Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Foot - C1 - Lyon - Lloris: "We have the charisma"


Unlike Claude Puel, Hugo Lloris did not go so far as to say that Lyon has no doubt his performance delivered the most successful of the season against Fiorentina (2-1) on Tuesday. The doorman of OL has simply pointed out the progress of his training in the Champions League. The Rhone club was already facing a mad mad mad match in the Romania against Steaua Bucharest (5-3), on 21 October. It has now demonstrated a new strength, helped, it is true, by the awkwardness of the attackers Italian club. "What happened in Bucharest has served as a lesson, he says. It was very strong, especially during the first quarter of an hour. Tonight, there has been exemplary in our game begins. " The former Nice regrets half-word to Gilardino cashed at the very end of the first period (45th). "2-0 at half time, it would have been better, we realized the game a little more difficult in the second period." It also "damage that OL has not put away by inserting the purpose of 3-1, but emphasizes all the efforts made by his teammates. "Compared to that, we can congratulate everyone," he said, with special mention for its central hinge Cree-Boumsong. "She knew perfectly master the onslaught of a Fiorentina, who played the ball very well and has often tried to play in his back. It was not obvious, but it was ambitious from beginning to end. It did not take this goal could make us very badly. " "The character and charisma to go far" Matches like this, Lloris coming back. "There were bars, poles, guard stops, goals. All the ingredients for a great match. It is that Lyon is won. It proves we have the character and charisma to go far in this competition. " The French international has not wanted to comment on the chances of final victory of his team. Prior to speculate, he agreed to the first?''The group final against Bayern Munich on 10 December. The issue will be important, but not necessarily crucial. "Being able to receive the return match is an advantage, but when we're in this competition, we do not think we are there to play and win anywhere, he says. It will be a beautiful match during which he will have fun and give our supporters.

Opponents wounded near Bangkok airport

Several opponents of the Thai government were wounded by an explosive device Wednesday at Bangkok International Airport, where activity was completely stopped.

The demonstrators then took control of the control tower at the airport.

The traffic at Suvarnabhumi airport, where transit each year nearly 15 million tourists, was completely disrupted after the attack of the day by protesters.

Some passengers, mostly foreign tourists continued to arrive at the terminal of Suvarnabhumi, ignoring the ongoing crisis.

Hundreds of activists of the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), which require the resignation of Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat, spent the night in a tense atmosphere.

A spokesman for the CSA said that a grenade had been launched against activists of the Alliance before the main airport terminal, making four wounded.

The police did not confirm this information, but three explosions were heard on the spot, according to the website of The Nation.

Television has shown for its images of an area damaged by an explosion on a road near the airport.

The CSA also claims that its activists have been targeted by an explosion in another district of the capital. According to The Nation, the various explosions reportedly injured 12.

Thousands of tourists who hoped to return to their countries have also stayed on site accusing the airport authorities and police of failing to prevent the intrusion of protesters dressed in yellow shirts, the color of royalty.

"We arrived and saw all these people in yellow. It was thought that they were football supporters. Now we wait," said Mark, a Dutch tourist.

"I just want to go home for Thanksgiving, but it may not be the case. It is not what happens here," said an American, Kevin Harris.

Tuesday, opponents opened fire elsewhere in the capital on supporters of the government, killing at least eleven wounded.

The PAD, which holds the last six months of anti-government demonstrations, said to have been attacked with stones and planks.

These incidents are the latest in a campaign increasingly active CSA to destabilize the government.

TIRED

"Our goal is to close the Suvarnabhumi airport until the departure of Somchai," said Parnthep Pourpongpan, spokesman of PAD, citing Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat.

Somchai, who has ruled out resigning, must return to his country Wednesday after taking part in the Asia-Pacific summit of APEC in Peru. A spokesman for the government said it would not happen to Suvaranabhumi. According to The Nation, his plane should land at Chiang Mai in the north.

The occupation of the airport may begin the public support to a movement that seems willing to extreme actions to provoke a violent response from the government.

Somchai has rejected pressure from PAD, which accuses him of being the straw man of his step-brother Thaksin Shinawatra, former Prime Minister in exile after being overthrown in 2006.

CSA, who presented the demonstrations this week as the "final battle", forcing the government to postpone next month at a parliamentary session where joint must be approved international agreements in anticipation of a regional summit that opens mid -Dec.

However, new events do not seem likely to wear a coup de grace Party government in People Power (PPP).

The polls reflect a growing weariness of opinion to the PAD, royalist motley alliance of businessmen, academics and activists.

According to analysts, powerful allies of the PAD in the elite of Bangkok are increasingly reluctant to effects of political turmoil on the domestic economy.

Despite Somchai links with Thaksin, his personality with little relief has been difficult to handle for its opponents and the police are determined to avoid a repetition of incidents of street on October 7, during which two demonstrators were killed and hundreds more wounded.

The Prime Minister was confirmed in power in elections in December 2007, mainly with the support of rural areas.

Serious incidents increase the risk of a coup two years after the military overthrow of Thaksin, in exile from taking advantage of a bail when he was accused of corruption.

A Dutch couple wants to keep a baby Belgian purchased on the Internet

A Dutch couple who bought a baby Belgian internet announced Wednesday that he wanted to keep the child and adopt it legally, in an interview published by the Dutch daily De Telegraaf.

"We want it to be legally bound to us as quickly and have hired a lawyer," said the Dutchman Gideon S. "A little guy like that you can not do without it," says he.

"We wanted to adopt legally, through official channels, but the parents did not want. They wanted to decide themselves who receive their child," he continues.

He claims that his wife and himself did not buy the baby but "compensation paid to the mother for clothing, the months they could not work and the hospital."

According to Dutch media, the couple would have paid 5,000 to 10,000 euros to biological parents.

According to De Telegraaf, the Dutch Council for Child Welfare, under the Ministry of Justice, "this week will take a decision on the future of the child". No spokesman was reached Wednesday morning.

An investigation was ordered Tuesday by prosecutors in Zwolle (center) and entrusted to the police.

The Dutch couple, who came into contact with the biological mother of the baby through an advertisement on the Internet, had brought the baby, named Jayden, a few hours after birth in early July to hospital Jan Palfin of Ghent

No bonuses for bankers, says Obama


Leaders of banks should give up their bonuses and those of the auto industry stop using their private jets in the current crisis, said the U.S. president-elect Barack Obama, accusing them of being cut off from the realities of the country, in an interview with ABC television that must be distributed Wednesday 26 November.
The abandonment by the executives of major banks of their annual bonuses, while the government had to bail several U.S. banks, would be "an example of responsibility," he said.
"If you already have $ 10 million and you have to lay off employees, the least you can do is say 'I am ready to sacrifice myself, because I recognize that most people less fortunate through a period rather difficult ', "said Barack Obama to ABC, according to excerpts released Tuesday evening.

"Slightly hard of hearing

He also severely censured the owners of the three major U.S. automobile group, criticized the U.S. for having visited private jets to Washington to ask for money to Congress to prevent the bankruptcy of their enterprises.
"I thought that perhaps they should be slightly hard of hearing about what happens in the USA now," said Barack Obama in this regard.
"It is a chronic problem, not just in the automotive industry (...) (but) among captains of industry in general," he said.
"When people reach hundreds of millions of dollars in bonuses on Wall Street and taking huge risks with other people's money, it shows that (they) have no idea what ordinary Americans live."
And when the "auto manufacturers (Americans) are paid much more than their counterparts (Japanese) from Toyota or Honda, and yet they lose money much faster than the Japanese, it tells me that they not what happens. "

LOOK - Royal takes time: "2012 is tomorrow, see you soon!"

Beaten but not shot, Ségolène Royal returns already in combat. In a video aired Wednesday at dawn, several hours after the national council which formally proclaimed Martine Aubry new first secretary, former presidential candidate acknowledges his defeat and immediately called his supporters to "continue transformation of the Socialist Party. " Carefully avoiding mention of Martine Aubry, Ségolène Royal takes time: "I will have time, by force of circumstance. But you know me, I will not sit bullets. We continue: 2012, soon, 2012 Is tomorrow! "

Tuesday evening, reacting in the wake of his defeat, Ségolène Royal has been firm on his convictions and what it wishes for the party in the future. History will remember that well count on it. "Whenever the new leadership will take decisions that are in line with what we have defended us support. Whenever she will not go in that direction, we will try to convince."

Incidentally, the president of Poitou-Charentes has not missed an opportunity to tacler the outgoing direction: "We have managed this feat to assemble half of the Socialist Party with the entire apparatus of the former PS against us" She assured without mentioning a possible recourse to justice as did some of his relatives after the proclamation of results by the National Council. She also refrained from explicitly recognize the victory of the mayor of Lille.

Ségolène Royal has called on militants, particularly young working-class districts, to "stay at PS": "We need you to ensure its transformation." "We will continue to invest in the PS we represent half of the militant forces," she insisted after paying tribute to his team.

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

The fire that killed a child in Avignon would be voluntary

"We prefer the track in the firing voluntary", told the press the Attorney Catherine CHAMPRENAULT.

The magistrate said to have asked the police to "implement the maximum means" to find the author of the fire.

The accident occurred in the night from Sunday to Monday at the ground floor of a four-storey building in the district of Saint-Chamand Avignon.

The fire started from a room reserved for two wheels.

The child's body was found on the third floor of the building. His parents and his brother were seriously injured.

Jean-François Rosnoblet, edited by Gerard Bon

A security guard killed in Boulogne-Billancourt

A man aged 39 was killed Monday morning in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine), told police source. The track "enforcement" is favored by the Criminal Brigade before the killing.

Preliminary results of the investigation, a security guard, 39, a native of Morocco, traveling alone in his vehicle around 2 am near the Pont de Billancourt when he was shot in the head.

"It might be followed by a car or a motorcycle, advance there police source. His vehicle then went to hit the anti brigade (BAC) which passed shortly after.

Responsible for the security of a discotheque Versailles, the victim was known for petty crimes, "which does nothing to involve the general banditry", adds on the same source.