Télézapping - Côte d'Ivoire: "We are no longer there to have fun, we are at war!"

Daily Press Review of JT from mid-day.

• Reason Morning Links: FOIAgate, Highways Deaths, and Côte d'Ivoire (01/04/2011)
• feizhou - feizhou, Cote D'Ivoire (24/03/2011)
• Cote d'Ivoire security officers defect to Ouattara's camp - Xinhua (02/04/2011)
• Côte d'Ivoire's civil war: Coming to a crunch (31/03/2011)
• Battle erupts around residence of Cote d'Ivoire's Gbagbo - Xinhua (01/04/2011)

Côte d'Ivoire (geolocation)  Côte d'Ivoire (wikipedia)  

White House urges Assad to take concrete reform measures

.- The White House today urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to adopt "measures and concrete steps" to fulfill their promises of reform, with demonstrations taking place in this country to demand political change and whose repression have dozens of people dead. In a statement, White House spokesman, Jay Carney, condemned violence against peaceful demonstrators and indicated that the Syrian government "has an important opportunity to respond to the legitimate aspirations of the Syrian people." Al Asad has the responsibility to take prompt and concrete steps to fulfill their commitments and advance an agenda of significant reforms, "said the spokesman.

Japan rules out expanding the evacuation zone in Fukushima

Japan ruled out extending the time the evacuation zone 20 km in central Fukushima, despite high levels of radiation in remote areas, while international aid arrives to remedy the situation. The International Energy Agency (IAEA) has increased the pressure on the Japanese government to the point that the people of qualitative studies, 40 kilometers of the plant have been recorded radiation levels two times higher than the limits set by the agency and recommended evacuation.

Security Council approves sanctions on Ivory Coast

The Security Council today approved a series of sanctions against the regime of de facto president, Laurent Gbagbo, who was urged to leave office immediately. Approved unanimously, sanctions require a ceasefire, a freeze on assets of Gbagbo as well as restrictions on travel abroad for the de facto ruler, his wife and three of his closest collaborators.

The Security Council of United Nations (UN) "condemns in the strongest terms the increase in violence in the country, which could amount to crimes against humanity." The paper also found that the UN mission in Ivory Coast 'use all necessary means to fulfill its mandate to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence.

Three members of Hams died in an attack by Israel

An attack by Israeli aircraft targeted a car traveling between the city of Khan Younes in the southern Gaza strip, and refugee camp of Deir al-Balah have ended this morning with the lives of three people and hurt someone else. If at first you only knew the death of three people by some witnesses as well as medical evidence, past a couple of hours the Palestinian movement Hamas announced that the three Palestinians killed in the attack were members of his organization.

Gaddafi and the Crusades selective

At the university we study the problem of state legitimacy: when it can be considered legitimate? Answer: when it is based on citizens' consent. Then, a tyrannical state is illegitimate? Depends: even a tyrant can have consensus, democracy is not the only possible form of government, certain that if deported, killed, imprisoned, if in fact ruled by terror, then his rule is illegitimate.

Even then I happened to think of Mussolini, Hitler and Franco, all dictators with a strong popular support, and Stalin, who deported and instead killed millions of people. My professor would consider the first three legitimate governments, and the last unlawful. Now there's Gaddafi international intervention, and I've made me some ideas.

"Japan's industrial structure will have to be redrawn"

Economist at the Centre for Future Studies and International Information (CEPII) and teacher of Japanese economy at the University Paris-Dauphine (Inalco), Evelyne Dourille-Feerdétaille the challenges of reconstruction in the Sendai area and impact what will have been the disaster of 11 March on the Japanese economic model.

Although the Sendai area represents only 7-8% of Japanese GDP, a lot of intermediate goods are produced. It has many steelmakers and steel mills, whose production is highly specialized on high-end sheet metal for car bodies, steel wire for tires, etc.. At the refinery level, there are shortages of gasoline but also kerosene.