In the spotlight: the G20 at the bedside of Afghanistan threatened with famine
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According to the World Food Program “95% of the Afghan population is undernourished today and that a million children under 5 will starve by the end of the year”, if nothing is made.
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Extraordinary meeting of the G20 by videoconference today in Rome, "the
first time that the richest nations of the world have come together to discuss Afghanistan
", also with "
the IMF and the World Bank
", welcomes
Il
Corriere della will
as the humanitarian situation is deteriorating "
dangerously
" since the return of the Taliban in Kabul in August. An "
untenable
"
humanitarian situation
, which "
threatens to turn into a disaster,
" underlines
Le Temps
for its part
.
The Swiss daily recalls that according to the WFP, the World Food Program, “
95% of the Afghan population is now undernourished and one million children under five
will starve by the end of the year
”if nothing is done.
However, there is no question of initiating relations with the Kabul regime: "
It will be a question of supporting the population without favoring the Taliban
", explains
La Repubblica
, which highlights that the current boss of the G20, the Prime Minister Italian Mario Draghi, "is
betting everything on cooperation with the United Nations
" to manage "
the emergencies on the ground in the months to come
", and also to control "
the management of the funds that will be allocated
", in order to avoid them. fall into the hands of the Taliban.
Health crisis: the "calamitous" management of the British government
A "
damning
"
parliamentary report
published on Tuesday denounces "
the failings of the government
" of London in the management of the health crisis.
"
It was one of the worst public health failures in the history of the United Kingdom,
" reports almost all of the British press, which thus echoes the main conclusion of this 151-page parliamentary report, recalling that the Covid-19 has killed 138,000 people in the country.
A "
devastating
" report, which lays bare the "
blunders
" of the government, explains
The Daily Mail,
which reports that at the start of the confinement, "
25
000 elderly hospitalized people were thus sent back to their retirement homes without having been tested for Covid-19
","
unnecessary
"
deaths
, estimates the daily.
Also overwhelmed,
The Financial Times
and
The Guardian
point out for their part "
the sloppy and fatalistic response
" of the British government to the pandemic which has led "
to a strategy of research for collective immunity
", while "
thousands of people would be still alive if confinement had been decided more quickly
”.
Only positive point, still according to this report, "
the success of the vaccination campaign
", reports again the British press, which makes that "
78% of the population aged over 12 years is now completely vaccinated
".
Hong Kong University orders Tiananmen victims to remove statue
For pro-democracy activists, this is the "
latest example of how Hong Kong people are continually losing their freedoms under the Chinese regime
," notes
South China Morning Post
, which reports that the university has left them until "
tomorrow. 5
pm to remove the huge sculpture
”.
The work, which is entitled "The pillar of shame", is eight meters high and no less than two tons, had been erected twenty years ago on the campus, explains the Hong Kong daily. and it had above all become a place of celebration for pro-democracy activists who organize "
every year the vigil by candlelight in tribute to the victims of Tiananmen Square
", killed during the repression of June 4, 1989 in Beijing. A symbol to be eradicated for China, explains
The Guardian
for whom the sculpture is the "
latest target of the vast national security law that Beijing imposed on Hong Kong last year
", in order to suppress dissent after the major protests for democracy.
Kim Jong-un's frequent disappearances finally clarified
"
Gone are the anxious speculations of foreign observers every time the North Korean leader suddenly and mysteriously disappears
," explains
The Times,
which reveals that in fact "
Kim Jong-un spends his time designing bottles of wine, cargo ships, school uniforms and tourist resorts
”.
A passion “
for design and micromanagement
”, which would explain all his long absences from the public arena, according to the British daily, which takes as proof “
that he disappears precisely before each
new exhibition of industrial designs by northern artists. -koreans
”.
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