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In 2022, France 2 met a Ukrainian who wanted to protect his children from war. The “20 Hours” returned for news of this injured family.

Dacha has grown up and is now 14 years old. Masha, her little sister, is six. A year has passed since their first meeting with a France 2 team in Irpin, Ukraine. The city was then attacked by numerous Russian bombardments. However, her mother Anna refused to leave the country as she wanted to remain responsible for her own mother. Her husband wanted to flee Irpin to take their daughters to safety. The dispute was filmed by France 2 between two grenade hits.

The day after this disagreement, this Ukrainian family’s building was bombed again. Anna, hit by shrapnel, did not survive. “I see her, I take her in my arms and I understand that it’s over,” testified her husband today. He now lives with his two daughters in Germany, where France’s “20 heures” returned to visit family a year after the tragedy.

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Since early December 2022, more than 200 schoolgirls around the age of 10 in 12 schools in Qom and Borujerd, south of Tehran, have complained of symptoms of poisoning. Just yesterday, February 26, Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Youness Panahi virtually admitted that behind these cases was someone who intended to shut down girls’ schools, as is already happening in Afghanistan. On February 14, Irna agency reports, a group of parents protested in front of the city governor’s headquarters to “demand explanations.” As BBC Persia reported, the Iranian deputy minister said the serial poisonings were caused by “readily available chemical compounds,” which ruled out the possibility that the substances used came from a military environment or could be contagious. In light of initial findings from the investigation by Iran’s Ministry of Education and Intelligence, Iran’s Deputy Minister of Health said, “It emerged that some individuals wanted all schools, particularly girls’ schools, to be closed.” No arrests were announced at the moment.

February 26, 2023

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By Osvaldo Cardosa

Correspondent in Brazil

Former Rio Military Police sergeant Ronnie Lessa is accused of double murder.

Lessa was arrested at his home in March 2019. He is serving preventive detention with another accused of bloody crime, also a former military agent Élcio Queiroz. Both respond from a clumsy ground, an ambush and resource that made defending the victim difficult, and an attempted attack on an adviser to Franco, who survived.

Recently, the Prime Minister of Rio expelled Lessa from the ranks, citing what he described as abominable behavior as the reason for the sacking. He was released following open disciplinary proceedings two years and seven months after his arrest for involvement in the City Council crime.

In standard text used by the prime minister in cases of expulsion of his cadres, one council claimed that “the above behaviors mark disapproval of the military police service and comrades in uniform and irreparably tarnish the company’s image and ethics”.

Also in the investigation, the Rio State Department found that Lessa had assets incompatible with a PM sergeant’s income and lived a life of luxury with multiple properties and boats.

Parliamentarians, friends of the city council, reiterated that the prime minister’s decision was late and there was no reason to celebrate as the company had waited four years to comment on the former police officer.

If Lessa was killed, who paid? Who ordered Marielle’s assassination?” confirmed socialist city councilor Mónica Cunha.

In addition to the murder trial, Lessa has previously been placed in preventive detention for money laundering and convicted in trials for international arms trafficking and concealing the war implements used in the assassination of Franco and Anderson Gomes.

PROMISE

“In order to expand federal cooperation in the investigation of the criminal organization responsible for the murders of Marielle and Anderson (Gomes), I have decided to open an investigation with the Federal Police (PF). We do everything we can to help solve such crimes,” Justice Minister Flavio Dino wrote on Twitter on February 22.

When he took office in January, Dino promised the human rights defender’s relatives that “it is a matter of honor for the Brazilian state to make every possible and reasonable effort, and it will do so, so that this crime is finally exposed”. .

The PF is investigating the case for the first time as an internal administrative procedure and there is no deadline to complete it. Because the files are classified, the Justice Department clarified that it will not release details until the case is closed.

In practice, the trial will continue under the responsibility of the prosecutor, but the PF will investigate the part for which it is responsible, in a task force with the Rio prosecutor, and will assist with the intelligence part. Franco, 38 years old and from the Socialism and Freedom Party, and his driver Gomes were killed in a central area of ​​Rio on the night of that fateful day. Thirteen shots from a highly accurate HK MP5 submachine gun, used only by elite police forces, hit the vehicle they were traveling in.

According to Globo newspaper, she was the city’s fifth most-elected councilor in 2016, with more than 46,000 votes in her first election, and is considered one of the biggest voices for Rio’s political renewal.

STATUE AND TRIBUTE

A bronze statue was unveiled in downtown Rio on July 27 in homage to the councilwoman.

The life-size image, sculpted by artist Edgar Duvidier (1.75 metres), was unveiled in Rio de Janeiro’s Buraco do Lume, an area where the councilwoman frequented every Friday to exchange views with her constituents.

“It’s a historic day, it’s a day of remembrance, a day to rewrite our pain, our struggle. It has worked tirelessly for justice for the past five years and remembers that people still don’t know who gave the order to kill Marielle,” said her sister Anielle Franco, current Minister for Racial Equality.

He pointed out that “having this statue, giving new meaning to the place where she spoke many times…a lot of people who voted for her, met her here in this place.” Therefore, today, apart from the emotions of her birthday, it is important for me to know that my sister is here, a little more with us, “he stressed.

The activities in honor of Franco and Gomes take place every week in March.

The Marielle Franco Institute, founded and run by the late politician’s family, is accepting registrations on its website from non-governmental organizations wishing to organize memorial events.

The motivation for the killing is still unclear, but reports say Franco was killed because of her human rights activism. According to authorities close to the investigation, the reasons that led to the deadly attacks were linked to the causes defended by the activist.

The case had international resonance and made the sociologist and feminist a political symbol in the fight for human rights and the greater participation of black women in spaces of power in Brazil.

To this day, it is not clear who was intellectually responsible for the fatal violation. Franco and Gomes’ families claim they have lost hope of solving the crime.

Throughout this period, investigations indicate the involvement of militiamen from the security forces.

The death of a popularly elected MP was seen by parts of society as an attack on democracy. After five years, the question arises: “Who ordered the murder of Marielle Franco?” Still no answer.

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In Düsseldorf, 330 flight movements were actually planned. 89 of them are about to happen. In Cologne, 131 planned passenger flights are affected.

Due to warning strikes, many connections at Düsseldorf and Cologne/Bonn airports will be canceled on Monday. At North Rhine-Westphalia’s largest airport in the state capital, more than 1,000 employees have been asked to stop work. The strike began at 3am, a spokesman for the Verdi union said. Therefore, 700 to 800 attackers are expected on site.

In Düsseldorf, 330 flight movements were actually planned. 89 of them are about to happen. 205 arrivals and departures were canceled and 36 were transferred to other airports or the next day, according to an airport spokesman. There must be an emergency operation for ambulance flights and relief goods, for example.

In Cologne/Bonn, the first stoppages started on Sunday night. According to Verdi, aviation security employees are called there, that is, employees of personnel and goods control, as well as freight control. “All checkpoints are closed,” a Verdi spokesman said in the morning. The airport announced on Sunday that 131 scheduled passenger flights could not take place between 6 am on Monday and 6 am on Tuesday. 136 are planned regularly during this period. In Cologne there were also legal disputes between the airport and Verdi over the occupation of the airport’s fire brigade. In the end, both sides agreed to include 24 emergency workers during the warning strike.

The Verdi and Komba unions called warning strikes. The background to this is negotiations for public sector officials at the federal and municipal levels, as well as national negotiations for aviation security officials.

Strikes also on buses, kindergartens and offices

In addition to NRW’s two biggest airports, warning strikes are also planned in many other areas of public life in the most populous federal state on Monday, such as buses and light rail vehicles, day care centers and offices. Several rallies are also planned.

Verdi announced, among other things, that many kindergartens in Cologne, Bonn, Troisdorf, Hennef and Gummersbach are affected by the warning strikes. This also applies to municipal hospitals and waste disposal companies in the Verdi district of Cologne-Bonn-Leverkusen. Citizens would have to be prepared for longer wait times at offices. In Münsterland, Verdi called for warning strikes in some municipal administrations and municipal enterprises.

Employers submitted an offer during national negotiations for federal and local government employees. It includes a salary increase of five percent in two steps and one-off payments in the amount of 2,500 euros. Unions rejected the offer as insufficient. Verdi and the civil servants association demand 10.5 percent more income, but at least 500 euros more per month. Collective bargaining is scheduled to continue on March 27.

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The USA warned this Sunday, 26th that the China to plan send at least 100 drones and various weapons to Moscow in the next weeks.

In an interview with the American television channel CBS News, the director of the CIA, William J. Burns, confirmed the possibility that the China sends deadly aid to Russia in his war against Ukraine. “We believe the Chinese leadership is considering supplying lethal equipment,” Burns said on Face the Nation.

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The revelation that the President of China, Xi JinpingIt is considering this increase It’s a change from previous estimates by the Biden administration.

Earlier this month, Burns told Georgetown University students that Xi was “very reluctant to provide the kind of lethal weapon that Russia is interested in using in Ukraine.”

Stressing that China has not yet made a decision to transfer lethal aid to Russia, Burns clarified that the logic behind the Biden administration’s decision to release this information obtained from American intelligence was to dissuade the Chinese from the idea to dissuade

“China has not yet made a final decision on this matter, and we see no evidence of actual shipments of lethal equipment,” Burns said. “And that’s why Secretary Blinken and President Biden felt it was important to disclose that information and make it clear what the ramifications would be.”

Yearlong war in Ukraine

If China sends arms to Russia, it could tip the balance of the conflict in Moscow’s favor, with territorial and military gains a reality the US and its European allies have spent hundreds of billions of dollars in arms shipments trying to avoid.

The US has already warned China not to send deadly aid to Russia. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, meeting with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference, said such a move would “seriously impair diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing.”

“We have said publicly and privately that there are signs the Chinese are considering the possibility of deadly aid, but we have also said we have not seen them make that decision or move in that direction,” said Security Council spokesman John Kirby, USA National. “And we certainly don’t want them to do that.”

US authorities have been tracking the shipment of nonlethal and dualuse goods from China to Russia for months. Dualuse items can range from laptops and telecommunications equipment to aircraft parts that are typically used for civilian purposes but can be adapted for military use. “There have been some dualuse grants from Chinese companies that have certainly been approved by the state,” Blinken said.

Look to Taiwan

Burns pointed out that the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the resulting global response are of particular interest to Xi, Burns said. “I think in many ways he was unsettled and disillusioned with what he was seeing.”

Burns’ statement referred to China’s growing desire to control Taiwan, the independent island that the Chinese view as an integral part of mainland China. Last month, Taiwan’s top envoy to the US said the island nation was learning important lessons from the Russian invasion.

“I think we must take Xi’s ambitions for ultimate control of Taiwan very seriously. However, in our view, this does not mean that military conflict is inevitable,” Burns said. “Today, our verdict is that President Xi and his military leadership have doubts about their ability to carry out this invasion.” /AP, AFP, W.POST and NYT