Enroulés dans des bandelettes brunes, leurs visages ont traversé plus de deux millénaires. Les archéologues égyptiens ont trouvé, dans un tombeau, plus de 40 corps embaumés, bien conservés. Ces momies auraient vécu à l’époque des derniers pharaons d’Égypte, dont la célèbre Cléopâtre. Il s’agirait d’enfants, d’adultes et d’animaux, surtout des chiens. Ces chambres funéraires sont enfouies à neuf mètres de profondeur, sous le sable du site archéologique de Tounah el-Gebel.Famille bourgeoiseUne partie des corps momifiés repose dans des cercueils de calcaire ou d’argile, d’autres sont posés à même le sol. Leur identité demeure un mystère, mais, selon les experts, cette famille appartenait à la petite bourgeoisie. Des tessons de poteries et des fragments de papyrus ont aussi été retrouvés. Ils sont désormais exposés à la surface, devant des visiteurs impatients de découvrir les prochains secrets que renferment ces catacombes.Le JT
Grand Soir 3 du lundi 4 février 2019 L’intégrale
Les autres sujets du JT
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Disparition de Sala : l’épave de l’avion localisée
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Des naufragés de la neige en Savoie, en Isère et un mort dans le Puy-de-Dôme
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Grand débat national : le gouvernement tente d’intéresser la banlieue
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“Gilets jaunes” : la tentation du référendum chez Macron fait débat
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Référendum, ISF et loi “anti-casseurs” divisent le camp Macron
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Grand débat national : Macron “manque de sens et de sensibilités”, estime Cormand (EELV)
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Venezuela : Maduro ne veut pas d’une élection présidentielle anticipée
La Martinique en plein carnaval, tel est le voyage auquel nous convie le très festif et émouvant “30° Couleur”. A l’occasion de la sortie du film en salles, rencontre avec son réalisateur et acteur Lucien Jean-Baptiste.
30° Couleur de Lucien Jean-Baptiste et Philippe Larue, avec Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Edouard Montoute …
Synopsis : Patrick est un homme rigoureux et borné. Elève brillant aux Antilles, sa mère l’a envoyé à l’âge de dix ans pour faire ses études en “France”. 30 ans plus tard, il est devenu un historien réputé et fier. Coupé de sa famille et de ses traditions, il s’est intégré au point d’en avoir oublié ses racines… Un noir devenu “blanc à l’intérieur”… Apprenant que sa mère est sur le point de mourir, il part en urgence pour la Martinique, avec sa fille unique, et y débarque en plein carnaval. Durant trois jours, accompagné de son ami d’enfance, l’irrésistible Zamba, il va être emporté dans un tourbillon de folie, d’émotion, d’humour et de situations rocambolesques. Un voyage initiatique rythmé par l’ambiance et les couleurs du carnaval. Trois jours qui vont changer sa vie.
Tout sur le film
Propos recueillis par Laetitia Ratane – Cadrage : Seb Olland – Montage : Benjamin Aubray
Producteur des prochaines aventures des “Tortues Ninja”, que doit mettre en scène Jonathan Liebesman, Michael Bay a récemment déclenché la fureur des fans en s’exprimant sur le film. Il a donc tenu à mettre les choses au clair.
Quand ils ont appris que Michael Bay allait chapeauter le retour des Tortues Ninja sur grand écran, on imagine que certains fans ont du faire la grimace, le réalisateur de Transformers comptant presque plus de détracteurs que d’admirateurs. Et ses récentes déclarations n’ont visiblement pas changé la donne, puisqu’il a annoncé vouloir donner aux héros une origine extra-terrestre. Des cris et levées de boucliers plus tard, Michael Bay est toutefois monté au créneau pour clairifier la situation, sans forcément mâcher ses mots : “Les fans devraient respirer et se détendre. Ils n’ont même pas lu le scénario”, explique le réalisateur-producteur sur son site officiel. “Détendez-vous donc, nous allons y inclure tout ce qui vous a rendus fans. Nous leur construisons juste un monde plus riche.” Rendez-vous, au plus tard, en décembre 2013, pour voir de quelle façon Michael Bay et le réalisateur Jonathan Liebesman (La Colère des Titans) vont redonner vie aux Tortues Ninja.
José Luís Lopes da Mota, the president of Eurojust, the EU’s judicial co-operation body, resigned on 17 December following a corruption scandal in his native Portugal. Before his resignation, Lopes da Mota had been suspended for 30 days by a disciplinary committee, which ruled that he had put pressure on two investigative magistrates in Portugal who were looking into alleged graft in the granting of government permits for a shopping centre near Lisbon. Lopes da Mota, who was appointed in 2007, has denied all charges and said that he intends to appeal against the decision. Eurojust is expected to elect a new president this month. Michèle Coninsx, Belgium’s delegate to Eurojust and a vice-president, will act as president in the meantime.
Google ban
Google on 18 December suffered a blow in its attempt to digitise books owned by European publishers in its Book Search application. A French court banned Google from scanning books published by La Martinière, a publisher that lodged a legal complaint against the internet firm, unless it obtains prior authorisation. The court also ordered Google to pay €300,000 in damages. Google had scanned out-of-print works owned by La Martinière when digitising books held by US libraries. Google said that it would appeal against the decision.
Eurozone losses
The European Central Bank (ECB) on 18 December increased its estimate of the losses suffered by eurozone banks during the financial crisis to €553 billion. The figure is €65bn higher than the ECB estimated in June. The bank said that the increase was mainly a result of a further deterioration in the commercial property market and the “inclusion of an estimate of write-downs on securities originated in central and eastern Europe”.
Turkey’s accession talks
Turkey has opened an additional chapter, on the environment, in its membership talks with the EU. An accession conference with Turkey on 21 December brought the number of open chapters to 12, with just one closed so far. On 8 December, Cyprus announced that it would block five chapters in addition to eight that are already blocked because of the continued occupation of one- third of Cyprus by Turkey.
Serbia’s application
Boris Tadic´, the president of Serbia, submitted his country’s application for membership of the European Union in Stockholm on 22 December. Several EU member states consider the move premature. An interim trade agreement between the EU and Serbia was unblocked on 7 December, but the main pre-accession treaty – the Stabilisation and Association Agreement – remains frozen over doubts about Belgrade’s co-operation with a United Nations war-crimes court in The Hague. Serbia’s move follows an application by Iceland in July.
Footwear duties
Ministers from the EU’s member states on 22 December backed a proposal by the European Commission to extend existing EU import duties on certain types of footwear produced in China and Vietnam. The extension by 15 months
was possible after Austria, Germany and Malta dropped their opposition. In November, EU trade diplomats rejected the Commission’s proposal in a non-binding vote. The anti-dumping tariffs – 16.5% in the case of China and 10% for Vietnam – apply to leather shoes for adults only. Children’s shoes and sports shoes are exempt.
Chemical action
The EU should take further steps to protect people from the chemical cocktails they encounter in everyday life, environment ministers decided on 22 December. At a meeting in Brussels the environment ministers called for further research into the “combination effects” of chemicals. People face multiple exposure to chemicals in food, clothing and furniture, among other sources. Ministers are concerned that not enough is known about the effects of these combinations on human health, especially that of young children.
Austrian state aid
The Commission on 22-23 December authorised €1.4bn in state aid to save Hypo Group Alpe Adria (HGAA), an Austrian banking group, and shore up the position of Bawag PSK, another Austrian bank. The state aid measures include the nationalisation and recapitalisation of HGAA by the Austrian government, which decided on 14 December to bring the bank under public ownership in order to avert its imminent collapse. For Bawag, the Commission authorised a €550 million capital injection and €400m asset guarantee from the Austrian state. The Commission said that the measures were justified because of the impact of the financial crisis.
The Commission on 22 December temporarily approved the setting up by the German government of a toxic asset scheme for WestLB, a partly state-owned bank. The scheme covers €85.1bn of toxic and other assets on the bank’s books, which will be transferred to a ‘bad bank’ in order to reduce WestLB’s liabilities. The Commission said that it had “doubts” that the scheme was compatible with EU state-aid rules because the assets may have been overvalued. It granted temporary approval to the scheme to preserve financial stability, but also launched an in-depth investigation into whether the scheme should be redesigned.
French banking
The Commission on 22 Decemer approved the purchase by Crédit Agricole, a French bank, of a large part of its rival Société Générale’s asset management business. The Commission said that the new firm would be a “significant player in particular as regards the retail [asset management] market”, but that the takeover “was not likely to raise competition concerns”.
Ukrainian gas payments
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 30 December allowed Ukraine to use €2bn of its foreign-currency reserves to make gas payments to Russia. The fund’s decision eased fears that Russia would cut off gas supplies to Europe in retaliation against any Ukrainian non-payment. Ukraine was able to use the money after the IMF agreed to modify the terms of a €11.37bn financial support programme it set up for the country in November.
Ignalina closure
Lithuania on 31 December closed its only nuclear plant, fulfilling a condition of its EU membership. The closure of the Soviet-era Ignalina plant leaves Lithuania more dependent on imported Russian gas. The EU has earmarked €837m to help Lithuania close down the plant, in addition to €500m it has given since 1999.
Fishing rules
New rules intended to combat illegal fishing practices came into force on 1 January. EU nationals can now be prosecuted in their home country for offences committed elsewhere in the world and could lose their licences if found guilty. All fish will have to be certified and labelled with information about their species type and where they were caught.
Rail competition
Rail passengers could soon be able to take advantage of new services following the opening of competition on the railway market at the start of the year. Since 1 January, all licensed railway companies have been able to operate services in any EU member state. The Commission expects new services between France and Italy and between Sweden and Norway. Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK had opened their domestic markets to competition ahead of the EU deadline.
US ambassador
William E. Kennard presented his credentials as ambassador of the United States to the European Union to José Manuel Barroso, the president of the Commission, on 6 January. Kennard arrived in Brussels in December following his nomination by Barack Obama, the US president, on 6 August and his confirmation by the Senate on 20 November. Kennard was previously a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, and served as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 1997-2001.
EU governments adopt stop-gap agreement to keep SWIFT data transfers operating.
EU interior ministers have struck an interim deal to give the US access to banking data handled by SWIFT, a bank-owned network that processes international communications among banks.
During their meeting in Brussels today, ministers agreed an interim deal for nine months. Germany and Austria had reservations about the level of data protection but abstained in the meeting. The EU needs unanimity to agree international treaties, such as the SWIFT agreement, but abstentions do not count as votes against.
The EU needed to strike a new deal with the US because SWIFT is transferring much of its data business to servers located in the Netherlands and Switzerland. Without an agreement, the US would no longer be able to consult the data. Supporters of the deal say that the data examined by US law enforcement agencies has been used to prevent terrorist attacks in the EU.
Today’s decision will, however, annoy members of the European Parliament. Last Thursday, leaders of all the Parliament’s political groups asked the Council of Ministers, the forum for EU governments, not to reach an interim agreement.
Under the Lisbon treaty rules, which comes into force on 1 December, MEPs will gain the right to formulate and approve this type of agreement together with the Council of Ministers.
The Council had said it would negotiate a long-term agreement with the Parliament under the Lisbon rules and would take full account of the Parliament’s concerns. But it also said that an interim agreement was needed to prevent the flow of SWIFT data to the US authorities being cut off.
Stuart Levey, the under-secretary of the US Treasury, welcomed the Council’s decision.
Referring to the terrorist finance tracking programme (TFTP) which examined bank transfer data, Levey said that in the eight years since the terrorist attacks in the US on 11 September 2001, the programme had “provided invaluable leads in many major terrorism investigations, contributing greatly to our ability to thwart deadly terrorist attacks around the world”.
Levey said that the TFTP was subject to the highest standards of data privacy protection, with “scrupulously designed and multilayered controls and safeguards that are subject to numerous, complementary forms of independent oversight”.
He noted that the European Commission had concluded these controls and safeguards were “significant and effective” and ensured respect for the protection of personal data.
The right to know? Should information to patients be restricted
A European Voice health check debate
When? Wednesday 24 February 2010 – 12.00-15.00 Where? Stockholm Region Representation Avenue Marnix 28, B-1000 Brussels (access map)
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Event report available here
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The issue
What patients are told about prescription medicines is strictly regulated in Europe. Advertising to patients is prohibited and information has to be channelled via health professionals. But these rules have become increasingly problematic, as patients become more assertive in seeking out their own information. The internet allows patients to bypass traditional channels to medical information, so is it possible to ensure that the information they get is safe, unbiased, and accurate?
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While many stakeholders agree that technological developments must be taken into account, there is little agreement on what changes should be made to EU rules.
The European Commission failed in an earlier attempt to open up new channels to health information. In 2001, it proposed to lift the ban on direct advertising to patients for certain disease areas. After two years of procedure, the idea was rejected by the European Parliament, amid concerns about the potential impact of the proposal on Europe’s strained healthcare systems.
However, as the status quo was deemed untenable, the Commission was instructed to consult further and come forward with a new proposal. In the meantime, national governments began to adopt their own solutions.
In December 2008, the Commission presented a new yet more ambitious proposal, which would allow pharmaceutical companies to provide information directly to patients on all prescription-only drugs that they manufacture. In an attempt to prevent the EU’s member states from diverging further, the proposal tries to give more precise criteria as to how to distinguish between advertising and information.
Some stakeholders distrust the ability of the pharmaceutical companies to provide unbiased information. Some health professionals and public health insurers would prefer to have independent sources of information. The pharmaceutical companies protest that they want to maintain the ban on advertising, and say they are only responding to patients’ requests for information.
Can a clear distinction be drawn between information and advertisement? Does the Commission’s proposal contain sufficient safeguards for patients? Who stands to benefit – patients, the drugs industry, or healthcare professionals?
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Provisional programme
12:00 – 12:30 Registration & buffet lunch
12:30 – 13:05 Panel Discussion
Mr Christofer FjellnerMEP, rapporteur on the proposed directive on information to patients, European Parliament
Mr Per Manell, association for the research-based pharmaceutical industry in Sweden (LIF)
Dr Konstanty Radziwill, president, standing committee of European doctors (CPME)
Mr Jan Geissler, director, European cancer patients coalition (ECPC)
Moderation: Dr Phil Hammond
13:05 – 14:25 Debate with the audience
14:25 – 14:30 Conclusions from the moderator
14:30 – 15:00 Networking coffee & cake
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EuropeanVoice, which has an established reputation for healtcare conferences, is now embarking on a new format. Confrontational and controversial, the ‘EV health check debates’ will air issues for the future of EU healthcare in an environment that encourages audience participation.
Conservatives threaten to veto Slovakia’s commissioner-designate and defend Bulgaria’s nominee.
The European People’s Party has said it cannot accept Maroš Šefčovič as vice-president of the European Commission because of allegedly anti-Roma comments made by Slovakia’s commissioner-designate.
Speaking in Brussels this afternoon, József Szájer, a Hungarian MEP co-ordinating the European People’s Party’s preparation and positions for hearings of the EU member states’ nominees to the new European Commission, said that Šefčovič was “unacceptable” because, according to Szájer, he described Roma as “exploiters of the Slovak welfare system” in 2005.
“It is unacceptable for any person to have responsibility for equal opportunities if they have discriminatory views,” Szájer said.
As well as serving as one of the Commission’s vice-presidents, Šefčovič would hold the education, training and culture portfolio, a brief that includes civil society.
Szájer said that the EPP would ask Šefčovič to explain his views to MEPs in Strasbourg next Monday (18 January), when he will seek endorsement for his appointment to the incoming Commission.
Šefčovič, a former ambassador to Israel and Slovakia’s permanent representative to the EU in 2004-09, was nominated by Slovakia’s centre-left prime minister, Robert Fico.
Bulgarian commissioner defended
Szájer also said that Rumiana Jeleva, the Bulgarian commissioner-designate for humanitarian aid, had been unfairly treated by MEPs in her hearing before the development committee on Tuesday (12 January).
Jeleva, who was nominated by Bulgaria’s right-of-centre prime minister, had been subject to a “witch hunt” and “premeditated attack”, Szajer said.
Allegations made against her in the hearing about her financial interests were “unfounded”, Szájer said, and he vowed that the EPP would “defend her and the integrity of her person”.
Szájer said there were “minor technical allegations” against Jeleva and that they should be cleared up by the Bulgarian authorities.
Jeleva was considered by independent observers to have performed very poorly in her hearing, failing both to respond adequately to accusations that she had failed to declare interest in a consultancy firm while an MEP and to demonstrate adequate knowledge of her portfolio as commissioner for humanitarian aid.
Not an act of retaliation
Szájer rejected suggestions that the EPP was trying to take Šefčovič hostage in case the centre-right’s political opponents in the parliament tried to force Jeleva out.
That would be a “false impression”, he said.
Once the hearings are finished, the leaders of the European Parliament’s political groups will decide whether to recommend each candidate for their post.
The entire European Parliament will vote on 26 January.
The Parliament cannot decide to reject individual MEPs but can threaten to reject the entire Commission unless candidates or portfolios are changed.
The Parliament has so far held hearings for ten commissioners-designate. The hearings continue until 19 January.
ECB urges eurozone countries to be bold in order to reduce deficits, as Greece unveils debt-reduction plan.
The European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to keep interest rates on hold, the eighth month that it has opted to keep its monetary policy unchanges.
Announcing the rate decision, Jean-Claude Trichet, the ECB’s president, stressed the need for Greece and other countries in the eurozone to take “bold” and “courageous” measures to cut their budget deficits.
The Greek government today unveiled a multi-annual plan to bring its deficit down to 2.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2012 compared to an estimated 12.7% in 2009. Greece’s economy was plunged into crisis in December because of investor concerns about the country’s ability to pay its debts. The country’s problems have prompted fears about the stability of the eurozone. The Greek plan foresees that the deficit will be slashed through an overhaul of the tax system, spending cuts, a civil service hiring freeze and salary caps for highly paid civil servants.
Trichet said that Greece, and any other eurozone country, should not expect “special treatment” from the ECB. He said that eurozone countries benefited from being part of a “credible” currency.
Trichet quashed speculation that the ECB might delay reintroducing pre-crisis collateral rules in order to ensure that it is able to keep accepting Greek bonds. The rules, which require government bonds to have a credit rating of A- or higher to be used as collateral with the central bank, are supposed to be reintroduced at the end of this year. The credit rating agencies Fitch and Standard & Poor’s both rate Greek bonds below this threshold.
“We will not change our collateral policy for the sake of any particular country,” Trichet said. He said that fiscal consolidation in the eurozone was “essential to improve confidence”.
He said the idea that Greece’s difficulties might force it to leave the eurozone was an “absurd hypothesis”.
Trichet also warned eurozone countries against prioritising tax cuts over budget consolidation. “Tax cuts should only be considered over the medium term, when countries have gained sufficient room for budgetary manoeuvre,” he said.
The German government is trying to resolve internal splits over €24 billion of tax cuts that are supposed to be introduced by the end of 2011. The tax cuts were demanded by the Free Democrats, the junior partner in Germany’s ruling coalition. Leading members of the government, including Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, have raised concerns that the cuts are fiscally irresponsible.
• The Greek debt-reduction plan will be sent to the European Commission tomorrow, before being discussed by finance ministers at a meeting on 18-19 February.
Ministers will next month set a deadline for Greece to bring its deficit to within 3% of GDP, the limit allowed under the EU’s stability and growth pact.
MEPs and national governments agreed on 4 November the last element of a package of reforms to EU telecoms regulation – procedures to be followed to cut off the internet service of people suspected of downloading material illegally. Under the agreement, internet access would be suspended only after a “prior, fair and impartial procedure” and with the possibility of a review.
Pipeline approval
Sweden and Finland on Thursday (5 November) approved plans by a Russian-German consortium to build a pipeline through the Baltic Sea to deliver Russian gas to German markets. Nord Stream and another Russian-led pipeline, South Stream, are seen as competition for the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline.
Moldovan president
Moldova’s parliament failed to elect a new president on Tuesday (10 November) after the Communist opposition, in power until July, voted against Marian Lupu, whose party is part of the governing coalition. If another attempt fails next month, Moldova may have to hold its third general election in a year.
Ex-MEP jailed
Tom Wise, a former MEP from the UK Independence Party, was yesterday (11 November) given a two-year jail sentence by a London court. Wise had pleaded guilty to diverting more than €40,000 from a secretarial allowance in 2004-2005.
Age discrimination
Almost two-thirds of Europeans fear that the recession will increase age discrimination in the jobs market, according to a Eurobarometer survey published by the European Commission on Monday (9 November). One in six respondents reported having suffered discrimination, with age discrimination the most common complaint.
Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville has called Matt Hancock’s comments insisting Premier League footballers should take a pay cut “a f**king cheek” with the government struggling to test all frontline NHS workers.
As Premier League clubs prepare for a shareholders’ meeting on Friday via conference call to consider an indefinite suspension of the professional game, Health Secretary Hancock called on top-flight professionals to take a pay cut.
Clubs from the Premier League to League Two have placed non-playing staff on furlough leave under the Government’s coronavirus job retention scheme but increasing scrutiny is falling on players to take a wage deferral or cut.
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Speaking at the Government’s daily briefing, Hancock said: “I think that everybody needs to play their part in this national effort and that means Premier League footballers too.
“Given the sacrifices that many people are making, including some of my colleagues in the NHS who have made the ultimate sacrifice of going into work and have caught the disease and have sadly died, I think the first thing that Premier League footballers can do is make a contribution, take a pay cut and play their part.”
However, Sky Sports pundit and co-owner of Salford City, Neville, reckons the government should concentrate on providing substantial testing for NHS staff.
“I wish I was a player for 10 more mins,” Neville wrote on Twitter.
“The PL [Premier League] players are more than likely working on a proposal to help clubs, communities and The NHS.
“It takes longer than 2 weeks to put together. Matt Hancock calling them out when he can’t get tests in place for NHS staff is a f@@@@@g cheek!”
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