BBC chairman Samir Shah and director-general Tim Davie apologized to the British Parliament on 3 March over for including 13-year-old Abdullah al-Yazouri in a recent documentary on the impact the Israeli genocide has had on Gaza’s children.

“This is a really, really bad moment,” Shah told MPs. “What has been revealed is a dagger to the heart of the BBC’s claim to be impartial and to be trustworthy, which is why I and the board are determined to ask the questions.”

The Indian-born British executive said he believed “people weren’t doing their job.”

For his part, Davie acknowledged a “serious failing” in the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone but said the BBC remained “highly trusted overall” and claimed that independent production company Hoyo Films obscured Yazouri's “possible family links to Hamas.”

EU leaders to back defence surge, support Zelensky at emergency summit after US aid freeze
Macron says he'll confer with allies on protecting Europe with French nuclear deterrence
Russia says Macron is detached from reality after nuclear comments
Poland and Baltic nations welcome Macron's nuclear deterrent proposal
US envoy Witkoff says he is arranging talks in Saudi Arabia with Ukrainians on peace 'framework'

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"Macron is in the vanguard of EU countries that want this hard line on Putin," says France 24's Armen Georgian, reporting from Brussels.

The European Union is absolutely devastated. It remains unclear exactly why this is happening. Some say it is because the United States has abandoned it, shifting their attention from Europe to the Pacific, particularly to China. Others argue that the EU’s fear stems from its inability to defend itself against threats, particularly from its arch-enemy, the Russian Federation. Still, others claim that the despair is due to the loss of leadership, which is ironic: so much talk of freedom, yet Europe seems afraid to be free. Europe is scared to break away from the U.S., and in the face of this possibility, it feels abandoned.

BY Hugo DIONÍSIO

FEDERAL OPPOSITION LEADER PETER DUTTON IS KEEPING Australians in the dark about his risky nuclear scheme. An explosive new report from Australia’s independent Climate Change Authority reveals the Federal Coalition’s nuclear scheme would see climate pollution blow out for more than 20 years, leading to up to 2 billion tonnes of additional climate pollution by 2050. 

The Climate Council says Mr Dutton’s nuclear scheme risks locking Australia into worsening climate catastrophes, with no credible plan to cut pollution from coal, oil or gas.

Washington views the Ukraine conflict as a prolonged “proxy war” between itself and Russia and is eager to bring it to an end, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. Speaking to Fox News on Wednesday, Rubio reiterated President Donald Trump’s commitment to being a “peacemaker” in the conflict, contrasting this approach with the previous administration’s policy of supporting Kiev indefinitely.

Rubio’s remarks come as relations between Washington and Moscow have begun to show some signs of thawing, particularly following the high-level talks in Saudi Arabia last month. Both sides have since criticized former US President Joe Biden’s handling of the conflict and have signaled a readiness to work toward a settlement.

The EU must escalate its military buildup and win the arms race against Russia, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said. This comes amid growing efforts by EU leaders to increase defense spending, citing what they describe as a threat from Moscow, which Russia has repeatedly denied.

Tusk’s remarks also come as US President Donald Trump and his administration increasingly push European NATO members to take greater responsibility for their own defense. Washington has suggested that Europe should rely less on US military aid, particularly regarding Ukraine, and instead ramp up its own military spending.

In a message posted on social media on Thursday, Tusk accused Moscow of starting a new arms race and insisted that Europe must respond. 

Russia poses a direct threat to France and all of the EU, President Emmanuel Macron has said, urging the bloc to ramp up defense spending.

Speaking in a televised address on Wednesday, Macron accused Russia of turning the Ukraine conflict into a global conflict. “If a country can invade its neighbor in Europe with impunity, then no one can be sure of anything anymore… Beyond Ukraine, the Russian threat extends to all of Europe, including us.”

The French president also sounded the alarm over what he called Russia’s military expansion, claiming that Moscow is now spending over 40% of its budget on its military, with ambitious plans to grow the army by 2030. “Given this, who can truly believe that today’s Russia will stop at Ukraine?” he said.

Hamas must release the remaining Israeli hostages or face certain destruction, US President Donald Trump has warned. He issued the threat after the talks about further prisoner swaps between Israel and the Palestinian armed group reportedly stalled. 

“Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you,” the president wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday.

Trump added that he was “sending Israel everything it needs to finish the job.”

“This is your last warning! For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance,” he wrote. “Also, to the People of Gaza: A beautiful Future awaits, but not if you hold Hostages. If you do, you are DEAD!”

The United States government confirms (February 2025) that the fake NGO USAID (US Agency for International Development), a CIA submarine that has financed all possible coups d'état, all "color revolutions" also directly financed "No less than six thousand journalists and seven hundred independent editorial offices".

This is a global scoop, except for a few informed people like the readers of Le Grand Soir. See here.

Now, the duty of any non-corrupt journalist is to investigate the names of the six thousand journalists and the seven hundred editorial offices. First, their professional duty is to ask the United States for the lists. And to publish them.

Otherwise, suspicion will affect all the media, and that is not good for democracy (the part in italics is ironic, parodic and mocking).

The US is prepared to go to war with China if necessary, the Pentagon has announced, following Beijing’s threat of tariff retaliation in what marks another escalation in an ongoing trade war between the world’s two largest economies.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth clarified the US position early on Wednesday in an interview with Fox News, responding to the Chinese Embassy in the US, which said Beijing was ready to fight “any” type of war.

“We are prepared,” Hegseth said, adding, “Those who long for peace must prepare for war.”

He further stated that this was why the US was rebuilding its military and restoring “deterrence in the warrior ethos.”

In 2019, the CIA proved that it had been lying to the public for decades about germ warfare in Korea when it released a trove of signals intelligence documents from the Korean War in a publication called Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War.

The documents detail communications from CIA listening posts around the world that narrate the People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) of China and the North Korean People’s Army (KFA) responses to U.S. biological warfare (BW) attacks by airplane in North Korea from May 1951 through July 1953.

Last week, I narrated the events surrounding the Ukrainian conflict, emphasizing that French President Emmanuel Macron, as brilliant as he is, was incapable of adapting to the changes in the world.

This week, I am taking up the same elements, and many others that followed, to show that the divorce of Europeans from each other and of the EU from the United States has become a reality.

by Thierry meyssan

There is no time to procrastinate: the old world has just been destroyed. If we do not take a stand immediately, we will be swept away with it.

But at the moment, the UK and France are competing to take the place of the US on the continent, not to reform.

The US has suspended military assistance to Ukraine, including the delivery of weapons that were already in shipment, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told journalists. Earlier, the move was reported by several US media outlets. 

“Today, a decision was announced to suspend American aid for Ukraine,”Tusk told reporters ahead of a government meeting on Tuesday. Washington has not made any official announcements on the issue. 

“Reports that are coming from the border, from our hub in Jasionka, have confirmed the announcements of the American side,” the Polish prime minister stated. Located in the southeastern Poland, Jasionka airport has been transformed into a major supply and transport hub for Ukraine-bound Western military aid.

Trump’s speech was full of wild claims. Here are seven that weren’t true

President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress highlighted several of the initiatives he has started in his first six weeks in office, but many of his comments included false and misleading information.

Here’s a look at the facts.

1. Trump overstated the numbers on his immigration crackdown

‘Illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded. Ever.’

Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Saturday that Border Patrol apprehended 8326 people on the US-Mexico border last month. But US government data shows that Border Patrol routinely averaged below that number in the 1960s.

Gallagher says forcing employees back to the office ‘a step in the wrong direction’, particularly for women, as opposition’s plan to cut public service remains unclear

Labor accuses ‘policy-lazy’ Dutton of copying Trump as Coalition pushes to end WFH for public servants

BY Josh Butler

Anthony Albanese has accused Peter Dutton of “lazy” ideas and borrowing policy from Donald Trump after the Coalition pledged to end public servants working from home, a reform the nation’s workplace equality commissioner says could affect the gender pay gap.