UNITED KINGDOM: Fans around the world flock to London for the royal wedding

British, Filipinos, Australians, Brazilians, Spaniards and Dutch ... On the eve of marriage, London is the hub of the world come together all fans of the royal family.Some of them have traveled thousands of miles to attend the wedding of Kate and William.

Hats adorned with the colors of Great Britain, placards bearing the image of the couple and waving the Union Jack, they all come to celebrate a wedding of their dreams.

"This is an opportunity of a lifetime, I could not miss it," says Anna, a 20 year old Brazilian is the pavement in front of Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning from 6:00.

So to lose nothing of the show, they moved to the forefront throughout the wedding party and intend to spend the night, whatever the weather.

The Mall, majestic avenue that runs through St James Park and runs from Westminster Abbey to Buckingham Palace, was transformed into a camping good child. Fans have everything: tents, sleeping bags, rain gear and provisions. We eat, drink, sing it or knitting. The wait is long married to the parade scheduled for Friday at 11:15, but the mood is good appointment.

While rain is expected tomorrow, it does not scare them. After all, this is where rain was invented. "If the bride can withstand a downpour, so can we," a young Bulgarian fun waving a sign "William is taken, I am available for Harry!".An Englishwoman came from the north turn is more optimistic: "In Britain, you never know. It may even shine!".

USA: Washington is considering punishing the regime of Bashar al-Assad

The United States plans to adopt "targeted sanctions" against senior Syrian officials in response to the use "absolutely deplorable" violence by protesters against Damascus in the country, said Monday a U.S. official .

Washington is considering several options, "including sanctions, in response to repression and clearly show that this behavior is unacceptable," said Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council.

"The brutal violence used by the Syrian government against its people is absolutely deplorable and we condemn in the strongest terms," ​​he repeated.

"The demand of the Syrian people to be able to enjoy the freedoms of expression, association and peaceful assembly must be heard", as his will to be free to choose their leaders, "said the spokesman in a statement.

The Wall Street Journal Sunday, the Obama administration prepare a decree authorizing Bush to freeze assets of Syrian officials and their business relationship prohibit the United States.

These signs of a forthcoming stronger response from Washington came as the regime of President Bashar al-Assad seems to have opted for a military solution to quell the protest movement that shook the unprecedented plan for six weeks.

Syrian troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles on Monday Deraa intervened to quell the protest against the regime born in this city in southern Iraq, killing at least 25 dead, according to activists of human rights.

AFGHANISTAN: A French soldier killed, nine injured in the explosion of a roadside bomb

French forces committed to Afghanistan for nine years on Wednesday paid tribute again in Kapisa (east of Kabul) with the death of a soldier from the 2nd Rima in the explosion of a roadside bomb that injured nine other soldiers, including three seriously .

The death of Corporal of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment, based at Le Mans, announced by the Elysée, brings to 56 the number of soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the deployment of French forces in that country in December 2001.

Corporal Alexander River, aged 23, was married with a child. He was in Afghanistan since December 2010.It is the fourth French soldier died since the beginning of the year in this country, and the third killed in operation, told AFP spokesman of the General Staff of Armed Thierry Burkhard.

His section, belonging to the Task Force in La Fayette, was engaged in a mission control and was approaching the village of Payendakehl (South Tagab), when an armored vehicle carrying troops (VAB) was hit by the explosion of a roadside bomb (IED). Also in this region that the two French journalists from France 3, Hervé Ghesquière and Stephane Taponier were abducted Dec. 30, 2009.

Ten men were aboard the VAB. Corporal River died before help arrived.The nine other porpoises have been evacuated to the combat outpost advanced (COP Combat Outpost) Hutnik, named after a legionnaire of the 2nd Parachute Regiment abroad (2nd REP) fell under the bullets of the Taliban April 8, 2010, reported Colonel Burkhard.

This position is located some sixty kilometers east of Kabul and the southern end of the Tagab Valley which forms the junction between the two areas of responsibility, the French province of Kapisa in the north, and the District of Suribi south.

This COP dominates a "green zone", a refuge for insurgents and French troops have renamed the "hornets nest" or "jungle." It is in this strategic region that French forces have suffered the bulk of their losses in recent months.Control Tagab Valley has been heavy fighting between French forces and insurgents.

The injured, three seriously, were then transported to the French military hospital located on the Kabul International Airport.

The spokesman of the General Staff said the "escalation of use of improvised explosive devices" by the Taliban."These actions also indirectly affect the population," he noted.

Colonel Burkhard explained that the proliferation of "big operations late 2010 and early 2011" by the allied forces had to reduce the consequences of direct contacts of the Taliban, who then favored artisanal mines.

President Nicolas Sarkozy, who offered his condolences to the family of Corporal, and expressed his support to the wounded, reiterated Wednesday in a statement, "its support for the Afghan people and Afghan authorities."He also assured of "France's determination to continue working within the Force International Security Assistance".

"This force, mandated by the UN, has been tasked to help restore stability, peace and development in Afghanistan," he said.

The Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said he was "convinced that beyond the legitimate suffering of this family and its relatives, this new sacrifice is not in vain.""The struggle of our soldiers, alongside those of the international coalition, is one of hope," he said in a statement.

Prime Minister Francois Fillon also gave evidence of his emotion and his support for French forces engaged in Afghanistan.

FUKUSHIMA-JAPAN: The plan to end the crisis Tepco fails to convince

Fukushima nuclear power plant will she soon be out of harm's way? In any case, what hope Tepco its operator, who unveiled Sunday at a press conference, its roadmap to get out of the central Fukushima quagmire. The latter includes the completion of emergency by three months, then the implementation of stabilization measures in six to nine months.

It took five weeks after the earthquake and tsunami of 11 March which had damaged the central north-east of the Japanese archipelago before dawn to see - for the first time - an action plan, timetable and a deadline.Five weeks during which, Tepco, accused of amateurism, has been blamed for his handling of the disaster.

"A theoretical"

Decided to do away with mistakes, the operator of the plant will look good now, but the path of redemption still seems long. Stephane Lhomme, Chairman of the Centre of Nuclear judge the operator's program a little too "optimistic." Everything is very theoretical level. We do not even know how it will actually be implemented, or if is achievable now, "he says."What is the evidence that aftershocks will not disrupt this plan work? Or that the reactors will not recover to merge?".

But, especially the expert, circumspect about the integrity of TEPCO sees this press conference smokescreen designed to "reassure shareholders," and denounces a roadmap to establishing a hurry " under government pressure. "

About virulent shade of Thierry Charles, director of plant safety at the Institute for Radioprotection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). For his part, he believes in the reliability of this rescue plan, however imperfect. "True, there is still no concrete explanation on its application.I do not know if any more will be in greater transparency, but the program announced is consistent and full of common sense. "

He concedes that these lead times are probably correct. "It will take twenty years to completely dismantle and clean up the plant. Tepco is not there yet. Their top priority is to rebuild a cooling system in the coming months."

"From the beginning Tepco seemed disingenuous"

On the archipelago such, skepticism is in order after the press conference. Even some of the Japanese press, yet very balanced in its treatment of information, the operator hairpin.In a vitriolic article, the Mainichi Daily News - the English version of Mainichi Shinbun, a national newspaper with high circulation, criticized a contingency plan "without concrete measures," a scheme "unworkable" and a period "that will never held "before concluding that the pattern of TEPCO, Tsunehisa Katsumata, has" completely failed "in its handling of the disaster.

This wave of disbelief also affects some French expatriates contacted by France24.com. Jean-Matthieu Malouch residing in Tokyo, believes that "the operator is there to make profit." According to him, TEPCO has missed his chance to offer a new credibility. "Most Japanese are skeptical about its reliability.From the beginning, the information we provide the operator are incredible. The Director General (DG) patient, errors of measurement of radioactivity. From the outset, Tepco seemed disingenuous, "he says.

Same story on the side of Charlotte (who wished to remain anonymous) professor at Osaka. "Most of my Japanese friends are wary of ads Tepco. They say they would hide information from the beginning to avoid panic." Defenders of the operator, like Jerome Finck who works in banking in the Japanese capital, are scarce. Yet he defends the record of TEPCO. "They do what they can with what they have. I do not think we should blame them beyond measure," he says."Everybody falls on them. Only time will judge their actions."

FOOD: The food prices fall in a "danger zone"

The World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Thursday that global food prices had reached "in the danger zone."

"We are in the danger zone, because prices have already risen, and inventories for many raw materials are relatively low," Zoellick said at a news conference in Washington, opening meetings Spring International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

The situation is not the same for all foods, but in any case "it is the poor who are most affected," he said.

"For many economies of East Asia who focus on rice, the situation is somewhat better.But rice is a commodity that is exchanged very few markets. Only 7% of production is. So if something happened it would manifestly more pressure "on prices, he added.

"Food prices are 36% higher than they were a year ago and remain near their 2008 peak. Already, 44 million people fell below the poverty line since last June," noted Mr. Zoellick.

If the food price index established by the World Bank "is still increasing by 10%, we estimate that 10 million more people will fall in extreme poverty below the $ 1.25 a day," he warned."And a 30% increase would add 34 million people in the world's poor, who are already 1.2 billion.

Zoellick called the G20, chaired by France, which has made food a priority, to take steps to control price volatility and enhance food security.

So the countries that impose an embargo on exports of food products should "at least exclude humanitarian organizations such as the World Food Programme (WFP) of this embargo," said Zoellick.

"These are not food prices that have caused crises in the Middle East and North Africa. But they have worsened," he remarked.

INTERNET: The declassified FBI records to his promo

Little green men, Al Capone, Marilyn Monroe is found ... a little of everything on the new website of the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation). The famous American domestic intelligence service has put online nearly 2,000 documents declassified in an unprecedented promotional effort. A goldmine for lovers of conspiracy theories, but especially a documentary on the impressive work of the FBI.

"This effort reflects our commitment to building a relationship with the public based on trust and transparency," wrote in a statement on the site, David Hardy, head of the division of data to the FBI.The selection of documents is not trivial: most well known personalities on the public - like Marilyn Monroe - or events that marked the United States such as September 11, 2001 or the shooting at Columbine High School in 1999.

X-Files

Under "unexplained phenomena" and has rekindled the flame of UFO hunters of all hair on the web. It actually contains hundreds of pages on the efforts of the FBI in 1950 and 1960 to document the existence - or absence - of extra-terrestrials. One of these documents, written in March 1950 by an officer appointed Guy Hottel, recounts the testimony of an Air Force pilot who saw unidentified three aircraft crashed in the desert of New Mexico.Inside was the body of creatures in human form 90 cm tall.

Roswell, Roswell you said? A document worthy of an episode of The X-Files, the popular fantasy series of the 1990s, but it must put in the context of the time. The testimony, in one way or another, were falling. Moreover, the FBI has said that the document Guy Hottel did not changed its position concerning the non-existence of the Third Kind. Not sure if this is sufficient to ufologists into madness.

Promotion

If these "unexplained phenomena" mainly titillate the curiosity of fans of science fiction, there's something for everyone in this vast digital archive.Mafia History buffs can visit and the thousands of pages about Al Capone, one of the most famous gangsters of the 1940s. Some film historians will also find confirmation on the site that the FBI has long suspected Groucho Marx (the Marx Brothers) to finance the U.S. Communist Party.

But it's not just in old pots that the best revelations. The communication operation of the FBI also provides more recent events like September 11, 2001. The intelligence service has launched its dossier on the organization of the cell which prepared attacks against the World Trade Center.Particular, we learn how these terrorists have gone unnoticed on American soil and the care that Al Qaeda has focused on preparations for the attack.

Documents concerning the military detention center at Guantanamo perfectly illustrate the promotional effort of the FBI. It is reported in this file of 244 pages of "positive" of inmates who acknowledge having had links with terrorist circles.

UNITED STATES: Obama hopes an agreement between Republicans and Democrats on the budget

Barack Obama hopes that a new night of negotiations between Republicans and Democrats will lead Friday morning on a budget agreement to avoid paralysis in extremis utilities in the United States.

The U.S. president has again received Thursday night at the White House, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Republican John Boehner, and the leader of the Democratic majority in the Senate, Harry Reid. It was their fourth meeting in three days.

The two MPs reported that their views were closer but the differences were not fully addressed.Both sides will continue negotiations during the night.

U.S. utilities are threatened with paralysis on Friday night at midnight if Republicans and Democrats in Congress do not agree on funding.

"There remain some outstanding issues. These are difficult questions.They are important for both sides so I am not prepared to show
unbridled optimism but I think we've improved over yesterday, "said Barack Obama.

The U.S. president stressed the "enormous impact" would have suspended services on the state's economic recovery and the lives of millions of Americans.

"My hope is (...) to be able to announce early (Friday) to the American people that paralysis was avoided, that an agreement has been reached," he said.

In a joint statement, Harry Reid and John Boehner for their part said: "We have reduced the number of problems, however, we're still not reached agreement.We will continue to work overnight to try to resolve our remaining areas of disagreement. "

Democrats blamed the blockage in the willingness of Republicans to cut funding for birth control and efforts to protect the environment.

John Boehner, however, stressed that the problems were not confined to these two points.

In the wake of their conservative wing of the Tea Party, the Republicans became the majority in November in the House of Representatives after having campaigned against such deemed excessive weight of the federal state.

JAPAN: TEPCO pours 11 500 tonnes of radioactive water into the ocean

AFP - The operator of the nuclear plant in Fukushima Japan, TEPCO began Monday night to reject into the sea 11,500 tonnes of radioactive water that has accumulated in rugged installations, media reported.

Shortly before the commencement of discharge, a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), moved to tears and his voice breaking with sobs, apologized on television for the pollution.

"We have already caused so much suffering and harm to local residents.We can not express how sorry we are having to impose this new burden, "he said.

TEPCO said the water was slightly radioactive.

Earlier, a TEPCO spokesman said that "some 10,000 tons of water stored in tanks and 1,500 tons currently in the reactors 5 and 6 will be discharged into the ocean (Pacific).

Liveblogging: The Libyan government rejected the cease-fire conditional insurgents

LIBYA: The insurgents have proposed a cease-fire with conditions. They call including Qaddafi to suspend the offensive against the cities controlled by the insurgency and allowing demonstrations. Conditions rejected by the regime in Tripoli. The Libyan government has accused the international coalition of "crimes against humanity." At Brega, fighting continues and intensifies. SYRIA: Protests against the ruling Baath Party erupted in Damascus and Latakia Deraa after Friday prayers despite the announcements and promises of the plan to pacify the situation. At least 9 people were killed, according to activists of human rights.YEMEN: Supporters and opponents of Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh have mobilized massively in Sanaa on Friday when security forces and the army deployed an unprecedented fear of clashes between rival groups.

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