Aux Bahamas, après le passage de l’ouragan Dorian, des milliers d’habitants souhaitent quitter les zones dévastées afin de rejoindre la capitale Nassau. Sur le port de Marsh Harbour, un cargo qui apporte des vivres est approché par des centaines de personnes qui voudraient y embarquer. Une foule parfois désobéissante au point que les militaires sont déployés pour tenter d’encadrer les choses, et éviter la désorganisation.”Je suis contente de partir”Les femmes et leurs enfants sont les premiers choisis afin de monter à bord. Épuisés et en colère, les pères de famille veulent eux aussi embarquer, certains y arrivent. Mais pour les célibataires, c’est plus compliqué. Le capitaine n’accepte pas plus de 300 personnes. “Je suis très contente de partir. Ça va être très long ici“, confie une sinistrée. Le bateau mettra environ onze heures afin de rallier Nassau, mais avec soulagement.Le JT
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La menace islamiste persiste au Maroc. Au moins une dizaine de cellules terroristes liées à Daech ont été démantelées depuis janvier 2019. La Direction générale de la surveillance du territoire (DGST) a encore annoncé, le 9 septembre 2019, l’arrestation de cinq personnes liées à Daech s’activant dans les villes de Berkane et Nador. L’enquête a permis de localiser une zone montagneuse dans la commune Dar al-Kabdani (province de Driouch), “où les membres de cette cellule menaient des expériences en matière de fabrication d’explosifs“, précise un communiqué du ministère marocain de l’Intérieur.Agés de 27 à 41 ans, ces sympathisants de Daech avaient programmé des actions terroristes ciblant des sites sensibles sur le sol marocain. Selon le communiqué du ministère de l’Intérieur, “les membres de cette cellule voulaient rejoindre des camps d’une branche de Daech dans la région sahélo-saharienne.” Si les jeunes Marocains ne partent plus pour la Syrie ou l’Irak, ils continuent de rejoindre le Mali, plus proche.Le Sahel, nouveau terrain de jeu des terroristes marocainsLe Bureau central d’investigations judiciaires (BCIJ), relevant de la DGST, avait déjà démantelé, en mai et en juillet 2019 à Tanger, deux cellules terroristes de cinq et huit personnes liées à Daech. Parmi les suspects, le frère d’un combattant revenant de la zone syro-irakienne. Coups de filet également à Béni Mellal, Fez, Safi, Taza, Errachidia, Tinghir et Inezgane.Le 25 juin dans le commune de l’Ourika, près de Marrakech, outre la découverte de résidus de produits chimiques, ont été saisis du matériel utilisé pour la fabrication d’explosifs, des équipements électroniques, des jumelles et une importante somme d’argent.De même le 13 avril 2019, une cellule terroriste dans le quartier populaire Hay Laayayda de Salé a été repérée. Les cinq suspects, trois chômeurs et deux ferrailleurs âgés de 22 à 28 ans, fréquentaient la même mosquée et organisaient des réunions quotidiennes pour préparer leur projet d’attentat.Ces arrestations confirment la poursuite des menaces terroristes au Maroc, alimentées par le retour des combattants de Syrie et d’Irak. On estime qu’entre 1500 et 2500 jeunes Marocains se sont engagés dans le combat jihadiste de l’ancien “Etat islamique en Irak et au Levant”. Le Maroc s’est par ailleurs engagé à rapatrier ses ressortissants de Syrie et d’Irak, à la demande pressante des Américains. Rapatriés dans leurs pays d’origineLe ministre marocain de l’Intérieur affirmait en 2016 démanteler près d’une cellule terroriste chaque semaine. Réputée pour l’efficacité de son renseignement, qui met à contribution l’ensemble de la population, la police antiterroriste marocaine arrive à prévenir de nombreuses tentatives d’attentats. Le Maroc mène, selon les experts, l’une des politiques antiterroristes les plus efficaces du monde arabe, à l’aide d’une vaste coopération internationale, notamment avec les Américains.Le lendemain des attentats de Paris du 13 novembre 2015, une information émanant des services de renseignement marocain a mis les enquêteurs français sur la piste d’Abdelhamid Abaaoud, organisateur présumé des attentats.Mais le danger persiste. Il existe toujours un fort risque de déstabilisation, lié à la grande pauvreté, aux fortes inégalités et à l’intense propagande de l’islamisme politique, toujours très actif dans les campagnes et les périphéries des grandes villes du pays. Un danger permanent comme le prouvent les assassinats de deux jeunes touristes scandinaves en décembre 2018. Les auteurs de ces actes, qui ont soulevé une très grande émotion, avaient été arrêtés 48h seulement après les avoir commis.Aujourd’hui, les services de sécurité marocains craignent que tous “ces retournés” du théâtre proche-oriental ne se livrent à des actions “à la maison”, à des attaques de “loups solitaires” et à la propagation de l’idéologie extrémiste.Click Here: new zealand rugby team jerseys
La source de son indignation : une vidéo où l’on voit des hommes en rang et en uniforme turc, le bras et la main tendus. Un « comportement nazi », juge l’institut kurde de Washington, qui a partagé la vidéo en premier. En cumulé, elle totalise plusieurs centaines de milliers de vues sur Twitter.Ce que personne ne dit, c’est que cette séquence a plus d’un an et demi. Et que rien ne permet d’affirmer que ses protagonistes effectuent un salut nazi. Grâce à des recherches d’image inversées sur Yandex, le Google russe, Désintox a retrouvé ces images dans des vidéos publiées par des médias turcs en mai 2018. Elles ont en fait été filmées par l’agence de presse prorégime Anadolu. Elles montrent l’entraînement par des militaires turcs de policiers syriens à Afrin, au printemps 2018, peu après la prise de la ville par Ankara.Ces policiers effectuent-ils un salut nazi ? Le geste, aussi parfois appelé “salut romain” est en fait courant au Proche-Orient, sans qu’il soit possible de l’expliquer par une affinité avec le IIIe Reich. L’observateur du conflit syrien qui tient le compte Historicoblog confirme à Désintox : « J’ai souvent vu de tels saluts notamment lors de prestations de serment comme celle de la vidéo, souvent filmées pour la propagande. » Quant à assimiler le bras tendu dans cette vidéo à un salut hitlérien, « je m’en garderais bien », nuance le spécialiste. Pas de référence nazie donc mais pas de quoi rassurer sur le sort des kurdes pour autant…Retrouvez Désintox du lundi au jeudi, dans l’émission 28 Minutes sur Arte, présentée par Elisabeth Quin.Sur YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/user/28minutesARTESur le site d’Arte : http://28minutes.arte.tv/
Opposition grows against shale-gas extraction, but energy companies say that process is safe.
Depending on whom you talk to, last Friday’s report by the European Commission on regulation of hydraulic fracturing for shale-gas extraction was either a vindication of the oil industry’s position or an urgent warning that oil prospectors are about to poison Europe’s water.
“The study confirmed that existing regulations are adequate,” said Tristan Aspray, European exploration operations manager with Exxon Mobil. The European Commission appeared to share this assessment, saying the study had concluded that “there are no significant gaps in coverage in the current EU legislative framework”.
But Reinhard Bütikofer, a German Green MEP, came away with the opposite impression. “The study clearly highlights the need to consider adjusting EU legislation to take account of concerns with shale gas,” he said, accusing Günther Oettinger, the European commissioner for energy, of “distorting the findings of the Commission’s own research”.
The two different interpretations are symptomatic of the way the debate around so-called fracking has been carried out in Europe, with the facts seemingly supporting two opposite conclusions. The dialogue is only going to become more heated, with no fewer than ten new studies on shale gas expected over the coming months – from legislators, industry, campaign groups and academics. The debate has kicked into high gear, with environmental groups seeing it as their last chance to stop shale-gas exploration in Europe before it gets under way on a large scale.
The public pressure has had a significant effect. In January, Bulgaria enacted a ban on shale-gas drilling following country-wide protests. France had imposed a similar ban last year. Oil industry companies are increasingly worried that the tide of public opinion in Europe is turning against them because of what they say are unsubstantiated claims. They insist that the process of extracting shale gas has already been used for other types of rock for decades, and the protests about it arise from misinformation about the extraction process.
Unlike conventional gas, which is extracted from fairly porous rock, gas from shale deposits needs to be accessed by opening fractures in the rock with a water/chemical mixture – a process known as hydraulic fracturing. The most effective way to do this is to build ‘horizontal wells’, which burrow deep underground and then turn, spraying the mixture into the shale rock through tiny holes.
Knowledge of how to extract shale gas has been available for decades, but until recent technological advances and the rise in gas prices doing so was not economically attractive. Shale-gas extraction has proceeded at a rapid pace in north America over the past decade, with some analysts predicting that within ten years it will make up half of all gas produced in north America. But it is still not known if the shale rock in Europe has the same potential. Oil companies want to begin exploration to determine this, but environmental campaigners want to stop the process before it starts. They say the shale-gas boom in north America has resulted in alarming environmental and health problems.
“The high pressure injection of fracking fluid causes leaks in well-casings, which can get into underground water resources,” says Wenonah Hauter, executive director of Food & Water Europe.
“We’ve seen that happen several times in the US. Investigations have found more than 750 chemicals in the fracking fluid. And the horizontal fracking disturbs the underground rock formation, because horizontal wells are more likely to encounter cracks in rock.”
But the oil industry says that concerns about chemicals leaking into water supplies are unwarranted, because the site of injection is far below any ground water. “In the hydraulic fracturing process you’re actually fracturing a rock that is typically several kilometres below the surface,” says Aspray. “Those fractures are relatively small, up to 100 metres. They can’t propagate much further than that because there just isn’t enough energy.”
The real concern, he says, is in the section of the well that goes through the top level of soil. “The critical element is to construct the wells so they do not pose a threat to ground water, using multiple layers of cement and steel casing.”
He says the practice of ‘sealing in’ the top level of a well is no different from treating a standard well, a practice that has been developed over decades by the industry and is required by existing regulations. He adds that 99.5% of the solution used for fracturing is water and sand. The chemicals used are in common usage in swimming-pool cleaners, laundry detergent and food additives. They must be kept out of ground water, he says, but they are far from being the ‘toxic’ chemicals described by campaigners.
Burning water
Attention has been particularly focused on shale gas since the release of the 2010 documentary film “Gasland”, which explored cases of ground-water contamination from fracking. The most well-known image from the film is the scene where a man sets his tap water ablaze by lighting a match next to it. But when the Colorado Oil & Gas Conservation Commission conducted an investigation, they found that the man’s water-well had been improperly drilled into a naturally occurring shallow gas deposit, and the contamination had nothing to do with hydraulic fracturing. Yet this image has remained one of the most enduring in the minds of the public when it comes to shale gas.
The US Environmental Protection Agency has concluded that fracking does not pose a significant threat to ground water. The European Commission has said that for the moment it is keeping an open mind on the gas, waiting for solid evidence that fracking poses a risk.
But with or without conclusive proof, the public mood is turning increasingly against shale gas, and member states are starting to take unilateral action based on that disquiet. Oil companies have also held back on exploration in response to the public unease. ExxonMobil voluntarily halted drilling a horizontal well in Lower Saxony in Germany after public protest, initiating a study to assess the impacts.
Viable supplies?
In the end, even if exploration goes ahead, it could turn out that Europe’s potential supply of shale gas is not commercially exploitable – all the argument could have been for nothing. But environmental campaigners say the exploration phase must be stopped now before it can lead to eventual extraction.
“The wait-and-see approach of the European institutions will become increasingly untenable,” insists Hauter. With the science about possible side-effects still inconclusive, it may be public opinion that decides whether Europe aborts its first steps down the shale-gas path.
Formula 1’s mandatory August summer shutdown has now become a three-week “spring break” for teams, with Ferrari and Haas the first outfits to officially close down their operations.
The global coronavirus crisis and the stringent precautionary measures associated with the pandemic have wiped out the start of the F1 season, leaving the sport and its teams in limbo.
June is now seen as the earliest possible kick-off point for the championship although the projection remains tentative at best given the uncertainty linked to the near-term evolution of the COVID-19 disease.
However, Formula 1’s chiefs favoured pulling forward the sport’s annual 15-day break typically scheduled after the Hungarian Grand Prix to free up the month of August in order to allow for the potential insertion into the calendar of the postponed Dutch and Spanish Grands Prix.
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A mandatory break, extended to three weeks, has therefore been imposed, with teams awarded a degree of flexibility in terms of their shutdown date.
“Scuderia Ferrari Mission Winnow, whose staff, along with millions of people in Italy and around the world, is having to deal with the Covid-19 virus pandemic, fully supports the FIA and Formula 1’s decision to bring forward the usual summer shutdown,” read a statement from Ferrari.
“Scuderia Ferrari will therefore be shut as from tomorrow, Thursday 19 March, up to Thursday 8 April inclusive.
“The priority for the team has always been the safety of its employees and their families, which is why, for several days now work in the Maranello facility has been suspended, replaced where possible by a smart working system.
“We are just as disappointed as our fans that we cannot be racing, as we have done for over 70 years, but when confronted by a situation as serious as this one, it is vital that we follow the advice of the authorities and limit all activities as much as possible in order to contain the virus as efficiently as possible.
“We will wait for the situation to improve so that we can return to normality, in our daily lives as well as in sport, including motor racing. In the meantime, our thoughts are with everyone affected by the virus and those working on the front line to combat it.
“Maintaining our distance, but still united, this virus can be defeated.”
The Haas F1 Team has announced that it will also close for three weeks from today, while Alfa Romeo Racing will turn off the lights in Hinwil on March 23.
In Milton Keynes, Red Bull Racing is scheduled to close its factory on March 27, although the team stated that “due to the ever changing nature of the pandemic there may be some flexibility around these dates”.
Red Bull Racing has announced that it will close for three weeks from March 27, while the Haas F1 Team will turn off its lights.
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Germany drops opposition to candidate staus being granted.
The European Council agreed on Thursday (1 March) that Serbia should be an official candidate for membership of the European Union.
The decision had effectively already been taken on Tuesday (28 February) at a meeting of the foreign ministers or European affairs ministers from the 27 member states of the EU, which recommended acceptance of Serbia’s candidacy.
It was there that Germany ended its resistance to granting Serbia the status of a candidate for EU membership. Germany, with support from Austria, had blocked Serbia’s membership bid at a European Council in December.
This time round, there was another last-minute hiccup when Romania, at a meeting of foreign affairs ministers on Monday, raised the issue of the small Vlach minority in Serbia, which Romania views as ethnic Romanian. (Not all Vlachs would agree with this.)
Unwelcome objection
Romania’s objection, and its timing, annoyed the foreign ministers of other countries, who agreed that Serbia had been constructive in negotiations with Kosovo – the main demand made by the EU in December. On Thursday, Traian Ba?sescu, Romania’s president, went into the European Council with the comment that the Serbia problem had been “resolved”. Pledges by the European Commission to monitor implementation of Serbia’s minority rights appeared to have placated the Romanians.
Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European Council, denied that any link had been made “at any moment” between Romania’s attempts to block Serbia and the Council’s discussions about admitting Romania and Bulgaria to the Schengen area of border-free travel, which was blocked by the Netherlands. If Romania had been trying to make such a link, said one diplomat, it could only have been counter-productive, since the Netherlands had previously blocked Serbia’s bid for membership and has been unenthusiastic about further enlarging the EU.
The biggest promotion of the year in FIFA comes at the end of the domestic calendar, with high-rated players released from all the major leagues
At the beginning of every summer, EA Sports releases its Team of the Season for each of the various leagues in the FIFA video game.
These are special squads selected either by EA Sports or through fan votes which include the best 23 players from each of Europe’s top-five leagues, as well as other panels for other leagues and divisions from the rest of the world.
What is the Most Consistent Team of the Season?
The first Team of the Season squad released every year is the Community Squad, which consists of the most consistent players from the past season who have not received a Team of the Week item (or in-form) during the year.
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These players are chosen by members of the FIFA community, using websites like FUThead or FUTbin as well as EA Sports’ own forums and discussion boards. Primarily, the squad is made up of players from the top five leagues, but it also includes a few players from the rest of the world.
In the past, three squads were chosen for bronze, silver and gold, but now only one gold squad is selected.
When will Team of the Season start?
FIFA Team of the Season usually begins the first Friday in May and sees new squads released every Friday over the following four to six weeks. It always begins with the Community Most Consistent Squad and ends with the Ultimate Squad.
The Ultimate Squad is made up of the very best players from all the individual Team of the Season squads, so tends to have Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and all the best players in the world.
This year, due to the postponement of top-level football in Europe and the rest of the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, EA Sports could decide to delay the launch of Team of the Season until leagues resume.
Who will be named in the Team of the Season squads?
Most of the Team of the Season squads are chosen by EA Sports, with the selections kept a closely-guarded secret until the official launch of each squad.
However, some of the teams like the Bundesliga Team of the Season are selected from a fan vote on the competition’s official website. Fans can select from a shortlist of players to pick the best XI for their leagues and then the remaining 12 players for the squad are chosen by EA Sports.
One additional Team of the Season player will also be available in the game by completing weekly objectives, and others will be available through Squad Building Challenges (SBCs).
What are the Team of the Season SBCs?
Apart from the 23 players included in the Team of the Season squads, other players will also be available through special limited-time SBCs.
In FIFA 19, these SBCs included TOTS Moments players, who received a special upgraded player card to celebrate specific standout performances during the season rather than their consistency over the entire campaign.
The Primera Division relegation battlers believe there are more important priorities than testing their players for coronavirus
La Liga side Real Valladolid have rejected the offer of coronavirus test kits, which would have been provided to the club by the league.
The Covid-19 crisis continues to hit Spain, with more than 17,000 cases of the virus confirmed, while there have been more than 700 deaths, prompting the virtual shutdown of the entire country, including the suspension of professional football.
Numerous top-flight players have been tested for the virus and have proven positive, with Valencia, Espanyol and Getafe clubs that have confirmed cases within their ranks.
Valladolid, however, will not follow suit as they have turned down the opportunity to test players, which was provided to them by the league.
“La Liga offered them to us [the tests] but we have not taken them for medical and social reasons,” club spokesman David Espinar said in a statement.
“No player has presented any symptoms and we believe that there are people out there who are much less well off than we are who need them far more than we do. It is those [people] who should have priority.”
The president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, had previously criticised clubs for taking testing kits away from more vulnerable members of society, and in particular the elderly, who are effected more dramatically by the symptoms of the virus.
“Knowing the lives of many people are at stake it seems out of place to me to use tests on footballers when there are people that need them,” Rubiales said on Wednesday.
“The result for the player is the same, if they are positive and don’t have severe symptoms they will be confined at home. Testing players seems unsupportive and absolutely anti-patriotic in these conditions.”
Valladolid find themselves fighting relegation in Spain’s top flight having picked up 29 points from 27 matches, scoring a mere 23 goals in the process.
Before the suspension of the league, which will stretch to the beginning of April as a minimum, they had lost successive games against Real Sociedad and Athletic Club, leaving them only four points above Mallorca, the highest-placed club in the relegation zone.
The former England international believes the decision to postpone Euro 2020 will make it easier to extend the current campaign through the summer
Former Liverpool star John Barnes wants to see the Reds given the chance to land a long-awaited Premier League title in 2020, with the option there for future campaigns to be written off.
As football in England shut down amid the coronavirus outbreak, there were suggestions that the season could be declared null and void.
That would have serious implications for those competing at opposing ends of their respective divisions.
At the highest level, Liverpool could be denied a first top-flight crown in 30 years while those pushing for promotion from the Championship will be prevented from stepping up the ladder.
Barnes is among those hoping that proposals for the campaign to be finished before the end of June come to fruition.
He wants to see a coronation at Anfield, with the option there for relevant authorities to tinker with the scheduling of upcoming competitions.
The ex-England international told Sky Sports, with Euro 2020 having been pushed back for 12 months by UEFA: “It’s a sensible decision and I think delaying for a year was the only solution.
“You have leagues to be finished and I think leagues have to be finished, not just from Liverpool’s point of view or any other club in any country.
“It’s obviously bigger than that, you are talking about promotion and relegation all the way down the divisions. So I think if the leagues can even be delayed – you don’t have to rush back to them – maybe you have to write off a season.
“We don’t know what’s going to happen on April 3 [when the EFL suspension is currently due to end] and maybe they are going to delay it further.
“Even if we have to start in July or August, what we have to do is finish these games even if it takes up until December, which writes off the [next] season.
“These are desperate times and this is an unusual circumstance.”
Barnes added: “If you are going to give Liverpool the title, then who would get promoted and relegated? You can’t just give Liverpool the title because we are so far ahead.
“What would Leeds and West Brom say? What would Fulham say if they don’t come up and you promote those two? Do the bottom three in the Premier League not get relegated?
“Safety is the most important thing so allow this season to take as long as it does, there’s no need to rush back as you are delaying Euros to 2021.
“If you have to play one game a week from October, and mean the season goes on until next January or February, then you can kick-start the next season at the right time rather than play catch-up for years.”
The Manchester United ace may be focused on the end of the season at Old Trafford, but his long-term future could lie elsewhere
Football agent Mino Raiola has announced that he intends to conduct a big transfer with Real Madrid this summer, suggesting that Manchester United star Paul Pogba could finally be Bernabeu bound.
The France international has long been linked with a summer move to the Spanish outfit and after another unsettled season at Old Trafford, during which he has been plagued by injury issues, he could well depart in the summer.
Although Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has been adamant that Pogba will be remaining at United, Raiola has served to fan the flames over a possible exit by stating that he hopes to send a “great footballer” to Madrid.
“My relations with Real Madrid are very good,” he told Marca . “I want to take a great footballer there and I will try this summer. It would be a pride for me and my footballers because Real Madrid is a great club. Alphonse Areola is already there, but it’s only half an operation because it’s a loan deal.
“I am in contact with [general director] Jose Angel Sanchez and I love discussing football and FIFA issues with him because his opinion interests me. I have great hope that one day he will be able to lead a great footballer to Real Madrid.”
Asked about Pogba’s situation, Raiola added: “Paul is going through a difficult time, but let it be clear because in England they are very sensitive, Pogba is focused on making a great end to the season with Manchester United.
“He wants to get back into the team and make a great end to the season and that United can reach the Champions League.”
Erling Haaland, who recently joined Raiola’s portfolio of players, will not be making a quick move to Spain after an electric start at Borussia Dortmund, where the 19-year-old has scored 12 times in 11 games.
“He is a very important jewel,” the agent said. “It is nice to see him play and see how he develops in each game.
“Nobody thought that his adaptation to the Bundesliga or the Champions League in a team like Borussia Dortmund would be like that. No one expected it. It is not easy to go from Austria to Germany and show that level.
“He still has a lot to grow. He will be in Dortmund for the necessary time. It is true that he is a footballer who is enjoying the fastest stages of growth that one could think of. He did not think that when he left Salzburg. It was the right time, but I don’t think he’ll be leaving Dortmund this summer.”