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en | The fatal shooting of eight people at day spas in and around Atlanta have intensified fears in Asian-American communities that have been the target of attacks since the onset of the coronavirus. Six of the eight victims were Asian women. The 21-year-old suspect, Robert Aaron Long, has been charged with four counts of murder according to media reports. | en | The 27,000-pages of documents released on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret. The documents were declassified as part of the Nazi War Criminals Disclosure Act of 1998.
West German Intelligence informed the US in March 1958 of the whereabouts of the senior Gestapo officer, who was living under the alias "Clemens" in Argentina where he had arrived seven years earlier.
It was not US policy at the time to go after Nazi criminals since they were still recruited for Cold War operations.
"It now appears that West Germany could have captured him in 1958, if it wished to," said University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali. He also said that CIA helped West Germany at the time to suppress part of Eichmann's diary - which was in the possession of Life magazine - that would have embarrassed West German national security adviser Hans Globke, himself a former Nazi.
Eichmann was captured by Israelis in 1960 in Argentina. He was tried in Jerusalem and received the death penalty. |
en | CIA papers: U.S. failed to pursue Nazi
West Germany gave location of Eichmann, historian says
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States was told the location and approximate alias of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann more than two years before his capture but did nothing to pursue him, according to CIA documents released Tuesday.
The release of the latest set of intelligence records is part of an ongoing effort to declassify documents as part of the Nazi War Criminals Disclosure Act of 1998.
Eichmann, mastermind of the "final solution" to exterminate Jews, was captured by Israel and executed in 1962. (Watch compromises made by intelligence agencies -- 1:46)
However, in 1958 the West German intelligence service informed the CIA that Eichmann was living in Argentina using the alias Clemens, University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali said the newly released CIA materials indicate.
The West Germans did not want to see Eichmann captured because they feared what he might say about Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's national security adviser, Hans Globke, Naftali said.
Globke had served in the Jewish Affairs department of the Nazi government during World War II and was involved in writing laws designed to remove Jews from German society.
"The CIA, which worked closely with Globke, assisted the West Germans in protecting him from Eichmann," said Naftali.
Eichmann remained at large until May 1960, when the Israeli government discovered his whereabouts and captured him in Argentina, where he was living under the name Klement.
Israeli agents kidnapped him from his Argentine hideout and smuggled him to Israel, where he was tried, convicted and hanged in 1962.
The Eichmann revelation is one of several outlined by historians who are working with members of the Interagency Working Group responsible for locating, declassifying and releasing U.S. documents related to Nazi war crimes.
In another case, Ohio University historian Norman Goda discussed records showing how former Nazi SS intelligence officer Heinz Felfe, who was recruited by the Soviet KGB after the war, was able to join the West German intelligence service set up by the United States. He eventually rose to become chief of the division responsible for surveillance of the Soviets, the records show.
"He was no common mole," Goda said in a press briefing at the National Archives Building. Felfe was in charge of operations against the Soviets while "he took his orders from the Soviets."
Goda said Felfe caused "massive damage ... as large an intelligence disaster as occurred during the Cold War."
Unlike previous releases, the documents made available Tuesday were largely unredacted.
The interagency group credited former CIA Director Porter Goss for changing the level of cooperation and allowing the release of documents.
The group, chaired by Steven Garfinkel of the National Archives and Records Administration, expects to complete its declassification efforts early next year.
"We are not yet done, but we are continuing with the important work of finding out what was done in the past so we can learn from it for the future," said one of the 1998 bill's co-sponsors, Republican Sen. Mike DeWine of Ohio, at Tuesday's briefing, according to prepared remarks.
The group includes representatives from eight federal agencies and three public members. Since 1999, the group says, it has overseen the release of some 8 million pages of U.S. government records related to crimes committed by the Nazi and Japanese governments during World War II. | en | The 27,000-pages of documents released on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret. The documents were declassified as part of the Nazi War Criminals Disclosure Act of 1998.
West German Intelligence informed the US in March 1958 of the whereabouts of the senior Gestapo officer, who was living under the alias "Clemens" in Argentina where he had arrived seven years earlier.
It was not US policy at the time to go after Nazi criminals since they were still recruited for Cold War operations.
"It now appears that West Germany could have captured him in 1958, if it wished to," said University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali. He also said that CIA helped West Germany at the time to suppress part of Eichmann's diary - which was in the possession of Life magazine - that would have embarrassed West German national security adviser Hans Globke, himself a former Nazi.
Eichmann was captured by Israelis in 1960 in Argentina. He was tried in Jerusalem and received the death penalty. |
en | The CIA knew the whereabouts of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina more than two years before his capture by Israeli agents, but kept the fact secret to protect its anti-Communist efforts in West Germany, according to newly declassified agency documents.
The documents, among 27,000 pages of CIA records released by the National Archives here, indicate that the agency was told in 1958 by then West German intelligence that Eichmann was living under an alias in the Buenos Aires area. But the CIA did nothing, and Eichmann - the infamous organiser of the trains that carried Jews to the Nazi extermination camps - was eventually seized by Mossad agents in 1960, and flown back to Israel where he was tried and, in 1962, executed.
Article Length: 337 words (approx.) | en | The 27,000-pages of documents released on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret. The documents were declassified as part of the Nazi War Criminals Disclosure Act of 1998.
West German Intelligence informed the US in March 1958 of the whereabouts of the senior Gestapo officer, who was living under the alias "Clemens" in Argentina where he had arrived seven years earlier.
It was not US policy at the time to go after Nazi criminals since they were still recruited for Cold War operations.
"It now appears that West Germany could have captured him in 1958, if it wished to," said University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali. He also said that CIA helped West Germany at the time to suppress part of Eichmann's diary - which was in the possession of Life magazine - that would have embarrassed West German national security adviser Hans Globke, himself a former Nazi.
Eichmann was captured by Israelis in 1960 in Argentina. He was tried in Jerusalem and received the death penalty. |
en | Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 7, 2006; Page A21
The CIA organized Cold War spy networks that included former Nazis and failed to act on a 1958 report that fugitive Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann was living in Argentina, newly released CIA records show.
The records were among 27,000 pages of documents made public yesterday at the National Archives. They shed new light on the secret protection and support given to former Nazi officials and Nazi collaborators by U.S. intelligence agencies as fighting communism became the central aim of American foreign policy in the years after World War II.
"It was not U.S. policy to track Nazi war criminals once the Cold War began," said historian Timothy Naftali of the University of Virginia, a Cold War expert who has studied the new documents.
"The CIA based its decisions about using former SS men or unreconstructed Nazis solely on operational considerations. . . . Hiring these tainted individuals brought little other than operational problems and moral confusion to our government's intelligence community," he added.
The subject of postwar collaboration between U.S. intelligence and former Nazis that the government sought to use in the struggle against the Soviet Union has been documented, but historians said the previously inaccessible documents have enabled them to fill in many blanks in the historical narrative.
About 60,000 pages of CIA records had already been released since 1999, after a 1998 federal law opened up secret government files relating to war crimes by the German and Japanese governments during World War II.
Historians reviewing the records for the government published a 2004 book, "U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis," based on 240,000 pages of FBI records, 419 CIA files and 3,000 pages of U.S. Army information. It detailed the Army's postwar relationship with former officers of the German Wehrmacht's intelligence service, which are available at the National Archives.
The materials released yesterday include operational documents detailing the activities of the CIA and its contacts abroad, historians and other officials said during a news conference at the National Archives.
"It's a rare release of operational files," said Allen Weinstein, head of the National Archives and chairman of the interagency working group overseeing the declassification of records about World War II crimes and criminals. "The files are also more inclusive than any other CIA files made public before. . . . This time, the documents are nearly all without redactions, providing researchers and historians the clearest view yet of the postwar intelligence world."
The release of the records stalled last year with the deadline for the interagency project approaching when the CIA balked at declassifying more detailed documents about the agency's postwar ties to Nazis. But the CIA caved in under pressure from Sen. Mike DeWine (R-Ohio), an author of the original legislation, and other prominent backers of that law. Congress passed a new law extending the life of the interagency panel by two years, to early 2007.
Some of the newly released documents show that between 1949 and 1955, the CIA organized "stay-behind" networks of German agents to provide intelligence from behind enemy lines, should the Soviet Union invade western Germany.
One network included at least two former Nazi SS members -- Staff Sgt. Heinrich Hoffman and Lt. Col. Hans Rues -- and one was run by Lt. Col. Walter Kopp, a former German army officer referred to by the CIA as an "unreconstructed Nazi." The network was disbanded in 1953 amid political concerns that some members' neo-Nazi sympathies would be exposed in the West German press.
In a March 1958 memo to the CIA, the West German foreign intelligence services (BND) wrote that Eichmann, a top Gestapo official who helped orchestrate the mass murder of Jews, "is reported to have lived in Argentina under the alias CLEMENS since 1952." The memo also mentioned a rumor that Eichmann lived in Jerusalem.
In fact, Eichmann was in Argentina and was using the name Ricardo Klement -- but apparently neither the CIA nor the West Germans acted on the information, Naftali said.
"Tragically, at the moment the CIA and the BND had this information the Israelis were temporarily giving up their search for Eichmann in Argentina because they could not figure out his alias," Naftali wrote in an analysis of the documents.
Eventually, Israeli Mossad agents abducted Eichmann in Buenos Aires on May 11, 1960. He was tried in Jerusalem, sentenced to death and hanged on May 31, 1962.
Robert Wolfe, a former federal archivist and an expert on captured German records, said the new CIA documents illustrate the "sorry results" of recruiting former Nazi intelligence personnel to U.S. efforts to keep the Soviet Union in check.
"The alleged intelligence those recruits peddled was mostly hearsay and gossip designed to tell their American interrogators what they wanted to hear, in the hope of escaping retribution for past crimes, or for mercenary gain, or for political agendas not necessarily compatible with American national interests," Wolfe said. | en | The 27,000-pages of documents released on Tuesday reveal that while the United States and West Germany knew the location of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann two years before his capture, the fact was kept secret. The documents were declassified as part of the Nazi War Criminals Disclosure Act of 1998.
West German Intelligence informed the US in March 1958 of the whereabouts of the senior Gestapo officer, who was living under the alias "Clemens" in Argentina where he had arrived seven years earlier.
It was not US policy at the time to go after Nazi criminals since they were still recruited for Cold War operations.
"It now appears that West Germany could have captured him in 1958, if it wished to," said University of Virginia historian Timothy Naftali. He also said that CIA helped West Germany at the time to suppress part of Eichmann's diary - which was in the possession of Life magazine - that would have embarrassed West German national security adviser Hans Globke, himself a former Nazi.
Eichmann was captured by Israelis in 1960 in Argentina. He was tried in Jerusalem and received the death penalty. |
pl | OBWE odwołała misję obserwacyjną na wybory parlamentarne w Rosji z powodu "opóźnień i restrykcji", szczególnie w staraniach o wizy. Rosyjskie MSZ uważa, że przyczyną odwołania misji jest bałagan w warszawskim Biurze Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE. Unia Europejska i USA krytykują Rosję za restrykcje wobec OBWE.
Jak powiedziała rzeczniczka mieszczącego się w Warszawie i podlegającego OBWE Biura Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka (ODIHR) Urdur Gunnarsdottir, przyczyną takiej decyzji są opóźnienia i restrykcje ze strony rosyjskiej. - Nie wysyłamy nikogo - podkreśliła rzeczniczka. - Jest zbyt późno, aby przeprowadzić skuteczną obserwację tych wyborów - zaznaczyła.
Wybory do rosyjskiej Dumy Państwowej wyznaczono na 2 grudnia.
Rosyjska Centralna Komisja Wyborcza wysłała zaproszenia dla obserwatorów z zagranicy dopiero 31 października. Ograniczyła przy tym liczbę ekspertów do 400 osób, w tym zaledwie 70 z OBWE.
Biuro starało się o umieszczenie w Rosji 20 ekspertów 7 listopada i 50 kolejnych obserwatorów - 15 listopada. Pomimo usilnych starań o wizy, władze Rosji wciąż ich odmawiały.
MSZ Federacji Rosyjskiej tłumaczyło kilka dni temu, że zwłoka z wydaniem wiz miała charakter "techniczny", ponieważ przedstawiciele ODIHR nie wystąpili o akredytację przy CKW, co jest niezbędne do otrzymania wizy.
ODIHR poinformowało władze Rosji o swej decyzji w liście skierowanym do Centralnej Komisji Wyborczej Federacji Rosyjskiej. Przewodniczący rosyjskiej Centralnej Komisji Wyborczej (CKW) Władimir Czurow ocenił tę decyzję jako niezrozumiałą Według niego wszystkie dokumenty dla obserwatorów, w tym wizy, zostały już OBWE przekazane.
Rzecznik MSZ Rosji Michaił Kamynin napisał w świadczeniu, że Moskwa dramatyzuje decyzji ODIHR.
- Nie dramatyzujemy decyzji podjętej przez Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE - powiedział dyplomata i dodał: - Wybory się odbędą i będą świadczyć o umacnianiu się demokracji w Rosji.
Mironow o decyzji OBWE: świat się nie zawali
Przewodniczący Rady Federacji, wyższej izby rosyjskiego parlamentu, Siergiej Mironow oświadczył, że świat się nie zawali z powodu odwołania przez OBWE misji obserwacyjnej na grudniowe wybory parlamentarne w Rosji.
Płakać nie będziemy. Chyba się zgodzicie, że z powodu tej decyzji świat się nie zawali - powiedział Mironow dziennikarzom w kuluarach Rady Federacji.
Zdaniem Mironowa, jednego z najbliższych współpracowników prezydenta Władimira Putina, po rosyjskich wyborach na Zachodzie i tak podniosą się głosy, że były one niedemokratyczne.
Unia Europejska: oczekujemy, że dotrzyma obietnic
Komisja Europejska wyraziła żal, że doszło do odwołania misji OBWE na rosyjskie wybory parlamentarne. Zaapelowała do prezydenta Władimira Putina o zagwarantowanie wyborów "demokratycznych" i "zgodnych z normami międzynarodowymi".
- Oczekujemy, że Rosja dotrzyma obietnic danych przez prezydenta Władimira Putina na szczycie UE-Rosja w Mafrze (w październiku pod Lizboną), że wybory będą otwarte i spełnią normy międzynarodowe dla wyborów demokratycznych - powiedziała rzeczniczka Komisji Christiane Hohmann.
Przewodniczący Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych Parlamentu Europejskiego Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (PO) z ubolewaniem przyjął odwołanie misji obserwacyjnej OBWE na wybory w Rosji.
- Misje obserwacyjne OBWE są rutynowym przedsięwzięciem w europejskich demokracjach. Niewpuszczenie obserwatorów albo utrudnianie im wypełnienia mandatu obserwacyjnego wysyła niekorzystny sygnał reszcie świata - oświadczył Saryusz-Wolski.
USA krytykują Rosję
Stany Zjednoczone skrytykowały za restrykcje wymierzone w międzynarodowych obserwatorów z OBWE i wyraziły ubolewanie z powodu odwołania misji obserwacyjnej tej organizacji na rosyjskie wybory parlamentarne.
Rzecznik Departamentu Stanu Sean McCormack wyraził wielkie rozczarowanie tym, że rząd rosyjski zdecydował się zastosować restrykcje wobec OBWE. Jego zdaniem Moskwa rozmyślnie utrudniała OBWE wysłanie obserwatorów na wybory | pl | Żaden obserwator z ramienia OBWE nie będzie kontrolować wyborów do rosyjskiego parlamentu, które maja odbyć się 6 grudnia. Przyczyną jest odmowa wydania obserwatorom i specjalistom organizacji wiz wjazdowych do Federacji Rosyjskiej.
„Nie wysyłamy nikogo. Jest zbyt późno, aby przeprowadzić skuteczną obserwację tych wyborów” – mówiła rzeczniczka Biura Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka Urdur Gunnarsdottir. „
Płakać nie będziemy. Chyba się zgodzicie, że z powodu tej decyzji świat się nie zawali. Jeśli chodzi o nasze problemy, to znamy je lepiej, niż nasi zachodni nauczyciele, i nie boimy się o nich rozmawiać” – powiedział przewodniczący Rady Federacji (izby wyższej rosyjskiego parlamentu) Siergiej Mironow.
Rosyjskie konsulaty zebrały wnioski wizowe, ale nie wyraziły zgody na przyjazd obserwatorów. Według OBWE, ponawiane próby o przyznanie obserwatorom wiz wjazdowych za każdym razem kończyły się odmową. Rosjanie zaistniałą sytuację tłumaczą problemami technicznymi.
"Oczekujemy, że Rosja dotrzyma obietnic danych przez prezydenta Władimira Putina na szczycie UE-Rosja w Mafrze, że wybory będą otwarte i spełnią normy międzynarodowe dla wyborów demokratycznych" - powiedziała Christiane Hohmann, rzeczniczka Komisji Europejskiej.
"Misje obserwacyjne OBWE są rutynowym przedsięwzięciem w europejskich demokracjach. Niewpuszczenie obserwatorów albo utrudnianie im wypełnienia mandatu obserwacyjnego wysyła niekorzystny sygnał reszcie świata" - stwierdził Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (PO), przewodniczący Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych Parlamentu Europejskiego. |
pl | Iga zaczyna praktyki w ośrodku wychowawczym. Nie jest jej łatwo, bo musi powściągać swój temperament i unikać konfrontacji, która jest jej naturalnym odruchem. Marcin wraca do Warszawy i chce ustalić nowe zasady funkcjonowania związku z Igą, co budzi w niej stare lęki. Krzysiek, w poszukiwaniu nowej drogi życiowej trafia do wróżki, od której słyszy coś, co mu się bardzo nie podoba. | pl | Żaden obserwator z ramienia OBWE nie będzie kontrolować wyborów do rosyjskiego parlamentu, które maja odbyć się 6 grudnia. Przyczyną jest odmowa wydania obserwatorom i specjalistom organizacji wiz wjazdowych do Federacji Rosyjskiej.
„Nie wysyłamy nikogo. Jest zbyt późno, aby przeprowadzić skuteczną obserwację tych wyborów” – mówiła rzeczniczka Biura Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka Urdur Gunnarsdottir. „
Płakać nie będziemy. Chyba się zgodzicie, że z powodu tej decyzji świat się nie zawali. Jeśli chodzi o nasze problemy, to znamy je lepiej, niż nasi zachodni nauczyciele, i nie boimy się o nich rozmawiać” – powiedział przewodniczący Rady Federacji (izby wyższej rosyjskiego parlamentu) Siergiej Mironow.
Rosyjskie konsulaty zebrały wnioski wizowe, ale nie wyraziły zgody na przyjazd obserwatorów. Według OBWE, ponawiane próby o przyznanie obserwatorom wiz wjazdowych za każdym razem kończyły się odmową. Rosjanie zaistniałą sytuację tłumaczą problemami technicznymi.
"Oczekujemy, że Rosja dotrzyma obietnic danych przez prezydenta Władimira Putina na szczycie UE-Rosja w Mafrze, że wybory będą otwarte i spełnią normy międzynarodowe dla wyborów demokratycznych" - powiedziała Christiane Hohmann, rzeczniczka Komisji Europejskiej.
"Misje obserwacyjne OBWE są rutynowym przedsięwzięciem w europejskich demokracjach. Niewpuszczenie obserwatorów albo utrudnianie im wypełnienia mandatu obserwacyjnego wysyła niekorzystny sygnał reszcie świata" - stwierdził Jacek Saryusz-Wolski (PO), przewodniczący Komisji Spraw Zagranicznych Parlamentu Europejskiego. |
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Neumayer III
Deutsche Antarktisstation eröffnet
Von Peter-Philipp Schmitt
20. Februar 2009 Störungsfrei liefen die Arbeiten auf der südlichsten Baustelle Deutschlands nicht. Bei Außentemperaturen von bis zu minus 30 Grad Celsius (im Sommer) und orkanartigen Stürmen hatten die Polarforscher vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Bremerhaven auch nichts anderes erwartet. Im Zeitplan für die neue Antarktisstation Neumayer III war daher eine Reserve von 30 Prozent einkalkuliert. Sie war schon vor einem Jahr aufgebraucht. Am Freitag konnte das deutsche Prestigeobjekt leicht verspätet, aber noch rechtzeitig zum Ende des vierten Internationalen Polarjahrs (März 2007 bis März 2009) und vor dem langen antarktischen Winter eröffnet werden. Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan (CDU) gratulierte und sprach von einem Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst".
Tatsächlich überragt Neumayer III seine beiden Vorgänger in jeder Hinsicht. Vor 28 Jahren wurde die erste der nach dem deutschen Polarforscher Georg von Neumayer benannten Stationen auf dem Ekström-Schelfeis im südlichen Polargebiet gebaut. Nur elf Jahre später musste aber schon Neumayer II zehn Kilometer vom alten Standort entfernt in Betrieb genommen werden. Nach weiteren 17 Jahren ist - bei einem jährlichen Schneezutrag von 80 Zentimetern - auch diese Röhrenkonstruktion mittlerweile 15 Meter unter der Oberfläche versunken. Da das Eis zudem ständig in Bewegung ist und hohen Druck ausübt, ist die Station inzwischen so stark verformt, dass die Wissenschaftler nicht mehr sicher arbeiten können.
Markantes Stahlgebäude auf 16 Stelzen
Neumayer III ist eine vollkommen neue Konstruktion. Das markante Stahlgebäude steht auf 16 Stelzen, die hydraulisch angehoben werden können. In Schnee und Eis soll die in Fachwerkbauweise errichtete Station nicht mehr versinken. Gefertigt und teilweise vormontiert wurde ein großer Teil von Neumayer III im mehr als 13 000 Kilometer entfernten Bremerhaven. Dort begann am 16. November die Reise von rund 3500 Tonnen Material auf dem dänischen Schiff Naja Arctica. Einen Monat später sollte die Fracht an der Schelfeiskante der Atka-Bucht in der Antarktis anlangen. Der Termin konnte zwar eingehalten werden, doch eine mehrere Meter dicke Meereisbarriere verhinderte das Entladen der Bauteile. Erst einen weiteren Monat später, am 16. Januar 2008, konnte der eigens dafür an den Südpol entsandte Forschungseisbrecher Polarstern eine Fahrrinne freimachen.
Durch die Verzögerung war der Zeitplan des Projekts stark gefährdet - an der Station kann nur in den antarktischen Sommermonaten November bis März gearbeitet werden. Schon am 10. März 2008 mussten die letzten am Aufbau beteiligten Personen die Antarktis verlassen. Die erste Bauphase wurde noch abgeschlossen. In sieben Wochen war das gesamte Untergeschoss - der Graben unterhalb der Station ist 8,20 Meter tief - mit den 16 Fundamentplatten und der Garagenzufahrt fertiggestellt. Danach blieben nur die üblichen neun Überwinterer am Südpol - ein letztes Mal in der etwa 6,5 Kilometer nördlich gelegenen Neumayer-II-Station.
Bau kostete rund 39 Millionen Euro
Seit November wurde der Rest von Neumayer III hochgezogen. Zwischenzeitlich befanden sich mehr als 50 Mann im Baucamp, nicht eingerechnet die mehr als 50 Wissenschaftler und Techniker, die den Forschungsbetrieb der alten Station aufrechterhielten. Wie bei einem Fachwerkhaus wurde ein Stahlskelett auf die 68 Meter lange und 24 Meter breite Plattform montiert, danach 100 Container eingesetzt. Zuletzt wurden 573 Außenpaneele als Fassade angebracht. Am 11. Januar wurde Richtfest gefeiert.
Neumayer III ist schon von weitem zu sehen. Die Gesamthöhe der Konstruktion beläuft sich auf 29,20 Meter. Insgesamt verfügt die Station über rund 4473 Quadratmeter geschützte Nutzfläche (auf vier Stockwerken), 1850 Quadratmeter sind klimatisiert. Hier leben und arbeiten die Wissenschaftler. Unter anderem können sie nun bequem vom Dach aus täglich Ballons mit Ozonmessgeräten aufsteigen lassen zur Erforschung des Ozonlochs über der Antarktis. Bislang mussten sie täglich um die Mittagszeit die Station dafür verlassen und sich selbst im Winter einige 100 Meter weit zu ihrem Labor für Radiosondenaufstiege durchschlagen. Auch Langzeitveränderungen des magnetischen Feldes der Erde werden in der Station gemessen, Erdbeben werden erfasst. Die Forscher spüren klimawirksamen Gase nach und sogar Nukleartests in aller Welt.
Der Bau von Neumayer III kostete rund 39 Millionen Euro - 14 Millionen mehr als ursprünglich geplant. Der größte Teil der Mittel wurde vom Bundesforschungsministerium finanziert, allerdings sind auch die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Bremen und Schleswig-Holstein beteiligt. An Neumayer IV denkt derzeit noch niemand. Die neue Station hat vermutlich eine doppelt so lange Betriebszeit wie Neumayer II. Realistisch seien 25 bis 30 Jahre - abhängig davon, wie schnell das Eis fließt.
Text: F.A.Z.
Bildmaterial: ddp, dpa, Hannes Grobe/Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Michael Trapp/AWI | de | __NOTOC__
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Lage der Forschungsstation Neumayer III in der Antarktis
Die deutsche Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan (CDU) eröffnete am Freitag die Forschungsstation Neumayer III auf dem Ekström-Schelfeis der Atka-Bucht am nordöstlichen Weddell-Meer. Stolz sprach die Ministerin von einem „Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst".
Die Stahlfüße lassen sich hydraulisch anheben.
=== Umzug in die neue Unterkunft ===
In der Tat bietet die neue Station einige technische Highlights, die die Nachteile der älteren Vorgänger überwinden sollen. Die jetzt außer Betrieb gehende Station Neumayer II – knapp sieben Kilometer von der neuen Station entfernt – ist inzwischen 15 Meter tief im arktischen Schnee „versunken“. Da sich das Schelfeis ständig in Bewegung befindet, litt diese unter dem Druck des Eises. Inzwischen sind die „Tunnelrohr“-Segmente so stark deformiert, dass die Wissenschaftler dort nicht mehr sicher arbeiten können.
=== So sieht die Zukunft aus ===
Wichtigstes Feature der neuen Station ist die Stelzenkonstruktion, auf denen sie ruht. Die insgesamt 2.300 Tonnen schwere Station mit einer Nutzfläche von 4.473 Quadratmetern ruht auf 16 „Füßen“, die durch ein hydraulisches Gestänge einzeln angehoben werden können, wenn neuer Schnee die Station zu bedecken droht. Unter die angehobenen Füße kann nun Schnee in die entstandenen Hohlräume eingeblasen werden, so dass der Untergrund nach und nach erhöht werden kann. Auf diese Weise drückt die dritte Neumayer-Station den Schnee nach unten weg und bleibt immer an der Oberfläche.
Die Ingenieure vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) in Bremerhaven, die für die Neukonstruktion verantwortlich sind, rechnen mit einer Lebensdauer von 30 Jahren für die neue Station. Sie liegt damit deutlich über der Lebensdauer der älteren Stationen Neumayer I und II. Mit Neumayer I war Deutschland 1981 in die Antarktisforschung eingestiegen. 1992 war dann die Nachfolgestation in Betrieb genommen worden. Die Vorgängerstationen bestanden im Prinzip aus zwei 90 Meter langen Stahlröhren, die unter die Oberfläche vergraben wurden. So waren die Forscher zwar vor den arktischen Stürmen gut geschützt, sahen aber – außer durch Webcams – eigentlich „keine Sonne“. Die neue Station bietet den Forschern mehr Bequemlichkeit und Möglichkeiten zur Entspannung, beispielsweise eine Sauna und einen Sportraum.
Kante des Ekström-Schelfs an der Nordseite der Antarktis
=== Die Arbeit auf der Station und deren Geldgeber ===
Kernstück der Station bilden natürlich die zahlreichen Labore für die wissenschaftliche Forschung. In der hochmodernen 68 Meter langen und 24 Meter breiten Station finden zwölf Labore Platz, die sich auf vier Stockwerke verteilen. Zum Forschungsprogramm gehören Untersuchungen des Erdmagnetfeldes, der chemischen Zusammensetzung der Luft, die Sammlung von Wetter- und Ozondaten sowie die Erfassung und Auswertung seismischer Wellen. Von besonderem politischen Interesse für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind die Möglichkeiten zur Erfassung von Infraschall-Daten. Diese ermöglichen Aussagen über mögliche Atomtests, die irgendwo auf der Erde stattgefunden haben. Zusammen mit der Auswertung von Daten aus den anderen Stationen, die zusammen ein flächendeckendes Netzwerk bilden, trägt die Forschungsstation dazu bei, die Einhaltung des Atomwaffensperrvertrages zu überprüfen. Deutschland ist Vertragsstaat dieses völkerrechtlichen Vertrages. Nicht zuletzt diese politische Motivation erleichtert es dem AWI, die Gelder für den Bau, den Betrieb und die Erhaltung der Station zu erhalten. Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) trat als Hauptgeldgeber der 39 Millionen Euro teuren wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung in Erscheinung. An der Finanzierung sind aber auch die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Bremen und Schleswig-Holstein beteiligt. |
de | Panorama
Wissenschaft Neumayer-Station III in Zahlen
erstellt 20.02.09, 08:39h
Neumayer-Station III/Antarktis/dpa. Die neue deutsche Forschungs-Station Neumayer III in Zahlen:
- Sie bietet Platz für 9 Überwinterer und zudem Sommerexpeditionen - Es gibt 15 Wohnräume mit insgesamt 40 Betten - Die klimatisierte Nutzfläche erstreckt sich auf 1850 Quadratmeter über drei Etagen, darunter Laborräume, Büros und ein Hospital - Die Station hat 5 Observatorien für Meteorologie, Geophysik, Luftchemie, Infraschall und marine Akustik - Zur Energieversorgung gibt es 3 Dieselgeneratoren und ein Windkraftwerk - Die Baukosten liegen insgesamt bei 39 Millionen Euro - Die Bauzeit betrug 7 Monate. | de | __NOTOC__
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Lage der Forschungsstation Neumayer III in der Antarktis
Die deutsche Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan (CDU) eröffnete am Freitag die Forschungsstation Neumayer III auf dem Ekström-Schelfeis der Atka-Bucht am nordöstlichen Weddell-Meer. Stolz sprach die Ministerin von einem „Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst".
Die Stahlfüße lassen sich hydraulisch anheben.
=== Umzug in die neue Unterkunft ===
In der Tat bietet die neue Station einige technische Highlights, die die Nachteile der älteren Vorgänger überwinden sollen. Die jetzt außer Betrieb gehende Station Neumayer II – knapp sieben Kilometer von der neuen Station entfernt – ist inzwischen 15 Meter tief im arktischen Schnee „versunken“. Da sich das Schelfeis ständig in Bewegung befindet, litt diese unter dem Druck des Eises. Inzwischen sind die „Tunnelrohr“-Segmente so stark deformiert, dass die Wissenschaftler dort nicht mehr sicher arbeiten können.
=== So sieht die Zukunft aus ===
Wichtigstes Feature der neuen Station ist die Stelzenkonstruktion, auf denen sie ruht. Die insgesamt 2.300 Tonnen schwere Station mit einer Nutzfläche von 4.473 Quadratmetern ruht auf 16 „Füßen“, die durch ein hydraulisches Gestänge einzeln angehoben werden können, wenn neuer Schnee die Station zu bedecken droht. Unter die angehobenen Füße kann nun Schnee in die entstandenen Hohlräume eingeblasen werden, so dass der Untergrund nach und nach erhöht werden kann. Auf diese Weise drückt die dritte Neumayer-Station den Schnee nach unten weg und bleibt immer an der Oberfläche.
Die Ingenieure vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) in Bremerhaven, die für die Neukonstruktion verantwortlich sind, rechnen mit einer Lebensdauer von 30 Jahren für die neue Station. Sie liegt damit deutlich über der Lebensdauer der älteren Stationen Neumayer I und II. Mit Neumayer I war Deutschland 1981 in die Antarktisforschung eingestiegen. 1992 war dann die Nachfolgestation in Betrieb genommen worden. Die Vorgängerstationen bestanden im Prinzip aus zwei 90 Meter langen Stahlröhren, die unter die Oberfläche vergraben wurden. So waren die Forscher zwar vor den arktischen Stürmen gut geschützt, sahen aber – außer durch Webcams – eigentlich „keine Sonne“. Die neue Station bietet den Forschern mehr Bequemlichkeit und Möglichkeiten zur Entspannung, beispielsweise eine Sauna und einen Sportraum.
Kante des Ekström-Schelfs an der Nordseite der Antarktis
=== Die Arbeit auf der Station und deren Geldgeber ===
Kernstück der Station bilden natürlich die zahlreichen Labore für die wissenschaftliche Forschung. In der hochmodernen 68 Meter langen und 24 Meter breiten Station finden zwölf Labore Platz, die sich auf vier Stockwerke verteilen. Zum Forschungsprogramm gehören Untersuchungen des Erdmagnetfeldes, der chemischen Zusammensetzung der Luft, die Sammlung von Wetter- und Ozondaten sowie die Erfassung und Auswertung seismischer Wellen. Von besonderem politischen Interesse für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind die Möglichkeiten zur Erfassung von Infraschall-Daten. Diese ermöglichen Aussagen über mögliche Atomtests, die irgendwo auf der Erde stattgefunden haben. Zusammen mit der Auswertung von Daten aus den anderen Stationen, die zusammen ein flächendeckendes Netzwerk bilden, trägt die Forschungsstation dazu bei, die Einhaltung des Atomwaffensperrvertrages zu überprüfen. Deutschland ist Vertragsstaat dieses völkerrechtlichen Vertrages. Nicht zuletzt diese politische Motivation erleichtert es dem AWI, die Gelder für den Bau, den Betrieb und die Erhaltung der Station zu erhalten. Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) trat als Hauptgeldgeber der 39 Millionen Euro teuren wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung in Erscheinung. An der Finanzierung sind aber auch die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Bremen und Schleswig-Holstein beteiligt. |
de | Polarforschung
Die deutschen Antarktisforscher brauchen ein neues Zuhause: Schneemassen zerdrücken ihre Forschungsstation. Ein neues oberirdisches Gebäude soll Abhilfe schaffen und gleichzeitig größer, moderner und ökologischer sein. In Bremerhaven wurde es zur Probe in Teilen aufgebaut.
Vogelperspektive auf die zukünftige Forschungsstation Vogelperspektive auf die zukünftige Forschungsstation
Luftaufnahme der unterirdischen Neumayer-Station Luftaufnahme der unterirdischen Neumayer-Station
Hydraulische Bipode der Neumayer-Station III Hydraulische Bipode der Neumayer-Station III
Probeaufbau der Treppenkonstruktion von Neumayer III Probeaufbau der Treppenkonstruktion von Neumayer III
Längsschnitt durch Neumayer III Längsschnitt durch Neumayer III
Die kindsgroßen Papppinguine am Eingang des Werksgeländes waren in dem Gewühl aus Menschen am zweiten September-Wochenende kaum zu sehen. Hunderte von Besuchern drängten sich auf dem matschigen Außenbereich der Firmengemeinschaft J.H. Kramer zwischen Metallcontainern, Werkhalle und weißen Partyzelten. Sie alle lockte eine dreißig Meter hohe Stahlkonstruktion, die sich vor einer großen Wellblechhalle in den Himmel reckt. Es ist der untere Treppenaufgang der neuen deutschen Forschungsstation Neumayer III, die in wenigen Wochen in die Antarktis verschifft werden soll. Denn die deutschen Wissenschaftler am Südpol brauchen ein neues Zuhause. Ihr jetziges Domizil droht unter dem Druck einer etwa zwölf Meter dicken Schneedecke zerquetscht zu werden.Die aktuelle Neumayer-Station war 1992 in der Atka-Bucht am nordöstlichen Weddell-Meer auf das Ekström-Schelfeis gebaut worden, um die nur zehn Kilometer entfernte erste Forschungsstation zu ersetzen, die ebenfalls von den Schneemassen verschüttet worden war. Mit ihr hatten die Deutschen 1981 ihre Forschungsarbeit im ewigen Eis begründet.Doch die Konstruktion der beiden Forschungsstationen barg ihre Tücken: Zwei lange Stahlröhren hatten die Ingenieure jeweils im Schnee vergraben, etwa neunzig Meter lang und mit je acht Metern Durchmesser. In diese Röhren wurden dann Container montiert, die den Forschern als Labore, Schlafstätten und Aufenthaltsräume dienten. Hier messen die Wissenschaftler des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) seither ganzjährig Wetter- und Ozondaten, werten die Luftchemie und seismische Wellen aus und registrieren Änderungen des Erdmagnetfeldes. Mit diesen Langzeitstudien wollen die Wissenschaftler beispielsweise Klimaveränderungen auf die Spur kommen. Über die Jahre hat sich jedoch eine dicke Schneelast über die Röhren gelegt - die Neumayer-Station gleicht inzwischen einer unterirdischen Höhle.In der Bremerhavener Werkshalle erfahren die Besucher, was das für die Polarforscher im ewigen Eis bedeutet - Stationsleiter Karlheinz Waltner berichtet per Telefonschaltung live von der Neumayer-Station in der Antarktis vom Leben und Forschen am südlichen Polarkreis: So seien die Wissenschaftler durch die Wellblechhöhlen zwar vor den schneidenden Stürmen der langen antarktischen Winter sicher geschützt. Doch dass bei aktuellen minus 33 Grad Celsius draußen die Sonne scheine, könne man mit seinen eigenen Augen nur bei Außeneinsätzen entdecken. Ansonsten böten nur einige Webcams einen Ausblick aus der Wellblechhöhle.Mehr als zwölf Meter Schnee liegen inzwischen auf der Neumayer-Station. Und seit einiger Zeit macht sich die weiße Last nun auch innerhalb der Station bemerkbar: Die Stahlröhren halten dem Druck des Schnees kaum noch Stand, erste Deformationen werden sichtbar. Es wird höchste Zeit für einen Umzug.Die Vorbereitungen hierfür begannen bereits vor acht Jahren. Zusammen mit Ingenieuren und Technikern der Firmengruppe J.H. Kramer entwickelten Mitarbeiter um den Logistiker Hartwig Gernandt vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Bremerhaven ein neues, diesmal oberirdisches Stationsgebäude. Moderner, größer und ökologischer sollte es sein - und vor allen Dingen mit den starken Schneefällen fertig werden, damit nicht zehn Jahre nach dem Bau erneut umgezogen werden müsste.Entstanden ist ein 2300 Tonnen schwerer Stahlkoloss, der auf sechzehn hydraulischen Stelzen oberhalb der Schneedecke steht. Große leuchtend blaue Fundamentplatten verteilen das Gewicht gleichmäßig auf dem Untergrund. Droht das Gebäude im winterlichen Neuschnee zu versinken, können die Stahlbeine einzeln angehoben werden. Anschließend wird der entstandene Hohlraum mit Schnee aufgefüllt, und die zweite Stelze wird bewegt. Auf diese Weise klettert das schiffförmige Gebäude immer wieder an die Oberfläche und bleibt so als einzige der aktuell etwa 80 internationalen Forschungsstationen in der Antarktis dauerhaft über der Schneegrenze. Mindestens dreißig Jahre soll der neue Bau so den Witterungen am Südpol standhalten.Zwischen den Fundamentplatten, sozusagen im Untergeschoss, besitzt die Neumayer III zudem eine Garage für einen hauseigenen Fuhrpark. Darüber werden 1850 Quadratmeter auf insgesamt drei Etagen den Forschern und ihren Gästen ausreichend Raum für Wissenschaft und Freizeit bieten. In dem 68 Meter langen und 24 Meter breiten Gebäude finden zwölf Labore Platz. Für die zahlreichen Gastforscher, die während der Sommermonate von November bis Februar anreisen, gibt es mit 15 Räumen und 40 Betten endlich auch innerhalb der Station angenehme Schlafstätten. Bislang mussten die Besucher in roten Wohniglus - von den Forschern liebevoll "Tomaten" genannt - außerhalb des Hauptgebäudes unterkommen. Für jede Mahlzeit und jeden Toilettengang bedeutete dies bei Wind und Wetter "jedes Mal 96 Stufen runter und wieder hoch", beschreibt Gernandt die Mühen.Doch auch die neun AWI-Forscher, die den Forschungsbetrieb während der dunklen Wintertage in Gang halten, Messungen durchführen und die Observatorien überwachen, haben Grund zur Freude: Für sie werden eine Sauna und ein Sportraum installiert. Eine Ballonhalle auf dem Außendeck bietet Platz für die meteorologischen Ballonsonden, mit denen die Forscher des AWI Daten über die Luftfeuchtigkeit oder Spurengasanteile der Atmosphäre messen können. Auch die Messgeräte befinden sich dann auf dem Dach des Hauses und ersparen im Winter so den täglichen Spaziergang zu den bisherigen Messstationen, der bisher bei orkanartigen Stürmen auch schon mal recht abenteuerlich werden konnte. Insgesamt wird die neue Station knapp 4500 Quadratmeter Nutzfläche bieten, doppelt so viel wie die alte Behausung.Genug Fläche, um weiterhin neben den wissenschaftlichen auch den politisch motivierten Studien gerecht zu werden: Mit Hilfe einer Infraschallstation ermitteln die Wissenschaftler des AWI auch mikroskopisch kleine Veränderungen in den Druckverhältnissen der atmosphärischen Schwingungen. Sie können so ganz genau sagen, ob und wo irgendwo auf der Erde gerade Atomwaffen gezündet wurden. Mit einem flächendeckenden Netzwerk solcher Messstationen wird der Atomwaffensperrvertrag überwacht. Die Station in der Antarktis ist der deutsche Beitrag zu diesem Abkommen - ein Grund, weshalb das Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung den Bau des Stelzenhauses mit bislang 26 Millionen Euro gefördert hat und erst vor Kurzem weitere Mittel in Aussicht stellte.Die Energie für all diese Aufgaben liefert in Zukunft ein Mix aus Dieselgeneratoren und Windenergie. Zwar kann auch die jetzige Neumayer-Station bereits mit einem Windrad aufwarten. In den ersten Jahren nach der Fertigstellung des neuen Gebäudes sollen sich jedoch weitere hinzugesellen - bis letztlich fünfzig Prozent des Energiebedarfs von Windkraft gedeckt werden. "Langfristig ist es das Ziel aller Nationen, Stationen in der Antarktis so zu betreiben, dass ein Minimum an Emissionen entsteht und wir nach Möglichkeit alternative Energien nutzen", erklärt Gernandt den Trend zur ökologischen Energiegewinnung.Doch dass die deutsche Station dem Vorbild des kürzlich vorgestellten belgischen Forschungsgebäude folgen und vollständig mit Windkraft betrieben werden könnte, bezweifelt er: "Das ist bei einer Station dieser Größe schwierig zu lösen, sagt der Logistiker. Schließlich ist die belgische Station mit ihrem Fassungsvermögen von maximal zwanzig Menschen wesentlich kleiner als das deutsche Stelzengebäude. Hinzu kommen die schwierigen Untergrundbedingungen auf dem Ekström-Schelfeis: "Als Deutschland sich entschloss, in die Polarforschung einzutreten, waren die zwei Prozent Felsgrund auf dem Antarktischen Kontinent, die als guter Baugrund hätten dienen können, bereits vergeben", erklärt Gernandt. Und damit auch die Gebiete, auf denen sich ein Windrad sicher montieren ließe. Auf dem schwimmenden Eis des Ekström-Schelfes jedoch, das sich stetig in Richtung Meer vorschiebt, sind den Bauplänen der Forscher enge Grenzen gesetzt.Dennoch sind die Techniker zuversichtlich, dass der Stelzenbau gelingen wird. Anfang November werden die Bauteile mit einem Schiff in die Antarktis gebracht - eine logistische Herausforderung bei 3500 Tonnen an Material, Ausrüstung und Baumaschinen. Einmal angekommen, sorgen dann 45 Techniker und Ingenieure für einen reibungslosen Aufbau von Neumayer III.Sie müssen sich sputen: Der antarktische Sommer währt nur von November bis Februar. Danach machen orkanartige Stürme und dauerhafte Dunkelheit weitere Baumaßnahmen unmöglich. Doch die Techniker sind vorbereitet. Schließlich konnten sie beim Teilaufbau in den Werkshallen des Herstellers in Bremerhaven ausgiebig üben. Bis zum nächsten Frühjahr soll der Rohbau des Gebäudes stehen, im nächsten Jahr die Inneneinrichtung folgen. Wenn alles gut geht, kann Karlheinz Waltner dann im März 2009 die Sonne aus einem der Fenster von Neumayer III direkt begrüßen - ohne Webcam. | de | __NOTOC__
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Lage der Forschungsstation Neumayer III in der Antarktis
Die deutsche Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan (CDU) eröffnete am Freitag die Forschungsstation Neumayer III auf dem Ekström-Schelfeis der Atka-Bucht am nordöstlichen Weddell-Meer. Stolz sprach die Ministerin von einem „Meisterwerk der Ingenieurskunst".
Die Stahlfüße lassen sich hydraulisch anheben.
=== Umzug in die neue Unterkunft ===
In der Tat bietet die neue Station einige technische Highlights, die die Nachteile der älteren Vorgänger überwinden sollen. Die jetzt außer Betrieb gehende Station Neumayer II – knapp sieben Kilometer von der neuen Station entfernt – ist inzwischen 15 Meter tief im arktischen Schnee „versunken“. Da sich das Schelfeis ständig in Bewegung befindet, litt diese unter dem Druck des Eises. Inzwischen sind die „Tunnelrohr“-Segmente so stark deformiert, dass die Wissenschaftler dort nicht mehr sicher arbeiten können.
=== So sieht die Zukunft aus ===
Wichtigstes Feature der neuen Station ist die Stelzenkonstruktion, auf denen sie ruht. Die insgesamt 2.300 Tonnen schwere Station mit einer Nutzfläche von 4.473 Quadratmetern ruht auf 16 „Füßen“, die durch ein hydraulisches Gestänge einzeln angehoben werden können, wenn neuer Schnee die Station zu bedecken droht. Unter die angehobenen Füße kann nun Schnee in die entstandenen Hohlräume eingeblasen werden, so dass der Untergrund nach und nach erhöht werden kann. Auf diese Weise drückt die dritte Neumayer-Station den Schnee nach unten weg und bleibt immer an der Oberfläche.
Die Ingenieure vom Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) in Bremerhaven, die für die Neukonstruktion verantwortlich sind, rechnen mit einer Lebensdauer von 30 Jahren für die neue Station. Sie liegt damit deutlich über der Lebensdauer der älteren Stationen Neumayer I und II. Mit Neumayer I war Deutschland 1981 in die Antarktisforschung eingestiegen. 1992 war dann die Nachfolgestation in Betrieb genommen worden. Die Vorgängerstationen bestanden im Prinzip aus zwei 90 Meter langen Stahlröhren, die unter die Oberfläche vergraben wurden. So waren die Forscher zwar vor den arktischen Stürmen gut geschützt, sahen aber – außer durch Webcams – eigentlich „keine Sonne“. Die neue Station bietet den Forschern mehr Bequemlichkeit und Möglichkeiten zur Entspannung, beispielsweise eine Sauna und einen Sportraum.
Kante des Ekström-Schelfs an der Nordseite der Antarktis
=== Die Arbeit auf der Station und deren Geldgeber ===
Kernstück der Station bilden natürlich die zahlreichen Labore für die wissenschaftliche Forschung. In der hochmodernen 68 Meter langen und 24 Meter breiten Station finden zwölf Labore Platz, die sich auf vier Stockwerke verteilen. Zum Forschungsprogramm gehören Untersuchungen des Erdmagnetfeldes, der chemischen Zusammensetzung der Luft, die Sammlung von Wetter- und Ozondaten sowie die Erfassung und Auswertung seismischer Wellen. Von besonderem politischen Interesse für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind die Möglichkeiten zur Erfassung von Infraschall-Daten. Diese ermöglichen Aussagen über mögliche Atomtests, die irgendwo auf der Erde stattgefunden haben. Zusammen mit der Auswertung von Daten aus den anderen Stationen, die zusammen ein flächendeckendes Netzwerk bilden, trägt die Forschungsstation dazu bei, die Einhaltung des Atomwaffensperrvertrages zu überprüfen. Deutschland ist Vertragsstaat dieses völkerrechtlichen Vertrages. Nicht zuletzt diese politische Motivation erleichtert es dem AWI, die Gelder für den Bau, den Betrieb und die Erhaltung der Station zu erhalten. Das Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) trat als Hauptgeldgeber der 39 Millionen Euro teuren wissenschaftlichen Einrichtung in Erscheinung. An der Finanzierung sind aber auch die Bundesländer Brandenburg, Bremen und Schleswig-Holstein beteiligt. |
de | Von Matthias Bartsch, Markus Brauck und Isabell Hülsen
Ein Traditionsblatt steht vor dem Aus: Die "Frankfurter Rundschau" hat Insolvenz angemeldet. Die Angestellten werden zur Stunde bei einer Betriebsversammlung über die Pleite informiert.
Frankfurt am Main - Die Gerüchte über eine mögliche Einstellung der verlustreichen "Frankfurter Rundschau" wabern schon seit Monaten - der DuMont-Verlag ließ dergleichen allerdings immer dementieren, zuletzt im Oktober. Nun steht fest: Die "FR" ist endgültig pleite.
Heute morgen um 9.45 Uhr hat das Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main GmbH beim Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main Insolvenz angemeldet. Dies bestätigte ein Sprecher des Amtsgerichts dem SPIEGEL. Viele Redakteure wussten zu dem Zeitpunkt vom Schicksal ihrer Zeitung noch nichts, die Pleite wird zur Stunde auf einer Betriebsversammlung verkündet.
Als Insolvenzverwalter wurde der Rechtsanwalt Frank Schmitt eingesetzt. Er ist laut Amtsgericht ein sogenannter "schwacher Verwalter", die Geschäftsführung bleibt also vorläufig im Amt, darf aber nur noch mit Zustimmung des Verwalters Geld ausgeben. DuMont hatte in den vergangenen Jahren mit diversen Sparrunden und einer teilweisen Zusammenlegung mit der "Berliner Zeitung" versucht, die "FR" doch noch profitabel zu machen - ohne Erfolg. Die "Die Folgen für die 'Berliner Zeitung' sind noch nicht abzuschätzen", sagte der amtierende Betriebsratsvorsitzende Alfred Hase der dapd.
"Journalisten der 'FR' brauchen eine Perspektive"
Die Gewerkschaft Verdi reagierte überrascht auf den Insolvenzantrag. "Wir hatten gehofft, dass es andere Lösungen gibt", sagte Manfred Moos, Landesfachbereichsleiter Medien, Kunst und Industrie bei Verdi in Hessen. Die Gewerkschaft glaube nach wie vor, dass die "Frankfurter Rundschau" eine "attraktive Zeitung in einer attraktiven Region ist". In dem Frankfurter Verlagshaus arbeiten laut Verdi rund 500 Menschen, davon etwa ein Fünftel in der Redaktion.
Der Deutsche Journalisten-Verband hat den DuMont-Verlag aufgefordert, auf Kündigungen redaktioneller Mitarbeiter weitgehend zu verzichten. "Die Journalistinnen und Journalisten der 'FR' brauchen eine berufliche Perspektive", sagte der DJV-Bundesvorsitzende Michael Konken. "Das Aus der renommierten Zeitung ist besonders bitter für die Beschäftigten, die über Jahre hinweg mit Einkommensverzicht für den Erhalt ihrer Zeitung gekämpft haben."
Die Pleite des Blattes könnte der Auftakt für ein Zeitungssterben in den nächsten Monaten werden. Auch das Gruner+Jahr-Blatt "Financial Times Deutschland" ist von der Schließung bedroht, die Entscheidung soll hier bis zum 21. November fallen. | de | Verlagsgebäude der Frankfurter Rundschau am Karl-Gerold-Platz in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
Beim Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main ist am Dienstagmorgen der Insolvenzantrag des Unternehmens Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main GmbH gestellt worden. In dem Haus erscheint die seit 1945 bestehende Tageszeitung „Frankfurter Rundschau“. Zum Insolvenzverwalter des Unternehmens wurde der Rechtsanwalt Frank Schmitt bestellt. Rund 500 Mitarbeiter sind von der Insolvenz betroffen. Sie wurden in einer Betriebsversammlung über die Stellung des Insolvenzantrages informiert.
Die Gewerkschaft VerDi zeigte sich von der Entwicklung überrascht. „Wir hatten gehofft, dass es andere Lösungen gibt“, äußerte sich der hessische Landesfachbereichsleiter für Medien, Kunst und Industrie der Gewerkschaft Manfred Moos. Noch nicht absehbar sind nach Auskunft des Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Alfred Hase die Auswirkungen auf die „Berliner Zeitung“, die mit der „Frankfurter Rundschau“ einen Teil der Redaktion gemeinsam hat.
Die traditionsreiche Frankfurter Zeitung ist seit einigen Jahren unrentabel. Das Unternehmen gehört mehrheitlich zur Mediengruppe M. DuMont Schauberg, Minderheitenbeteiligungen halten die Karl-Gerold-Stiftung und die der SPD gehörende Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft (DDVG). Gerüchte über eine Schließung waren von DuMont wiederholt dementiert worden. In den letzten zehn Jahren war die täglich verkaufte Auflage von rund 183.000 auf etwa 118.000 Exemplare zurückgegangen. |
de | 13.11.12
Drohende Zahlungsunfähigkeit: Die seit Jahren kriselnde "Frankfurter Rundschau” steht möglicherweise vor dem Aus. Am Nachmittag soll die Belegschaft auf einer Betriebsversammlung informiert werden.
Für die "Frankfurter Rundschau" ist am Dienstag ein Insolvenzantrag gestellt worden.
Das Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main habe am Morgen wegen drohender Zahlungsunfähigkeit einen Insolvenzantrag gestellt, sagte ein Sprecher des Amtsgerichts Frankfurt am Main und bestätigte damit einen Bericht der "Financial Times Deutschland".
Am Nachmittag werde die Belegschaft auf einer Betriebsversammlung Einzelheiten erfahren. Danach solle auch die Öffentlichkeit mit einer Presseerklärung über Einzelheiten des vorläufigen Insolvenzverfahrens informiert werden.
Als vorläufiger Insolvenzverwalter sei der Frankfurter Anwalt Frank Schmitt von der Kanzlei Schultze & Braun eingesetzt worden, sagte der Sprecher des Amtsgerichts.
Die "Frankfurter Rundschau", dessen Mantelteil in einer Redaktionsgemeinschaft mit der "Berliner Zeitung" entsteht, ist trotz zahlreicher Sparrunden seit Jahren defizitär. Im vergangenen Jahr waren weitere 58 Stellen betriebsbedingt gestrichen worden, die FR hat damit aktuell nur noch etwas mehr als 500 Mitarbeiter.
Auflage sinkt seit Jahren
Auch die Auflage sinkt: Im dritten Quartal 2012 verkaufte das Blatt durchschnittlich knapp 118.000 Exemplare pro Tag. Vor zehn Jahren waren es noch gut 183.000.
Die Gewerkschaft Ver.di reagierte überrascht auf den Insolvenzantrag. "Wir hatten gehofft, dass es andere Lösungen gibt", sagte Manfred Moos, Landesfachbereichsleiter Medien, Kunst und Industrie bei Verdi in Hessen.
"Wir hoffen, dass die bisherigen Gesellschafter dazu beitragen, dass für alle eine gute Lösung gefunden wird." Denkbar sei jedoch auch, dass ein Investor versucht, die Zeitung zu retten "und das hoffentlich dann auch besser macht". Ver.di glaube nach wie vor, dass die "Frankfurter Rundschau" eine "attraktive Zeitung in einer attraktiven Region ist".
Die "Frankfurter Rundschau" kämpft seit vielen Jahren mit dem Umbruch in der Medienbranche. Das Verlagshaus gehört mehrheitlich der Kölner Verlagsgruppe M. DuMont Schauberg. Daneben sind die SPD über ihre Medienholding DDVG beteiligt sowie die Karl-Gerold-Stiftung. | de | Verlagsgebäude der Frankfurter Rundschau am Karl-Gerold-Platz in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen
Beim Amtsgericht Frankfurt am Main ist am Dienstagmorgen der Insolvenzantrag des Unternehmens Druck- und Verlagshaus Frankfurt am Main GmbH gestellt worden. In dem Haus erscheint die seit 1945 bestehende Tageszeitung „Frankfurter Rundschau“. Zum Insolvenzverwalter des Unternehmens wurde der Rechtsanwalt Frank Schmitt bestellt. Rund 500 Mitarbeiter sind von der Insolvenz betroffen. Sie wurden in einer Betriebsversammlung über die Stellung des Insolvenzantrages informiert.
Die Gewerkschaft VerDi zeigte sich von der Entwicklung überrascht. „Wir hatten gehofft, dass es andere Lösungen gibt“, äußerte sich der hessische Landesfachbereichsleiter für Medien, Kunst und Industrie der Gewerkschaft Manfred Moos. Noch nicht absehbar sind nach Auskunft des Betriebsratsvorsitzenden Alfred Hase die Auswirkungen auf die „Berliner Zeitung“, die mit der „Frankfurter Rundschau“ einen Teil der Redaktion gemeinsam hat.
Die traditionsreiche Frankfurter Zeitung ist seit einigen Jahren unrentabel. Das Unternehmen gehört mehrheitlich zur Mediengruppe M. DuMont Schauberg, Minderheitenbeteiligungen halten die Karl-Gerold-Stiftung und die der SPD gehörende Deutsche Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft (DDVG). Gerüchte über eine Schließung waren von DuMont wiederholt dementiert worden. In den letzten zehn Jahren war die täglich verkaufte Auflage von rund 183.000 auf etwa 118.000 Exemplare zurückgegangen. |
es | Ha sido uno de los peores ataques informáticos de los que se tenga memoria. Un grupo de piratas digitales lograron hackear durante semanas el Ministerio de Economía de Francia.
El ataque, que comenzó en diciembre y se prolongó hasta este fin de semana, afectó a más de 150 computadoras del Ministerio, en particular las de la Dirección del Tesoro, y se centró en documentos preparativos del G-20 y de otros asuntos internacionales. Así lo informó hoy la revista París Match en su sitio de Internet
El ministro de Presupuesto, François Baroin, indicó que hay diversas "pistas" sobre el origen de esta infiltración, la primera de esta dimensión contra la Administración francesa, aunque señaló que lo más probable es que haya venido del extranjero.
Baroin, en una entrevista a la emisora de radio "Europe 1", puso el acento en que -según los datos que manejan hasta el momento- el hackeo no afectó los expedientes fiscales ni datos de particulares y que el objetivo era "la organización del G-20".
También admitió que se trata de "la primera vez" que se produce un ataque informático tan "espectacular" contra el Estado francés.
Un alto funcionario que pidió no ser identificado le contó a "Paris Match" que "confirmaron que un cierto número de informaciones se redirigían a sitios chinos, pero eso no significa mucho" sobre el punto de partida del ataque.
El Ministerio de Economía ha presentado una denuncia "contra X" (que no identifica presunto culpable) y desde que las primeras alertas saltaron a comienzos de enero se activó una investigación que lleva a cabo la Agencia Nacional de la Seguridad de los Sistemas de Información (ANSSI) y que ha ocupado a entre 20 y 30 personas "día y noche".
Aunque las alertas saltaron en enero, el ataque comenzó en diciembre, cuando Francia se disponía a asumir la presidencia rotativa del G-20, que reúne a los veinte principales países desarrollados y emergentes.
"El ataque apuntaba más a cuestiones internacionales que a asuntos internos como las aduanas o el fisco", precisó el secretario general del Ministerio de Economía, Dominique Lamiot.
En este año de la presidencia del G-20, Francia quiere en particular esbozar una reforma del sistema monetario internacional y luchar contra la inestabilidad de los precios de las materias primas.
Durante el fin de semana, y a raíz del ataque, tuvieron que desconectar más de 10.000 terminales de las 170.000 con que cuenta el Ministerio.
Sin embargo, los responsables de las investigaciones admitieron que tardarán semanas en identificar y "desinfectar" a los 150 funcionarios cuyas computadoras fueron atacadas, y restablecer las garantías de seguridad del Ministerio.
La ANSSI ha realizado diferentes verificaciones. Pero la más importante fue confirmar que ni los servicios del Palacio del Elíseo ni los del primer ministro han sido afectados por el ataque. En cualquier caso, los servicios secretos franceses están en alerta.
El ataque fue un clásico. Los piratas se infiltraron en el sistema informático con una dirección de correo electrónico pirateada que permitía la entrada en una computadora gracias a un documento adjunto que actuó como un troyano.
Cuando se abría el documento, la acción del programa pirata empezaba a actuar y podía, incluso, acceder a partir de ahí a computadoras de otras personas que estaban en contacto, lo que permitió el contagio en masa. | es | El Ministerio de Economía de Francia sufrió un gran ciberataque a los computadores, afectando un total de 160 equipos, centrándose en los documentos preparativos para la próxima reunión del G-20, y los que almacenaban información sensible de la Dirección del Tesoro francés. Según la policía francesa, el ataque se prolongó desde diciembre hasta la semana pasada y dejó en manifiesto los problemas de seguridad informática que posee la organización.
Según fuentes gubernamentales, los datos expuestos no contenían información particular ni cuentas bancarias, sino que simplemente buscaban investigar la documentación de Francia para la próxima reunión del G-20. Un efecto inmediato del ataque fue la desconexión del 10% de los terminales conectados al ministerio para revisar sus actividades sospechosas.
La sección de investigaciones cibernéticas no ha dado con el o los presuntos implicados, pero ya se descubrieron las primeras pistas de la infección, la que podría haberse producido por un correo infectados con un virus troyano y desde allí se esparció por las redes internas del ministerio. |
es | El Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Francia ha sufrido durante semanas un ataque informático a gran escala, que ha afectado a más de 150 ordenadores y en el que se han pirateado documentos preparativos del G-20. La intrusión, que comenzó en diciembre y se prolongó hasta el pasado fin de semana, según adelanta hoy la revista Paris Match , ha sido confirmada por el Gobierno francés.
El principal objetivo del ataque ha sido la Dirección del Tesoro, aunque la información pirateada se centra más bien "en asuntos internacionales", según el secretario general del Ministerio de Finanzas y Presupuesto, Dominique Lamiot, que dice tener la "certeza de que ningún dato personal" sobre los contribuyentes franceses ha resultado "afectado ni comprometido".
El ministro del Presupuesto, François Baroin, ha indicado que hay diversas "pistas" pendientes de confirmar sobre el origen de este ataque, el primero de este calibre contra la Administración francesa, aunque "probablemente" procede del extranjero. La incursión coincide con el inicio de la presidencia de Francia del G-20. En febrero, fue la anfitriona de una cumbre del grupo de los 20 principales países desarrollados y en vías de desarrollo. Un alto funcionario ha asegurado a Paris Match, bajo la condición de anonimato, que parte de la información afectada ha sido "redirigida a sitios chinos. Pero eso no nos dice gran cosa".
Baroin ha admitido que se trata de "la primera vez" que se produce un ataque informático tan "espectacular" contra el Estado francés, en una entrevista a la emisora de radio Europe 1. El ataque ha llevado al ministerio a "reforzar sustancialmente sus sistemas de seguridad", según Lamiot.
Revisión de 12.000 ordenadores
Las primeras alertas saltaron a comienzos de enero, momento en el que se activó una investigación de la que se encarga la Agencia Nacional de la Seguridad de los Sistemas de Información (ANSSI), y que ha ocupado a entre 20 y 30 personas "día y noche", según Patrick Pailloux, el director general de ANSSI. Aunque este fin de semana se ha llevado a cabo una operación de revisión y mantenimiento de 12.000 ordenadores del departamento de Economía (de un total de 170.000), los responsables de las pesquisas han admitido que tardarán semanas en identificar a los 150 funcionarios infiltrados informáticamente y restablecer las garantías de seguridad del Ministerio.
Según el director general de ANSSI, los piratas "han intentando atacar otros ministerios. Quiza haya cosas que no hemos visto, pero por lo que sé, solo han tocado Bercy", la sede del Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas. El organismo ha comprobado que ni los servicios del Elíseo ni los del primer ministro se han visto afectados por el ciberataque.
"Son como metástasis"
Los hackers se infiltraron en el sistema informático ministerial con un sistema clásico pero muy efectivo. A través de una dirección de correo electrónico pirateada, introdujeron un troyano en un documento adjunto de un mensaje. Al abrir el usuario el documento, el programa pirata tomaba el control del equipo, y podía acceder a partir de ahí a ordenadores de otras personas que estaban en contacto con él. Según un experto citado por Paris Match, "son como metástasis. Se propagan muy rápido".
Aunque se desconoce la autoría del ciberataque, "se trata de profesionales decididos y organizados. Es el primer ataque contra el Estado francés de esta amplitud y a esta escala", ha declarado Pailloux. Hacia las mismas fechas, a principios de enero, el Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas de Canadá, país que albergó en 2010 una cumbre del G-20, sufrió otro ataque a gran escala con métodos, a primera vista, similares, procedente de China. | es | El Ministerio de Economía de Francia sufrió un gran ciberataque a los computadores, afectando un total de 160 equipos, centrándose en los documentos preparativos para la próxima reunión del G-20, y los que almacenaban información sensible de la Dirección del Tesoro francés. Según la policía francesa, el ataque se prolongó desde diciembre hasta la semana pasada y dejó en manifiesto los problemas de seguridad informática que posee la organización.
Según fuentes gubernamentales, los datos expuestos no contenían información particular ni cuentas bancarias, sino que simplemente buscaban investigar la documentación de Francia para la próxima reunión del G-20. Un efecto inmediato del ataque fue la desconexión del 10% de los terminales conectados al ministerio para revisar sus actividades sospechosas.
La sección de investigaciones cibernéticas no ha dado con el o los presuntos implicados, pero ya se descubrieron las primeras pistas de la infección, la que podría haberse producido por un correo infectados con un virus troyano y desde allí se esparció por las redes internas del ministerio. |
fr | International Biélorussie: une militante des droits de l'homme se donne la mort 14:49 MINSK, 9 mars - RIA Novosti. Une militante des droits de l'homme a mis fin à ses jours à Soligorsk, au sud de Minsk, après avoir été condamnée à deux ans et demi de restriction de liberté pour fausse dénonciation de violences policières. Iana Poliakova, 36 ans, a été retrouvée pendue dans son appartement dans la nuit du 6 au 7 mars, mais son suicide n'a été annoncé que lundi à Minsk lors de l'Assemblée des organisations et des initiatives non gouvernementales. Le 3 mars dernier, le tribunal du district de Soligorsk a condamné Iana Poliakova à une peine de deux ans et demi de restriction de liberté assortie d'un million de roubles biélorusses (274 euros) de préjudice moral pour le compte d'un îlotier en retraite qu'elle avait accusé de l'avoir passée à tabac. Mme Poliakova faisait partie de l'équipe d'Olga Kozoulina, candidate à la députation aux dernières élections législatives et fille de l'opposant Alexandre Kozouline tout juste sorti de prison. Ses activités d'opposante lui ont valu plusieurs arrestations. "Cette condamnation a été un choc pour Iana, raconte l'opposant Valeri Chtchoukine interrogé par RIA Novosti. Lorsqu'on m'a mis en prison pour la première fois, ma femme se gênait de sortir en ville, puisqu'elle se croyait déshonorée. Iana semble avoir éprouvé la même chose. Elle a constaté sa propre impuissance et son incapacité à résister face aux persécutions. J'ai assisté à plus d'un procès, mais son procès à elle a été une véritable farce." Les autorités biélorusses sont souvent critiquées pour des persécutions de l'opposition et des violations de droits de l'homme. Après le plébiscite de 1996, non reconnu par l'UE, la Biélorussie fait l'objet de sanctions européennes. En octobre dernier, Bruxelles a suspendu les sanctions pour un délai de six mois à l'égard des autorités biélorusses après la libération de certains opposants qualifiés par l'UE de détenus politiques.
envoyez par e-mail retour à la page d'accueil | fr | Une militante des droits de l'homme a mis fin à ses jours à Soligorsk, au sud de Minsk, après avoir été condamnée à deux ans et demi de restriction de liberté pour fausse dénonciation de violences policières.
Iana Poliakova, 36 ans, a été retrouvée pendue dans son appartement dans la nuit du 6 au 7 mars, mais son suicide n'a été annoncé que lundi à Minsk lors de l'Assemblée des organisations et des initiatives non gouvernementales.
Le 3 mars dernier, le tribunal du district de Soligorsk a condamné Iana Poliakova à une peine de deux ans et demi de restriction de liberté assortie d'un million de roubles biélorusses (274 euros) de préjudice moral pour le compte d'un îlotier en retraite qu'elle avait accusé de l'avoir passée à tabac.
Poliakova faisait partie de l'équipe d'Olga Kozoulina, candidate à la députation aux dernières élections législatives et fille de l'opposant Alexandre Kozouline tout juste sorti de prison. Ses activités d'opposante lui ont valu plusieurs arrestations.
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pt | População brasileira é de 185,7 milhões, diz Censo 2010; SP atinge 10 mi de habitantes
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Os dados iniciais do Censo 2010, publicados nesta quinta-feira no "Diário Oficial da União", mostram que a população brasileira é de 185.712.713 de pessoas. A data de referência do levantamento é 1º de agosto de 2010.
Moradores que não foram recenseados ainda podem agendar entrevista
Após SP, Rio, Salvador e Brasília são as cidades mais populosas
Fraude em cidade do interior de SP obriga recontagem do Censo
Prévia do Censo "encolhe" 220 cidades
IBGE paga "bônus" para recenseador que faz serviço extra em área nobre de SP
Dados preliminares do Censo 2010 apontam envelhecimento da população
Comparado com o Censo 2000, que registrou 169.590.693 de habitantes, o crescimento é de 9,5%. No entanto, o número registrou queda em comparação com as estimativas de população do IBGE (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística), realizadas anualmente, que levam em conta taxas de natalidade, mortalidade e migração.
Em 2009, a estimativa era de que a população brasileira fosse de 191.480.630 de habitantes --o que representa uma queda de 3% no Censo 2010.
O mesmo aconteceu com a contagem do Estado e da cidade de São Paulo, que continuam como os mais populosos do país. De acordo com os dados divulgados pelo Censo 2010, o Estado tem 39.924.091 de habitantes e a cidade, 10.659.386.
Já a projeção de 2009 previa uma população de 41,4 milhões de habitantes para o Estado e 11 milhões para a cidade.
O IBGE repassa anualmente ao TCU (Tribunal de Contas da União) o número de moradores das cidades. Nos anos em que não há Censo, são enviadas as estimativas.
Os dados são usados para embasar os repasses da União, como o FPM (Fundo de Participação dos Municípios), proporcionais ao tamanho da população.
Foram analisados, na coleta para o Censo 2010, os 26 Estados e 5.565 municípios brasileiros, incluindo o Distrito Federal. A população foi recenseada até o dia 31 de outubro de 2010, com a visita a mais de 67 milhões de domicílios.
O IBGE estabeleceu prazo de 20 dias, de 5 a 24 de novembro, para que os interessados apresentem reclamações ao instituto. Moradores que ainda não foram recenseados podem agendar visita de um agente pelo número 0800-7218181 ou pelo link http://www.censo2010.ibge.gov.br/cadastro_nao_recenseado.php.
O instituto informou que os dados ainda passarão por um processo de análise, no qual será feita um processo de "controle de qualidade". Caso sejam verificadas inconsistências, supervisores contratados pelo instituto poderão retornar a alguns domicílios.
O resultado definitivo da contagem da população será divulgado no dia 29. | pt | Os brasileiros somam 185.712.713, de acordo com dados coletados pelo Censo 2010 e divulgados hoje (5) pelo (IBGE). A pesquisa começou em 1º de agosto e foi encerrada oficialmente no último dia 31, visitando um total de 67.275.459 domicílios em 5.565 municípios.
O tamanho da população ficou abaixo do esperado, que era de 192 milhões de brasileiros, tendo como dia de referência 1º de agosto de 2010, mas representa crescimento de 9,4% em relação ao ano de 2000, quando o país contabilizava 169.799.170 indivíduos.
De acordo com o IBGE, todos os municípios poderão checar o tamanho de suas populações na edição de hoje do Diário Oficial da União. O objetivo é que as prefeituras conheçam os dados e possam contestá-los, se for o caso, nos próximos 20 dias (entre 5 e 24 de novembro).
Os cálculos do IBGE são utilizados na definição do dinheiro a ser repassado pela União a cada município, que varia de acordo com o número de habitantes de cada localidade. A previsão é que no dia 29 de novembro o país tenha o dado consolidado sobre a população. |
pt | IBGE divulga os resultados da coleta do Censo 2010
O IBGE divulga hoje, 4 de novembro, a população residente em cada um dos 5.565 municípios brasileiros em 1º de agosto de 2010, segundo os resultados da coleta do Censo Demográfico 2010, realizada no período de 1º de agosto a 31 de outubro, que recenseou 185.712.713 pessoas em todo o Brasil.
A população de cada município será publicada, também hoje, no Diário Oficial da União, de acordo com a lei complementar nº 59, de 22 de dezembro de 1988, e com o artigo 102 da lei nº 8443, de 16 de julho de 1992. Esses resultados serão apresentados às prefeituras por meio de ofício do IBGE e em reuniões das Comissões Censitárias Estaduais (CCE) e das Comissões Municipais de Geografia e Estatística (CMGE), onde eventuais dúvidas sobre eles deverão ser esclarecidas. A partir de hoje, as prefeituras terão 20 dias para apresentar suas avaliações sobre os números divulgados e, no dia 29 de novembro, o IBGE divulgará os resultados das populações dos municípios.
Durante esse prazo, o IBGE continuará com suas equipes nas ruas e trabalhando internamente na supervisão e no controle de qualidade de todo o material coletado e para prestar os devidos esclarecimentos, quando necessários, aos integrantes das CCE e CMGE e às prefeituras. Uma das atividades de supervisão consiste no retorno aos domicílios onde o recenseador encontrou evidência de morador, mas ninguém foi recenseado. Para agendar a entrevista, a população pode até o dia 24 ligar gratuitamente para 0800-7218181 ou enviar formulário através do link http://www.censo2010.ibge.gov.br/cadastro_nao_recenseado.php.
Entre 8 e 24 de novembro, os resultados da coleta do Censo 2010 continuarão acessíveis na Internet, no endereço www.censo2010.ibge.gov.br, e quaisquer alterações provenientes da supervisão serão atualizadas.
Resultados serão apresentados às Comissões Municipais de Geografia e Estatística (CMGE)
Representantes dos poderes Executivo, Legislativo e Judiciário dos estados e municípios, além de instituições da sociedade civil, poderão avaliar os resultados do Censo 2010 através das Comissões Censitárias Estaduais (CCE) e das Comissões Municipais de Geografia e Estatística (CMGE), que foram instaladas de maio a agosto de 2009, em todas as 27 Unidades da Federação e nos municípios brasileiros. As comissões funcionaram como um canal de comunicação entre o IBGE e a sociedade e participaram de todo o processo de realização do Censo 2010.
Censo revelará realidade de cada município
Iniciado em 1º de agosto de 2010, o 12º Censo Demográfico brasileiro percorreu nos últimos três meses, os 8.514.876,599 km² do território nacional, nos 5.565 municípios brasileiros, com a tarefa de contar quantos somos e saber como vivemos. Através do trabalho de 191 mil recenseadores, entre outros profissionais, o Censo Demográfico levantou informações sobre todos os 5.565 municípios brasileiros e, para alguns quesitos, trará dados até mesmo para bairros e distritos. Investigando as características dos domicílios, as relações de parentesco, fecundidade, educação, trabalho, renda, cor e raça e religião, o questionário do Censo foi amplamente discutido com especialistas e usuários, atende a recomendações internacionais e trouxe perguntas capazes de verificar as transformações sociais desde a realização do Censo 2000.
Comunicação Social
04 de novembro de 2010 | pt | Os brasileiros somam 185.712.713, de acordo com dados coletados pelo Censo 2010 e divulgados hoje (5) pelo (IBGE). A pesquisa começou em 1º de agosto e foi encerrada oficialmente no último dia 31, visitando um total de 67.275.459 domicílios em 5.565 municípios.
O tamanho da população ficou abaixo do esperado, que era de 192 milhões de brasileiros, tendo como dia de referência 1º de agosto de 2010, mas representa crescimento de 9,4% em relação ao ano de 2000, quando o país contabilizava 169.799.170 indivíduos.
De acordo com o IBGE, todos os municípios poderão checar o tamanho de suas populações na edição de hoje do Diário Oficial da União. O objetivo é que as prefeituras conheçam os dados e possam contestá-los, se for o caso, nos próximos 20 dias (entre 5 e 24 de novembro).
Os cálculos do IBGE são utilizados na definição do dinheiro a ser repassado pela União a cada município, que varia de acordo com o número de habitantes de cada localidade. A previsão é que no dia 29 de novembro o país tenha o dado consolidado sobre a população. |
es | Indígenas del norte del departamento andino de Potosí lincharon a cuatro policías y no permiten el ingreso de las autoridades ni siquiera para recuperar los cadáveres.
Se trata de cuatro policías que pertenecían a la Dirección de Prevención de Robo de Vehículos (Diprove) del departamento de Oruro, que estaban en un operativo en la región potosina.
El linchamiento se produjo el domingo en la noche en una comunidad indígena de esa región, pero las autoridades y los dirigentes indígenas confirmaron este miércoles el asesinato.
Los cuerpos de los policías habrían sido enterrados en tres diferentes comunidades para evitar un posible rastrillaje.
No hay diálogo
El viceministro de Seguridad Ciudadana, el general Miguel Vásquez, en conferencia de prensa, dijo que "es difícil ingresar a la zona (porque) están bloqueados los accesos", pero expresó su confianza de que se instale el diálogo para "recuperar los cadáveres de quienes fueron linchados".
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Es difícil ingresar a la zona (porque) están bloqueados los accesos. Miguel Vásquez, viceministro de Seguridad Ciudadana
Sin embargo, el diálogo está lejos de producirse. Según Radio Erbol, que tiene un periodista en la zona, miles de campesinos protagonizaron este miércoles una marcha para protestar porque en el último tiempo habrían sido víctimas de extorsión por parte de policías.
Tras la marcha, hubo un cabildo en el que los pobladores de esas comunidades decidieron no entregar los cadáveres y, por el contrario, exigieron que la Policía responda por siete miembros de la comunidad y por siete vehículos que desaparecieron en el último tiempo, según Erbol.
Ante preguntas periodísticas, Vásquez admitió que "hay denuncias de que (los policías linchados) estaban extorsionando y estaban realizando operativos al margen de lo que estipula el propio procedimiento de la policía", pero dijo que "todo se va a aclarar con las investigaciones".
La zona donde se produjo el linchamiento es utilizada para el ingreso ilegal de vehículos usados a Bolivia provenientes de los puertos chilenos. Según los pobladores, los policías suelen cobrar sumas que van entre los 200 y los 1.000 dólares para permitir el contrabando.
Ayllus guerreros
La zona donde se produjo el linchamiento está poblada por cinco ayllus o comunidades aymaras y quechuas, conocidos por su tradición guerrera. Cada ayllu tiene entre 8.000 y 10.000 habitantes.
El jefe de la Policía de Potosí, coronel Orlando Ávila, que se encuentra en una localidad vecina al lugar del linchamiento, informó a BBC Mundo que no es posible acceder a la zona porque "hay francotiradores a lo largo de la carretera" y los campesinos están enfurecidos.
Los habitantes de los ayllus poseen armas y en años anteriores han protagonizado enfrentamientos por tierras. Varios gobiernos de Bolivia han intentado desarmarlos y llevar planes de paz a la región, pero aún quedan resabios de su belicosidad.
El viceministro Vásquez señaló que no existe ningún tipo de autoridad en la región, ni siquiera una representación de la Defensoría del Pueblo.
Por eso, pidió que se instale el diálogo para "pacificar la zona", "recuperar los cadáveres" y "para que a través de las investigaciones se identifiquen a los responsables de estos hechos". | es | Un grupo de aymaras y quechuas lincharon y mataron a cuatro policías en la comunidad ''Saca Saca'', en el municipio Uncía del departamento de Potosí, en Bolivia. Las víctimas, que posiblemente fueron atacadas la noche del pasado domingo, eran acusadas por las comunidades por extorsión.
Los líderes indígenas de la región decidieron no entregar los cuerpos de los policías ni informar sobre su paradero hasta que se aclare sobre el asesinato hace unos meses de siete pobladores del lugar y por la desaparición de siete vehículos.
Los fallecidos son los cabos Esteban Alave Arias y Rubén Cruz Arequipa; el suboficial Nelson Alcócer Cazano, y el policía Miguel Ramos Pañuni. Todos ellos eran miembros de la Dirección de Prevención de Robo de Vehículos (Diprove) del vecino departamento de Oruro.
En La Paz, el viceministro de Seguridad Ciudadana, Miguel Vázquez, confirmó que "hay denuncias de que (los policías linchados) estaban extorsionando y estaban realizando operativos al margen" de la ley, y explicó que ninguna autoridad pudo entrar a Uncía para ver los cadáveres.
Luego de una reunión ocurrida esta tarde, los jefes de los pobladores originarios aseguraron: "No hemos matado policías, hemos hecho morir a ladrones disfrazados de policías", según difundió la radio Erbol.
=== Radiografía del lugar ===
La zona donde se produjo el hecho se usa comúnmente para el contrabando de vehículos usados hacia Bolivia desde Chile. Según los pobladores, los policías suelen cobrar entre 200 y 1.000 dólares como soborno para permitir el comercio ilegal.
Es una región a 341 kilómetros al sur de La Paz, habitada por cinco ''ayllus'' (comunidades indígenas): Karacha, Aymaya, Layme, Puraca y Jucuma. Cada comunidad tiene entre 8.000 y 10.000 habitantes. Varios de ellos se movilizaron para impedir la recuperación de cuerpos.
Los habitantes de los ''ayllus'' están armados y protagonizaron años atrás conflictos por tierras. Enfrentamientos entre los "ayllus Guerrero" de Potosí dejaron 57 fallecidos entre 2000 y 2001.
En Bolivia, varios gobiernos han intentado pacificarlos. Según el viceministro Vázquez, la prioridad para el Gobierno es "pacificar" y "tranquilizar" a la población de Uncía, de donde hoy ha salido la unidad policial que allí había para evitar más conflictos. |
es | Bolivia: Policías de Diprove mueren linchados Potosí, 26 de may. La Policía de Potosí investiga la muerte de cuatro funcionarios de Diprove linchados por los importadores ilegales de autos.
El asesinato habría ocurrido la noche del pasado domingo en la comunidad Saca Saca, perteneciente al municipio Uncía del departamento de Potosí, según informó la Radio Pio XII.
Los fallecidos fueron identificados como el suboficial Nelson Alcócer Cazano, los cabos Esteban Alave Arias y Rubén Cruz Arequipa, además del policía Miguel Ramos Pañuni, quienes pertenecían a Diprove de Oruro.
Presuntamente, estos uniformados se dirigieron al norte de la Villa Imperial para dar con el paradero de dos carros que habrían sido sustraídos en Oruro.
Sin embargo, por versiones de los comunarios de Cara Cara, se supo que estos policías realizaban cobros ilegales a quienes internaban vehículos a Bolivia de forma ilegal. El reporte preliminar señala que tras ser asesinados, tres de los policías fueron enterrados en Cala Cala, mientras que el cuarto estaría en Saca Saca.
Ayer se conoció que la Policía no pudo ingresar a esas comunidades, porque cerca de 4.000 campesinos se lo impedía por lo que no se descartan que se ingrese utilizando la fuerza. Erbol-El Dia Compartir << Ver mas noticias | es | Un grupo de aymaras y quechuas lincharon y mataron a cuatro policías en la comunidad ''Saca Saca'', en el municipio Uncía del departamento de Potosí, en Bolivia. Las víctimas, que posiblemente fueron atacadas la noche del pasado domingo, eran acusadas por las comunidades por extorsión.
Los líderes indígenas de la región decidieron no entregar los cuerpos de los policías ni informar sobre su paradero hasta que se aclare sobre el asesinato hace unos meses de siete pobladores del lugar y por la desaparición de siete vehículos.
Los fallecidos son los cabos Esteban Alave Arias y Rubén Cruz Arequipa; el suboficial Nelson Alcócer Cazano, y el policía Miguel Ramos Pañuni. Todos ellos eran miembros de la Dirección de Prevención de Robo de Vehículos (Diprove) del vecino departamento de Oruro.
En La Paz, el viceministro de Seguridad Ciudadana, Miguel Vázquez, confirmó que "hay denuncias de que (los policías linchados) estaban extorsionando y estaban realizando operativos al margen" de la ley, y explicó que ninguna autoridad pudo entrar a Uncía para ver los cadáveres.
Luego de una reunión ocurrida esta tarde, los jefes de los pobladores originarios aseguraron: "No hemos matado policías, hemos hecho morir a ladrones disfrazados de policías", según difundió la radio Erbol.
=== Radiografía del lugar ===
La zona donde se produjo el hecho se usa comúnmente para el contrabando de vehículos usados hacia Bolivia desde Chile. Según los pobladores, los policías suelen cobrar entre 200 y 1.000 dólares como soborno para permitir el comercio ilegal.
Es una región a 341 kilómetros al sur de La Paz, habitada por cinco ''ayllus'' (comunidades indígenas): Karacha, Aymaya, Layme, Puraca y Jucuma. Cada comunidad tiene entre 8.000 y 10.000 habitantes. Varios de ellos se movilizaron para impedir la recuperación de cuerpos.
Los habitantes de los ''ayllus'' están armados y protagonizaron años atrás conflictos por tierras. Enfrentamientos entre los "ayllus Guerrero" de Potosí dejaron 57 fallecidos entre 2000 y 2001.
En Bolivia, varios gobiernos han intentado pacificarlos. Según el viceministro Vázquez, la prioridad para el Gobierno es "pacificar" y "tranquilizar" a la población de Uncía, de donde hoy ha salido la unidad policial que allí había para evitar más conflictos. |
pl | Wiadomosci Lokalne / USA
Sroda, 10 maja 2000 Rezolucja nie przeszla w Kalifornii - Potkniecie amnestii W legislaturze Kalifornii nie udalo sie przeforsowac rezolucji wzywajacej do uchwalenia powszechnej amnestii dla nielegalnych imigrantow. Demokraci zapowiadaja jednak ponowne wniesienie projektu pod obrady stanowego zgromadzenia. Za zgloszonym projektem AJR 51 glosowalo az 31 deputowanych, a przeciwnych bylo tylko 19. O oddaleniu rezolucji wzywajacej do zalegalizowania statusu 6 milionow nielegalnych imigrantow przebywajacych w USA, zdecydowalo jednak 30 osob wstrzymujacych sie od glosu. Dzieki popierajacemu projekt deputowanemu Gilowi Cedillo, rezolucja wroci jednak pod obrady izby nizszej kalifornijskiego parlamentu. Potkniecie amnestii przyjely z zadowoleniem organizacje antyimigranckie, ktore sa szczegolnie aktywne w Kalifornii. 'To wielkie zwyciestwo dla Kalifornii, srodowiska naturalnego i kobiet oraz mezczyzn pracujacych w Ameryce stwierdzila Danielle Elliot z organizacji Kalifornijczycy na rzecz Stabilizacji Populacji. Kolejna amnestia dodala bedzie prowadzic do zwiekszenia imigracji. Tak bylo ostatnim razem i nie wolno znow do tego dopuscic'. Porazka zwolennikow amnestii ma na razie jedynie symboliczny charakter. O legalizacji statusu milionow nielegalnych imigrantow (w tym ok. 70-100 tys. Polakow) moze zadecydowac bowiem jedynie Kongres USA w Waszyngtonie. Za szeroka amnestia opowiedziala sie ostatnio najwieksza amerykanska centrala zwiazkowa AFLCIO, dotad niechetna nielegalnym przybyszom. Coraz wiecej politykow zaczyna zwracac uwage na problem ponad 2 proc. mieszkancow USA zepchnietych przez nieuregulowany status na margines zycia spoleczenstwa. Tomasz Deptula
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en | Six dead in Japan quake: officials
KURIHARA, Japan (AFP) — Six people were killed in Saturday's powerful earthquake in northern Japan, officials said.
Two workers, aged 53 and 54, were working on a construction project when they were hit by a landslide, said a local official in the hard-hit northern town of Kurihara.
Rescue teams scouring by helicopter also found a body in a smashed vehicle in the mountains, said Yuichi Hachiya, a fire department official in Kurihara.
"We suspect the person was a visitor, but that's just speculation. The person has yet to be identified as the body is now being transferred," Hachiya told AFP.
The other dead included a 48-year-old construction worker on a dam project who was hit by falling rocks and a 55-year-old man buried by a landslide while out fishing, officials said earlier.
A 60-year-old man also died after running out of his home in fright and getting hit by a truck.
More than 100 people were injured and 12 people missing in the 7.2 Richter-scale tremor, according to officials and media tallies.
Copyright © 2013 AFP. All rights reserved. More » | en | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit the region of Tohoku, a rural area of Northern Japan, killing nine people, injuring over 200, triggering land slides with reports of a bridge destroyed by the quake, several press reports. Mainichi Shinbun reports many land slides happened in mountainous areas, cutting down roads and several neighborhoods are separated from the others.
The quake struck at 8:43 am local time, located about 5 miles (8 km) underground, approximately 280 miles (451 km) north of Tokyo in the northern prefecture of Iwate, which was felt as far away as the Capital. Mainichi indicated that Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures are severely damaged so that both governors invoke Disaster Aid Act to be effective in Ichinoseki and Kurikoma respectively.
Japan is particularly prone to earthquakes due its position on the Ring of Fire as well as being made of volcanic islands. An earthquake last year caused a radioactive leak from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. |
en | Strong quake jolts Iwate, Miyagi; 2 killed
Chunks of concrete that were shaken loose from a wall during the earthquake Saturday morning lie on the sidewalk in Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture.
A powerful earthquake registering a preliminary magnitude of 7 jolted extensive areas of northeastern Japan on Saturday morning, killing two people and overturning a bus in Sendai carrying at least 30 passengers, the Meteorological Agency said.
The 8:43 a.m. quake measured upper 6 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 in some areas of Iwate and Miyagi prefectures, according to the agency.
No tsunami warnings were issued.
According to Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura, two people were confirmed dead in the earthquake.
According to the Natori Municipal Fire Department in Miyagi Prefecture, 25 passengers on the bus were injured, three of them seriously.
Firefighters in Kurihara, Miyagi Prefecture, said at least six people were injured in the quake.
The earthquake did not affect operations at nuclear power plants in Fukushima Prefecture, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said. The Onagawa nuclear power station in Miyagi Prefecture and the Higashidori nuclear power station in Aomori Prefecture, both of which are operated by the Tohoku Electric Power Co., were operating normally, according to the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
East Japan Railway Co. said it had suspended train services between Omiya and Hachinohe stations on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line.
All expressways in Miyagi Prefecture have been closed, police said.
The quake was felt as far away as the Kanto region and Hokkaido.
The focus of the quake was about 10 kilometers below ground in southern Iwate Prefecture, the agency said.
The agency said another earthquake measuring lower 5 on the seismic intensity scale hit Osaki, Miyagi Prefecture, at 9:20 a.m.
In Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture, one person was injured when their car was buried by a landslide. | en | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit the region of Tohoku, a rural area of Northern Japan, killing nine people, injuring over 200, triggering land slides with reports of a bridge destroyed by the quake, several press reports. Mainichi Shinbun reports many land slides happened in mountainous areas, cutting down roads and several neighborhoods are separated from the others.
The quake struck at 8:43 am local time, located about 5 miles (8 km) underground, approximately 280 miles (451 km) north of Tokyo in the northern prefecture of Iwate, which was felt as far away as the Capital. Mainichi indicated that Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures are severely damaged so that both governors invoke Disaster Aid Act to be effective in Ichinoseki and Kurikoma respectively.
Japan is particularly prone to earthquakes due its position on the Ring of Fire as well as being made of volcanic islands. An earthquake last year caused a radioactive leak from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. |
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Rescuers in northern Japan have found three more bodies, bringing the confirmed death toll from Saturday's earthquake to nine, officials say.
Four more people are feared buried by a mudslide at a hot spring hotel near the town of Kurihara, Miyagi region.
With major roads buckled and unusable, rescuers are hiking through mountain trails to reach isolated towns.
Twelve people are still missing and more than 200 have been injured after the 7.2 magnitude earthquake.
There have been more than 200 aftershocks since Saturday.
Helicopters
The quake was centred on Iwate, a rural mountainous region on Japan's main island, Honshu.
Military helicopters have been taking in supplies and flying the injured to hospitals.
A small amount of radioactive water was leaked at a nuclear power station.
But officials said there was no danger to the public from the minor spillage at the facility in Fukushima.
Seismologists issued a warning of the earthquake moments before it struck at about 0845 (2343 GMT) on Friday
Footage from NHK television showed surveillance cameras in the city of Sendai being shaken violently for about 30 seconds.
Japan is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries and experiences thousands of minor tremors each year.
An earthquake last year caused a small radioactive leak from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant. | en | A magnitude 7.2 earthquake has hit the region of Tohoku, a rural area of Northern Japan, killing nine people, injuring over 200, triggering land slides with reports of a bridge destroyed by the quake, several press reports. Mainichi Shinbun reports many land slides happened in mountainous areas, cutting down roads and several neighborhoods are separated from the others.
The quake struck at 8:43 am local time, located about 5 miles (8 km) underground, approximately 280 miles (451 km) north of Tokyo in the northern prefecture of Iwate, which was felt as far away as the Capital. Mainichi indicated that Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures are severely damaged so that both governors invoke Disaster Aid Act to be effective in Ichinoseki and Kurikoma respectively.
Japan is particularly prone to earthquakes due its position on the Ring of Fire as well as being made of volcanic islands. An earthquake last year caused a radioactive leak from the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant. |
es | MÉXICO, D.F. (apro).- El presidente Enrique Peña Nieto anunció que México participará en Operaciones de Mantenimiento de Paz (OMP) de Naciones Unidas y con ello rompió un tabú en la política exterior del país: evitar que personal militar mexicano pueda involucrarse en conflictos bélicos en el extranjero.
Peña Nieto hizo tal anuncio este miércoles 24 en Nueva York en el marco de su participación en el 69 periodo de sesiones de la Asamblea General de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), según informó la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) mediante un comunicado.
La SRE señala que México, “en su calidad de actor con responsabilidad global, apoya y valora estas operaciones, así como sus labores por ser el instrumento de las Naciones Unidas para ayudar a países que viven o han salido de conflictos, a crear condiciones necesarias para una paz duradera, a través de acciones de la reconstrucción, la asistencia humanitaria y la seguridad”, apunta el documento.
Asegura que “México tiene la experiencia necesaria en materia de asistencia humanitaria para ponerla al servicio de las Naciones Unidas, sin desatender sus obligaciones internas”.
La participación de México en las OMP, advierte, “estará supeditada a una autorización expresa y a un mandato claro del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, el único órgano facultado para tomar decisiones para el mantenimiento de la paz y la seguridad internacionales”, así como “al consentimiento expreso y la cooperación del Estado” en donde se desplegaría una OMP. Igualmente, advierte que dicha participación “será gradual en términos cuantitativos y en el tipo de labores en las que participará”, sin precisar cuáles serían éstas.
Asimismo, sostiene que “la participación de los países en las OPM es una de las expresiones de la responsabilidad global de un Estado” y comenta que nuestro país “es el segundo contribuyente financiero de América Latina al presupuesto de las OMP”.
Esta decisión, dice, se fundamenta en la Carta de Las Naciones Unidas y en el Plan Nacional de Desarrollo 2013-2018, así como en la fracción X del artículo 89 de la Constitución, la cual, en referencia a las facultades y obligaciones del presidente de la República, asienta: “Dirigir la política exterior y celebrar tratados internacionales, así como terminar, denunciar, suspender, modificar, enmendar, retirar reservas y formular declaraciones interpretativas sobre los mismos, sometiéndolos a la aprobación del Senado”.
Igualmente señala que “en la conducción de tal política, el titular del Poder Ejecutivo observará los siguientes principios normativos: la autodeterminación de los pueblos; la no intervención; la solución pacífica de controversias; la proscripción de la amenaza o el uso de la fuerza en las relaciones internacionales; la igualdad jurídica de los Estados; la cooperación internacional para el desarrollo; el respeto, la protección y promoción de los derechos humanos y la lucha por la paz y la seguridad internacionales”.
De acuerdo con el portal de Naciones Unidas sobre mantenimiento de paz, existen en curso 16 OMP, la mayoría de ellas en África, Asía y Medio Oriente. Ocupan un total de 115 mil 610 personas, de los cuales 96 mil 500 son personal uniformado: soldados (83 mil), policías (11 mil 500) y personal militar (mil 788). Son 122 los países que aportan personal uniformado. El total de víctimas mortales en las operaciones actuales es de mil 479; dicho número representa poco menos de la mitad del total de víctimas (3 mil 250) desde que las OMP fueron creadas en 1948.
Según el comunicado de la SRE, México ha participado en OMP en tres ocasiones. Dos con observadores militares: Los Balcanes (1947-1950) y Cachemira (1949); y una de manera directa en El Salvador (1992-1993) donde el país envío a 120 policías. | es | Las y civiles mexicanos participarán en operaciones para el mantenimiento de la paz llevadas a cabo por la (ONU), así lo anunció este miércoles el presidente de , . De esta manera, México ayudará en países en conflicto por medio de labores humanitarias "en beneficio de la población civil".
Durante su discurso realizado ante el pleno de la 69 , el presidente señaló que con esto se busca demostrar el "compromiso" de la nación ante la resolución de conflictos internacionales. La (SRE) informó que la participación mexicana incluirá personal militar o civiles, cuya intervención "será gradual en términos cuantitativos" y en áreas como , , , de observación política, asesoría electoral y de .
Más tarde, se manifestó a favor del , "Debemos impedir que más países y actores tengan alcance a estas armas si queremos un mundo más seguro". Según Peña Nieto, México participó en Operaciones de Mantenimiento de la Paz tres veces: de 1947 a 1950, en la frontera entre la y en 1949 y en de 1992 a 1993. No obstante, la participación dependerá de la autorización expresa del .
Asimismo, propuso reformar a la ONU, ante la problemática actual que requiere de un "nuevo" organismo. "La ONU debe atreverse a cambiar para mejorar", señaló. |
es | Ante la Asamblea General, el presidente dijo que con esta decisión busca demostrar el "compromiso" del país en la atención de conflictos
Miércoles, 24 de septiembre de 2014 a las 13:55
México se unirá a operaciones de paz de la ONU
Esta es la primera ocasión en que Peña Nieto participa en la Asamblea General; en 2013 asistió en su lugar el canciller José Antonio Meade (Cortesía de Presidencia).
CIUDAD DE MÉXICO (CNNMéxico) — Fuerzas y civiles mexicanos volverán a participar en operaciones para el mantenimiento de la paz de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU), anunció este miércoles el presidente Enrique Peña Nieto.
En su discurso ante la Asamblea General del organismo, el mandatario señaló que con esta decisión busca demostrar el "compromiso" de México con la resolución de conflictos internacionales.
"Mi país está dispuesto a ser parte activa de esta transformación, está decidido a evolucionar con las Naciones Unidas. México apoya y valora las operaciones para el mantenimiento de la paz, instrumento de la ONU que ayuda a los países a superar conflictos y crear condiciones para una paz duradera mediante acciones de reconstrucción y asistencia humanitaria", dijo Peña Nieto.
"Por eso México ha tomado la decisión de participar en las operaciones de mantenimiento de la paz de las Naciones Unidas realizando labores de índole humanitaria en beneficio de la población civil. Nuestra participación será atendiendo a un mandato claro del Consejo de Seguridad y estará apegada a los principios normativos de la política exterior. Con esta determinación, México da un paso histórico en su compromiso con la ONU", agregó.
La Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores (SRE) informó más tarde en un comunicado que la participación de México podrá comprender personal militar o civil, cuya intervención "será gradual en términos cuantitativos" y en tareas como ingeniería, medicina, enfermería, de observación política, asesoría electoral y de derechos humanos.
El mensaje señala que México sólo participará en operaciones para el mantenimiento de la paz aprobadas por el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU y si el Estado donde vayan a desplegarse accede a que se realicen.
México ha participado en este tipo de operaciones en tres ocasiones, según la SRE.
La primera fue en Los Balcanes de 1947 a 1950 y la segunda en la región de Cachemira, en la frontera entre India y Pakistán, en 1949. En ambos casos se intervino con observadores militares, mientras que la tercera ocasión se hizo con 120 policías en El Salvador, entre 1992 y 1993.
Actualmente hay 16 operaciones en marcha en el mundo, en lugares como Haití en América Latina y Costa de Marfil y Liberia en África.
Peña plantea reformar la ONU
En su discurso ante la Asamblea General, Peña Nieto también propuso una reforma a la ONU, argumentando que los problemas globales necesitan un organismo "nuevo".
"La ONU debe atreverse a cambiar para mejorar", dijo el mandatario, y como ejemplo pidió reformar el Consejo de Seguridad, responsable de atender amenazas mundiales y resguardar la paz.
Al respecto, el presidente planteó que el consejo tenga más miembros no permanentes —sin precisar un número—, que sus periodos sean más largos y que exista la reelección. Actualmente, el consejo tiene 10 miembros no permanentes que cambian cada dos años.
Además, Peña Nieto propuso que los cinco miembros permanentes —China, Estados Unidos, Francia, Reino Unido y Rusia— no tengan derecho a vetar resoluciones cuando se discutan casos de violaciones graves al derecho internacional.
"Necesitamos un Consejo de Seguridad que evolucione y sea representativo del nuevo equilibrio mundial", dijo.
El presidente mexicano reconoció que concretar estos cambios no sería sencillo, aunque consideró que es posible lograrlos, como ha ocurrido en México con reformas estructurales pendientes desde hace varios años.
"Con base en esta experiencia, estoy convencido de que la Organización de las Naciones Unidas también puede cambiar", dijo.
Esta es la primera vez que Peña Nieto participa en la Asamblea General de la ONU. En 2013, el primer año de su mandato, canceló su asistencia para quedarse en México y atender las afectaciones que causaron el huracán Manuel y la tormenta Ingrid. En su lugar acudió el canciller José Antonio Meade. | es | Las y civiles mexicanos participarán en operaciones para el mantenimiento de la paz llevadas a cabo por la (ONU), así lo anunció este miércoles el presidente de , . De esta manera, México ayudará en países en conflicto por medio de labores humanitarias "en beneficio de la población civil".
Durante su discurso realizado ante el pleno de la 69 , el presidente señaló que con esto se busca demostrar el "compromiso" de la nación ante la resolución de conflictos internacionales. La (SRE) informó que la participación mexicana incluirá personal militar o civiles, cuya intervención "será gradual en términos cuantitativos" y en áreas como , , , de observación política, asesoría electoral y de .
Más tarde, se manifestó a favor del , "Debemos impedir que más países y actores tengan alcance a estas armas si queremos un mundo más seguro". Según Peña Nieto, México participó en Operaciones de Mantenimiento de la Paz tres veces: de 1947 a 1950, en la frontera entre la y en 1949 y en de 1992 a 1993. No obstante, la participación dependerá de la autorización expresa del .
Asimismo, propuso reformar a la ONU, ante la problemática actual que requiere de un "nuevo" organismo. "La ONU debe atreverse a cambiar para mejorar", señaló. |
pl | 65. dzień epidemii w Polsce: 7 maja – 307 nowych zakażeń, 22 zgony. Wśród zmarłych 30-latek
Bilans czwartku w Polsce: 307 nowych potwierdzonych zakażeń, 22 kolejne zgony. Łącznie od początku epidemii: 15047 zakażonych i 755 zgonów. Za wyleczonych uznano 4862 pacjentów. Liczba aktywnych przypadków – 9430 (wzrost o 78).
Dobowa liczba potwierdzonych przypadków zakażenia SARS-CoV-2 w Polsce (https://www.worldometers.info) Dobowa liczba zgonów na COVID-19 w Polsce (https://www.worldometers.info)
W czwartek ok. 17:30 MZ podało: Mamy 166 nowych i potwierdzonych przypadków zakażenia #koronawirus z województw: łódzkiego (59), śląskiego (38), mazowieckiego (36), małopolskiego (9), dolnośląskiego (8), opolskiego (5), świętokrzyskiego (3), zachodniopomorskiego (2), pomorskiego (2), podkarpackiego (1), lubuskiego (1), wielkopolskiego (1), lubelskiego (1). Z przykrością informujemy o śmierci 18 osób zakażonych koronawirusem (wiek-płeć, miejsce zgonu): 71-M, 71-M, 43-M Racibórz; 87-M Kędzierzyn - Koźle (mieszkaniec woj. śląskiego), 78-M, 86-K, 88-K Zgierz, 66-K, 69-M Wrocław, 92-K Kędzierzyn-Koźle, 86-K Łomża, 70-K Szczecin, 71-K Łańcut, 30-M Grudziądz, 86-M Radom, 75-M Warszawa, 80-K Poznań, 97-K Kraków. Większość osób miała choroby współistniejące. (4/4) W związku z przekazanym przez WSSE Łódź raportem dotyczącym 17 błędnie zaraportowanych przypadków z dnia 5 maja, odejmujemy je ze statystyk. Liczba zakażonych koronawirusem: 15047/755 (wszystkie pozytywne przypadki/w tym osoby zmarłe).
W czwartek rano MZ poinformowało na Twitterze o 158 nowych i potwierdzonych przypadków zakażenia koronawirusem z województw: śląskiego (78), dolnośląskiego (28), wielkopolskiego (23), zachodniopomorskiego (6), pomorskiego (6), kujawsko-pomorskiego (5), warmińsko-mazurskiego (4), opolskiego (4),lubuskiego (1), podkarpackiego (1), małopolskiego (1) i podlaskiego (1).
MZ poinformowało też o śmierci kolejnych 4 osób zakażonych koronawirusem. Są to: (wiek-płeć, miejsce zgonu): 96-M Gdynia, 84-K Konin, 80-K Poznań, 84-K Łańcut. Wszystkie osoby miały choroby współistniejące.
W sumie liczba zakażonych koronawirusem w Polsce: 14898. Zmarło 737 osób. | pl | 7 maja Ministerstwo Zdrowia poinformowało o 158 nowych przypadkach zakażenia SARS-CoV-2. Dotyczy to 78 osób z woj. śląskiego, 28 osób z woj. dolnośląskiego, 23 osób z woj. wielkopolskiego, 6 osób z woj. zachodniopomorskiego i pomorskiego, 5 osób z woj. kujawsko-pomorskiego, 4 osób z woj. warmińsko-mazurskiego i opolskiego i 1 osoby z woj. lubuskiego, podkarpackiego, małopolskiego i podlaskiego. Liczba zakażonych SARS-CoV-2 wyniosła 14 898 osób. |
fr | Endeavour atterrit sans encombre en Floride après une mission réussie
CAP CANAVERAL (Etats-Unis) (AFP) — La navette américaine Endeavour a atterri sans encombre de nuit mercredi en Floride avec sept astronautes à bord, dont un Français, après une mission record réussie de seize jours pour la construction de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS).
Les roues de l'orbiteur ont touché le sol de la piste du Centre spatial Kennedy près de Cap Canaveral (sud-est) à 20H39 locales (00H39 GMT jeudi), bouclant une mission orbitale de deux semaines, dont douze jours amarrés à l'ISS. Elle a livré le premier élément du laboratoire japonais Kibo et le robot canadien géant Dextre.
"Bienvenue Endeavour", a dit peu après l'atterrissage Jim Dutton du Centre de contrôle de Houston, répétant la même chose en japonais (okairinasai Takao) à l'adresse de l'astronaute nippon Takao Doi et en français (bienvenue Léo) pour le spationaute français Léopold Eyharts. Celui-ci revient sur Terre après un séjour de 48 jours dans l'ISS.
"Félicitations à toute l'équipe" pour la mission, a ajouté Jim Dutton.
La Nasa avait dû renoncer à une première tentative d'atterrissage en raison de conditions météorologiques défavorables.
Quelques secondes après l'atterrissage, un parachute rouge et blanc s'est déployé à l'arrière de la navette pour ralentir sa course.
Il s'agit du premier atterrissage de nuit depuis septembre 2006 et du 22e dans l'histoire du programme.
Endeavour avait commencé sa descente une heure auparavant, après que le commandant de bord Dominic Gorie eut allumé les deux petits moteurs orbitaux de la navette pendant 2h45 minutes pour la freiner de quelque 250 kilomètres/heure. Sa vitesse était de 25 fois celle du son, soit plus de 27.000 km/h.
L'orbiteur a alors amorcé le grand plongeon de 65 minutes vers la Floride. La température sur le nez et les bords d'attaque des ailes a atteint par endroits plus de 1.500 degrés Celsius sous l'effet du frottement sur les couches denses de l'atmosphère qui se font sentir à partir de 130 kilomètres d'altitude et à 8.000 km de la Floride.
L'orbiteur a fait son approche par l'océan Pacifique, survolant la péninsule du Yucatan, puis le Golfe du Mexique avant de poursuivre sa route et d'atteindre la Floride.
L'arrivée imminente de la navette a été annoncée par un double boom sonique.
Trois minutes avant de se poser, Dominic Gorie a pris les commandes de l'orbiteur, jusque-là en pilotage automatique, pour effectuer manuellement son alignement avec la piste , lui faisant notamment effectuer un virage de plus de 200 degrés.
Cette mission réussie aura vu l'assemblage d'un robot canadien facilitant la maintenance de l'ISS et la livraison du premier des trois éléments du laboratoire japonais Kibo.
Dominic Gorie avait qualifié dimanche le bilan de la mission d'"impressionnant". "Toutes les sorties orbitales comme les opérations robotiques ont été un succès", a-t-il dit.
Au cours de la mission, les astronautes ont en outre testé une technique de réparation des tuiles thermiques de l'orbiteur dans le vide de l'espace. Cette technique est jugée essentielle pour la sécurité du prochain vol vers le télescope spatial Hubble fin août au cours duquel la navette ne pourra pas revenir s'amarrer à l'ISS.
Le début de l'installation du laboratoire Kibo revêt une grande importance pour le Japon qui va ainsi devenir un membre à part entière de l'ISS avec les Etats-Unis, la Russie et l'Europe, dont le module de recherche Columbus a été livré à la Station en février.
Les recherches en micro-gravité sont jugées essentielles pour préparer les explorations habitées de longue durée sur la Lune et au-delà, vers Mars.
La Nasa prévoit encore dix vols pour achever l'ISS d'ici le 30 septembre 2010, date de mise en retraite de ses trois navettes. Trois sont encore programmés cette année dont le prochain en mai. | fr | Atterrissage de la navette spatiale Endeavour.
La navette spatiale américaine ''Endeavour'' a atterri sans problèmes à 20h39 heures locales à Cap Canaveral en Floride, complétant ainsi avec succès la mission STS-123 qui aura duré 16 jours dans l'espace.
Retardé d'une heure sur l'horaire prévu à cause de la météo, la procédure d'atterrissage à débuté 65 minutes plus tôt, lorsque Dominic Gorie, le commandant de bord, eut freiné la navette de 250 km/m pour amorcer la descente vers la Floride par l'océan Pacifique, la péninsule du Yucatan, puis le Golfe du Mexique. La phase finale de l'atterrissage a été assurée manuellement par le commandant jusqu'à sur une piste illuminée du Centre spatial Kennedy. Il s'agissait seulement du 22 atterrissage de nuit.
La mission STS-123 aura vu été le cadre de la livraison et l'assemblage d'un robot canadien destiné à faciliter la maintenance de la Station spatiale internationale ainsi que la livraison du premier des trois éléments du laboratoire japonais ''Kibo''. Pendant la mission, les astronautes ont également testé une nouvelle technique de réparation des tuiles thermiques de la navette sans que celle-ci ne soit amarrée à la station spatiale.
Le retour de la navette marque également celui du spationaute français Léopold Eyharts qui revient sur Terre après un séjour de 48 jours dans la station spatiale. |
fr | Au terme de sa mission de 16 jours (STS-123) à destination de la Station spatiale internationale (ISS), la Navette Endeavour de la NASA a regagné la Terre sans encombre avec ses sept membres déquipage, dont lastronaute français de lESA Léopold Eyharts, qui a passé près de 49 jours en orbite pour procéder au raccordement du laboratoire européen Columbus à lISS ainsi quà sa recette.
Endeavour sest posée le 27 mars à 01h39 heure de Paris au Centre spatial Kennedy de Cap Canaveral (Floride).
Léopold Eyharts (50 ans) avait quitté la Terre à bord de la Navette Atlantis le 7 février, dans le cadre de la mission STS-122, en compagnie dun autre astronaute de lESA, lAllemand Hans Schlegel. Le 10 février, peu après lamarrage dAtlantis à lISS, il avait remplacé lastronaute de la NASA Dan Tani pour devenir membre de léquipage permanent de lISS (Expedition 16), aux côtés de lastronaute américaine Peggy Whitson et du cosmonaute russe Iouri Malenchenko.
Premier homme à pénétrer dans le laboratoire Columbus en orbite
En orbite, une des premières tâches de Léopold Eyharts a consisté à participer à lamarrage du laboratoire Columbus, en sinstallant dabord aux commandes du bras robotisé de la station pour extraire le module européen de la soute dAtlantis, puis en activant, de lintérieur du module de jonction Harmony, les boulons motorisés chargés dassurer la fixation. Le 11 février à 21h44 TUC (22h44 heure de Paris), une fois lamarrage terminé, Léopold Eyharts pouvait annoncer aux centres de contrôle de Houston, de Moscou et de Munich : « le module européen Columbus fait maintenant partie de lISS. »
Le lendemain, Léopold Eyharts était le premier homme à sintroduire dans le module Columbus en orbite. Muni dun masque et de lunettes de protection, il a inspecté le laboratoire à laide dune lampe électrique avant les opérations de raccordement électrique et dassainissement de latmosphère ambiante. Une fois le laboratoire déclaré officiellement accessible, Léopold Eyharts a immédiatement commencé à reconfigurer et à activer le module en compagnie de Hans Schlegel et des autres membres de léquipage. Il est resté à bord de la station tandis que Hans Schlegel regagnait la Terre à bord dAtlantis.
Pendant les 44 jours quil a passés à bord de la station, Léopold Eyharts a employé une bonne partie de son temps à activer le module et ses bâtis ainsi quà en vérifier le fonctionnement pour entamer une série dexpériences scientifiques. En sa qualité de membre de léquipage de lISS, il a aussi participé à des expériences scientifiques internationales et à la maintenance des équipements de la station.
Commenter cette news ou lire les commentaires | fr | Atterrissage de la navette spatiale Endeavour.
La navette spatiale américaine ''Endeavour'' a atterri sans problèmes à 20h39 heures locales à Cap Canaveral en Floride, complétant ainsi avec succès la mission STS-123 qui aura duré 16 jours dans l'espace.
Retardé d'une heure sur l'horaire prévu à cause de la météo, la procédure d'atterrissage à débuté 65 minutes plus tôt, lorsque Dominic Gorie, le commandant de bord, eut freiné la navette de 250 km/m pour amorcer la descente vers la Floride par l'océan Pacifique, la péninsule du Yucatan, puis le Golfe du Mexique. La phase finale de l'atterrissage a été assurée manuellement par le commandant jusqu'à sur une piste illuminée du Centre spatial Kennedy. Il s'agissait seulement du 22 atterrissage de nuit.
La mission STS-123 aura vu été le cadre de la livraison et l'assemblage d'un robot canadien destiné à faciliter la maintenance de la Station spatiale internationale ainsi que la livraison du premier des trois éléments du laboratoire japonais ''Kibo''. Pendant la mission, les astronautes ont également testé une nouvelle technique de réparation des tuiles thermiques de la navette sans que celle-ci ne soit amarrée à la station spatiale.
Le retour de la navette marque également celui du spationaute français Léopold Eyharts qui revient sur Terre après un séjour de 48 jours dans la station spatiale. |
fr | La NASA est enchantée du travail de sa dernière navette spatiale
CAP CANAVERAL, Floride — La NASA a célébré l'atterrissage réussi d'une navette de retour d'une mission exceptionnellement longue - et fructueuse - vers la Station spatiale internationale.
Endeavour a touché le sol mercredi soir après avoir parcouru plus de 10 millions de kilomètres en 16 jours.
Le retour sur terre d'Endeavour avait été légèrement retardé.
La navette devait atterrir avant le coucher du soleil mais des nuages se sont interposés à la toute dernière minute. Le temps que les astronautes fassent un dernier tour de planète, le ciel s'était suffisamment éclairci pour que les contrôleurs donnent la permission d'atterrir.
C'était la 22e fois qu'une navette atterrissait dans la noirceur, la première depuis 2006. Plus de 80 pour cent des navettes ont touché le sol pendant la journée.
L'équipage international a pu accomplir tout ce qui était au programme: installer la première pièce du laboratoire japonais Kibo et le robot canadien Dextre, tester une technique de réparation et plus encore.
La navette a ramené sur terre le général français Léopold Eyharts, qui a passé un mois et demi à bord de la station spatiale, et l'astronaute japonais Takao Doi.
La station spatiale est maintenant complétée à 70 pour cent et pèse près de 275 000 kilos.
Dix autres navettes doivent la visiter au cours des deux prochaines années, après quoi la NASA aimerait concentrer ses efforts sur un prochain voyage vers la Lune.
Discovery doit s'envoler vers la station à la fin de mai avec l'énorme laboratoire japonais Kibo.
Entre-temps, la Russie prévoit envoyer un nouvel équipage le 8 avril, à partir du Kazakhstan. | fr | Atterrissage de la navette spatiale Endeavour.
La navette spatiale américaine ''Endeavour'' a atterri sans problèmes à 20h39 heures locales à Cap Canaveral en Floride, complétant ainsi avec succès la mission STS-123 qui aura duré 16 jours dans l'espace.
Retardé d'une heure sur l'horaire prévu à cause de la météo, la procédure d'atterrissage à débuté 65 minutes plus tôt, lorsque Dominic Gorie, le commandant de bord, eut freiné la navette de 250 km/m pour amorcer la descente vers la Floride par l'océan Pacifique, la péninsule du Yucatan, puis le Golfe du Mexique. La phase finale de l'atterrissage a été assurée manuellement par le commandant jusqu'à sur une piste illuminée du Centre spatial Kennedy. Il s'agissait seulement du 22 atterrissage de nuit.
La mission STS-123 aura vu été le cadre de la livraison et l'assemblage d'un robot canadien destiné à faciliter la maintenance de la Station spatiale internationale ainsi que la livraison du premier des trois éléments du laboratoire japonais ''Kibo''. Pendant la mission, les astronautes ont également testé une nouvelle technique de réparation des tuiles thermiques de la navette sans que celle-ci ne soit amarrée à la station spatiale.
Le retour de la navette marque également celui du spationaute français Léopold Eyharts qui revient sur Terre après un séjour de 48 jours dans la station spatiale. |
pl | O. Rydzyk nie dostanie ani działki, ani dotacji?
Fundacja ojca Rydzyka nie dostanie dotacji 27 mln zł na odwierty geotermalne w Toruniu, bo ma nieprawnie wydaną koncesję. Również dzierżawa działki w Porcie Drzewnym w Toruniu stoi pod znakiem zapytania: kontrolerzy natrafili na "szereg błędów" - donosi "Gazeta Wyborcza".
Według Gazety, Rada Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Środowiska przyznała dotację na inwestycję geotermalną w Toruniu fundacji Lux Veritatis, która jest prywatnym przedsięwzięciem o. Tadeusza Rydzyka i jego zastępcy - o. Jana Króla. Jednak warunkiem otrzymania dotacji było posiadanie koncesji na prace geologiczne, które fundacja chce prowadzić wokół toruńskiego Portu Drzewnego. Koncesję wydał - dziewięć dni po wyborach - b. minister środowiska PiS Jan Szyszko, częsty gość na antenie Radia Maryja.
"GW" zaznacza, że do wniosku o przyznanie koncesji o. Rydzyk powinien był dołączyć tzw. ocenę oddziaływania na środowisko sporządzoną przez wojewódzkiego konserwatora przyrody. A to dlatego, że rejon planowanych badań geologicznych przecina się z ostoją ptaków Dolina Dolnej Wisły, należącą do obszaru Natura 2000.
Minister Szyszko miał tego świadomość, bo w uzasadnieniu pozytywnej decyzji koncesyjnej napisał o redemptoryście: "Przedsiębiorca zaplanował wykonywanie robót poszukiwawczych bez użycia materiałów wybuchowych (...). Projektowane prace nie będą znacząco oddziaływać na obszar ochronny Natura 2000 w związku z ich prowadzeniem poza okresem lęgowym".
W Ministerstwie Środowiska i NFOŚ trwa kontrola planów inwestycyjnych o. Rydzyka. Kontrolerzy orzekli, że minister Szyszko się mylił. Lux Veritatis powinna była pisemnie spytać konserwatora o oddziaływanie odwiertów na ostoję ptactwa. I ta korespondencja powinna być dołączonea do wniosku o zgodę na wiercenia. - Brak oceny jest podstawą do anulowania przyznanej już koncesji - mówią urzędnicy resortu. A to oznacza, że prace geologiczne nie mogą otrzymać dofinansowania.
Dzierżawa do unieważnienia?
Kontrolerzy sprawdzają również, czy Krajowy Zarząd Gospodarki Wodnej nie złamał prawa przy wydzierżawianiu Zgromadzeniu Redemptorystów działki w centrum Portu Drzewnego. 1,3-hektarowy grunt sąsiadujący z plażą oraz - z drugiej strony - z Wyższą Szkołą Kultury Społecznej i Medialnej leży częściowo w terenie zalewowym Wisły, przez co od lat był objęty zakazem zabudowy.
Trzy dni po wyborach zgromadzenie zakonne dostało tę ziemię w dzierżawę po bardzo atrakcyjnej cenie. Uzyskało ponadto zgodę na postawienie tam kolejnych budynków uczelnianych. Jak się dowiedziała gazeta, kontrolerzy natrafili na "szereg błędów" w dzierżawie kluczowej działki. - Widać, że urzędnicy ZGW działali w nadzwyczajnym pośpiechu - mówi informator Gazety.
Działka ma fundamentalne znaczenie dla potężnej inwestycji o. Rydzyka w porcie. Łączy trzy jego główne posiadłości: 20-hektarową łąkę nad wiślaną zatoką, kilkakrotnie mniejszy teren, na którym stoi szkoła oraz hektarowy ugór z dostępem do linii kolejowej i drogi Bydgoszcz - Warszawa. Na tych ziemiach redemptorysta planował budowę kompleksu rekreacyjno-sportowego złożonego m.in. z domu opieki dla starszych Polonusów, basenu termalnego, przystani jachtowej i multipleksu.
Źródło: Gazeta Wyborcza | pl | Lux Veritatis, fundacja o. Tadeusza Rydzyka nie otrzyma 27 mln zł dotacji na odwierty geotermalne. Przyczyną odmowy przyznania dotacji jest niezgodna z prawem koncesja na prace geologiczne, wydana przez byłego ministra środowiska Jana Szyszko.
Wydana dziewięć dni po wyborach parlamentarnych koncesja autorstwa ministra Szyszki nie zawierała wymaganej oceny oddziaływania inwestycji na środowisko naturalne. Ocena taka, wydawana przez wojewódzkiego konserwatora przyrody jest konieczna do utrzymania poprawności koncesji.
Gazeta Wyborcza zaznaczyła, że pominięcie opinii konserwatora mogło być świadome, gdyż teren planowanych przez o. Rydzyka inwestycji znajduje się na obszarze chronionym Natura 2000 i prawdopodobnie ocena konserwatora byłaby negatywna. Minister Szyszko w wydanej koncesji podjął jednak próbę osobistego uzasadnienia zgody na odwierty, pisząc: „Przedsiębiorca zaplanował wykonywanie robót poszukiwawczych bez użycia materiałów wybuchowych (...). Projektowane prace nie będą znacząco oddziaływać na obszar ochronny Natura 2000 w związku z ich prowadzeniem poza okresem lęgowym”. Jednak kontrolerzy prowadzący badanie planów fundacji Lux Veritatis orzekli, że pisemny wniosek o ocenę konserwatora i jego pozytywna odpowiedź jest konieczna do zachowania prawomocności koncesji.
Brak oceny oddziaływania na środowisko naturalne jest podstawą do uchylenia koncesji, a w wyniku tego również do uchylenia decyzji o wypłacie dotacji. Posiadanie koncesji było warunkiem koniecznym przy ubieganiu się o dotację z Narodowego Funduszu Ochrony Środowiska i Gospodarki Wodnej. |
en | A bill introduced in Congress Thursday aims to overturn a controversial royalty fee increase that Internet radio advocates say threatens to cripple their services.
The "Internet Radio Equality Act," introduced by Reps. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Don Manzullo (R-Ill.), would invalidate a March 2 decision by the U.S. Copyright Royalty Board that calls for raising royalty rates paid by Net radio operators.
"You can't put an economic chokehold on this emerging force of democracy," Inslee said in a statement e-mailed by a spokeswoman. "There has to be a business model that allows creative Webcasters to thrive and the existing rule removes all the oxygen from this space."
The bill's introduction comes less than two weeks after the CRB declined to reconsider most of its decision. Small Webcasters, National Public Radio, Clear Channel Communications and others had filed petitions for a rehearing. Some have indicated they are considering filing an appeal of the rules in court.
If it were to stand, the CRB's existing ruling (PDF) would result in fee increases on Internet radio operators ranging from 300 to 1,200 percent between 2006 and 2012, according to a group called SaveNetRadio, which has been lobbying Congress for relief.
Specifically, the rules call for rate increases of .08 cents per song per listener retroactive to 2006. They would also climb to .19 cents per song by 2010, which amounts to a 30 percent increase per year. Each station would also have to hand over a minimum $500 royalty payment under the ruling.
The congressmen said they had already received more than 1,000 e-mails and letters opposing the decision.
In addition to repealing that regime, the new House bill offers a compromise: It would set the rate at 7.5 percent of the Webcaster's revenue "directly related to" its transmission of sound recordings, or 33 cents per hour of sound recordings transmitted to a single listener. It would be up to the Webcaster to decide which model to use. That rate would also apply to satellite and cable radio operators, Inslee's office said in a statement.
The proposal drew applause from SaveNetRadio, whose members include Internet radio listeners, Webcasters and artists.
"This bill is a critical step to preserve this vibrant and growing medium, and to develop a truly level playing field where Webcasters can compete with satellite radio," said organization spokesman Jake Ward.
The bill also calls for public radio broadcasters to submit a report to Congress on how to determine rates for their class of services. Andi Sporkin, NPR's vice president of communications, called that idea a fair solution that is consistent with more than 30 years of copyright law, which "has recognized that public radio has a very different mission from commercial media and cannot pay commercial-level royalty rates."
Representatives for SoundExchange, the nonprofit entity that collects the fees and lobbied for the royalty rate changes, said they were still reviewing the bill and had no comment on Thursday.
The organization in the past has defended the CRB's decision as an appropriate way of ensuring artists are adequately compensated when their work is broadcast over the Internet. | en | In a blow to internet radio, Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora radio, today announced that from May 3 the station will be "proactively preventing access to Pandora's streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.".
In an email to all international users, Westergren cited "international licensing constraints" and the lack of any "global licensing organization" as reasons for the new policy.
The station had been asking listeners to provide a U.S. zipcode before accessing the service. From tomorrow, the station will be identifying the listener's country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Listeners from outside the U.S. will not be allowed to log in.
The shift in policy comes in the wake of good news for the industry's Save Net Radio campaign. The campaign has found support within U.S. Congress to overturn a ruling by the Copyright Royalty Board which threatened to increase licensing fees from 300% to 1,200%.
Westergren has promised that the personalised stations created by international listeners will be preserved, in the hope of a future solution to the licensing issue. |
fr | Le Monde.fr avec AFP | 21.06.2012 à 09h18 • Mis à jour le 21.06.2012 à 19h32
Le Foreign Office a démenti jeudi 21 juin qu'une "nouvelle offre" d'immunité au président syrien Bachar Al-Assad ait été mise sur la table comme l'ont annoncé des médias britanniques plus tôt dans la journée. "Plus les tueries [en Syrie] se prolongent, moins Assad aura d'options", a martelé le porte-parole du ministère des affaires étrangères britannique, soulignant que des preuves "continuaient à être rassemblées" pour que ceux "qui ont commis des crimes ne puissent en aucun cas espérer pouvoir échapper à la justice".
Jeudi matin, le Guardian rapportait que Washington et Londres seraient prêts à assouplir leur position face à Bachar Al-Assad si celui-ci accepte de s'asseoir à la table des négociations, à Genève, permettant une transition politique. "La Grande-Bretagne et les Etats-Unis veulent offrir à Bachar-Al-Assad un sauf-conduit pour sortir de son pays — et même la clémence dans le cadre d'une initiative diplomatique pour organiser une conférence sous l'égide de l'ONU à Genève sur la transition politique en Syrie", affirme le Guardian, citant une "source britannique haut placée". D'après le journal, "David Cameron et Barack Obama ont reçu des encouragements du président russe Vladimir Poutine" au cours d'entretiens séparés au G20 au Mexique.
Le Times ajoutait pour sa part que "la question de savoir si M. Assad peut négocier une immunité pour éviter des poursuites devant le Tribunal pénal international serait aussi posée". D'après un autre quotidien, The Independent, l'éventuelle immunité du président syrien pourrait être débattue à une conférence de paix à Genève à la fin du mois et Bachar al-Assad pourrait, dans cette hypothèse, se réfugier dans un autre pays, par exemple la Russie ou l'Iran.
La Russie a redit jeudi qu'il était "irréalisable" que la communauté internationale puisse forcer le président Bachar Al-Assad au départ, sous la voix du ministre des affaires étrangères russe Sergueï Lavrov. "Le schéma selon lequel le président Assad devrait partir avant que quelque chose se produise du point de vue de la fin de la violence et d'un processus politique, ce schéma ne fonctionne pas depuis le début, il est irréalisable parce qu'il ne partira pas", a déclaré M. Lavrov à l'antenne de la radio Echo de Moscou.
LA QUESTION DE L'ARMEMENT DE LA SYRIE PAR MOSCOU
Le soutien de la Russie au régime Assad a été une nouvelle fois mis en cause jeudi par la Ligue arabe, qui a demandé à Moscou de cesser de livrer des armes au régime syrien, a déclaré le numéro deux de la ligue, Ahmed Ben Helli, dans un entretien accordé à l'agence d'information russe Interfax, jeudi 21 juin. "Toute aide à la violence doit cesser, parce que quand vous livrez du matériel militaire, vous aidez à tuer des gens. Cela doit cesser", a déclaré M. Ben Helli à l'agence russe, qui a précisé qu'il répondait à une question sur la coopération militaire russo-syrienne. Ces déclarations interviennent au moment où les Occidentaux ont accentué la pression sur la Russie pour qu'elle cesse ses livraisons d'armements à son allié syrien.
Les regards se sont focalisés ces derniers jours sur un cargo russe, le MV Alaed, soupçonné de transporter des hélicoptères d'attaque Mi-25 destinés à Damas. Des appareils de ce type, de fabrication soviétique, ont été déployés dans le cadre de la répression des insurgés syriens. La secrétaire d'Etat américaine, Hillary Clinton, s'était alarmée le 12 juin d'informations faisant état du transport vers la Syrie d'hélicoptères à partir de la Russie.
Le porte-parole de la diplomatie russe, Alexandre Loukachevitch, a confirmé jeudi que le cargo russe MV Alaed, contraint de faire demi-tour au large de l'Ecosse, transporte bien des hélicoptères et va passer sous pavillon russe pour éviter d'être intercepté sur sa route vers la Syrie. "Le cargo Alaed a pris la mer le 11 juin avec à bord notamment des hélicoptères Mi-25 qui sont propriété de la patrie syrienne", a déclaré le porte-parole. "Pour écarter la possibilité d'une interception du bâtiment il a été décidé de le faire revenir à Mourmansk, où il est attendu samedi pour passer sous pavillon russe" alors qu'il naviguait sous pavillon de Curaçao, a-t-il ajouté.
Jusqu'à présent, la Russie affirmait n'avoir livré aucun nouvel appareil au régime de Bachar Al-Assad et qu'elle n'avait fait que réparer des hélicoptères vendus de longue date à Damas. Moscou a souligné à plusieurs reprises n'enfreindre aucune règle ou embargo international, et ne livrer à Damas aucun équipement qui puisse être utilisé contre des manifestants "pacifiques".
Lire aussi : Syrie : les exportations d'armes russes inquiètent
D'autre part, alors que Washington nie armer l'opposition, le New York Times indique que les Etats-Unis ont dépêché en Turquie un certain nombre d'agents de la CIA chargés de décider du soutien matériel à apporter aux groupes de l'opposition syrienne, pour éviter que des armes ne tombent entre les mains d'Al-Qaida ou d'autres groupes terroristes.
Les armes – fusils d'assaut, lance-grenades, missiles antichars, munitions – transiteraient par la frontière turque, convoyées par des réseaux d'intermédiaires, comme les Frères musulmans, et seraient financées par la Turquie, l'Arabie saoudite et le Qatar.
COMBATS À HOMS
La Ligue arabe a exprimé, jeudi 21 juin, le souhait de voir le mandat de l'émissaire Kofi Annan renforcé et la pression sur Damas accrue avec notamment un recours au chapitre VII de la Charte de l'ONU pour faire cesser les violences. Selon l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme, plus de 15 000 personnes, en majorité des civils, ont été tuées depuis le début de la révolte contre le régime de Bachar Al-Assad, en mars 2011.
Jeudi, près de 120 personnes, en majorité des civils, ont été tuées dans la répression et les combats en Syrie, soit l'une des journée les plus sanglantes depuis l'instauration théorique de la trêve le 12 avril, selon l'Observatoire syrien des droits de l'homme (OSDH). Les violences ont tué au moins 66 civils, 43 soldats, cinq combattants rebelles et cinq autres personnes dont l'identité n'a pas été précisée, selon cette organisation basée en Grande-Bretagne et qui s'appuie sur les témoignages de militants sur place.
Les bilans les plus lourds ont été enregistrés dans la région de Homs (18 civils et un rebelle) et Deraa (20 civils, dont deux enfants), où les victimes ont péri principalement dans des bombardements intenses qui ont débuté dès le matin. Il y a eu également 17 civils tués dans la ville rebelle de Douma près de Damas, trois dans la province d'Alep, cinq dans celle de Deir Ezzor, un dans celle de Hama et une femme et une fillette dans celle d'Idlib.
Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge (CICR) et son partenaire, le Croissant-Rouge syrien, qui s'apprêtaient à entrer dans Homs, ont dû rebrousser chemin jeudi matin après avoir essuyé des tirs venant de la vieille ville de Homs, a annoncé le porte-parole du CICR. Elles feront dans le courant de la journée une nouvelle tentative pour atteindre la ville afin d'évacuer les blessés et les malades bloqués par les combats dans la ville. Le CICR a dit mercredi avoir obtenu, après en avoir fait la demande la veille, un accord du gouvernement et des groupes d'opposition pour qu'ils cessent provisoirement les combats à Homs, où des centaines de personnes ont été tuées depuis une offensive lancée en février par l'armée. | fr | Mi-25 en vol en Afghanistan, modèle d'hélicoptère russe utilisé par la Syrie
Lors d'un entretien à l'agence d'information russe Interfax, daté du jeudi 21 juin 2012, le numéro deux de la Ligue arabe, Ahmed Ben Helli, a demandée à la Russie de cesser la livraison d'armes au régime syrien en déclarant que « ''toute aide à la violence doit cesser, parce que quand vous livrez du matériel militaire, vous aidez à tuer des gens. Cela doit cesser.'' »
Cette demande fait suite à l'accentuation des pressions des gouvernements occidentaux sur le gouvernement russe pour qu'il cesse ses livraisons d'armement à la Syrie. Le passage du cargo russe ''MV Alaed'' à destination de la Syrie, soupçonné de livrer des hélicoptères d'attaque soviétiques Mi-25 au régime syrien, avait notamment attiré les attentions des Occidentaux où Hillary Clinton s'était alarmée le 12 juin dernier d'informations faisant état de transports d'hélicoptères de la Russie vers la Syrie. Moscou avait alors affirmée ne réparer que d'anciens appareils vendus à Damas il y a plusieurs années et avait démentie toute livraison de matériel qui pourrait être utilisé contre des « ''manifestants pacifiques'' ». |
de | 04.04.05
Wegen der Beisetzung des Papstes am Freitag hat der britische Kronprinz seinen Trauung um einen Tag auf Samstag verlegt Von WELT.de
Der britische Thronfolger Prinz Charles (56) hat seine Hochzeit mit Camilla Parker Bowles (57) wegen der Beisetzung von Papst Johannes Paul II. um einen Tag auf Samstag verschoben. Das teilte Clarence House, der Londoner Palast des Prinzen, am Montag mit. Prinz Charles werde selbst am Begräbnis des Papstes teilnehmen, hieß es weiter.
"Als Ausdruck des Respekts haben Seine Königliche Hoheit und Frau Parker Bowles entschieden, ihre Hochzeit auf Samstag zu verschieben", hieß es. Charles brach am Montag außerdem seinen Skiurlaub in der Schweiz ab, um gemeinsam mit seiner zukünftigen Frau an einem Trauergottesdienst für den Papst in der Westminster Cathedral in London teilzunehmen.
Erst am Tag zuvor hatte der britische Premierminister Tony Blair wegen des Todes von Papst Johannes Paul II. die geplante Auflösung des Parlaments und die Ankündigung der nächsten Unterhauswahl verschoben. Als Wahltermin wird seit Monaten inoffiziell der 5. Mai genannt. Blair nahm statt dessen an Gebeten für den Papst in der Westminster Abbey teil.
Die Hochzeitsvorbereitungen von Charles und Camilla sind von Rückschlägen geprägt. Als Affront gilt die Absage von Charles' Mutter, Königin Elizabeth II., die nicht zu der standesamtlichen Hochzeit in Windsor kommen wird. | de | Charles
'''London (Großbritannien), 04.04.2005''' – Da Papst Johannes Paul II. am Freitag, den 8. April, im Petersdom beigesetzt wird, hat das britische Königshaus die Hochzeit von Prinz Charles und Camilla Parker Bowles um einen Tag auf Samstag verschoben. Charles wird persönlich am Begräbnis des Papstes teilnehmen.
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Der Palast äußerte sich zu dieser Entscheidung: „Als Ausdruck des Respekts haben Seine Königliche Hoheit und Frau Parker Bowles entschieden, ihre Hochzeit auf Samstag zu verschieben“. |
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Jorden slår revner under Arla Foods i Mellemøsten. Fire af de største saudiarabiske detailkæder smed i går Arlas produkter ud af deres butikker.
Mejerikoncernen frygter, at krisen eskalerer til hele regionen, der er et af Arlas vigtigste markeder. Samtidig blev reaktionerne mod danske produkter yderligere optrappet i går, da en bil med Arla-produkter blev udsat for stenkast, og Arla-medarbejdere blev smidt ud af en butik. Samtidig valgte nogle butikker at sætte advarsler i form af gul tape på de danske mejerivarer.
Også andre danske virksomheder trues af boykot som følge af den muslimske vrede over tegningerne af profeten Muhammed. Ifølge Dansk Industri er der stor fare for, at handelskrisen breder sig.
»Vi får nu rapporter fra både fødevare- og industrivirksomheder, der fortæller, at ordrer og aftaler bliver aflyst. Kunderne i Saudi-Arabien venter på en officiel dansk undskyldning for tegningerne. Der er en betydelig risiko for, at krisen breder sig til hele regionen,« vurderer Marianne Castenskiold, chefkonsulent i Dansk Industri (DI). | en | On January 26, 2006, a massive boycott of dairy produce from Arla Foods started in Saudi Arabia over what is perceived as a Danish attack on Muslim values. The Saudi ambassador to Denmark has been recalled for consultations.
The Danish/Swedish dairy company Arla is facing a massive loss after a spreading boycott of its produce in Saudi Arabia. Four Saudi retail chains have already removed Arla products from the shelves. One retail chain has placed yellow warning tape (common fare for accidents and crime scenes) over Arla products. There have been cases reported of Arla delivery trucks being attacked by stones thrown from bystanders. Marianne Castenskiold, a senior consultant for Dansk Industri, expressed a fear that the boycott will spread to other countries in the region and have detrimental effects on other Danish products. Denmark is one of the leading exporters of agriculture in northern Europe, whose economy is heavily dependent on foreign trade and investment.
The boycott has been announced at Friday prayer services in Saudi mosques since January 20, 2006, obviously helping to foment popular support of the nation's response to Denmark's alleged ignorance of Muslim values. On at least one occasion, a delivery truck has been greeted by thrown stones.
=== Background ===
The boycott is a response to the publication of an article in a major Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. In its September 30, 2005 issue, the paper printed 12 drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammed, as a response to previous news reports that the publisher of a forthcoming childrens' book about the prophet had had difficulty in finding an illustrator, due to fear of extremist reactions; drawings of the prophet are prohibited by Islamic Law (see aniconism). In an attempt to start a debate over freedom of speech in Denmark, the newspaper printed 12 drawings of the prophet. Four of these were of a satirical nature, with one showing the prophet with a turban hiding a lit bomb.
The immediate reactions to the publication of the drawings included ambassadors from 12 Muslim countries demanding that the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, denounce the newspaper. Rasmussen rejected this demand, stating that "Danish freedom of speech does not allow the government to control what newspapers print". He further noted that the only possible legal action against the newspaper would be one under the charge of blasphemy.
A debate ensued over the following months about freedom of speech and its value in relation to avoiding religious taboos. In mid-December 2005, a delegation from several Danish Muslim organizations went on a tour in several Middle-Eastern and Arabic countries, reportedly to gain sympathy for their point of view. Several reports state that during the tour the difficulties faced by Muslims in Denmark were grossly overstated. |
da | Prophet drawings anger Saudi consumers
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Arla Foods is concerned that a boycott of the company's products in Saudi Arabia could cost billions if it takes widespread effect.
Saudi Arabian religious and political leaders encouraged consumers to boycott Danish-based Arla Foods' products during last Friday's weekly prayer service.
Since then, the call to has been repeated on national TV stations and newspapers accompanied by pictures of Arla products.
Arla, one of the world's largest producers of dairy products, has earnings worth DKK 3b in the Middle East and expected to open a major dairy facility in two weeks in Saudi Arabia.
Religious leaders called for the boycott as a way to respond to drawings of the prophet Mohammed printed in daily newspaper Jyllands-Posten last September. The newspaper printed 12 drawings of the prophet Mohammed last year as a way to challenge what it considered the intimidating tactics of fundamental islamists.
One Saudi Arabian chain of supermarkets has already removed Arla products from its shelves and called for an official apology.
Arla company feared the boycott could spread.
'The situation is escalating very quickly right now.' said Finn Hansen, a department head for Arla. 'The development in the last hours is quite worrisome.'
Hansen said that major partners in Saudi Arabia had summoned Arla employees to meetings in the next days.
'They have attempted to make us denounce the drawings. The situation is critical because the Saudi consumers react collectively. We're afraid of being hit by a wave of consumer anger,' he said.
Denmark's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Hans Klingenberg, confirmed that the threat of a widespread boycott had increased in recent days and that Danish companies were concerned.
'There's a risk that in Denmark, we have underestimated the offence that the drawings have caused - not just among Muslims in Denmark but in the whole Muslim world. We should take the threat very seriously,' said Klingenberg. | en | On January 26, 2006, a massive boycott of dairy produce from Arla Foods started in Saudi Arabia over what is perceived as a Danish attack on Muslim values. The Saudi ambassador to Denmark has been recalled for consultations.
The Danish/Swedish dairy company Arla is facing a massive loss after a spreading boycott of its produce in Saudi Arabia. Four Saudi retail chains have already removed Arla products from the shelves. One retail chain has placed yellow warning tape (common fare for accidents and crime scenes) over Arla products. There have been cases reported of Arla delivery trucks being attacked by stones thrown from bystanders. Marianne Castenskiold, a senior consultant for Dansk Industri, expressed a fear that the boycott will spread to other countries in the region and have detrimental effects on other Danish products. Denmark is one of the leading exporters of agriculture in northern Europe, whose economy is heavily dependent on foreign trade and investment.
The boycott has been announced at Friday prayer services in Saudi mosques since January 20, 2006, obviously helping to foment popular support of the nation's response to Denmark's alleged ignorance of Muslim values. On at least one occasion, a delivery truck has been greeted by thrown stones.
=== Background ===
The boycott is a response to the publication of an article in a major Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. In its September 30, 2005 issue, the paper printed 12 drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammed, as a response to previous news reports that the publisher of a forthcoming childrens' book about the prophet had had difficulty in finding an illustrator, due to fear of extremist reactions; drawings of the prophet are prohibited by Islamic Law (see aniconism). In an attempt to start a debate over freedom of speech in Denmark, the newspaper printed 12 drawings of the prophet. Four of these were of a satirical nature, with one showing the prophet with a turban hiding a lit bomb.
The immediate reactions to the publication of the drawings included ambassadors from 12 Muslim countries demanding that the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, denounce the newspaper. Rasmussen rejected this demand, stating that "Danish freedom of speech does not allow the government to control what newspapers print". He further noted that the only possible legal action against the newspaper would be one under the charge of blasphemy.
A debate ensued over the following months about freedom of speech and its value in relation to avoiding religious taboos. In mid-December 2005, a delegation from several Danish Muslim organizations went on a tour in several Middle-Eastern and Arabic countries, reportedly to gain sympathy for their point of view. Several reports state that during the tour the difficulties faced by Muslims in Denmark were grossly overstated. |
da | Udenrigsminister Per Stig Møller har hasteindkaldt Udenrigspolitisk Nævn til et møde fredag, efter at Saudi-Arabien har valgt at trække sin ambassadør hjem på grund af striden om Muhammed-tegningerne.
Ministeren ved endnu ikke nøjagtig, hvad baggrunden er for den diplomatiske krise, men det undersøger den danske ambassadør i Saudi-Arabien nu.
Vil undersøge årsag til hjemkaldelse
- Jeg er overrasket over dette skridt fra saudisk side, men vil gerne understrege, at der ikke er tale om en afbrydelse af de diplomatiske forbindelser, siger Per Stig Møller.
- Jeg har nu anmodet vores ambassadør i Riyadh om at tage kontakt til de saudiske myndigheder for at undersøge årsagen til hjemkaldelsen, siger han.
Udenrigsministeriet vil desuden orientere repræsentanter for erhvervslivet om de aktuelle problemer for danske eksportører på det saudi-arabiske marked.
Opposition kritiserer regering
Oppositionen på Christiansborg beklager Saudi-Arabiens beslutning. Men Det Radikale Venstre, Socialdemokraterne og SF mener samtidig, at statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen bærer en del af skylden for, at det er kommet så vidt.
- Det er klart, at vi kunne have undgået meget - og mange misforståelser - hvis statsministeren oprindeligt havde taget det møde med ambassadørerne, som de bad om, siger Socialdemokraternes udenrigsordfører, Mogens Lykketoft.
SF: Fogh må tage møde nu
Den samme melding kommer fra De Radikales udenrigsordfører, Niels Helveg Petersen.
- Sagen kunne have været klaret ved, at man forklarede, at man ikke havde mulighed for at gribe ind, men at man var interesseret i at udveksle synspunkter, siger Niels Helveg Petersen.
SF's formand, Villy Søvndal, mener, at "statsministeren nu må ud af sin hule og tage det møde med ambassadørerne fra de muslimske lande, som han sagde nej til fra start".
DF vil forklare danske regler
Dansk Folkepartis udenrigsordfører, Søren Espersen, tilbyder til gengæld, at den saudiske ambassadør kan få et brev med, hvor reglerne i det danske samfund er opridset. Han er oven i købet villig til at få brevet oversat til arabisk.
- Jeg har været meget gal på de der ambassadører, fordi de ikke har gjort deres pligt ved at fortælle om, hvad der egentlig sker her i landet. Jeg vil give dem skylden for, hvad der er sket. Det er de her uduelige arabiske ambassadører, som ikke har fortalt deres egne befolkninger, hvordan vores system er opdelt i forskellige institutioner, siger Søren Espersen. | en | On January 26, 2006, a massive boycott of dairy produce from Arla Foods started in Saudi Arabia over what is perceived as a Danish attack on Muslim values. The Saudi ambassador to Denmark has been recalled for consultations.
The Danish/Swedish dairy company Arla is facing a massive loss after a spreading boycott of its produce in Saudi Arabia. Four Saudi retail chains have already removed Arla products from the shelves. One retail chain has placed yellow warning tape (common fare for accidents and crime scenes) over Arla products. There have been cases reported of Arla delivery trucks being attacked by stones thrown from bystanders. Marianne Castenskiold, a senior consultant for Dansk Industri, expressed a fear that the boycott will spread to other countries in the region and have detrimental effects on other Danish products. Denmark is one of the leading exporters of agriculture in northern Europe, whose economy is heavily dependent on foreign trade and investment.
The boycott has been announced at Friday prayer services in Saudi mosques since January 20, 2006, obviously helping to foment popular support of the nation's response to Denmark's alleged ignorance of Muslim values. On at least one occasion, a delivery truck has been greeted by thrown stones.
=== Background ===
The boycott is a response to the publication of an article in a major Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. In its September 30, 2005 issue, the paper printed 12 drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammed, as a response to previous news reports that the publisher of a forthcoming childrens' book about the prophet had had difficulty in finding an illustrator, due to fear of extremist reactions; drawings of the prophet are prohibited by Islamic Law (see aniconism). In an attempt to start a debate over freedom of speech in Denmark, the newspaper printed 12 drawings of the prophet. Four of these were of a satirical nature, with one showing the prophet with a turban hiding a lit bomb.
The immediate reactions to the publication of the drawings included ambassadors from 12 Muslim countries demanding that the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, denounce the newspaper. Rasmussen rejected this demand, stating that "Danish freedom of speech does not allow the government to control what newspapers print". He further noted that the only possible legal action against the newspaper would be one under the charge of blasphemy.
A debate ensued over the following months about freedom of speech and its value in relation to avoiding religious taboos. In mid-December 2005, a delegation from several Danish Muslim organizations went on a tour in several Middle-Eastern and Arabic countries, reportedly to gain sympathy for their point of view. Several reports state that during the tour the difficulties faced by Muslims in Denmark were grossly overstated. |
da | Leder: Muslimers ansigt
Det har vist sig, at Islamisk Trossamfund under sin såkaldte informationsvirksomhed i Mellemøsten har kolporteret lodret forkerte påstande om danske forhold for at ophidse sine venner i arabiske diktaturer: om Jyllands-Postens ejerforhold og uafhængighed og om en påstået censureret dansk oversættelse af Koranen, som er en alvorlig synd ifølge islam. Desuden praler imam Abu Laban over for dagbladet Information med, at det var ham, der fik ambassadører fra de muslimske lande til at rejse sagen over for statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Han har desuden advaret om, at der er risiko for politiske mord i Danmark, hvis ikke man bøjer sig for islamiske tabuer.
Det er den samme Abu Laban, der for fem år siden i et interview med Jyllands-Posten stemplede USA's jagt på terrorist Osama bin Laden som tegn på Vestens islamofobiske propaganda, og han tilføjede, at bin Laden var et godt menneske med en asketisk livsførelse. Tidligere havde han som forsvar for islamisters mord på syv kristne munke og en række udlændinge i Algeriet erklæret: »Måske spreder turisterne aids i Algeriet, ligesom jøderne spreder aids i Egypten.«
Det er altså manden bag disse udtalelser og initiativer og hans allierede, der brøler op om muslimernes krænkede følelser, selv om deres menigheder kun tæller en lille gruppe af de muslimer, der bor i Danmark. Og det er denne mand, som 22 pensionerede ambassadører og en række andre naive og arrogante debattører har ladet sig trække rundt i manegen af i en grad, så der meget snart kan blive kø ved håndvasken.
Abu Labans og hans allierede har efterhånden bevæget sig så langt væk fra det fundament, som det danske samfund bygger på, at det nærmer sig det groteske. Læg hertil at han selv og hans forbundsfæller finder det naturligt, at fremmede, muslimske landes ambassadører optræder som talsmænd for danske muslimer. Det er en grov krænkelse af de muslimer, der ser sig selv som del af det danske samfund. Ved at acceptere at muslimske lande kan tale deres sag, siger man: muslimer er ikke en del af det danske samfund, de er fremmede, de kan godt lade lande i Mellemøsten tale på deres vegne.
Nu er det heldigvis blevet for meget for en gruppe danskere med muslimsk baggrund. Folketingsmedlem Naser Khader, it-konsulent Nadi Khan og professor Moustapha Kassem har samlet foreløbig 40 mennesker i et netværk, der skal vise den danske offentlighed og trosfæller, at der findes andre muslimer med andre holdninger, end dem Abu Laban og hans folk bringer til torvs. Ophavsmændene håber inden månedens udgang at have samlet 100 mennesker. De er trætte af, at danske muslimer skal repræsenteres af radikale stemmer. Desuden ønsker de at optræde som rollemodeller for unge mennesker med muslimsk baggrund på jagt efter identitet i Danmark.
Betydningen af dette initiativ kan dårligt overvurderes. Det er opmuntrende tegn, som kan være med til at skabe en mangfoldighed af muslimske ansigter i den offentlige debat. De har ikke været synlige før, fordi mange moderate muslimer føler sig intimideret af mere radikale elementer, der hænger trosfæller ud som dårlige muslimer, hvis de ikke ser nogen modsætning mellem deres tro og et moderne, sekulært samfund som det danske. Men nu er der nogen, der viser vejen, og de fortjener vores støtte og opbakning. Denne kulturkamp om muslimske sjæle kan få afgørende indflydelse på det danske samfunds udvikling i de kommende år. | en | On January 26, 2006, a massive boycott of dairy produce from Arla Foods started in Saudi Arabia over what is perceived as a Danish attack on Muslim values. The Saudi ambassador to Denmark has been recalled for consultations.
The Danish/Swedish dairy company Arla is facing a massive loss after a spreading boycott of its produce in Saudi Arabia. Four Saudi retail chains have already removed Arla products from the shelves. One retail chain has placed yellow warning tape (common fare for accidents and crime scenes) over Arla products. There have been cases reported of Arla delivery trucks being attacked by stones thrown from bystanders. Marianne Castenskiold, a senior consultant for Dansk Industri, expressed a fear that the boycott will spread to other countries in the region and have detrimental effects on other Danish products. Denmark is one of the leading exporters of agriculture in northern Europe, whose economy is heavily dependent on foreign trade and investment.
The boycott has been announced at Friday prayer services in Saudi mosques since January 20, 2006, obviously helping to foment popular support of the nation's response to Denmark's alleged ignorance of Muslim values. On at least one occasion, a delivery truck has been greeted by thrown stones.
=== Background ===
The boycott is a response to the publication of an article in a major Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten. In its September 30, 2005 issue, the paper printed 12 drawings of the Muslim prophet Muhammed, as a response to previous news reports that the publisher of a forthcoming childrens' book about the prophet had had difficulty in finding an illustrator, due to fear of extremist reactions; drawings of the prophet are prohibited by Islamic Law (see aniconism). In an attempt to start a debate over freedom of speech in Denmark, the newspaper printed 12 drawings of the prophet. Four of these were of a satirical nature, with one showing the prophet with a turban hiding a lit bomb.
The immediate reactions to the publication of the drawings included ambassadors from 12 Muslim countries demanding that the Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, denounce the newspaper. Rasmussen rejected this demand, stating that "Danish freedom of speech does not allow the government to control what newspapers print". He further noted that the only possible legal action against the newspaper would be one under the charge of blasphemy.
A debate ensued over the following months about freedom of speech and its value in relation to avoiding religious taboos. In mid-December 2005, a delegation from several Danish Muslim organizations went on a tour in several Middle-Eastern and Arabic countries, reportedly to gain sympathy for their point of view. Several reports state that during the tour the difficulties faced by Muslims in Denmark were grossly overstated. |
es | La nave rusa Soyuz TMA-08M con tres tripulantes a bordo se acopló con éxito este viernes a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI), seis horas después de su lanzamiento.
La maniobra, que antes tenía una duración de 50 horas, se llevó a cabo bajo un esquema rápido, que permitió que los rusos y el estadounidense que viajaban a bordo -Pável Vinográdov, Alexandr Misurkin y Christopher Cassidy- no tuvieran que esperar dos días para el acoplamiento.
Ingenieros espaciales rusos perfeccionaron esta ruta con tres misiones no tripuladas de carga, antes de intentar la misión tripulada. Los especialistas ahora planean reducir el número de órbitas necesarias para llegar a la estación. | es | La nave espacial rusa Soyuz llegó a la Estación Espacial Internacional tras seis horas de viaje, bajando el tiempo desde 48 horas hasta esta nueva marca. El viaje tripulado por dos cosmonautas rusos y un estadounidense despegó a las 20:43 horas (GMT) desde Kazajistán y llegó a la estación espacial a las 3:29 horas.
Este viaje fue probado con anterioridad por los científicos espaciales, quienes usaron tres lanzamientos de cargueros a la estación, con el fin de disminuir el tiempo que tardan los tripulantes en llegar al espacio y comenzar sus tareas científicas. El objetivo de este tipo de viajes expresos es que se disminuya la cantidad de tiempo y tensión que soportan los tripulantes para alcanzar la Estación Espacial Internacional, y disminuir los costos operativos de la misión. |
es | La nave rusa Soyuz realizó su primer vuelo a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) en solamente seis horas, en lugar de las 48 horas que demoraban los anteriores vuelos.
Lanzada a las 20:43 GMT, la nave alcanzó la EEI a las 3:29, cuatro minutos antes de lo previsto, luego de haber recorrido cuatro órbitas en una trayectoria asistida desde el centro de control en la Tierra.
Este "viaje relámpago" fue probado con anterioridad por tres vuelos de aprovisionamiento del carguero Progress, aunque sin tripulación.
Esta es la primera misión con tres astronautas a bordo para experimentar la nueva trayectoria de vuelo. Afrontarla obligó a los tres astronautas a permanecer despiertos y trabajando por 21 horas consecutivas, pero en compensación se evitó el tener que transcurrir dos días en el espacio angosto de la Soyuz, como sucedía cuando la nave rusa realizaba la trayectoria tradicional.
La nave lleva a la EEI a la nueva tripulación,compuesta por el estadounidense Chris Cassidy, de la Nasa, y los rusos Pavel Vinogradov y Alexander Mi surkin, de la agencia espacial rusa Roscosmos.
En la EEI Cassidy, Vinogradov y Misurkin se reunieron con el canadiense Chris Hadfield, el norteamericano Tom Marshburn y el ruso Roman Romanenko, quienes están a bordo desde diciembre de 2012. | es | La nave espacial rusa Soyuz llegó a la Estación Espacial Internacional tras seis horas de viaje, bajando el tiempo desde 48 horas hasta esta nueva marca. El viaje tripulado por dos cosmonautas rusos y un estadounidense despegó a las 20:43 horas (GMT) desde Kazajistán y llegó a la estación espacial a las 3:29 horas.
Este viaje fue probado con anterioridad por los científicos espaciales, quienes usaron tres lanzamientos de cargueros a la estación, con el fin de disminuir el tiempo que tardan los tripulantes en llegar al espacio y comenzar sus tareas científicas. El objetivo de este tipo de viajes expresos es que se disminuya la cantidad de tiempo y tensión que soportan los tripulantes para alcanzar la Estación Espacial Internacional, y disminuir los costos operativos de la misión. |
es | La cápsula Soyuz consigue llegar a la Estación Espacial Internacional (EEI) por la ruta más corta.
El despegue se ha realizado en Kazajistán.
En apenas seis horas y con cuatro órbitas alrededor de la Tierra, la nave rusa ha recorrido un trazado que antes había sido probado con éxito por tres transportes de carga. Es la primera vez que se hace con un transporte tripulado.
Los tres astronautas que viajaban dentro de la Soyuz (dos rusos y un estadounidense) se unen a los tres que ya hay en la EEI, que llegaron en diciembre y que regresarán a la Tierra en mayo.
Durante los seis meses que durará la misión de los recién llegados se llevarán a cabo 180 experimentos.
Copyright © 2013 euronews | es | La nave espacial rusa Soyuz llegó a la Estación Espacial Internacional tras seis horas de viaje, bajando el tiempo desde 48 horas hasta esta nueva marca. El viaje tripulado por dos cosmonautas rusos y un estadounidense despegó a las 20:43 horas (GMT) desde Kazajistán y llegó a la estación espacial a las 3:29 horas.
Este viaje fue probado con anterioridad por los científicos espaciales, quienes usaron tres lanzamientos de cargueros a la estación, con el fin de disminuir el tiempo que tardan los tripulantes en llegar al espacio y comenzar sus tareas científicas. El objetivo de este tipo de viajes expresos es que se disminuya la cantidad de tiempo y tensión que soportan los tripulantes para alcanzar la Estación Espacial Internacional, y disminuir los costos operativos de la misión. |
fr | Il était une fois... Donald Trump, 45e président des Etats-Unis — 20 Minutes
S’il y a une chose sur laquelle démocrates et républicains semblent d’accord, c’est que la présidentielle du 3 novembre est « l’élection la plus importante » depuis belle lurette. Au premier jour de la convention républicaine, qui se déroule à Charlotte jusqu’à jeudi, Donald Trump et ses alliés ont mis en garde les électeurs contre les « démocrates radicaux » qui « veulent voler l’élection » et « détruire vos vies et vos villes ». Morceaux choisis.
L’actu du jour : Trump officiellement investi
Ce n’est pas comme s’il y avait du suspense. Donald Trump a officiellement été investi par le parti républicain en début de journée. Covid oblige, c’était en comité réduit avec 330 délégués réunis à Charlotte, et pas virtuellement comme chez les démocrates. Et il y avait des rumeurs sur un possible remplacement de Mike Pence – par Nikki Haley – mais le vice-président a également été nommé par acclamation.
L’homme du jour : Trump, omniprésent
Donald Trump est d’abord intervenu après son investiture, accusant les démocrates « d’utiliser le Covid pour voler l’élection ». Comment ? Mystère, mais le président américain se bat depuis plusieurs semaines contre le vote par correspondance – qui n’a pourtant par le passé pas été entaché de fraude et n’avantage pas un parti en particulier. Puis il a fait campagne à deux pas de Charlotte, en rendant visite à des bénévoles. La raison ? Les sondages donnent 2 points d’avance à Joe Biden en Caroline du Nord, alors que Trump s’était imposé avec près de 4 points d’écart contre Hillary Clinton. Lundi soir, on l’a enfin vu dans deux séquences enregistrées : une avec des personnels soignants en première ligne face au Covid, et une autre avec des otages et des prisonniers américains libérés pendant son mandat. Message : je suis le commandant-en-chef.
La stratégie du jour : Trump à quitte ou double
Le parti républicain n’a pas voté de nouvelle plateforme politique, appelant simplement à reconduire le programme « America First » de Donald Trump. Le président américain en a profité pour mettre en ligne son clip de réélection : « Promesses faites, promesses tenues », assurant qu’il avait créé « la plus grande économie » de l’histoire moderne et qu’elle repartait à un « niveau jamais vu ».
Sur cette première journée, Donald Trump et ses alliés se sont surtout adressés à la base du président américain, dénonçant « le socialisme » de Joe Biden, les « vandales qui détruisent vos villes et veulent effacer notre héritage ». Efficace pour galvaniser ses supporteurs, mais selon le consultant républicain Frank Luntz, Donald Trump « aura besoin de séduire les indécis » s’il veut remporter un second mandat. Allez, il lui reste encore trois jours pour leur lancer des perches. | fr | Donald Trump dans le bureau ovale durant un brief sur le coronavirus.
Kellyanne Conway.
Le président américain aura-t-il droit à un second mandat ? Le parti républicain l'a officiellement investi au cours de la convention de 4 jours tenue à , en . Contrairement à la convention démocrate, les républicains ont réuni 330 délégués. Au cours de son discours, M. Trump a accusé les démocrates , reprenant ainsi une thématique qu'il développe depuis plusieurs semaines en mettant notamment en garde contre le vote par correspondance qui, selon lui, pourrait être entaché de fraude.
;Départ de Kellyanne Conway
Devancé de deux points dans les sondages, le président Trump subit aussi le départ de , l'une de ses proches conseillères. Elle avait dirigé sa campagne en 2016 et avait, après l'élection, défendu l'idée de . Dans un communiqué de presse, elle annonce quitter la Maison Blanche . Une décision qui , précise-t-elle. Son mari, l'avocat George Conway, anime un groupe de républicains opposés au président Trump via le . |
fr | Kellyanne Conway avait dirigé la campagne victorieuse de 2016 et avait défendu le concept de "faits alternatifs" devant la presse.
Elle est connue pour ses échanges houleux avec les journalistes. Kellyanne Conway, proche conseillère du président Donald Trump, a annoncé dimanche 23 août qu'elle démissionnait pour se consacrer à sa famille. Elle avait dirigé la campagne de 2016 de Donald Trump, qui avait catapulté le milliardaire à la Maison Blanche.
Jusqu'ici, elle avait résisté à la vague de départs qui ont marqué le mandat en cours, précise Le Monde (article payant). Mais les quatre dernières années passées à défendre avec acharnement le président américain, notamment sur les chaînes de télévisions, ont eu un prix pour celle qui a notamment façonné et défendu le concept de "faits alternatifs".
Dans un communiqué, Kellyanne Conway a annoncé qu'elle quitterait la Maison Blanche "à la fin du mois". Cette décision "est entièrement mon choix", a-t-elle ajouté, précisant qu'elle annoncerait ses "futurs plans en temps voulu".
I'm Leaving the White House. Gratefully & Humbly.
Here is my statement:https://t.co/MpYxVfrY2N
God Bless You All. — Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) August 24, 2020
Son époux, l'avocat conservateur George Conway, animait un groupe de républicains viscéralement opposés au président, le Lincoln Project. Il a été à ce titre régulièrement attaqué par Donald Trump, qui l'a notamment surnommé "le mari de l'enfer", "jaloux de la réussite de sa femme". Kellyanne Conway a précisé que son mari allait lui aussi procéder à "des changements". | fr | Donald Trump dans le bureau ovale durant un brief sur le coronavirus.
Kellyanne Conway.
Le président américain aura-t-il droit à un second mandat ? Le parti républicain l'a officiellement investi au cours de la convention de 4 jours tenue à , en . Contrairement à la convention démocrate, les républicains ont réuni 330 délégués. Au cours de son discours, M. Trump a accusé les démocrates , reprenant ainsi une thématique qu'il développe depuis plusieurs semaines en mettant notamment en garde contre le vote par correspondance qui, selon lui, pourrait être entaché de fraude.
;Départ de Kellyanne Conway
Devancé de deux points dans les sondages, le président Trump subit aussi le départ de , l'une de ses proches conseillères. Elle avait dirigé sa campagne en 2016 et avait, après l'élection, défendu l'idée de . Dans un communiqué de presse, elle annonce quitter la Maison Blanche . Une décision qui , précise-t-elle. Son mari, l'avocat George Conway, anime un groupe de républicains opposés au président Trump via le . |
en | Black hole wakes up and has a light snack
Astronomers have watched as a black hole woke up from a decades-long slumber to feed on a low-mass object – either a brown dwarf or a giant planet – that strayed too close. A similar feeding event, albeit on a gas cloud, will soon happen at the black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
The discovery in galaxy NGC 4845, 47 million light-years away, was made by ESA’s Integral space observatory, with follow-up observations from ESA’s XMM-Newton, NASA’s Swift and Japan’s MAXI X-ray monitor on the International Space Station.
Astronomers were using Integral to study a different galaxy when they noticed a bright X-ray flare coming from another location in the same wide field-of-view. Using XMM-Newton, the origin was confirmed as NGC 4845, a galaxy never before detected at high energies.
Along with Swift and MAXI, the emission was traced from its maximum in January 2011, when the galaxy brightened by a factor of a thousand, and then as it subsided over the course of the year.
“The observation was completely unexpected, from a galaxy that has been quiet for at least 20–30 years,” says Marek Nikolajuk of the University of Bialystok, Poland, lead author of the paper in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
By analysing the characteristics of the flare, the astronomers could determine that the emission came from a halo of material around the galaxy’s central black hole as it tore apart and fed on an object of 14–30 Jupiter masses. This size range corresponds to brown dwarfs, substellar objects that are not massive enough to fuse hydrogen in their core and ignite as stars.
However, the authors note that it could have had an even lower mass, just a few times that of Jupiter, placing it in the range of gas-giant planets.
Recent studies have suggested that free-floating planetary-mass objects of this kind may occur in large numbers in galaxies, ejected from their parent solar systems by gravitational interactions.
The black hole in the centre of NGC 4845 is estimated to have a mass of around 300 000 times that of our own Sun. It also likes to play with its food: the way the emission brightened and decayed shows there was a delay of 2–3 months between the object being disrupted and the heating of the debris in the vicinity of the black hole.
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Les astronomes ont observé un objet libre de masse planétaire ( ou ) se faire absorber par un qui s'est réveillé après plusieurs décennies de sommeil. Cet événement, survenu dans la galaxie située à 47 millions d'années-lumière de la Terre, est une nouveauté, car il s'agit de la première fois que les scientifiques observent la désorganisation d'un objet de faible masse stellaire par un trou noir. , indique Roland Walter de l'observatoire de Genève. L'objet en question aurait une masse équivalente à 14 à 30 fois celle de Jupiter, bien que certains auteurs estiment que cette masse pourrait être encore plus faible.
La découverte de cet événement a été faite en janvier 2011 par la détection d'un halo de rayons X par les appareils d'observation de l'ESA, de la NASA et du moniteur japonais MAXI de l'. Ce halo provenait d'une galaxie a haute énergie qui n'avait encore jamais été détectée : NGC 4845, dont l'activité s'est mise à décroître au cours de la même année. , explique Marek Nikolajuk de l'université de Bialystok (Pologne). L'activité du trou noir central de cette galaxie a montré un retard de deux à trois mois entre le moment où l'objet a été perturbé et le moment où les débris chauffés ont été éjectés de l'environnement du trou noir. Cet événement peut être considéré comme un acte d'échauffement pour un événement similaire qui devrait se produire prochainement dans le trou noir central de la . |
en | Coleen McLoughlin is promoting the draw to players in the UK
The draw, run by the National Lottery and operators in eight other countries, looks set to be worth £100m next week.
Ticket sales were running at quadruple the usual rate ahead of Friday's draw, UK organiser Camelot said.
The winning numbers in the draw were 12, 15, 33, 44 and 50. The Lucky Stars were two and six.
No-one won the prize for the 10th week in a row and the potential jackpot is now the biggest in European lottery history.
It beats the £79m won by Ireland's Dolores McNamara in the EuroMillions draw last July.
Sales soar
Players are required to match five main numbers from one to 50, plus two Lucky Star numbers from one to nine.
Coleen McLoughlin, girlfriend of England footballer Wayne Rooney, has been chosen to promote the draw in the UK.
The EuroMillions draw is also open to players in Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland.
Tickets for the draw can be bought in nine European countries
If a single UK ticket-holder had won the jackpot, they would have become the biggest winner in National Lottery history.
The UK's top EuroMillions jackpot winner is Marion Richardson, from Gateshead, who won £16.7m on 9 April 2004, two months after the game was launched.
The largest UK National Lottery jackpot win in history was £42m shared by three ticket holders in January 1996.
The UK's biggest single winner revealed to date is Iris Jeffrey, from Belfast, who won £20.1m in July 2004.
Proceeds from the EuroMillions tickets, which cost £1.50 in the UK, raise money for good causes. | en | Despite lots of publicity and media attention causing a last minute rush to buy tickets, there was no winner of the £85m jackpot in this week's 'Euromillions' lottery. This is the tenth week that no-one has won the top prize, which has 'rolled-over' to create bigger and bigger jackpots each week. Next week's jackpot now looks set to be worth around £100m, the biggest in European lottery history.
To win the jackpot, Players must match five main numbers from 1 to 50, plus two 'Lucky Star' numbers from one to nine. This week's winning numbers were 12, 15, 33, 44 and 50, with the Lucky Stars being 2 and 6.
The pan-Europe lotter is open to players in Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 76,275,360.
If the estimated £100 million jackpot were to be shared equally amongst the populations of the countries participating, each person would receive 50p. |
en | Optimistic Britons are expected to snap up tickets lottery tickets at a rate of 1.5m an hour this afternoon in a bid to win a record £85m jackpot in tonight's EuroMillions draw.
The prize, which has built up following nine rollovers, is the biggest in the lottery's history, beating the £79m won by Ireland's Dolores McNamara in the draw last July. The biggest prize won by a UK player so far is £16.7m.
Ticketholders from nine countries take part in the draw and the chance of winning the jackpot is one in 76m, but that has not deterred UK players who have been turning out in force all week.
A National Lottery spokeswoman said sales were up 400% on a normal week, when the jackpot is a paltry £10m, and that the figure could rise to 500%. On Wednesday and Thursday sales were averaging 100,000 an hour, and traditionally sales peak on the day of a draw.
Lottery organisers hired Wayne Rooney's fiancé, Coleen McLoughlin, to promote the draw and she was heavily featured in the tabloid press this morning telling readers she would be buying her ticket and that she had her "fingers crossed for a UK winner".
The National Lottery said the £85m jackpot outstripped the estimated fortunes of George Michael, the Beckhams or Gwyneth Paltrow and her husband Chris Martin, and that a lone winner would leap to the top of its rich list. A spokesperson added: "Winning this much cash could open up a whole new world of opportunity."
Tickets for the draw cost £1.50 and can be bought online or on the high street until 7.30 this evening, with the draw set to take place at 9.55pm. To win the jackpot players need to match five main numbers from one to 50 plus two "Lucky Star" numbers from one to nine.
Eleven other levels of prize are on offer, ranging from a few pounds to hundreds of thousands, and the chance of winning some sort of cash prize is a far less mind-boggling one in 24.
The jackpot is dwarfed by the biggest ever US lottery jackpot, $363m (£206m), which was split between two ticket holders in Illinois and Michigan in 2000. | en | Despite lots of publicity and media attention causing a last minute rush to buy tickets, there was no winner of the £85m jackpot in this week's 'Euromillions' lottery. This is the tenth week that no-one has won the top prize, which has 'rolled-over' to create bigger and bigger jackpots each week. Next week's jackpot now looks set to be worth around £100m, the biggest in European lottery history.
To win the jackpot, Players must match five main numbers from 1 to 50, plus two 'Lucky Star' numbers from one to nine. This week's winning numbers were 12, 15, 33, 44 and 50, with the Lucky Stars being 2 and 6.
The pan-Europe lotter is open to players in Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
The odds of winning the jackpot are 1 in 76,275,360.
If the estimated £100 million jackpot were to be shared equally amongst the populations of the countries participating, each person would receive 50p. |
en | Witnesses say light was green just before Metrolink train crashed
Three observers who were at the Chatsworth station -- a security guard and two train enthusiasts -- insist that the engineer had a green light.
The safety agency has said its evidence shows the signal was red when the Metrolink train, driven by engineer Robert M. Sanchez, barreled over a switch that merges two tracks into one and slammed into a Union Pacific train, leaving 25 dead and 135 injured.
Experts say it is common for investigators to get sharply differing witnesses' accounts during inquiries into catastrophic accidents. But the three witnesses were insistent.
"I saw the light was green. Everything seemed all right," said Chris Watson, 20, the station security guard. Watson said he was standing midway down the platform on Sept. 12 as Metrolink 111 pulled out of the station.
Bob Atkinson also said he saw the signal as the train departed.
"That light was green," said Atkinson, 65, a retired movie projector repairman and train enthusiast who regularly visits the station and knew Sanchez. Another train buff, Chris Cassel, 56, said he was standing near Atkinson as they both looked down the track. "He had a full-blown green light when he left," he said. All three were interviewed by The Times this week at the station.
If the track signal was green, it would raise the possibility that a combination of factors were at work in the deadliest train crash in modern California history. NTSB investigators said earlier this week that the engineer had sent and received cellphone text messages about the time of the crash. But could he also have received a false signal that the track ahead was clear?
An NTSB spokesman said Friday that he could not comment on the witnesses' accounts. It was not clear whether federal investigators were pursuing or had ruled out the possibility that the light was green as Sanchez approached the fateful section of single, shared track.
"In many situations, witnesses will talk about diametrically opposed things," said Barry M. Sweedler, who spent 30 years with the NTSB as an investigator and administrator. "Maybe if you spoke to three others, they would say the opposite." But he also said he would consider the two rail enthusiasts to be more credible than an average observer because they're familiar with rail operations.
Sweedler said the preliminary signal tests used to support investigators' initial conclusions are "pretty reliable."
In the days after the crash, investigators conducted three tests to check whether the signals were functioning properly.
The first was an electronic test of several signals before and after the Chatsworth station. The second was a "sight distance" survey that, among other things, checked whether Sanchez would have had a clear view of the signals. Investigators also examined computer data to see if the signals were working correctly on the day of the crash.
NTSB board member Kitty Higgins has said all the signals -- including two south of the Chatsworth station and one north of the station near the track switch mechanism -- were visible and working. Not only was the final signal red, Higgins said, but the light just before the station was solid yellow. "That indicates that the third signal is red, that you stop," she said.
"We can say with confidence that the signal system was working," Higgins said at a news conference after the tests.
NTSB officials have said a final test was planned to confirm that the two yellow signals and the red stop signal were all functioning properly. Results have not been announced.
The safety board also says that on the day of the crash, Sanchez sent and received dozens of text messages while on duty, including a final message 22 seconds before impact.
William Keppen, a former locomotive engineer and Maryland-based railroad consultant, said that false track signals can occur but that they are exceedingly rare. In 13 years as an engineer, he said he encountered false green signals twice, but did not proceed because he knew another train was on the tracks in front of him.
He noted that in the Sept. 12 Metrolink crash, the NTSB reported that the switch near the final signal was set so the freight train could move off the main track in front of the stopped Metrolink train. Normally, the switch and the track signals are coordinated, he said, which would also suggest Sanchez had a red light.
All sides, including the NTSB, agree that the signal is visible from the station platform, about a mile away. "We see it every day," said Watson, the security guard. "I don't wear glasses, and at 4:16 [Metrolink 111's approximate arrival time] it's pretty visible." | en | Two railfans and a security officer who were at the Metrolink station in Chatsworth, California on the afternoon of Friday, September 12, when Metrolink Train 111 collided with an oncoming freight train, say the train had received a green signal just before the collision. The witness accounts were published in a recent ''Los Angeles Times'' article. The wreck killed 25 passengers and injured dozens more.
The accounts, if true, contradict the preliminary findings of officials investigating the crash, who have said that a red light was ignored. It was estimated that 350-400 passengers were aboard the Metrolink train when it crashed.
Union Pacific freight train near Chatsworth, California.
The signal in question is located about a mile from the Chatsworth train station but, according both to witnesses and to investigators, is clearly visible from the station platform. One of the civilian witnesses, a railfan, was expecting the oncoming freight train, but says that when he looked at the signal to see whether the train engineer had an indication to proceed or not, he saw that it was green. A few days later, both he and the other civilian witness told a Federal investigator what they had seen. According to an expert interviewed by the ''Los Angeles Times'', false green railway signals are an extremely rare event, but they do occur.
It is not uncommon for eyewitness reports to disagree with each other or to be unreliable. However, in this case, the accounts of three witnesses agree with each other, and one of the witnesses is a professional security guard. It is not known whether there are other witnesses who disagree with the three.
Federal investigators have been focusing their investigation on cellphone records, which show that the engineer of the ill-fated Metrolink 111 commuter train had been sending and receiving text messages, including one only 22 seconds before the crash. They also conducted extensive tests of the signaling system. The signaling system functioned normally during the tests, and computer records show that the signal in question had been red immediately prior to the collision.
Federal regulations require railroads to notify the Federal Railroad Administration any time that a false signal to proceed is known to have occurred. A number of different conditions can cause false proceed signals, including communication circuit failures, wiring errors or, more rarely, software bugs. In one instance, such a design flaw on an Amtrak line went undetected for nearly 35 years. |
en | Metrolink Witnesses: Signal Was Green Before Crash
LOS ANGELES
Three witnesses, including the security guard at the Chatsworth Metrolink Station, insist that Train 111 had a green signal to proceed just before it slammed head-on into a freight train, killing 25 people, the Los Angeles Times reports Saturday.If true, those statements contradict findings by the National Transportation Safety Board that the signal was red, and that engineer Robert M. Sanchez was responsible for the Sept. 11 wreck, the worst train disaster in Los Angeles in five decades.The Times quotes Chris Watson, a 20-year-old security guard who says he was standing on the platform looking north at the signals that governed the train. His statement is corroborated by two others."I saw the light was green," he told The Times. "Everything was all right.""The light was green," said Bob Atkinson, 65, a retired movie projector technician and a train buff who knew the train's engineer, Robert Sanchez.Another train buff, 56-year-old Chris Cassel, told The Times that Sanchez "had a full-blown green light when he left."NTSB experts have said that eyewitnesses to major disasters often disagree as to major details. But the three statements, made to The Times in joint interviews at the Chatsworth station, cast doubts on claims that Sanchez was attending to a text messaging device and missed seeing the red light.NTSB officials would not comment to The Times on the witness reports.
(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.) | en | Two railfans and a security officer who were at the Metrolink station in Chatsworth, California on the afternoon of Friday, September 12, when Metrolink Train 111 collided with an oncoming freight train, say the train had received a green signal just before the collision. The witness accounts were published in a recent ''Los Angeles Times'' article. The wreck killed 25 passengers and injured dozens more.
The accounts, if true, contradict the preliminary findings of officials investigating the crash, who have said that a red light was ignored. It was estimated that 350-400 passengers were aboard the Metrolink train when it crashed.
Union Pacific freight train near Chatsworth, California.
The signal in question is located about a mile from the Chatsworth train station but, according both to witnesses and to investigators, is clearly visible from the station platform. One of the civilian witnesses, a railfan, was expecting the oncoming freight train, but says that when he looked at the signal to see whether the train engineer had an indication to proceed or not, he saw that it was green. A few days later, both he and the other civilian witness told a Federal investigator what they had seen. According to an expert interviewed by the ''Los Angeles Times'', false green railway signals are an extremely rare event, but they do occur.
It is not uncommon for eyewitness reports to disagree with each other or to be unreliable. However, in this case, the accounts of three witnesses agree with each other, and one of the witnesses is a professional security guard. It is not known whether there are other witnesses who disagree with the three.
Federal investigators have been focusing their investigation on cellphone records, which show that the engineer of the ill-fated Metrolink 111 commuter train had been sending and receiving text messages, including one only 22 seconds before the crash. They also conducted extensive tests of the signaling system. The signaling system functioned normally during the tests, and computer records show that the signal in question had been red immediately prior to the collision.
Federal regulations require railroads to notify the Federal Railroad Administration any time that a false signal to proceed is known to have occurred. A number of different conditions can cause false proceed signals, including communication circuit failures, wiring errors or, more rarely, software bugs. In one instance, such a design flaw on an Amtrak line went undetected for nearly 35 years. |
en | Ruapehu lahar goes according to plan
18 March 2007 Media Statement
Ruapehu lahar goes according to plan
Minister of Conservation Chris Carter is praising all the agencies involved in managing the Mt Ruapehu lahar today.
“I am delighted with the way things have gone today on Mt Ruapehu”, said Mr Carter.
“The lahar travelled down the path as predicted, and the early warning response system that this government provided worked exactly as planned,” said Mr Carter.
The bund built to divert the path of the water and mud from the crater lake on Mount Ruapehu withstood the lahar, and the lahar continued down the Whangaehu Valley away from the Tongariro catchment. The lahar also continued safely down the valley and underneath the Tangiwai Bridge.
“I am pleased that we now have a robust system in place to manage this kind of natural event, and to do so with a great degree of advance warning, with the least amount of damage to people and property is the ideal situation.”
The management system for the Mount Ruapehu lahar is the international best practice for this type of natural event.
The response plan triggered today involved officials from the Department of Conservation, Civil Defence, Police, Horizons Manawatu and the Ruapehu District Council.
ENDS | en | A lahar at New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu is all but over, without causing anywhere the level of havoc for which authorities were prepared.
The event was first confirmed by a 3 News helicopter, and then the Department of Conservation.
The Department of Conservation had said that a "moderate lahar" was moving down the side of Mount Ruapehu.
The lahar travelled down the Whangaehu Valley, past the Tongariro catchment; and then continued on to the Tangiwai Bridge, the site of the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, which was itself caused by a lahar.
The crater lake is currently being reported by a free phone number as at a warning level of 3a. The crater lake is also being reported at a level between 5.7-6.7 metres up the Crater Lake tephra dam.
The lahar emergency plan was activated by Civil Defence. The district mayor of Ruapehu, Sue Morris, and conservation minister, Chris Carter, said that the authorities had been very quick to respond to the emergency. All three electronic surveillance technologies had their alarms activated. Mr Carter said, "The lahar travelled down the path as predicted, and the early warning response system that this government provided worked exactly as planned."
Highways near Mount Ruapehu were closed by the Ohakune police, including the Desert Road. The roads have now been re-opened.
A lahar has been expected for a long time now, and scientists say the lahar could have been caused by, among other things, the bad weather New Zealand has been having lately.
Since 1996 the water level in the crater lake at the top of Mount Ruapehu has been rising, which created a risk of a lahar last year. |
en | Lahar spills from Mount Ruapehu
It has been confirmed that a lahar has burst forth from Mount Ruapehu this afternoon.
Department of Conservation staff have been monitoring Mount Ruapehu crater lake after alarms went off this morning, signalling a lahar was imminent.
DoC have now confirmed a "moderate lahar" is moving down the mountain.
The bursting of the crater lake has been long anticipated and the wild weather in the North Island may have brought on the current activity.
Ohakune police have confirmed that there is activity on the mountain and are setting about closing highways in the area and getting helicopters in the air, which has been difficult due to poor weather.
The crater lake of Mount Ruapehu has been rising steadily, since the last eruptions in 1995 and 1996.
The lahar kicked up a 3 to 4 metre wave as it passed down the Whangaehu River.
Ruapehu District Mayor Sue Morris says authorities have snapped into action.
More on this story: | en | A lahar at New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu is all but over, without causing anywhere the level of havoc for which authorities were prepared.
The event was first confirmed by a 3 News helicopter, and then the Department of Conservation.
The Department of Conservation had said that a "moderate lahar" was moving down the side of Mount Ruapehu.
The lahar travelled down the Whangaehu Valley, past the Tongariro catchment; and then continued on to the Tangiwai Bridge, the site of the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, which was itself caused by a lahar.
The crater lake is currently being reported by a free phone number as at a warning level of 3a. The crater lake is also being reported at a level between 5.7-6.7 metres up the Crater Lake tephra dam.
The lahar emergency plan was activated by Civil Defence. The district mayor of Ruapehu, Sue Morris, and conservation minister, Chris Carter, said that the authorities had been very quick to respond to the emergency. All three electronic surveillance technologies had their alarms activated. Mr Carter said, "The lahar travelled down the path as predicted, and the early warning response system that this government provided worked exactly as planned."
Highways near Mount Ruapehu were closed by the Ohakune police, including the Desert Road. The roads have now been re-opened.
A lahar has been expected for a long time now, and scientists say the lahar could have been caused by, among other things, the bad weather New Zealand has been having lately.
Since 1996 the water level in the crater lake at the top of Mount Ruapehu has been rising, which created a risk of a lahar last year. |
en | Activity on Mount Ruapehu
Department of Conservation staff are monitoring Mt Ruapehu crater lake after alarms have gone off signalling a lahar was imminent.
The bursting of the crater lake has been long anticipated and the wild weather in the North Island may have brought on the current activity.
Ohakune police have confirmed that there is activity on the mountain and are setting about closing highways in the area and getting helicopters in the air, which has been difficult due to poor weather.
The crater lake of Mount Ruapehu has been rising steadily, since the last eruptions in 1995 and 1996. | en | A lahar at New Zealand's Mount Ruapehu is all but over, without causing anywhere the level of havoc for which authorities were prepared.
The event was first confirmed by a 3 News helicopter, and then the Department of Conservation.
The Department of Conservation had said that a "moderate lahar" was moving down the side of Mount Ruapehu.
The lahar travelled down the Whangaehu Valley, past the Tongariro catchment; and then continued on to the Tangiwai Bridge, the site of the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, which was itself caused by a lahar.
The crater lake is currently being reported by a free phone number as at a warning level of 3a. The crater lake is also being reported at a level between 5.7-6.7 metres up the Crater Lake tephra dam.
The lahar emergency plan was activated by Civil Defence. The district mayor of Ruapehu, Sue Morris, and conservation minister, Chris Carter, said that the authorities had been very quick to respond to the emergency. All three electronic surveillance technologies had their alarms activated. Mr Carter said, "The lahar travelled down the path as predicted, and the early warning response system that this government provided worked exactly as planned."
Highways near Mount Ruapehu were closed by the Ohakune police, including the Desert Road. The roads have now been re-opened.
A lahar has been expected for a long time now, and scientists say the lahar could have been caused by, among other things, the bad weather New Zealand has been having lately.
Since 1996 the water level in the crater lake at the top of Mount Ruapehu has been rising, which created a risk of a lahar last year. |
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The event was first confirmed by a 3 News helicopter, and then the Department of Conservation.
The Department of Conservation had said that a "moderate lahar" was moving down the side of Mount Ruapehu.
The lahar travelled down the Whangaehu Valley, past the Tongariro catchment; and then continued on to the Tangiwai Bridge, the site of the 1953 Tangiwai disaster, which was itself caused by a lahar.
The crater lake is currently being reported by a free phone number as at a warning level of 3a. The crater lake is also being reported at a level between 5.7-6.7 metres up the Crater Lake tephra dam.
The lahar emergency plan was activated by Civil Defence. The district mayor of Ruapehu, Sue Morris, and conservation minister, Chris Carter, said that the authorities had been very quick to respond to the emergency. All three electronic surveillance technologies had their alarms activated. Mr Carter said, "The lahar travelled down the path as predicted, and the early warning response system that this government provided worked exactly as planned."
Highways near Mount Ruapehu were closed by the Ohakune police, including the Desert Road. The roads have now been re-opened.
A lahar has been expected for a long time now, and scientists say the lahar could have been caused by, among other things, the bad weather New Zealand has been having lately.
Since 1996 the water level in the crater lake at the top of Mount Ruapehu has been rising, which created a risk of a lahar last year. |
es | Otro cambio en Twitter, desde julio
A partir del mes próximo, Twitter permitirá a sus usuarios enviar mensajes directos de más de 140 caracteres. Los desarrolladores de la red de microblogging anunciaron la modificación a través de su Blog oficial este jueves.
De acuerdo a lo comunicado por la red social, se han hecho "muchas cosas para mejorar los Mensajes Directos el año pasado". "Tenemos un apasionante trabajo en el horizonte", destacaron.
El último cambio importante en los DM de Twitter había sido la posibilidad de mandar mensajes directos a cualquier usuario, es decir, sin necesidad de que el destinatario sea seguidor del emisor.
La compañía aclaró que el cambio no afectará los mensajes públicos, que seguirán teniendo los 140 caracteres de siempre.
"Muchas cosas para mejorar los Mensajes Directos el año pasado", afirmaron desde Twitter
En otro orden de cosas, Twitter aún pelea mejorar sus resultados financieros. A fines de abril reportó pérdidas por u$s162 millones en el período comprendido entre enero y marzo de este año. De todos modos, es una mejora si se compara con la pérdida de u$s132 millones de un año antes.
Los ingresos de Twitter aumentaron un 74%, a u$s436 millones, con relación a los u$s250 millones del mismo período del año anterior.
Twitter registró un promedio mensual de 302 millones de usuarios en el primer trimestre, un incremento del 18% con relación al año anterior. Aproximadamente del 80% ingresó al sitio desde dispositivos móviles al menos una vez al mes. | es | A partir del mes de julio, la aplicación de Twitter presentará una serie de modificaciones, en cuanto al uso que se le da.
Twitter se renovará en algunos aspectos. En primer lugar, el máximo de caracteres que están permitidos para los mensajes directos ya no será el mismo: se habla de que se podrán enviar más de 140, los que tradicionalmente ha tenido. También se posibilitará el poder enviar mensajes a personas que no estén vinculadas a la cuenta de Twitter de cada uno; es decir, ahora no hay ninguna necesidad de que el destinatario del mensaje sea seguidor de ese emisor.
Por otra parte, la red social busca innovaciones. Será posible, mediante una herramienta llamada (proyecto rayo), realizar el seguimiento de diferentes eventos en vez de seguir determinados usuarios, según cada caso particular. Debido a este nuevo modelo, habrá personas de la compañía que se encargarán de seguir las tendencias y los diferentes contenidos temáticos para resaltar así los hechos de mayor importancia. De esta manera, los usuarios tendrán una diversidad de fuentes en un solo lugar.
En el caso de los teléfonos celulares, la aplicación de Twitter mostrará los eventos programados y las noticias de último momento. Este nuevo cambio podrá utilizarse sin la necesidad de ser un usuario activo de la red social. Los desarrolladores de la idea anunciaron la novedad en su sitio, Buzzfeed.com, el día jueves 18. |
es | Seguir las noticias por Twitter requiere cierto nivel de experiencia en la red social. Identificar el hashtag correcto y las fuentes puede ser algo complejo para un nuevo usuario. Por eso, la compañía trata de establecer un "ambiente amigable" para encontrar los tuits de mayor interés. Sin embargo, según BuzzFeed, Twitter estaría preparando una plataforma para buscar y seguir noticias en vez de personas.
Este nuevo proyecto se llama Project Lightning y será "una nueva forma de ver los tuits". Gracias a este nuevo enfoque, un equipo de personas de la empresa estará encargada de seguir las tendencias y resaltar las historias más importantes que vayan surgiendo. Esto significará que los usuarios no recurrirán a una sola fuente sino que tendrán variedad de contenido en un solo lugar.
"Vimos que en la red social hay mucha conversación en torno a los eventos. Pero nuestro desafío real es comportarnos como una televisión sin una guía de canales", explicó el vicepresidente de producto de Twitter, Kevin Weily, y afirmó que tienen "el mejor contenido del mundo en un solo lugar".
En su versión mobile, el nuevo producto de Twitter convivirá en un columna de la plataforma original. Al ingresar, se desplegará en la pantalla completa y mostrará toda la información, incluyendo Vines, fotos, videos y Periscopes, acerca de las noticias y los eventos. Cada "colección de noticias" será actualizada en forma real e instantánea.
Además, la nueva funcionalidad podrá ser utilizada si el usuario no es activo en Twitter. Las "colecciones" podrán ser embebidas online y en otras apps. De esta forma, Twitter busca atraer nuevos usuarios. Esta plataforma será lanzada en algunos meses, aunque todavía no hay una fecha específica. | es | A partir del mes de julio, la aplicación de Twitter presentará una serie de modificaciones, en cuanto al uso que se le da.
Twitter se renovará en algunos aspectos. En primer lugar, el máximo de caracteres que están permitidos para los mensajes directos ya no será el mismo: se habla de que se podrán enviar más de 140, los que tradicionalmente ha tenido. También se posibilitará el poder enviar mensajes a personas que no estén vinculadas a la cuenta de Twitter de cada uno; es decir, ahora no hay ninguna necesidad de que el destinatario del mensaje sea seguidor de ese emisor.
Por otra parte, la red social busca innovaciones. Será posible, mediante una herramienta llamada (proyecto rayo), realizar el seguimiento de diferentes eventos en vez de seguir determinados usuarios, según cada caso particular. Debido a este nuevo modelo, habrá personas de la compañía que se encargarán de seguir las tendencias y los diferentes contenidos temáticos para resaltar así los hechos de mayor importancia. De esta manera, los usuarios tendrán una diversidad de fuentes en un solo lugar.
En el caso de los teléfonos celulares, la aplicación de Twitter mostrará los eventos programados y las noticias de último momento. Este nuevo cambio podrá utilizarse sin la necesidad de ser un usuario activo de la red social. Los desarrolladores de la idea anunciaron la novedad en su sitio, Buzzfeed.com, el día jueves 18. |
en | HS poll: Halonen leads by razor-thin margin - Presidential race too close to call
print this Helsingin Sanomat and conducted by Suomen Gallup, gives incumbent
Interviews for the survey were made on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, which makes the information more recent than the poll released on Wednesday by the television network MTV3, in which Halonen got 55 percent support against Niinistö’s 45 percent.
The latest poll indicates a shift of support to Niinistö from last week's HS-Gallup, which gave Halonen 53 percent and Niinistö 47 percent. However, the changes are small and fit into the poll’s margin of error of three percentage points in either direction.
The gap that remains between Halonen and Niinistö also fits within the margin of error. When this is taken into account, Halonen’s numbers could be anywhere between 48 and 54 percent, while Niinistö’s could vary between 46 and 52 percent, which makes the final result of the election extremely difficult to predict.
The difficulty is increased by the large number of respondents - 24 percent of the 1,300 interviewed - who did not give a preference. Two thirds of those not responding said that they did not want to reveal their choice; only one in three said that they were undecided.
Those who did not want to reveal their choice are nevertheless considered very likely to go to the polls. Suomen Gallup says that many of them are elderly people, who value both their right to vote, and the secrecy of their choice. Nearly one in four of those in the survey who had already cast absentee ballots would not reveal their choice.
The poll tends to confirm trends that emerged in last week’s HS-Gallup:
Both candidates appear to have held on to their core supporters fairly well. Four out of five voters who backed the Centre Party’s
A clear majority of supporters of the Green League are supporting Halonen. She also has the backing of 55 percent of those who did not vote in the first round.
Halonen appears to be getting a majority among young voters and among the oldest, while Niinistö is ahead among those of working age.
The two finalists are running neck-and-neck in Helsinki and the Uusimaa region. Niinistö is the favourite in East Finland, Halonen is more popular in the west. Halonen is the favourite of urban Finns, while Niinistö has a majority in rural areas.
too Sunday’s runoff in the Presidential elections is set to be a very close race. The latest poll commissioned byand conducted by Suomen Gallup, gives incumbent Tarja Halonen , the candidate of the Social Democratic Party and Left Alliance, 51 percent support, against 49 percent for National Coalition Party candidate Sauli Niinistö Interviews for the survey were made on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, which makes the information more recent than the poll released on Wednesday by the television network MTV3, in which Halonen got 55 percent support against Niinistö’s 45 percent.The latest poll indicates a shift of support to Niinistö from last week's HS-Gallup, which gave Halonen 53 percent and Niinistö 47 percent. However, the changes are small and fit into the poll’s margin of error of three percentage points in either direction.between Halonen and Niinistö also fits within the margin of error. When this is taken into account, Halonen’s numbers could be anywhere between 48 and 54 percent, while Niinistö’s could vary between 46 and 52 percent, which makes the final result of the election extremely difficult to predict.The difficulty is increased by the large number of respondents - 24 percent of the 1,300 interviewed - who did not give a preference. Two thirds of those not responding said that they did not want to reveal their choice; only one in three said that they were undecided.Those who did not want to reveal their choice are nevertheless considered very likely to go to the polls. Suomen Gallup says that many of them are elderly people, who value both their right to vote, and the secrecy of their choice. Nearly one in four of those in the survey who had already cast absentee ballots would not reveal their choice.that emerged in last week’s HS-Gallup:Both candidates appear to have held on to their core supporters fairly well. Four out of five voters who backed the Centre Party’s Matti Vanhanen in the first round are now backing Niinistö.A clear majority of supporters of the Green League are supporting Halonen. She also has the backing of 55 percent of those who did not vote in the first round.Halonen appears to be getting a majority among young voters and among the oldest, while Niinistö is ahead among those of working age.The two finalists are running neck-and-neck in Helsinki and the Uusimaa region. Niinistö is the favourite in East Finland, Halonen is more popular in the west. Halonen is the favourite of urban Finns, while Niinistö has a majority in rural areas.
Previously in HS International Edition:
Presidential election poll shows increased uncertainty among voters (26.1.2006)
Helsingin Sanomat | en | The latest poll from Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in co-operation with Gallup puts the two remaining candidates - incumbent president Tarja Halonen (Social Democratic Party) and former minister of finance Sauli Niinistö (Coalition Party) - in a dead heat, heading into the second and final round of the Finnish presidential election on Sunday. 51% of the respondents supported Halonen, while 49% supported Niinistö. The result is within the margin of error at 3%. Approximately 24% of those questioned refused to state who they will vote for.
Previous polls had given Halonen - who received about 46% of the votes in the first election nearly two weeks ago against runner-up Niinistö's 24% - a larger lead, though the movement is within the margin of error. In a poll conducted by Finnish TV channel MTV3 on Tuesday Halonen and Niinistö were supported by 55% and 45% of the respondents, respectively.
The Finnish presidential elections are completed in at most two rounds. If no candidate receives a majority of the votes in the first round, the two top candidates compete in a run-off election two weeks later. |
de | Riad (dpa) - Für dem Umbau seiner Wirtschaft investiert das Königreich Saudi-Arabien 500 Milliarden Dollar (425 Milliarden Euro) in den Bau einer futuristischen Megastadt am Roten Meer.
"Neom" soll mit 26 500 Quadratkilometern Fläche größer werden als Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Der saudi-arabische Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman stellte das Megaprojekt am Dienstag in Riad vor. Geschäftsführer wird der frühere Siemens-Chef Klaus Kleinfeld.
"Neom" ziele durch die Förderung von neun Wirtschaftsbereiche wie Biotechnologie, Energie und Wasser oder die mediale Entwicklung darauf ab, die Ökonomie des Landes breiter aufzustellen. "Wir wollen in 15 Jahren nicht herausfinden, dass wir eine Chance verpasst haben", sagte der einflussreiche Kronprinz bei einer Podiumsdiskussion der "Future Investment Initiative" der Übersetzung zufolge. Sein Land stehe unter Druck, innovative Ideen in einer kurzen Zeit zu liefern.
Das Projekt ist Teil des groß angelegten saudi-arabischen Wirtschaftsumbaus "Vision 2030", mit dem neue wirtschaftliche Felder angesichts der knapper werdenden Rohstoffe und dauerhaft niedrigen Ölpreisen erschlossen werden sollen.
Das Budget für das Projekt ist mit 425 Milliarden Euro in etwa so hoch wie das Bruttoinlandsprodukt von Polen. Die erste Bauphase soll 2025 abgeschlossen sein. "Neom" werde "neue Arbeitsstellen schaffen und zu einem wachsenden Bruttoinlandsprodukt im Königreich beitragen", berichte Spa. Die Monarchie erhofft sich mit dem Projekt vor allem, ausländische Investoren und Kapital an Land zu ziehen. Die sehr guten Beziehungen von Mohammed bin Salman in die USA werden in dieser Beziehung als Vorteil gesehen.
Der deutsche Top-Manager hatte zuletzt den US-Metallkonzern Arconic geführt und war dort über einen Streit mit Investoren gestürzt. Auf der Podiumsdiskussion sagte Kleinfeld, er denke über das Projekt weniger als Stadt, sondern als viele Dörfer und Gemeinschaften, die zusammen "einen Haufen Geld verdienen" könnten. Nach dieser Äußerung lächelte der Kronprinz ihn breit an.
Das "Neom"-Projekt soll im Nordwesten des Landes in direkter Nähe der Ägyptischen Sinai-Halbinsel und dem Königreich Jordanien aufgebaut werden. Teil des Vorhabens ist auch eine riesige Brücke über das Rote Meer nach Ägypten, die "Asien und Afrika verbinden soll".
Für Zorn im Nachbarland Ägypten könnten die auf einem Satellitenbild eingezeichneten Grenzen der neuen Stadt führen. Diese beinhalten auch die zwischen den beiden Ländern umstrittenen Inseln Tiran und Sanafir. Die ägyptische Regierung hatte im April 2016 ein Abkommen mit Saudi-Arabien unterzeichnet, das die beiden unbewohnten Inseln im Golf von Akaba unter Kontrolle der Golfmonarchie stellen sollte. Das löste wütende Proteste in der Bevölkerung aus.
Webseite des Projektes | de | Mohammed bin Salman
Der saudi-arabische Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman hat ein neues Großprojekt in Riad vorgestellt. In der Grenzregion zwischen Jordanien, Ägypten und Saudi-Arabien soll eine neue, hochmoderne Stadt entstehen. Bei einer Gesamtfläche von 26.500 Quadratkilometern sollen 470 Kilometer an der Küste des Roten Meeres liegen.
Ziel der Stadtgründung sei es vor allen, Wirtschaftsbereiche wie Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft, Biotechnologie, Nahrungsmittelversorgung, fortgeschrittene Industrie und Entertainment zu fördern, so der Prinz. Verantwortlich für das mit fast 425 Milliarden Euro ausgestattete Projekt ist der frühere Siemens-Vorstand Klaus Kleinfeld. Teil des Plans ist es, eine Brücke über das Rote Meer von Saudi-Arabien nach Ägypten zu errichten. Das würde, fast 150 Jahre nach Eröffnung des Sueskanals, eine Verbindung zwischen Asien und Afrika schaffen. Weiterhin soll die neue Megastadt sich durch Solar- und Windenergie selbst mit Strom versorgen und über eine hochmoderne Infrastruktur verfügen, zu der neben kostenlosen Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) auch eine auf das Wohlbefinden der Einwohner zielende Gesundheitsversorgung zählt. Zudem soll die Stadt eine „unabhängige Wirtschaftszone“ mit eigenen Gesetzen und Steuern sein.
Das Projekt soll bis zum Jahr 2025 verwirklicht sein. |
en | RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday a $500 billion plan to create a business and industrial zone extending across its borders into Jordan and Egypt, the biggest project yet in a series of efforts to free the kingdom of its dependence on oil exports.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman waves during a welcoming ceremony for British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia September 19, 2017. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS
The 26,500 square km (10,230 square mile) zone, known as NEOM, will focus on industries including energy and water, biotechnology, food, advanced manufacturing and entertainment, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said.
Adjacent to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aqaba and near maritime trade routes that use the Suez Canal, the zone will power itself solely with wind power and solar energy, said the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s top sovereign fund.
“NEOM is situated on one of the world’s most prominent economic arteries ... Its strategic location will also facilitate the zone’s rapid emergence as a global hub that connects Asia, Europe and Africa.”
The Saudi government, the PIF, and local and international investors are expected to put more than half a trillion dollars into the zone in coming years, Prince Mohammed said.
There was no immediate comment on the plan from Jordan and Egypt, both of which are close allies of Saudi Arabia. | de | Mohammed bin Salman
Der saudi-arabische Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman hat ein neues Großprojekt in Riad vorgestellt. In der Grenzregion zwischen Jordanien, Ägypten und Saudi-Arabien soll eine neue, hochmoderne Stadt entstehen. Bei einer Gesamtfläche von 26.500 Quadratkilometern sollen 470 Kilometer an der Küste des Roten Meeres liegen.
Ziel der Stadtgründung sei es vor allen, Wirtschaftsbereiche wie Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft, Biotechnologie, Nahrungsmittelversorgung, fortgeschrittene Industrie und Entertainment zu fördern, so der Prinz. Verantwortlich für das mit fast 425 Milliarden Euro ausgestattete Projekt ist der frühere Siemens-Vorstand Klaus Kleinfeld. Teil des Plans ist es, eine Brücke über das Rote Meer von Saudi-Arabien nach Ägypten zu errichten. Das würde, fast 150 Jahre nach Eröffnung des Sueskanals, eine Verbindung zwischen Asien und Afrika schaffen. Weiterhin soll die neue Megastadt sich durch Solar- und Windenergie selbst mit Strom versorgen und über eine hochmoderne Infrastruktur verfügen, zu der neben kostenlosen Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) auch eine auf das Wohlbefinden der Einwohner zielende Gesundheitsversorgung zählt. Zudem soll die Stadt eine „unabhängige Wirtschaftszone“ mit eigenen Gesetzen und Steuern sein.
Das Projekt soll bis zum Jahr 2025 verwirklicht sein. |
de | Eine Fläche von 26.500 Quadratkilometern auf dem Territorium von drei Ländern, fast 500 Kilometer Küste - und kalkulierte Kosten von einer halben Billion Dollar: Saudi-Arabiens Kronprinz, Mohammed bin Salman, hat den Bau eines Megaprojekts angekündigt. Das berichtet der Sender Al-Arabiya.
Die erste Stufe des Projekts, das den Namen "Neom" trägt, soll 2025 fertig sein. Nach den Plänen des Thronfolgers wird es sich dabei um eine futuristische Stadt handeln, deren Gebiet sich über Saudi-Arabien, Ägypten und Jordanien erstreckt.
Laut der zum Projekt zugehörigen Website wird die Stadt am roten Meer eine "unabhängige Wirtschaftszone" mit eigenen Gesetzen und Steuern sein. Sowohl Solartechnologie als auch Windkraftanlagen sollen "Neom" mit Energie versorgen. Finanziert werden soll das Projekt vom Königreich Saudi-Arabien, dem saudischen Staatsfonds sowie privaten Investoren aus dem In- und Ausland.
Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman gilt als treibende Kraft hinter einer Reihe von Reform- und Modernisierungsbestrebungen. Mit der sogenannten Vision 2030 will das Königreich seine Abhängigkeit von Erdöleinnahmen reduzieren. Dazu gehören auch die Gründung eines Staatsfonds, Strukturreformen und weitere Privatisierungen.
Anmerkung der Redaktion: In einer ersten Version des Textes wurde Mohammed bin Salman als Vizekronprinz bezeichnet. Tatsächlich ist er 2017 zum Kronprinz aufgestiegen. | de | Mohammed bin Salman
Der saudi-arabische Kronprinz Mohammed bin Salman hat ein neues Großprojekt in Riad vorgestellt. In der Grenzregion zwischen Jordanien, Ägypten und Saudi-Arabien soll eine neue, hochmoderne Stadt entstehen. Bei einer Gesamtfläche von 26.500 Quadratkilometern sollen 470 Kilometer an der Küste des Roten Meeres liegen.
Ziel der Stadtgründung sei es vor allen, Wirtschaftsbereiche wie Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft, Biotechnologie, Nahrungsmittelversorgung, fortgeschrittene Industrie und Entertainment zu fördern, so der Prinz. Verantwortlich für das mit fast 425 Milliarden Euro ausgestattete Projekt ist der frühere Siemens-Vorstand Klaus Kleinfeld. Teil des Plans ist es, eine Brücke über das Rote Meer von Saudi-Arabien nach Ägypten zu errichten. Das würde, fast 150 Jahre nach Eröffnung des Sueskanals, eine Verbindung zwischen Asien und Afrika schaffen. Weiterhin soll die neue Megastadt sich durch Solar- und Windenergie selbst mit Strom versorgen und über eine hochmoderne Infrastruktur verfügen, zu der neben kostenlosen Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) auch eine auf das Wohlbefinden der Einwohner zielende Gesundheitsversorgung zählt. Zudem soll die Stadt eine „unabhängige Wirtschaftszone“ mit eigenen Gesetzen und Steuern sein.
Das Projekt soll bis zum Jahr 2025 verwirklicht sein. |
fr | Partout, c'est l'incompréhension. Comment une initiative réclamant la peine capitale peut-elle atterrir à la Chancellerie fédérale au XXIe siècle? La dernière fois que cela s'était produit, c'était en 1985.
Certes, le texte intitulé «Peine de mort en cas d'assassinat en concours avec un abus sexuel» est encore en cours d'examen, comme l'explique le vice-chancelier André Simonazzi, mais il s'agit uniquement de vérifier que la forme est respectée: que le nombre d'initiants est conforme à la loi et que le titre est compréhensible entre autres. Sur le fond, c'est seulement l'Assemblée fédérale qui pourrait faire barrage si les 100 000 signatures étaient récoltées.
Qui sont les initiants?
Mais qui a bien pu déposer une telle initiative? «Impossible de vous en dire plus, il faut attendre que l'initiative soit publiée dans la Feuille fédérale d'ici ces prochaines semaines», répond Hansruedi Moser, porte-parole de la Chancellerie. Bien que pas encore avalisé, le texte s'est étrangement retrouvé hier sur le site de l'Administration fédérale et fait froid dans le dos: «Quiconque commet un meurtre ou un assassinat en concours avec un acte d'ordre sexuel sur un enfant, une contrainte sexuelle ou un viol est exécuté indépendamment de toute expertise ou des connaissances scientifiques. La Confédération exécute la peine capitale. L'exécution capitale a lieu dans les trois mois qui suivent l'entrée en force de la condamnation. Le tribunal fixe les modalités et la date de l'exécution capitale.»
Selon la NZZ, un certain Marcel Graf serait membre du comité, intitulé «Comité pour la peine de mort». Un personnage visiblement inconnu, qui ne ferait partie d'aucun groupe politique et n'a jamais approché les comités des initiatives pour l'imprescriptibilité des crimes pédophiles ou encore pour l'internement à vie des délinquants sexuels. «Jamais entendu parler», répond Christine Bussat, présidente de la Marche blanche. Même si elle tente par tous les moyens de protéger les victimes de pédophiles, elle tombe des nues en apprenant l'existence d'une telle initiative. «Je suis profondément choquée. J'ai beau retourner cela dans tous les sens, je ne trouve aucun argument qui irait dans leur sens. Pire, cela peut même favoriser le pédophile qui rajoutera une pression sur sa victime: si tu parles, on va me tuer.»
«Aucune chance»
Même réaction chez Oskar Freysinger, l'un des initiants de l'imprescriptibilité. «Cela crée un problème de conscience supplémentaire chez la victime. Si elle dénonce son agresseur, elle le tue.» Le conseiller national UDC n'en revient pas. «On ne rend pas le mal par le mal. C'est scandaleux. La société doit protéger ses citoyens, pas les mettre à mort!» Il est d'ailleurs convaincu que l'initiative n'a «aucune espèce de chance». Alexandre Flückiger, professeur de droit constitutionnel à l'Université de Genève, craint, lui, que les signatures ne soient récoltées. «Cela ne m'étonnerait pas. Et m'inquiète beaucoup.» En découvrant qu'une telle initiative avait été déposée, les bras lui en sont tombés, avoue-t-il. Le spécialiste explique qu'en théorie il n'est pas impossible que la peine de mort soit réintroduite dans notre pays. «Je pense qu'il y a une grande habileté derrière ce comité. Ils vont dans des zones de droit qui possèdent un grand potentiel interprétatif. «Selon la Constitution, on ne peut pas soumettre un texte qui va à l'encontre du droit international impératif.» Or, si le droit international impératif est clair sur la torture, le génocide ou l'esclavage, il n'en va pas de même pour la peine de mort. Les juristes s'entre-déchirent encore pour savoir s'il faut l'inclure ou non. Et, si la peine de mort est expressément condamnée par la Convention des droits de l'homme, la Constitution n'a pas de disposition interdisant de soumettre au peuple une initiative allant à son encontre. | fr | Fichier:Guillotine Luxembourg 01.jpg|thumb|Bientôt une guillotine en fonction en Suisse ?
Alors que la peine de mort est abolie en Suisse depuis 1942, une nouvelle initiative fédérale, actuellement examinée par la Chancellerie fédérale, propose sa réintroduction pour les meurtres avec violences sexuelles. Les associations de défense des droits de l'homme ont déjà fermement rejeté cette idée.
Le texte, intitulé , a été déposé il y a environ un mois et est actuellement étudié par les services de la Chancellerie. Si ceux-ci donnent leur accord, la récolte des signatures nécessaire en 18 mois maximum pourrait débuter prochainement. Ce serait ensuite au tour du Conseil fédéral, puis de l'Assemblée fédérale de se prononcer avant la votation populaire.
D'après un représentant du comité d'initiative, les personnes à l'origine de cette proposition ne font pas partie d'un groupe politique, mais sont . Selon le texte, dont les détails n'ont pas encore été publié, l'exécution devrait être appliquée dans les trois mois suivant la condamnation, la méthode de mise à mort étant laissée au choix du tribunal.
L'ensemble des personnalités politiques, de gauche comme de droite, condamnent unanimement cette proposition qui va à l'encontre des protocoles 6 et 13 de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme, signée par la Suisse, et qui excluent la peine de mort. Selon plusieurs députés interrogés, cette initiative pourrait simplement être invalidée par le Parlement pour non respect des droits fondamentaux internationaux. |
de | Merapi – Der indonesische Vulkan „Merapi” hat erneut Aschewolken ausgestoßen. Rettungskräfte entdeckten unterdessen an den Hängen des Berges weitere Opfer. Die Zahl der Toten seit dem Ausbruch des Merapi vor knapp drei Wochen stieg nach Angaben der Katastrophenschutzbehörde auf mindestens 250. Am Wochenende seien mindestens neun weitere Leichen aus zerstörten Dörfern rund um den Vulkan geborgen worden, sagte ein Mitarbeiter der Behörde. Die Gaswolken vom Wochenende beschränkten sich jedoch auf den evakuierten Bereich und verletzten keine weiteren Menschen. Suchtrupps stießen in den zum Teil von einer dicken Ascheschicht bedeckten Dörfern in den vergangenen Tagen immer wieder auf neue Opfer. Zudem starben weitere Betroffene an Verletzungen oder an von den Vulkangasen ausgelöste Atemwegserkrankungen. | de | Der Vulkan Merapi in Indonesien stößt erneut Aschewolken aus.
Der Vulkan Merapi im Juli 2005
Währenddessen fanden Rettungskräfte in von Asche bedeckten Dörfern am Hang des Vulkans mindestens neun weitere Leichen. Zudem starben weitere Personen auf Grund von Verletzungen oder Atemwegserkrankungen in Krankenhäusern, ausgelöst durch den Vulkan. Die Zahl der Toten seit dem Ausbruch des Vulkans am 26. Oktober steigt somit auf 250. |
en | Indonesian rescuers find more bodies in ash-buried villages on volcano slopes; toll hits 250
MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — Rescuers digging through several feet (a meter) of ash discovered nine more bodies on the slopes of Mount Merapi, whose explosive eruption a week ago buried whole villages. As confirmation of more deaths trickled in Sunday, the toll from a series of blasts at the Indonesian volcano rose to at least 250.
The mountain, which has let off blasts of hot gas clouds over the past two days, resumed spewing ash on Sunday as it as done continuously since it roared to life Oct. 26. No new deaths have been reported from the latest flows, which were well within the zone that has been evacuated.
That zone — which has been at 12 miles (20 kilometres) for more than a week — was relaxed Sunday in some areas. In districts on the north and west flanks of the mountain, the cordon is now six miles (10 kilometres) from the crater, according to Muhammad Anshori, an official with the National Disaster Management Agency. He said the change reflected a feeling that these areas were safer.
Though there has been no major eruption since Nov. 5 — the deadliest day at Merapi in decades — tallying the dead from that blast has been slow.
Many villages where officials knew people had died have remained too hot — shrouded in drifts of ash several feet (a meter) deep — for rescuers to work. Conditions have improved in the past few days, pushing the death toll from the devastating eruption higher, said Waluyo Rahardjo, a search and rescue official.
Four bodies were pulled from the mountain Saturday and another five on Sunday, said Heru Trisna Nugraha, a spokesman for Sardjito hospital, at the foot of the volcano. In addition, one person in the blast died at the hospital, Negraha said.
The disaster agency's official toll stood at 242 on Sunday, but the spokesman said that figure did not include at least eight of the 10 latest deaths because the data had not yet been officially passed on.
Merapi is the most active in Indonesia, a vast archipelago of 235 million people that is prone to seismic activity because it sits along the Pacific "Ring of Fire," a horseshoe-shaped string of faults that lines the Pacific Ocean.
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Associated Press writer Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta contributed to this report.
Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. | de | Der Vulkan Merapi in Indonesien stößt erneut Aschewolken aus.
Der Vulkan Merapi im Juli 2005
Währenddessen fanden Rettungskräfte in von Asche bedeckten Dörfern am Hang des Vulkans mindestens neun weitere Leichen. Zudem starben weitere Personen auf Grund von Verletzungen oder Atemwegserkrankungen in Krankenhäusern, ausgelöst durch den Vulkan. Die Zahl der Toten seit dem Ausbruch des Vulkans am 26. Oktober steigt somit auf 250. |
es | LA SALUD DEL ASTRO, SEGÚN EL ÚLTIMO PARTE MÉDICO Aseguran que si Sandro sale del "trance quirúrgico" podría volver a cantar Así lo consideró el médico Miguel Nicolás, quien agregó que "estamos en las horas más difíciles" y pidió "rezarle a Dios". Luego agregó que está "dentro de los parámetros normales, con su corazón y pulmones funcionando".
21.11.2009
Sus "nenas" se mantienen firmes cerca del hospital donde su astro lucha por recuperarse tras la difícil cirugía. (Télam)
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El cantante Sandro continúa “estable” y “sigue con asistencia respiratoria mecánica” según el último parte que ofreció pasadas las 17 el director del Hospital Italiano de Mendoza, Miguel Nicolás, quien agregó: “está sedado, pero está reactivo. No tienen nada que se salga de lo normal”.
“Se mantiene estable en todos los parámetros, es un paciente de alto riesgo y fue una cirugía muy compleja”, continuó Nicolás sobre la salud del astro tras su doble transplante. “Su corazón y pulmones funcionan y si sale de este trance quirúrgico continuará su vida normal y podría volver a cantar”, completó.
El médico también recordó que el cantante todavía está “dentro de las horas difíciles” y que éstas “se van a mantener durante toda la primera semana”. En esa línea recordó que “Sandro es un paciente que no llegó en las mejores condiciones y que se pueden esperar riesgos” como rechazos fallas en la función renal. Finalmente pidió que "quien crea en Dios puede rezar".
Luego de una espera de meses, el doble transplante de pulmón y corazón al que debió ser sometido Sandro “ha sido un éxito”, había afirmado el doctor Miguel Nicolás tras la operación, y ante la prensa aclaró que “hay que esperar entre 48 y 72 horas donde pueden ocurrir todas las complicaciones habituales de este tipo de cirugías".
El médico personal de Sandro, Claudio Burgos, contó que cuando el músico ingresó a la sala de operaciones estaba con “mucha falta de aire”. “Nos saludamos con breves palabras, no más, le dimos ánimo y estaba muy ilusionado con la operación porque se sentía al borde de los finales de su vida. Vamos ganando la batalla”.
“Ya tiene algunos movimientos, reacciona si uno lo estimula pero seguirá con respirador” al menos por siete días, adelantó Burgos a la prensa.
“El donante de 22 años estaba tenía muy buenas condiciones de pulmones y corazón lo que favoreció la evolución”, aseguró Burgos.
El neumonólogo Mazzei informó que “el trasplante se realizó con todo éxito” pero que durante la noche Sandro tuvo un sangrado que lograron controlar.
“Los primeros siete días son críticos porque pueden surgir eventualidades, una de ellas es el sangrado, por eso se le hizo una revisión hemostática para estar tranquilos que la cantidad de sangrado sea normal. Ahora tiene los parámetros hemodinámicos estables”.
Luego, el cardiólogo Perrone aseguró que el cantante “no tuvo fiebre, la evolución de anoche hasta hoy fue favorable y ahora está estable”. Y aseguró que el equipo médico realizaba “todo el esfuerzo posible para que esté bien”.
Sobre las condiciones en las que Sandro ingresó al quirófano, los médicos coincidieron que era complicado pero la evolución fue buena.
Mientras Burgos dijo que “estaba en peores condiciones de lo que lo esperaba de la última vez que lo vi en Buenos Aires”, Mazzei informó que “tenía cirugías previas por lo que se esperaban resultados más complejos” y Perrone aseveró que el ídolo tenía “un daño arterial en el corazón, pero también cambiamos las arterias”.
La información llevó tranquilidad a las seguidoras del cantante que desde horas tempranas se habían apostado en la puerta del centro asistencial, haciendo cadenas de oración, prendiendo velas y hasta cantando los temas más reconocidos del ídolo nacional. El próximo parte se dará a la prensa a las 17 horas, informaron en la Clínica mendocia.
Si todo transcurre tal como se espera, Roberto Sánchez deberá quedarse en Mendoza por, al menos, dos meses, tiempo que demandará su recuperación, para lo cual su familia ya habría alquilado una vivienda ubicada en el barrio Bombal, de la capital mendocina.
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Sandro, cantante argentino famoso por sus baladas, recibió un trasplante cardiopulmonar ayer y su estado de salud es estable. La operación se realizó en Mendoza después de estar en lista de espera del INCUCAI durante varios años. Hay que esperar entre 48 y 72 horas para poder realizar una evaluación final.
Hace unos años estuvo al borde de la muerte a raíz de su enfermedad pero una delicada operación logró salvarlo.
La enfermedad consiste en una obstrucción pulmonar crónica que en el último tiempo había empeorado debiendo ser internado. Esta situación dio lugar al inicio de una campaña de concientización sobre la donación de órganos. |
it | Caldo record nel mese di maggio 2020 con temperature di 0,63 gradi centigradi al di sopra della media dello stesso mese tra il 1981 e il 2010. Le temperature più calde sono state registrate in alcune zone della Siberia (anche 10 gradi sopra la media), dell'Alaska e dell'Antartide. In Europa, maggio ha registrato temperature più basse rispetto alla media, ma con una netta divisione geografica. Lo rileva il bollettino climatico Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).
Ed è record assoluto, a maggio, anche per la concentrazione di anidride carbonica a livello globale che ha raggiunto un picco di 417,1 parti per milione, 2,4 in piu' rispetto al picco del maggio 2019. Lo indica l'Organizzazione mondiale della meteorologia (Wmo) riportando la misurazione della stazione di osservazione di Mauna Loa alle Hawaii, punto di riferimento nel programma Global Atmosphere Watch del Wmo, con stazioni di osservazione in oltre 50 paesi. | pt | O mês de maio de 2020 marcou um novo recorde na temperatura média mundial e na concentração de gases do liberados na atmosfera.
Os dados publicados pelo boletim do Serviço de Mudança Climática Copernicus (C3S) indicam que o mês passado registrou uma temperatura média de 0,63° superior à média do mesmo mês, resultante das observações realizadas no período entre 1981 e 2010. Portanto, de acordo com a agência, trata-se do mês mais quente de maio entre os considerados pelas análises.
Em maio, a concentração de , um dos principais gases de efeito estufa, também atingiu o recorde de 417,1 partes por milhão. A medição foi registrada no observatório científico de , nas , e representa um novo recorde mundial. |
en | (CNN) Last month was the hottest May on record worldwide, a European climate agency has reported, with temperatures in Siberia rising 10 degrees Celsius (18 degrees Fahrenheit) above their normal levels.
Globally, May was 0.63 degrees Celsius warmer than the average May between 1981 and 2010, making it the warmest May in this data record, the Copernicus Climate Change Service said.
And when compared with pre-industrial figures, their recordings indicate that the world is creeping dangerously close to the temperature threshold that international organizations warn would be so devastating to the planet if exceeded.
The Copernicus figures correlate to a 1.26 degree Celsius rise on pre-industrial levels for May. Global temperatures must be kept from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius on those levels to avoid major impacts on the climate, the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded.
May's increase follows a clear trend recorded by Copernicus over the past year. In the last 12-month period up to May, global temperatures were 0.7 degrees Celsius warmer than average -- matching the previous year-long high between October 2015 and September 2016.
Read More | pt | O mês de maio de 2020 marcou um novo recorde na temperatura média mundial e na concentração de gases do liberados na atmosfera.
Os dados publicados pelo boletim do Serviço de Mudança Climática Copernicus (C3S) indicam que o mês passado registrou uma temperatura média de 0,63° superior à média do mesmo mês, resultante das observações realizadas no período entre 1981 e 2010. Portanto, de acordo com a agência, trata-se do mês mais quente de maio entre os considerados pelas análises.
Em maio, a concentração de , um dos principais gases de efeito estufa, também atingiu o recorde de 417,1 partes por milhão. A medição foi registrada no observatório científico de , nas , e representa um novo recorde mundial. |
en | The world has hit another record high for heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, despite reduced emissions because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Measurements of CO2, the chief greenhouse gas, averaged 417.1 parts per million at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, for the month of May, when carbon levels in the air peak, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA ) said on Thursday. That's 2.4 parts per million higher than a year ago.
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Even though emissions of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels dropped by as much as 17 percent in April, it was a brief decline.
Carbon dioxide can stay in the air for centuries, so the short-term reductions of new carbon pollution for a few months did not have much of a big-picture effect, said NOAA senior scientist Pieter Tans.
"It illustrates how difficult it is - what a huge job it is - to bring emissions down," Tans said. "We are really committing the Earth to an enormous amount of warming for a very large time."
The findings were released on the eve of World Environment Day, a United Nations initiative to encourage global awareness and action to protect planet Earth.
Every year, a mature tree cleans the air by absorbing 22 kg (over 48 lbs) of carbon dioxide & releasing oxygen in exchange.
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A series of virtual events and conferences are taking place around the world to mark the day and call for urgent action.
With many cities under coronavirus lockdowns, ecosystems around the world have been healing with smog-free air, less pollution and cleaner waterways
But scientists say the clear skies and other improvements will be short-lived and have minimal effect on global warming as economies begin to reopen.
Meanwhile, temperatures soared 10 degrees Celsius above average last month in Siberia, home to much of Earth's permafrost, as the world experienced its hottest May on record, the European Union's climate monitoring network said on Friday.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said May 2020 was 0.68C warmer than the average May from 1981 to 2010, with above-average temperatures across parts of Alaska, Europe, North America, South America, swaths of Africa and Antarctica.
Globally, "the average temperature for the 12 months to May 2020 is close to 1.3C above the (pre-industrial) level", Copernicus said, referring to the benchmark by which global warming is often measured.
Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nearly 200 countries have pledged to cap the rise in the Earth's average surface temperature to "well below" 2C, and to 1.5C if possible.
The 12 months to May were 0.7C hotter than the 1981 to 2010 average, matching the warmest equivalent period on record between October 2015 and September 2016.
Overall, global temperatures have risen more than 1 degree Celsius since mid-19th century levels, driven mostly by the burning of fossil fuels. | pt | O mês de maio de 2020 marcou um novo recorde na temperatura média mundial e na concentração de gases do liberados na atmosfera.
Os dados publicados pelo boletim do Serviço de Mudança Climática Copernicus (C3S) indicam que o mês passado registrou uma temperatura média de 0,63° superior à média do mesmo mês, resultante das observações realizadas no período entre 1981 e 2010. Portanto, de acordo com a agência, trata-se do mês mais quente de maio entre os considerados pelas análises.
Em maio, a concentração de , um dos principais gases de efeito estufa, também atingiu o recorde de 417,1 partes por milhão. A medição foi registrada no observatório científico de , nas , e representa um novo recorde mundial. |
en | The earthquake was centred in the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan, according to the US Geological Survey.
The quake was felt in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, Al Jazeera's correspondents reported.
There were no initial reports of damage or casualties from the quake, which struck at about 12.21am Afghan time on Friday (19:51GMT Thursday), although information from rural areas is expected to take some time to filter out.
Alan Fisher, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Islamabad, said: "It shook large parts of Islamabad, for at least eight or nine seconds and then there was a very strong aftershock immediately afterwards.
"It wasn't just felt here in Islamabad, but also in Kabul and Karachi.
"The concern, of course, will be how much damage has it done to the epicentre and the towns there.
Resources stretched
"At the moment, as the Pakistani army is fighting a major offensive in South Waziristan, they may have to put a great deal of resources into the area where the earthquake may have caused damage," Al Jazeera's correspondent said.
"That might affect the operation ... not just in South Waziristan but the security operation that has been mounted all around the country."
James Bays, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Kabul, said: "The whole building where I am shook. It's a place where we have a lot of seismic activity, a place prone to earthquakes.
"Those people who are there in the area where the quake struck will be on their own for a very long time. It is a highly mountainous area, so initial impressions are that there won't be a huge number of casualties.
"On the other hand, if it has hit a village, and there are casualties, it is going to take a very long time to get them assistance."
A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in northwest Pakistan and Kashmir in October 2005 killed 74,000 people and displaced 3.5 million others. | en | An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan early on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported.
Hindu Kush mountains
The tremors, which started at 00.21 local time (19.51 UTC), were felt in the capitals of both countries. There were no immediate reports of deaths or destruction from the earthquakes.
A reporter for the Al Jazeera news agency said that the initial earthquake lasted for several seconds, and was followed by a heavy aftershock.
In October 2005, a heavy 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Pakistan, displacing over three million people and killing almost 75,000. A 6.9 magnitude tremor in 1998 killed over 50,000 and caused flooding and mudslides. |
en | KABUL, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- A powerful earthquake struck the Hindu Kush mountains along Afghanistan's northeast border with Pakistan early Friday.
The quake was magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), and the epicenter is 70 kilometers far from Feyzabad, capital of Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan.
"We have a very strong feeling," a resident in Feyazabad told Xinhua by telephone. "Almost all the residents rushed out of houses."
However, local officials refused to speculate on casualties. The quake has also strongly shaken buildings in Afghan capital Kabul and other provinces.
Some Kabul residents dashed from their houses in their nightclothes when the houses were shaking. In northern provinces Kunduz and Baghlan, Xinhua reporters said the tremor was strongly felt.
Badakhshan, the most remote area in Afghanistan, is a region prone to earthquakes. Damage reports from this area are often slow because of remoteness and lacking communication facilities.
In 1998, a 6.9-magnitude quake in Badakhshan caused mud slides and flooding, killing more than 5,000 people. Another quake left some 1,000 dead in northeast Afghanistan in 2002. | en | An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 struck the Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan early on Friday, the US Geological Survey reported.
Hindu Kush mountains
The tremors, which started at 00.21 local time (19.51 UTC), were felt in the capitals of both countries. There were no immediate reports of deaths or destruction from the earthquakes.
A reporter for the Al Jazeera news agency said that the initial earthquake lasted for several seconds, and was followed by a heavy aftershock.
In October 2005, a heavy 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck northwestern Pakistan, displacing over three million people and killing almost 75,000. A 6.9 magnitude tremor in 1998 killed over 50,000 and caused flooding and mudslides. |
de | Nach seiner Sterbehilfe hat Hamburgs Ex-Justizsenator Kusch ein Video der lebensmüden Rentnerin gezeigt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft Würzburg leitete ein Ermittlungsverfahren ein.
Die Bilder sprechen eine andere Sprache als ihre Worte. Das Video zeigt eine mollige Frau, die entspannt eine Zigarette raucht und scheinbar lebenslustig in die Kamera lacht. Bettina S. trägt eine weiß-rosa gestreifte Bluse und einen braunen Faltenrock. Sorgfältig hat sie ihre Gold umrahmte Brille mit einem Kettchen gesichert. Doch was sie sagt, passt nicht zu den freundlichen Bildern. Denn in dem Video, das Hamburgs Ex-Justizsenator Roger Kusch am Montag der Presse in Auszügen zeigte, redet die Rentnerin aus Würzburg über ihren bevorstehenden Selbstmord.„Dankeschön allen, die mir geholfen haben ...“, sagt die 79-Jährige und prostet lachend mit einem schwarzen Kaffeebecher in die Videokamera. Das werde sie antworten, wenn sie im Moment ihrer Gifteinnahme gefragt würde, ob sie wirklich sterben wolle. Am vergangenen Samstag war es so weit. Die alleinstehende Rentnerin nahm sich das Leben. Zuerst schluckte sie eine Dosis des Malariamittels Chloroquin und dann Diazepam. Sterbehilfe leistete Roger Kusch.Der Populist, der seit Jahren für die Legalisierung aktiver Sterbehilfe eintritt, zeichnete das Video auf und war bei der Einnahme der Medikamente dabei. Die Selbstmordmittel soll sich die 79-Jährige selbst besorgt haben. Um jedoch nicht wegen unterlassener Hilfeleistung belangt zu werden, verließ Kusch das Schlafzimmer und die Wohnung der Selbstmörderin „ein bis zwei Minuten nachdem sie das zweite Mittel genommen hatte und noch bei Bewusstsein war“, erklärte Kusch.Die Aufnahmen, mit denen der Ex-Senator seine umstrittene Aktion rechtfertigen will, zeigen Kusch im Gespräch mit der alten Dame. Sie entstanden bei mehreren Treffen in ihrer Wohnung. Bettina S. habe sich an ihn gewandt, nachdem sie von seinem Tötungsautomaten gelesen hatte, so Kusch.Die umstrittene Apparatur, bei deren Präsentation Kusch vor gut drei Monaten schon einmal großes mediales Aufsehen erregte, kam diesmal zwar noch nicht zum Einsatz. Doch bereits jetzt zeichnete eine Kamera die letzten Augenblicke im Leben der ehemaligen Krankenschwester auf. Dennoch präsentierte der Rechtsanwalt, der in Hamburg den Verein „Roger Kusch Sterbehilfe e. V.“ gründete, diese Bilder nicht. Sie würden, so der Skandal-Politiker, allein der Dokumentation für etwaige Rechtsfolgen dienen. Nur soviel ließ Kusch vorab verkünden: Die erste Sterbehilfe war kostenlos.Die Staatsanwaltschaft Würzburg leitete derweil ein Ermittlungsverfahren zur Klärung der Todesumstände im Fall Bettina S. ein. Es wird geprüft, ob eine Fremdbeteiligung bei dem Suizid vorliegt und ob diese strafrechtlich relevant ist. Kusch muss aber vermutlich nicht mit einem Verfahren rechnen. Aktive Sterbehilfe ist in Deutschland zwar verboten, die Beihilfe zum Selbstmord jedoch straffrei. Eine Rechtslage, die Mitte der 80er-Jahre auch schon den umstrittenen Arzt Julius Hackethal vor Konsequenzen schützte. Auch er drehte einen Aufsehen erregenden Film während des Selbstmords einer schwer an Gesichtskrebs erkrankten Frau. Das Zyankali, das Hackethal der Selbstmörderin gab, nahm sie selbst ein.Im Fall von Bettina S. sind die Motive der Frau, ihrem Leben ein Ende zu setzen, überraschend. Denn sie war nicht etwa todkrank. „Ich habe keine Lust, mich nur noch herumzuschleppen, um ein halbwegs erträgliches Leben zu führen“, so die ehemalige Krankenschwester im Video. | de | Hamburgs ehemaliger Justizsenator Roger Kusch hat nach eigenen Angaben am Samstag, den 28. Juni, bei einer 79-jährigen Rentnerin aus Würzburg Sterbehilfe geleistet. Dies gab er am Montag, 30. Juni auf einer Pressekonferenz bekannt, auf der er auch ein Video der Getöteten präsentierte. Die Frau war weder unheilbar krank noch hatte sie Schmerzen. Vielmehr hatte sie Angst, in ein Pflegeheim eingewiesen zu werden. Der Tötungsautomat, den Kusch im April der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt hatte, kam bei der Tat nicht zum Einsatz. Stattdessen trank die Frau das Malaria-Medikament Chloroquin und das Beruhigungsmittel Diazepam aus zwei Bechern. Die Medikamente hatte sich die Frau angeblich selbst besorgt. Laut Kusch war diese erste Sterbehilfe kostenlos.
Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat inzwischen ein reguläres Ermittlungsverfahren eingeleitet, da die Frau nicht eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist. Aktive Sterbehilfe ist in Deutschland verboten. Der Vorstand der Deutschen Hospiz-Stiftung, Eugen Brysch, nannte Kusch einen „politischen Amokläufer“. |
de | Hamburgs Ex-Justizsenator Roger Kusch hat nach eigenen Angaben bei einer 79-jährigen Frau aus Würzburg Sterbehilfe geleistet – als politisches Signal, wie er sagt. Die Staatsanwaltschaft ermittelt
Der ehemalige Hamburger Justizsenator Roger Kusch spricht am Montag (30.06.08) in Hamburg auf einer Pressekonferenz © Roland Magunia/ddp
Kusch bekannte sich am Montag auf einer Pressekonferenz in Hamburg selbst zu seiner Tat. Der frühere CDU-Politiker war im Streit aus dem einstigen CDU-Senat in der Hansestadt ausgeschieden und aus der Partei ausgetreten. Er macht sich seitdem, auch mit einer eigenen Partei, für Sterbehilfe stark. Er hatte dazu im März eine umstrittene «Selbsttötungsmaschine» vorgestellt – als Alternative zum Schweizer Sterbehilfe-Verein Dignitas.
Diese Maschine habe er aber nach Abwägung der Risiken nicht zum Einsatz gebracht, sagte Kusch. Die Rentnerin, die nicht schwer krank gewesen sei, aber Angst vor einem Leben in einem Pflegeheim gehabt habe, sei am vergangenen Samstag gestorben. Sie habe ein Malaria-Medikament und ein Beruhigungsmittel eingenommen. Um den freien Willen der Frau für den «begleiteten Suizid» zu demonstrieren, zeigte Kusch auf Video aufgezeichnete Interviews mit der früheren Röntgenassistentin.
Es «ist eines freien, modernen, aufgeklärten Landes unwürdig, seine besonders hilfsbedürftigen, bemitleidenswerten Menschen am Ende ihres Lebens zum Sterben nach Zürich zu schicken», begründete Kusch seine Aktion. Er habe nach Abwägung der Rechtslage «Worten auch Taten folgen lassen».
In Deutschland ist aktive Sterbehilfe verboten. Manche Sterbewillige fahren deshalb in die Schweiz, um sich etwa beim Verein Dignitas beim Sterben helfen zu lassen. Aus diesem rechtlichen Grund hatte Kusch Ende März seine Apparatur vorgestellt, die nach dem Muster der in den USA umstrittenen Giftspritze funktioniert und es dem Patienten ermöglicht, den Auslöser selbst zu betätigen.
Die Würzburger Staatsanwaltschaft nahm nach dem Bekenntnis von Kusch Ermittlungen auf. In dem Verfahren sollten die Umstände des Todes der 79-Jährigen geklärt werden, sagte Oberstaatsanwalt Erik Ohlenschlager. Es solle festgestellt werden, ob es sich um einen eigenverantwortlichen Selbstmord gehandelt habe, ob andere Menschen daran beteiligt gewesen seien und ob strafrechtliches Handeln vorliege.
Die Deutsche Hospizstiftung warf Kusch vor, er sei ein «politischer Amokläufer», der «scheinbar aus tiefstem Narzissmus die Angst der Menschen vor Pflege missbraucht, nur um öffentliche Aufmerksamkeit auf seine eigene Person zu lenken». Ginge es ihm um eine Auseinandersetzung um Würde am Lebensende, müsste Kusch auf die Lebensbedingungen alter Menschen eingehen, sagte Stiftungsgeschäftsführer Eugen Brysch. «Laut unserer Verfassung gibt es ein Recht auf Leben und es gibt ein Recht auf Sterben. Es gibt aber kein Recht auf Töten.» | de | Hamburgs ehemaliger Justizsenator Roger Kusch hat nach eigenen Angaben am Samstag, den 28. Juni, bei einer 79-jährigen Rentnerin aus Würzburg Sterbehilfe geleistet. Dies gab er am Montag, 30. Juni auf einer Pressekonferenz bekannt, auf der er auch ein Video der Getöteten präsentierte. Die Frau war weder unheilbar krank noch hatte sie Schmerzen. Vielmehr hatte sie Angst, in ein Pflegeheim eingewiesen zu werden. Der Tötungsautomat, den Kusch im April der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt hatte, kam bei der Tat nicht zum Einsatz. Stattdessen trank die Frau das Malaria-Medikament Chloroquin und das Beruhigungsmittel Diazepam aus zwei Bechern. Die Medikamente hatte sich die Frau angeblich selbst besorgt. Laut Kusch war diese erste Sterbehilfe kostenlos.
Die Staatsanwaltschaft hat inzwischen ein reguläres Ermittlungsverfahren eingeleitet, da die Frau nicht eines natürlichen Todes gestorben ist. Aktive Sterbehilfe ist in Deutschland verboten. Der Vorstand der Deutschen Hospiz-Stiftung, Eugen Brysch, nannte Kusch einen „politischen Amokläufer“. |
es | Piedras Negras.- El Mega cuartel ubicado en el municipio de San Pedro, quedara concluido el próximo 10 de octubre, que no se tiene la fecha precisa para la inauguración oficial, porque dependerá de la agenda del presidente de la República, Enrique Peña Nieto, aseguró el comandante de la XI Región Militar, Rubén Serrano Herrera.
En entrevista al término del inicio de clases de la escuela bachillerato Tecnológico Militarizado, el jefe militar dijo que prácticamente esta todo terminado, y de acuerdo con el proyecto, será el próximo 10 de octubre del presente año cuando se entregue la obra.
La inauguración oficial señaló que está sujeta a la disponibilidad del Presidente de la República, Enrique Peña Nieto. Sin embargo, reiteró que a partir del 10 de octubre estará disponible para su inauguración.
"Es un cuartel que se hizo, junto con el Estado de Durango y Coahuila, y la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional se hizo para dar mejor seguridad, con ello que no vuelvan a resurgir los lamentables hechos que se registraron en el 2011. | pt | O mega quartel que está sendo construído no município de (Coahuila) já tem uma data de conclusão, estando prevista para 10 de outubro. A inauguração oficial está disponível para a agenda do presidente da república .
É um quartel que está sendo construído em conjunto com os estados mexicanos de Coahuila e e a Secretaria da Defesa Nacional. Além do apoio dos municípios de Coahuila e empresas privadas como grupo SIMS de proprietários Nesim Issa Tafich e Salomón Issa Tafich, CEMEX Monterrey, Altos Hornos de México e organismos nacionais.
A base militar será a segunda maior depois da cidade mexicana de em Coahuila, abrigando a mais de três mil 500 elementos da secretária de defesa nacional, a fim de reforçar a segurança pública. A construção representou um custo superior aos 800 milhões de pesos, graças à colaboração dos governos nacionais e da SEDENA. |
es | En menos dos meses, el cuartel de la Policía Militar que es desarrollado en predios del municipio de San Pedro de las Colonias, será concluido en su totalidad, por lo que más de tres mil 500 efectivos de la Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional iniciarán operaciones de inteligencia y seguridad en la Comarca Lagunera y todas las regiones de Coahuila.
El presidente Enrique Peña Nieto, estará presente en dicha inauguración, además de los secretarios tanto de Marina como de Defensa en una ceremonia especial ante este logro que, para el gobernador del estado, Rubén Moreira Valdez, es un paso importante en materia de seguridad.
El mandatario, reiteró que la federación ha mostrado todo su apoyo en que la paz social logre preservarse.
La base militar, será la segunda más grande después de la de Piedras Negras.
La obra, representó un costo superior a los 800 millones de pesos y contará con infraestructura especial para servir a la comunidad en diversos aspectos. | pt | O mega quartel que está sendo construído no município de (Coahuila) já tem uma data de conclusão, estando prevista para 10 de outubro. A inauguração oficial está disponível para a agenda do presidente da república .
É um quartel que está sendo construído em conjunto com os estados mexicanos de Coahuila e e a Secretaria da Defesa Nacional. Além do apoio dos municípios de Coahuila e empresas privadas como grupo SIMS de proprietários Nesim Issa Tafich e Salomón Issa Tafich, CEMEX Monterrey, Altos Hornos de México e organismos nacionais.
A base militar será a segunda maior depois da cidade mexicana de em Coahuila, abrigando a mais de três mil 500 elementos da secretária de defesa nacional, a fim de reforçar a segurança pública. A construção representou um custo superior aos 800 milhões de pesos, graças à colaboração dos governos nacionais e da SEDENA. |
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Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to ''Forbes'' the deal would have helped China Eastern's earnings and accelerate the consolidation and would have improved the market position of China's third-largest airline. Talks went on throughout the year and both companies suspended trading of their shares on May 21, 2007, according to a ''AFP'' press release.
The vote took place at a shareholder meeting in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to ''Financial Times Online'', the blocking of the SA bid by minority shareholders is bad news for China Eastern Airlines managers, who were and still are in full support of Singapore Airlines, which the Singaporean government owns a 55% stake in via Temasek Holdings.
''Financial Times Online'' says this is most likely due to the fact that Air China not having made any formal bids yet, instead creating many media rumors about a possible purchase. The bid by Air China, that is likely to be larger than that of Singapore Airlines, may be supported by Cathay Pacific, who are in a cross-shareholding relationship with China National Aviation Corp., the parent company of Air China. |
en | In a country where most big corporate decisions are hammered out through weeks of closed-door compromises between dark-suited officials, Tuesday’s vote by shareholders of China Eastern Airlines will provide a rare moment of semi-public drama.
Investors in the Shanghai-based airline will have a choice between voting for Singapore Airlines’ HK$7.16bn ($917m) offer for a 24 per cent stake in the carrier, or holding out for a potentially larger – but yet to be tabled – bid from rival Air China. The extraordinary general meeting, to be held in a Shanghai hotel but closed to the media, will bring to a head a public dispute that has demonstrated the increasingly assertive corporate tactics that some of China’s once-stolid state-owned companies are willing to use. It will also have a huge influence over the future direction of the Chinese airline sector. | en | A bid made by Singapore Airlines for a 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines was turned down by minority shareholders.
Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to ''Forbes'' the deal would have helped China Eastern's earnings and accelerate the consolidation and would have improved the market position of China's third-largest airline. Talks went on throughout the year and both companies suspended trading of their shares on May 21, 2007, according to a ''AFP'' press release.
The vote took place at a shareholder meeting in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to ''Financial Times Online'', the blocking of the SA bid by minority shareholders is bad news for China Eastern Airlines managers, who were and still are in full support of Singapore Airlines, which the Singaporean government owns a 55% stake in via Temasek Holdings.
''Financial Times Online'' says this is most likely due to the fact that Air China not having made any formal bids yet, instead creating many media rumors about a possible purchase. The bid by Air China, that is likely to be larger than that of Singapore Airlines, may be supported by Cathay Pacific, who are in a cross-shareholding relationship with China National Aviation Corp., the parent company of Air China. |
en | In a rare movement, China Eastern Airlines said it foresaw "a gloomy results from a vote on the proposed sale of shares to Singapore Airlines and Temasek."
In an email delivered to China Daily this morning, China Eastern said that the sales proposal will "very likely be put off temporarily".
According to the email, a vast number of shareholders that previously supported the deal have "changed their minds" after China National Aviation Corp (CNAC), Air China's parent company, said on Sunday it plans to make a counter offer of 5 HK dollars per share for China Eastern Airlines.
The counter offer is a third higher than the 3.8 HK dollars offered by Singapore Airlines if the China Eastern-Singapore Airlines deal is rejected.
In addition, CNAC, which owns a 12.07 percent stake in China Eastern, is expected to vote against the deal, and as such the deal is not likely to pass, said China Eastern in the statement.
The shareholder meeting to discuss the deal will be held at 1:30 pm today as scheduled. Trading of both A and H shares of China Eastern is suspended today.
China Eastern said in a statement to the Shanghai Stock Exchange today that the company has not received any "formal" similar proposal from other suitors.
In a statement last night, China Eastern challenged the authenticity of the proposal raised by CNAC and suggesting CNAC hopes to block cooperation with Singapore Airlines.
Source: China Daily | en | A bid made by Singapore Airlines for a 24% stake in China Eastern Airlines was turned down by minority shareholders.
Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to ''Forbes'' the deal would have helped China Eastern's earnings and accelerate the consolidation and would have improved the market position of China's third-largest airline. Talks went on throughout the year and both companies suspended trading of their shares on May 21, 2007, according to a ''AFP'' press release.
The vote took place at a shareholder meeting in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to ''Financial Times Online'', the blocking of the SA bid by minority shareholders is bad news for China Eastern Airlines managers, who were and still are in full support of Singapore Airlines, which the Singaporean government owns a 55% stake in via Temasek Holdings.
''Financial Times Online'' says this is most likely due to the fact that Air China not having made any formal bids yet, instead creating many media rumors about a possible purchase. The bid by Air China, that is likely to be larger than that of Singapore Airlines, may be supported by Cathay Pacific, who are in a cross-shareholding relationship with China National Aviation Corp., the parent company of Air China. |
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HONG KONG (Thomson Financial) - The sale of 24 percent of China Eastern Airlines to Singapore Airlines Ltd and Singapore state-owned investment company Temasek Holdings will likely accelerate the consolidation in mainland China's aviation market and should strengthen the third-biggest carrier's competitive position, analysts said Monday. The deal will improve earnings for China Eastern, which will have as a strategic partner Singapore Airlines (other-otc: SGPJF.PK - news - people ), one of the world's most efficient airline operators and currently the largest in terms of market capitalization, they said. The acquisition is a direct challenge to China's No 2 operator China Southern Airlines, which has yet to forge an alliance with an international carrier, and to Beijing-based Air China, the mainland's largest airline operator. Air China sold a 17.5 percent stake to Cathay Pacific Airlines in 2006. China Eastern Airlines is the weakest of the three major state-owned carriers. The acquisition of loss-making regional carriers, increased competition from rivals at its Shanghai hub, huge debt and high fuel prices have weighed on the company's finances for years. But China's economy, which grew at 11.9 percent in the second quarter, is fuelling demand for air travel in the mainland and forcing companies like China Eastern to consolidate resources and seek alliances to fund expansion and prepare for the competition ahead. Fresh capital Under the terms of the much-anticipated agreement, Singapore Airlines will buy 1.235 billion China Eastern shares for 4.70 billion Hong Kong dollars, or 3.80 Hong Kong dollars a share -- a 1.9 percent premium over the price of the carrier's Hong Kong shares last May 22. That's the date that the shares last traded before they were suspended due to the acquisition talks. Singapore Airlines will hold a 15.7 percent stake in the Chinese airline while Temasek Holding will buy 649.4 million H-shares, or 8.3 percent of the airline's enlarged capital, for 2.5 billion dollars. China Eastern will also sell 1.1 billion new shares to its own parent company, China Eastern Holding, for 4.2 billion dollars, allowing the state company to retain ownership over 51 percent of the airline's enlarged capital. Shanghai-based China Eastern, which trades in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York, said in a statement the deal 'will directly improve the capital structure of China Eastern Airlines and reduce its debt ratio.' 'The cooperation between China Eastern Airlines and Singapore Airlines will make China Eastern bigger and stronger,' Li Fenghua, chairman of China Eastern said at a briefing Sunday. The two carriers pledged to work together in a strategic cooperation and said they would avoid teaming up with the other's competitors. 'What was slightly different from expectations...(was) the measure (giving) Singapore Air the right to increase its shareholding once ownership rules are liberalized,' said HSBC (nyse: HBC - news - people ) analysts Mark Webb, Eric Lin and Azura Shahrim in a note. China Eastern is expecting cost savings of up to 500 million yuan per year from the deal. The largest contribution to those savings seems to be the fall in interest costs the airline will enjoy as a result of the new capital raised, said the note. China Eastern Airlines has been losing money due to rising operating costs and debt. The company posted a loss of 3.3 billion yuan in 2006 under international accounting standards, widening from a loss of 467.31 million a year earlier. A win-win Analysts welcomed the deal as a positive for China Eastern and Singapore Airlines. 'China Eastern Airlines will gain financial support and some industrial expertise from an industry leader,' said Philip Chan, research head at CAF Securities Co Ltd, a unit of Agricultural Bank of China. 'I expect the acquisition to bring a lot of synergy to China Eastern, while providing Singapore Air a foothold in China as it competes with other airlines in the mainland,' Chan said. The strategic partnership is also expected to boost operating revenues for the mainland carrier. 'By leveraging on Singapore Air's yield management expertise and the Shanghai hub, we see significant potential for operating revenue improvement for China Eastern, particularly for the long-haul routes, which currently are losing money,' said Morgan Stanley (nyse: MS - news - people ) analysts Edward Xu and Chin Lim. At the same time, the improvement in operational efficiency should strengthen China Eastern's competitive position against Air China and China Southern Airlines, they said. Xu and Lim raised their rating on the stock to 'overweight' from 'underweight' and set a stock price target at 7.10 Hong Kong dollars. Morgan Stanley is expecting China Eastern to have net profit of 746 million yuan for 2007, and 1.17 billion yuan for 2008. Singapore Air is expected to act as an 'active investor' in the mainland carrier. The airline and government-sponsored Temasek will have three seats on an expanded board of 14 directors. Singapore Air will have the right to nominate and consent to key executive positions in China Eastern. 'Singapore Airlines will gain significant influence in the operations of China Eastern,' said Merrill Lynch (nyse: MER - news - people ) analysts. Singapore Airlines and China Eastern will also set up working teams to improve the latter's service delivery, procurement, training, and flight scheduling. But while the deal has brought the mainland carrier closer to a solution to its ailing operation, much has to be done to turn its finances and operations around, analysts said. 'The new equity should have an immediate effect on China Eastern's bottom line by lowering financing expenses sharply and cutting net gearing to three times from 17 times. (But) given Singapore Air's small equity stake, it may not be able to do much to improve China Eastern's operational margin and cash flow,' said Ally Ma, analyst with Citigroup (nyse: C - news - people ). 'A major revamp is needed at China Eastern, in our view. If not, it could again face equity depletion considering its huge 50-60 billion yuan aircraft capital commitment through 2010,' Ma said. Air route synergies could also boost China Eastern's presence in the international aviation market, however there may be obstacles, said Ma. 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Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to ''Forbes'' the deal would have helped China Eastern's earnings and accelerate the consolidation and would have improved the market position of China's third-largest airline. Talks went on throughout the year and both companies suspended trading of their shares on May 21, 2007, according to a ''AFP'' press release.
The vote took place at a shareholder meeting in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to ''Financial Times Online'', the blocking of the SA bid by minority shareholders is bad news for China Eastern Airlines managers, who were and still are in full support of Singapore Airlines, which the Singaporean government owns a 55% stake in via Temasek Holdings.
''Financial Times Online'' says this is most likely due to the fact that Air China not having made any formal bids yet, instead creating many media rumors about a possible purchase. The bid by Air China, that is likely to be larger than that of Singapore Airlines, may be supported by Cathay Pacific, who are in a cross-shareholding relationship with China National Aviation Corp., the parent company of Air China. |
en | Singapore Airlines, China Eastern halt share trading
SINGAPORE: Singapore Airlines (SIA) and China Eastern Airlines suspended trading of their shares on Tuesday amid reports of a possible investment deal.
SIA did not state a reason for their suspension of trade at the Singapore Exchange but said it would make an announcement after the stock market closes at 5:00 pm (0900 GMT).
The stock last traded at 18.40 Singapore dollars (12.1 US).
Trading of China Eastern Airlines was also halted at the Hong Kong stock exchange, where the stock last traded at 3.73 Hong Kong dollars (48 US cents).
China Eastern said it requested the trading halt pending the release of a "price-sensitive" announcement.
SIA chief executive Chew Choon Seng said on May 11 the Singapore carrier was in discussions with China Eastern, but that the talks "have not progressed to a stage where we have any announcements to make".
The Shanghai Securities News reported from Beijing on Monday that talks were going on smoothly.
"So far, the talks with Singapore Airlines are smooth ... but the conclusion of an agreement will depend on the support of the government," the newspaper quoted China Eastern chairman Li Fenghua as saying.
Li said China Eastern plans to sell up to a 25 percent stake to a foreign strategic investor.
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Talks about a sale started in March 2007 when Singapore Airlines and China Eastern started negotiations about a possible deal. According to ''Forbes'' the deal would have helped China Eastern's earnings and accelerate the consolidation and would have improved the market position of China's third-largest airline. Talks went on throughout the year and both companies suspended trading of their shares on May 21, 2007, according to a ''AFP'' press release.
The vote took place at a shareholder meeting in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. According to ''Financial Times Online'', the blocking of the SA bid by minority shareholders is bad news for China Eastern Airlines managers, who were and still are in full support of Singapore Airlines, which the Singaporean government owns a 55% stake in via Temasek Holdings.
''Financial Times Online'' says this is most likely due to the fact that Air China not having made any formal bids yet, instead creating many media rumors about a possible purchase. The bid by Air China, that is likely to be larger than that of Singapore Airlines, may be supported by Cathay Pacific, who are in a cross-shareholding relationship with China National Aviation Corp., the parent company of Air China. |
en | Fury as goal-line technology plans are shelved
By Andrew Warshaw
Last Updated: 12:13am GMT 09/03/2008
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Football's lawmakers performed a stunning U-turn by kicking out goal-line technology for the foreseeable future, a crushing blow to the Football Association and Premier League who had jointly championed scientific methods for ending decades of controversy.
A year after giving a conditional thumbs up either to the Hawk-Eye system widely used in tennis and cricket or a painstakingly researched micro-chipped ball, the International FA Board unexpectedly turned their back on both systems and voted instead for experimenting with two additional linesmen.
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The IFAB's 11th-hour change of heart, at a conference in Gleneagles, was clearly a shock to a red-faced FA chief executive Brian Barwick, who described goal-line technology as "dead in the water" 42 years after Geoff Hurst's hotly disputed extra-time goal in the 1966 World Cup final. "It's a big disappointment to us but we have to respect the decision," Barwick said after the unprecedented IFAB split.
"The FA has always been in the vanguard of helping referees make the right decisions. The two experiments that were being undertaken went a long way to making it work. One was very close to being successful and the other two-thirds of the way. We are disappointed they have now been shelved. It's hard enough to recruit referees already."
Barwick, who was supported by the Scots but outvoted by the two other home associations and Fifa, was at a loss to explain why years of effort had suddenly been scuppered. The Sunday Telegraph has learned, however, that IFAB members were persuaded, after a strongly-worded intervention from Uefa president Michel Platini, to change direction and shelve all further work on goal-line technology.
Platini is a staunch opponent of any kind of technology and managed to convince the panel that adopting two more match officials was a better way for deciding whether the ball had crossed the line as well as monitoring fouls in the penalty area.
"There is a philosophical debate, it's very simple," Platini told The Sunday Telegraph. "Either you help them with additional pairs of eyes or with technology and I'm against technology. Once you start, who knows where you might stop. The 18-yard line, the offside trap? All I'm saying is let's try my idea."
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke said Platini's idea would now undergo tests at either a Uefa or a FIFA tournament within the next 12 months to make sure a final decision can be made at next year's IFAB meeting.
The shelving of goal-line technology infuriated the Premier League, who have spent hundreds of thousands of pounds backing the Hawk-Eye system. A Premier League spokesman said: "A lot of time, money and effort has gone into developing a system that meets all the criteria laid down last year."
Minutes before yesterday's announcement, the IFAB were given a detailed demonstration by Premier League general secretary Mike Foster, who ironically told reporters beforehand that he hoped to have the Hawk-Eye system in place by the start of the 2009-10 season. "It's not yet the finished product but I have seen enough of it to have confidence that it will do the job," Foster said.
Premier League clubs, he said, had been 100 per cent behind the system, believed to be both accurate and reliable. "They have been driving it since day one," Foster said.
Most angry of all was Hawk-Eye managing director Paul Hawkins, who was encouraged 10 days ago to press ahead with his research during a private showing for IFAB members at Reading's Madjeski Stadium. "I am livid," Hawkins said. "This decision is completely out of the blue. A year ago they laid down four specific criteria and now they change their minds. My company has invested an awful lot of money and now we will get no return on our investment."
Later Fifa president Sepp Blatter insisted there had been no move to deliberately take a stand against the FA's position but that the technology put forward was simply too complicated.
"There has been no change of heart. Referees make decisions, not machines," he said. "I have defended goal-line technology but it has become clear that such systems are too complicated and very costly. Nor would they necessarily add anything positive to the game and could harm the authority of the referee.
"We have to maintain the laws of the game in their simplicity. Do you want technical devices to take decisions? That's why, after three years of tests with no conclusions, I am in favour of putting the whole thing on ice."
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Seriously how long do the governing bodys of this beatiful game believe they can go against technology! Weather the ball had crossed the line or not is always up for debate but the ref's need all the help they can get in order for them to make the right desicion and not to be givin the yellow card as they say! Many is the times that i have screamed at the ref or linesman for rediculous desicions! So instead of making absoultly sure with goal line technology lets spread the blame and put more linesman in the mix!
Michel Platini must be mad! How can the face of an international sport like football make a desicion on his own based on his own personnel feelings regarding technology! Its a shame that his lack of fore sight will bring more controvesy to the game that has enough all ready! WAKE UP! Michel Platini think about what would be good about football!
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platini is a disgrace.
More than 70 years after Herbert Chapman suggested goal line assistants, he and his ilk have finally managed to get their heads around it.
The problem is, Herbert Chapman proposed that when there was little technology available, and it was the best solution available at the time.
That these dinosaurs have only just got their heads around it now, speaks volumes.
Are we to expect the adoption of technology around 2078 perhaps?
Honestly, the stupidity of the man knows no bounds.
"Against technology"?
But not when television rakes in millions for your "product"?
Or doesn't that count as "technology"?
I take it the man starts fires by rubbing twigs to cook?
And as for the rubbish about "where it stops"! People are looking at the "beautiful game" surely?
Surely anything that makes football a genuine contest of skill, tactics and strategies on the pitch should be welcomed?
Or does platini think (now there's a generous interpretation) that the game should amount to little more than a game of roulette in the casino?
The idiocy is mind-boggling!
What is this person doing in a senior position in football?
Heaven help us!
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Platini continues to be an administrative luddite. What baffles me though is how one individual can be so intimidating. I avoid using "persuasive" because that implies a level of mental dexterity sadly missing in the man. Just what hold does he have over these malleable wimps?
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The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that decides on the laws of the game, has decided to discontinue all experiments involving technology, and for the first time has also decided on the exact size of a soccer field.
Instead of pursuing the idea of using cameras or microchips in the ball to see if it has crossed the goal-line, the International Board wants to see if the introduction of two extra assistant referees can improve the quality of referee's decisions.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke declared: "We have decided to freeze for the time being the goal-line technology and all technology experiments. We will look on these two additional referees and we avoid considering any goal-line technology during this time."
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the move was necessary to maintain the universal spirit of the game: "We have 260 million people directly involved in the game. If we maintain the laws of the game ... it's so easy to understand ... We have to live with errors, football has to keep its human face."
"We have to maintain the laws of the game in their simplicity. Do you want technical devices to take decisions? That's why, after three years of tests with no conclusions, I am in favour of putting the whole thing on ice," Blatter explained.
An assistant referee.
UEFA president Michel Platini agreed: "Football should stay human, but two more officials can help, especially around the goal." Platini made the suggestion to freeze all investigations into technology and to try two additional assistants behind each goal.
Blatter said the system using the microchip "was very complicated, needing electrified lines on the field of play and other devices including antennae and when we tested it in Tokyo last year there was one mistake during the seven matches we used as an experiment at the Club World Championship." With regards to the system using cameras, he pointed to "problems with players obscuring the views of the cameras, or of flares or weather conditions."
The system of the extra referees will be tested at an upcoming FIFA or UEFA tournament, and a final ruling is expected at next year's meeting, according to FIFA's Jerome Valcke.
Hawk-Eye, the company that was working on the goal-line technology that is already being used for line calls in tennis, reacted with disappointment: "I'm livid, it is completely out of the blue... A year ago they met and gave us four criteria to meet and we have met all of them, yet they have kicked it out now... We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that investment," director Paul Hawkins said. He said he was encouraged to continue research on the project only 10 days ago at a private showing for IFAB members at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
While the Welsh FA were also against the idea, the English Football Association supported the use of technology and was hoping to start using it by next season. The FA clubs and referees supported the use of Hawk-Eye technology, said Mike Foster, general secretary of the English Premier League. A spokesperson of the Premier League said that "A lot of time, money and effort has gone into developing a system that meets all the criteria laid down last year." The Scottish and Northern Irish FA also voted in favour of the goal-line technology.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick expressed his disappointment at the annual meeting of the IFAB in Gleneagles, Scotland: "We were in favour of goal-line technology but there will be no more experiments and it will not be back on the agenda next year, or in the foreseeable future."
FIFA President Blatter denied ulterior motives for the decision: "There has been no change of heart. Referees make decisions, not machines... I have defended goal-line technology but it has become clear that such systems are too complicated and very costly. Nor would they necessarily add anything positive to the game and could harm the authority of the referee." |
en | FA chief executive Brian Barwick is disappointed with the decision
The English Football Association and Premier League chiefs had hoped to introduce the 'Hawkeye' system in 2009.
But world governing body Fifa have ordered a freeze on tests and will now push ahead with trialling two assistant referees behind each goal instead.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick, who supported the experiments, admitted: "The idea is now dead in the water."
Speaking at the annual meeting of Fifa's International FA Board (IFAB) in Gleneagles, Barwick said: "We are very disappointed.
"The FA has always been in the vanguard of wanting to help the referee and the assistant referee make the right decisions. We've always been champions of this.
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"We were in favour of goal-line technology but there will be no more experiments and it will not be back on the agenda next year, or in the foreseeable future."
Scottish FA chief executive Gordon Smith said he was surprised at the decision but added that he did not think the idea was completely dead.
"If people can prove the technology works, I don't see why it can't be raised again," he told BBC Sport.
Former Celtic and Scotland midfielder Murdo McLeod said he had yet to be convinced that goal-line technology would work, but he was highly critical of the idea of employing extra referees.
"It's absolute nonsense," said the BBC football pundit. "No matter where he (the extra linesman) stands, at some point his view is going to be obscured.
"It's a waste of money to have to employ two extra referees at every game."
The English Premier League had been big advocates of goal-line technology.
The clubs had been driving this and they had been more anxious than anyone to have a system in place... the referees were all in favour as well
Premier League general secretary Mike Foster
General secretary Mike Foster insisted: 'It is not the finished product, but I've seen enough of it to have confidence that it will do the job.
"The clubs had been driving this and they had been more anxious than anyone to have a system in place. The referees were all in favour as well."
The IFAB's technical committee witnessed tests at Reading's Madejski Stadium last month and had been considering two technological systems:
a "smart" ball with a microchip developed by adidas and the German company Cairo;
and a camera-based system developed by the Hawkeye company, whose system is used in tennis and cricket.
However, Fifa president Sepp Blatter has long been against using technology in the game while the Welsh FA were also against the idea.
Jerome Valcke, Fifa's general secretary, said experiments using the additional linesmen, proposed by Uefa president Michel Platini, would now take place in either a Uefa or Fifa tournament later this year.
We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that... I am livid
Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawkeye
"We have decided to freeze the goal-line technology and all experiments," Valcke confirmed.
"We will look at two additional referees and avoid considering any goal line technology during this time."
Paul Hawkins, managing director of Hawkeye, said: "I am gobsmacked and it's completely out of the blue.
"A year ago they seemed to want it. We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that. I am livid."
The IFAB, formed in 1886, determines the laws of the game and comprises delegates from the four British associations and four from Fifa. Proposals need a three-quarter-majority vote to be approved.
The IFAB also agreed to standardise the dimensions of a pitch used for full international men's matches to 105 x 68 metres. | en | Wembley stadium in 2007.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that decides on the laws of the game, has decided to discontinue all experiments involving technology, and for the first time has also decided on the exact size of a soccer field.
Instead of pursuing the idea of using cameras or microchips in the ball to see if it has crossed the goal-line, the International Board wants to see if the introduction of two extra assistant referees can improve the quality of referee's decisions.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke declared: "We have decided to freeze for the time being the goal-line technology and all technology experiments. We will look on these two additional referees and we avoid considering any goal-line technology during this time."
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the move was necessary to maintain the universal spirit of the game: "We have 260 million people directly involved in the game. If we maintain the laws of the game ... it's so easy to understand ... We have to live with errors, football has to keep its human face."
"We have to maintain the laws of the game in their simplicity. Do you want technical devices to take decisions? That's why, after three years of tests with no conclusions, I am in favour of putting the whole thing on ice," Blatter explained.
An assistant referee.
UEFA president Michel Platini agreed: "Football should stay human, but two more officials can help, especially around the goal." Platini made the suggestion to freeze all investigations into technology and to try two additional assistants behind each goal.
Blatter said the system using the microchip "was very complicated, needing electrified lines on the field of play and other devices including antennae and when we tested it in Tokyo last year there was one mistake during the seven matches we used as an experiment at the Club World Championship." With regards to the system using cameras, he pointed to "problems with players obscuring the views of the cameras, or of flares or weather conditions."
The system of the extra referees will be tested at an upcoming FIFA or UEFA tournament, and a final ruling is expected at next year's meeting, according to FIFA's Jerome Valcke.
Hawk-Eye, the company that was working on the goal-line technology that is already being used for line calls in tennis, reacted with disappointment: "I'm livid, it is completely out of the blue... A year ago they met and gave us four criteria to meet and we have met all of them, yet they have kicked it out now... We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that investment," director Paul Hawkins said. He said he was encouraged to continue research on the project only 10 days ago at a private showing for IFAB members at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
While the Welsh FA were also against the idea, the English Football Association supported the use of technology and was hoping to start using it by next season. The FA clubs and referees supported the use of Hawk-Eye technology, said Mike Foster, general secretary of the English Premier League. A spokesperson of the Premier League said that "A lot of time, money and effort has gone into developing a system that meets all the criteria laid down last year." The Scottish and Northern Irish FA also voted in favour of the goal-line technology.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick expressed his disappointment at the annual meeting of the IFAB in Gleneagles, Scotland: "We were in favour of goal-line technology but there will be no more experiments and it will not be back on the agenda next year, or in the foreseeable future."
FIFA President Blatter denied ulterior motives for the decision: "There has been no change of heart. Referees make decisions, not machines... I have defended goal-line technology but it has become clear that such systems are too complicated and very costly. Nor would they necessarily add anything positive to the game and could harm the authority of the referee." |
en | At its Annual General Meeting today in Gleneagles, Scotland, the International Football Association Board (IFAB) has decided to put on ice goal-line technology and to stop tests in this area until further notice. Amongst others, the questions of the human aspect of the game, the universality of the Laws of the Game, as well as the simplicity and efficiency of the technology were taken into consideration.
However, the IFAB has approved a proposal from FIFA to conduct an experiment involving two additional assistant referees who will mainly focus on fouls and misconduct in the penalty area. The competition in which this test will be conducted will be decided at a later stage.
The Board also discussed a proposal from the Scottish FA regarding the use of video evidence to sanction simulation after the game. Although the suggestion was not approved, the IFAB members agreed that simulation is an act of cheating which must be intensively fought and sanctioned during the game and that all member associations would be encouraged to do so.
Furthermore, a proposal submitted by the FA and called Fair Play Convention, aimed at dealing with injured players while the game is in progress ,was acknowledged but not approved, mainly on the grounds that fair-play is an instinct behaviour rather than an attitude to rule.
Regarding the Laws of the Game, the IFAB approved the following amendments:
Law 1 - The Field of Play
In order to standardize the size of the football pitch for A international matches, the IFAB has decided to set a fixed size of 105m long and 68m wide (instead of a minimum and maximum length - from 100m to 110m - and a minimum and a maximum width - from 64m to 75m - as mentioned in the present text).
Law 2 - The Ball
Within the FIFA Quality Concept for footballs, the IFAB has agreed that the new 'FIFA APPROVED', 'FIFA INSPECTED' and 'International Matchball Standard' logos, which were launched in May 2007, will replace the former logos displayed in the present text.
Revision of the Laws of the Game
The last major revision of the text of the Laws of the Game was one 11 years ago. Since then, many additions and amendments have been made to the Laws themselves and various publications as well as teaching materials have been produced. As a result, a further revision was overdue. The IFAB has approved the revision which contains no major change in content but simplifies the wording of the Laws.
On other business, it's been agreed that a discussion about the look and design of the ball will be submitted to the agenda of the next sub-committee meeting.
Also, as it already did last year, the Board stressed that people in the technical areas should have no access and view to pitch-side monitors.
Finally, the FIFA President made a strong appeal against violent tackles on the field of play, reiterating that "players committing such acts should be banned".
The123rd Annual General Meeting of the International Football Association Board will take place next year in Northern Ireland.
The International F.A. Board, the custodian of the Laws of the Game, is composed of The Football Association (England), The Scottish Football Association, The Football Association of Wales, The Irish Football Association (Northern Ireland) and FIFA. Representing its 204 other members, FIFA has four votes on the body, while the four British associations have one vote apiece. A proposal requires a three-quarter majority (i.e. six of the eight votes) to be passed. | en | Wembley stadium in 2007.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that decides on the laws of the game, has decided to discontinue all experiments involving technology, and for the first time has also decided on the exact size of a soccer field.
Instead of pursuing the idea of using cameras or microchips in the ball to see if it has crossed the goal-line, the International Board wants to see if the introduction of two extra assistant referees can improve the quality of referee's decisions.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke declared: "We have decided to freeze for the time being the goal-line technology and all technology experiments. We will look on these two additional referees and we avoid considering any goal-line technology during this time."
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the move was necessary to maintain the universal spirit of the game: "We have 260 million people directly involved in the game. If we maintain the laws of the game ... it's so easy to understand ... We have to live with errors, football has to keep its human face."
"We have to maintain the laws of the game in their simplicity. Do you want technical devices to take decisions? That's why, after three years of tests with no conclusions, I am in favour of putting the whole thing on ice," Blatter explained.
An assistant referee.
UEFA president Michel Platini agreed: "Football should stay human, but two more officials can help, especially around the goal." Platini made the suggestion to freeze all investigations into technology and to try two additional assistants behind each goal.
Blatter said the system using the microchip "was very complicated, needing electrified lines on the field of play and other devices including antennae and when we tested it in Tokyo last year there was one mistake during the seven matches we used as an experiment at the Club World Championship." With regards to the system using cameras, he pointed to "problems with players obscuring the views of the cameras, or of flares or weather conditions."
The system of the extra referees will be tested at an upcoming FIFA or UEFA tournament, and a final ruling is expected at next year's meeting, according to FIFA's Jerome Valcke.
Hawk-Eye, the company that was working on the goal-line technology that is already being used for line calls in tennis, reacted with disappointment: "I'm livid, it is completely out of the blue... A year ago they met and gave us four criteria to meet and we have met all of them, yet they have kicked it out now... We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that investment," director Paul Hawkins said. He said he was encouraged to continue research on the project only 10 days ago at a private showing for IFAB members at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
While the Welsh FA were also against the idea, the English Football Association supported the use of technology and was hoping to start using it by next season. The FA clubs and referees supported the use of Hawk-Eye technology, said Mike Foster, general secretary of the English Premier League. A spokesperson of the Premier League said that "A lot of time, money and effort has gone into developing a system that meets all the criteria laid down last year." The Scottish and Northern Irish FA also voted in favour of the goal-line technology.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick expressed his disappointment at the annual meeting of the IFAB in Gleneagles, Scotland: "We were in favour of goal-line technology but there will be no more experiments and it will not be back on the agenda next year, or in the foreseeable future."
FIFA President Blatter denied ulterior motives for the decision: "There has been no change of heart. Referees make decisions, not machines... I have defended goal-line technology but it has become clear that such systems are too complicated and very costly. Nor would they necessarily add anything positive to the game and could harm the authority of the referee." |
en | FIFA ends goalline idea after inconclusive tests
(adds Blatter quotes, details)
By Mike Collett
GLENEAGLES, Scotland, March 8 (Reuters) - FIFA president Sepp Blatter said on Saturday that goal-line technology would not be used in football for the foreseeable future because no accurate system had been developed after three years of trials.
World soccer's governing body decided, through its law-making body, the International Football Association Board (IFAB), not to sanction any further experiments into technological aids to determine whether the ball had crossed the line for a goal.
"For the third year in a row the International Board discussed goal-line technology. We looked at two systems and they were not 100 percent accurate," said Blatter.
"One was very complicated, needing electrified lines on the field of play and other devices including antennae and when we tested it in Tokyo last year there was one mistake during the seven matches we used as an experiment at the Club World Championship.
"The second system, using cameras, was not fully developed yet, but there were problems with players obscuring the views of the cameras, or of flares or weather conditions.
"We felt that neither system added anything positive and harmed the authority of the referee. We have to live with errors, football has to keep its human face."
Brian Barwick, the chief executive of the English FA who supported the experiments, told a news conference earlier that he was disappointed by the decision and that "the idea is now dead in the water".
IFAB gave its approval for experiments to start this year with an additional assistant referee placed behind each goal to help the referee rule on contentious decisions.
ADDITIONAL LINESMEN
Formed in 1886, IFAB determines the laws of the game and comprises delegates from the four British associations and four from FIFA. Proposals need a three-quarter-majority vote to be approved.
The proposal for goal-line technology was defeated by a 5-3 vote with the four FIFA votes and one from Wales outweighing England, Scotland and Northern Ireland who were in favour.
Jerome Valcke, FIFA's general secretary, said experiments using the additional linesmen would take place in either a UEFA or FIFA tournament later this year.
The IFAB had been considering two technological systems: a "smart" ball with a microchip developed by Adidas and the German company Cairos, and a camera-based system developed by the Hawkeye company whose system is used in tennis and cricket.
After making a presentation to the Board on Saturday and then being told of their decision, Hawkeye's managing director Paul Hawkins said he was stunned by it.
"It is completely out of the blue. A year ago they met and gave us four criteria to meet and we have met all of them, yet they have kicked it out now," he said. "A lot of money has been invested, a lot of time and effort and I am staggered."
Welsh FA general secretary David Collins said: "We believe football is a game played by human beings, it's a game with a human face and there was a feeling it would hinder the flow of the game."
In other decisions, the IFAB agreed to standardise the dimensions of a pitch used for full international men's matches to 105 x 68 metres. (Editing by Sonia Oxley) | en | Wembley stadium in 2007.
The International Football Association Board (IFAB), the body that decides on the laws of the game, has decided to discontinue all experiments involving technology, and for the first time has also decided on the exact size of a soccer field.
Instead of pursuing the idea of using cameras or microchips in the ball to see if it has crossed the goal-line, the International Board wants to see if the introduction of two extra assistant referees can improve the quality of referee's decisions.
FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke declared: "We have decided to freeze for the time being the goal-line technology and all technology experiments. We will look on these two additional referees and we avoid considering any goal-line technology during this time."
FIFA President Sepp Blatter said the move was necessary to maintain the universal spirit of the game: "We have 260 million people directly involved in the game. If we maintain the laws of the game ... it's so easy to understand ... We have to live with errors, football has to keep its human face."
"We have to maintain the laws of the game in their simplicity. Do you want technical devices to take decisions? That's why, after three years of tests with no conclusions, I am in favour of putting the whole thing on ice," Blatter explained.
An assistant referee.
UEFA president Michel Platini agreed: "Football should stay human, but two more officials can help, especially around the goal." Platini made the suggestion to freeze all investigations into technology and to try two additional assistants behind each goal.
Blatter said the system using the microchip "was very complicated, needing electrified lines on the field of play and other devices including antennae and when we tested it in Tokyo last year there was one mistake during the seven matches we used as an experiment at the Club World Championship." With regards to the system using cameras, he pointed to "problems with players obscuring the views of the cameras, or of flares or weather conditions."
The system of the extra referees will be tested at an upcoming FIFA or UEFA tournament, and a final ruling is expected at next year's meeting, according to FIFA's Jerome Valcke.
Hawk-Eye, the company that was working on the goal-line technology that is already being used for line calls in tennis, reacted with disappointment: "I'm livid, it is completely out of the blue... A year ago they met and gave us four criteria to meet and we have met all of them, yet they have kicked it out now... We have invested an awful lot of money and now we have no return on that investment," director Paul Hawkins said. He said he was encouraged to continue research on the project only 10 days ago at a private showing for IFAB members at Reading's Madejski Stadium.
While the Welsh FA were also against the idea, the English Football Association supported the use of technology and was hoping to start using it by next season. The FA clubs and referees supported the use of Hawk-Eye technology, said Mike Foster, general secretary of the English Premier League. A spokesperson of the Premier League said that "A lot of time, money and effort has gone into developing a system that meets all the criteria laid down last year." The Scottish and Northern Irish FA also voted in favour of the goal-line technology.
FA chief executive Brian Barwick expressed his disappointment at the annual meeting of the IFAB in Gleneagles, Scotland: "We were in favour of goal-line technology but there will be no more experiments and it will not be back on the agenda next year, or in the foreseeable future."
FIFA President Blatter denied ulterior motives for the decision: "There has been no change of heart. Referees make decisions, not machines... I have defended goal-line technology but it has become clear that such systems are too complicated and very costly. Nor would they necessarily add anything positive to the game and could harm the authority of the referee." |
en | Fernando Alonso dominated Sundays Italian Grand Prix to head a McLaren one-two that must have come as intense relief for the beleaguered team. Alonso won by six seconds on a day when Lewis Hamilton had no answer to the world champions relentless pace. But Kimi Raikkonen was even further back - 27.3s - in third place.
At the start the Ferraris were all over Hamiltons McLaren, Felipe Massa literally exploding off the grid to snatch second place as Alonso led, but Hamilton dealt with him in the chicane, despite a slight tap from behind from the Brazilian.
Then the race was neutralised behind the safety car as Red Bulls David Coulthard suffered a front wing failure (as the result of damage after hitting Giancarlo Fisichella in the first chicane) and speared hard into the wall at the first Lesmo.
Coulthard, unhurt, the race resumed at the end of lap six, and quickly the two McLarens drew clear. Massa made an unscheduled early pit stop on the ninth lap, and came in again for good next time around, so Ferrari were down to one car.
Hamilton was the next to stop, on lap 18, so clearly McLaren were on a two-stop strategy, which explained some of their qualifying speed. Alonso stopped two laps later, handing the lead to Ferrari for the first time. Raikkonen stopped on lap 25, for the sole time, and Alonso and Hamilton resumed first and second places. But they still had to stop again.
Hamilton did so on the 40th lap, and this time he did not stay ahead of the Ferrari. Alonso, who stopped on lap 43, did. His first victory at Monza was thus never in doubt. And he was elated by it.
Further back, Hamilton used his soft Bridgestone tyres to the full and reeled in medium-shod Raikkonen at a terrific rate. And when they arrived at the first chicane at the beginning of lap 43, he made no bones about diving inside the red car and exiting the first part of the chicane sideways. Wonderful stuff!
Behind them, Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica took fourth and fifth places for BMW Sauber, the German driving his customary impeccable race, the Pole driving a stormer to recover from a fudged first pit stop, when his car appeared to fall from its jacks. He passed another race hero, Nico Rosberg, for fifth place on the 46th lap. The young German drove superbly in an initial fight with Jenson Button, who scored the final point for Honda in the wake of Heikki Kovalainen, who flew for Renault. The Briton was also in feisty form with a halfway decent car beneath him, but could not hold the Williams at bay.
Red Bulls Mark Webber and Hondas Rubens Barrichello duelled throughout, chased to the line by Jarno Trulli who lost many places on the opening lap in his Toyota. A dismal day left Renaults Giancarlo Fisichella lapped in 12th place ahead of Williams Alex Wurz, Super Aguris Anthony Davidson and Toyotas Ralf Schumacher. Super Aguris Takuma Sato recovered from troubles on the opening lap for 16th, to head home the Toro Rossos of Tonio Liuzzi and Sebastian Vettel, and the Spykers of Adrian Sutil and Sakon Yamamoto.
In the driver title stakes, Alonso is now only three points behind Hamilton, with four races left. In the constructors championship, McLaren extended their advantage over Ferrari to 23 points. | en | Fernando Alonso at the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix
Fernando Alonso driving on 2007 British Grand Prix
Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Fernando Alonso wins the 2007 FIA Formula-1 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy, with his teammate, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton second. The pair won the top two places of the 78th Grand Prix held in Monza, starting from the front line. This win became the first for Fernando Alonso on this track and his another hat-trick.
During most of the free practice and the qualification McLaren seem to be clearly ahead of their rivals from Ferrari, resulting in that Alonso easily took the pole position. Since the start the defending World Champion performed extremely well and stayed in full control of the race. Hamilton's position was not as stable, however, when Felipe Massa overtook him on the start, but the Londoner took back his position on the first chicane.
After ten laps Massa drove his car to the pits, possibly too soon, then suddenly slowed down on the track. It became clear that the race was spoiled for Ferrari team, with only the red car of Kimi Räikkönen, doing his best not to fall too far behind Hamilton, remaining in the race. His risky single pit-stop strategy allowed him to stay ahead of Hamilton for a couple of laps, but the fresh tyres of McLaren after their second pit-stop left no additional chances to Raikonnen who suffered a crash into the wall of tyres in the Friday practice session.
Both BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica took 4th and 5th places.
Top eight closed by Nico Rosberg's Williams-Toyota, Heikki Kovalainen's Renault and Jenson Button's Honda.
As a result, McLaren strengthen the lead over Ferrari to 23 points, with 166 points total. Alonso is now only 3 points close to Hamilton, who has 92 points. |
en | By Andrew Benson
Hamilton and Alonso celebrate their one-two on the Monza podium
Hamilton finished second, overtaking Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen 11 laps from the end after the Finn passed him thanks to doing one pit stop fewer.
Raikkonen's team-mate Felipe Massa is effectively out of the title battle after retiring after just nine laps.
The Brazilian is 23 points off the lead with a maximum of 40 still available.
Alonso led from the start, and appeared comfortable throughout.
The double world champion was only a second ahead of Hamilton when the Englishman made his first stop for fuel and tyres on lap 18.
I put in two really good laps and I had an opportunity and I really wanted to make sure it stuck
Lewis Hamilton
But Alonso did not stop for a further two laps, and was nearly two seconds ahead when he rejoined.
He proceeded to inch away for much of the second part of the race, extending his lead by around 0.3secs most laps.
By the time of their second stops, Alonso was more than six seconds in the lead, and out of Hamilton's reach.
"Sometimes everything seems to go in the right direction and you need to keep the momentum," Alonso said.
"The whole weekend has been good for me.
"But here at Monza [in the past] I have had some problems in the race and missed the win.
606: DEBATE
"All the people here maybe they are Ferrari fans but they are also F1 fans. They love F1 here."
And instead of thinking about beating his team-mate, Hamilton had to focus on beating Raikkonen.
The Finn's Ferrari ran four laps longer than Alonso before his sole pit stop, and Raikkonen kept close enough to the McLarens to pass Hamilton while the Englishman made his second pit stop on lap 40.
But the 22-year-old underlined his abilities as a never-say-die racer by catching the Ferrari and pulling off an audacious overtaking move just two laps later.
I couldn't keep my head up under braking - my neck was in not very good shape after my crash yesterday
Kimi Raikkonen
"But I put in two really good laps and I had an opportunity and I really wanted to make sure it stuck."
Raikkonen, who admitted his neck was still sore after his crash in Saturday practice, said: "We just didn't have the speed today. "I couldn't keep my head up under braking. My neck was in not very good shape after yesterday."
Raikkonen's third place means he has slipped to 18 points behind Hamilton, leaving his title hopes hanging by a thread as well.
But McLaren now head on Thursday to a hearing of motorsport's governing body into the spy scandal that has engulfed the sport, and could yet be hit with a points deduction, or even banned from the championship.
Massa pulls into the pits to retire with suspension problems
Hamilton was given some breathing space on the second lap when the safety car was deployed following an accident to David Coulthard.
The Scot's Red Bull speared off the track at the 180mph Curva Grande following a rear wing failure.
The race restarted on lap six, and Massa's hopes of repeating his victory in Turkey two weeks ago ended just three laps later when he pulled into the pits with a so-far unspecified mechanical failure at the rear of his car.
Nick Heidfeld was best of the rest in fourth place in his BMW Sauber, ahead of his team-mate Robert Kubica, who grabbed fifth place from Williams's Nico Rosberg with just seven laps to go.
Renault's Heikki Kovalainen was seventh, ahead of Jenson Button's Honda.
The Englishman repeated his season-best result from the French Grand Prix, but his Honda looked more competitive at Monza than it had at Magny-Cours.
The Englishman fought an intense battle with Rosberg in the first part of the race, but had in the end to concede defeat to the faster car.
Italian Grand Prix result after 53 laps of Monza circuit:
1. Fernando Alonso (Spa) McLaren-Mercedes 1hr 18min 37.806secs
2. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes +6.062 seconds
3. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari +27.325
4. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber +56.562
5. Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber +1:00.558
6. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams-Toyota +1:05.810
7. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) Renault +1:06.751
8. Jenson Button (GB) Honda +1:12.168
9. Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault +1:15.879
10. Rubens Barrichello (Brz) Honda +1:16.958
11. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota +1:17.736
12. Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Renault one lap behind
13. Alexander Wurz (Aut) Williams-Toyota one lap
14. Anthony Davidson (GB) Super Aguri-Honda one lap
15. Ralf Schumacher (Ger) Toyota one lap
16. Takuma Sato (Jpn) Super Aguri-Honda one lap
17. Vitantonio Liuzzi (Ita) Toro Rosso-Ferrari one lap
18. Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari one lap
19. Adrian Sutil (Ger) Spyker-Ferrari one lap
20. Sakon Yamamoto (Jpn) Spyker-Ferrari one lap
R Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari 10 laps completed
R David Coulthard (GB) Red Bull-Renault one lap
Fastest lap: Alonso 1:22.871, lap 15. | en | Fernando Alonso at the 2006 Malaysian Grand Prix
Fernando Alonso driving on 2007 British Grand Prix
Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Fernando Alonso wins the 2007 FIA Formula-1 Italian Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, Monza, Italy, with his teammate, Vodafone McLaren Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton second. The pair won the top two places of the 78th Grand Prix held in Monza, starting from the front line. This win became the first for Fernando Alonso on this track and his another hat-trick.
During most of the free practice and the qualification McLaren seem to be clearly ahead of their rivals from Ferrari, resulting in that Alonso easily took the pole position. Since the start the defending World Champion performed extremely well and stayed in full control of the race. Hamilton's position was not as stable, however, when Felipe Massa overtook him on the start, but the Londoner took back his position on the first chicane.
After ten laps Massa drove his car to the pits, possibly too soon, then suddenly slowed down on the track. It became clear that the race was spoiled for Ferrari team, with only the red car of Kimi Räikkönen, doing his best not to fall too far behind Hamilton, remaining in the race. His risky single pit-stop strategy allowed him to stay ahead of Hamilton for a couple of laps, but the fresh tyres of McLaren after their second pit-stop left no additional chances to Raikonnen who suffered a crash into the wall of tyres in the Friday practice session.
Both BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica took 4th and 5th places.
Top eight closed by Nico Rosberg's Williams-Toyota, Heikki Kovalainen's Renault and Jenson Button's Honda.
As a result, McLaren strengthen the lead over Ferrari to 23 points, with 166 points total. Alonso is now only 3 points close to Hamilton, who has 92 points. |
en | Iraq is considering building a giant observation wheel in Baghdad in an attempt to promote the city as a potential tourist destination.
The country was looking for companies to submit designs to build the giant wheel - dubbed 'The Baghdad Eye'.
It will soar more than 650ft over the city and feature air-conditioned compartments that would each carry up to 30 passengers, Baghdad municipality spokesman Adel al Ardawi said.
Mr Ardawi declined to give an estimated construction cost or timeline, but was confident about the viability of the wheel.
"This wheel will be taller than the iconic 443-foot London Eye," he said.
"We hope to attract a great number of customers who will be able to see the whole city and enjoy the restaurants and pools on ground below."
Three possible locations in Baghdad have been selected for the 'Eye', but officials are waiting to see what proposals are submitted before picking one.
The London Eye is world's largest cantilevered observation wheel and stands more than 400ft above the River Thames.
It took seven years to build and was completed in 2000 at a cost of more than £30m.
It is one of London's premier tourism sites, attracting more than 27 million visitors since its launch.
But pulling visitors to Iraq will be a difficult task - suicide attacks and bombings are still regular occurrences and the Foreign Office advises against all travel to Baghdad.
"The security situation in Iraq remains highly dangerous with a continuing high threat of terrorism throughout the country," the FCO advises.
But this has not stopped Iraq's tourism board trying to pull in the visitors.
Last week the US military announced the board were seeking investors to develop a resort island for the Tigris River.
A statement said the project would include a six-star hotel, spa, an 18-hole golf course and a country club. | en | Iraqi officials are planning on having a Ferris wheel built as a tourist attraction to the nation's capital, Baghdad. The wheel would be called '' and is planned to sit over 650 ft above the . Adel al Ardawi, a Baghdad municipality spokesman said that "this wheel will be taller than the iconic 443-foot ." He failed to comment on construction cost or a time line of how long it would take to build the wheel.
The London Eye in 2005.The London Eye in , England sits 443 ft over the . It has attracted more than 27 million visitors since its formal opening on December 31, 1999.
Each compartment is set to be air-conditioned and hold up to 30 people. Three possible locations for the wheel to sit have been selected. This is not the first attempt by the Iraqi Tourism Board to bring tourists into the capital. The board are seeking investors for a resort island. The island would include a six star hotel and a 18 hole golf course.
The United Kingdom's advises against all travel to Baghdad. A spokesperson said "The security situation in Iraq remains highly dangerous with a continuing high threat of terrorism throughout the country." |
en | Iraq plans giant Ferris wheel, hopes to lure tourists to Baghdad
Iraq's (Ferris) Wheel of Fortune! The war-torn country is soliciting plans for a giant amusement park ride.
BAGHDAD - It's probably going to take more than this to turn Baghdad into a tourist destination.
Iraq is inviting companies to submit proposals for a giant Ferris wheel called the Baghdad Eye.
It would be 650 feet high - even taller than the wheel that overlooks London's River Thames.
"We hope to attract a great number of customers who will be able to see the whole city and enjoy the restaurants and pools on the ground below," city spokesman Adel al-Ardawi told The Associated Press.
The amusement will feature air-conditioned compartments that would carry up to 30 passengers. Three possible locations have been selected.
The wheel is the latest in a string of lavish proposals aimed at turning the war-torn Iraqi capital into a leisure location.
It's a tough sell because suicide attacks still kill dozens, but insurgent attacks and sectarian bloodshed have declined over the past year.
The Ferris wheel - which would cost tens of millions of dollars to build - would likely be in a security zone where suicide attacks are rare.
An American businessman has announced plans to build a luxury hotel in the Green Zone, and the Iraqi Tourism Board wants to develop a "romantic" island on the Tigris River with an 18-hole golf course.
News Wire Services | en | Iraqi officials are planning on having a Ferris wheel built as a tourist attraction to the nation's capital, Baghdad. The wheel would be called '' and is planned to sit over 650 ft above the . Adel al Ardawi, a Baghdad municipality spokesman said that "this wheel will be taller than the iconic 443-foot ." He failed to comment on construction cost or a time line of how long it would take to build the wheel.
The London Eye in 2005.The London Eye in , England sits 443 ft over the . It has attracted more than 27 million visitors since its formal opening on December 31, 1999.
Each compartment is set to be air-conditioned and hold up to 30 people. Three possible locations for the wheel to sit have been selected. This is not the first attempt by the Iraqi Tourism Board to bring tourists into the capital. The board are seeking investors for a resort island. The island would include a six star hotel and a 18 hole golf course.
The United Kingdom's advises against all travel to Baghdad. A spokesperson said "The security situation in Iraq remains highly dangerous with a continuing high threat of terrorism throughout the country." |
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Thank you for your support. | en | British bank Northern Rock has appointed the vice chairman of Barclays as its new chief executive. After 26 years at Barclays—the last two of which were as vice chairman—Gary Hoffman will replace Andy Kuipers. Kuipers, who has been with Northern Rock for 20 years, will be replaced at the beginning of October.
Customers queue in front of a Northern Rock branch in London on September 14, 2007.
Last September, Northern Rock suffered the first run on a British bank in over 100 years, and was forced to become nationalised. Today, Hoffman stated he would return the bank to private ownership "as a thriving, stable business". Some of his past roles include chairman of banking and chairman of Barclaycard. In his new role, he is expected to cut 2,000 of the 6,000 jobs provided by the company in an attempt to be able to pay back money owed to the Bank of England. He is to earn £700,000 per year, plus £400,000 in compensation from losses due to his moving. Including a bonus, he is expected to earn £1.5 million in his first year, making him Britain's highest paid public servant. Among other tasks, he will be working to pay back the £25bn loan Northern Rock got from the Bank of England by 2010, and reducing its mortgage lending from £100bn to £50bn.
Northern Rock hit problems in September 2007. Issues in the mortgage market and public concern over the stability of the bank saw queues form with people keen to withdraw their funds following emergency support being provided by the Bank of England. With share prices plummeting as a result of issues in the United States sub-prime mortgage market, an unprecedented crisis struck one of the UK's largest banks. By February 2008, the decision was taken to move the bank into public ownership and it was nationalised. Today's appointment is the first step on a road to returning the bank to private ownership with significant measures required to cut the bank's costs, repay loans from the Bank of England, and transform the institution into one which is attractive to the stock market. |
en | I am excited by the prospect of leading the company back to a position of strength
Gary Hoffman
Northern Rock has appointed the vice chairman of Barclays, Gary Hoffman, as its new chief executive.
Mr Hoffman replaces current chief executive Andy Kuipers, who will leave on August 31 after 20 years at the Newcastle-based lender.
Mr Kuipers is the final member of Northern Rock's original board to leave the bank after last year's crisis.
Northern Rock was nationalised in February following the first run on a British bank in more than a century.
Mr Hoffman's basic salary is £700,000 and he will also receive three separate payments of £400,000 in compensation for the loss of his participation in Barclays' long-term incentive plans.
"I am excited by the prospect of leading the company back to a position of strength," Mr Hoffman said.
Educated at Cambridge University, Mr Hoffman, 47, joined Barclays 1982 and previous roles include chairman of UK banking and chairman of Barclaycard.
Shake-up
Since being nationalised in February, Northern Rock has said it will cut about 2,000 jobs by 2011 and reduce its residential mortgage lending by half.
Ron Sandler, the former Lloyds of London boss appointed by the government to run the bank as executive chairman when it was nationalised, will became non-executive chairman when Mr Hoffman takes up his role in October.
Northern Rock's previous chief executive, Adam Applegarth, resigned in December following fierce criticism of his role in expanding the former building society too quickly.
Northern Rock doubled its share of UK mortgage lending under Mr Applegarth, but ran into difficulties in September when it was no longer able to fund that mortgage lending by borrowing in wholesale money markets. | en | British bank Northern Rock has appointed the vice chairman of Barclays as its new chief executive. After 26 years at Barclays—the last two of which were as vice chairman—Gary Hoffman will replace Andy Kuipers. Kuipers, who has been with Northern Rock for 20 years, will be replaced at the beginning of October.
Customers queue in front of a Northern Rock branch in London on September 14, 2007.
Last September, Northern Rock suffered the first run on a British bank in over 100 years, and was forced to become nationalised. Today, Hoffman stated he would return the bank to private ownership "as a thriving, stable business". Some of his past roles include chairman of banking and chairman of Barclaycard. In his new role, he is expected to cut 2,000 of the 6,000 jobs provided by the company in an attempt to be able to pay back money owed to the Bank of England. He is to earn £700,000 per year, plus £400,000 in compensation from losses due to his moving. Including a bonus, he is expected to earn £1.5 million in his first year, making him Britain's highest paid public servant. Among other tasks, he will be working to pay back the £25bn loan Northern Rock got from the Bank of England by 2010, and reducing its mortgage lending from £100bn to £50bn.
Northern Rock hit problems in September 2007. Issues in the mortgage market and public concern over the stability of the bank saw queues form with people keen to withdraw their funds following emergency support being provided by the Bank of England. With share prices plummeting as a result of issues in the United States sub-prime mortgage market, an unprecedented crisis struck one of the UK's largest banks. By February 2008, the decision was taken to move the bank into public ownership and it was nationalised. Today's appointment is the first step on a road to returning the bank to private ownership with significant measures required to cut the bank's costs, repay loans from the Bank of England, and transform the institution into one which is attractive to the stock market. |
en | Barclays top man to take the Rock helm
Northern Rock today hired Barclays vice-chairman Gary Hoffman as its new chief executive, 10 months after it collapsed.
Tough decision: Gary Hoffman will be in a 'political fishbowl' as head of Northern Rock
Hoffman, 47, takes over from Andy Kuipers on 1 October, and will earn £1.5m plus bonus in his first year in charge.
Ron Sandler, who was parachuted in by the Government to lead the stricken mortgage lender when it was nationalised earlier this year, will become non-executive chairman.
Hoffman, who joined Barclays 26 years ago and is also vice-chairman of Coventry City FC, said: 'This was a very tough decision for me. My affection for Barclays is deep and built over many years. Yet the opportunity to help lead Northern Rock back to strength is both compelling and exciting.'
He today pledged to return the bank to private ownership 'as a thriving, stable businessî although it is not thought this could happen for at least three years. Northern Rock ran out of funds in September, and was forced to go cap in hand to the Bank of England for an emergency £26bn loan. It sparked the first run on a British bank since Victorian times.
Hoffman had been one of the biggest whiz-kids within Barclays, rapidly rising-through the ranks to run Barclaycard between 2001 and 2005 when it, along with other credit-card companies, suffered from a surge of people getting snowed under by debt, and entering IVAs. He was then made chairman of UK banking before becoming vice-chairman of the group in 2006.
Barclays insiders denied he had been sidelined after leaving Barclaycard, saying he had been doing important, albeit low-profile, public-policy and regulatory work. Leigh Goodwin at Fox-Pitt, Kelton said: "This job is a real challenge. Northern Rock is a political fishbowl - every politician and journalist will watch his every move.
"His main jobs will be managing foreclosures and arrears, controlling costs and dealing with the political process. It will be very stressful and all in the public domain.î
Hoffman will earn a basic salary of £700,000 a year but will get three payments of £400,000 to compensate his loss of long-term incentive programmes at Barclays - one on arrival and the others on his first and second anniversaries. He will also be entitled to a bonus.
It means he will earn at least £1.5m in his first year at Northern Rock and £1.1m in his second year - making him the highest-paid public servant in Britain, ahead of Royal Mail chief executive Adam Crozier.
Hoffman's top priorities
Hoffman's Newcastle in-tray will be bulging. Here is a flavour of his to-do list:
•1) Decide how to run a bank that is facing growing accusations from rival banks of unfair competition because of the Government's 100% guarantee on savings.
•2) Work out what to do with Rock's shareholders.
•3) Find a reputable executive prepared to value the business (and probably get sued whatever he says).
•4) Run down the mortgage book to £50bn from £100bn.
•5) Repay the Bank of England's £25bn loan by 2010.
•6) Manage a rapidly rising number of bad debts and foreclosures as house prices fall. | en | British bank Northern Rock has appointed the vice chairman of Barclays as its new chief executive. After 26 years at Barclays—the last two of which were as vice chairman—Gary Hoffman will replace Andy Kuipers. Kuipers, who has been with Northern Rock for 20 years, will be replaced at the beginning of October.
Customers queue in front of a Northern Rock branch in London on September 14, 2007.
Last September, Northern Rock suffered the first run on a British bank in over 100 years, and was forced to become nationalised. Today, Hoffman stated he would return the bank to private ownership "as a thriving, stable business". Some of his past roles include chairman of banking and chairman of Barclaycard. In his new role, he is expected to cut 2,000 of the 6,000 jobs provided by the company in an attempt to be able to pay back money owed to the Bank of England. He is to earn £700,000 per year, plus £400,000 in compensation from losses due to his moving. Including a bonus, he is expected to earn £1.5 million in his first year, making him Britain's highest paid public servant. Among other tasks, he will be working to pay back the £25bn loan Northern Rock got from the Bank of England by 2010, and reducing its mortgage lending from £100bn to £50bn.
Northern Rock hit problems in September 2007. Issues in the mortgage market and public concern over the stability of the bank saw queues form with people keen to withdraw their funds following emergency support being provided by the Bank of England. With share prices plummeting as a result of issues in the United States sub-prime mortgage market, an unprecedented crisis struck one of the UK's largest banks. By February 2008, the decision was taken to move the bank into public ownership and it was nationalised. Today's appointment is the first step on a road to returning the bank to private ownership with significant measures required to cut the bank's costs, repay loans from the Bank of England, and transform the institution into one which is attractive to the stock market. |
fr | a conférence d'examen du traité de non-prolifération nucléaire (TNP), qui se tient à New York du 2 au 27 mai, ne s'ouvre pas sous les meilleurs auspices. Si elle n'est plus menacée de blocage, comme en 2000, par le programme irakien d'armes de destruction massive, elle se tient alors que deux pays signataires du traité, la Corée du Nord et l'Iran, sont soupçonnés d'avoir renié leurs engagements en poursuivant un programme secret de fabrication d'armes atomiques. a conférence d'examen du traité de non-prolifération nucléaire (TNP), qui se tient à New York du 2 au 27 mai, ne s'ouvre pas sous les meilleurs auspices. Si elle n'est plus menacée de blocage, comme en 2000, par le programme irakien d'armes de destruction massive, elle se tient alors que deux pays signataires du traité, la Corée du Nord et l'Iran, sont soupçonnés d'avoir renié leurs engagements en poursuivant un programme secret de fabrication d'armes atomiques. L'Iran hausse le ton Les autorités iraniennes ont haussé le ton, samedi 30 avril, pour annoncer une possible reprise du processus d'enrichissement d'uranium. "Une partie des activités pourrait reprendre la semaine prochaine à l'usine de conversion d'uranium d'Ispahan" , a déclaré Hassan Rohani, principal négociateur du dossier nucléaire. La "conversion" est la phase préalable à celle de l'enrichissement. M. Rohani a expliqué que son gouvernement est mécontent des résultats du "comité de pilotage" des négociations entre la "troïka" européenne (Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne) et l'Iran, qui s'est réuni vendredi 29 avril à Londres, et que la proposition iranienne (reprendre l'enrichissement sur une usine pilote) devait être acceptée sans tarder. La reprise de la "conversion" risque cependant d'être interprétée par les Européens comme une rupture de l'accord de Paris (novembre 2004), aux termes duquel Téhéran a accepté de suspendre l'enrichissement. Le Guide suprême iranien, l'ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a, d'autre part, adressé un message aux Occidentaux pour souligner que le résultat de la présidentielle iranienne du 17 juin, quel qu'il soit, ne modifierait pas la détermination de l'Iran de mener à bien son programme nucléaire. (AFP, AP.) [-] fermer
Cette double violation porte atteinte à la crédibilité et à l'efficacité d'un traité signé par 189 pays qui, depuis son entrée en vigueur, en 1970, est censé empêcher la prolifération nucléaire. Les Etats-Unis vont profiter de ce réexamen quinquennal du TNP pour dénoncer les agissements de Pyongyang et de Téhéran, et tenter d'obtenir un soutien politique pour envisager un régime de sanctions. Cette double violation porte atteinte à la crédibilité et à l'efficacité d'un traité signé par 189 pays qui, depuis son entrée en vigueur, en 1970, est censé empêcher la prolifération nucléaire. Les Etats-Unis vont profiter de ce réexamen quinquennal du TNP pour dénoncer les agissements de Pyongyang et de Téhéran, et tenter d'obtenir un soutien politique pour envisager un régime de sanctions. Si, après la Corée du Nord, l'Iran annonçait son retrait du TNP, la pérennité de celui-ci serait compromise, risquant d'entraîner, comme le prévoient les experts, une prolifération en "cascade" . La marge de manoeuvre de Washington est limitée, pour plusieurs raisons. Les Etats-Unis, tout en manifestant leur impatience, ont apporté leur soutien à la démarche de négociations avec l'Iran entreprise par la "troïka" européenne (Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne), qui se poursuit. S'agissant du programme nucléaire nord-coréen, faute d'alternative, les Américains continuent de réclamer une reprise des pourparlers à six (les deux Corées, Chine, Russie, Etats-Unis et Japon) interrompus en juillet 2004. Enfin et surtout, comme les autres membres du club très fermé des puissances nucléaires reconnues (Etats-Unis, Russie, Chine, Grande-Bretagne et France), qui sont également membres permanents du Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies, ils vont être mis en accusation par les pays de la Coalition pour un nouvel agenda (Afrique du Sud, Brésil, Egypte, Irlande, Mexique, Nouvelle-Zélande et Suède) et ceux du Mouvement des non-alignés, pour n'avoir rien fait ou presque en faveur du désarmement nucléaire, objectif inscrit à l'article 6 du TNP. Il y a cinq ans, les "Cinq" avaient accepté "un engagement sans équivoque d'accomplir l'élimination totale de leurs arsenaux nucléaires" (il est vrai sans calendrier contraignant) et adopté 13 mesures spécifiques allant dans ce sens, qui sont restées lettre morte. Les Etats-Unis vont se défendre en énumérant la liste des décisions qu'ils ont prises pour réduire leur arsenal. "Vers 2012, souligne un expert du département d'Etat, nous aurons 80 % de têtes stratégiques et 90 % de têtes tactiques en moins qu'à la fin de la guerre froide. Nous avons dépensé 9 milliards de dollars pour aider les Russes à détruire une partie de leur arsenal, et nous allons contribuer pour moitié au programme de 20 milliards de dollars du G8 qui a le même objet. Comment pourrait-on dire que nous ne sommes pas sérieux en matière de désarmement nucléaire ?" Cette argumentation a peu de chances de convaincre les non-alignés, dont la méfiance est alimentée par d'autres facteurs. Outre le fait que Washington ne cache pas son peu d'enthousiasme pour le renouvellement du mandat de Mohamed ElBaradei à la tête de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA), le secrétaire américain à la défense, Donald Rumsfeld, a adressé un message pour le moins ambigu en demandant au Congrès de financer des recherches pour la mise au point de petites bombes nucléaires ("mininukes" ). Washington est en outre hostile au traité d'interdiction des essais nucléaires, et n'exclut pas le principe d'une utilisation de l'arme atomique contre des pays non nucléaires. Les Etats-Unis restent enfin suspects en raison de leur projet de bouclier antimissile. Même si celui-ci n'a pas l'ampleur de la "guerre des étoiles" chère à Ronald Reagan, Jacques Chirac y voyait, en août 1999, "une rupture des équilibres stratégiques" . La France, comme les Etats-Unis, se flatte d'un bilan positif en matière de désarmement, illustré notamment par la diminution des crédits consacrés au nucléaire, qui sont passés de plus de 55 % du budget de la défense à la fin des années 1960 à 20 % aujourd'hui. Elle peut, d'autre part, avancer qu'elle a renoncé à la composante terrestre de son arsenal (les missiles du plateau d'Albion), aux essais nucléaires, réduit le nombre de ses vecteurs et diminué le niveau d'alerte de ses armes en service. Il n'empêche que Paris, pas plus que Washington, Moscou, Pékin et Londres, n'est disposé à aller plus loin dans le désarmement nucléaire. "C'est un voeu pieux qu'on est obligé de faire, mais l'échec des politiques de non-prolifération signifie que nous ne descendrons pas au-dessous du "seuil de suffisance" nucléaire, qui correspond à ces 20 %" , confie un haut responsable militaire français. Les pays de la Coalition pour un nouvel agenda auront beau jeu de mettre en accusation les "Cinq" puisque, à l'origine, le TNP repose sur une sorte de marchandage entre les "pays dotés" (de l'arme atomique) et ceux qui ne le sont pas : les premiers promettent d'oeuvrer en faveur du désarmement nucléaire, en échange de quoi les seconds s'engagent à ne pas fabriquer d'armes, étant entendu que tous les pays signataires du TNP disposent du "droit inaliénable" de "développer la recherche, la production et l'utilisation de l'énergie nucléaire à des fins pacifiques" (article 4). L'Iran interprète le flou de cette dernière disposition comme un droit à se livrer à l'enrichissement de l'uranium, processus qui peut aboutir à la fabrication de l'arme atomique. La conférence de New York est en outre l'occasion de pointer du doigt, comme en 2000, les pays non signataires du TNP mais reconnus comme détenteurs de l'arme nucléaire (Inde, Pakistan et Israël). Contrairement à l'Iran et à la Corée du Nord, ces trois pays sont considérés comme des alliés stratégiques des Etats-Unis. Ils jouissent ainsi d'une quasi-impunité nucléaire de la part des "Cinq" , lesquels confirment ainsi leur interprétation sélective de la prolifération. A New York, l'ambition des 189 pays du TNP n'est pas forcément d'adopter un document final, mais de faire en sorte que, en dépit de ses imperfections et contradictions, le TNP continue de jouer son rôle de rempart ou de frein à la prolifération nucléaire. Laurent Zecchini Article paru dans l'édition du 03.05.05
AP/LEE JIN-MAN Les Etats-Unis vont profiter de la conférence d'examen du traité de non-prolifération nucléaire, qui se tient à New York du 2 au 27 mai, pour dénoncer les agissements de Pyongyang et de Téhéran. Les Etats-Unis vont profiter de la conférence d'examen du traité de non-prolifération nucléaire, qui se tient à New York du 2 au 27 mai, pour dénoncer les agissements de Pyongyang et de Téhéran.
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Les armes en chiffres, les principaux traités et leurs signataires, l'AIEA, les pays de crise et de seuil Zoom Washington craint un essai atomique de la part de la Corée du Nord '); --> Flash shopping | fr | La réexamination du Traité de non-prolifération nucléaire a débuté à New York(TNP) dans un climat tendu. La conférence se poursuivra jusqu'au 27 mai.
Le TNP différencie les cinq puissances nucléaires officielles (États-Unis, Chine, Grande-Bretagne, Russie, France) qui ont le droit de détenir des armes nucléaires (tout en devant à terme les éliminer) et les autres pays, auquels il est formellement interdit de se doter d'armement de ce type. Il prévoit néanmois l'utilisation du nucléaire comme source d'énergie à des fins non-militaires pour tous les pays qui le souhaiteraient.
Les signataires du TNP devront décider si le traité est encore approprié pour contrer efficacement le risque de prolifération nucléaire. Les récentes décisions de l'Iran et de la Corée du Nord qui auraient choisi de se doter d'armement nucléaire tout en appartenant au traité pose de réels problèmes d'efficacité - la filière civile pouvant assez facilement offrir la possibilité de la construction d'une bombe nucléaire.
Si la conférence quinquenale n'est plus directement et vitalement menacée (comme cela avait pu être le cas en 2000 à cause du programme d'armes de destruction massives en Irak), l'Iran et, à un niveau plus inquiétant, la Corée du Nord ont défié l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA)
en avouant plus ou moins ouvertement maintenir leur agenda d'armement nucléaire.
De plus, des distensions entre les ''cinq'' possédant des armes nucléaires et les autres pays, qui veulent accélerer le désarmement, notamment en imposant un calendrier contraignant, sont nettes et contribuent à la division de la communauté internationale. Les États-Unis veulent par exemple lancer des recherches sur des petites bombes nucléaires ou « mininukes » tout en affirmant avoir réduit le pourcentage du budget militaire alloué au nucléaire de 55 à 20% en quarante ans. |
en | Einmonatige Uno-Konferenz beginnt heute in New York - Tauglichkeit des 35 Jahre alten Paktes soll abgeklopft werden
Genf/New York - Schützt der Atomwaffensperrvertrag (NPT, Non-Proliferation Treaty) die Staatengemeinschaft noch vor der Proliferation? Oder soll er angesichts neuer nuklearer Gefahren verschärft werden? Ab heute, Montag, werden die NPT-Vertragsstaaten bei der UNO in New York die Tauglichkeit des 35 Jahre alten Paktes abklopfen.
Der Atomwaffensperrvertrag, über dessen Einhaltung die Internationale Atomenergiebehörde (IAEO) wacht, unterscheidet zwischen den offiziellen Atommächten - China, Frankreich, Großbritannien, Russland und den USA - sowie den Nichtatommächten. Die Nichtatommächte dürfen keine nuklearen Waffen erwerben oder herstellen. Artikel IV des NPT erlaubt jedoch allen Staaten, die Atomkraft für friedliche Zwecke zu nutzen.
"Der NPT musste schwere Schläge einstecken", erklärt George Bunn, der auf US-Seite den Vertrag mit aushandelte. In der Tat vermochte aber das Paragrafenwerk weder die iranischen Mullahs noch den nordkoreanischen Diktator Kim Jong-il von ihren atomaren Abenteuern abhalten. Während Teheran noch Mitglied des NPT ist und beteuert, nur zu friedlichen Zwecken Uran anreichern zu wollen, klinkte sich Pjöngjang 2003 kurzerhand aus. Seitdem brauchen sich die Nordkoreaner nicht mehr mit lästigen IAEO-Inspektoren herumzuschlagen - genauso wenig wie die anderen NPT-Nichtmitglieder Israel, Pakistan und Indien, allesamt Atomwaffenstaaten.
Zudem blüht der internationale Atom-Schwarzmarkt. Laut letzten Erkenntnissen der IAEO bieten mehr als zwei Dutzend Unternehmen und Einzelpersonen die Bauteile der Bombe an. "Das geht da zu wie im Wal-Mart", heißt es bei der IAEO. Die berüchtigte Bande um den pakistanischen Forscher Abdul Qadeer Khan etwa versorgte über zwei Jahrzehnte Nordkorea, Libyen und den Iran mit gefährlichem Material und Wissen.
Japans virtuelle Bombe
Wer in den Kreis der Atommächte aufrücken will, kann zunächst auch legal beginnen. Alle Mitgliedstaaten des Atomwaffensperrvertrages dürfen sich Nukleartechnologie und Materialien wie angereichertes Uran beschaffen - solange sie es zur friedlichen Nutzung der Atomkraft einsetzen. Mit der so genannten Dual-Use-Technologie und dem nötigen Know-how lässt sich dann aber gegebenenfalls ein militärischer Weg einschlagen. Nicht nur Schurkenstaaten wie Nordkorea profitieren. Es ist ein offenes Geheimnis, dass die Hightechindustrie Japans innerhalb kürzester Zeit eine A-Bombe produzieren könnte. (DER STANDARD, Printausgabe, 2.5.2005) | fr | La réexamination du Traité de non-prolifération nucléaire a débuté à New York(TNP) dans un climat tendu. La conférence se poursuivra jusqu'au 27 mai.
Le TNP différencie les cinq puissances nucléaires officielles (États-Unis, Chine, Grande-Bretagne, Russie, France) qui ont le droit de détenir des armes nucléaires (tout en devant à terme les éliminer) et les autres pays, auquels il est formellement interdit de se doter d'armement de ce type. Il prévoit néanmois l'utilisation du nucléaire comme source d'énergie à des fins non-militaires pour tous les pays qui le souhaiteraient.
Les signataires du TNP devront décider si le traité est encore approprié pour contrer efficacement le risque de prolifération nucléaire. Les récentes décisions de l'Iran et de la Corée du Nord qui auraient choisi de se doter d'armement nucléaire tout en appartenant au traité pose de réels problèmes d'efficacité - la filière civile pouvant assez facilement offrir la possibilité de la construction d'une bombe nucléaire.
Si la conférence quinquenale n'est plus directement et vitalement menacée (comme cela avait pu être le cas en 2000 à cause du programme d'armes de destruction massives en Irak), l'Iran et, à un niveau plus inquiétant, la Corée du Nord ont défié l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA)
en avouant plus ou moins ouvertement maintenir leur agenda d'armement nucléaire.
De plus, des distensions entre les ''cinq'' possédant des armes nucléaires et les autres pays, qui veulent accélerer le désarmement, notamment en imposant un calendrier contraignant, sont nettes et contribuent à la division de la communauté internationale. Les États-Unis veulent par exemple lancer des recherches sur des petites bombes nucléaires ou « mininukes » tout en affirmant avoir réduit le pourcentage du budget militaire alloué au nucléaire de 55 à 20% en quarante ans. |
en | London’s busiest subway line was closed today after a runaway engineering train traveled for almost four miles (6.4 kilometers) toward the center of the U.K. capital without a driver.
The train became defective near Archway station in north London after undertaking maintenance work and was being dragged away from the city by an empty passenger unit when it became detached and began to roll southward. It passed six stations before halting at Warren Street as the gradient leveled out.
Britain’s RMT union, which represents Tube workers, said it understood that a collision with a passenger service “was only narrowly avoided” as the train left Archway. Matt Brown, a spokesman for Transport for London, said the incident on a stretch of line maintained by Amey Plc was “serious,” while declining to comment on the RMT allegation.
The subway’s Northern Line, which carries more than 500,000 people a day, was still partially closed at 4.45 p.m. local time following the incident, which occurred at 6.44 a.m. Services should be restored by the end of the evening, Brown said.
London Underground staff undertook a “swift assessment” as the incident developed, diverting passenger trains to the City branch of the Northern Line and sending the engineering train along the Charing Cross route, where normal services had been stopped and cleared, TfL said in a statement.
RAIB Probe
“We have of course launched an immediate and thorough investigation into this incident to establish the cause,” London Underground Director Richard Parry said in the release.
Parry told the British Broadcasting Corp. that the train was traveling no faster than 40 miles (64 kilometers) an hour and that he understood the nearest passenger unit was at least a kilometer away. The Rail Accident Investigation Bureau has also begun a probe and the use of engineering trains of the type involved has been suspended.
Amey spokeswoman Susie Carter said she couldn’t immediately comment on whether the train was owned by the company, a unit of Spanish construction company Ferrovial SA, or was being operated by a sub-contractor.
“Amey are contracted for maintenance on that part of the line but it’s far too early to draw any conclusions,” TfL spokesman Brown said. “With this type of situation there is never any sense in pointing fingers or apportioning blame until after a thorough investigation.”
‘Appalled’
RMT Assistant General Secretary Pat Sikorski said in a statement that he was “appalled and horrified” at the incident and that TfL should halt job cuts and procedural changes that have affected safety standards.
“When I heard the news I was stunned,” said Alex Walters, a student at City University who was diverted onto the City branch of the Northern Line at 7:15 a.m. “The service is slow enough as it is; now it appears to have become some macabre form of Russian roulette into the bargain.”
The Northern Line serves southwest London suburbs including Wimbledon and Clapham Common, as well as Hampstead and Highgate in the north. The line divides in the center of the capital, with one branch running through the West End entertainment district and the other via the City financial quarter.
The route also serves busy surface rail stations including Waterloo, Euston, London Bridge and Kings Cross. The Charing Cross branch between Camden and Kennington was still closed this afternoon, according to the Transport for London website.
To contact the reporters on this story: Steven Rothwell in London at [email protected]; Francesca Angelini in London [email protected] | en | A London engineering train ran away and travelled four miles on the Underground's early on Friday morning, resulting in part of the Northern Line, which carries 500,000 passengers daily, being closed for much of the day. The runaway train apparently had an engineering defect.
The London Underground, also known as the Tube, reported that the engineering train had been working on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line when it broke down at 5.25 a.m. BST (0425 UTC). It was attached to an out-of-service passenger train to be dragged northwards when, for reasons which are being investigated by the , it broke free near at 6.44 a.m. and started rolling southwards. The train ran through six stations before it was finally brought to a halt by a slight incline in the track at at 6.57 a.m.
Passenger Tom Redfern, on the preceding train at Archway, described what happened to the BBC: "As soon as we pulled away the driver came on the tannoy and said, 'There is an emergency, will everyone move towards the front of the train'. There was a ripple of panic. I went from half asleep to a big adrenaline rush. I thought, 'Is this it?'"
The passenger train was rerouted onto the City Branch of the Northern Line, and bypassed all stations until Moorgate in an attempt to keep ahead of the runaway, while the runaway was routed down the Charing Cross Branch.
Mr Redfern said: "We went full speed. We knew the situation was dangerous because we were going fast. Even by the driver's voice, we could tell it was serious."
London Underground director Richard Parry said that at no time was the runaway closer than 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) to a passenger train. Service was suspended between and Archway, and between and via Charing Cross, while investigations into the cause of the runaway took place. |
en | Runaway train on London Tube's Northern Line
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A runaway train went through six stops on a 13-minute journey on London's Tube with other trains having to be cleared out of its path.
The engineering train became uncoupled as it was towed on the Northern Line near Archway station on Friday morning.
Passenger trains were diverted to another branch of the Northern Line while trains were cleared from the Charing Cross branch.
The train ran for nearly four miles before it stopped at Warren Street.
It came to a rest only because there is a slight incline at the station.
Tom Redfern joined the line in Archway on the train in front of the runaway vehicle.
He said: "As soon as we pulled away the driver came on the tannoy and said, 'There is an emergency, will everyone move towards the front of the train'.
Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote I thought, 'Is this it?'” End Quote Tom Redfern Passenger
"There was a ripple of panic. I went from half asleep to a big adrenaline rush. I thought, 'Is this it?'"
The train bypassed all stations until Moorgate in an attempt to keep ahead of the other vehicle.
Mr Redfern said: "We went full speed. We knew the situation was dangerous because we were going fast.
"Even by the driver's voice, we could tell it was serious."
Pat Sikorski, of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union, said: "We are appalled and horrified at this major incident which could have very easily resulted in disaster.
"The runaway train represents a safety failure of the highest order.
"We understand a collision with a passenger service train leaving Archway was only narrowly avoided."
The engineering train, which was undertaking rail maintenance work, had been travelling southbound on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line.
LU staff took the decision to divert passenger trains to the City branch while directing the engineering train to the cleared Charing Cross branch.
But at 0644 BST the vehicle, which does not carry passengers, became detached from the towing train and began to move southbound.
London Underground (LU) staff diverted passenger trains to the City branch while directing the engineering train to the cleared Charing Cross branch.
The engineering train came to a halt at 0657 BST.
LU's Richard Parry said he "could not speculate" about how fast the train had been travelling.
"Northern line trains will travel even at full propulsion at 35mph," he added.
"I'm confident it would have been at a lower speed than that."
Safety 'top priority'
He said no passenger trains were closer than a kilometre (0.6 miles) from the runaway train.
"It was no closer than a kilometre away. That was the closest any train was in the area to where this train was," he said.
The line was suspended between Finchley Central and Archway and between Camden Town and Kennington via Charing Cross, leading to widespread disruption.
Mr Parry added: "Safety is our top priority and we have launched an immediate and thorough investigation into this incident." | en | A London engineering train ran away and travelled four miles on the Underground's early on Friday morning, resulting in part of the Northern Line, which carries 500,000 passengers daily, being closed for much of the day. The runaway train apparently had an engineering defect.
The London Underground, also known as the Tube, reported that the engineering train had been working on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line when it broke down at 5.25 a.m. BST (0425 UTC). It was attached to an out-of-service passenger train to be dragged northwards when, for reasons which are being investigated by the , it broke free near at 6.44 a.m. and started rolling southwards. The train ran through six stations before it was finally brought to a halt by a slight incline in the track at at 6.57 a.m.
Passenger Tom Redfern, on the preceding train at Archway, described what happened to the BBC: "As soon as we pulled away the driver came on the tannoy and said, 'There is an emergency, will everyone move towards the front of the train'. There was a ripple of panic. I went from half asleep to a big adrenaline rush. I thought, 'Is this it?'"
The passenger train was rerouted onto the City Branch of the Northern Line, and bypassed all stations until Moorgate in an attempt to keep ahead of the runaway, while the runaway was routed down the Charing Cross Branch.
Mr Redfern said: "We went full speed. We knew the situation was dangerous because we were going fast. Even by the driver's voice, we could tell it was serious."
London Underground director Richard Parry said that at no time was the runaway closer than 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) to a passenger train. Service was suspended between and Archway, and between and via Charing Cross, while investigations into the cause of the runaway took place. |
en | London Underground has ordered an inquiry into a runaway train on the Northern line Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty Images
A runaway train travelled four miles through five stations on the London underground without a driver yesterday.
Following what was described by the RMT union as a major safety failure, passenger services on the line running through the heart of the city were diverted to clear the way for the train, which had broken free while being towed by another.
It only narrowly missed a passenger service at Archway station in north London, according to the union.
Passengers faced big delays after the train rolled south for 13 minutes before coming to a halt at Warren Street station just before 7am.
The engineering train was being used for works on the High Barnet branch of the Northern line, near Archway, when it broke down at 5.25am.
Engineers coupled it to an out-of-service passenger train, and began to tow it northwards. But at 6.44am the defective train broke free and began rolling southwards.
London Underground staff quickly diverted passenger trains to the Bank branch of the Northern line, and sent the runaway train through the Charing Cross branch. It passed through five underground stations before coming to a halt at a sixth, Warren Street, four miles from where it had become loose.
London Underground, which pledged a full investigation, has suspended the use of all similar engineering trains until further inquiries can be made. It said the trains were operated by a contractor.
An RMT spokesman said: "We are appalled and horrified at this major incident during passenger traffic hours which could have very easily resulted in disaster." | en | A London engineering train ran away and travelled four miles on the Underground's early on Friday morning, resulting in part of the Northern Line, which carries 500,000 passengers daily, being closed for much of the day. The runaway train apparently had an engineering defect.
The London Underground, also known as the Tube, reported that the engineering train had been working on the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line when it broke down at 5.25 a.m. BST (0425 UTC). It was attached to an out-of-service passenger train to be dragged northwards when, for reasons which are being investigated by the , it broke free near at 6.44 a.m. and started rolling southwards. The train ran through six stations before it was finally brought to a halt by a slight incline in the track at at 6.57 a.m.
Passenger Tom Redfern, on the preceding train at Archway, described what happened to the BBC: "As soon as we pulled away the driver came on the tannoy and said, 'There is an emergency, will everyone move towards the front of the train'. There was a ripple of panic. I went from half asleep to a big adrenaline rush. I thought, 'Is this it?'"
The passenger train was rerouted onto the City Branch of the Northern Line, and bypassed all stations until Moorgate in an attempt to keep ahead of the runaway, while the runaway was routed down the Charing Cross Branch.
Mr Redfern said: "We went full speed. We knew the situation was dangerous because we were going fast. Even by the driver's voice, we could tell it was serious."
London Underground director Richard Parry said that at no time was the runaway closer than 1 kilometre (0.6 miles) to a passenger train. Service was suspended between and Archway, and between and via Charing Cross, while investigations into the cause of the runaway took place. |
fr | MOSCOU, 17 septembre - RIA Novosti. La Russie a l'intention d'intégrer ses systèmes de transports et d'énergie, ainsi que ses systèmes de communication, à ceux d'Ossétie du Sud et d'Abkhazie, d'après les accords d'amitié et de coopération entre la Russie et les deux républiques autoproclamées signés mercredi.
"Les parties aspireront à la haute intégration économique, et c'est à ces fins qu'elles développeront leur coopération commerciale et économique, entreprendront des mesures visant à faire intégrer leurs systèmes énergétiques, de transports et de communication", stipulent les textes des documents.
De plus, les trois pays, la Russie, l'Ossétie du Sud et l'Abkhazie, se sont mis d'accord pour "accorder des régimes tout aussi favorables à chacune des tierces parties". | fr | La Russie a l'intention d'intégrer ses systèmes de transports et d'énergie, ainsi que ses systèmes de communication, à ceux d'Ossétie du Sud et d'Abkhazie, d'après les accords d'amitié et de coopération entre la Russie et les deux républiques autoproclamées signés mercredi.
, stipulent les textes des documents.
De plus, les trois pays, la Russie, l'Ossétie du Sud et l'Abkhazie, se sont mis d'accord pour . |
de | Von Eric Bonner 23.12.2004 12:32 Erste Beta von Opera 8 Opera Software hat die erste Beta von Opera 8 auf seinen FTP-Server gepackt und zum Download bereitgestellt. Über etwaige Neuerungen sind zwar über offizielle Kanäle noch keine Details durchgesickert, im Opera-Forum tragen Anwender allerdings bereits die ein oder andere Beobachtung zusammen. An das Interface etwa haben die Entwickler stellenweise Hand angelegt. So wurde beispielsweise die Funktion "Delete private data", die unter Tools zu finden ist, angepasst. Standardmäßig sind nun bei einer Vielzahl von Daten die der Browser abspeichert - also Cookies, Passwörter, Verlauf, angesteuerte Links sowie Datei-Downloads – Häkchen gesetzt und mit einem Klick können sie alle beseitigt werden. Wer darüber hinaus noch an abgelegte Passwörter für Mail-Accounts oder "Wand“-Passwörter ran will, nimmt entsprechende Einstellungen über den Button "Advanced“ und "Manage Wand password“ vor.
Laut einem Moderator des Beta-Forums hat es auch unter der Haube etliche Veränderungen gegeben. Eine davon soll die jetzt frisch angekündigte Technologie namens Extensible Rendering Architecture (ERA) sein. Die für das Rendering gedachte Engine, von Opera auch als „Fit-to-Window Technology“ bezeichnet, soll Content problemlos an unterschiedliche Bildschirmgrößen anpassen. Opera Rendering Technologie war bislang für Small- and Medium-Screen Rendering (SSR/MSR) gedacht, also das Rendering von Web-Seiten auf mobile Geräte beziehungsweise TV-Rendering. ERA fasst die Rendering-Technologie von Opera in einem System zusammen. Opera läuft unter Windows, Linux und Mac. Der Download von Opera 8.00 (Beta) ist knapp 3.6 MB groß und steht momentan nur für Windows und nur in englischer Sprache bereit. Bei der Version handelt es sich um die Variante ohne Java im Schlepptau. Hinweis: Auf den FTP-Server von Opera scheinen derzeit eine ganze Reihe von Anwendern zuzugreifen. Ab und zu klappt daher die Herstellung der Verbindung nicht gleich beim ersten Versuch. Download: Opera 8.00 (Beta)
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'''Oslo (Norwegen), 23.12.2004''' - Der norwegische Softwareentwickler Opera Software hat heute eine Betaversion seines Webbrowsers Opera 8.0 veröffentlicht.
Sowohl bei der Benutzeroberfläche als auch unter der Haube des ursprünglich als Version 7.60 geplanten Browsers gibt es viele Neuerungen. Auffallend ist eine Startleiste, die unter anderem schnellen Zugriff auf den Verlauf, die Lesezeichen und Suchmaschinen bieten soll.
Neu ist auch eine unter dem Namen „Extensible Rendering Architecture“ vermarktete Technik, die es ermöglicht, die Darstellung von Webseiten an unterschiedliche Bildschirmauflösungen anzupassen. Weitere kleine Veränderungen sollen die Bedienung verbessern.
Die veröffentlichte Version ist derzeit nur in englischer Sprache und nur für Windows verfügbar. |
de | Opera hat jetzt eine Beta-Version seiner kommenden Browser-Version veröffentlicht. Ursprünglich als Opera 7.60 geplant soll die neue Version nun als neues Major-Release vermutlich unter dem Namen Opera 8 daherkommen. Der Browser wartet unter anderem mit Sprachsteuerung und -ausgabe, optimierter Oberfläche und Fit-to-Width-Funktion auf. Auch die RSS-Unterstützung wurde verbessert.
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Auf Grund der zahlreichen Neuerungen, die ihren Weg in die neue Opera-Version gefunden haben, rechtfertige dies die Veröffentlichung eines neuen Major-Release, erklärt Opera-CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner die Entscheidung. Für ein einfaches Update bringe die neue Version eigentlich zu viele neue Funktionen mit. Allerdings sollen Nutzer, die Opera 7 lizenziert haben, trotz des Major-Updates kostenlos auf die neue Version umsteigen können, verspricht der Opera-Chef.Die Beta-Version wartet mit einem vereinfachten User-Interface auf, das weniger erfahrene Nutzer langsam an die zahlreichen Funktionen des Browsers heranführen soll. Eine neue Start Bar erlaubt einen schnellen Zugriff auf die wichtigsten Funktionen, ein "Mülleimer" merkt sich geschlossene Fenster und unterdrückte Pop-Ups, so dass in Kombination mit Operas Session-Funktion keine Daten mehr verloren gehen sollten. Zudem wurde der RSS-Client prominenter platziert und bei Seiten, die RSS-Feeds anbieten, wird nun ein RSS-Icon in der Adresszeile angezeigt.Zudem wurde in Opera 8 das Kontextmenü aufgeräumt, so dass die Frame- und Hintergrund-Menüs nur noch erscheinen, wenn die Seite auch Frames oder Hintergrundbilder enthält. Zudem zeigt die aufgebohrte Favicons-Unterstützung entsprechende Seitenbilder nun auch in den Suchfeldern, im globalen Verlauf sowie im Adressverlauf. Ferner wurde der Dialog zum Löschen persönlicher Daten vereinfacht, wobei der Befehl nun auch Favicons löscht.Die nur im Internet erreichbaren Hilfeseiten sollen nun im Browser-Cache vorgehalten werden, um alle bereits besuchten Hilfeseiten auch ohne Internet-Anbindung einsehen zu können. Kleinere Verbesserungen wurden außerdem am E-Mail-, Chat- und Newsfeed-Client vorgenommen, die nun eine voll anpassbare Toolbar besitzen. Schließlich wurde noch eine Reihe kleinerer Verbesserungen an dem Browser vorgenommen, um die Bedienung weiter zu vereinfachen.In der Windows-Version erhält der Browser eine englische Sprachsteuerung, die durch einen zusätzlichen Download aktiviert wird. Über Sprachkommandos kann man dann mit der Stimme in Webseiten navigieren und die Opera-Oberfläche ohne Maus und Tastatur steuern. Die Sprachoption kann per Knopf- oder Tastendruck zugeschaltet werden oder auch generell aktiviert sein. Für die Sprachbefehle unterstützt Opera XHTML+Voice 1.2 sowie das CSS3 Speech Module und kann somit auch Webseiten oder Ausschnitte vorlesen.Eine weitere wichtige Neuerung in der neuen Opera-Version ist die Funktion "Fit to Width", die eine Webseite so formatiert, dass horizontales Scrollen auch bei kleineren Auflösungen nicht notwendig ist, selbst wenn das Seiten-Layout breiter als die benutzte Auflösung ist. Opera formatiert eine solche Seite bei aktiviertem "Fit to Width" so um, dass die Webseite von der Breite her immer in ein Browser-Fenster passt, je nachdem ob diese auf einem PC-Monitor, dem Fernseher, mobilen Endgeräten oder zum Ausdruck auf Papier dargestellt werden soll.Die Beta-Version von Opera steht in englischer Sprache für Windows zum Download bereit. Die fertige Version soll Anfang 2005 erscheinen, dann will Opera auch den neuen Namen der kommenden Opera-Version offiziell bekannt geben. (ji) | de | right
'''Oslo (Norwegen), 23.12.2004''' - Der norwegische Softwareentwickler Opera Software hat heute eine Betaversion seines Webbrowsers Opera 8.0 veröffentlicht.
Sowohl bei der Benutzeroberfläche als auch unter der Haube des ursprünglich als Version 7.60 geplanten Browsers gibt es viele Neuerungen. Auffallend ist eine Startleiste, die unter anderem schnellen Zugriff auf den Verlauf, die Lesezeichen und Suchmaschinen bieten soll.
Neu ist auch eine unter dem Namen „Extensible Rendering Architecture“ vermarktete Technik, die es ermöglicht, die Darstellung von Webseiten an unterschiedliche Bildschirmauflösungen anzupassen. Weitere kleine Veränderungen sollen die Bedienung verbessern.
Die veröffentlichte Version ist derzeit nur in englischer Sprache und nur für Windows verfügbar. |
es | Corea del Norte lanzó este martes un misil balístico "no identificado" que pasó por encima del territorio japonés, indicaron el Ejército surcoreano y el Gobierno nipón.
El "misil balístico no identificado" fue lanzado desde Pyongyang sobre las 05H57 (20H57 GMT del lunes), indicó el Estado Mayor surcoreano en un comunicado, asegurando que se dirigió hacia el este y pasó "por encima de Japón".
El proyectil recorrió 2.700 kilómetros alcanzando una altitud máxima de 550 kilómetros, según los mandos militares de Corea del Sur.
"Corea del Sur y Estados Unidos están analizando conjuntamente los detalles", agregó Corea del Sur.
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Tokio protestó por el lanzamiento que sobrevoló su territorio. El primer ministro, Shinzo Abe, advirtió que su Gobierno tomará "todas las medidas" que sean necesarias para garantizar la seguridad del pueblo japonés y condenó el hecho.
"Su acto intolerable de disparar un misil sobre nuestro país es una amenaza grave y sin precedentes y daña gravemente la paz regional y la seguridad", dijo Abe a la prensa.
Este lanzamiento se produce un par de días después de que Pyongyang probara tres misiles de corto alcance, que fueron considerados como una provocación nimia ante el ejercicio conjunto anual que realizan Estados Unidos y Corea del Sur.
Este es el primer proyectil norcoreano que sobrevuela el territorio de Japón en varios años y el lanzamiento se produce después de que en julio Pyongyang probó dos misiles balísticos intercontinentales. En 2009, un cohete norcoreano sobrevoló el territorio de Japón, sin causar incidentes, pero generando una protesta inmediata del gobierno de Tokio.
Entonces, Pyongyang se justificó asegurando que se trataba de un satélite de telecomunicaciones, pero Washington, Seúl y Tokio creen que era una prueba para desarrollar misiles intercontinentales
"Hago un llamado al Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU para que convoquen una reunión de emergencia", dijo el primer ministro luego de que se conociese el lanzamiento del misil.
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El lanzamiento de este martes representa una significativa escalada de parte de Pyongyang, que este mes había amenazado con lanzar proyectiles hacia la isla de Guam, una importante base estadounidense.
Un ataque de este tipo tendría que pasar necesariamente sobre el archipiélago de Japón. | es | De acuerdo a informaciones del gobierno japonés y confirmación de fuentes militares de Corea del Sur, un misil balístico sobrevoló gran parte de durante la madrugada de los países asiáticos, cayendo en el océano Pacífico. El lanzamiento se registró a las 5:57 am (local) y no se registraron daños por esta prueba.
De acuerdo a un comunicado del Estado Mayor de Corea del Sur, un objeto balístico no identificado fue lanzado desde Pyongyang -capital de Corea del Norte-, pasando por sobre Japón y cayendo a cayendo 1.180 kilómetros del cabo de , por lo cual alcanzó un recorrido de 2.700 kilómetros.
Bajo esta amenaza, el gobierno japonés se ha puesto en contacto con sus pares de y para estudiar posibles represalias a estos ensayos que desestabilizan la zona de la , así como existen diversas informaciones de prensa que el gobierno japonés ha convocado al para debatir la escalada en el conflicto norcoreano y sus ensayos balísticos. |
es | Las misiones para la ONU de EE.UU., Corea del Sur y Japón pidieron hoy una reunión urgente del Consejo de Seguridad en respuesta al nuevo lanzamiento de un misil norcoreano que sobrevoló territorio japonés antes de caer en el Pacífico.
La petición de estos tres países fue hecha pública en la cuenta oficial de Twitter de la misión japonesa en Naciones Unidas, sin dar más detalles sobre la misma
Además de solicitar la reunión urgente del máximo órgano de la ONU, el gobierno de Corea del Sur reaccionó a la nueva prueba balística de Pyongyang desplegando cuatro cazas F-15K que lanzaron bombas sobre un objetivo situado cerca de la frontera desmilitarizada que separa a las dos Coreas (DMZ).
Portavoces de las fuerzas surcoreanas advirtieron también de que Corea del Norte se enfrentará a represalias si continúa con sus ensayos armamentísticos, y señalaron que el nuevo test supone "otra flagrante violación" de las resoluciones del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU.
Por su parte, el primer ministro de Japón, Shinzo Abe, mantuvo una conversación telefónica con el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, en la que acordaron ejercer aún más presión sobre Pyongyang tras su nuevo lanzamiento de un misil.
El de hoy es el decimotercer lanzamiento de un misil balístico por parte de Pyongyang en lo que va de año, el primero de los cuales, realizado el 4 de julio, llevó a que el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU aprobara un paquete de nuevas sanciones contra Corea del Norte.
El misil de hoy, disparado desde las proximidades de la capital norcoreana, es el primero desde 2009 que ha sobrevolado Japón, tras lo que recorrió un distancia superior a 2.700 kilómetros y cayó en el mar a unos 1.180 kilómetros del cabo de Erimo, en el extremo nororiental del archipiélago japonés.
El nuevo ensayo armamentístico tuvo lugar después de que el sábado Pyongyang lanzara tres proyectiles balísticos de corto alcance a las aguas del mar de Japón, y tras probar el mes pasado dos misiles balísticos intercontinentales (ICBM). | es | De acuerdo a informaciones del gobierno japonés y confirmación de fuentes militares de Corea del Sur, un misil balístico sobrevoló gran parte de durante la madrugada de los países asiáticos, cayendo en el océano Pacífico. El lanzamiento se registró a las 5:57 am (local) y no se registraron daños por esta prueba.
De acuerdo a un comunicado del Estado Mayor de Corea del Sur, un objeto balístico no identificado fue lanzado desde Pyongyang -capital de Corea del Norte-, pasando por sobre Japón y cayendo a cayendo 1.180 kilómetros del cabo de , por lo cual alcanzó un recorrido de 2.700 kilómetros.
Bajo esta amenaza, el gobierno japonés se ha puesto en contacto con sus pares de y para estudiar posibles represalias a estos ensayos que desestabilizan la zona de la , así como existen diversas informaciones de prensa que el gobierno japonés ha convocado al para debatir la escalada en el conflicto norcoreano y sus ensayos balísticos. |
pl | Łukasz Szewczyk
Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE krytycznie oceniło działania Telewizji Polskiej oraz Krajowej Rady Radiofonii i Telewizji podczas ostatnich tygodni przed wyborami parlamentarnymi.
OBWE obserwując przez kilkanaście dni działania TVP i KRRiT stwierdziło "brak równowagi jakościowej" w relacjach Telewizji Polskiej dotyczących trzech głównych partii rywalizujących w wyborach.Z kolei Krajowej Radzie Radiofonii i Telewizji dostało się za to, że nie była w stanie odpowiednio wywiązywać się ze swych konstytucyjnych obowiązków "z powodu niedoskonałości swej struktury i różnic zdań wynikających ze stronniczego składu". | pl | Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE krytycznie oceniło działania Telewizji Polskiej oraz Krajowej Rady Radiofonii i Telewizji podczas ostatnich tygodni przed wyborami parlamentarnymi.
OBWE obserwując przez kilkanaście dni działania TVP i KRRiT stwierdziło "brak równowagi jakościowej" w relacjach Telewizji Polskiej dotyczących trzech głównych partii rywalizujących w wyborach.
Z kolei Krajowej Radzie Radiofonii i Telewizji dostało się za to, że nie była w stanie odpowiednio wywiązywać się ze swych konstytucyjnych obowiązków "z powodu niedoskonałości swej struktury i różnic zdań wynikających ze stronniczego składu".
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*Polska zaprasza obserwatorów OBWE na wybory, 3 października 2007 |
pl | OBWE krytykuje TVP i KRRiT
Niedzielne wybory parlamentarne w Polsce były demokratyczne i pluralistyczne, ale pozostają wyzwania związane z zapewnieniem skutecznego, niezależnego nadzoru nad mediami publicznymi - oceniło warszawskie Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE (ODIHR).
Dramatyczny wieczór wyborczy!
Wieczór wyborczy w Onet.pl - minuta po minucie. To był wieczór triumfu dla PO i porażki dla PiS. Były słowa Donalda Tuska o miłości i władzy i było przemówienie Jarosława Kaczyńskiego o froncie antypisowskim.
Biuro opierało się na wstępnych wnioskach misji obserwacyjnej OBWE. Misja będzie śledzić także dalszą część procesu wyborczego w Polsce i dopiero po jego zakończeniu opublikuje ostateczny raport, zawierający ewentualne rekomendacje.- Polskie wybory parlamentarne z 21 października świadczyły o demokratycznym i pluralistycznym charakterze procesu wyborczego, który opierał się na wysokim stopniu zaufania obywateli do uczciwości i bezstronności administracji wyborczej pod władzą Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej - pisze ODIHR.Jak podkreśla ODIHR, rejestracja kandydatów przebiegała zgodnie z prawem i gwarantowała pluralizm wyboru, a kampanię wyborczą cechowało zacięte współzawodnictwo, choć dochodziło do "sporadycznych stronniczych interwencji instytucji państwowych". W dniu wyborów dały się też zauważyć "pojedyncze niedociągnięcia techniczne", które należy rozwiązać, by zagwarantować dalsze zaufanie wyborców.- Podczas kampanii wyborczej wyrażano publiczne zaniepokojenie dostrzeganymi dysproporcjami w ilości relacji dotyczących poszczególnych partii w telewizji publicznej, co zaostrzał brak skutecznych mechanizmów nadzoru - wskazuje ODIHR.Zdaniem ODIHR misja obserwacyjna stwierdziła w ciągu ostatnich dwóch tygodni kampanii wyborczej "brak równowagi jakościowej" w relacjach publicznej telewizji dotyczących trzech głównych partii rywalizujących w wyborach, a Krajowa Rada Radiofonii i Telewizji nie była w stanie odpowiednio wywiązywać się ze swych konstytucyjnych obowiązków "z powodu niedoskonałości swej struktury i różnic zdań wynikających ze stronniczego składu".Pytany o to przewodniczący posiedzeń KRRiT Witold Kołodziejski powiedział PAP, że Rada "podjęła wszystkie czynności, które mogła podjąć".- Będziemy w tej chwili opracowywali raport. Telewizję publiczną i media publiczne zobowiązywaliśmy do pewnych kroków. Z powodu różnicy zdań nic nie zostało zablokowane jedynie zwiększyło temperaturę dyskusji. To co z KRRiT wyszło, wychodziło w postaci uchwał zatwierdzanych przez wszystkich członków - powiedział. - Od tej strony KRRiT zrobiła wszystko co mogła - dodał.Kołodziejski przyznał jednak, że istnieją "pewne niedoskonałości w systemie prawnym". Jak wyjaśnił chodzi m.in. o to, że nie ma jasnych kryteriów dotyczących dostępu polityków do mediów. "Nie jest jasne, czy ma to być równość bezwzględna, czyli, czy wszystkie partie mają bezwzględnie tyle samo czasu, czy jest to równość względna, proporcjonalna" - wyjaśniał.Dodał też, że w jego ocenie, podstawowe siły polityczne - PO, PiS, LiD - miały w telewizji publicznej proporcjonalnie tyle czasu, ile wynikało to z ich zaangażowania i pozycji na scenie politycznej. - Samoobrona, PSL i LPR też miały dobrą reprezentację - dodał.ODIHR podkreśla także, że "zróżnicowany przekrój medialny umożliwił wyborcom dokonanie świadomego wyboru, a debaty medialne głównych kandydatów do stanowiska szefa rządu odegrały istotną rolę w zapewnieniu im informacji o kandydatach".Ocenia też, że "mimo braku konkretnych postanowień prawnych dotyczących międzynarodowych obserwatorów, co jest niezgodne ze zobowiązaniami w OBWE, misji umożliwiono pełny dostęp do wszystkich poziomów administracji, w tym do lokali wyborczych w dniu wyborów".Dwunastoosobowa misja OBWE pod kierownictwem Juliana Peela Yatesa rozpoczęła pracę 9 października. Jej członkowie odwiedzili - poza Warszawą - Łódź, Poznań, Wrocław, Opole, Katowice, Kraków, Gdańsk, Lublin, Toruń i Białystok. Spotykali się z m.in. kandydatami, przedstawicielami partii politycznych, rządu, mediów, krajowych instytucji nadzorczych i społeczeństwa obywatelskiego. W dniu wyborów odwiedzili pewną liczbę lokali wyborczych w okolicach Warszawy, Gdańska i Krakowa. | pl | Biuro Instytucji Demokratycznych i Praw Człowieka OBWE krytycznie oceniło działania Telewizji Polskiej oraz Krajowej Rady Radiofonii i Telewizji podczas ostatnich tygodni przed wyborami parlamentarnymi.
OBWE obserwując przez kilkanaście dni działania TVP i KRRiT stwierdziło "brak równowagi jakościowej" w relacjach Telewizji Polskiej dotyczących trzech głównych partii rywalizujących w wyborach.
Z kolei Krajowej Radzie Radiofonii i Telewizji dostało się za to, że nie była w stanie odpowiednio wywiązywać się ze swych konstytucyjnych obowiązków "z powodu niedoskonałości swej struktury i różnic zdań wynikających ze stronniczego składu".
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*Polska zaprasza obserwatorów OBWE na wybory, 3 października 2007 |
en | MOSCOU, 8 septembre - RIA Novosti. Le président ingouche Mourat Ziazikov a appelé l'administration américaine à laisser l'Ingouchie tranquille et à cesser de s'ingérer dans les affaires intérieures de la Russie et de ses républiques nord-caucasiennes.
"Nous voyons que l'on cherche à évincer la Russie du Caucase et à l'encercler par des régimes hostiles", a-t-il déclaré lundi aux journalistes.
Evoquant les relations entre les Etats-Unis et la Géorgie, M. Ziazikov a souligné que les dirigeants américains n'éprouvaient pas, en réalité, la moindre sympathie pour le peuple géorgien.
"Nous sommes étonnés de voir le leader d'un grand pays - un président qui confond l'Autriche et l'Australie - apparaître sur la pelouse de la Maison-Blanche et nous demander pourquoi M. Kasparov n'a pas été autorisé à organiser un meeting à Nazran (capitale ingouche, ndlr). Nous lui disons, mêlez-vous de vos affaires, Monsieur le Président, et laissez-nous tranquilles. Nous cherchons à sauvegarder la stabilité dans notre région", a affirmé M. Ziazikov. | fr | Armoiries de l'Ingouchie
Le président ingouche Mourat Ziazikov a appelé l'administration américaine à laisser l'Ingouchie tranquille et à cesser de s'ingérer dans les affaires intérieures de la Russie et de ses républiques nord-caucasiennes.
, a-t-il déclaré lundi aux journalistes.
Evoquant les relations entre les États-Unis et la Géorgie, M. Ziazikov a souligné que les dirigeants américains n'éprouvaient pas, en réalité, la moindre sympathie pour le peuple géorgien.
, a affirmé M. Ziazikov. |
en | With hospitals across the board denying admission to suspected patients citing lack of beds, a Delhi lawyer took it upon himself to offer some relief to such people, with some help from the courts.
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NEW DELHI: When his 34-year-old daughter, a suspected Covid-19 patient who already had a 85 per cent disability, was asked to leave a private hospital in New Delhi, Prem Singh felt all doors were shutting on him. That is when he decided to call Hemant Gulati, an advocate at the Delhi High Court. Gulati’s writ petition prompted the Delhi High Court to issue orders to move the patient to another private hospital in South Delhi. The court also asked the Delhi government to investigate the matter and take appropriate action against the hospital.
Gulati’s days and nights have been peppered with many such calls since the Covid-19 pandemic starting impacting people across the national capital. With hospitals across the board denying admission to suspected patients citing lack of beds, Gulati took it upon himself to offer some relief to such people, with some help from the courts. He also used the social media platforms to tell people that he was providing free legal aid to Covid-19 patients who have been denied beds.
“I started this initiative to ensure that a person’s fundamental right is not put at risk. By filing a writ petition before the honourable High Court, we can get the orders and directions against the Delhi government or the hospital or against any other authority if they fail to provide a facility the government is claiming,” he explained.
Despite being home to some of the best hospitals in the country, Delhi hospitals are turning away scores of Covid-19 patients daily.
“Within hours of deciding to do this, I received numerous calls. Now, I get around 70 to 80 calls a day and often they go on till late into the night,” added Gulati, narrating the story of a woman who called him around 4 am a few days back. “She was crying. Her father was with her in an ambulance outside Safdarjung hospital which denied him admission.”
Gulati called up the hospital and told them the Delhi ‘Corona App’ was showing beds available at the government facility. But the duty doctor reiterated there were no beds. “I immediately called up a doctor at AIIMS, Delhi where the app showed beds available and they agreed to admit the patient at 5 am.”
Gulati believes the ‘Corona App’ launched by the Delhi government on June 2 create more confusion when it shows beds available and the hospitals deny the same.
“Today morning (June 24), the application indicated that there are around 13,000 beds in Delhi out of which 7000 beds are vacant along with 250 of the 700 ventilators. But whenever a Covid-19 patient visits a hospital, the hospital says beds are not available. So, either the hospitals are not punching in correct data or the government has no control over the functioning of these hospitals,” the advocate said.
The lack of proper health infrastructure is what Gulati believes is keeping the patients from getting their basic right of availing treatment by medical professionals. “There is fear in the minds of people because even if the symptoms are mild, the patients deserve some kind of treatment and support, which is lacking,” he added.
Gulati’s efforts have helped many find solace during the ongoing crisis and he wants to continue doing so. “If a person calls me, it is my duty to help them to the best of my knowledge and by putting in my best efforts without seeing who they are or whether they’re rich or poor.”
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© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd | pt | A Índia ultrapassou hoje o Brasil como o 2º país com o maior número acumulado de infecções por , ficando agora apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos, que mantém a 1ª colocação nos rankings da e da .
O país asiático também anunciou hoje novas 90.802 infecções, o que também representa um novo recorde diário mundial, batendo, assim, seus próprios recordes anteriores: 90.632 novos casos em 06 de setembro e 78.761, em 30 de agosto. O recorde anterior era dos Estados Unidos, que havia registrado 77.255 em 19 de julho.
O Brasil ainda não informou os dados de hoje, o que acontecerá no final desta tarde, no entanto, com base na média da semana passada, o país deve registrar no máximo 38.500 novas infecções por hoje.
'''O Top 5 dos países com mais infectados, segundo a JHU'''
# Estados Unidos: 6.280.400 infectados
# Índia: 4.204.613
# Brasil: 4.137.521
# Rússia: 1.027.334
# Peru: 689.977
Atualmente dos 5 países com mais casos, 4 são dos chamados "em desenvolvimento", situação que era diferente em maio, quando cinco países desenvolvidos estavam no topo: os Estados Unidos, o Reino Unido, a Itália, a França e a Espanha.
'''Índia: subnotificações e falta de leitos'''
Ao mesmo tempo, a Índia tem, em relação ao Brasil por exemplo, uma Taxa de Letalidade bem menor. No país asiático esta taxa é de cerca de 1,75%, enquanto no Brasil é de aproximadamente 3,10%. Este número, porém, pode indicar que os casos de mortes não estão sendo corretamente notificados, pois desde julho há relatos de que os hospitais não estão admitindo pacientes por falta de leitos, segundo o ''India Express''. "Sempre que um paciente Covid-19 vai a um hospital, o hospital diz que não há leitos disponíveis, portanto, ou os hospitais não estão notificando os dados corretamente ou o governo não tem controle sobre o funcionamento dos hospitais", disse o advogado Hemant Gulati ao jornal no início de julho. |
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Coronavirus Resource Center | pt | A Índia ultrapassou hoje o Brasil como o 2º país com o maior número acumulado de infecções por , ficando agora apenas atrás dos Estados Unidos, que mantém a 1ª colocação nos rankings da e da .
O país asiático também anunciou hoje novas 90.802 infecções, o que também representa um novo recorde diário mundial, batendo, assim, seus próprios recordes anteriores: 90.632 novos casos em 06 de setembro e 78.761, em 30 de agosto. O recorde anterior era dos Estados Unidos, que havia registrado 77.255 em 19 de julho.
O Brasil ainda não informou os dados de hoje, o que acontecerá no final desta tarde, no entanto, com base na média da semana passada, o país deve registrar no máximo 38.500 novas infecções por hoje.
'''O Top 5 dos países com mais infectados, segundo a JHU'''
# Estados Unidos: 6.280.400 infectados
# Índia: 4.204.613
# Brasil: 4.137.521
# Rússia: 1.027.334
# Peru: 689.977
Atualmente dos 5 países com mais casos, 4 são dos chamados "em desenvolvimento", situação que era diferente em maio, quando cinco países desenvolvidos estavam no topo: os Estados Unidos, o Reino Unido, a Itália, a França e a Espanha.
'''Índia: subnotificações e falta de leitos'''
Ao mesmo tempo, a Índia tem, em relação ao Brasil por exemplo, uma Taxa de Letalidade bem menor. No país asiático esta taxa é de cerca de 1,75%, enquanto no Brasil é de aproximadamente 3,10%. Este número, porém, pode indicar que os casos de mortes não estão sendo corretamente notificados, pois desde julho há relatos de que os hospitais não estão admitindo pacientes por falta de leitos, segundo o ''India Express''. "Sempre que um paciente Covid-19 vai a um hospital, o hospital diz que não há leitos disponíveis, portanto, ou os hospitais não estão notificando os dados corretamente ou o governo não tem controle sobre o funcionamento dos hospitais", disse o advogado Hemant Gulati ao jornal no início de julho. |
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