HMS Cumberland back in Benghazi to rescue Britons
The British naval frigate, HMS Cumberland, has returned to the Libyan port of Benghazi to evacuate remaining Britons.
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It comes as volunteers from Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Turkey combine efforts to distribute food and aid to residents of the city.
Benghazi has been under the control of a disparate coalition of people and rebel military units for a week now.
Freelance journalist Francesa Cicardi talked to euronews about conditions in the city: “Life in Benghazi has not yet returned to normal because people here are thinking only about the revolution and they’re waiting for Tripoli to fall,” she said.
“Nevertheless, there is some semblance of normality. Some shops are open, traffic is more or less the same. Banks are shut and schools remain closed. But communication is far from normal. It’s very difficult, there’s no internet for example. As a result, the city feels isolated from the rest of the country,” Cicardi added.
Rock’n roll photographer shoots stars old-style
He has been doing this for more than 30 years: shooting rock’n roll stars with his traditional camera and developing the pictures in his bathroom, with the aim of catching that unique moment.
Euronews met French photographer Richard Bellia, who has been documenting the history of music since the early 1980s and is about to publish his third book.
Influx of North Africans with sights set on Italy
They are arriving in their scores, crammed onto?�small craft.?�In the last week alone, an estimated 5,500 illegal immigrants, mainly from Tunisia, have landed on the southern coast of Italy. It is a massive influx aimed mainly at the island of Lampedusa.?� ?�The?�tiny island?�only has?�6,000 inhabitants itself. It is?�just 138 kilometres from the Tunisian coast.?�Hundreds of young Tunisians from towns like Zarziz, Ben Guerdane, Tataoiune, Medenine?�and Gafsa, have joined the exodus towards Europe driven by high unemployment at home.?�“We’re not afraid to go from Djerba to Lampedusa,” said one voyager. “It’s 24-hours on a boat by sea. You pay 2,000 dinars – about 1,500 euros.”?�Italy declared a humanitarian emergency on Saturday and re-opened the Lampedusa centre for identification and expulsion. More than 2,000 immigrants jammed in, the majority young Tunisian men.?�“I come from Tunisia, everyone you see here comes from Tunisia, we are all afraid after the revolution that has taken place because nothing has changed,” said one?�newly arrived immigrant.?�“From the 14th of January nothing has changed. All of us here, we are not asking for anything, we only ask for a possibility to find work in Europe.”?�Italy has already dealt with significant waves of illegal immigration, but since a controversial deal with Libya signed?�in 2008, the numbers have?�tumbled in recent years from 36,000?�to 4,300 last year.?�But this latest influx has caught Italy and the European Union unawares.?�Mario Marazzitti from the Catholic humanitarian organisation?�Sant’Egido said: “I think that it is correct that in an international crisis now we have to find?�immediately a European table (sic) and decide who can help Italy to bear this weight.”?�Marazzitti said?�this current flow of immigrants is not going to stop in the near future. He compared it to the wave of Albanians who headed into Italy after the fall of communism in 1991.?�
EU reviews policy towards turmoil-hit countries
EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels have called for an immediate end to the violence in Libya but stopped short of sanctions against Tripoli.
Instead their attention focussed on providing support for those countries in the grip of unrest to manages a peaceful transition to democratic government.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague was adamant. “ If we don’t succeed in that then the dangers to the European Union of instability or extremism on our frontiers are immense so it is a historic opportunity for the EU but a real historic responsibility as well.”
Despite the bloodshed in Libya, Italy leads a group of southern EU states wanting to avoid antagonising Tripoli over its threat to halt cooperation on migration policies.
Italy’s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said:
“Italy is a first destination country where potentially an enormous number of migrants could make for….dozens of people who, due to disasters, chaos or violence could flood on to its shores.”
Thousands have already fled their home countries as the unrest in Tunisia and Egypt.
More than 5,000 of them have arrived in Italy.
An EU proposal to fund infrastructure and development in the unstable nations is being planned to prevent further long term migration.
Discovery’s final flight good to go
Good weather is forecast for the final flight of space shuttle Discovery and everything appears good to go for later today.
The Kennedy Space Centre said Discovery’s countdown was proceeding without a hitch.
It is Discovery’s last mission, the orbiter’s 39th out of a total of 133 shuttle flights.
Unrest continues on the streets of Iran
In Iran, a ceremony to mark the death of a student during an opposition rally has turned violent.
The 26-year old’s funeral procession had set off from Tehran University.
Iran’s state broadcaster says there was fighting between pro- and anti-government activists. Sanee Zaleh was shot dead on Monday during the first opposition rally for more than a year.
Both sides have blamed each other for his death.
Iran’s leading opposition figures, Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have urged the government to listen to the protesters’ demands.
The Iranian government put them under house arrest before Monday’s protest.
There have been calls for both to be tried and face the death penalty.
Pick of the Clicks: Nature’s worst brings out Human nature’s best
Pick of the Clicks looks at the most clicked story of the week on our website and how it is being treated elsewhere on the net. This week: Disaster in Japan.?�Last?�week, it was while writing a POTC about the Apocalypse that?�one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded?�triggered a tsunami so powerful that even now it leaves us clueless as to the human cost.?�In the time since – rightly or wrongly – the world’s focus has turned from?�the very real human tragedy of the natural disaster itself to the?�theoretical threat of nuclear meltdown created by the earthquake.?�But the Apocalypse was last week. Now, despite the circumstances, is a time for an attempt at optimism.?�The worst that Nature has thrown at us is bringing out the?�best in humankind. First, let’s talk about heroism.?�Their job titles?�may sometimes be?�such?�mundane descriptions as ‘technicians’, ‘reactor operators’ or ‘security agents’. There are more colourful?�and?�less bureaucratic terms being bandied about out there like?�‘Atomic Kamikazes’ or even ‘Nuclear Samurai’.?�I prefer heroes because that is what they are.?�They are the men and women who choose to wade into a nuclear disaster zone to clear up the mess. They know there is a good chance that what they are doing will kill them or, at the very?�least, permanently damage their health. ?�But they do it all the same. Not for glory, not for money but?�so that their families and friends will be saved.?�?�In the aftermath of Chernobyl, they went in their hundreds of thousands although?�many of the Liquidators?�(as they were called at the time)?�would have known?�little about?�the dangers?�awaiting them. Their bosses had more of an idea but filtered the details. ?�Some died agonising deaths within days. Others survived, but not for as long as they otherwise would have. A few remain. ?�There were many heroes too in the aftermath of the Twin Towers strikes on 9/11. The surviving ‘responders’ have managed, after a long battle, to get a compensation package out of the authorities but even now there are cases where one feels heroism might have been taken for granted.?�Let that not be the case for the Fukushima 50 .?�They, unlike their predecessors in Chernobyl,?�are under no illusion?�about the nature of the?�risk they are taking yet still they take it.?�That’s just how some folk roll.?�It’s not only that handful of heroes who deserve enormous credit for their reaction to such appalling adversity. The?�absence of self-pity?�of the people of Japan also provides an example of what humans can feel proud of.?�The?�thought of?�suffering?�a magnitude 9 earthquake followed by a massive tsunami only to have that misery compounded by the threat of atomic fallout is completely unimaginable to most people. It should perhaps have been imaginable to the people who chose where to built a nuclear plant, but that’s another matter.?�Any one of those disastrous events could break a person’s resilience. All three in one day could break a nation’s. Not Japan.?�Japan has known all three and each time it has been shaken to the core. And each time it has picked itself up, dusted itself down and ploughed on. In the years and decades after the dropping of the Atom bombs, Japan managed somehow to climb its way up to second on the world’s?�biggest economy list.?�One South Korean?�resident of Tokyo?�interviewed for a Bloomberg article told how in the?�moments after the quake, “no one was crying or showing any negativity…In Korea, people would be bawling.”?�Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lewis M. Simons, resident in Japan for 14 years,?�writes in this article that “…rebuild the people of Japan will. Stoically, quietly courageously, they will start over.”?�An article in The Economist even tells us that in Tokyo “many queued patiently on March 15th to meet their tax deadlines.” There are people in other countries (and I am one of them) who do not meet their tax deadlines in disaster-free circumstances.?�Japan rebuilt after the Great Kanto earthquake in 1923 which took more than 100,000 lives. It rebuilt after the 1995 earthquake in?�Kobe, Japan’s second most populated area after Tokyo. While?�a question mark may follow the future of nuclear energy?�in Japan after this latest disaster, there is nothing to suggest Japan will not rebuild again. And it will do so by itself, even if there is no lack of support from the international community. Japan will carry the cost of reconstruction, which by some estimates?�could even?�rise to something like five percent of GDP.?�Initially though, rescue teams arrived from across the globe to help sift through the rubble in the hope of finding anyone still alive. The Japanese government had not done wonders in its international relations?�with Russia or China in the months before the quake but quarrels about territory have been put to one side and the response to the disaster from Moscow and Beijing has been warm.?�Charities all over the world have been sent donations destined for Japan even without having to launch appeals. Canadians for example have given around 7.5 million euros worth of donations to the Red Cross without needing to be prompted.?�Minutes of silence and other similar gestures have been offered. They may be just gestures but at least they are showing that people everywhere care?�about other humans in trouble.?�And it’s not just humans who have this capacity to show strength in adversity. Animals too look after each other?�in the immediate wake of calamity, as this video quite nicely illustrates.?�It has been one of those terrifying weeks in which we remember that when Nature strikes there’s little or nothing we can do about it. But if we are capable of looking straight into the face of what can seem like the Apocalypse and?�reacting with humanity, maybe we’re not damned after all.?�
By Mark Davis
Ariane mission passes weight-and-date milestone
The 200th Ariane space mission is set to blast off from a base in French Guyana later.
As well as being an anniversary flight, it will also be carrying the heaviest cargo ever sent into orbit by the European project.
The Automated Transfer Vehicle will carry supplies to the International Space Station.
An hour after launch and 260 kilometres up in space, the ATV2 will separate from its rocket booster and embark on an orbit at 7.6 kilometres a second.
It will still take it eight days to reach the International Space Station.
The remote link-up involves fitting the ATV2 into a 10 cm wide port on the ISS at a speed of 28,000 kilometres an hour.
French FM defends Tunisia links once again
French Foreign Minister Michele Alliot-Marie has again been forced to defend her links to the regime of ousted Tunisian president Zine Al-Abdine Ben Ali.
Alliot-Marie holidayed in Tunisia in December during anti-government protests.
She flew there on a private jet belonging to Aziz Miled, a Ben Ali associate.
Her office admitted she spoke with Ben Ali during her stay, contradicting her earlier account that her visit was a purely personal affair.
Le Canard Enchaine newspaper also reported on Wednesday that her parents bought a stake in a property company from Aziz Miled.
Alliot-Marie has refused to resign and has attacked the French media for dragging her parents into the matter.
Mexico’s Calderon enters diplomatic spat with France
Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon has told France to respect his country’s legal system.
Earlier this month, Mexican judges upheld the conviction of Florence Cassez, a French woman sentenced to 60 years in jail for kidnapping.
Despite pressure from Paris, Calderon expressed confidence in the ruling.
‘‘We’re talking about a kidnapper, a woman who was part of a very dangerous criminal gang that was devoted to kidnapping Mexicans, that mutilated their fingers, that threatened their relatives. Besides, the victims themselves recognise the woman. They recognise her; they recognise her voice,’‘ Calderon declared.
Arrested in 2005, Cassez, now 36 years-old, was convicted for her part in three kidnappings.
Despite Mexico insisting her guilt has been proven, the French government says the case has serious flaws. President Sarkozy has demanded Cassez be allowed to serve her sentence in France and warned the decision to keep her jailed in Mexico could weigh on bilateral relations.
On Monday, the Mexican government suspended its participation in France’s year-long festival celebrating Mexican culture because of the diplomatic row.
Thousands in Iran demand opposition leaders execution
Thousands of pro-government supporters in Iran have taken to the streets to call for the hanging of two opposition leaders.
Angry protesters demanded the arrest and execution of Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi after an anti-government rally on Monday.
Despite those demands, the head of Iran’s guardian council said their was no need to sentence them to death as their influence was already dead.
Nevertheless, the protesters appear to have got some of what they want, with former presidential candidate Mousavi already under house arrest, according to his website.
The opposition protests on Monday, the first in more than a year, saw at least two people killed in clashes.
Meanwhile, Egypt confirmed on Friday that it had received a request from Tehran to allow two Iranian naval vessels to pass through the Suez Canal, a move Israel described as provocative.
Still a long way from business as usual in Japan
With more than one week having passed since Japan’s devastating earthquake and tsunami the country’s carmakers and technology firms have been struggling to resume production.
In addition, a lack of parts from their factories is causing concerns about the supply chain to plants worldwide. Renault, General Motors and Samsung have already had to reduce production due to potential parts shortages.
Even those companies not been directly effected by the disaster are having trouble with logistics and shipping. Apple’s iPad tablet computer is assembled in China, but uses memory chips, batteries and screens that are made in Japan by hard-hit firms like Toshiba.
Meanwhile there was a much-needed boost to Japan’s battered businesses from billionaire investor Warren Buffett.
Speaking during a visit to a South Korean factory run by a company that is owned by one of his funds, Buffet said he would not be selling Japanese shares right now.
He told reporters: “Frequently something out of the blue like this, an extraordinary event, really creates a buying opportunity. I’ve seen that happen in the United States, I’ve seen that happen around the world, and I don’t think Japan will be an exception.”
He added: “It will take some time to rebuild. But it will not change the economic future of Japan.”
Libyans count the cost of their revolt
The violence which has accompanied Libya’s bloody revolt against the Gaddafi regime has left 300 dead, including over 100 soldiers.
That is according to the Libyan authorities but as families buried their dead at a cemetery in Tripoli, residents believing their own eyes put the toll far higher.
Human Rights Watch and opposition groups say more than twice that number have died.
In towns where Gaddafi’s grip has been challenged, locals have been tearing down symbols of the regime.
But overnight, in the town of Sabratah, large numbers of the Libyan army are said to have been deployed following the destruction of government buildings.
In the east of the country, earlier fierce battles that accounted for many of the dead were caught on mobile phone cameras.
But now Benghazi and Tobruk are reported calm and under the control of the protesters while Libya’s interior minister became the latest senior official to defect.
Counting the cost of Japan’s disasters
With the scale of Japan’s destructive earthquake and tsunami becoming more apparent insurers have begun their calculations.
Although many of the worst hit areas are barely accessible, the US giant, AIG, which is very exposed in Asia, has set aside nearly a billion dollars.
Reinsurers, such as Swiss Re, have almost doubled that figure. Catasptrophe modeling companies believe the tragic events will result losses of between 12 and 35 billion euros.
Meanwhile, Tepco, operators of the stricken Fukushima plant, say they will be paying farmers for losses caused by nuclear radiation leaking.
Actress Liz Taylor dies
Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor has died aged 79. Her agent confirmed the news on Wednesday.
She had been suffering from congestive heart problems for some time.
Taylor is considered one of cinema’s greatest and most beautiful actresses. Perhaps her most famous role came in Cleopatra, where she starred alongside future husband Richard Burton. She won two Oscars for Best Actress: the first for her role in Butterfield 8 in 1960, the second for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? six years later.
Taylor was born in London in 1932 and in 1999 was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Read – Liz Taylor, actress and humanitarian
She was also well-known for her tumultuous love life. She married eight times, divorcing Burton twice. She is survived by four children, one of whom she adopted, and nine grandchildren.
Her son Michael Wilding said in a statement. “My Mother was an extraordinary woman who lived life to the fullest, with great passion, humour, and love. Though her loss is devastating to those of us who held her so close and so dear, we will always be inspired by her enduring contribution to our world.”
Russia starts privatisation push with VTB
Russia has kicked off its biggest privatisation drive since the collapse of the Soviet Union with the sale of ten percent in the country’s second biggest bank VTB. It raised the equivalent of 2.4 billion euros.
The bank’s chief executive Andrei Kostin, as he met with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, said the placing was twice oversubscribed.
Putin said: “According to financial experts, the privatisation was conducted well and was successful.” He called it a clear demonstration of investors’ confidence in the Russian financial system and its economic policies.
But critics said the Kremlin could have got much more if it had handled the sale better. The bank’s share price fell over 10 percent in two weeks from later January because the government changed its mind on how many to sell and finally went for a sale via the open market rather than directly to a consortium of investors.
However analysts said the success of the sale – the first step in Russia’s massive privatisation drive — boded well for coming public offering of shares. Sberbank, Russia’s biggest lender, will follow VTB later this year or in 2012.
Moscow needs to raise money through such share sales to help reduce its budget deficit.
EU triples aid for refugees fleeing Libya
The EU has announced a trebling of aid for refugees fleeing Libya to 10 million euros.
The extra cash follows a UN call for an international response to the deteriorating humanitarian situation on the Libyan-Tunisian border.
European Commission President Jose Manuel Borroso made it clear he wants Gaddafi’s crumbling regime to go: “We must do everything so that the current regime leaves the country and stops its actions against the Libyan people.”
The EU plans a crisis summit next week to discuss the border situation and the chaos within Libya itself.
Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, said: “In the Benghazi area, we have humanitarian teams already on the ground, and they report that there is a need for medical assistance. Because the Libyan health system had foreigners at its heart and they have left, leaving behind a huge void, which has to be filled.”
Brussels has also made 25 million euros available to help process asylum seekers and boost border checks at EU frontiers.
Obama’s budget starts spending battle
President Barack Obama is proposing a budget that would cut the deficit from 10.9 percent of the US economy this year to 3.2 percent by 2015.
The deficit would rise in fiscal 2011, then fall sharply in 2012 through spending cuts and increased tax revenue.
There will now be bitter argument with the Republican opposition in Congress. The Republicans want even tougher spending cuts.
Failure by lawmakers to agree on funding government operations after a March 4 deadline expires could result in the government shutting down.
“We’re just at the beginning of a long process,” White House budget director Jack Lew told ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’. “We look forward to engaging with the Congress and working in a bipartisan way to actually solve the problem.”
The White House sees a December tax pact forged between Obama and Republicans as evidence they can work together, but it did not sound like it from comments by US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
“The president talks like someone who recognises that spending is out of control, but so far it hasn’t been matched with action,” McConnell said in a statement.
“Americans don’t want a spending freeze at unsustainable levels. They want cuts, dramatic cuts. And I hope the president will work with us on achieving them soon,” he added.
Activists try to stop German nuclear waste train
Hundreds of anti-nuclear protestors have tried to stop a shipment of toxic waste in the last stages of its journey across Germany by train.
Sixty tons of material are making their way from the western city of Karlsruhe to Lubmin, the main processing facility in eastern Germany.
Some activists argued with police. Others even chained themselves to the tracks.
Hundreds of police officers travelled in the wagons themselves to keep the train on the rails.
There are regular nuclear shipments across Germany.
Campaigners say they have been fired up by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent decision to prolong the life of the country’s 17 nuclear power plants.
EUs Ashton targets Palestinian state by September
The EUs top diplomat Catherine Ashton has said a Palestinian state is still achievable by September, despite an impasse in peace talks.
But, Ashtons Israeli counterpart, Avigdor Lieberman, stressed the real obstacle to a regional settlement was Iran.
Please first of all bring some solution, a real solution to the Iranian issue and our readiness to take risks regarding the Palestinian issue will be much, much higher, the Israeli Foreign Minister said.
Ashtons visit to Israel aims to galvanise both sides to restart negotiations, but that looks unlikely anytime soon after new settlement construction was approved.
Mustapha Barghouti, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council said: Its the proof that the Israeli government does not want a solution, it is the proof that nothing will change unless there is serious pressure on Israel including sanctions, actions against this Israeli government.
The approval by Israeli authorities allows for 120 new apartments in East Jerusalem, on land captured by Israel in 1967.
The Palestinians say they will not resume talks until there is a complete building freeze.
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Een bezoeker kan op een bericht van u een reactie plaatsen. Een bezoeker kan dus zelf géén bericht plaatsen op uw blog zelf, wel een reactie. Het verschil is dat de reactie niet komt op de beginpagina, maar enkel bij een bericht hoort. Het is dus zo dat een reactie enkel gaat over een reactie bij een bericht. Indien u bvb. een gedicht heeft geschreven, kan een reactie van een bezoeker zijn dat deze het heel mooi vond. Of bvb. indien u plaatselijk nieuws brengt, kan een reactie van een bezoeker zijn dat deze nog iets meer over de feiten weet (bvb. exacte uur van het ongeval, het juiste locatie van het evenement,...). Of bvb. indien uw blog een dagboek is, kan men reageren op het bericht van die dag, zo kan men meeleven met u, u een vraag stellen, enz. Deze functie kan u uitschakelen via "Instellingen" indien u dit niet graag heeft.
WAT IS DE "WAARDERING"?
Een bezoeker kan een bepaald bericht een waardering geven. Dit is om aan te geven of men dit bericht goed vindt of niet. Het kan bvb. gaan over een bericht, hoe goed men dat vond. Het kan ook gaan over een ander bericht, bvb. een tip, die men wel of niet bruikbaar vond. Deze functie kan u uitschakelen via "Instellingen" indien u dit niet graag heeft.
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