News around the world August 12, 2012
The United States and Turkey in principle to have
agreed to cooperate in emerging situations possibly the worst-case
scenarios in Syria, which including a possible chemical weapons attack.
Leaders of two countries US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu discussed the situation in
Syria in Istanbul on Saturday. Clinton reiterated that the United States
and Turkey will work together to topple President Bashar al-Assad.
She said the two countries will set up a working group consisting of
intelligence and military officials from both sides to prepare for
contingencies such as the use of chemical weapons by government
forces.The two leaders further agreed to boost assistance for refugees,
who have been pouring across the border into Turkey.Clinton responded
cautiously to a question about imposing a no-fly zone. She said it’s a
possibility but it needs intense analysis and operational planning.
United States and some Western and Persian Gulf countries are stepping
up moves to oust the Assad government as international efforts have
failed to produce tangible results in resolving the Syrian conflict.
Two goals from Jan Philipp Rabente helped reigning champion
Germany retain its men’s Olympic field hockey title on Saturday with a
2-1 win over the Netherlands.
Rabente put the Germans in front on the half hour mark in spectacular fashion, weaving around four Dutch defenders before lobbing the goalkeeper.Mink van der Weerden hit a second-half equalizer for the Dutch from a penalty corner.But Rabente hit the winner five minutes before the end, latching onto a cross-shot after a poor defensive clearance.
“At the moment I am overwhelmed, to be honest,” said Germany’s Florian Fuchs.
“I just can’t realise that we have just won Olympic gold. From our second goal onward, everything went right for us. We did a great job in defence and therefore I was confident that we could win this.”The Netherlands won back-to-back gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 but came fourth in Beijing.Earlier in the day, Australia beat Britain 3-1 to claim third place and the bronze medal.
Rabente put the Germans in front on the half hour mark in spectacular fashion, weaving around four Dutch defenders before lobbing the goalkeeper.Mink van der Weerden hit a second-half equalizer for the Dutch from a penalty corner.But Rabente hit the winner five minutes before the end, latching onto a cross-shot after a poor defensive clearance.
“At the moment I am overwhelmed, to be honest,” said Germany’s Florian Fuchs.
“I just can’t realise that we have just won Olympic gold. From our second goal onward, everything went right for us. We did a great job in defence and therefore I was confident that we could win this.”The Netherlands won back-to-back gold at Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000 but came fourth in Beijing.Earlier in the day, Australia beat Britain 3-1 to claim third place and the bronze medal.
Poland wants to cooperate with France and Germany on the
establishment of its own missile defense system, Polish Press Agency
reported on Saturday, quoting Polish Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak
as saying.
“We want it [creation of the missile defense system] to happen in cooperation with France, Germany and other our allies. NATO welcomes the initiatives of the countries to build up their joint defense capabilities. This is so-called smart defense,” Siemoniak told the agency.
The minister estimated the planned Polish missile defense system at $3-6 billion.
In early August, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said that Warsaw needed s its own missile defense shield which would be a part of the NATO missile defense system, along with the U.S. elements of the European Missile Defense that will be deployed on the Polish territory by 2018.
The United States scrapped plans in September, 2010 for an anti-ballistic-missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moscow welcomed the move, and Russia’s then-President Dmitry Medvedev said later that Russia would drop plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad Region, which borders NATO members, Poland and Lithuania.
On August 04,2012 report said, Poland needs its own missile defense shield while the agreement with the United States on the deployment of an anti-ballistic-missile defense system on its territory was “a mistake,” Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in an interview with the Wprost magazine, published on Saturday.
“We must have this element of the Polish defense [missile defense system]. Spending large sums on military hardware is actually meaningless if it is not secured from… the missile attack and air raids,” Komorowski said, adding that Polish shield must be a part of the existing European missile defense system.
The president also said that the agreement to deploy the U.S. anti-ballistic-missile defense system on the Polish territory which was later scrapped by the U.S. President Barack Obama, has been “a political mistake” that should not be repeated in future.
“Our mistake was that while accepting the U.S. proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change of the U.S. president. We have paid a too high political price for that,” Komorowski told the magazine.
The United States scrapped plans in September of 2010 for an anti-ballistic-missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moscow welcomed the move, and Russia’s then-President Dmitry Medvedev said later that Russia would drop plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad Region, which borders NATO members, Poland and Lithuania.
Last year, however, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Washington’s plans to deploy the U.S. new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor site in Poland by 2018.
“We want it [creation of the missile defense system] to happen in cooperation with France, Germany and other our allies. NATO welcomes the initiatives of the countries to build up their joint defense capabilities. This is so-called smart defense,” Siemoniak told the agency.
The minister estimated the planned Polish missile defense system at $3-6 billion.
In early August, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said that Warsaw needed s its own missile defense shield which would be a part of the NATO missile defense system, along with the U.S. elements of the European Missile Defense that will be deployed on the Polish territory by 2018.
The United States scrapped plans in September, 2010 for an anti-ballistic-missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moscow welcomed the move, and Russia’s then-President Dmitry Medvedev said later that Russia would drop plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad Region, which borders NATO members, Poland and Lithuania.
On August 04,2012 report said, Poland needs its own missile defense shield while the agreement with the United States on the deployment of an anti-ballistic-missile defense system on its territory was “a mistake,” Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said in an interview with the Wprost magazine, published on Saturday.
“We must have this element of the Polish defense [missile defense system]. Spending large sums on military hardware is actually meaningless if it is not secured from… the missile attack and air raids,” Komorowski said, adding that Polish shield must be a part of the existing European missile defense system.
The president also said that the agreement to deploy the U.S. anti-ballistic-missile defense system on the Polish territory which was later scrapped by the U.S. President Barack Obama, has been “a political mistake” that should not be repeated in future.
“Our mistake was that while accepting the U.S. proposal, we have not taken into account a political risk related to the change of the U.S. president. We have paid a too high political price for that,” Komorowski told the magazine.
The United States scrapped plans in September of 2010 for an anti-ballistic-missile defense system in the Czech Republic and Poland. Moscow welcomed the move, and Russia’s then-President Dmitry Medvedev said later that Russia would drop plans to deploy Iskander-M tactical missiles in its Kaliningrad Region, which borders NATO members, Poland and Lithuania.
Last year, however, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Washington’s plans to deploy the U.S. new-generation ballistic missile defense interceptor site in Poland by 2018.
India with prime demography is unable to reap
because of ongoing rampant corruption.The liberal policies of the
government to invite foreign investment and new technology the complete
programme has been shattered due to all sorts of junks in the running of
government.The government and its ministers put up brave faces and bold
words to propogate the country’s well beings. Anti-graft protests,
ethnic violence,anti-development Maos violence with touch of natural
calamity to which nation hardly cares has its every-day bloody tale.
Latest media reports,”Two persons were killed and at least 52 injured
including 44 policemen when a protest in Mumbai against Assam riots
turned violent as demonstrators torched vehicles and pelted stones on
Saturday. Another reports said ,Centre has said the
situation in the Northeastern state was peaceful and under control and
170 people were arrested after registration of 309 cases there.
Third report about three incidents of brawl in Army and Defence Min A K
Antony has voiced concern over incidents of face off between officers
and jawans but said that the armed forces are capable of handling them
on their own.” All these negative reports show all is not well.BJP leader Arun Jaitley hit Prime Minister and said,
“To believe that our investment is very high and that the
fundamentals of Indian economy are strong, I think the prime minister,
who hold the pivotal position in government, is living in denial,”
Jaitley said.
“Most agency world over, most economist world over, chambers, independent observers, domestic economists without exception are commenting very adversely against the UPA’s management on nation economies,” he added. “The sentiments is low, the investment environment has been seriously affected. India is no longer been showcased as the investment destination. Infrastructure management is going slow.”
“And at this state of affairs, where inflation are high, the international oil prices are high, the monsoons don’t look like being particularly encouraging, I think the prime minister should have responded to the wake up call,” he said.
“Most agency world over, most economist world over, chambers, independent observers, domestic economists without exception are commenting very adversely against the UPA’s management on nation economies,” he added. “The sentiments is low, the investment environment has been seriously affected. India is no longer been showcased as the investment destination. Infrastructure management is going slow.”
“And at this state of affairs, where inflation are high, the international oil prices are high, the monsoons don’t look like being particularly encouraging, I think the prime minister should have responded to the wake up call,” he said.
From time to time even the global rating agency
caution the government but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday
said the downgrade of India’s growth forecast by Moody’s was a cause of
concern but expressed hoped that India would better last year’s 6.5 per
cent economic growth.
“It is a cause of concern but one should not draw unwarranted
conclusions,” Dr. Singh told reporters when asked to comment on ratings
agency Moody’s analysis of the Indian economy.
Moody’s research arm had scaled down its forecast for the country’s
economic growth this fiscal to 5.5 per cent earlier this week.
However, Dr. Singh expressed hoped that India would better last year’s 6.5 per cent of economic growth.
“The fundamentals of Indian economy are strong. Investments and
savings are among the highest in the world. I am hopeful, we will do
still better than 6.5 per cent growth performance of last year,” the
Prime Minister said.
Moody’s Analytics had said India’s GDP growth rate is likely to be
5.5 per cent this year, while in 2013 growth is expected to be 6 per
cent, adjusted from 6.2 per cent earlier.
“There has been little policy response from either the Reserve Bank
of India or the government and with global uncertainty dragging on, we
see nothing on the horizon to lift the economy from its funk,” Moody’s
Analytics Senior Economist Glenn Levine had said.
White House apex candidate Mitt Romney thus
chose Republican Representative Paul Ryan as his running mate, the
Romney campaign announced in an APP message early Saturday. US
Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt
Romney announces Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan(R) as his vice
presidential running mate during a campaign rally at the Nauticus Museum
after touring the USS Wisconsin.
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday introduced running mate Paul Ryan as “the next president of the United States.” He quickly retracted his statement, saying he made a mistake – but not in choosing Ryan.
After the audience applauded Ryan’s entrance regardless of the error, Romney smiled and took the stage to correct himself.“Every now and then I’m known to make a mistake. But I did not make a mistake with this guy. But I can tell you this, he’s going to be the next vice president of the United States,” Romney said before a fired-up crowd in Norfolk, Virginia.
Romney’s campaign called the new ticket “America’s comeback team.”
Ryan is the House Budget Committee chairman, widely known for his efforts to revamp Medicare into a voucher program.
Republicans will officially nominate Romney and Ryan at the Republican National Convention in Florida on Aug. 27.
Romney initially made his revelation to supporters via a phone app Saturday morning. “Mitt’s Choice for VP is Paul Ryan,” it said and implored backers to spread the word.His brief message sent by the campaign to reporters said that “Romney-Ryan is the Republican ticket.” Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and primary author of conservative tax-and-spending blueprints.Media agencies
US presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Saturday introduced running mate Paul Ryan as “the next president of the United States.” He quickly retracted his statement, saying he made a mistake – but not in choosing Ryan.
After the audience applauded Ryan’s entrance regardless of the error, Romney smiled and took the stage to correct himself.“Every now and then I’m known to make a mistake. But I did not make a mistake with this guy. But I can tell you this, he’s going to be the next vice president of the United States,” Romney said before a fired-up crowd in Norfolk, Virginia.
Romney’s campaign called the new ticket “America’s comeback team.”
Ryan is the House Budget Committee chairman, widely known for his efforts to revamp Medicare into a voucher program.
Republicans will officially nominate Romney and Ryan at the Republican National Convention in Florida on Aug. 27.
Romney initially made his revelation to supporters via a phone app Saturday morning. “Mitt’s Choice for VP is Paul Ryan,” it said and implored backers to spread the word.His brief message sent by the campaign to reporters said that “Romney-Ryan is the Republican ticket.” Ryan is chairman of the House Budget Committee and primary author of conservative tax-and-spending blueprints.Media agencies
Yogeshwar Dutt win bronze give India 5th medal
India’s Yogeshawar Dutt clinched a bronze in the Olympic
Games after beating North Korea’s Jong Myong Ri 3-1 in the 60kg
freestyle play-off for the medal at the ExCel arena in London. Yogeshwar
fought back strongly in the repechage rounds to notch up three
successive victories in the space of less than an hour to provide India
its fifth medal at the London Games and the first on the mat. Yogeshwar
29-year-old from Sonepat in Haryana, who had missed a medal four years
ago at the Beijing Olympics, showed excellent technique and fighting
spirit to bring off three memorable wins on the trot for the bronze.
In the repechage rounds, in which he had to beat three opponents,
Yogeshwar started off with a win over World Championship runner-up
Franklin Gomez Matos of Puerto Rico and followed it with another
brilliant victory over Iran’s Masoud Esmaeilpoorjouybari to be one win
away from a medal.
The two victories that came within the space of 20 minutes got
Yogeshwar’s adrenaline going and he brought off another stupendous come
from behind victory over his North Korean rival to fetch the bronze.Public health researcher refusal to take award in protest against ‘Industrial Crimes’
Public health researcher refusal to take award in protest
against ‘Industrial Crimes’ welcomed:Nuclear and construction industry
among the most risky:Anti-asbestos campaigner denounces ‘collateral
damage of progress’ world over
New Delhi, Aug 11: ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) and Ban Asbestos
Network of India (BANI) welcome the refusal of Annie Thébaud-Mony
director of research at Frenchs National Institute for Health and
Medical Research to accept the “Legion d’Honneur” (Legion of Honour),
one of the highest honors bestowed by the French government. She wants
the government to “challenge the impunity that until now has protected
those who carry out industrial crimes.” The French government had
announced that Annie was to become a knight in the Légion d’Honneur. http://www.legiondhonneur.fr/shared/fr/promo/fpromo.html.
Annie refers to industrial sectors like nuclear and construction as among the most risky. She is the author of ‘Nuclear Servitude: Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry’ published last year. In the book she asks, “What kind of public health policy, what kind of institutional vigilance, will allow us to effectively protect the health of the ‘temporary and subcontracted’ operators who will be performing – for French society as a whole – the tasks required for managing this [nuclear] waste?”
These very questions are relevant for the Prime Minister of India too who is zealously promoting nuclear power to solve the energy problem.
Annie is the co-founder of Ban Asbestos France which led the successful campaign seeking ban on asbestos, making France the first country in the world to ban asbestos. Since then more than 55 countries have banned it. India’s reluctance to immediately ban has been a cause of concern for her.
She was in India during the successful campaign against the Le Clemenceau, the asbestos laden hazardous end- of-life French ship. TWA had given a testimony to the Supreme Court’s Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Wastes along with her highlighting the plight of worker’s health in the shipbreaking industry at Alang beach in ‘vibrant’ Gujarat. She had disputed the French Ambassador’s misrepresentation of facts regarding French law on trade in hazardous wastes in her testimony to SCMC. She was in India to meet victims of asbestos related diseases last year too.
In her letter of refusal to the French Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing, she wrote, “After thirty years of research I cannot help but note that working conditions continue to deteriorate, that awareness of the health disaster that is asbestos has not led to a strategy to counter the epidemic of work-related and environmental cancers, that hazardous jobs are sub-contracted and undertaken by the poorest and most precarious workers, salaried or independent, labouring in industry, agriculture, services or the public sector.”
She categorically stated, “…the recognition that I wish for would be to see the French courts condemn those responsible for industrial crimes to the true degree of their responsibility, so that prevention may one day become a reality. For all these reasons, Madam Minister, I reiterate my thanks, but ask that you accept my refusal to be decorated with the Legion of Honour.”
She further wrote, “Lets stop the truly false controversies about low dose health effects. Public policies, including criminal policy must become protective against the deliberate endangerment of life.”
She says, “We all contribute our time, intelligence and experience to aid in the emergence of that which is invisible, that which has been known as the ‘collateral damage of progress’’ ‘, both in France and beyond the borders of the developed world.”
She says it would be “almost indecent” to accept the honor while there is “a very big indifference…to the death of workers and to environmental damage.”
Responding to the refusal, Madame Cécile Duflot, Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing in a statement issued said that she had “profound respect for Thébaud-Mony’s determined and disinterested engagement,” and said that her reasons to refuse the medal were exactly the ones for which she deserved it.
Public health researchers and scientists in India too should reveal the impact of industrial crimes and expose the government’s deliberate failure in protecting the health of workers and citizens
Annie refers to industrial sectors like nuclear and construction as among the most risky. She is the author of ‘Nuclear Servitude: Subcontracting and Health in the French Civil Nuclear Industry’ published last year. In the book she asks, “What kind of public health policy, what kind of institutional vigilance, will allow us to effectively protect the health of the ‘temporary and subcontracted’ operators who will be performing – for French society as a whole – the tasks required for managing this [nuclear] waste?”
These very questions are relevant for the Prime Minister of India too who is zealously promoting nuclear power to solve the energy problem.
Annie is the co-founder of Ban Asbestos France which led the successful campaign seeking ban on asbestos, making France the first country in the world to ban asbestos. Since then more than 55 countries have banned it. India’s reluctance to immediately ban has been a cause of concern for her.
She was in India during the successful campaign against the Le Clemenceau, the asbestos laden hazardous end- of-life French ship. TWA had given a testimony to the Supreme Court’s Monitoring Committee (SCMC) on Hazardous Wastes along with her highlighting the plight of worker’s health in the shipbreaking industry at Alang beach in ‘vibrant’ Gujarat. She had disputed the French Ambassador’s misrepresentation of facts regarding French law on trade in hazardous wastes in her testimony to SCMC. She was in India to meet victims of asbestos related diseases last year too.
In her letter of refusal to the French Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing, she wrote, “After thirty years of research I cannot help but note that working conditions continue to deteriorate, that awareness of the health disaster that is asbestos has not led to a strategy to counter the epidemic of work-related and environmental cancers, that hazardous jobs are sub-contracted and undertaken by the poorest and most precarious workers, salaried or independent, labouring in industry, agriculture, services or the public sector.”
She categorically stated, “…the recognition that I wish for would be to see the French courts condemn those responsible for industrial crimes to the true degree of their responsibility, so that prevention may one day become a reality. For all these reasons, Madam Minister, I reiterate my thanks, but ask that you accept my refusal to be decorated with the Legion of Honour.”
She further wrote, “Lets stop the truly false controversies about low dose health effects. Public policies, including criminal policy must become protective against the deliberate endangerment of life.”
She says, “We all contribute our time, intelligence and experience to aid in the emergence of that which is invisible, that which has been known as the ‘collateral damage of progress’’ ‘, both in France and beyond the borders of the developed world.”
She says it would be “almost indecent” to accept the honor while there is “a very big indifference…to the death of workers and to environmental damage.”
Responding to the refusal, Madame Cécile Duflot, Minister of Equality of the Territories and Housing in a statement issued said that she had “profound respect for Thébaud-Mony’s determined and disinterested engagement,” and said that her reasons to refuse the medal were exactly the ones for which she deserved it.
Public health researchers and scientists in India too should reveal the impact of industrial crimes and expose the government’s deliberate failure in protecting the health of workers and citizens
Quake of 6.2 Mwp hit – NORTH WESTERN IRAN
The cities Ahar and Varzagan had 36 after shocks:
Quake of 6.2
Magnititude hit – NORTH WESTERN IRAN Two earthquakes hit Northwest Iran
within 11 minutes apart on Saturday killing at least more than 180
people and injuring 700 peoples. Tremors in the cities of Ahar and
Varzagan on Saturday afternoon has had 36 aftershocks so far. Governor
of Varzagan said that more than 50 villages of the town had been damaged
between 70 to 100 percent. The strongest aftershock was 4.8 on Richter
scale and the mildest 2.6. The first tremor occurred at 16:53 hours
local time ( 13:23 hours GMT) in Ahar city with 6.2 magnitude and then
at 17:04 hours ( 13:34 hours GMT) with 6.0 Richter scale in Varzagan.
According to the latest figures released by provincial coronery, the
death toll is 138 and more than 700 persons have been wounded.
Managing Director of Gas Company in East Azerbaijan province said the
earthquake cut gas supply to 70 villages of Ahar city.Vallyollah Deini
told IRNA on Saturday evening that gas flow in quake-stricken villages
has been cut but there is no problem in the city of Ahar.He said gas
supply would be resumed from Sunday.
Reports Quake Magnitude 6.2 Mwp earthquake Date-Time
- 11 Aug 2012 12:23:17 UTC
- 11 Aug 2012 15:53:17 near epicenter
- 11 Aug 2012 16:23:17 standard time in your timezone
38.378N 46.873E
Depth
9 km
Distances
- 60 km (37 miles) ENE (57 degrees) of Tabriz, Iran
- 125 km (78 miles) W (277 degrees) of Ardabil, Iran
- 156 km (97 miles) SSE (148 degrees) of Angeghakot, Armenia
- 286 km (178 miles) SE (134 degrees) of YEREVAN, Armenia
6.3 Mwp – NORTHWESTERN IRAN
| Magnitude | 6.3 Mwp |
| Date-Time |
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| Location | 38.324N 46.759E |
| Depth | 9 km |
| Distances |
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An earthquakes that hit northwest Iran on wee hours on Saturday left at least 180 persons dead,causing 1,300 injury.
A magnitude 6.4 quake struck the East Azerbaijan Province at around 5 PM local time, soon followed by another with a magnitude of 6.3.Iran’s national broadcaster quoted provincial officials as saying people were killed and injured after being trapped under collapsed buildings. Iran Television footage shows many injured people being taken to a local hospital and receiving treatment. Saturday quakes devastated six villages near the epicenters and destroyed more than half the buildings in over 60 villages. Some 16,000 people are said to have taken refuge as aftershocks continue.
Gravely affected areas are in mountainous regions where it is expected to take some time until the full extent of damage comes to light.Turkey’s Red Crescent Society has promised to send aid supplies to its neighbor. Other countries are expected to follow suit.Iran was been hit by large quakes in 2003, more than 40,000 people died in a quake that jolted the southeast city of Bam.
A magnitude 6.4 quake struck the East Azerbaijan Province at around 5 PM local time, soon followed by another with a magnitude of 6.3.Iran’s national broadcaster quoted provincial officials as saying people were killed and injured after being trapped under collapsed buildings. Iran Television footage shows many injured people being taken to a local hospital and receiving treatment. Saturday quakes devastated six villages near the epicenters and destroyed more than half the buildings in over 60 villages. Some 16,000 people are said to have taken refuge as aftershocks continue.
Gravely affected areas are in mountainous regions where it is expected to take some time until the full extent of damage comes to light.Turkey’s Red Crescent Society has promised to send aid supplies to its neighbor. Other countries are expected to follow suit.Iran was been hit by large quakes in 2003, more than 40,000 people died in a quake that jolted the southeast city of Bam.
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