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9:20 a.m.: Japan holds the G7 presidency this year. Most of the other leaders of the countries in the group have already traveled to Kyiv to show their solidarity with Ukraine more personally since the Russian invasion began last February.
09:23: Could Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visit Ukraine soon? “I will consider it in light of various circumstances and conditions,” he announced today, without giving further details.
09:01: It’s 09:00, here’s a new point on the titles:
• For the President of the CGT, Philippe Martinez, the acts of vandalism that have paralyzed trains at the Gare de l’Est since yesterday have “no connection” to the mobilization against the pension reform. After yesterday’s “arson on power cables” in Seine-et-Marne, traffic resumes today but remains “disrupted” when departing and arriving from Paris train station.
• Germany has partially paved the way for allied countries to be allowed to supply Leopard heavy tanks requested by Ukraine, promising to respond “with the necessary urgency” to a Polish request to that effect. Several German media, including Der Spiegel and the news channel NTV, assume that Chancellor Olaf Scholz will give the green light today. Follow our life.
Which directors will compete at the 48th César Awards? The Academy of the 7th most prestigious awards of French art is preparing to publish the list of nominations in the morning.
The country is preparing to see a new national day of protests against President Dina Boluarte today, the day after violent clashes in Lima.
8:10 am: Hello. In fact, we opened a live broadcast this morning to follow not only these German announcements, which are expected at noon, but also the rest of the latest developments in the war in Ukraine. You can track it here.
8.20 a.m .: Hello France Info, are you doing a live special for German announcements? It’s frightening to imagine that this could possibly plunge NATO into conflict…
07:58: These procedures may not be obvious to everyone. In this article, we also explained to you why Poland, like other countries, absolutely needs to get German approval before handing over these tanks to Kyiv.
06:18: Why does Ukraine demand these tanks so much from Western countries? A few hours before a possible German green light, our journalists Pierre-Louis Caron and Fabien Jannic-Charbonnel explain to you that the country, which has lost several hundred vehicles since the beginning of the conflict, urgently needed, among other things, replace its outdated tanks. 
(FREDERIC PETRY/HANS LUCAS VIA AFP)
7.58 a.m .: Federal leader Olaf Scholz is scheduled to speak in the Bundestag at 1 p.m. today. According to several German media such as Spiegel and the news channel NTV, he wants to agree there in particular with countries like Poland that want to deliver Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv.
07:58: It’s 6 a.m., let’s start right away with a bullet point in the news:
• After yesterday’s ‘arson on power cables’ in Seine-et-Marne, traffic resumes today but remains ‘disrupted’ as it departs and arrives from Gare de l’Est in Paris, with a TGV over three at peak times. The SNCF denounced “an act of sabotage”.
• Germany, under pressure for days, has paved the way for allied countries to be allowed to supply Leopard heavy tanks requested by Ukraine, promising to respond to a request “with due urgency”. Several German media, including Der Spiegel and the news channel NTV, assume that Chancellor Olaf Scholz will give the green light today.
• Last night, the Senate passed a bill in its first reading by 239 votes to 16 that favors the construction of new nuclear reactors. The text was supplemented by controversial provisions such as lifting the 50 percent upper limit for the share of nuclear power in the electricity mix by 2035.
• Bernard Laporte was released from police custody last night without charge, the National Treasury Prosecutor said. The president of the French rugby federation, who had been deposed since mid-December, had been taken into police custody a few hours earlier for money laundering or serious tax evasion.
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