News
Kiev, still surrounded, emerges from the weekend curfew. This Monday morning, the inhabitants of Kiev were able to leave their homes again after the curfew imposed during the weekend. But the sirens of the Ukrainian capital gave, from 5 am, the alert inviting all the inhabitants to go to the nearest shelter to protect themselves from air raids. Russian troops are converging on Kiev, a possible prelude to a new assault, larger than the previous ones, against the encircled capital. In the rest of the country, the coastal city of Berdyansk (107,000 inhabitants) fell into Russian hands. Economic sanctions are beginning to be felt, the ruble is collapsing and the European subsidiary of the Russian bank Sberbank has gone bankrupt. All information about the conflict in our direct.
Europe will supply arms to Ukraine, a historic decision. To counter Putin without limits who brandished the nuclear threat, the Union promised Sunday to supply weapons to Kiev. Earlier today, Germany for the first time since 1945 also decided to deliver arms to Ukraine and promised to invest heavily in its defense. The turning point is major.
Drop it, we’re going to drop it, drop the mask indoors. With the continuous improvement of the epidemic situation in France, the government is continuing the gradual lifting of health restrictions, which began at the beginning of the month. From this Monday, there is no longer any need for a mask in places subject to the vaccination pass, the rules change for contact cases and the protocol is less strict at school. All changes can be found here.
In Rennes, Taubira mobilizes the youth to continue even without her. At the end of the weekend Christiane Taubira was in Brittany for what could be her last public campaign meeting. In less than a week, Friday March 4 at 6 p.m., the former minister must have collected 500 sponsorships from elected officials to be able to compete in the presidential election. Problem, according to the last count of the Constitutional Council, it has only 128. It is therefore an understatement to say that the chances of seeing the former deputy from Guyana on the starting line are almost zero.
“Give us back the land”: at the Agricultural Show, Extinction Rebellion invades the FNSEA stand. In white disposable coveralls, with “lobbybusters” stickers stuck everywhere, several dozen Extinction Rebellion activists blocked the stand of the National Federation of Farmers’ Unions (FNSEA) at the Agricultural Show this Sunday. This ecological movement of civil disobedience denounces the model “intensive agriculture” defended by the largest French agricultural union.
To be continued today
Hope for summit talks and diplomatic meetings planned around Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Belarusian authorities announced on Monday that they are ready to host the planned talks between Russia and Ukraine, although the delegations have not yet arrived, on the fifth day of the invasion launched by Moscow. At the same time, the UN is holding a “emergency special session” in order to condemn “in the strongest terms Russia’s aggression against Ukraine”. Finally, US President Joe Biden will hold a conference call with his allies and partners to coordinate the next steps in the response against Putin.
Meanwhile, scientists continue to warn about the state of the climate. This should be a major concern but it will be overshadowed by the crisis in Ukraine. UN climate experts (IPCC) release their new report which paints a cataclysmic picture of the impacts on humanity of accelerating climate change despite repeated calls to rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The report
“I don’t want to kill, even a Russian soldier. But if necessary, I will not hesitate. In the streets of Kiev, only them are left: the fighters. Soldiers who get out of a van and an unmarked white car and post themselves, nervous, automatic weapons on their shoulders, under the porch of a building in the embassy district. Civilians, young and old, members of the Territorial Defense, in blue jackets and khaki bullet-proof vests, yellow armbands on their arms, who set up a roadblock on a downtown avenue. A few uniformed policemen on duty in front of the central station. They are alone, the rest of the population is hiding. Read here.
analysis
For Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Yannick Jadot, the abolition of domestic flights in the line of sight. “In an ever faster globalized world”, the candidate of La France insoumise defends the idea of eliminating domestic airlines when the alternative by train is less than four hours. Its competitor EE-LV, more ambitious, pleads for the abolition of European lines with an alternative of less than six hours. Liberation analyzes this proposal.
Investigation
For the European Court of Auditors, the death knell? Shaken by the scandals of abuse and fraud revealed by Release, which led it to finally tighten its internal rules, the institution could be refused by the European Parliament the discharge for the management of its budget Monday. And its president, the German Klaus-Heiner Lehne, to be disqualified. Explanations.
The portrait
Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron, Olympic champions in ice dancing. She looks at him as one seeks help. Yet, Gabriella Papadakis does it without realizing it, instinctively. We have just asked him what are these “fears” she talks about, the ones that come out when stress grips her. She cannot formalize them. So Guillaume Cizeron takes over. Pours out on the quest for perfection, this anxiety trap. Gabriella Papadakis, 26, and Guillaume Cizeron, 27, seem to communicate through their eyes and waves. Cross portrait.