Donald Trump in a Wisconsin garbage truck, floods in Spain, RN parliamentary niche… The news of this Thursday morning – Libération

Donald Trump in a Wisconsin garbage truck, floods in Spain, RN parliamentary niche… The news of this Thursday morning – Libération
Donald Trump in a Wisconsin garbage truck, floods in Spain, RN parliamentary niche… The news of this Thursday morning – Libération

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In Wisconsin, Trump rides in a garbage truck to criticize Joe Biden

Donald Trump brought out the heavy artillery to exploit a gaffe by Joe Biden on his voters by staging himself in a garbage truck, in the home stretch of his duel with Kamala Harris before the November 5 election. The Democratic president complicated the task of his vice-president by describing the supporters of his Republican predecessor on Tuesday as “garbage», before recovering. But the damage was done. The Republican candidate said that Joe Biden “finally said» what he «thought» Trumpists. Before settling into a garbage truck on Wednesday, a fluorescent orange chasuble on his back. “Kamala and Joe call you trash, I see you as the soul of America», added the businessman, accustomed to this type of communication operations. The two candidates are heading to the west of the United States this Thursday, a few days before an election predicted to be extremely close.

Typhoon Kong-rey hits Taiwan

The powerful typhoon Kong-rey hit Taiwan this Thursday, where schools and offices were closed and tens of thousands of soldiers were mobilized preventively before the arrival on the island of one of the strongest storms for years. The typhoon, accompanied by gusts reaching 184 km/h and torrential rains, made landfall at midday in the southeast of the territory, the least populated part of this island of 23 million inhabitants already prey to the monsoon. Even before its arrival, waves ten meters high were observed and at least 27 people were injured by the bad weather, including following mudslides, the National Fire Agency said. In a first report provided on Thursday, firefighters announced one death and 73 injured. Originally described as the strongest typhoon of the year, Kong-rey now has the same intensity as Typhoon Gaemi, the strongest storm to hit Taiwan in the past eight years, when it arrived in July. With a radius of 320 kilometers, Kong-rey is considered the largest to make landfall in nearly 30 years.

North Korea fires powerful ballistic missile

North Korea fired one of its most powerful missiles this Thursday with the stated objective of strengthening its nuclear deterrence. The South Korean armydetected a ballistic missile launched from the Pyongyang region towards the East Seasaid the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. This missile, according to the Japanese Minister of Defense, belongs to “the class of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM)”, which have a range of at least 5,500 kilometers and are generally designed to carry nuclear charges. The North Korean launch came hours after the defense chiefs of the United States and South Korea called on Pyongyang to withdraw its troops from Russia, where Washington and Seoul say some 10,000 troops have been deployed for possible action against Ukrainian forces. Pyongyang confirmed a test “crucial”, falling within the framework of its desire to “strengthen its nuclear forces».

Nearly 5,000 full hospitalization beds closed in 2023

This is one of the symbols of the hospital crisis: nearly 4,900 full hospitalization beds (with overnight stay in the establishment) were eliminated in 2023, confirming a continued decline in supply, with 43 500 beds lost since the end of 2013, according to a study by the statistical department of social ministries (Drees) published this Thursday. As of December 31, 2023, the 2,962 public, private and private non-profit hospitals in France had exactly 369,423 full hospitalization beds, or 4,867 fewer beds than in 2022 (-1.3%). The decline in the number of beds confirms “a trend observed for several years“, reflecting on the one hand the desire of the public authorities to “reorganize» care towards more «outpatient”, but also staff shortages, which “cannot maintain» all beds open. Since the end of 2013, supply has decreased by a total of 10.5%. Caregivers regularly criticize these bed closures, which saturate services, put pressure on teams and increase tensions in emergency departments, causing more and more professionals to flee the hospital.

PSG sanctioned for homophobic chants against

Following the homophobic chants sung at the Parc des Princes against the Marseillais, PSG was sanctioned Wednesday evening by the Professional League: the tribune Auteuil will be partially closed for the match against on November 22. Last year, the League's disciplinary committee decided to take a more severe decision for similar facts at the same time by completely closing the stand for one match and one suspended match. On October 19, during the reception in on behalf of the 8th day (4-2), the Collectif ultras (CUP) sang for around ten minutes a homophobic song targeting the Marseillais, eight days before the “classico » won (3-0) by PSG. These slogans were taken up by a large part of the Parc des Princes. The stadium announcer intervened twice to make them stop, in vain. Last week, a meeting devoted to this issue was held at the Ministry of the Interior with French football authorities and the Minister of Sports, Gil Avérous, who recalled that in the event of songs of a homophobic nature, a meeting could be interrupted or completely stopped.

: the French party at Bercy

Blue-white-red festival at the Bercy tournament: five French players are in the round of 16 of the Masters 1000 in Paris. 2009 record equaled. A year ago, French tennis experienced its saddest historical record in the Parisian arena: only one representative in the second round (Humbert) and none in the next round. Twelve months later, just before the tournament moves to La Défense Arena in from 2025, it's plenty: Ugo Humbert, Arthur Fils, Adrian Mannarino, Arthur Rinderknech and Arthur Cazaux are in the round of 16. This clear improvement testifies to the emerging – and long-awaited – excitement in French tennis.

To be continued today

In Spain, relief operations continue after deadly floods

Search operations for victims continue Thursday in southeastern Spain, reeling from the worst floods in more than fifty years in the country. Nearly a thousand soldiers are deployed on the ground, mainly in the Valencia region, alongside firefighters, police and rescue workers who are seeking to locate possible survivors and are working to clear the disaster areas. The latest report communicated by the authorities shows 95 deaths, including 92 in the community of Valencia, the hardest hit. Two other deaths were recorded in the neighboring region of Castile-La Mancha, and a third in Andalusia. This figure, the highest since floods which killed 300 people in October 1973 in the country, “will increase» because there is still “many missing“, however warned Wednesday evening the Minister of Territorial Policy Ángel Víctor Torres. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, who declared three days of national mourning, is due to travel this Thursday morning to Valencia, where he will visit the Rescue Coordination Center (Cecopi).

For its parliamentary niche, the RN relies on the regalian

Will the RN achieve its first victory this Thursday in the National Assembly? Although it will not be able to resurrect its proposal to repeal the pension reform torpedoed in committee, Marine Le Pen's group has purposely prepared a “niche» parliamentary that the right cannot ignore. On Wednesday, the President of the Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, opposed amendments aimed at reinstating the key article of the proposal to repeal the pension reform formulated by the far-right party, which had was rejected in committee. MP Thomas Ménage, author of the text, will still take the podium shortly after 9 a.m. to open the debates on the subject and launch his group's reserved day, which will end at midnight sharp. After the explanations on the pension reform, the RN will open another chapter on the regalian, the gaze turned towards the right and the reactions of the ministers of Michel Barnier, from LR. The party will propose in particular to relax the conditions for expulsion of certain foreign offenders, and to establish minimum sentences for certain crimes and misdemeanors.

Analysis

Faced with the rich, the National Rally adopts a vague discourse

After years of criticizing Macron's tax policy, the Lepenist party is accumulating votes for measures favorable to large assets, as part of the examination of the draft budget. Within the party, the liberal line prevails over the proponents of social sovereignty. Read our article.

L’interview

COP16 on biodiversity: “In one generation, it will be too late for humanity”

Halfway through the COP16 on biodiversity which is being held in Colombia until November 1, the president of the National Museum of Natural History, Gilles Bloch, recalls how urgent it is to act. Read our interview.

The portrait

Marion Waller, post mortem

Trained as an urban planner and philosopher, the young woman, formerly in charge of funeral affairs for the city of Paris, wishes to bring death out of the shadows. Read our portrait.

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