BP relinquishes disputed 20% stake in Russia’s energy group Rosneft and CEO resigns from company board after pressure from government

• CEO Bernard Looney says he is “deeply shocked” by the “situation in Ukraine”
• He promised that the oil giant would consider how it could “support a wider humanitarian effort”.
• The Kremlin-backed Rosneft provides vital fuel for warring Russian troops

from Lawrence Dolimore for Mailonline

Published: 17:25 GMT, February 27, 2022 | Updated: 5:45 PM GMT on February 27, 2022

BP is giving up its disputed 20 percent stake in Russia’s Rosneft “immediate effect” energy group, the oil giant said on Sunday.

CEO Bernard Looney revealed the move today, saying he was “sad” and “shocked” by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

This comes after he was summoned to a meeting with Business Secretary Kwasi Quarteng on Friday amid growing concerns about BP’s Russian deals.

There is growing pressure on politicians and business leaders to sever ties with the Vladimir Putin regime as images coming out of Ukraine, including bloodied civilians and destroyed buildings, continue to provoke anger among the British public.

Mr Luni said today: “I was deeply shocked and saddened by the situation unfolding in Ukraine …

CEO Bernard Looney (pictured) revealed the move today, saying he was “sad” and “shocked” by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“Our immediate priority is to take care of our great people in the region … and see how BP can support the wider humanitarian effort.”

Helge Lund, chairman of BP, meanwhile, said that while the company had been working in Russia for more than 30 years with “brilliant Russian colleagues”, the invasion was a fundamental change.

He said: “Russia’s attack on Ukraine is an act of aggression that has tragic consequences throughout the region.

“BP has been working in Russia for more than 30 years, working with brilliant Russian colleagues.

“However, this military action is a fundamental change.

“This led the BP board to conclude after an in-depth trial that our involvement with Rosneft, a state-owned company, simply could not continue.

“We can no longer support BP representatives who have a role on the board of Rosneft.

“Rosneft’s holding is no longer in line with BP’s business and strategy, and now the board’s decision is to leave BP’s stake in Rosneft.

“BP’s Board of Directors believes that these decisions are in the best long-term interests of all our shareholders.”

Rosneft – backed by the Kremlin – is fueling Russian troops as they wage war with neighboring Ukraine.

A source familiar with the matter said Luni left Friday’s meeting “without a doubt about the strength of the business secretary’s concerns about their trade interests in Russia.”

BP boasted a 19.75 percent stake in Rosneft, and Luni sat on the company’s board with Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin, a close ally of Putin.

Pressure: BP CEO Bernard Looney was summoned to a meeting with Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng (pictured)

Also on board Rosneft are chairman Gerhard Schroeder, former German chancellor, and former BP boss Bob Dudley.

Their positions drew fierce criticism as BP was urged to drop its stake in Rosneft.

Earlier this month, Looney said BP’s strategy of “avoiding politics” has worked well for the company around the world.

However, he said the company would comply with all sanctions related to Ukraine.

The largest shareholder in Rosneft is the state-owned Rosneftegaz with 40.4 percent, followed by BP.

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Hills star Heidi Montague bites off a piece of raw liver, highlighting its health benefits: “You’ll definitely get used to it.”

from Mark McGreill and Carly Johnson for Dailymail.com

Published: 17:20 GMT, 27 February 2022 | Updated: 5:35 PM GMT on February 27, 2022

Heidi Montague started her day with a breakfast for champions – a piece of raw liver.

The 35-year-old Hills star posted a video on her Instagram, giving nearly a million followers a chance to see her unique diet.

She wore a sweater over a pink blouse and neglected the use of a fork or knife, instead choosing to hold the internal organ in her hand while gnawing on a massive piece of meat while standing in the sun.

A real predator: Heidi Montague started her day with a breakfast for champions – a piece of raw liver

“There are so many benefits to eating liver, animal organs, raw liver,” said the actress from Just Go With It.

She then showed her audience the thick pink liver and pointed to a country that has already fallen victim to its strong pearly whites.

“Look, I’ve already eaten a huge bite here,” she pointed out before taking another bite.

No cutlery needed: She wore a sweater over a pink blouse and neglected to use a fork or knife, instead choosing to hold the internal organ in her hand.

Shows a big bite: She then showed the audience the slippery pink liver and pointed out a country that has already fallen victim to its strong pearly whites

She chewed for a few seconds, breaking the rubber flesh completely before assuring her followers, “You’ll definitely get used to it.”

Montage signed the video: “#raw #carnivore #carnivorrediet #healthy #health @ carnivoremd2.0.”

The account she tagged, @ carnivoremd2.0, belonged to Dr. Paul Saladino, a classically trained doctor who advocated for people to adopt a carnivorous diet.

Despite her advocacy of health mania, Montague did not want to hear her 977,000 followers jump, so she turned off the comment option in the video.

He ate: Montag attacked another bite in front of the camera, taking a huge bite of the raw meat

Be careful to chew: She chewed for a few long seconds, carefully breaking the rubber flesh before assuring her followers, “You’ll definitely get used to it.”

More time in her hands: Montague will have plenty of time to devote to her new hobby, because her reality show, The Hills: New Beginnings, was canceled last month

Montague will have a lot of time to devote to his new hobby, because there is no longer a reality TV show to shoot.

The Hills: New Beginnings, a reboot of the popular reality show The Hills, was canceled last month after just two seasons.

The original Hills stars are said to have had “major problems” with the reboot, including a recent survey by producers to attract “younger cast members”, according to TMZ.

Sources in the publication claim that the producers believe that the inclusion of “younger” members will “diversify” the cast, but the idea was dropped by the original stars.

It is also claimed that “some” of the original stars believe that The Hills: New Beginnings “is not the show that MTV promised them” and that it sometimes feels “forced with fake storylines and confessions”.

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You can consider yourself a connoisseur of cheese. But the reality is that we all have a lot to learn when it comes to storing, eating, and pairing our favorite foods.

Edward Hancock, founder of cheesegeek, an online cheese retailer that delivers British artisanal cheeses directly to customers’ doors, shared his expert advice on how to make the most of your cheese-eating experience.

Speaking to FEMAIL, 39-year-old Edward revealed that there is an ideal way to create a cheese board and the order in which it should be eaten.

Edward also reveals why we should avoid sticky foil when storing cheese and how they can and should be combined with a nice bottle of white wine.

Have only four or five cheeses on a cheese board

1. Sparkenhoe Red Leicester, 2. Stithians, 3. Stichelton, 4. Comte, 5. Vacherin

When I make a cheese board, I personally like to have four to five cheeses and nice big pieces, not small pieces of more styles of cheese.

Four or five give you enough chance to show a different variety of cheeses, such as hard, soft and blue, as well as maybe goat’s or sheep’s milk cheese and some different color, like Yarg’s nettle or Old Winchester’s orange.

Start with goat cheese

Your palate is delicate and will do gymnastics as it makes its way through a cheese board.

If you start with blue cheeses or spicy soft cheeses in the style of Brie or cheeses with washed crust, then there is no going back.

You want to start with more delicate cheeses to make it easier, so make cheeses from fresh goat’s milk or cheeses like Lancashire and Cheshire.

If you end up with them, you’ll think they’re tasteless, but they’re not, they’re just more shy and need one at a time.

I would tend to choose semi-soft and semi-hard cheeses to start with, like St Helena and Kirkhams Lancashire, followed by really big ripe cheddar or aged gouda like Pitchfork or Old Winchester, then finish with soft cheese like Baron Bigod and blue cheese like Stichletton.

But I would also be very adaptable to seasonality, so around spring let’s put fresh goat’s milk cheese in front, and in mid-summer it’s hard to beat a 2-year-old Comte or a mature Gruyere.

Maybe in the winter you need a washed crust, like Epoisses, or of course the most seasonal cheese of them all, Vacherin.

Store your cheese at 8 degrees

In your stomach. As quickly as possible.

But other than that, the balance is between drying your cheese, if exposed, or sweating, if you’re wrapped in something non-breathable (sticky foil, I’m looking directly at you here).

Wrap it again in the paper in which you received it (a specialty store will use special cheese paper) and place it in a separate compartment (eg salad preparation) on your refrigerator, as the cheese may taste like other things.

Also, keep blues away from other cheeses, as they will try to turn everything else blue. If you have a closet, even better.

You want high humidity and a constant temperature of about 6-8 degrees (or a little higher at 10 degrees is good if the cheese is whole / uncut … the cheese doesn’t stay whole or uncut in my house for more than about five seconds).

Don’t despair of mold … unless it’s a cheddar supermarket!

Did you know that white wine is actually a better combination than red for your cheese board? Edward Hancock, founder of cheesegeek, an online cheese retailer, reveals how we should eat cheese

Blue cheese is moldy and you will also find fluffy mold on the surface of very soft cheeses like Vacherin and Rollright. Embrace it, it is the beauty of artisanal cheese and adds flavor and character.

YOU CAN eat cheese for breakfast

Given that breakfast falls during the waking hours, yes, I would recommend eating cheese for breakfast.

In fact, the United Kingdom is almost the only country in the world of cheese-eating that does not eat cheese for breakfast.

Continental Europe, South America, Central America, all have cheese as part of the traditional breakfast. Cheese and coffee are also a coincidence made in heaven.

My favorite dish with cheese for breakfast is Omelet Arnold Bennett (you may need a defibrillator on hand), but straight cheese for breakfast, I would prefer Mayfield and Coolea.

You will often even find blue shapes in traditional fabric-tied cheddars. This is because they are tied to a fabric, which is an imperfect way to protect the cheese during ripening.

If there are gaps and cracks in the cheese, oxygen can get into it and activate the spores of blue mold. In many cases it adds a really interesting taste and I would encourage you to try it.

At least you can cut it and eat the rest of the cheese.

After all, if you find mold on your cheddar in the supermarket, step on it with caution because it’s not meant to be there, so it probably won’t taste very good. It probably came from your fridge, not where the cheese was ripening.

How to find the best wine for your cheese

Cheese and red wine are historical, but white wine is actually a better bet.

If I had a bottle of wine for dinner and I knew there would be a cheeseboard, but I didn’t know what the cheeses would be, I would have a bottle of light oak chardonnay.

Non-lactic fermentation (malic acid, which is converted into lactic acid), which gives these wines a creamy, buttery taste, matches perfectly with the lactic acid (creaminess) in the cheese.

There are also no tannins, which can sometimes collide with the acidity in the cheese. If you are adamant that you want to stick to red wine, Pinot Noir and Game are two grapes that work really well with a wide range of cheeses.

Some cheeses should NOT be melted

“I work on the basis that melting cheese can solve most of the world’s problems”

I work on the basis that melting cheese can solve most of the world’s problems, but you will really struggle to melt many styles of cheese, as they simply do not break down smoothly, but tend to lump.

Fresh goat’s milk cheese, for example, as well as some of the fresher, younger territorial cheeses (Cheshire is not the best smelter, Lancashire is much better).

Some of the best smelters in the world are cheddar, of course (but not too old) and alpine cheeses (Comte, Gruyere, Raclette and Emmental).

Ogleshield is a great Raclette-style British smelter, but made in Somerset.

And that’s before we start baking Camembert (try Tunworth from Hampshire with a little garlic, rosemary and truffle honey) or Vacherin. I have to go to bed.

Don’t give up goat’s milk cheese!

As a group of cheeses should be goat’s milk or blue cheese.

My wife never liked either, until I dedicated my life to cheese, now blue cheese is her favorite.

There is blue cheese and goat’s milk cheese for everyone, but the problem is that mass-produced things are so one-dimensional and they all taste the same.

So if you don’t like goat’s milk cheese or Stilton’s salty mineral, then you don’t have options. But the fact is that you do!

There are styles of these cheeses that are completely different from the norms and nothing makes me happier than when you hear someone say “I usually don’t like blue cheese, but it’s fantastic.”

Edward Hancock, founder of www.thecheesegeek.com

Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are honored around the world for their bravery during the Russian invasion.

But one man raised his fearlessness to a whole new level by moving an anti-tank mine with his bare hands as he blew out a cigarette.

An unnamed citizen was caught in a daring maneuver near Berdyansk in the south.

This comes when Russian troops are embroiled in fierce battles Ukraine such as Vladimir Putinthe invasion of ‘s was delayed.

But as tensions escalated dramatically, the president ordered nuclear forces on high alert in response to what he called NATO’s “aggressive statements”.

Amazing footage shows the Ukrainian carrying the explosive device over a road and away from a bridge

The civilian, wearing a black down jacket, jeans and dark sneakers, was smoking a cigarette while speaking Ukrainian.

Amazing footage shows the Ukrainian carrying the explosive device over a road and away from a bridge.

The civilian, wearing a black down jacket, jeans and dark sneakers, was smoking a cigarette while speaking Ukrainian.

He made the cameraman laugh as he continued to lift the antipersonnel mine across the street with his hands in front of him.

The man went down the edge and into the surrounding woods as he pulled the device away from traffic.

The video ended as the civilian continued to walk in the woods, removing the antipersonnel mine.

The footage was shared on social media and Westerners were stunned by the man’s courage.

He made the cameraman laugh as he continued to lift the antipersonnel mine across the street with his hands in front of him.

The video ended as the civilian continued to walk in the woods, removing the antipersonnel mine.

One wrote: “Southern Ukraine. You can be cool, but you’ll never be “I found this mine on the road and decided to take it to a nearby forest” cool. ‘

Another said: “The brave man does not even describe what this man is doing, he is moving an unexploded anti-personnel mine away from houses in a wooded area.”

One said: “Just a man with a cigarette in his mouth removes a mine from under a bridge in Berdyansk, Ukraine. Unreal.

One woman posted, “It’s like I always say, you can’t move an active anti-personnel mine without burning a heater while you’re doing it.”

One man said, “If I was carrying a live antipersonnel mine, I think I might start smoking again.”

And another published: “Only a Ukrainian will take an anti-personnel mine with jeans and a jacket with a cigarette in his mouth and will calmly move it away from the bridge.”

They added on Twitter: “Never underestimate the mental and physical strength of Ukes.”

This comes after numerous reports of heroes in Ukraine who have risen up against the prevailing Russian forces.

A man stood in front of a huge convoy and tried to stop them from passing him as they ran down the road.

A woman told a Russian soldier to plant sunflower seeds in his pockets to grow on Ukrainian soil when he died.

And 13 Ukrainian soldiers told a warship to “fuck off” when asked to surrender to Snake Island.

Meanwhile, President Vladimir Zelensky reportedly refused to be rescued from Kiev and chose to stay on the front lines with his men.

A woman told a Russian soldier to plant sunflower seeds in his pockets to grow on Ukrainian soil when he died

President Vladimir Zelensky reportedly refused to be rescued from Kiev and chose to stay on the front lines with his men

Amid a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine today, Putin has ordered Russia’s nuclear forces to be on high alert.

The order means he wants Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness for launch.

Amid worrying developments, the Ukrainian president’s office said a delegation would meet with Russian officials as Moscow troops approached Kiev.

In citing the Nuclear Warning Directive, Putin cites not only alleged statements by NATO members, but also heavy financial sanctions imposed by the West.

Putin told his defense minister and the army’s chief of staff to put nuclear deterrence forces on a “special combat duty regime.”

He said: “Western countries are not only taking hostile action against our country in the economic sphere, but also senior officials from leading NATO member states have made aggressive statements against our country.”

Russian forces enter Ukraine’s second-largest city, Ukraine, today after failing in a night-long effort to take control of the capital, Kiev

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said today that it had killed more than 4,300 Russian soldiers in the first three days of fighting. Russia has not released up-to-date information on its military losses. In the photo: A fighter from the Ukrainian Territorial Defense examines a destroyed Russian infantry mobile machine GAZ Tiger after a fight in Kharkov

White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Putin was resorting to a model he had used in the weeks before the invasion of Ukraine.

She said it was “to produce threats that do not exist to justify further aggression”.

She said: “The global community and the American people need to look at it through this lens. We’ve seen him do this over and over.

She told ABC’s “This Week” that Russia was not under threat from NATO or Ukraine.

She said: “This is all a model from President Putin and we will stand up … we have the ability to defend ourselves, but we also need to call out what we see here.”

Prior to Russia’s invasion, Putin threatened to retaliate brutally against all nations intervening in the conflict in Ukraine and raised the specter of nuclear power.

The US ambassador to the United Nations responded to news from Moscow while appearing on a Sunday news program.

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said: “President Putin continues to escalate this war in a way that is completely unacceptable.

“And we must continue to condemn his actions in the strongest, strongest possible way.”

Margaret Atwood says that “The Maid’s Tale” is not “written as a feminist novel” and she simply “wrote a dystopian novel from a woman’s point of view.”

• The author says that the famous novel is inspired by George Orwell’s 1984
• Written as a classic dystopia from a woman’s point of view, not as a feminist novel
• He says the novel is seen as feminist by “those who think women should not have a voice”

from Monica Grip for Mailonline

Published: 16:30 GMT, 27 February 2022 | Updated: 16:35 GMT 27 February 2022

Margaret Atwood says that her acclaimed novel The Maid’s Tale was not intended as a feminist work and that she simply wanted to “give women a voice” in the dystopian genre.

The novel follows a woman named Ofred, who is forced to live as a “maid”, giving birth to children against her will in totalitarian North America. It has become an instant feminist classic since its release in 1985.

However, 82-year-old Canadian writer Margaret says she never wanted to create a “feminist dystopia” instead, instead trying to create a classic dystopian novel “from a woman’s point of view”.

She says the book, which is inspired by the epilogue to George Orwell’s classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, is branded as a feminist by those who “think women should not have a voice.”

“I wanted to try a dystopia from a woman’s point of view – the world according to Julia, so to speak,” she said in an essay for The Sunday Telegraph.

Margaret Atwood says that her acclaimed novel The Maid’s Tale was not intended as a feminist work and that she simply wanted to “give women a voice” in the dystopian genre.

“However, this does not make ‘The Maid’s Tale’ a ‘feminist dystopia’, except insofar as giving a voice and a woman’s inner life will always be considered ‘feminist’ by those who believe that women should not have these things.”

She explained that most dystopians are written from a male point of view and that female characters are usually “genderless automata” or women who deny the new sexual regime.

The writer says that the themes explored in the book are the parallel dynamics of power in real life and in various literary works, including 1988-4.

“The force that opposes tyranny in my book is one in which Orwell himself – despite his belief in the need for a political organization to combat oppression – always attaches great importance: ordinary human decency,” she wrote.

The friendly novel follows a woman named Ofred, who is forced to live as a “maid”, giving birth to children against her will in totalitarian North America. Elizabeth Moss plays the maid Ofred in the television adaptation of the book

The action of The Maid’s Tale takes place in the near future in the Republic of Gilead, where a brutal regime has changed the government of the United States after the global fertility crisis.

Fertile women, known as servants, are forced to give children to the rich and influential, while women who cannot conceive are sent to work in toxic wastelands or as prostitutes.

Ofred, whose real name is June, took away her own daughter before she was placed with the high-ranking Waterford family, where she was routinely raped by Fred to conceive his child.

Her name is an abbreviation of ‘Of Fred’ – the name of her master.

The story of the maid takes place in the near future, where fertile women, known as maids, are forced to provide for the children of the rich and influential.

Last year, the author released a sequel to her cult novel, which won the Man Booker Prize two months before its release. The action of the book takes place 15 years after “The Tale of the Maid”.

The original novel became a popular TV series, which was met with critical acclaim when it debuted in 2017, winning five Primetime Emmy Awards for its first season.

Crazy Men actress Elizabeth Moss plays the maid Ofred, the main character in the series, along with Joseph Fiennes, Yvonne Strachowski, Alexis Bledel and Anne Dowd.

The last season of the drama aired last summer and was commissioned for the fifth series, which is expected to hit small screens this year.

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Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia at the UN International Court of Justice in The Hague after days of fighting in the country.

Vladimir GreenPresident of Ukraine, took to Twitter earlier today to confirm that a request had been sent, and to call on Russia to be “held accountable” for “manipulating the concept of genocide to justify aggression”.

A recent video address by Zelensky warns that Putin and RussiaThe actions of “s” were “signs of genocide” as they began to “attack everything”, including civilians.

The Ukrainian president, who is fast becoming a global hero, wrote on Twitter: “Ukraine has submitted its application against Russia to the Council of Ministers.

“Russia must be held accountable for manipulating the concept of genocide to justify aggression.

“We want an urgent decision ordering Russia to cease hostilities now, and we expect trials to begin next week.”

The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky confirmed that Ukraine has filed a lawsuit against Russia

Soldiers patrol the streets of Kiev, Ukraine, from above, imposing curfew on the city

Smoke rises from a Russian tank destroyed by Ukrainian forces in Luhansk

As of this morning, more than 200 people – including young children – are estimated to have died in the conflict, with more than 1,100 injured since the invasion began on Thursday.

In one of his regular video addresses, President Zelensky said: “Last night in Ukraine was brutal, again shootings, again bombings of residential areas, civilian infrastructure.

“They will bomb our Ukrainian cities even more, they will kill our children even more subtly. This is the evil that has come to our land and must be destroyed.

Zelenski called on foreigners to join the country’s battle against “Russian war criminals.”

Ukrainian servicemen patrol, pictured, patrol the city of Dnipro, Ukraine

A building in Kiev, upstairs, was damaged on Saturday after Russia invaded Ukraine last week

A Ukrainian serviceman raises his thumb while riding in a military vehicle in Luhansk region

“Ukrainians have shown the courage to defend their homeland and save Europe and its values ​​from Russian attack,” he said.

“It’s not just Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This is the beginning of a war against Europe, against European structures, against democracy, against fundamental human rights, against global law and order, rules and peaceful coexistence. ”

Delegates from Russia and Kiev will do so meeting at the border with Belarus for peace talks after hundreds of soldiers entered Ukraine’s second city, Kharkiv.

Chechen special forces general Magomed Tushaev, above, was killed near Kiev

Thousands of Russians, above, have protested against Vladimir Putin and his war

The Ukrainian president’s office said the two delegations would meet “without preconditions” near the Pripyat River, north of Chernobyl, in a deal reached during a telephone conversation with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko.

“Alexander Lukashenko has taken the responsibility to ensure that all aircraft, helicopters and missiles stationed in Belarus remain on the ground during the Ukrainian delegation’s travels, talks and return,” the statement said.

This came when Putin said in a televised address that he had ordered troops with nuclear deterrence to enter a “special duty regime” in light of “aggressive statements” by NATO leaders and “hostile economic action”.

This comes after Ukrainian forces yesterday destroyed a column of Chechen special forces made up of 56 tanks near Kiev, killing General Magomed Tushaev – one of the highest awarded soldiers of the regime.

Robert Kennedy Jr. has become one of the most prominent voices in the COVID-19 vaccine movement, much to the chagrin of most of his family – who called it “heartbreaking” to see him dedicate such a passion to advocating against measures. aimed at combating coronavirus.

The son and namesake of the slain Democratic presidential candidate has been opposed to vaccinations for years, but the turning point for many of his loved ones came after he claimed that Anne Frank had done better than Americans under vaccine mandates.

“The moment you are given this vaccine passport, every right you have is transformed into a privilege that depends on your obedience to arbitrary government dictates. That will make you a slave, “he said at an anti-wax rally organized by his group The Children’s Health Defense in Washington, D.C., last month.

In the same speech, he likened the Holocaust to the security measures of COVID-19 and said: “Even under Hitler Germanyyou can cross the Alps in Switzerland, you can hide in a ceiling like Anne Frank.

Robert Kennedy Jr. drew the wrath of family members after he became one of the most prominent voices in the COVID-19 vaccine movement. He was above a rally against vaccines in Washington, D.C., last month

The turning point for many of his loved ones came after he claimed that Anne Frank had done better than the Americans under the vaccine mandate, which his sister Kerry called “heartbreaking.” Both are above in 2015

Robert’s own wife, actress Cheryl Hines (right), tried to distance herself from his comments, calling them “judgmental and callous.” The two are above in 2018 at the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards

Robert, who was at the funeral of his father John F. Kennedy when he was 14, has faced many scandals and controversies throughout his life.

However, his family often dealt with such issues in private. Some have spoken out against his views on vaccines in the past, but are more repulsive than before after his comments to Anne Frank.

“He was an extremely older brother,” Kerry Kennedy told New York Times in an article published on Saturday, recalling how he led her to play outside with her friends and stood up for her when they protested that she had a little girl.

“He is brilliant, he is well-read, he cares a lot, he is extremely charismatic. It has childlike buoyancy and lightness. He is a handsome man in a million different ways. And then he has that.

He tweeted on January 25, saying, “I apologize for mentioning Anne Frank, especially the families who suffered the horrors of the Holocaust,” Kennedy tweeted before doubling his stance against wax.

“My intention was to use examples of past barbarism to show the dangers of new control technologies. As far as my remarks hurt, I sincerely and deeply regret it, “he concluded.

But his relatives hurried to distance themselves from his comments. “Bobby’s lies and fear yesterday were both disgusting and destructive. I strongly condemn him for his hateful rhetoric. He doesn’t represent the views of @RFKHumanRights or our family, “Kerry tweeted last month.

Kerry Kennedy told the New York Times that she will always keep her memories of growing up with Robert. “We have much more in common than our differences over vaccines, but we are diametrically opposed on this issue. I can’t say enough about how much I love Bobby. It’s so heartbreaking. It’s so hard.

Cheryl Hines, Robert’s third wife and actress in HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” called the reference to Anne Frank “reprehensible and callous” in a tweet that came about 20 minutes after Robert’s apology.

The Kennedy family came together in 2019 to mourn 22-year-old Sirsha Kennedy Hill, who died of an accidental overdose at the Kennedy complex in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Ted Kennedy Jr. (left), Joe Kennedy Jr. and Joe Kennedy lll attend the funeral services for Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill at the Church of the Virgin Mary since the Victory in Centerville

Robert was at the funeral of his father, John F. Kennedy, in 1963.

“The atrocities that millions suffered during the Holocaust should never be compared to anyone or anything. His opinion is not a reflection of mine, “Hines tweeted.

“I love my brother, but I can’t help but agree with him,” said Robert’s brother Christopher J. Kennedy in a statement to the New York Times.

Friends also spoke out against Robert’s rhetoric, including writer Blake Fleetwood, who called Robert an “inspiration” and asked why he “risked his entire life” on activism by “taking on this crusade.”

“Why is he spreading his work all his life?” Fleetwood was quoted as saying by the New York Times.

And Mike Papantonio, another friend who is a lawyer and talk show host, told the news agency, “Sometimes you want to shake it up and say, ‘Oh my God, Bobby, pay attention to something else.’ But at the end of the day, he is committed to it. The jaws are locked.

Until Fox News correspondent Douglas Kennedy specifically condemned his brother, he spoke in favor of vaccinations. “I am vaccinated. “I got vaccinated as soon as I could,” he told the New York Times.

Douglas added that Robert probably has the most natural political talent not only from everyone in our family of this generation, but also from everyone I have ever met. Most of the time he is motivated to use these talents for a good cause.

Robert became an environmentalist in the early 2010s before devoting his passion to the vaccine movement. He made his comments on the Holocaust during a rally in Washington on Sunday organized by his anti-vaccine nonprofit group

His comments were widely condemned as offensive, outrageous and historically ignorant. Anne Frank was photographed in Amsterdam at the age of 12 in 1940

Robert not only fluttered his pen with his commentary on Anne Frank, but also drew the fury of White House senior health expert Dr. Anthony Fauci when he published a book in November called The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, The Great Pharmacy and the Global War Against democracy and public health. ”

Following the publication of the book, Fauci said in an interview with Yahoo News that her statements would “hurt people” and said: “It is very unfortunate because I do not think he is inherently malicious. I just think he’s a very worried person.

Robert has a past covered with infidelity, according to RFK Jr .: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and the Dark Side of the Dream “, written by Jerry Oppenheimer.

He allegedly cheated on his first wife, Emily Black, several times and battled heroin abuse while the two were students at the University of Virginia, sources close to him told Oppenheimer.

The couple married in 1982, and less than two years later, Robert was on his way to rehab in Rapid City, South Dakota, when he reportedly suffered an almost fatal heroin overdose on the flight there.

He was found with drugs during the flight and charged with possession of heroin and sentenced to community service.

Robert is not the only member of the Kennedy family who has struggled with addiction and depression. The family came together in 2019 to mourn 22-year-old Sirsha Kennedy Hill, who died of an accidental overdose at the Kennedy complex in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Emily stood next to Robert until he finally sobered up and the couple, who had two children together, divorced 12 years later. Before they could even finalize their divorce, Robert allegedly proposed marriage to his second wife, Mary.

During their 18-year marriage, which ended in 2010 and was followed by Mary’s suicide in 2012, Robert claims to have had an “astronomical number” of scandals and traced some in a diary leaked in New York. The York Post wrote in 2013 that his biggest flaw was his “demons of lust.”

Before she died of suicide, Mary told a close friend that she was “afraid for her life” and said that Bobby had repeatedly told her that it would be “better to die” and that she would be “much better.” easy if she commits suicide, Oppenheimer writes in his book.

Robert has become an environmentalist in charge of cleaning up the Hudson River in New York.

Robert told the New York Times in an email that his hesitancy about the vaccine began when he worked on the trial of coal-fired plants that emit toxic mercury emissions associated with brain damage.

“Women began to attend my speeches – they were mothers of children with intellectual disabilities who believed that their children were injured by a vaccine,” said Robert.

He also said that the mother of a child with autism came to his home in Cape Cod with pages of research defending conspiracy theories about the link between vaccines and autism.

Dramatic rescues have saved Queenslanders from raging floods, including a man pulled high when a passer-by heroically plunged into a torrent.

Amazing footage shows the moment Jamie Dixon swam through the fast-flowing water to reach a struggling man named Leo after hearing his cries for help from the water’s edge.

Leo was tired of battling the Grantham floods in the southeast, repeatedly swaying beneath the surface and shouting “help, I can breathe.”

Mr. Dixon dived, wrapped his arm around Leo and pulled him back as the apparently exhausted man struggled to stand up on his own.

Random observer Jamie Dixon (right) jumped into raging floods in southeastern Queensland to rescue an exhausted man, Leo, who had repeatedly swayed underwater (left).

“I thought I saw someone in the water, and that was it,” Mr Dixon told Seven News.

“I had to walk about 300 meters from the road (through water to get to it). I had to wait to catch my breath to get it.

Asked if he thought he was brave, humble Mr. Dixon said, “I guess so.”

The relieved Leo will spend at least 24 hours in hospital to monitor his condition.

SES workers arrive in Logan by boat to help residents after the river flooded due to heavy rain on Saturday and Sunday (pictured)

Boats swept from their berths collide with ferry stops on the Brisbane River (pictured)

In another Sunshine Coast rescue, a family of three were evacuated by QFES boat after their home in the Glasshouse Mountains was flooded by rapidly rising floods.

“It was over a meter high around the property, so we needed the boat to get out,” said Nicolette Stewart, who lives in the house with her partner Rachel Thompson and their son Noah.

“A man tried to drive through the water and lost his van, and he was just drifting in front of the shore,” she told The Courier Mail.

Ms. Stewart said their house, which they moved into only a month ago, and their belongings were destroyed, but she said she was simply grateful that emergency services had taken her entire family to safety.

Residents watch Logan River flood with several evacuation orders Sunday (pictured)

1000 mm rain bomb continues to deepen the crisis in Queensland and northern New South Wales with tens of thousands of residents without electricity

At the CBD in Brisbane, a man was rescued after fast-moving debris collided with his boat, pierced the hull and swept him down the river, where he hit ferry stops.

The boat docked at Howard Smith Wharves at the CBD when the Brisbane River broke its previous 2013 flood record.

The pontoon loosened, swam down the river, and collided with the boat around 9 p.m.

The houseboat then hit the Holman Street ferry station – tearing off part of the pier – before eventually capsizing.

Emergency services arrived to find the sunken boat and the man floating in the torrent before they could pull him to the river with the help of locals.

He was hospitalized for mild exposure to the elements.

The man was just one of 25 people rescued from the floods in Brisbane on Sunday morning.

In Newmarket on the banks of the Brisbane River, a couple was rescued from their roof, saying the floods were like a “river” flowing through their property.

A man was rescued after his house boat in his harbor and overturned (pictured)

And further north in the Jimpy area, three more people and three domestic dogs were rescued after a flood flooded their home.

The crew of the Sunshine Coast’s RACQ LifeFlight rescue helicopter took off for the Kibong property at around 1:15 p.m. on Saturday.

They drove the occupants by air as the water rose to their knees and all roads were cut off by the floods.

A QAS paramedic was attached to the group as the pilot drifted low above the ground.

Gympie, north of Brisbane, was completely flooded on Saturday (pictured)

Prime Minister Anastasia Palashchuk urges residents to stay in their homes unless evacuated (pictured: Logan River on Sunday)

The first two people were boarded by helicopter in the rescue basket, along with a dog that was firmly attached.

They were taken by ferry to a higher location, where other groups of displaced people had gathered and had access to a road.

The crew repeated the process while the trio and their animals – all unharmed – were on land.

Car almost completely submerged after being washed away by rising floods in Roclea

House flooded in Roclea south of Brisbane on Sunday (pictured)

Queensland Prime Minister Anastasia Palashchuk has called on residents to stay at home in the “relentless” flood crisis that threatens to flood more than 1,400 homes in Brisbane.

Severe weather warnings are in effect for southeastern Queensland and areas in northern NSW as wild weather and dangerous floods continue to hit both states.

Six people have died in Queensland while searching for a yachtsman who went missing in the Brisbane River.

Speaking to the media in Brisbane on Sunday afternoon, Ms Palaszczuk described the rain in the southeastern part of the state as “continuous” and warned that extreme weather was unlikely to calm down for the next 24 hours before moving south.

“I do not want to see more deaths. So please, please, if you don’t have to go out today, just stay home, because this water is inexorable right now, “she said.

“This is a very extreme weather event that we have at the moment.”

People have seen their homes and businesses completely submerged by rising floods as once-a-century meteorological events make their way along Australia’s east coast (pictured: Sunshine Coast Café)

The prime minister expected more than 1,430 homes in the city to be affected as the water rose to more than three meters.

The Bureau of Meteorology expects moderate floods for the Brisbane River, but warned that this is a “very evolving situation”, with weather updates scheduled for Sunday and warning that the risk of flooding in the city could be increased.

A flood warning in 16 suburbs along the Brisbane River was issued on Saturday night by Brisbane Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner amid fears that “several thousand properties” could be flooded.

In Gympie, Ms. Palaszczuk said there were about 550 people in the city’s evacuation center, and a total of 1,040 were evacuated across the country.

Authorities expect the swollen Mary River in Jimpy to rise to its highest level in 23 years as supplies are delivered to a local community in nearby Cherbourg that will be disrupted by floods.

House in Roclea on Sunday morning with rising floods, making it dangerous for some people to return home

Heavy weather was also approaching the Gold Coast, with authorities monitoring the Logan and Albert Rivers and calling for help from the interior of the Gold Coast.

Against the backdrop of the crisis, water was leaking from Wavenhaw Dam in Brisbane, which was 160 percent above capacity. Moogerah Dam, located inside the Gold Coast, is also overflowing, as is Atkinson Dam.

Parents concerned that their children go to school on Monday will be informed of the effects on the education system.

“Education is doing a lot of work right now. Some schools will be affected, “Ms Palaszczuk said.

Parts of Gympie were submerged on Saturday amid rising water (pictured)

Meanwhile, the search continues for the only sailor aged about 70, who fell overboard from his ship near the mouth of Breakfast Creek around 16.45 on Saturday.

Among those killed was a man who lost his life in the Brisbane suburb of Indoroopili when his car sank.

The 34-year-old tried to swim safely, but witnesses raised the alarm when he failed to swim.

Police divers found the body of a 37-year-old man in floods near Gympie, north of the Sunshine Coast, on Saturday, while the body of a 54-year-old man was found in the Stones Corner in inland Brisbane.

A female SES volunteer was also killed when the car she was in was swept away on the rescue road near Ipswich on Friday night.

The deaths follow those of a 54-year-old man killed while riding a motorcycle through rising water in Gympie last week, and a 63-year-old man found dead in a sunken Sunshine Coast car.

Floods in Boondall in Brisbane with streets in a number of suburban suburbs (pictured)

What you need to know: the situation with the floods in Queensland to date

• SES volunteer Meryl Dray, 62, died while responding to a call for help at the Ipswich Kulana on Friday night
• The body of meat industry worker and father of three Phil Sug, 37, was found in floods on Saturday
• A 54-year-old man was killed while trying to ride a motorcycle through the rising water in Gympie
• The body of a 63-year-old woman was found in a sunken car on the Sunshine Coast this week

• The body of a Camp Hill man was found in the water at Stones Corner in southern Brisbane
• A new storm warning has been issued for south-east Queensland, with possible falls of up to 300 mm

• Gympie is preparing for the biggest flood in living memory

• Warnings of very dangerous storms continue for the southeast

• Major flood warnings for the Mary and Mulula rivers, the Maruchi and Nusa rivers, the Upper Brisbane and Stanley rivers and the Bremer river, along with the Leidley, Lockier and Waril streams

• Ipswich residents are leaving flooded homes for evacuation centers

• Bruce Hwy between Brisbane and Maryborough is currently cut in several places

• An emergency alert has been issued for Logan

• The Bremer River in Ipswich is currently 12.97 meters high and rising with heavy flooding, BOM reports.

• Residents of Gympie City and Southside have said they are evacuating