Les députés LFI brandissent les images d’enfants palestiniens dans l’hémicycle

Les députés La France insoumise ont brandi mardi dans l’hémicycle de l’Assemblée nationale des affiches montrant les visages d’enfants palestiniens, déclenchant les huées du RN et de LR. La présidente de l’institution, Yaël Braun-Pivet, qui présidait la séance des questions aux gouvernement, a rappelé qu’il était “interdit de brandir des affiches” dans l’hémicycle et a indiqué qu’elle saisirait le bureau de l’Assemblée, sa plus haute instance exécutive, dont une réunion est prévue mercredi matin.La scène s’est produite durant une question du député Aymeric Caron (LFI) sur la situation à Gaza. “Jamais dans l’histoire récente, des enfants n’ont été massacrés en si grand nombre”, a-t-il déclaré. “Et comme nos enfants, ils ont un nom, ils ont un visage, ils ont une vie à vivre”, a-t-il poursuivi, en brandissant une affiche montrant l’image d’une jeune fille “tuée dans son sommeil par un bombardement sur sa tente”. Il a ensuite été imité par les autres députés LFI, portant chacun des affiches avec d’autres visages d’enfants.”Dans cet hémicycle, les complices sont nombreux”, avait également accusé peu avant Aymeric Caron. “Vous laissez tout passer, c’est un scandale”, s’est insurgé le député RN Kévin Pfeffer, en direction de Yaël Braun-Pivet.Le ministre délégué chargé de l’Europe, Benjamin Haddad, a pris la parole en réponse à M. Caron: “Que d’outrances et de caricatures.” “La France a toujours porté cette voix de dialogue et de paix, tandis que vous, monsieur le député, tandis que votre groupe n’a cessé d’instrumentaliser ce sujet si tragique à des fins politiques, n’a cessé de souffler sur les braises de l’antisémitisme”, a-t-il déclaré. 

Les députés LFI brandissent les images d’enfants palestiniens dans l’hémicycle

Les députés La France insoumise ont brandi mardi dans l’hémicycle de l’Assemblée nationale des affiches montrant les visages d’enfants palestiniens, déclenchant les huées du RN et de LR. La présidente de l’institution, Yaël Braun-Pivet, qui présidait la séance des questions aux gouvernement, a rappelé qu’il était “interdit de brandir des affiches” dans l’hémicycle et a indiqué qu’elle saisirait le bureau de l’Assemblée, sa plus haute instance exécutive, dont une réunion est prévue mercredi matin.La scène s’est produite durant une question du député Aymeric Caron (LFI) sur la situation à Gaza. “Jamais dans l’histoire récente, des enfants n’ont été massacrés en si grand nombre”, a-t-il déclaré. “Et comme nos enfants, ils ont un nom, ils ont un visage, ils ont une vie à vivre”, a-t-il poursuivi, en brandissant une affiche montrant l’image d’une jeune fille “tuée dans son sommeil par un bombardement sur sa tente”. Il a ensuite été imité par les autres députés LFI, portant chacun des affiches avec d’autres visages d’enfants.”Dans cet hémicycle, les complices sont nombreux”, avait également accusé peu avant Aymeric Caron. “Vous laissez tout passer, c’est un scandale”, s’est insurgé le député RN Kévin Pfeffer, en direction de Yaël Braun-Pivet.Le ministre délégué chargé de l’Europe, Benjamin Haddad, a pris la parole en réponse à M. Caron: “Que d’outrances et de caricatures.” “La France a toujours porté cette voix de dialogue et de paix, tandis que vous, monsieur le député, tandis que votre groupe n’a cessé d’instrumentaliser ce sujet si tragique à des fins politiques, n’a cessé de souffler sur les braises de l’antisémitisme”, a-t-il déclaré. 

World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into MarchTue, 08 Apr 2025 15:05:47 GMT

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a …

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World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into March

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other, as planet-heating fossil fuel emissions keep rising.The world meanwhile saw the second-hottest March in the Copernicus dataset, sustaining a near-unbroken spell of record or near-record-breaking temperatures that has persisted since July 2023.Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than it was before the industrial revolution, when humans began burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas.March was 1.6C above pre-industrial times, extending an anomaly so unusual that scientists are still trying to fully explain it.”That we’re still at 1.6C above preindustrial is indeed remarkable,” said Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. “We’re very firmly in the grip of human-caused climate change,” she told AFP.Scientists had predicted the extreme run of global temperatures would subside after a warming El Nino event peaked in early 2024, but they have stubbornly lingered well into 2025. “We are still experiencing extremely high temperatures worldwide. This is an exceptional situation,” Robert Vautard, a leading scientist with the United Nations’ climate expert panel IPCC, told AFP. – ‘Climate breakdown’ – Scientists warn that every fraction of a degree of global warming increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall and droughts.Climate change is not just about rising temperatures but the knock-on effect of all that extra heat being trapped in the atmosphere and seas by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.Warmer seas mean higher evaporation and greater moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavier deluges and feeding energy into storms.This also affects global rainfall patterns.March in Europe was 0.26C above the previous hottest record for the month set in 2014, Copernicus said.Some parts of the continent experienced the “driest March on record and others their wettest” for about half a century, said Samantha Burgess of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which runs the Copernicus climate monitor. Bill McGuire, a climate scientist from University College London, said the contrasting extremes “shows clearly how a destabilised climate means more and bigger weather extremes”.”As climate breakdown progresses, more broken records are only to be expected,” he told AFP.Concerns over the global economy were dominating headlines at a time when India was enduring scorching heat and Australia was swamped by floods, said Helen Clarkson, CEO of Climate Group.”The threat to the planet is existential, but our attention is elsewhere,” Clarkson said.- Puzzling heat -The global heat surge pushed 2023 and then 2024 to be the hottest years on record.Last year was also the first full calendar year to exceed 1.5C — the safer warming limit agreed by most nations under the Paris climate accord.This single year breach does not represent a permanent crossing of the 1.5C threshold, which is measured over decades. But scientists warn the goal is slipping out of reach.If the 30-year trend leading up to then continued, the world would hit 1.5C by June 2030.Scientists are unanimous that burning fossil fuels has largely driven long-term global warming.But they are less certain about what else might have contributed to this record heat spike.Vautard said there were “phenomena that remain to be explained,” but the exceptional temperatures still fell within the upper range of scientific projections of climate change.Experts think changes in global cloud patterns, airborne pollution and Earth’s ability to store carbon in natural sinks like forests and oceans could be among factors contributing to the planet overheating.Scientists say the current period is likely to be the warmest the Earth has been for the last 125,000 years.

World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into March

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other, as planet-heating fossil fuel emissions keep rising.The world meanwhile saw the second-hottest March in the Copernicus dataset, sustaining a near-unbroken spell of record or near-record-breaking temperatures that has persisted since July 2023.Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than it was before the industrial revolution, when humans began burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas.March was 1.6C above pre-industrial times, extending an anomaly so unusual that scientists are still trying to fully explain it.”That we’re still at 1.6C above preindustrial is indeed remarkable,” said Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. “We’re very firmly in the grip of human-caused climate change,” she told AFP.Scientists had predicted the extreme run of global temperatures would subside after a warming El Nino event peaked in early 2024, but they have stubbornly lingered well into 2025. “We are still experiencing extremely high temperatures worldwide. This is an exceptional situation,” Robert Vautard, a leading scientist with the United Nations’ climate expert panel IPCC, told AFP. – ‘Climate breakdown’ – Scientists warn that every fraction of a degree of global warming increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall and droughts.Climate change is not just about rising temperatures but the knock-on effect of all that extra heat being trapped in the atmosphere and seas by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.Warmer seas mean higher evaporation and greater moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavier deluges and feeding energy into storms.This also affects global rainfall patterns.March in Europe was 0.26C above the previous hottest record for the month set in 2014, Copernicus said.Some parts of the continent experienced the “driest March on record and others their wettest” for about half a century, said Samantha Burgess of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which runs the Copernicus climate monitor. Bill McGuire, a climate scientist from University College London, said the contrasting extremes “shows clearly how a destabilised climate means more and bigger weather extremes”.”As climate breakdown progresses, more broken records are only to be expected,” he told AFP.Concerns over the global economy were dominating headlines at a time when India was enduring scorching heat and Australia was swamped by floods, said Helen Clarkson, CEO of Climate Group.”The threat to the planet is existential, but our attention is elsewhere,” Clarkson said.- Puzzling heat -The global heat surge pushed 2023 and then 2024 to be the hottest years on record.Last year was also the first full calendar year to exceed 1.5C — the safer warming limit agreed by most nations under the Paris climate accord.This single year breach does not represent a permanent crossing of the 1.5C threshold, which is measured over decades. But scientists warn the goal is slipping out of reach.If the 30-year trend leading up to then continued, the world would hit 1.5C by June 2030.Scientists are unanimous that burning fossil fuels has largely driven long-term global warming.But they are less certain about what else might have contributed to this record heat spike.Vautard said there were “phenomena that remain to be explained,” but the exceptional temperatures still fell within the upper range of scientific projections of climate change.Experts think changes in global cloud patterns, airborne pollution and Earth’s ability to store carbon in natural sinks like forests and oceans could be among factors contributing to the planet overheating.Scientists say the current period is likely to be the warmest the Earth has been for the last 125,000 years.

World’s ‘exceptional’ heat streak lengthens into March

Global temperatures hovered at historic highs in March, the EU agency that monitors climate change said on Tuesday, prolonging an unprecedented heat streak that has pushed the bounds of scientific explanation. In Europe, it was the hottest March ever recorded by a significant margin, said the Copernicus Climate Change Service. That drove rainfall extremes across a continent warming faster than any other, as planet-heating fossil fuel emissions keep rising.The world meanwhile saw the second-hottest March in the Copernicus dataset, sustaining a near-unbroken spell of record or near-record-breaking temperatures that has persisted since July 2023.Since then, virtually every month has been at least 1.5 degrees Celsius hotter than it was before the industrial revolution, when humans began burning massive amounts of coal, oil and gas.March was 1.6C above pre-industrial times, extending an anomaly so unusual that scientists are still trying to fully explain it.”That we’re still at 1.6C above preindustrial is indeed remarkable,” said Friederike Otto of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment at Imperial College London. “We’re very firmly in the grip of human-caused climate change,” she told AFP.Scientists had predicted the extreme run of global temperatures would subside after a warming El Nino event peaked in early 2024, but they have stubbornly lingered well into 2025. “We are still experiencing extremely high temperatures worldwide. This is an exceptional situation,” Robert Vautard, a leading scientist with the United Nations’ climate expert panel IPCC, told AFP. – ‘Climate breakdown’ – Scientists warn that every fraction of a degree of global warming increases the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, heavy rainfall and droughts.Climate change is not just about rising temperatures but the knock-on effect of all that extra heat being trapped in the atmosphere and seas by greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane.Warmer seas mean higher evaporation and greater moisture in the atmosphere, causing heavier deluges and feeding energy into storms.This also affects global rainfall patterns.March in Europe was 0.26C above the previous hottest record for the month set in 2014, Copernicus said.Some parts of the continent experienced the “driest March on record and others their wettest” for about half a century, said Samantha Burgess of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, which runs the Copernicus climate monitor. Bill McGuire, a climate scientist from University College London, said the contrasting extremes “shows clearly how a destabilised climate means more and bigger weather extremes”.”As climate breakdown progresses, more broken records are only to be expected,” he told AFP.Concerns over the global economy were dominating headlines at a time when India was enduring scorching heat and Australia was swamped by floods, said Helen Clarkson, CEO of Climate Group.”The threat to the planet is existential, but our attention is elsewhere,” Clarkson said.- Puzzling heat -The global heat surge pushed 2023 and then 2024 to be the hottest years on record.Last year was also the first full calendar year to exceed 1.5C — the safer warming limit agreed by most nations under the Paris climate accord.This single year breach does not represent a permanent crossing of the 1.5C threshold, which is measured over decades. But scientists warn the goal is slipping out of reach.If the 30-year trend leading up to then continued, the world would hit 1.5C by June 2030.Scientists are unanimous that burning fossil fuels has largely driven long-term global warming.But they are less certain about what else might have contributed to this record heat spike.Vautard said there were “phenomena that remain to be explained,” but the exceptional temperatures still fell within the upper range of scientific projections of climate change.Experts think changes in global cloud patterns, airborne pollution and Earth’s ability to store carbon in natural sinks like forests and oceans could be among factors contributing to the planet overheating.Scientists say the current period is likely to be the warmest the Earth has been for the last 125,000 years.

La compagnie italienne Trenitalia veut concurrencer Eurostar sur le Paris-Londres

Plus de trente ans après l’ouverture du tunnel sous la Manche, un concurrent d’Eurostar va-t-il enfin pouvoir lancer ses trains entre Londres et Paris ? Ferrovie dello Stato et sa compagnie Trenitalia en ont l’intention, mais d’autres avant eux ont esquissé ce projet sans succès.Le groupe ferroviaire italien a annoncé mardi son intention d’investir un milliard d’euros pour une ouverture de ligne d’ici 2029. “Cet investissement représente un pas en avant décisif dans la vision du Groupe FS de construire un réseau ferroviaire européen plus intégré, compétitif et durable”, a souligné le directeur général de FS Stefano Antonio Donnarumma.”Le développement du rail transmanche est une course dans laquelle Eurostar est fermement engagé, et nous nous réjouissons de la concurrence”, a réagi Eurostar dans un message envoyé à l’AFP.Si le projet aboutit, les liaisons seront effectuées avec “des rames inspirées du Frecciarossa”, le train à grande vitesse qui circule sur le réseau à grande vitesse italien et en France entre Paris, Lyon et Milan, a indiqué FS.Cette annonce intervient un peu plus d’une semaine après celle de l’Office of Rail and Road (ORR), le régulateur ferroviaire britannique, sur la possibilité d’ouvrir le centre de maintenance des trains Eurostar en Angleterre à des opérateurs concurrents.Le dépôt de Temple Mills “serait en mesure d’accueillir des trains supplémentaires si nécessaire”, a écrit l’ORR le 31 mars.- Infrastructure sous-exploitée -Cette décision a ouvert la voie au développement de la concurrence. L’accès à un centre de maintenance pour l’entretien des trains est un facteur décisif pour l’exploitation d’une ligne commerciale régulière.Plusieurs compagnies ont déjà partagé leur envie d’ouvrir une liaison entre Paris et Londres pour concurrencer Eurostar, dont les prix sont souvent jugés prohibitifs. La néerlandaise Heuro s’est dite intéressée, tout comme l’opérateur espagnol Evolyn. FS a d’ailleurs précisé dans son communiqué avoir signé un protocole d’accord avec Evolyn, sans en dévoiler les contours. Début mars, le groupe britannique Virgin, qui a exploité des trains en Grande-Bretagne entre 1997 et 2019, avait annoncé son intention de lever 700 millions de livres pour ouvrir, là aussi en 2029, une ligne de transport de passagers concurrente d’Eurostar. La société Eurotunnel essaie depuis longtemps d’attirer de nouveaux opérateurs dans le tunnel sous la Manche.D’après le directeur général de Getlink – propriétaire d’Eurotunnel – Yann Leriche, l’infrastructure pourrait accueillir environ 1.000 trains par jour, contre 400 aujourd’hui.Grâce à la standardisation des normes du tunnel, un opérateur peut espérer se lancer cinq ans après la décision d’ouvrir une liaison, contre dix ans auparavant, selon M. Leriche.- L’essai Deutsche Bahn -Côté britannique, l’entreprise London St. Pancras Highspeed, gestionnaire de la ligne à grande vitesse entre Londres et le continent européen, a annoncé vendredi dernier mettre en place des incitations financières pour attirer de nouvelles compagnies et doper le trafic face au monopole d’Eurostar.”Une concurrence accrue permettra davantage de choix pour les voyageurs, des tarifs plus bas et de nouvelles destinations possibles”, s’est réjoui auprès de l’AFP son directeur général Robert Sinclair. Selon lui, sa ligne à grande vitesse n’est exploitée qu’à 50% de ses capacités.En 2024, 19,5 millions de clients ont voyagé avec Eurostar, un record pour la compagnie détenue par la SNCF, qui espère transporter 30 millions de passagers et acquérir 50 nouveaux trains d’ici 2030.L’arrivée d’opérateurs concurrents est très attendue des usagers pour faire baisser les prix. Eurostar pratique des tarifs deux fois plus élevés que la moyenne européenne, selon une estimation de l’ONG Transport and Environment (T&E).Les projets de nouvelles liaisons entre Londres et le continent n’ont rien de nouveau. En 2013 déjà, la Deutsche Bahn avait fait rouler un de ses ICE dans le tunnel sous la Manche. A l’époque, l’opérateur historique des chemins de fer allemand envisageait de proposer ses premiers voyages en 2016. Le projet n’a jamais abouti.

Pentagon chief fires US military representative to NATO

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a top US admiral assigned to NATO, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, saying her removal was due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead.Vice Admiral Shoshana Chatfield is the latest in a string of senior officers — including multiple women — to be dismissed by Donald Trump’s administration, part of a rare major shakeup of top US military leadership that began shortly after the president returned to office in January.The various firings have led to accusations that Trump and his administration are seeking to politicize the traditionally apolitical US military and ensure it is led by people who are personally loyal to the president.Hegseth removed Chatfield “from her position as US representative to NATO’s military committee due to a loss of confidence in her ability to lead,” Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement, without providing further details.Chatfield is a helicopter pilot by training who previously deployed to the Pacific and Gulf in support of carrier strike group and amphibious ready group operations, according to her NATO biography.She was also a senior military assistant to the supreme allied commander for Europe, served as the deputy US military representative to NATO’s military committee, and taught political science at the US Air Force Academy, among other positions.Democratic lawmakers slammed her removal, with Representative Adam Smith saying “our country is less safe because of President Trump’s actions,” while Senator Jack Reed said the move was “unjustified” and “disgraceful.”- Other top officers sacked -“The silence from my Republican colleagues is deeply troubling. In less than three months, President Trump has fired 10 generals and admirals without explanation, including our most experienced combat leaders,” Reed said.Chatfield’s dismissal comes shortly after Trump fired General Timothy Haugh, the head of the highly sensitive US National Security Agency, and his deputy Wendy Noble at the apparent urging of far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.He also dismissed officials from the National Security Council (NSC) last week.The New York Times reported Thursday that — after meeting with Loomer the previous day — Trump fired six people from the NSC, including three senior officials on the body that advises the president on top foreign policy matters from Ukraine to Gaza.In February, Trump abruptly fired the top US military officer, general Charles “CQ” Brown, without explanation, less than two years into his four-year term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.Hegseth also announced the removal of admiral Lisa Franchetti — the first woman to lead the Navy — as well as the vice chief of staff of the Air Force and three top military lawyers.And in January, admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead one of the six US military services, was removed as the head of the Coast Guard, with an official citing alleged “leadership deficiencies.”The Pentagon has also taken aim at pro-diversity efforts — and reportedly officials who supported them — with the purge of such content sweeping up articles on the African American Tuskegee Airmen and veteran Jackie Robinson, the first Black player in Major League Baseball in the modern era.