Avocat général : M. Deby
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La Cour de cassation a rendu, mercredi 18 juin 2008, un arrêt portant sur la rémunération des salariés payés au commissionnement. Deux VRP monocartes avaient été engagés par la société ANFA devenue société Corporate Express. Leur rémunération était calculée à partir d'un commissionnement au pourcentage du chiffre d'affaires réalisé lequel était modulé par plusieurs paramètres. Faute pour les intéressés de pouvoir vérifier la justesse de leur rémunération, les salariés ont pris acte de la rupture de leur contrat. L'affaire a été portée devant la juridiction prud'hommale. La cour d'appel de Paris leur a donné gain de cause le 16 février 2007.
L'employeur s'est pourvu en cassation afin de réformer l'arrêt rendu en sa défaveur. Saisie du dossier, la Cour de cassation a rejeté l'ensemble des moyens invoqués par la partie demanderesse. Les magistrats ont justifié le rejet du pourvoi en rappelant que ''''.
C'est donc à bon droit que la Cour d'appel de Paris a condamné la société en question après avoir ''''. |
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President Obama Calls for New Restrictions on Size and Scope of Financial Institutions to Rein in Excesses and Protect Taxpayers
WASHINGTON, DC- President Obama joined Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve; Bill Donaldson, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Congressman Barney Frank, House Financial Services Chairman; Senator Chris Dodd, Chairman of the Banking Committee and the President's economic team to call for new restrictions on the size and scope of banks and other financial institutions to rein in excessive risk taking and to protect taxpayers.
The President’s proposal would strengthen the comprehensive financial reform package that is already moving through Congress.
“While the financial system is far stronger today than it was a year one year ago, it is still operating under the exact same rules that led to its near collapse,” said President Barack Obama. “My resolve to reform the system is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see record profits at some of the very firms claiming that they cannot lend more to small business, cannot keep credit card rates low, and cannot refund taxpayers for the bailout. It is exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary.”
The proposal would:
1. Limit the Scope - The President and his economic team will work with Congress to ensure that no bank or financial institution that contains a bank will own, invest in or sponsor a hedge fund or a private equity fund, or proprietary trading operations unrelated to serving customers for its own profit.
2. Limit the Size - The President also announced a new proposal to limit the consolidation of our financial sector. The President’s proposal will place broader limits on the excessive growth of the market share of liabilities at the largest financial firms, to supplement existing caps on the market share of deposits.
In the coming weeks, the President will continue to work closely with Chairman Dodd and others to craft a strong, comprehensive financial reform bill that puts in place common sense rules of the road and robust safeguards for the benefit of consumers, closes loopholes, and ends the mentality of “Too Big to Fail.” Chairman Barney Frank’s financial reform legislation, which passed the House in December, laid the groundwork for this policy by authorizing regulators to restrict or prohibit large firms from engaging in excessively risky activities.
As part of the previously announced reform program, the proposals announced today will help put an end to the risky practices that contributed significantly to the financial crisis. | en | Speaking Thursday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, United States President Barack Obama presented new proposals for financial reform.
President Obama delivers his remarks with Vice President Joe Biden at his side on January 21, 2010. (View larger version)
"While the financial system is far stronger today than it was a year one year ago, it is still operating under the exact same rules that led to its near collapse," said President Barack Obama. "My resolve to reform the system is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see record profits at some of the very firms claiming that they cannot lend more to small business, cannot keep credit card rates low, and cannot refund taxpayers for the bailout. It is exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary."
Obama's two key proposals were to limit the types of operations that a bank may undertake and to limit the size of the largest financial firms.
Under the proposals banks would be prevented from owning or investing in hedge fund or a private equity fund. Nor would they be allowed to sponsor such funds. To limit size of financial institutions, further consolidation of the financial sector by restricting growth in the market share of their liabilities.
Obama called the restrictions on banking operations the "Volcker Rule" in reference to Paul Volcker, the chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. These activities are "unrelated to serving their customers," Obama said.
According to Obama, the current "economic crisis began as a financial crisis, when banks and financial institutions took huge, reckless risks in pursuit of quick profits and massive bonuses. When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so. Markets plummeted, credit dried up, and jobs were vanishing by the hundreds of thousands each month. We were on the precipice of a second Great Depression."
The President said his administration is seeking to protect consumers and close loopholes that allowed financial products such as credit default swaps without oversight. The goal would be to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements to make the financial system more stable. Another goal of Obama's reforms would be to ensure that the failure of one firm could not take the entire economy.
"We've come through a terrible crisis. The American people have paid a very high price. We simply cannot return to business as usual. That's why we're going to ensure that Wall Street pays back the American people for the bailout. That's why we're going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system," Obama said in closing.
Before any of the proposals can go into effect, they will have to be passed into law by both houses of the United States Congress. |
en | The White House Office of the Press Secretary
Remarks by the President on Financial Reform
Diplomatic Reception Room
11:34 A.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good morning, everybody. I just had a very productive meeting with two members of my Economic Recovery Advisory Board: Paul Volcker, who's the former chair of the Federal Reserve Board; and Bill Donaldson, previously the head of the SEC. And I deeply appreciate the counsel of these two leaders and the board that they've offered as we have dealt with a broad array of very difficult economic challenges.
Over the past two years, more than seven million Americans have lost their jobs in the deepest recession our country has known in generations. Rarely does a day go by that I don't hear from folks who are hurting. And every day, we are working to put our economy back on track and put America back to work. But even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important that we not lose sight of what led us into this mess in the first place.
This economic crisis began as a financial crisis, when banks and financial institutions took huge, reckless risks in pursuit of quick profits and massive bonuses. When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so. Markets plummeted, credit dried up, and jobs were vanishing by the hundreds of thousands each month. We were on the precipice of a second Great Depression.
To avoid this calamity, the American people -- who were already struggling in their own right -- were forced to rescue financial firms facing crises largely of their own creation. And that rescue, undertaken by the previous administration, was deeply offensive but it was a necessary thing to do, and it succeeded in stabilizing the financial system and helping to avert that depression.
Since that time, over the past year, my administration has recovered most of what the federal government provided to banks. And last week, I proposed a fee to be paid by the largest financial firms in order to recover every last dime. But that's not all we have to do. We have to enact common-sense reforms that will protect American taxpayers -– and the American economy -– from future crises as well.
For while the financial system is far stronger today than it was one year ago, it's still operating under the same rules that led to its near collapse. These are rules that allowed firms to act contrary to the interests of customers; to conceal their exposure to debt through complex financial dealings; to benefit from taxpayer-insured deposits while making speculative investments; and to take on risks so vast that they posed threats to the entire system.
That's why we are seeking reforms to protect consumers; we intend to close loopholes that allowed big financial firms to trade risky financial products like credit defaults swaps and other derivatives without oversight; to identify system-wide risks that could cause a meltdown; to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements to make the system more stable; and to ensure that the failure of any large firm does not take the entire economy down with it. Never again will the American taxpayer be held hostage by a bank that is "too big to fail."
Now, limits on the risks major financial firms can take are central to the reforms that I've proposed. They are central to the legislation that has passed the House under the leadership of Chairman Barney Frank, and that we're working to pass in the Senate under the leadership of Chairman Chris Dodd. As part of these efforts, today I'm proposing two additional reforms that I believe will strengthen the financial system while preventing future crises.
First, we should no longer allow banks to stray too far from their central mission of serving their customers. In recent years, too many financial firms have put taxpayer money at risk by operating hedge funds and private equity funds and making riskier investments to reap a quick reward. And these firms have taken these risks while benefiting from special financial privileges that are reserved only for banks.
Our government provides deposit insurance and other safeguards and guarantees to firms that operate banks. We do so because a stable and reliable banking system promotes sustained growth, and because we learned how dangerous the failure of that system can be during the Great Depression.
But these privileges were not created to bestow banks operating hedge funds or private equity funds with an unfair advantage. When banks benefit from the safety net that taxpayers provide –- which includes lower-cost capital –- it is not appropriate for them to turn around and use that cheap money to trade for profit. And that is especially true when this kind of trading often puts banks in direct conflict with their customers' interests.
The fact is, these kinds of trading operations can create enormous and costly risks, endangering the entire bank if things go wrong. We simply cannot accept a system in which hedge funds or private equity firms inside banks can place huge, risky bets that are subsidized by taxpayers and that could pose a conflict of interest. And we cannot accept a system in which shareholders make money on these operations if the bank wins but taxpayers foot the bill if the bank loses.
It's for these reasons that I'm proposing a simple and common-sense reform, which we're calling the "Volcker Rule" -- after this tall guy behind me. Banks will no longer be allowed to own, invest, or sponsor hedge funds, private equity funds, or proprietary trading operations for their own profit, unrelated to serving their customers. If financial firms want to trade for profit, that's something they're free to do. Indeed, doing so –- responsibly –- is a good thing for the markets and the economy. But these firms should not be allowed to run these hedge funds and private equities funds while running a bank backed by the American people.
In addition, as part of our efforts to protect against future crises, I'm also proposing that we prevent the further consolidation of our financial system. There has long been a deposit cap in place to guard against too much risk being concentrated in a single bank. The same principle should apply to wider forms of funding employed by large financial institutions in today's economy. The American people will not be served by a financial system that comprises just a few massive firms. That's not good for consumers; it's not good for the economy. And through this policy, that is an outcome we will avoid.
My message to members of Congress of both parties is that we have to get this done. And my message to leaders of the financial industry is to work with us, and not against us, on needed reforms. I welcome constructive input from folks in the financial sector. But what we've seen so far, in recent weeks, is an army of industry lobbyists from Wall Street descending on Capitol Hill to try and block basic and common-sense rules of the road that would protect our economy and the American people.
So if these folks want a fight, it's a fight I'm ready to have. And my resolve is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see soaring profits and obscene bonuses at some of the very firms claiming that they can't lend more to small business, they can't keep credit card rates low, they can't pay a fee to refund taxpayers for the bailout without passing on the cost to shareholders or customers -- that's the claims they're making. It's exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary.
We've come through a terrible crisis. The American people have paid a very high price. We simply cannot return to business as usual. That's why we're going to ensure that Wall Street pays back the American people for the bailout. That's why we're going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system. That's why we're going to pass these reforms into law.
Thank you very much, everybody.
END
11:42 A.M. EST | en | Speaking Thursday in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House, United States President Barack Obama presented new proposals for financial reform.
President Obama delivers his remarks with Vice President Joe Biden at his side on January 21, 2010. (View larger version)
"While the financial system is far stronger today than it was a year one year ago, it is still operating under the exact same rules that led to its near collapse," said President Barack Obama. "My resolve to reform the system is only strengthened when I see a return to old practices at some of the very firms fighting reform; and when I see record profits at some of the very firms claiming that they cannot lend more to small business, cannot keep credit card rates low, and cannot refund taxpayers for the bailout. It is exactly this kind of irresponsibility that makes clear reform is necessary."
Obama's two key proposals were to limit the types of operations that a bank may undertake and to limit the size of the largest financial firms.
Under the proposals banks would be prevented from owning or investing in hedge fund or a private equity fund. Nor would they be allowed to sponsor such funds. To limit size of financial institutions, further consolidation of the financial sector by restricting growth in the market share of their liabilities.
Obama called the restrictions on banking operations the "Volcker Rule" in reference to Paul Volcker, the chair of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. These activities are "unrelated to serving their customers," Obama said.
According to Obama, the current "economic crisis began as a financial crisis, when banks and financial institutions took huge, reckless risks in pursuit of quick profits and massive bonuses. When the dust settled, and this binge of irresponsibility was over, several of the world's oldest and largest financial institutions had collapsed, or were on the verge of doing so. Markets plummeted, credit dried up, and jobs were vanishing by the hundreds of thousands each month. We were on the precipice of a second Great Depression."
The President said his administration is seeking to protect consumers and close loopholes that allowed financial products such as credit default swaps without oversight. The goal would be to strengthen capital and liquidity requirements to make the financial system more stable. Another goal of Obama's reforms would be to ensure that the failure of one firm could not take the entire economy.
"We've come through a terrible crisis. The American people have paid a very high price. We simply cannot return to business as usual. That's why we're going to ensure that Wall Street pays back the American people for the bailout. That's why we're going to rein in the excess and abuse that nearly brought down our financial system," Obama said in closing.
Before any of the proposals can go into effect, they will have to be passed into law by both houses of the United States Congress. |
de | Spanier Oscar Pereiro siegt im zweiten Anlauf
Pereiros Rache in Pau
Auf dem Pla d'Adet war Phonak-Fahrer Oscar Pereiro noch von George Hincapie ausgesprintet worden, worüber sich der Spanier mächtig ärgerte. Eine Etappe später war Pereiro schon wieder in einer Spitzengruppe, und diesmal ließ er sich nicht überraschen. T-Mobile hatte wenige Minuten dahinter erneut einen Angriff auf Lance Armstrong lanciert, jedoch mit dem selben Erfolg wie in den Tagen zuvor. Jetzt droht sogar der Ausfall zweier Fahrer.
Kashechkin, hier beim Tourarzt, wurde von einem Fan an der Nase erwischt...
Der elfte Kilometer der Etappe nach Pau könnte zum schwärzesten in T-Mobiles Tourgeschichte 2005 werden. Andreas Klöden und Matthias Kessler wurden in einen Massensturz verwickelt und erlitten möglicherweise erhebliche Verletzungen. Laut Teamarzt Dr. Lothar Heinrich zog sich Klöden eine Kahnbeinfraktur am Handgelenk zu, während Matthias Kessler mit Verdacht auf eine Wirbelsäulenstauchung und eine leichte Gehirnerschütterung nach dem Rennen ins Krankenhaus gebracht wurde - eine Diagnose, die sich dort schließlich bestätigte. Ob beide am Mittwoch noch einmal an den Start der Touretappe nach Revel gehen können, wird sich erst am Morgen entscheiden.
Erneuter T-Mobile Angriff
Jan Ullrich versuchte es erneut, jedoch ohne Erfolg.
Trotz seiner Schmerzen blies Andreas Klöden gemeinsam mit Alexandre Vinokourov und Jan Ullrich am Col d’Aubisque zum erneuten Angriff auf Lance Armstrong. Wieder einmal verpufften jedoch die Attacken der T-Mobile-Fahrer, die den designierten siebenfachen Toursieger bei dieser Tour trotz aller Bemühungen nicht einmal wirklich in Schwierigkeiten bringen konnten. „Ich fühlte mich heute super, alles lief gut, mein Team ist weiter sehr stark“, ließ Armstrong nach der Etappe verlauten, und Jan Ullrich bestätigte: „Armstrong ist sehr souverän, und auch sein Team kommt immer schnell zurück.“ Damit beschränkte sich die Hauptarbeit der T-Mobile-Fahrer letztlich darauf, Cadel Evans nicht zu weit enteilen zu lassen. Der Australier, bis zum letzten Jahr ebenfalls bei T-Mobile und bei dieser Tour Mitglied der Mannschaft Davitamon-Lotto, schaffte es in eine Ausreißergruppe, der auch Jörg Ludewig (Domina Vacanze) angehörte.
Ludewig sauer auf Evans
Jörg Ludewig freute sich, in der Ausreißergruppe zu sein, und ärgerte sich über Cadel Evans.
Allerdings sah sich Evans nach der Etappe heftigen Vorwürfen Ludewigs ausgesetzt. „Cadel hat heute einen Freund verloren. Was er gemacht hat, geht gar nicht, ich hoffe nur, dass er nicht gewonnen hat“, meinte Ludewig. Grund für seinen Ärger war eine Absprache zwischen den restlichen Ausreißern und Evans. „Wir haben Evans mitgenommen, obwohl wir wussten, dass ihn die Klassement-Fahrer nicht weit wegfahren lassen würden“, erklärte Ludewig, der sich auch rund eine Stunde nach dem Zieleinlauf noch nicht beruhigen wollte. „Er hat versprochen: Ich fahre nur mit, ich gehe nicht auf den Etappensieg, sondern versuche euch am Berg mitzuziehen und etwas Zeit im Gesamtklassement gutzumachen.“
Irgendwann hatte Evans diese Absprache jedoch vergessen. „Klar, wir wollten zusammen bis zur Ziellinie fahren, aber die anderen waren zu langsam, daher musste ich es alleine versuchen“, rechtfertige er seine Flucht vor den Mitausreißern, und Jörg Ludewig meinte in breitester Radfahrer-Sprache: „Auf einmal hat er von hinten eine Bulette rausgeholt, da dachte ich, mir fliegt der Helm weg!“ Übersetzt lautet das: Der Ex-Mountainbiker und Bergspezialist Evans trat unwiderstehlich an und ließ die anderen chancenlos zurück.
Pereiro siegt im Sprint
Oscar Pereiro siegt in Pau vor Zandio (links) und Mazzoleni (in blau).
Dadurch bildete sich ein Führungsquartett, in dem neben Evans auch Pereiro sowie der Spanier Xavier Zandio (IBA) und der Italiener Eddy Mazzoleni (LAM) fuhren. Gemeinsam erreichten sie die Zielgerade in Pau, wo Evans den Sprint anzog und Pereiro aus seinem Windschatten heraus vorbeizog. „Ich war sehr wütend nach der Etappe aufs Pla d’Adet, darum wollte ich heute unbedingt gewinnen“, freute er sich über seinen Sieg, der gleichzeitig Phonaks ersten Tour-Etappenerfolg bedeutete. Rund zweieinhalb Minuten später erreichten die ehemaligen Mitausreißer um Philippe Gilbert (FDJ) und Jörg Ludewig das Ziel. Eine weitere Minute später waren auch Armstrong, Ullrich und die anderen Klassement-Fahrer da.
Nach der Tour ist vor der Tour
Cadel Evans verbesserte sich durch seinen Angriff auf den siebten Rang der Gesamtwertung. Trotz der Nachführarbeit der T-Mobile-Mannschaft verdrängte er Vinokourov und Klöden um einen Platz nach hinten, konnte Levi Leipheimer, dessen Gerolsteiner-Kollege Fabian Wegmann mitgeholfen hatte, die Verfolger an Evans heranzuführen, jedoch nicht gefährden. Der Amerikaner bleibt im Gesamtklassement Sechster mit einer Minute Rückstand auf Francisco Mancebo.
Dieser kündigte an, weiterhin zu versuchen, einen Platz auf dem Podium zu erreichen, freut sich aber jetzt schon auf die Tour 2006: „Im nächsten Jahr, wenn Lance nicht mehr da ist, wird das Rennen noch offener, dann kann ich bestimmt noch mehr erreichen.“ Noch nie stimmte der Satz "Nach der Tour ist vor der Tour" so sehr wie in diesem Jahr.
Andreas Ganz
Stand: 19.07.2005, 19:13 Uhr
Die ARD ist nicht für die Inhalte fremder Seiten verantwortlich, die über einen Link erreicht werden. | de | Das ''Chateau'' von Pau
Der Spanier Oscar Pereiro vom Team Phonak hat die 16. Etappe der Tour de France von Mourenx nach Pau im Sprint einer Ausreißergruppe für sich entschieden.
Nach dem er sich über den Sprintsieg von George Hincapie zwei Tage zuvor geärgert hatte, der nach einem Interview in der L'Équipe angab, Hincapie hätte zugesagt, mit ihm zusammenzuarbeiten, was er aber nicht tat. Auch ließ er die Ausrede Hincapies nicht gelten, die Menschenmengen hätten so eng gestanden, dass er nicht vorbeigekommen sei, um zu führen.
Ivan Basso, Jan Ullrich und alle andere Favoriten kamen zeitgleich mit Lance Armstrong mit 3:24 Minuten Rückstand ins Ziel, so dass sich auf den ersten sechs Plätzen der Gesamtwertung nichts änderte. Platz sieben konnte Cadel Evans übernehmen, der durch den Ausritt ein paar Minuten auf Armstrong gutmachte. |
en | The 2011 Tri Nations will be played over two rounds, home and away, as opposed to the current three rounds.
2012 Rugby Championship Schedule
2012 Rugby Championship Schedule :
DAY & DATE MATCH VENUE Kick off Local
time 18 August 2012 Australia vs New Zealand ANZ Stadium, Sydney TBA South Africa vs Argentina TBA TBA 25 August 2012 New Zealand vs Australia
Eden Park, Auckland TBA Argentina vs South Africa TBA TBA 1 September 2012 Travel Bye TBA 8 September 2012 Australia vs South Africa Patersons Stadium, Perth TBA New Zealand vs Argentina Westpac Stadium in Wellington TBA 15 September 2012 Australia vs Argentina Skilled Park, Gold Coast TBA New Zealand vs South Africa Forsyth Barr Stadium in Dunedin TBA 22 September 2012 Travel Bye TBA 29 September 2012 South Africa vs Australia TBA TBA Argentina vs New Zealand TBA TBA 6 October 2012 South Africa vs New Zealand TBA TBA Argentina vs Australia TBA TBA
PLEASE NOTE : The 2012 Dates have not yet been released but the Four Nations is expected to run from the 18th of August to the 6th of October 2012 and all four teams will play each weekend on a home and away basis. | fr | Le Tournoi des Quatre Nations a disputé sa troisième journée.
=== Résultats ===
=== Classement ===
Rang
Pays
Pts
J
G
N
P
BO
BD
pp
pc
p±
ep
ec
e±
1.
15
3
3
0
0
3
0
128
39
89
18
2
16
2.
6
3
1
0
2
0
2
71
7
6
1
3.
5
3
1
0
2
0
1
71
5
13
4.
4
3
1
0
2
0
0
40
3
12 |
es | Noruega fue la ganadora del 54º Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión realizado en la capital de Rusia, Moscú.
El cantante y violinista Alexander Rybak, de 23 años, batió el récord en la mayoría de los puntos premiados en la competencia.
"Gané porque tenía una historia para contar", dijo el joven noruego.
Islandia salió segunda en el voto -representada por Yohanna- seguida por Azerbaiyán.
La británica Jade Ewen, interpretando una canción de Andrew Lloyd Webber, terminó en la quinta posición, logrando una notable mejora con respecto al año pasado, cuando acabó en los últimos lugares.
Por primera vez, la votación estuvo compartida en la final entre los tele-votantes y los paneles de expertos, lo que supuestamente debía reducir la incidencia de resultados predecibles y los votos por los locales.
Cuarenta y dos países votaron sobre un total de 25 canciones, con Noruega alzándose con un récord de 387 puntos.
Formación clásica
Alexander Rybak, nacido en la ex Unión Soviética, es un músico muy conocido en Noruega.
Violinista y pianista formado en música clásica, Rybak escribió la entrada ganadora de su país: Fairytale.
El récord anterior en puntos lo tenía el finladés Lordi con Hard Rock Hallelujah, logrado en el año 2006 en Grecia. Sin embargo, Finlandia terminó este año en el último lugar.
La canción de Dinamarca, Brinck singing Believe Again, fue escrita por Ronan Keating, de Boyzone, e interpretada en el estilo irlandés del cantante.
El acto de Alemania tuvo como figura a la artista Dita von Teese, ex esposa del cantante estadounidense de rock Marilyn Manson.
Graham Norton hizo su debut como comentarista para la BBC, en reemplazo de Terry Wogan, quien estuvo en cada final de Eurovisión desde 1980.
Desde Moscú, Norton reveló que había hablado con su predecesor antes de la final.
"Terry me llamó para desearme suerte", dijo el presentador de televisión. "Me aconsejó no tomar hasta la quinta canción", agregó. | es | Alexander Rybak
Noruega, que ya lo había hecho en 1985 y en 1995, ha ganado el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 2009, llevado a cabo en el Estadio Olimpiski de Moscú, Rusia, por el más grande margen de la historia del concurso.
La canción "Fairytale", de Alexander Rybak, obtuvo un total de 387 puntos, 169 puntos más que la canción "Is It True?", de Yohanna, que representó a Islandia y ocupó el segundo lugar.
Rybak, que cumplió 23 años esta misma semana, ocupó la primera posición desde que inició la votación, recibiendo los doce puntos otorgados por España. Asimismo, obtuvo la máxima puntuación de otros quince países, mientras que la más baja recibida fueron los dos puntos de Bulgaria.
Por su parte, la española Soraya Arnelas, que se presentó de última, quedó empatada en la penúltima posición con el participante de Lituania Sasha Son, que se presentó de primero. La participación de España había quedado en riesgo por los percances entre la RTVE y la UER.
Los rusos, que esparaban ganar nuevamente, quedaron en la undécima posición tras ser representados con "Mamo", de Anastasia Prijodko. Alemania, que había hecho publicidad con la bailarina de burlesque Dita Von Teese, se ubicó en la vigésima posición con "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang".
El orden de salida se encuentra a continuación:
Salida
País
Artista
Canción
Posición
Puntos
01
Lituania 25px
Sasha Son
"Love"
23
23
02
Israel 25px
Noa y Mira Awad
"There Must Be Another Way"
16
53
03
Francia 25px
Patricia Kaas
"Et s'il fallait le faire"
8
107
04
Suecia 25px
Malena Ernman
"La voix"
21
33
05
Croacia 25px
Igor Cukrov y Andrea
"Lijepa Tena"
18
45
06
Portugal 25px
Flor-de-Lis
"Todas as ruas do amor"
15
57
07
Islandia 25px
Yohanna
"Is It True?"
2
218
08
Grecia 25px
Sakis Rouvas
"This Is Our Night"
7
120
09
Armenia 25px
Inga and Anush
"Jan Jan"
10
92
10
Rusia 25px
Anastasiya Prijodko
"Mamo"
11
91
11
Azerbaiyán 25px
AySel y Arash
"Always"
3
207
12
Bosnia y Herzegovina 25px
Regina
"Bistra voda"
9
106
13
Moldavia 25px
Nelly Ciobanu
"Hora din Moldova"
14
68
14
Malta 25px
Chiara
"What If We"
22
31
15
Estonia 25px
Urban Symphony
"Rändajad"
6
129
16
Dinamarca 25px
Brinck
"Believe Again"
13
74
17
Alemania 25px
Alex Swings Oscar Sings!
"Miss Kiss Kiss Bang"
20
35
18
Turquía 25px
Hadise
"Düm Tek Tek"
4
177
19
Albania 25px
Kejsi Tola
"Carry Me in Your Dreams"
17
48
20
Noruega 25px
Alexander Rybak
"Fairytale"
1
387
21
Ucrania 25px
Svetlana Loboda
"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"
12
76
22
Rumania 25px
Elena
"The Balkan Girls"
19
40
23
Reino Unido 25px
Jade Ewen
"It's My Time"
5
173
24
Finlandia 25px
Waldo's People
"Lose Control"
25
22
25
España 25px
Soraya Arnelas
"La noche es para mí"
23
23 |
es | La favorita Noruega gana el concurso de Eurovisión 2009
MOSCÚ (AFP) — Noruega ganó la noche del sábado a este domingo el concurso de Eurovisión de este año, celebrado en Moscú, aplastando a sus competidores con la balada 'Fairy Tale', compuesta e interpretada por Alexander Rybak, informaron los organizadores.
Noruega se impuso fácilmente en la final de la 54ª edición de Eurovisión por delante de Islandia y Azerbaiyán, precisaron los organizadores.
Noruega ya ganó el concurso de Eurovision en 1985 y en 1995.
El ganador de este año, Alexander Rybak, de origen bielorruso, acaba de cumplir 23 años e interpretó la canción ganadora, 'Fairytale', de la que es autor e intérprete, al tiempo que tocaba el violín con aires de inspiración de Europa del Este, rodeado de jóvenes chicas.
De los 42 países que compitieron inicialmente, en la final participaron 25: Lituania, Israel, Francia, Suecia, Croacia, Portugal, Islandia, Grecia, Armenia, Rusia, Azerbaiyán, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Moldavia, Malta, Estonia, Dinamarca, Alemania, Turquía, Albania, Noruega, Ucrania, Rumania, Gran Bretaña, Finlandia y España.
La representante española, Soraya, quedó en penúltima posición, empatada con Lituania, con su canción 'La noche es para mí'.
Noruega, Turquía y Grecia figuraban desde hace días entre los favoritos.
Más de 16.000 personas se reunieron en el estadio olímpico de la capital rusa para el 'show', que fue también seguido por unos 100 millones de telespectadores en el mundo, según los organizadores.
El evento se inició con un número del Circo del Sol, con muestras de acrobacia, seguido por una canción del ruso Dima Bilan, ganador del Eurovisión 2008.
Le siguieron los representantes de los 25 países candidatos seleccionados en las semifinales de esta semana o los calificados de antemano.
Horas antes de que empezara la final de Eurovisión la policía de Moscú detuvo este sábado a alrededor de 40 activistas que se manifestaban a favor de los derechos de los homosexuales.
La policía antidisturbios se movilizó cuando unos 15 manifestantes corearan "¡La homofobia es la vergüenza de Rusia!" o "¡Los mismos derechos para todo el mundo!", presenció un periodista de AFP.
El grupo fue detenido y luego la policía apartó a los activistas que trataban de hablar a los periodistas.
Un portavoz de la policía indicó a la agencia RIA Novosti que unos 40 activistas habían sido detenidos y luego liberados.
Los defensores de los derechos de los homosexuales han intensificado sus actividades en los últimos días aprovechando la celebración del festival europeo de la canción por primera vez en Rusia.
La homofobia es un prejuicio muy extendido en Rusia, donde la homosexualidad fue un delito hasta 1993 y se clasificó como "enfermedad mental" hasta 1999.
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Noruega, que ya lo había hecho en 1985 y en 1995, ha ganado el Festival de la Canción de Eurovisión 2009, llevado a cabo en el Estadio Olimpiski de Moscú, Rusia, por el más grande margen de la historia del concurso.
La canción "Fairytale", de Alexander Rybak, obtuvo un total de 387 puntos, 169 puntos más que la canción "Is It True?", de Yohanna, que representó a Islandia y ocupó el segundo lugar.
Rybak, que cumplió 23 años esta misma semana, ocupó la primera posición desde que inició la votación, recibiendo los doce puntos otorgados por España. Asimismo, obtuvo la máxima puntuación de otros quince países, mientras que la más baja recibida fueron los dos puntos de Bulgaria.
Por su parte, la española Soraya Arnelas, que se presentó de última, quedó empatada en la penúltima posición con el participante de Lituania Sasha Son, que se presentó de primero. La participación de España había quedado en riesgo por los percances entre la RTVE y la UER.
Los rusos, que esparaban ganar nuevamente, quedaron en la undécima posición tras ser representados con "Mamo", de Anastasia Prijodko. Alemania, que había hecho publicidad con la bailarina de burlesque Dita Von Teese, se ubicó en la vigésima posición con "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang".
El orden de salida se encuentra a continuación:
Salida
País
Artista
Canción
Posición
Puntos
01
Lituania 25px
Sasha Son
"Love"
23
23
02
Israel 25px
Noa y Mira Awad
"There Must Be Another Way"
16
53
03
Francia 25px
Patricia Kaas
"Et s'il fallait le faire"
8
107
04
Suecia 25px
Malena Ernman
"La voix"
21
33
05
Croacia 25px
Igor Cukrov y Andrea
"Lijepa Tena"
18
45
06
Portugal 25px
Flor-de-Lis
"Todas as ruas do amor"
15
57
07
Islandia 25px
Yohanna
"Is It True?"
2
218
08
Grecia 25px
Sakis Rouvas
"This Is Our Night"
7
120
09
Armenia 25px
Inga and Anush
"Jan Jan"
10
92
10
Rusia 25px
Anastasiya Prijodko
"Mamo"
11
91
11
Azerbaiyán 25px
AySel y Arash
"Always"
3
207
12
Bosnia y Herzegovina 25px
Regina
"Bistra voda"
9
106
13
Moldavia 25px
Nelly Ciobanu
"Hora din Moldova"
14
68
14
Malta 25px
Chiara
"What If We"
22
31
15
Estonia 25px
Urban Symphony
"Rändajad"
6
129
16
Dinamarca 25px
Brinck
"Believe Again"
13
74
17
Alemania 25px
Alex Swings Oscar Sings!
"Miss Kiss Kiss Bang"
20
35
18
Turquía 25px
Hadise
"Düm Tek Tek"
4
177
19
Albania 25px
Kejsi Tola
"Carry Me in Your Dreams"
17
48
20
Noruega 25px
Alexander Rybak
"Fairytale"
1
387
21
Ucrania 25px
Svetlana Loboda
"Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)"
12
76
22
Rumania 25px
Elena
"The Balkan Girls"
19
40
23
Reino Unido 25px
Jade Ewen
"It's My Time"
5
173
24
Finlandia 25px
Waldo's People
"Lose Control"
25
22
25
España 25px
Soraya Arnelas
"La noche es para mí"
23
23 |
de | HB/bag/hsn LONDON. Auf Anweisung des Finanzministeriums fror die Bank von England als britische Zentralbank die Konten der 19 Männer ein, weil sie in die Planungen für Sprengstoffanschläge auf USA-Flügen verwickelt seien. Außerdem veröffentlichte die Bank eine Liste mit den Namen, den Wohnorten und den Geburtsdaten der Männer. Demnach sind die Verdächtigen zwischen 19 und 35 Jahren alt, alle tragen nicht-britische Namen. Die BBC berichtet, alle seien britische Staatsbürger.
Nach Zeitungsberichten stammt die Mehrzahl der 24 mutmaßlichen Terroristen auf pakistanischen Einwandererfamilien, die seit langem im Vereinigten Königreich leben. Bei zwei 21 und 25 Jahre alten Männern handele es sich dagegen um gebürtige Briten, die aus Mittelklasse-Familien stammten und kürzlich zum Islam konvertiert seien. Offen ist, ob es sich bei diesen beiden Männern um jene handelt, die bereits vor acht bis zehn Tagen in Pakistan festgenommen worden waren. Dabei habe es sich um Briten gehandelt, sagte ein Vertreter der Regierung in Islamabad am Freitag. Sie säßen wegen geplanter Anschläge auf den transatlantischen Luftverkehr in Haft.
Nach Angaben aus nicht näher bezeichneten Sicherheitskreisen in den USA wollten die verhinderten Attentäter flüssigen Sprengstoff offenbar in Getränkeflaschen an Bord von Flugzeugen schmuggeln, die von Großbritannien aus in die USA fliegen. Zumindest ein Teil der Chemikalien habe in Flaschen für Sportgetränke eingeschleust werden sollen. An Bord der Maschinen sollten die Bomben dann zusammengesetzt und mit Hilfe von modifizierten Geräten wie Kameras oder MP3-Playern gezündet werden.
Für jedes Flugzeug, das als Anschlagsziel ausgewählt werden sollte, seien Teams von zwei bis drei Attentätern vorgesehen gewesen, hieß es weiter. Bei weiteren Razzien in Großbritannien sei mindestens eine Tonbandaufnahme gefunden worden, auf der einer der mutmaßlichen Attentäter von einem möglichen Märtyrertod spricht.
Lesen Sie weiter auf Seite 2: Flüssigsprengstoff macht den Fahndern Sorgen | de | Die Bank of England veröffentlichte am Freitag, den 11. August mit einer Pressenotiz eine Liste von Tatverdächtigen der vereitelten Terroranschläge vom Donnerstag.
Im ersten Satz beruft sich die Bank darauf, dass die Freigabe der Daten im Zusammenhang mit den finanziellen Maßnahmen im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus stehe. In Großbritannien sind die Banken nach einem „Gesetz zur Bekämpfung finanzieller Unterstützung des Terrors“ zur Veröffentlichung solcher Daten verpflichtet. Nach einer Anweisung des britischen Finanzministeriums hatte die Bank die Konten der Terrorverdächtigen gesperrt. Die Liste enthält neben den Namen auch Geburtsdaten und Adressen der Verdächtigen. Alle sind laut BBC britische Staatsbürger, die meisten hätten außerdem eine zweite Staatsbürgerschaft, die pakistanische. Sie entstammen Zeitungsberichten zufolge pakistanischen Einwandererfamilien. Zwei der Männer seien erst kürzlich zum Islam konvertiert. In Pakistan waren auch zwei der Verhaftungen erfolgt, die im Zusammenhang mit dem geplanten Terrorakt standen. Daraufhin hatten die britischen Behörden in London ebenfalls zugegriffen. Wie die britische Tageszeitung „The Guardian“ berichtete, sei auch der Befehl zur Durchführung der geplanten Terrorakte aus Pakistan gekommen.
14 der 19 Personen (alle im Alter zwischen 17 und 35 Jahren) wohnen in London und vier in Buckinghamshire. Einer der Verdächtigen wohnt in Birmingham.
Die Maßnahme der Staatsbank erfolgte einen Tag nach einem großen Anti-Terror-Einsatz in London. Eine größere Gruppe von Muslimen plante Anschläge auf bis zu zwölf Flugzeuge. Die Menschen standen jedoch schon längere Zeit unter Beobachtung. Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters spricht dagegen von zehn Flugzeugen, auf die es die Terroristen abgesehen hatten. |
en | News Release
Financial Sanctions: Terrorist Financing
11 August 2006
This news release is issued in respect of the financial measures taken against terrorism.
The Bank of England, as agent for Her Majesty’s Treasury, has today directed that any funds held for or on behalf of the individuals named in the Annex to this News Release must be frozen (see Key Resources below for Annex), and that no funds should be made available, directly or indirectly to any person, except under the authority of a licence.
Financial institutions and other persons are requested to check whether they maintain any accounts or otherwise hold any funds, other financial assets, economic benefits and economic resources for the individuals named in the Annex and, if so, they should freeze the accounts or other funds and report their findings to the Bank of England.
The names in the Annex are in addition to those listed in previous Bank Notices containing directions under Article 4 of the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3365) and under Article 8 of the Al-Qa’ida and Taliban (United Nations Measures) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/111, as amended).
Key Resources
Full News Release and Annex
(21k) Bank of England Notice
United Nations Act 1946
Notice containing a direction under article 4 of the Terrorism (United Nations Measures) Order 2001 (S.I. 2001/3365)
(77k) 10 August 2006
Previous Notices and news releases related to Terrorism, Al-Qa’ida and the Taliban and a consolidated list of individuals and entities subject to these and other UK financial sanctions regimes are available from the Financial Sanctions pages | de | Die Bank of England veröffentlichte am Freitag, den 11. August mit einer Pressenotiz eine Liste von Tatverdächtigen der vereitelten Terroranschläge vom Donnerstag.
Im ersten Satz beruft sich die Bank darauf, dass die Freigabe der Daten im Zusammenhang mit den finanziellen Maßnahmen im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus stehe. In Großbritannien sind die Banken nach einem „Gesetz zur Bekämpfung finanzieller Unterstützung des Terrors“ zur Veröffentlichung solcher Daten verpflichtet. Nach einer Anweisung des britischen Finanzministeriums hatte die Bank die Konten der Terrorverdächtigen gesperrt. Die Liste enthält neben den Namen auch Geburtsdaten und Adressen der Verdächtigen. Alle sind laut BBC britische Staatsbürger, die meisten hätten außerdem eine zweite Staatsbürgerschaft, die pakistanische. Sie entstammen Zeitungsberichten zufolge pakistanischen Einwandererfamilien. Zwei der Männer seien erst kürzlich zum Islam konvertiert. In Pakistan waren auch zwei der Verhaftungen erfolgt, die im Zusammenhang mit dem geplanten Terrorakt standen. Daraufhin hatten die britischen Behörden in London ebenfalls zugegriffen. Wie die britische Tageszeitung „The Guardian“ berichtete, sei auch der Befehl zur Durchführung der geplanten Terrorakte aus Pakistan gekommen.
14 der 19 Personen (alle im Alter zwischen 17 und 35 Jahren) wohnen in London und vier in Buckinghamshire. Einer der Verdächtigen wohnt in Birmingham.
Die Maßnahme der Staatsbank erfolgte einen Tag nach einem großen Anti-Terror-Einsatz in London. Eine größere Gruppe von Muslimen plante Anschläge auf bis zu zwölf Flugzeuge. Die Menschen standen jedoch schon längere Zeit unter Beobachtung. Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters spricht dagegen von zehn Flugzeugen, auf die es die Terroristen abgesehen hatten. |
de | 11.08.2006 19:33 << Vorige | Nächste >> Politische Debatte nach dem Terroralarm In Deutschland hat eine politische Debatte eingesetzt, wie auf die Ereignisse in Großbritannien reagiert werden soll. Dort hat Scotland Yard eine Gruppe von 24 britischen Staatsbürgern verhaftet, denen vorgeworfen wird, mit flüssigen Sprengstoffen zum Jahrestag des "11. September" eine Reihe von US-Passagiermaschinen zum Absturz bringen zu wollen. Von 19 Verhafteten sind inzwischen Details bekannt geworden, nachdem die Polizei ihre Konten sperren lies: Nach einem Gesetz zur Bekämpfung finanzieller Unterstützung des Terrors musste die Bank of England Namen und Wohnort der Verdächtigen veröffentlichen. Der überwiegende Teil der verdächtigen Männer im Alter zwischen 17 und 35 Jahren stammt aus London, daneben sind Birmingham und High Wycombe genannt. Nach fünf Verdächtigen wird noch gefahndet. Unter ihnen soll mit dem 29-jährigen Matiur Rehman der Organisator der Anschlagswelle sein, die zum 11. September stattfinden sollte. Anzeige
Um die schnelle Verfügbarkeit von Daten geht es dem innenpolitischen Experten der Union, Wolfgang Bosbach. Er forderte, möglichst rasch die geplante Anti-Terror-Datei zu realisieren, die die Datenbestände von Polizei- und Geheimdiensten zusammenführen soll. Gegenüber der Frankfurter Rundschau erklärte Bosbach, die Vorgänge in London zeigten, "dass wir das Gleichgewicht von Prävention und Datenschutz, das wir zur Zeit haben, nicht zu Lasten der Sicherheit verschieben dürfen." Auch SPD-Fraktionschef Peter Struck ist dieser Ansicht. In einem morgen erscheinenden Interview mit dem Berliner Tagesspiegel erklärte Struck, dass man ernsthaft über die Anti-Terror-Datei nachdenken müsse. Eine Absage erteilte Struck dem Vorschlag von CSU-Innenpolitiker Hartmut Koschyk, der schnellstmöglich gesetzliche Grundlagen für den Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Innern gefordert hatte. Gegenüber der Financial Times Deutschland forderte Koschyk zudem eine rigidere Einbürgerungspolitik. "Es gibt Extremisten, die bewusst den Schutz der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft suchen", erklärte der CSU-Politiker. Gegen übereilte Maßnahmen wandte sich Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger (FDP). Sie wertete die Vereitelung des Anschlags als Beweis dafür, dass das bestehende Sicherheitsnetz funktioniert. Für die Linkspartei erklärte die stellvertretende Fraktionsvorsitzende Petra Pau, man solle den Aktionismus lassen und lieber Naheliegendes tun. Dazu gehöre eine Neueinschätzung der Anti-Terror-Gesetze: "Die existierenden Anti-Terror-Gesetze sollten auf ihre Wirksamkeit überprüft und entschlackt werden", erklärte Pau, die im Innenausschuss des Deutschen Bundestages sitzt. Auch die Grünen mahnen in einer Erklärung zur "Besonnenheit im Antiterrorkampf". Bei den geplanten Maßnahmen dürften die Bürgerrechte nicht auf dem Spiel stehen. Vielmehr müsse es darum gehen, zusammen mit der Sicherheitsindustrie schnelle Antworten zu finden. Als erste Firma hat sich die US-amerikanische Guardian Technologies zu Wort gemeldet. Sie will mit dem PC-basierten Programm PinPoint eine Mustererkennung entwickelt haben, die "zuverlässig wie eine DNA-Analyse" die unterschiedlichen Flüssigkeiten erkennen soll. Das Programm soll direkt mit herkömmlichen Röntgenscannern an Flughäfen zusammenarbeiten. Der Vorsitzende des Bundes Deutscher Kriminalbeamter (BDK), Klaus Jansen, sprach sich unterdessen für eine stärkere Überwachung des Internet aus. Es müsse verhindert werden, dass Anleitungen zur Fertigung von Flüssigsprengstoffen im Netz kursieren. "Wenn wir nicht in der Lage sind zu identifizieren wer diese Seiten einstellt oder runter lädt, fehlt uns ein wichtiger Ermittlungsansatz zur Verhinderung von Terroranschlägen", zitiert die Netzeitung den BDK-Vorsitzenden. (Detlef Borchers) / (pmz/c't)
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Im ersten Satz beruft sich die Bank darauf, dass die Freigabe der Daten im Zusammenhang mit den finanziellen Maßnahmen im Kampf gegen den Terrorismus stehe. In Großbritannien sind die Banken nach einem „Gesetz zur Bekämpfung finanzieller Unterstützung des Terrors“ zur Veröffentlichung solcher Daten verpflichtet. Nach einer Anweisung des britischen Finanzministeriums hatte die Bank die Konten der Terrorverdächtigen gesperrt. Die Liste enthält neben den Namen auch Geburtsdaten und Adressen der Verdächtigen. Alle sind laut BBC britische Staatsbürger, die meisten hätten außerdem eine zweite Staatsbürgerschaft, die pakistanische. Sie entstammen Zeitungsberichten zufolge pakistanischen Einwandererfamilien. Zwei der Männer seien erst kürzlich zum Islam konvertiert. In Pakistan waren auch zwei der Verhaftungen erfolgt, die im Zusammenhang mit dem geplanten Terrorakt standen. Daraufhin hatten die britischen Behörden in London ebenfalls zugegriffen. Wie die britische Tageszeitung „The Guardian“ berichtete, sei auch der Befehl zur Durchführung der geplanten Terrorakte aus Pakistan gekommen.
14 der 19 Personen (alle im Alter zwischen 17 und 35 Jahren) wohnen in London und vier in Buckinghamshire. Einer der Verdächtigen wohnt in Birmingham.
Die Maßnahme der Staatsbank erfolgte einen Tag nach einem großen Anti-Terror-Einsatz in London. Eine größere Gruppe von Muslimen plante Anschläge auf bis zu zwölf Flugzeuge. Die Menschen standen jedoch schon längere Zeit unter Beobachtung. Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters spricht dagegen von zehn Flugzeugen, auf die es die Terroristen abgesehen hatten. |
en | Barely two weeks after opting against a political slugfest in Texas, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison now finds herself embroiled in a gun fight in the nation's capital.
Hutchison's campaign to repeal Washington's 29-year-old ban on handguns has provoked an angry uproar from the city's mayor, the police chief and much of the local leadership. "Don't tread on D.C." states a terse message to Hutchison on an anti-gun group's Web site.
The proposal, while narrowly focused on Washington, has plunged Congress into a renewed debate over gun control, citizen safety and the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
At the center is Hutchison, the Texas senior senator who recently dropped a potential challenge to Gov. Rick Perry in the 2006 Republican primary and instead decided to seek a presumed easy re-election to a third term.
But by taking on the local power structure in Washington and a nationwide gun-control coalition, the Republican lawmaker has assured that the weeks ahead will be anything but dull.
Last week Hutchison said she believes that the Constitutional provision of a right to keep and bear arms trumps a law prohibiting District of Columbia residents from having handguns. Moreover, she said, it is a matter of personal safety in a city with a high crime rate.
When she came to Washington in 1993, she brought along a .357 Magnum revolver -- the weapon brandished by movie cop "Dirty Harry" -- knowing that she would often be alone several nights a week away from her husband, Ray, a Dallas lawyer. After arriving, she learned of Washington's handgun ban and took her revolver back to Texas.
"Every person ought to be able to protect themselves in their home, and they cannot do that," said Hutchison, who now has two 4-year-old adopted children. "I spend a lot of nights here. I think that should be a right of myself or anyone living here."
Hutchison has drawn on harrowing personal experience in pushing for citizen protection. In the late 1990s, she persuaded Congress to enact federal anti-stalking legislation after disclosing that she had been pursued by a stalker since she began her political career 25 years earlier.
At one point, the stalker, who had worked as a volunteer in her 1972 campaign for the Texas House, broke into her office and rammed an ice pick through the face of her campaign poster. The man was eventually confined to a mental institution.
In her more recent endeavor, Hutchison wants to abolish a 1976 law that gives the District one of the nation's most rigid gun-control standards. The law requires the registration of all firearms and prohibits the sale or possession of handguns. It allowed those who already had handguns to keep them as long as they registered them under the new ordinance.
Residents can own shotguns and rifles but must keep them unloaded and disassembled, or secured with a trigger lock. One seeming anomaly, however, permits loaded firearms at businesses. In an early test of Hutchison's initiative, the House voted last week to strip the provision requiring long guns to be disassembled.
Hutchison sought to repeal the 1976 law during the last session of Congress, winning approval in the House but not in the Senate. Now a third of the Senate is signed on as co-sponsors, including fellow Texas Republican John Cornyn.
The effort is also embraced by the National Rifle Association and other gun-rights advocates who believe the D.C. law is unconstitutional and has done little to curtail crime. But District Mayor Anthony Williams, testifying at a congressional hearing last week, called Hutchison's legislation a "slap in the face to me and to the people who live in my city."
Police Chief Charles Ramsey also weighed in at the hearing, saying that repealing the law would make guns easily available to criminals and reverse a recent downturn in the city's crime rate. Those supporting Hutchison's view insist that the District's gun law prevents people from protecting themselves.
Homicides in the District fell last year to 198, from 248 in 2003, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. Over the past three decades, the murder rate has bounced up and down, reaching a peak of 482 in 1991 at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic.
Many District residents are incensed by what they perceive as outside interference. Since the so-called federal city gained home rule authority in the late 1960s, the City Council has been empowered to enact laws, but Congress can oversee and reverse those ordinances.
"The issue is not so much about guns but what right the people of D.C. have regarding their public safety," said Mike Beard, president of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, who helped design the 1976 law as an aide to the District's delegate in Congress.
But Hutchison argues that she, too, has a personal stake in the issue. She kept a gun for protection in Dallas and Austin, and "when I got here I found I couldn't have one," she said. "I do think it's the right of everyone." | en | D.C. handgun possession exemptions are granted to police, guards, retired police and to residents who owned them prior to 1976 when the ban took effect.
A 30-year ban on loaded shotguns, rifles and handguns in homes and businesses is set for repeal in Washington DC, where one of the strictest gun possession laws in the nation is in existence. The House of Representatives voted 259-161 on June 30 to allow an amendment by Mark Souder, R-Ind. to become attached to the federal district’s appropriations bill that later passed 405-18.
“My amendment gives D.C. citizens the same rights at work as they have at home.” said Souder, a congressman from Indiana.
The next step for a repeal is in the Senate where a bill titled “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act” was introduced in May by George Allen, R-Va. and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tx. Senator Allen, who according to the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' has presidential aspirations in the 2008 election, said of the bill’s introduction that it would, “give the law abiding citizens of the capital their constitutional right to protect themselves again.” It currently has 32 Senate co-sponsors, and sponsorship of the bill is expected to climb to 50 in the 100-member chamber before debate on the bill's passage begins.
Passage of the Senate bill would overturn the city law that has support from the mayor, city council, police chief and many of its citizens. The law requires trigger locks on all firearms or they must be kept disassembled. Handguns are banned outright.
District residents are witness to a federal legislation process that many see as trampling upon their permanent residency status. Locally elected leaders are able under the Home Rule Act to make their own laws, but local District of Columbia representatives have no vote in either the House or Senate, rendering them helpless in that political arena.
D.C.'s mayor Anthony Williams said, "It's discouraging when members of Congress who don't represent our city try to shove their laws down our throats."
A similar act to repeal the gun ban passed the House in 2004, but it was not taken up by the Senate. |
en | Monday, July 4, 2005; Page A16
PARLIAMENTARIANS gathered in Washington this holiday weekend from Europe and North America arrived just in time to witness the U.S. House of Representatives -- on the eve of the anniversary commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence -- trample upon the right of self-determination. Morphing themselves into city council members, a House majority overturned a city law and voted to allow D.C. residents to keep in their homes loaded shotguns and rifles, as well as handguns bought before 1976, unbounded by trigger locks or disassembled. The deed itself makes a mockery of Congress as a federal body. If the action is allowed to stand, however, the consequences could be even worse: The nation's capital will become a deadlier place in which to live.
The gun safety law that the House voted to repeal makes all the sense in the world. It enjoys the full backing of the city's mayor, council, police chief and, most important of all, the city's residents. Perhaps residents and their leaders want the law on the books because they know, even if the House does not, that properly locked or secured guns help prevent gun violence and accidental shootings. Perhaps District residents support their gun safety laws because they now see crime in their city at a 20-year low. Perhaps they also resent this imposition of House judgment because District residents, through their elected leaders, are authorized under the Home Rule Act to make their own laws. But perhaps they are outraged most of all because they have no vote in Congress. At the very time that the House was telling Americans living in the District what their local laws should be, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), the District's representative on Capitol Hill, had to stand by and watch -- unable to express her views with a vote. | en | D.C. handgun possession exemptions are granted to police, guards, retired police and to residents who owned them prior to 1976 when the ban took effect.
A 30-year ban on loaded shotguns, rifles and handguns in homes and businesses is set for repeal in Washington DC, where one of the strictest gun possession laws in the nation is in existence. The House of Representatives voted 259-161 on June 30 to allow an amendment by Mark Souder, R-Ind. to become attached to the federal district’s appropriations bill that later passed 405-18.
“My amendment gives D.C. citizens the same rights at work as they have at home.” said Souder, a congressman from Indiana.
The next step for a repeal is in the Senate where a bill titled “District of Columbia Personal Protection Act” was introduced in May by George Allen, R-Va. and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tx. Senator Allen, who according to the ''Richmond Times-Dispatch'' has presidential aspirations in the 2008 election, said of the bill’s introduction that it would, “give the law abiding citizens of the capital their constitutional right to protect themselves again.” It currently has 32 Senate co-sponsors, and sponsorship of the bill is expected to climb to 50 in the 100-member chamber before debate on the bill's passage begins.
Passage of the Senate bill would overturn the city law that has support from the mayor, city council, police chief and many of its citizens. The law requires trigger locks on all firearms or they must be kept disassembled. Handguns are banned outright.
District residents are witness to a federal legislation process that many see as trampling upon their permanent residency status. Locally elected leaders are able under the Home Rule Act to make their own laws, but local District of Columbia representatives have no vote in either the House or Senate, rendering them helpless in that political arena.
D.C.'s mayor Anthony Williams said, "It's discouraging when members of Congress who don't represent our city try to shove their laws down our throats."
A similar act to repeal the gun ban passed the House in 2004, but it was not taken up by the Senate. |
pt | Há nove meses adotada no Brasil, a reforma ortográfica ainda não tem um cronograma oficial para ser aplicada em Portugal. Ratificada por quatro países (Cabo Verde e São Tomé e Príncipe também assinaram o acordo), a mudança nas regras ortográficas tem causado polêmica entre os portugueses.
Veja também: Imprima o guia da reforma ortográfica
Apesar de não estar na pauta das campanhas para as eleições gerais deste domingo (27), o tema foi parar na Assembleia em maio deste ano, quando uma petição para tentar reverter o acordo foi assinada por 113.206 pessoas e discutida na Comissão de Ética e Sociedade.
Um dos signatários, o escritor e ex-deputado do Parlamento europeu Vasco Graça Moura, diz que a reforma é "uma barbaridade e um chorrilho de asneiras, que não permite atingir qualquer unidade da língua". Ele acredita que ainda é possível reverter o acordo legalmente. "É inconstitucional, face à Constituição Portuguesa, ainda não foi ratificado por todos os países signatários e é impossível aplicá-lo sem a existência de um vocabulário ortográfico assente e acordado entre todos os países que começaram por subscrever o documento, além de criar inúmeros problemas às crianças, aos professores e aos idosos, sem nenhuma contrapartida útil."
Já para o professor de literatura da Universidade de Coimbra Carlos Reis, a reversão política da adoção do acordo não é aplicável, pois constituiu um "ato político democraticamente legitimado". Se isso acontecesse, segundo ele, seria um "ato de denúncia unilateral" que prejudicaria a imagem do país.
Em entrevista ao G1, o professor Reis disse acreditar que, apesar das resistências, o próximo ano será o da disseminação e o da progressiva aceitação da nova ortografia. "Há jornais que já a adotaram e ainda recentemente a Associação de Professores de Português apelou ao Ministério da Educação no sentido de “forçar” a edição de livros escolares em harmonia com o acordo ortográfico. E está para breve a publicação, em Portugal, de um vocabulário ortográfico da língua portuguesa, instrumento importante, mas não decisivo, para que se resolvam algumas (poucas) dificuldades que a nova ortografia levanta."
A reforma no Brasil
No Brasil, não houve grande polêmica em relação à reforma ortográfica. Desde que o novo acordo entrou em vigor, em janeiro, as escolas já passaram a ensinar as novas regras, que começaram a ser aceitas nas provas dos vestibulares. Veículos de imprensa também aderiram imediatamente.
Da parte das editoras, houve uma preocupação em atualizar logo os dicionários, livros de gramática e os didáticos, apesar de o prazo de adaptação acabar em dezembro de 2011.
“Professores de português e tradutores, por exemplo, vieram atrás dos novos dicionários e livros de referência. Essas obras precisaram, obrigatoriamente, estar atualizadas”, afirma Fabio Herz, diretor comercial da Livraria Cultura.
Os demais livros, como os de literatura e os técnicos, porém, só são editados com as novas regras de acordo com a demanda. “As obras prontas não são modificadas. Quando um livro precisa ser reimpresso, ele sai revisado, mas isso acontece conforme o fluxo de venda”, afirma Joaci Pereira Furtado, editor de literatura e ensaio da Editora Globo. “Antes de o prazo de adaptação terminar, no entanto, teremos que passar um pente fino em todos os livros do catálogo.”
Mesmo no caso dos livros ainda com a regra antiga, as vendas não sofreram nem abalo. “A nova ortografia -que mexeu muito pouco no Brasil- não elimina a qualidade do conteúdo existente. As obras de referência ficaram obsoletas, mas não penso que ninguém vá deixar de comprar um clássico, como “Cem Anos de Solidão”, porque os tremas ainda estão lá”, avalia Frederico Indiani, diretor de compras da Livraria Saraiva.
José Carlos Honório, que há 27 anos cuida do acervo dos livros de artes da Cultura, é da mesma opinião. “As pessoas não estão muito preocupadas com isso quando compram um texto literário. Não é a falta da nova ortografia que vai depor contra o trabalho de um poeta ou escritor.”
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O (PS) do primeiro-ministro aparece como favorito para manter o governo nas eleições legislativas para a , nome do Parlamento português, que tem 230 membros do Parlamento.
De acordo com a pesquisa a dois dias da eleição, o PS aparece com uma vantagem de oito pontos sobre a oposição de centro-direita, o (PSD), de , mas sem maioria absoluta.
Segundo três pesquisas com resultados similares, publicadas no último dia da campanha eleitoral, o PS aparece com entre 38% e 38,8% das intenções de voto, contra 29,1% a 30% para o PSD.
Com Sócrates, cujos métodos considerados "autoritários" valeram ao governante uma grande hostilidade durante seu mandato, tanto a direita como a esquerda não-socialista descartaram qualquer possibilidade de aliança com os socialistas.
Por isso, em caso de maioria relativa, o PS estará à frente do país com um governo frágil, obrigado a negociar acordos parlamentares um por um.
Ao contrário da Alemanha, onde também serão realizadas eleições no domingo, Portugal não tem tradição de grandes coalizões e teve apenas uma vez, de 1983 a 1985, um governo chamado de "bloco central", que reunia PS e PSD. |
pt | Lisboa, 26 set (EFE).- Principais dados sobre Portugal, que realiza eleições legislativas no próximo domingo.
LOCALIZAÇÃO: No extremo sul do ocidente europeu, com a Espanha ao leste e o Oceano Atlântico a oeste.
ÁREA: 92.082 quilômetros quadrados, divididos em 18 distritos e duas regiões autônomas (arquipélagos dos Açores e Madeira).
POPULAÇÃO: 10.627.250 habitantes (2008).
CAPITAL: Lisboa.
IDIOMA: Português.
RELIGIÃO: 84% da população é católica.
FORMA DE GOVERNO: A República portuguesa é regida pela Constituição promulgada em 1976 e revisada em várias ocasiões. O chefe de Estado é o presidente da República, eleito por voto universal para um mandato de cinco anos, com possibilidade de ser reeleito apenas uma vez. O poder Executivo é exercido pelo primeiro-ministro (chefe de Governo).
O poder Legislativo corresponde à Assembleia da República, integrada por 230 membros escolhidos a cada quatro anos.
O presidente do país é o conservador Aníbal Cavaco Silva, Partido Social-Democrata, que assumiu o cargo em 9 de março de 2006. O primeiro-ministro, José Sócrates, do Partido Socialista, tomou posse em 12 de março de 2005.
PARTIDOS: Os principais partidos são Partido Socialista (PS); Partido Social Democrata (PPD/PSD); Coalizão do Partido Comunista e os Verdes (CDU); Partido Popular, antigo Centro Democrático e Social (CDS/PP); e Bloco de Esquerda (BE).
FORÇAS ARMADAS: 41 mil militares, segundo os dados do Ministério da Defesa de Portugal.
ECONOMIA: O Produto Interno Bruto (PIB) é de 255,5 bilhões de euros (2008). A taxa de desemprego é de 9,1% (agosto de 2009) e a inflação média anual ficou em 2,6% (dezembro de 2008).
HISTÓRIA RECENTE: Em 14 de janeiro de 1996, o socialista Jorge Sampaio foi eleito presidente da República, vencendo o candidato de centro-direita, Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
Em 14 de janeiro de 2001, Sampaio foi reeleito para um segundo mandato como presidente da República com 56% dos votos.
No dia 3 de novembro de 2005, Sampaio convocou eleições presidenciais para 22 de janeiro de 2006, vencidas pelo conservador Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
O PS venceu as eleições de março de 2005 com 45% dos votos, nas quais conseguiu 121 cadeiras na Assembleia da República e elegeu o primeiro-ministro, José Sócrates. Seu principal adversário, o PPD/PSD, conseguiu 75; o Partido Comunista, 14; o CDS-PP, 12; o BE, oito; e os Verdes, dois.
HISTÓRIA: Portugal se constituiu como nação independente na primeira metade do século XII e conheceu um período de expansão nos séculos XV e XVI, período das navegações que ampliaram o império colonial português.
Destacam-se as expedições comandadas por Vasco da Gama, o primeiro europeu a chegar à Índia pelo mar, em 1498, e por Pedro Álvares Cabral, que aportou no Brasil em 1500.
Em 1580, a Espanha tomou a Coroa portuguesa, em domínio que chegou ao fim em 1640.
Em 1807, o território português é invadido pela França, sob o comando de Napoleão Bonaparte. No ano seguinte, a corte de Portugal foge para o Brasil, onde fica até 1820, quando a Revolução do Porto obriga o rei João VI a retornar a Portugal. Em 1822, o príncipe herdeiro Dom Pedro proclama a independência do Brasil.
Em 1910, a República é proclamada em Portugal após uma revolta que derruba o rei Manuel II.
A Constituição de 1911 não funcionou bem. As insurreições e as tentativas de golpes de Estado militares, somados à instabilidade governamental, explicam as mais de 20 revoluções e 40 Governos que existiram em Portugal entre 1911 e 1926, ano em que um golpe instalou uma ditadura militar.
Em 1932, António de Oliveira Salazar assumiu o cargo de primeiro-ministro. No ano seguinte, uma nova Constituição instituiu o Estado Novo, que estabelecia o regime de partido único.
A ditadura salazarista começou a enfrentar uma crescente oposição interna na década de 60. Em setembro de 1968, Salazar sofre um derrame cerebral e é substituído por Marcelo Caetano, derrubado em 25 de abril de 1974 por um grupo de jovens oficiais do Exército, na Revolução dos Cravos. EFE | pt | José Sócrates no anuncio dos resultados das Eleições Europeias 1
José Sócrates no anuncio dos resultados das Eleições Europeias 2
O (PS) do primeiro-ministro aparece como favorito para manter o governo nas eleições legislativas para a , nome do Parlamento português, que tem 230 membros do Parlamento.
De acordo com a pesquisa a dois dias da eleição, o PS aparece com uma vantagem de oito pontos sobre a oposição de centro-direita, o (PSD), de , mas sem maioria absoluta.
Segundo três pesquisas com resultados similares, publicadas no último dia da campanha eleitoral, o PS aparece com entre 38% e 38,8% das intenções de voto, contra 29,1% a 30% para o PSD.
Com Sócrates, cujos métodos considerados "autoritários" valeram ao governante uma grande hostilidade durante seu mandato, tanto a direita como a esquerda não-socialista descartaram qualquer possibilidade de aliança com os socialistas.
Por isso, em caso de maioria relativa, o PS estará à frente do país com um governo frágil, obrigado a negociar acordos parlamentares um por um.
Ao contrário da Alemanha, onde também serão realizadas eleições no domingo, Portugal não tem tradição de grandes coalizões e teve apenas uma vez, de 1983 a 1985, um governo chamado de "bloco central", que reunia PS e PSD. |
pt | Os dois maiores partidos portugueses, o socialista (PS) e o social-democrata (PSD), que se alternaram no poder nas três décadas de democracia do país, voltam neste domingo (27) a decidir as eleições legislativas de Portugal.
À esquerda, o socialista José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa. À direita, a líder social-democrata, Manuela Ferreira Leite. (Foto: AFP)
Mas a pouca diferença de votos pode deixar a governabilidade do país, segundo todas as pesquisas, nas mãos de três partidos do segundo escalão --da esquerda marxista e da direita democrata-cristã--, que esperam ganhar destaque após quatro anos de uma maioria socialista monótona e absoluta.
O conservador Centro Democrático Social-Partido Popular (CDS-PP), de Paulo Levas, a Coalizão Democrática Unitária (CDU, comunistas e verdes), liderada por Jerônimo de Sousa, e o Bloco de Esquerda (BE), com Francisco Louça à frente, podem estar prestes a integrar o próximo Governo português.
O PS, fundado em 1973 e que tem o recorde de permanência no Governo (18 anos), parece conformado em não ter a maioria que, há quatro anos, deu comodidade a José Sócrates no poder. Além disso, chega à disputa com um forte desgaste, o que os demais partidos tentam aproveitar.
Entretanto, os socialistas estão confiantes e acreditam que conseguirão reter o poder que a legenda experimentou pela primeira vez em 1976, quando, após a Revolução dos Cravos, Mário Soares chegou ao Executivo, embora tenha permanecido no cargo por apenas dois anos.
Soares, o socialista com mais experiência de Governo, voltou ao Palácio de São Bento entre 1983 e 1985, e deixou uma forte marca política a favor de seu partido também como presidente da República, cargo que exerceu por uma década, a partir de 1986.
Já os social-democratas, que já tinham estado no poder nos breves mandatos de Mário Soares, chegaram ao Executivo através de outro grande nome da política lusa, Aníbal Cavaco Silva, atual chefe de Estado e primeiro-ministro durante quase uma década, entre 1985 e 1995.
Após seu longo mandato, os socialistas recuperaram o Governo com Antônio Guterres, que em 2002 teve que dar espaço a outro social-democrata, o atual presidente da Comissão Europeia (órgão executivo da UE), José Manuel Durão Barroso.
Durão Barroso foi sucedido por seu companheiro de partido Pedro Santana Lopes, quando abandonou o Executivo português para assumir a Presidência da Comissão Europeia.
A até agora última etapa de poder social-democrata acabou com a arrasadora vitória de José Sócrates nas legislativas de 2005, que deu aos socialistas uma maioria absoluta pouco habitual ao longo da democracia portuguesa.
Agora, todas as pesquisas dão entre dez e 12 pontos a menos em relação aos 45% de votos do PS, seguido de perto por adversários do PSD que já venceram, embora por uma pequena margem, as eleições europeias de junho passado.
Se as pesquisas não se equivocarem e caso se repita um resultado similar a favor de um ou outro dos dois grandes nomes da política lusa, esse pode ser o ano dos pequenos partidos em Portugal.
A líder social-democrata, Manuela Ferreira Leite, pode ter como um aliado o conservador CDS-PP, capitaneado pelo ex-jornalista e ex-ministro Paulo Levas, que percorreu ruas e mercados em busca do que chamou do "voto dos desiludidos".
O CDS-PP foi colaborador de Governos de diferentes tipos, primeiro com o socialista Mário Soares e, posteriormente, em 2002, com o social-democrata Durão Barroso.
Na esquerda, a CDU participou de todas as eleições desde 1987 e pode ser um apoio necessário, mas difícil de conquistar, para Sócrates.
Seu líder, o comunista Jerônimo de Sousa, um antigo operário do setor metalúrgico, se mostra mais longe do PS que a legenda mais jovem da esquerda, o BE, criado em 1999 e agora terceira força política, prestes a ultrapassar a CDU nas pesquisas.
Seu dirigente, o professor universitário Francisco Louça, que foi líder estudantil na luta contra a ditadura, reconheceu "alguns méritos" do Governo Sócrates, mas se mostra também decidido a defender a todo custo um "autêntico" Governo de esquerda.
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O (PS) do primeiro-ministro aparece como favorito para manter o governo nas eleições legislativas para a , nome do Parlamento português, que tem 230 membros do Parlamento.
De acordo com a pesquisa a dois dias da eleição, o PS aparece com uma vantagem de oito pontos sobre a oposição de centro-direita, o (PSD), de , mas sem maioria absoluta.
Segundo três pesquisas com resultados similares, publicadas no último dia da campanha eleitoral, o PS aparece com entre 38% e 38,8% das intenções de voto, contra 29,1% a 30% para o PSD.
Com Sócrates, cujos métodos considerados "autoritários" valeram ao governante uma grande hostilidade durante seu mandato, tanto a direita como a esquerda não-socialista descartaram qualquer possibilidade de aliança com os socialistas.
Por isso, em caso de maioria relativa, o PS estará à frente do país com um governo frágil, obrigado a negociar acordos parlamentares um por um.
Ao contrário da Alemanha, onde também serão realizadas eleições no domingo, Portugal não tem tradição de grandes coalizões e teve apenas uma vez, de 1983 a 1985, um governo chamado de "bloco central", que reunia PS e PSD. |
pt | Sócrates é o favorito para um segundo mandato nas legislativas portuguesas
LISBOA, Portugal — As eleições legislativas de domingo em Portugal levarão, provavelmente, o primeiro-ministro socialista José Sócrates a um segundo mandato, no qual não deverá ter mais a maioria absoluta que possuiu no Parlamento durante quatro anos, segundo as pesquisas.
De acordo com três pesquisas com resultados similares, publicadas no último dia da campanha eleitoral, o Partido Socialista (PS) de Sócrates aparece com entre 38% e 38,8% das intenções de voto, contra de 29,1% a 30% para o Partido Social Democrata (PSD).
As projeções das sondagens indicam que o PS poderá obter 100 das 230 cadeiras de deputados, ou seja, 21 a menos que em 2005, um retrocesso devido, principalmente, ao avanço previsto da esquerda antiliberal (comunistas-verdes e extrema esquerda), que terá 35 assentos.
Juntos, o PSD e o CDS-PP (Centro Democrata e Social) somarão 95 vagas.
Ao contrário da Alemanha, onde também serão realizadas eleições no domingo, Portugal não tem tradição de grandes coalizões e teve apenas uma vez, de 1983 a 1985, um governo chamado de "bloco central", que reunia PS e PSD.
Com José Sócrates, cujos métodos considerados "autoritários" valeram ao governante uma grande hostilidade durante seu mandato, tanto a direita como a esquerda não-socialista descartaram qualquer possibilidade de aliança com os socialistas.
Por isso, em caso de maioria relativa, o PS estará à frente do país com um governo frágil, obrigado a negociar acordos parlamentares um por um.
Na sexta-feira, último dia de campanha, o apelo dos socialistas era pela "mobilização" e pelo "voto útil". "Nenhuma pesquisa ganha uma eleição", lembrou Sócrates.
Em junho, apesar de ter sido considerado favorito nas eleições europeias, o PS ficou atrás do PSD, obtendo 26,7% dos votos, um dos piores resultados de sua história.
A partir de então, os socialistas recuperaram terreno nas sondagens, graças, sobretudo, à nova postura de Sócrates, que se mostra mais humilde, reconhecendo sua "falta de delicadeza" na gestão de alguns assuntos. Mas, nas questões de fundo, defendeu sua política de reformas estruturais e rigor orçamentário, afirmando que esta permitiu "modernizar o país" e "resistir melhor à crise".
Criticado por seus resultados sociais, em um país que acaba de superar meio milhão de desempregados, Sócrates prometeu dar prioridade ao emprego.
"Contra a crise, o país precisa mais do que nunca de estabilidade e confiança", repetiu durante toda a campanha, concentrando nos últimos dias seus ataques no Bloco de Esquerda do trotskista Francisco Louça, que poderá se tornar a terceira força política de Portugal.
A direita também elevou o tom nos últimos dias da campanha. "Só o voto para o PSD pode retirar o poder de José Sócrates", afirmou Ferreira Leite.
A ex-ministra das Finanças, de 68 anos, chamada de "dama de ferro", advertiu também aqueles que "estão tentados por uma aliança" com Sócrates. "Ele se encarregará de calá-los", disse ela, que denunciou durante sua campanha a "asfixia democrática" que, em sua opinião, foi imposta no país pelo governo socialista.
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O (PS) do primeiro-ministro aparece como favorito para manter o governo nas eleições legislativas para a , nome do Parlamento português, que tem 230 membros do Parlamento.
De acordo com a pesquisa a dois dias da eleição, o PS aparece com uma vantagem de oito pontos sobre a oposição de centro-direita, o (PSD), de , mas sem maioria absoluta.
Segundo três pesquisas com resultados similares, publicadas no último dia da campanha eleitoral, o PS aparece com entre 38% e 38,8% das intenções de voto, contra 29,1% a 30% para o PSD.
Com Sócrates, cujos métodos considerados "autoritários" valeram ao governante uma grande hostilidade durante seu mandato, tanto a direita como a esquerda não-socialista descartaram qualquer possibilidade de aliança com os socialistas.
Por isso, em caso de maioria relativa, o PS estará à frente do país com um governo frágil, obrigado a negociar acordos parlamentares um por um.
Ao contrário da Alemanha, onde também serão realizadas eleições no domingo, Portugal não tem tradição de grandes coalizões e teve apenas uma vez, de 1983 a 1985, um governo chamado de "bloco central", que reunia PS e PSD. |
pt | O jornalista Kennedy Alencar é correspondente e comentarista da rádio CBN em Washington. Começou sua carreira em 1990 na “Folha de S.Paulo”, onde foi redator, repórter, editor da coluna “Painel” e enviado especial às guerras do Kosovo e Afeganistão. É autor do livro “Kosovo, a Guerra dos Covardes” (editora DBA). Na RedeTV!, apresentou durante cinco anos o programa de entrevistas “É Notícia” e mediou os debates presidenciais de 2010 e municipais de 2012. Estreou como comentarista da rádio CBN em 2011. Criou o "Blog do Kennedy" em 2013. Trabalhou no SBT entre 2014 e 2017. É produtor-executivo e roteirista do documentário “What Happened to Brazil”, realizado para a BBC World News. Com uma versão em português intitulada “Brasil em Transe”, o documentário retrata a crise que começa nas manifestações de junho de 2013, passa pelo impacto da Lava Jato e do impeachment de Dilma na política e na economia e resulta na eleição de Bolsonaro.
A decisão de enviar a Guarda Nacional para conter protestos na cidade de Kenosha, em Wisconsin, é uma aposta arriscada do presidente Donald Trump a pouco mais de dois meses das eleições de 3 novembro. O figurino de presidente da "lei e da ordem", como escreve o republicano nas redes sociais, deu errado no meio do ano.
"HOJE, enviarei tropas federais e a Guarda Nacional para Kenosha, WI [no estado de Wisconsin], para restaurar a LEI e a ORDEM", postou Trump no Twitter na tarde desta quarta-feira, após conversar com o governador Tony Evers, do Partido Democrata. Trump disse que não aceitaria "saques, incêndios, violência e ilegalidades nas ruas americanas".
Em junho, quando optou por reprimir manifestantes em Washington com forças federais, Trump caiu nas pesquisas. Perdeu popularidade e viu o democrata Joe Biden ampliar a dianteira nos levantamentos a respeito da disputa presidencial. A pandemia já havia colocado Biden à frente de Trump nas pesquisas.
Naquela época, os protestos contra o racismo estrutural e a violência policial foram desencadeados pela morte de George Floyd em 25 de maio. Em Kenosha, há protestos semelhantes deflagrados por uma ação policial que resultou em mais um ato policial de violência extrema e desproporcional contra um homem negro.
Ao entrar no carro no domingo, 23 de agosto, Jacob Blake, 29, foi seguido por policiais e acabou alvejado com sete tiros pelas costas. Segundo sua família, Blake está com os movimentos paralisados da cintura para baixo.
A virada de terça para quarta-feira foi a terceira noite seguida de protestos em Kenosha. Estabelecimentos comerciais e prédios públicos foram depredados. Houve confronto entre a polícia e manifestantes. Duas pessoas morreram e uma terceira ficou gravemente ferida.
Trump venceu Hillary por menos de um ponto percentual no estado
A polícia diz que houve reação de uma milícia de homens brancos fazendo a vigilância de um posto de gasolina. Um menor de 17 anos de idade foi apreendido na tarde desta quarta-feira, sob suspeita de ter sido o atirador que matou pelo menos uma pessoa. De acordo com a lei de Wisconsin, o menor pode ser julgado como adulto. Ele teria usado um rifle semiautomático.
Wisconsin é um dos estados fundamentais para que um presidente vença no Colégio Eleitoral. Trump derrotou Hillary Clinton no estado por apenas 0,77 ponto percentual.
O estado, cuja força econômica é centrada no agronegócio, especialmente na indústria de laticínios, tem sido duramente disputado por Biden e Trump na atual corrida eleitoral. Na média de pesquisas recentes, Biden tem uma vantagem de apenas 3,5 pontos percentuais. Wisconsin é um típico estado onde os subúrbios americanos tradicionais são importantes nas eleições.
Se der certo, Trump pode virar o jogo num estado que possui 10 votos no Colégio Eleitoral de 538 delegados. Numa disputa apertada, pode fazer a diferença. Se a jogada de Trump não funcionar, ela poderá voltar a reacender protestos em âmbito nacional contra o racismo estrutural e a brutalidade policial que vitima mais os negros do que os brancos.
Na Convenção Nacional Republicana, que começou na segunda e vai até esta quinta, os republicanos têm discursado com foco no eleitorado branco, numa tentativa de estancar a perda de apoiadores conservadores para o democrata. Segundo a maioria dos oradores, uma vitória democrata implantaria o socialismo nos EUA e aumentaria a violência nas grandes cidades e nos subúrbios do país.
A decisão de enviar tropas federais ao Wisconsin combina com a estratégia eleitoral de Trump, que dobra a aposta na repetição do roteiro político que o elegeu quatro anos atrás. | pt | Nesta quarta (26), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, decidiu enviar a Guarda Nacional para conter protestos na cidade de Kenosha, em Wisconsin, o que é uma aposta arriscada do presidente a pouco mais de dois meses das eleições de 3 novembro. A imagem do presidente da "lei e da ordem", como escreve o republicano nas redes sociais, deu errado no meio do ano.
"HOJE, enviarei tropas federais e a Guarda Nacional para Kenosha, WI no estado de Wisconsin, para restaurar a LEI e a ORDEM", postou Trump no Twitter na tarde desta quarta-feira, após conversar com o governador Tony Evers, do Partido Democrata. Trump disse que não aceitaria "saques, incêndios, violência e ilegalidades nas ruas americanas".
Um ataque registrado pela câmera de um telefone celular mostra um jovem branco abrindo fogo em uma rua com um fuzil semiautomático. Na gravação, é possível ouvir o atirador afirmando que acabara de "matar alguém". A pessoa que aparece no vídeo seria o adolescente, residente em Antioch, a pouco mais de 20 quilômetros de Kenosha. Ele foi detido pela polícia em sua cidade, no estado do Illinois.
Os protestos eclodiram na cidade após Jacob Blake, um homem negro de 29 anos, ser alvejado pelas costas por policiais que atendiam um chamado sobre uma briga doméstica.
O incidente ocorreu na esteira de vários casos recentes de violência policial contra pessoas negras, como os que resultaram nas mortes de George Floyd, em Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks, em Atlanta, e Breonna Taylor, em Louisville, que geraram uma onda de protestos antirracistas em todo o país. |
pt | Um adolescente de 17 anos foi detido nesta quarta-feira (26/08), suspeito do assassinato de duas pessoas na terceira noite de protestos contra violência policial na cidade de Kenosha, em Wisconsin, nos Estados Unidos.
Um ataque registrado pela câmera de um telefone celular mostra um jovem branco abrindo fogo na rua com um fuzil semiautomático. Na gravação, é possível ouvir o atirador afirmando que acabara de "matar alguém". A pessoa que aparece no vídeo seria o adolescente, residente em Antioch, a pouco mais de 20 quilômetros de Kenosha. Ele foi detido pela polícia em sua cidade, no estado do Illinois.
Os protestos eclodiram na cidade após Jacob Blake, um homem negro de 29 anos, ser alvejado pelas costas por policiais que atendiam um chamado sobre briga doméstica.
O incidente ocorreu na esteira de vários casos recentes de violência policial contra pessoas negras, como os que resultaram nas mortes de George Floyd, em Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks, em Atlanta e Breonna Taylor, em Louisville, que geraram uma onda de protestos antirracistas em todo o país.
Os mortos nos protestos em Kenosha foram identificados apenas como sendo um jovem de 26 anos de Silver Lake e uma pessoa de 36 anos, de Kenosha. Uma terceira vítima da cidade de West Allis, também de 36 anos, recebeu cuidados médicos e deve sobreviver, segundo informações da polícia, que não divulgou os nomes.
Imagens de vídeo, corroboradas por relatos de testemunhas, sugerem que a polícia teria permitido que o jovem suspeito deixasse o local sem ser interpelado, apesar de várias pessoas pedirem que ele fosse preso por ter atirado contra os manifestantes.
O chefe da polícia local, o xerife David Beth, disse que o cenário caótico, com pessoas aos gritos, entoando slogans e "correndo por toda parte" poderiam ter deixado os policias sem a noção exata do que estava acontecendo.
Terceira noite de protestos em Kenosha, em Wisconsin, termina com duas mortes
O suspeito será levado a tribunal nesta sexta-feira, onde responderá por assassinato em primeiro grau. Segundo as leis do Wisconsin, jovens de 17 anos sãos tratados como adultos pelo sistema de Justiça criminal. O perfil do suspeito no Facebook é repleto de exaltações aos agentes da lei, com referencias a movimentos de apoio à polícia, além de mostrar fotos do jovem armado de um fuzil.
Beth informou que pessoas armadas estavam patrulhando as ruas da cidade nas últimas noites, mas disse não saber se o atirador estava entre eles. "São uma milícia", disse o xerife.
Entretanto, imagens de vídeo de antes do episódio que resultou nas duas mortes mostrava policiais distribuindo garrafas de água para civis armados nas ruas da cidade. Um deles aparentava ser o suspeito pelas duas mortes. Beth disse que seus homens distribuiriam água para qualquer pessoa que estivesse ali.
Após a confirmação das duas mortes, o governador do Wisconsin, Tony Evers, autorizou o envio de um reforço de 500 membros da Guarda Nacional à cidade. Ele disse que trabalha junto a governadores de outros estados para aumentar ainda mais esse contingente.
O presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, afirmou que enviaria por conta própria tropas federais para Kenosha, o que não foi confirmado pelo governador. Em pela campanha para a reeleição, Trump vem se esforçando para transmitir uma imagem de defensor da lei e da ordem, em meio à onda de protestos antirracismo no país.
Nos últimos meses, o presidente já prometeu enviar tropas para diversos locais onde os protestos se intensificaram. Contudo, em várias ocasiões, autoridades locais condenaram a medida ao afirmarem que isso acirraria ainda mais as tensões.
"Não vamos tolerar saques, incêndios criminosos, violência e ausência da lei nas ruas americanas", disse Trump no Twitter. Ele prometeu ainda "restaurar a lei e a ordem".
Em Kenosha, as autoridades locais anunciaram um toque de recolher válido a partir das 19 horas, no horário local. "Uma tragédia sem sentido como essa não pode ocorrer novamente", afirmou Evers, justificando a medida
Após passar por cirurgias, Blake ainda está hospitalizado. O advogado de sua família, Bem Crump, disse que será "preciso um milagre" para que ele possa andar novamente. Ele pediu que o policial que disparou seja preso e que os outros envolvidos percam seus empregos.
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| YouTube | App | Instagram | Newsletter | pt | Nesta quarta (26), o presidente dos Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, decidiu enviar a Guarda Nacional para conter protestos na cidade de Kenosha, em Wisconsin, o que é uma aposta arriscada do presidente a pouco mais de dois meses das eleições de 3 novembro. A imagem do presidente da "lei e da ordem", como escreve o republicano nas redes sociais, deu errado no meio do ano.
"HOJE, enviarei tropas federais e a Guarda Nacional para Kenosha, WI no estado de Wisconsin, para restaurar a LEI e a ORDEM", postou Trump no Twitter na tarde desta quarta-feira, após conversar com o governador Tony Evers, do Partido Democrata. Trump disse que não aceitaria "saques, incêndios, violência e ilegalidades nas ruas americanas".
Um ataque registrado pela câmera de um telefone celular mostra um jovem branco abrindo fogo em uma rua com um fuzil semiautomático. Na gravação, é possível ouvir o atirador afirmando que acabara de "matar alguém". A pessoa que aparece no vídeo seria o adolescente, residente em Antioch, a pouco mais de 20 quilômetros de Kenosha. Ele foi detido pela polícia em sua cidade, no estado do Illinois.
Os protestos eclodiram na cidade após Jacob Blake, um homem negro de 29 anos, ser alvejado pelas costas por policiais que atendiam um chamado sobre uma briga doméstica.
O incidente ocorreu na esteira de vários casos recentes de violência policial contra pessoas negras, como os que resultaram nas mortes de George Floyd, em Minneapolis, Rayshard Brooks, em Atlanta, e Breonna Taylor, em Louisville, que geraram uma onda de protestos antirracistas em todo o país. |
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fr | Le reportage de Karine Bastien
Guy Turcotte porte en appel le verdict de culpabilité rendu à son endroit par la Cour supérieure du Québec le 6 décembre dernier. Un jury de sept hommes et quatre femmes l'avait reconnu coupable des meurtres non prémédités de ses deux enfants Olivier, 5 ans, et Anne-Sophie, 3 ans.
L'avis d'appel a été déposé à la Cour d'appel au cours des dernières heures par Me Félix Larose, au nom de Me Pierre Poupart, qui a défendu l'ex-cardiologue lors de son procès cet automne.
Les avocats de la défense arguent que le juge André Vincent :
a erré en disant au jury qu'il ne devait pas tenir compte de l'effet de la crise suicidaire sur l'état mental de Guy Turcotte au moment des événements;
a donné des directives de nature à semer la confusion dans l'esprit du jury quant à l'effet de l'intoxication sur la défense de non-responsabilité criminelle;
a erré dans ses directives relatives à la notion de « savoir que [les actes commis par Guy Turcotte] étaient mauvais ».
Il reviendra à la Cour d'appel de décider si ces arguments justifient ou pas la tenue d'un nouveau procès.
Entrevue avec l'avocat-criminaliste Bertrand St-Arnaud
Puisqu'il a été reconnu coupable de meurtres non prémédités, Guy Turcotte a automatiquement écopé d'une peine de prison à vie, sans possibilité de libération avant au moins 10 ans, sinon davantage.
Il revient cependant au juge de déterminer après quelle période Guy Turcotte pourra demander une libération conditionnelle. Lors des représentations sur le peine, le 18 décembre, la Couronne a recommandé un minimum de 20 ans, tandis que la défense a plaidé pour une période de 10 à 15 ans.
La décision à ce sujet sera rendue par écrit le 15 janvier.
Guy Turcotte a toujours reconnu avoir tué ses enfants, mais il plaidait la non-responsabilité criminelle pour troubles mentaux. Un premier jury l'avait acquitté, se rendant à l'argumentaire de ses avocats.
La Cour d'appel avait toutefois conclu que le juge de première instance avait erré dans ses directives aux jurés et avait ordonné la tenue d'un second procès. | fr | Condamné à la prison à vie le 6 décembre pour le meurtre de ses deux enfants, le médecin et cardiologue portera en appel la décision de la .
Si la cour accepte que la cause soit entendue à nouveau, un troisième procès pourrait être enclenché pour l'accusé de 43 ans. |
en | Penguins clip Red Wings to win Stanley Cup
Captain Sidney Crosby raises the Stanley Cup after the Penguins secured the franchise's third title against Detroit Friday night at Joe Louis Arena. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press) Captain Sidney Crosby raises the Stanley Cup after the Penguins secured the franchise's third title against Detroit Friday night at Joe Louis Arena. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press)
Even without the services of captain Sidney Crosby for more than half the contest, the Pittsburgh Penguins stood tall in winning the Stanley Cup for the third time in franchise history Friday night.
Centre Max Talbot scored both goals, sending the Penguins to a 2-1 win over the defending champion Detroit Red Wings in Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena.
Pittsburgh secures the franchise's first championship since the Mario Lemieux-led Penguins of 1991 and 1992.
The Penguins also become the first road team since the 1971 Montreal Canadiens to begin a Stanley Cup final 0-2 yet still win it all in the seventh and deciding game away from home.
"It's a dream come true," said Crosby, who took a congratulatory call from Prime Minister Stephen Harper following the win.
"It's everything you imagined and more. I would have loved to do it in four, it would have been a lot easier on the nerves. It was so hard watching the clock tick down for that whole third period.
"But everything it took to win, we did it. Blocking shots, great goaltending, different guys stepping up. I mean, we did exactly everything it takes to win."
While Talbot provided all the offence the Penguins would need, goaltender Marc-André Fleury preserved the win with some heroics in the final seconds of the game.
Fleury made 23 saves on the night — none bigger than the one he made in the dying seconds of the game with Pittsburgh clinging to a one-goal lead.
With 6.5 seconds left, the Wings won the draw and crashed to net.
Fleury saves the day He may not have skated away with the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP, but goaltender Marc-André Fleury is a major reason the Pittsburgh Penguins are Stanley Cup champions. Fleury made 23 saves in helping lead the Penguins to 2-1 victory Friday night against the Detroit Red Wings in Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena. "Just to win that thing [the Stanley Cup] is a dream and that's all that matters," an elated Fleury told Hockey Night In Canada. An NHL championship didn't seem possible for Fleury and the Penguins after they were shut out 5-0 in Game 5. Fleury was pulled in that game after a shaky performance, appearing to be shell-shocked in watching the Wings take a 3-2 series lead. But the former 2003 No. 1 overall pick responded in a big way. First, he robbed Dan Cleary in Game 6 on the breakaway with less that two minutes remaining Tuesday night at Mellon Arena to secure a 2-1 victory. Fleury saved his best performance for Friday night, making several key stops. The most lasting image came in the final frantic seconds of the third period. With the Penguins on the cusp of clinching the Cup, Fleury made a diving stop to the right of Pittsburgh's net off the stick of Detroit defenceman Nicklas Lidstrom. "We've been friends forever and it's just a great relationship," said Penguins centre Max Talbot, who scored both Pittsburgh goals. "I told him when I got the first goal, I told him, 'I got the game winner, you gotta keep it for me.' And he did it." Fleury even had a sense of humour regarding the shot Detroit defenceman Niklas Kronwall took with more than two minutes remaining that rang off the crossbar. "It [the crossbar] made a big save for me and I just said 'Thank you,'" said Fleury, who rubbed the iron after dodging a key bullet.
Fleury made the initial save, but the rebound went right to Detroit defenceman Nicklas Lidstrom. Criticized for his play during the three previous games at Joe Louis Arena, Fleury dove to his right to block the Lidstrom shot with his arm.
"Flower [Fleury] made some great saves," said Talbot. "Everybody sacrificed their body. That's how you win championships."
Malkin earns playoff MVP
Centre Evgeni Malkin earned the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP after notching 36 points. Malkin, registering an assist on the first Talbot goal, is the first Russian-born player to win the award.
"Big day in my life," Malkin told Hockey Night In Canada while his teammates carried the Cup around the ice. "My friends are happy, I'm happy."
Malkin is also the first player to win both the regular season and playoff scoring race in the same year since Hall of Famer and Penguins owner Mario Lemieux completed the feat in 1992.
Crosby, who finished with 31 points in the post-season, hurt his left knee after taking a hard check from Wings centre Johan Franzen along the boards in the second period. He returned for only one 32-second shift of the final period.
"[He got] the side of my knee," admitted Crosby. "It's hard to watch. I don't recommend anyone trying watch the Stanley Cup final, Game 7 from the bench. It's a tough situation."
Remarkably, the Penguins won anyway.
Crosby, 21, was healthy enough to receive the Stanley Cup from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and raised it above his head — becoming the youngest captain to win an NHL championship.
"[The Cup's] actually a lot heavier than I thought," said Crosby. "It's so worth it. Our team battled so hard throughout the whole year and, being on the losing side last year, this is an amazing feeling."
Pittsburgh, which lost to the Red Wings in the Stanley Cup final last season, could challenge for Lord Stanley a few more times with this young group.
Fleury was selected with the first overall pick in 2003, while Malkin was taken the following season with the No. 2 selection. The Penguins found good fortune once again in 2005, winning the lottery and picking Crosby No. 1. The team concluded its draft bonanza by plucking Jordan Staal at the No. 2 spot in 2006.
"It wasn't an easy series but we felt if we won Game 6 that we had a chance here [Friday] night," said Lemieux, who savoured the moment by continually kissing the Cup.
"Any time you have Sidney Crosby on your team and [Evgeni] Malkin, [Marc-Andre] Fleury and [Jordan] Staal, it's a great balance."
Knee injury knocks Crosby out in 2nd
Detroit, meanwhile, played in its seventh Game 7 final but is now 3-4 during that time. The Wings failed in their attempt to win a fifth championship in 12 years.
Crosby, left, grimaces in pain after getting drilled into the boards by Detroit centre Johan Franzen. (Frank Gunn/Canadian Press)Defenceman Jonathan Ericsson snapped Fleury's bid for the shutout with a goal in the third period. Detroit goaltender Chris Osgood stopped 16 shots.
The Penguins drew first blood just 1:13 into the second period following a great effort by Talbot.
Racing behind the Detroit net, he forced Wings defenceman Brad Stuart to turn the puck over, off Malkin's skate. Talbot picked up the loose puck in front before slipping a shot between Osgood's legs.
The goaltenders remained on top of their game around the five-minute mark of the period. After Fleury stopped Darren Helm from the slot, Penguins winger Matt Cooke blocked defenceman Brian Rafalski's shot to create a partial breakaway, only to be stopped by Osgood.
The Penguins then lost Crosby at 5:30 into second after Franzen drove his left knee into the boards, forcing Pittsburgh's star to hobble to the dressing room.
Unfazed, Talbot struck again at 10:07 as the Pittsburgh centre broke in on a two-on-one break and fired a perfect wrist shot over Osgood, giving the Penguins a 2-0 advantage.
"Hey, I still have bad hands," said a smiling Talbot. "These two goals don't improve my stick-handling skills.
"But I don't care about the two goals. We won the game."
Forward Chris Kunitz made the play possible by winning a battle with Stuart near the boards.
"Those were two nice goals," Osgood said of Talbot's performance. "I complimented him when we shook hands."
The Wings finally broke Fleury's shutout bid with 6:07 remaining in the third. Ericsson blasted a one-timer off the feed from Lidstrom that Fleury misjudged.
Detroit couldn't complete the comeback, thanks in large part to Fleury's brilliance down the stretch.
Perhaps Wings winger Marian Hossa, held without a goal in the series, may have taken the loss harder than any other member of his club. Hossa played for the Penguins last season, but opted to sign a one-year with Detroit during the off-season because he felt the team from the Motor City had a better chance to win the Stanley Cup.
"Regret? I don't have any regrets," said Hossa. "Whether you like it or not, there's going to be pressure. It squeezes you. It's very difficult to play like that." | en | Max Talbot (PIT)
On Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in game seven of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals to win their third Stanley Cup. Max Talbot scored all of the Penguins goals to give them a 2-1 win over the Red Wings. In winning the cup, the Penguins became the first team in 38 years to win a Stanley Cup Finals game seven while playing on the road. Pittsburgh last won the Stanley Cup in 1992.
This Stanley Cup run was not an easy one for the Penguins. In the opening round of the playoffs, the Penguins took six games to defeat in-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. The second round series against the Washington Capitals featured a highly-touted individual matchup, as the Penguins young star Sidney Crosby matched skills against Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals; it took the Penguins all seven games to win that series. The Penguins rolled the Carolina Hurricanes in a four game sweep to win the Eastern Conference title. In the Finals, they found themselves down three games to two against the Red Wings, a dynasty which has won four Cups in the past 12 seasons, and was the defending champion.
The Penguins win in game seven was not only due to the scoring of Max Talbot; Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury allowed only one goal on 25 shots. The Penguins young star, Sidney Crosby had little impact on this game; though he was the second highest scorer of the entire playoffs, a hip injury in the second period kept him out of half of the game.
After a scoreless first period, Pittsburgh's Max Talbot scored on an assist from Evgeni Malkin only 1:13 into the second period. Talbot added to his first goal with a second at the 10:07 mark in the second period, on assists from Chris Kunitz and Rob Scuderi. The final score came in the third period, at 13:53, as Jonathan Ericsson scored Detroit's only goal of the game, on assists from Nicklas Lidström and Jiri Hudler.
The game featured five minor penalties; two by Detroit and three by Pittsburgh; all were inconsequential as all three goals were scored at full-strength. |
en | Scoring both of the Penguins' goals, Maxime Talbot was the unquestionable hero of Game 7 at Joe Louis Arena. David E. Klutho/SI
DETROIT -- On the night of Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, the hands of Max Talbot are just fine. Nine days after his linemate Evgeni Malkin jokingly remarked about him, "Yeah, little bit bad hands," Talbot scored twice in the second period, as the Penguins won the deciding game, 2-1 (RECAP | BOX), at Joe Louis Arena Friday night. "[But] he's still right about that," Talbot said, chuckling.
Winning the championship for the first time since 1992 against the team that defeated them just a year ago, the Penguins defied history, becoming the first team to win Game 7 on the road since the 1971 Montreal Canadiens. Malkin, who assisted Talbot's first goal, finished the playoffs with a league-high 36 points and earned the Conn Smythe Trophy for most valuable player in the postseason. The Pittsburgh center, who won the Art Ross Trophy with 103 points during the regular season, became the first player since Wayne Gretzky to capture both scoring titles in the same season in 1993.
After a scoreless first period, the Penguins jumped out early in the third, and about a minute into the second period, Talbot intercepted a tipped pass by Detroit defenseman Brad Stuart right in front of Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood. Catching him by surprise, Talbot shot the puck five-hole to give the Penguins the 1-0 lead. Talbot struck again midway through the period, cashing in on a 2-on-1 and lanching a wrister high glove side on Osgood to give the Penguins the 2-0 lead.
Did he ever in his wildest dreams think he'd score twice to win the Stanley Cup?
"No, definitely not," he said on the ice, basking in the chaotic moments after the win. "You know, I never thought that I would score two goals in the NHL."
It doesn't get any better than this, for this grinder whose clutch play earned him the nickname, The Gamer, by his teammates. "He just has a knack for playing so well in big games," defenseman Brooks Orpik says. "He does so many little things, and obviously his heart is huge. That's the biggest thing. He's willing to do anything to win.... And he likes the attention too. [And] he's definitely not short on confidence."
The goal, Talbot's fourth of the series, was a welcome answer to a potentially devastating hit Pittsburgh took about four minutes earlier. Red Wings forward Johan Franzen homed in on Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby, playing the puck along the boards in the neutral zone. The Swedish forward laid a heavy hip-check on the Penguins captain, catching his left leg and putting it into the boards. Crosby skated off into the dressing room in apparent pain. "[He] jammed the outside of my knee," he said after the game. "I couldn't walk, really.... I tried numbing it as much as I could, and I still couldn't really skate that much."
The absence of the superstar center didn't seem to deter Pittsburgh, though. Jordan Staal, whose line had generated the most chances for the Penguins in the first, stepped up in his place, and kept Detroit's top scorers in check. Though Crosby returned to the game in the third period, he was limited to only one shift.
"You get to a point where you've got to ask yourself whether you're going to be, you know, hurting your team by being out there," Crosby said. "One misstep and I could cost the guys a lot of hard work. I didn't want to be the guy who did that."
As the Penguins lined up after the game to shake hands with their opponents, Red Wing Marian Hossa had to feel the pain of being on the losing side for the second straight year. Hossa, who chose the Red Wings over the Penguins in free agency last summer because he thought Detroit gave him a better chance to win the Cup, watched as his old teammates celebrated without him, irony lost on no one. The former Penguin had no goals and three assists in the final series.
The Red Wings had plenty of chances on Pittsburgh goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, but couldn't find much luck until the 13th minute of the third period, when Detroit defenseman Jonathan Ericsson beat Fleury underneath his glove to make it a one-goal game. And as the last minutes of the game passed, Detroit's chances continued to come. With a little over two minutes left, Niklas Kronwall threw a hard shot at Fleury but rang off the crossbar. At the next stoppage, Fleury turned to the net and gave the metal pipe a few loving taps -- a simple thank you.
No surprise that after six games, and as exciting and close a final as there's been in recent history, this one would be good to the last drop. With Chris Osgood out of the net and an extra attacker on for Detroit with just a minute left, Fleury stood tall, making key saves on Detroit's biggest two names in the last six seconds of the game. First, he denied Detroit's leading playoff scorer Henrik Zetterberg with his right pad, but left a rebound in the right circle, a favorite spot for Nicklas Lidstrom. The Detroit captain pinched in and elevated a shot into what looked like an open net, but there Fleury was. He hurled his body over to make a spectacular shoulder save. Though he's struggled here in the past, Fleury wasn't haunted by any demons in here Friday, putting on his finest performance of this postseason.
"I'm just so happy that he proved to everyone tonight that he's a winning goalie, and he can do it under pressure," Talbot said of Fleury, who faced criticism all series long for his spotty play.
But after it all, after the 82 games, the three series to get back to this point, the six games and 60 minutes on the ice, the Pittsburgh Penguins -- all of their hands, knees, heads and hearts -- are just fine tonight. | en | Max Talbot (PIT)
On Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in game seven of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals to win their third Stanley Cup. Max Talbot scored all of the Penguins goals to give them a 2-1 win over the Red Wings. In winning the cup, the Penguins became the first team in 38 years to win a Stanley Cup Finals game seven while playing on the road. Pittsburgh last won the Stanley Cup in 1992.
This Stanley Cup run was not an easy one for the Penguins. In the opening round of the playoffs, the Penguins took six games to defeat in-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. The second round series against the Washington Capitals featured a highly-touted individual matchup, as the Penguins young star Sidney Crosby matched skills against Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals; it took the Penguins all seven games to win that series. The Penguins rolled the Carolina Hurricanes in a four game sweep to win the Eastern Conference title. In the Finals, they found themselves down three games to two against the Red Wings, a dynasty which has won four Cups in the past 12 seasons, and was the defending champion.
The Penguins win in game seven was not only due to the scoring of Max Talbot; Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury allowed only one goal on 25 shots. The Penguins young star, Sidney Crosby had little impact on this game; though he was the second highest scorer of the entire playoffs, a hip injury in the second period kept him out of half of the game.
After a scoreless first period, Pittsburgh's Max Talbot scored on an assist from Evgeni Malkin only 1:13 into the second period. Talbot added to his first goal with a second at the 10:07 mark in the second period, on assists from Chris Kunitz and Rob Scuderi. The final score came in the third period, at 13:53, as Jonathan Ericsson scored Detroit's only goal of the game, on assists from Nicklas Lidström and Jiri Hudler.
The game featured five minor penalties; two by Detroit and three by Pittsburgh; all were inconsequential as all three goals were scored at full-strength. |
en | Here's Stanley, pass it on
-- One season removed from watching the Detroit Red Wings celebrate a Stanley Cup title on their home ice, the Pittsburgh Penguins turned the tables this spring.The Penguins celebrated their third Stanley Cup and first since 1992 after scoring a 2-1 victory over the Wings in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final before 20,066 at Joe Louis Arena Friday night.When NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman handed Lord Stanley over to Penguins' captain Sidney Crosby , you got a sense this was just the beginning of a Pittsburgh-style party that would last long into the night.After taking the Cup, Crosby let loose with a loud yell before smacking three kisses on the coveted trophy. Crosby skated for approximately 15 seconds with the Cup high above his head before handing it over to the oldest player on the roster, Bill Guerin Guerin, 38, was celebrating his first Cup since 1995 when he played with the New Jersey Devils . His wait between championships (14 years) is the third-longest in history behind Chris Chelios (16 years) and Mark Recchi (15 years).Pittsburgh General Manager Ray Shero acquired Guerin from the Islanders at the March 4 trading deadline, and he went on to become one of the lynchpins for Sidney Crosby on the team's top line. Guerin finished with 7 goals and 15 points in 24 playoff games.Guerin eventually passed the Cup to defenseman Sergei Gonchar "It means so much (to see Gonchar raise the Cup)," Crosby said. "There are so many of those stories or there are so many guys who work so hard. I think that was Gonch's third time in the Final."He's played in the League a long, long time and he's been a great player, but he hadn't been able to win it to this point," Crosby continued. "That's something we all realize we can't take for granted."Gonchar would eventually hand the Cup over to Miroslav Satan . The procession would continue as Petr Sykora Chris Kunitz and Brooks Orpik all received a twirl with the Cup. Marc-Andre Fleury , who made 23 saves for the game, and Maxime Talbot , who connected for both goals in the victory, would eventually get their hands on the big prize, too. Talbot would eventually pass the Cup over to Conn Smythe Trophy winner Evgeni Malkin And coach Dan Bylsma would also have a chance to raise the Cup."Life's a bugger," Bylsma said at his postgame press conference. "I had plans about this and had dreams about it. I hoped this would happen someday, but good coaches have coached a long time and never gotten an opportunity like this. A lot of times, your first opportunity doesn't come with a team that's this talented or this group of players. I'm very fortunate in that regard." | en | Max Talbot (PIT)
On Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in game seven of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals to win their third Stanley Cup. Max Talbot scored all of the Penguins goals to give them a 2-1 win over the Red Wings. In winning the cup, the Penguins became the first team in 38 years to win a Stanley Cup Finals game seven while playing on the road. Pittsburgh last won the Stanley Cup in 1992.
This Stanley Cup run was not an easy one for the Penguins. In the opening round of the playoffs, the Penguins took six games to defeat in-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. The second round series against the Washington Capitals featured a highly-touted individual matchup, as the Penguins young star Sidney Crosby matched skills against Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals; it took the Penguins all seven games to win that series. The Penguins rolled the Carolina Hurricanes in a four game sweep to win the Eastern Conference title. In the Finals, they found themselves down three games to two against the Red Wings, a dynasty which has won four Cups in the past 12 seasons, and was the defending champion.
The Penguins win in game seven was not only due to the scoring of Max Talbot; Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury allowed only one goal on 25 shots. The Penguins young star, Sidney Crosby had little impact on this game; though he was the second highest scorer of the entire playoffs, a hip injury in the second period kept him out of half of the game.
After a scoreless first period, Pittsburgh's Max Talbot scored on an assist from Evgeni Malkin only 1:13 into the second period. Talbot added to his first goal with a second at the 10:07 mark in the second period, on assists from Chris Kunitz and Rob Scuderi. The final score came in the third period, at 13:53, as Jonathan Ericsson scored Detroit's only goal of the game, on assists from Nicklas Lidström and Jiri Hudler.
The game featured five minor penalties; two by Detroit and three by Pittsburgh; all were inconsequential as all three goals were scored at full-strength. |
en | DETROIT One year ago, the Pittsburgh Penguins painfully watched the Detroit Red Wings wildly celebrate a Stanley Cup championship on their home ice.
Friday night they made the Red Wings appreciate their misery.
The Penguins officially ushered in the Sidney Crosby- Evgeni Malkin championship era by defeating the Red Wings 2-1 in a dramatic Game 7 to win their first Stanley Cup since 1992.
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"We have a great core for the next couple of years and I see great things for this team going forward," said Penguins winger Maxime Talbot, who scored Pittsburgh's goals.
The Penguins are the first road team in any sport to win a championship in Game 7 since the Pittsburgh Pirates won the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles in 1979, and they are the first NHL team to win a Finals Game 7 on the road since the 1970-71 Montreal Canadiens.
"When you're playing Game 7 for the Stanley Cup, and you're playing at home, it makes it tough to lose," said Detroit captain Nicklas Lidstrom, who was denied his fifth NHL championship.
The Penguins won the game with Crosby playing only 9:59 because of a hip injury suffered in the second period when he was checked by Johan Franzen. He tried to play in the third period, but the pain was too much.
It didn't diminish Crosby's enjoyment of the Cup celebration. He has faced relentless pressure to succeed since he was the league's No. 1 draft pick in 2005. Now he has a Stanley Cup after just his fourth NHL season.
"It's not easy to be in the spotlight like he was at a young age," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. "There is a lot of focus. There's lots of scrutiny. There's lots of demands. … this erases a lot of questions."
Crosby called it "a dream come true. It's everything you imagined and more."
Malkin won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the postseason MVP, primarily on the strength of his eight points in the series and his NHL-leading 36 points (22 assists) in the postseason
"Everything it took to win — we did it," Crosby said. "Blocking shots. Good goaltending, different guys stepping up…"
This Penguins team struggled for much of the regular season and was lifted down the stretch by a coaching change from Michel Therrien to Bylsma on Feb. 15. His record was 18-3-4 in the final two months and the Penguins moved from out of the Eastern Conference playoffs into fourth place when the season ended.
"When I was traded to Pittsburgh, the Pens were in 10th and I was in 30th (with the Islanders)," said Crosby's linemate, Bill Guerin who came to Pittsburgh at the trade deadline. "But we bonded quickly."
Players bought in to Bylsma's system. "I'm a little surprised how quick they got it, but I'm not surprised how good they became," said Bylsma, who played for the Anaheim Ducks in Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Finals.
After a scoreless first period, Talbot scored twice in the second to become the ninth NHL player to score two goals in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. He scored at 1:13 after intercepting a pass from Brad Stuart and then scored at 10:07 on a 2-on-1 break that began with Stuart pinching against Chris Kunitz who had the puck near the boards.
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They held that lead until Detroit rookie defenseman Jonathan Ericsson scored with 6:07 remaining in the third period. In the final minutes, the Red Wings pressed and pulled goalie Chris Osgood. The Penguins didn't have it wrapped up until Lidstrom's shot at the buzzer hit a diving Marc-Andre Fleury, the Pittsburgh goalie who made 23 saves in erasing memories of a 5-0 loss in Game 5 a week ago.
"They played real well without the puck," Lidstrom said.
One of the interesting side stories of the Finals involved Hossa's decision last summer to leave the Penguins to join the Red Wings. He joined the Red Wings because he believed they had a better chance to win the Stanley Cup.
"Regret?," he said. "I don't regret it. It could be different circumstances if I sign in Pittsburgh and now they probably couldn't sign some other players and they would be different team. So we could sit here for hours discussing this but it could be a different team, could be different things so I don't regret the decision."
Said Stuart: "Obviously (we) feel pretty bad for him (Hossa). He was probably feeling the pressure a little bit. It's one of the storylines of the series, I guess, the fact we ended up playing them again. Obviously (we) feel bad for the guy. He's part of our team and feels the same way all of us do." | en | Max Talbot (PIT)
On Friday, the Pittsburgh Penguins defeated the Detroit Red Wings in game seven of the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals to win their third Stanley Cup. Max Talbot scored all of the Penguins goals to give them a 2-1 win over the Red Wings. In winning the cup, the Penguins became the first team in 38 years to win a Stanley Cup Finals game seven while playing on the road. Pittsburgh last won the Stanley Cup in 1992.
This Stanley Cup run was not an easy one for the Penguins. In the opening round of the playoffs, the Penguins took six games to defeat in-state rivals, the Philadelphia Flyers. The second round series against the Washington Capitals featured a highly-touted individual matchup, as the Penguins young star Sidney Crosby matched skills against Alexander Ovechkin of the Capitals; it took the Penguins all seven games to win that series. The Penguins rolled the Carolina Hurricanes in a four game sweep to win the Eastern Conference title. In the Finals, they found themselves down three games to two against the Red Wings, a dynasty which has won four Cups in the past 12 seasons, and was the defending champion.
The Penguins win in game seven was not only due to the scoring of Max Talbot; Penguins goalie Marc-Andre Fleury allowed only one goal on 25 shots. The Penguins young star, Sidney Crosby had little impact on this game; though he was the second highest scorer of the entire playoffs, a hip injury in the second period kept him out of half of the game.
After a scoreless first period, Pittsburgh's Max Talbot scored on an assist from Evgeni Malkin only 1:13 into the second period. Talbot added to his first goal with a second at the 10:07 mark in the second period, on assists from Chris Kunitz and Rob Scuderi. The final score came in the third period, at 13:53, as Jonathan Ericsson scored Detroit's only goal of the game, on assists from Nicklas Lidström and Jiri Hudler.
The game featured five minor penalties; two by Detroit and three by Pittsburgh; all were inconsequential as all three goals were scored at full-strength. |
en | Yukio Hatoyama has been chosen as leader of Japan's opposition Democratic Party, in the run-up to parliamentary elections later this year. The 62-year-old grandson of a former prime minister replaces Ichiro Ozawa, who stepped down amid a fund-raising scandal on May 11. The Democrats have promised to cut wasteful spending and bureaucracy.
General elections are due by October, and Saturday's opinion polls suggest the Democrats may be ahead of the long-ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled for about 50 years.
Analysts said the Democrats' platform - the core of which is a pledge to break bureaucrats' grip on policy to reduce wasteful spending and end the cossetting of vested interests - was unlikely to change much, no matter who leads the party.
The Democrats have also vowed to strengthen the social safety net and revive domestic demand in the midst of a deep recession.
Ozawa's decision to step down also had little impact on financial markets, although many players want to see an end to a political stalemate that has obstructed policy in the world's second-biggest economy as it struggles with its worst recession in 60 years.
Economic woes
Policy making in Japan has been hampered since opposition parties won control of parliament's upper house in 2007, allowing them to delay legislation.
Analysts said the general election was unlikely to be called until after Taro Aso, the prime minister, attends a G8 summit in Italy in early July and after a Tokyo Metropolitan assembly election on July 12, partly in the hope that the economy will improve by then.
"Early August, late August - it's hard to tell," Koichi Nakano, a professor at Sophia University, said.
"Given Aso's record of waiting, unless he's become a different person, he is going to want to wait for a better time." | en | Yukio Hatoyama
Japan's opposition party, the , on Saturday chose Yukio Hatoyama as its leader for .
Hatoyama, the grandson of a former Japanese prime minister, replaced , who resigned from his post following a scandal over fundraising earlier this month.
Hatoyama and the Democrats have promised to reduce wasteful spending and cut bureaucracy. He has also pledged to increase domestic demand during the , the worst in sixty years.
The general elections are expected to be held in October. According to local opinion polls taken on Saturday, the Democrats may have an edge over Prime Minister Taro Aso's conservative (LDP), which has remained in power for five decades.
Ozawa, the previous leader of elections, resigned on May 11 after an aide was accused in a fundraising fiasco in March. Prosecutors charged Ozawa had taken illegal donations totaling 21 million yen from the Nishimatsu Construction firm in the years 2003-2007. |
en | Yukio Hatoyama is the grandson of a former prime minister
Japan's opposition Democratic Party has chosen Yukio Hatoyama, the grandson of a former prime minister, as leader ahead of elections later this year.
Mr Hatoyama succeeds Ichiro Ozawa, who stepped down amid a fundraising scandal on 11 May.
The new opposition leader has pledged to cut wasteful spending.
Opinion polls suggest the Democrats are ahead of PM Taro Aso's Liberal Democratic Party, which has ruled for some 50 years, with one short break.
Mr Hatoyama, 62, won a swiftly organised election among Democratic Party members of Japan's Diet, or parliament.
Mr Ozawa had been under pressure to resign after a close aide was charged in a fundraising scandal in March.
Tokyo prosecutors alleged Mr Ozawa's political funding organisation received 21 million yen ($216,000; £142,000) in illegal donations from Nishimatsu Construction between 2003-07.
Before the scandal broke, Mr Ozawa had been thought likely to unseat the beleaguered prime minister, Taro Aso, in parliamentary elections.
But opinion polls have suggested his popularity had waned as a result of the scandal.
Mr Hatoyama's party has promised to loosen the bureaucracy's grip on policy making and pursue more assertive diplomacy towards Japan's security ally the United States.
But the BBC's Roland Buerk in Tokyo says Mr Hatoyama may struggle to bring change to Japanese politics, which is dominated by wealthy political dynasties. | en | Yukio Hatoyama
Japan's opposition party, the , on Saturday chose Yukio Hatoyama as its leader for .
Hatoyama, the grandson of a former Japanese prime minister, replaced , who resigned from his post following a scandal over fundraising earlier this month.
Hatoyama and the Democrats have promised to reduce wasteful spending and cut bureaucracy. He has also pledged to increase domestic demand during the , the worst in sixty years.
The general elections are expected to be held in October. According to local opinion polls taken on Saturday, the Democrats may have an edge over Prime Minister Taro Aso's conservative (LDP), which has remained in power for five decades.
Ozawa, the previous leader of elections, resigned on May 11 after an aide was accused in a fundraising fiasco in March. Prosecutors charged Ozawa had taken illegal donations totaling 21 million yen from the Nishimatsu Construction firm in the years 2003-2007. |
fr | Les travaux parlementaires ont viré à la foire d’empoigne, mercredi, à la Chambre des communes, alors que Justin Trudeau a involontairement heurté une députée dans sa tentative d’aller en agripper un autre.Les choses ont tourné au vinaigre alors que les élus s’apprêtaient à voter sur une motion du gouvernement pour imposer une limite de temps sur le débat concernant le projet de loi sur l’ aide médicale à mourir Lorsqu’il a constaté que le whip conservateur était pris derrière un groupe de députés dans le coin de la pièce où se trouvent les banquettes du Nouveau Parti démocratique (NPD), le premier ministre Trudeau a traversé la Chambre d’un pas énergique. Selon la députée néodémocrate Tracey Ramsey, il aurait alors enjoint aux élus de s’enlever de son chemin («Get the fuck out of the way»).La députée du NPD Ruth Ellen Brosseau était dans le chemin. Sur les images tournées pendant l’incident, on constate qu’elle a été bousculée.L’incident a provoqué la furie du chef néodémocrate Thomas Mulcair, qui s’est retrouvé nez à nez avec le premier ministre. Des députés se sont interposés entre les deux hommes. Lorsqu’elle a pris la parole en Chambre, après avoir temporairement quitté pour se remettre de ses émotions, Mme Brosseau a livré sa version des faits. « Le premier ministre m’a donné un coup de coude dans la poitrine, et j’ai dû quitter. Cela m’a vraiment secouée […] J’ai raté le vote pour cette raison », a expliqué l’élue québécoise. M. Trudeau a présenté ses excuses « sans réserve » à la députée, assurant que le contact physique avait été involontaire, mais sans contredit « inacceptable ».Comme Ruth Ellen Brosseau n’a pu enregistrer son vote, il pourrait y avoir eu atteinte à son privilège parlementaire, a reconnu le président de la Chambre, Geoff Regan. L’affaire se retrouvera donc devant le comité permanent de la procédure de la Chambre des communes, où le premier ministre pourrait être appelé à témoigner. Le premier ministre Trudeau a quitté le parlement sans répondre aux questions des journalistes, peu après 19 h. « On va avoir le temps pour s’en parler, j’en suis certain », s’est-il contenté de laisser tomber en se dirigeant vers la sortie.Indigné, le député Van Loan a servi de sévères remontrances à Justin Trudeau pour avoir « malmené » le whip du Parti conservateur, Gord Brown, en lui agrippant le bras pour l’entraîner vers l’avant de la Chambre. | fr | Justin Trudeau
Sur les images vidéos retransmises à la télévision, on voit le Premier ministre quitter son siège et traverser la salle d'un pas énergique pour aller agripper le , . La députée , qui se trouve derrière lui, est alors bousculée.
Son geste a provoqué la furie du chef néo-démocrate et les deux hommes ont du être séparés vraisemblablement pour éviter un affrontement physique. La députée Ruth Ellen Brosseau, qui a dû s'absenter temporairement de la salle, a affirmé que le Premier ministre lui aurait donné un coup de coude dans la poitrine. Alors que les partis d'oppositions l'accuse d'intimidation physique, M.Trudeau s'est excusé et a tenté de s'expliquer. |
pl | Prezydent RP, Lech Kaczyński 23 stycznia 2008 r. Prezydent Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej Lech Kaczyński wraz z Małżonką udał się z oficjalną wizytą do Republiki Chorwacji.
24 stycznia br. Prezydent RP Lech Kaczyński wziął udział w spotkaniu z Prezydentem Republiki Chorwacji Stjepanem Mesiciem, podczas którego odbyła się ceremonia wręczenia odznaczenia Prezydentowi RP.
W związku z katastrofą samolotu wojskowego CASA Prezydent RP Lech Kaczyński skrócił swoją wizytę i po spotkaniu z Prezydentem Republiki Chorwacji powrócił do kraju.
Podczas konferencji prasowej Prezydent RP powiedział:
"Panie Prezydencie, Szanowni Państwo,
Zdarzyła się tragedia – zmusza mnie to do jak najszybszego powrotu, stąd też wizyta musiała być zmieniona w wizytę roboczą. Bardzo dziękuję za zrozumienie ze strony Prezydenta i władz republiki Chorwacji dla sytuacji, w jakiej się znaleźliśmy. Mamy za sobą rozmowę, którą można określić jako przeglądową. Dowiedziałem się wielu rzeczy niezmiernie interesujących, jeżeli chodzi o ocenę sytuacji Pana Prezydenta, wiele faktów, dotyczących tego regionu. Tak, jak mówił Pan Prezydent, omawialiśmy również stosunki wzajemne i pewne problemy wychodzące poza kwestie regionalne, europejskie, nawet ponadeuropejskie. Ja myślę, że te rozmowy będziemy mogli skutecznie kontynuować.
Polska wspiera wejście Chorwacji do Unii Europejskiej, do struktur euroatlantyckich. Uważamy, że jest to droga, która prowadzi w ogóle do poszerzenia Unii, a jeżeli chodzi o NATO, to już wielokrotnie mówiłem, że jest to swoisty światowy eksporter stabilizacji – przynajmniej względnej – i pokoju. A więc tego, co na Bałkanach jest niezmiernie potrzebne, zresztą nie tylko na Bałkanach – na całym świecie. Tyle tylko, że NATO jest to oczywiście struktura o charakterze regionalnym, amerykańsko-europejskim a nie ogólnoświatowym. Mam nadzieję, że wizyta oficjalna pozwoli pogłębić współpracę bilateralną między nami, naszymi dwoma krajami. Z jednej strony życzymy naszym chorwackim przyjaciołom jak najszybszej integracji z Unią, z drugiej strony my, w Polsce stoimy na stanowisku, że Unia pozostaje bardzo silnym, bardzo ścisłym, ale związkiem państw narodowych, a nie federacją. A więc jest tam miejsce na stosunki bilateralne, nawet bardzo głębokie. Życzymy sobie takich stosunków z Chorwacją. Jeżeli idzie o pewne problemy ogólnoeuropejskie, w których zarówno Polska, jak i Chorwacja biorą lub będą brały udział, to mam nadzieję jeszcze na dłuższą rozmowę z Panem Prezydentem przy okazji wizyty oficjalnej. Raz jeszcze dziękuję za zrozumienie".
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Zapraszamy do oglądania zdjęć z tego wydarzenia w naszej Galerii! | pl | Katedra Zagrzebska
Grafika:Stjepan Mesic Lech Kaczynski.jpg|thumb|250px|Lech Kaczyński i Stjepan Mesić wraz z małżonkami
23 stycznia 2008 r. Lech Kaczyński wraz z małżonką udał się z oficjalną wizytą do Republiki Chorwacji.
24 stycznia br. odbyło się spotkanie Prezydenta RP Lecha Kaczyńskiego z Prezydentem Republiki Chorwacji Stjepanem Mesiciem, podczas którego miała miejsce ceremonia wręczenia odznaczenia Prezydentowi RP.
Następnie Lech Kaczyński miał spotkać się z przewodniczącym Parlamentu Republiki Chorwacji Luką Bebiciem oraz premierem Ivo Sanaderem.
W godzinach popołudniowych para prezydencka miała spotkać się z arcybiskupem Zagrzebia kardynałem Josipem Bozaniciem oraz zwiedzić Katedrę Zagrzebską.
Prezydent RP miał także spotkać się z wykładowcami i studentami Uniwersytetu Zagrzebskiego oraz wygłosić wykład na temat „Znaczenia integracji dla przyszłości Europy”.
Wieczorem miał odbyć się oficjalny obiad wydany przez Prezydenta Republiki Chorwacji z małżonką na cześć polskiej pary prezydenckiej.
25 stycznia br. Lech Kaczyński miał udać się do Dubrownika.
Jednak 24 stycznia Lech Kaczyński wziął jedynie udział w spotkaniu z Prezydentem Republiki Chorwacji i w związku z katastrofą samolotu wojskowego CASA skrócił swoją wizytę i powrócił do kraju. |
de | Netzfreiheit Russland erlaubt umstrittene Sperrung von Internetseiten
Mit einem neuen Gesetz will Russland gegen Internetkriminalität vorgehen. Oppositionelle fürchten die Sperrung kritischer Seiten, Wikipedia ging aus Protest vom Netz.
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Das russische Parlament hat am Mittwoch ein umstrittenes Gesetz zur Freiheit im Internet beschlossen, mit dem Behörden künftig ohne gerichtliche Entscheidung Internetseiten sperren lassen können. Als Gründe für eine Sperrung werden darin kinderpornographische Inhalte, die Verherrlichung von Drogenkonsum und Aufrufe zu Selbstmorden aufgeführt. Gegner befürchten allerdings politischen Missbrauch und Zensur. Mehrere Internetanbieter und Verbände hatten gegen das Gesetz protestiert. Auch die EU hatte sich wegen der möglichen Einschränkung demokratischer Freiheiten besorgt gezeigt.
Das Internetportal Wikipedia schaltete am Dienstag aus Protest gegen das Gesetz seine russischen Seiten ab. Der regierungskritische russische Blogger und Anwalt Alexej Nawalny warnte davor, dass durch Kommentare auf Internetseiten und in -foren sowie durch gezielte Provokationen Seiten zu einem Fall für die Behörden werden können. Das Internet gilt in der ansonsten von Staatsmedien geprägten Medienlandschaft bislang als einer der letzten Räume für Meinungsfreiheit in Russland. Immer wieder waren aber auch in der Vergangenheit Oppositionsseiten nicht erreichbar.
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Kritiker sehen in dem Gesetz einen Versuch, die freie Meinungsäußerung einzuschränken. "Ziel dieses Gesetzes ist es, Dissens in unserem Land auszulöschen", sagte der kommunistische Abgeordnete Anatoli Lokot. Der russische Sicherheitsexperte Andrej Soldatov sagte, die Regierung werde mit dem Gesetz auch versuchen, ausländische Internetseiten zu sperren. Das Gesetz muss noch von Präsident Wladimir Putin unterzeichnet werden und soll im November in Kraft treten.
Neben dem umstrittenen Gesetz billigte das Parlament am Mittwoch zudem in erster Lesung ein Gesetz, mit dem Beleidigungen künftig mit bis zu fünf Jahren Haft geahndet werden sollen. Das Gesetz könnte noch in dieser Woche verabschiedet werden.
Seit der umstrittenen Wahl Putins zum Präsidenten wurde in Russland eine Reihe von Gesetzen erlassen, die den Spielraum der Opposition einengen. So müssen sich voraussichtlich Nichtregierungsorganisationen, die aus dem Ausland finanziell unterstützt werden, künftig als "ausländische Agenten" registrieren lassen. Zudem wurde vor wenigen Wochen das Demonstrationsrecht drastisch verschärft. | de | Startseite der russischen WIKIPEDIA am 10. Juli 2012
Am Dienstag 10. Juli 2012 war die russische Version der Online-Enzyklopädie Wikipedia für 24 Stunden nicht erreichbar. Dies war als Protest gegen ein geplantes Gesetz der russischen Regierung gedacht. Kritiker befürchten eine weitergehende Zensur und eine Einschränkung der Informationsfreiheit. Bisher seien vor allem regierungskritische Aktivisten oder Medien Opfer von Hackerangriffen geworden. Der Mediendirektor der Internetfirma SUP, Anton Nossik, bezweifelt die Wirkung des Gesetzes in der jetzigen Form und glaubt, es sei nur ein erster Schritt „um herauszufinden, wie solche Maßnahmen in der Zukunft umgesetzt werden können.“ Die russische Regierung selbst gab keine Erklärung zu dem Gesetzesvorhaben ab.
Auf der russischen Startseite von Wikipedia erschien ein schwarzer Zensurbalken über dem Logo und ein kurzer Text informierte über das Gesetz genau an dem Tag, an dem es im Parlament in erster Lesung beraten werden sollte. Abgeordnete des Parlaments erklärten, es ginge darum kinderpornografische Inhalte, Anleitungen für Selbsttötungen oder Informationen über Drogen im Internet zu blockieren. Die Organisatoren des Protestes befürchten eine willkürliche Internetzensur durch die Regierung nach chinesischem Vorbild. Dadurch würde die Arbeit der Opposition weiter eingeschränkt, wie dies bereits durch die Änderung des Demonstrationsrechts erfolgt sei, wodurch Nichtregierungsorganisationen behindert würden.
Gestern am Mittwoch wurde das Gesetz in zweiter Lesung vom russischen Parlament beschlossen. Es soll im November in Kraft treten. |
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