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12:00 p.m. : It is noon, here is the point on the news:
• The Communist Party is about to join the LFI-EELV alliance. The PCF will submit the draft agreement this afternoon to its national council. Follow our live.
• PCF, PS, PRG, EELV… Which left-wing parties have decided to join La France insoumise? To help you see more clearly, franceinfo takes stock in this article.
• The Supreme Court of the United States is preparing to reverse the historic judgment of 1973 in which it recognized the constitutional right to abortion, assures the American media Politico this night, which is based on an unprecedented leak of documents .
• The sixth round of EU sanctions against Russia will include the withdrawal “other banks” of the Swift transaction system, its High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, announced last night.
11:56 : Moscow persists and signs. In a statement, Russian diplomacy accuses Israel of “support the neo-Nazi regime in kyiv” after Israeli protests against Minister Sergei Lavrov’s remarks about Hitler’s alleged “Jewish blood”. “History unfortunately knows tragic examples of cooperation between Jews and Nazis”the statement added.
11:43 am : This exchange, on the initiative of the French president, is made after the exchange that Emmanuel Macron had last Saturday with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.
11:32 am : A month after their last call (March 29), Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Poutine will talk to each other again. A telephone conversation is scheduled for noon between the two presidents.
10:38 : Pope Francis declares his willingness to travel to Moscow to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin and try to stop the fighting in Ukraine, in an interview with the Italian daily Il Corriere della Sera published today. “We have not yet received a response and we are still insisting, although I am afraid that Putin cannot and does not want to have this meeting now”added Pope Francis.
10:00 a.m. : To repel the Russian advance, the strategy of the Ukrainians sometimes has unintended consequences. 40 kilometers from kyiv, the village of Demydiv found itself flooded at the start of the war to slow down access to the capital. Our journalists Eric Audra and Mathilde Dehimi went there.
(NICOLAS GARCIA / AFP)
09:55 : It is 9 a.m., here is the point on the news:
• The Supreme Court of the United States is preparing to reverse the historic judgment of 1973 in which it recognized the constitutional right to abortion, assures the American media Politico this night, which is based on an unprecedented leak of documents .
• The sixth round of EU sanctions against Russia will include the withdrawal “other banks” of the Swift transaction system, its High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, announced last night.
• Emmanuel Macron closely monitors all LREM nominations for the legislative elections and validates them one by one, according to information from franceinfo.
• Negotiations on the left to try to enlarge the New People’s Ecological and Social Union in view of the legislative elections did not succeed last night and should continue on Tuesday.
08:23 : Despite the war and the departure of the inhabitants, the hospital in Kramatorsk, in the Donbass, continues to operate. “My colleagues and I have decided to fulfill our duty until the end”, explains a doctor. Report on site by our journalists Farida Nouar and Fabien Gosset.
(FARIDA NOUAR / FRANCEINFO)
07:07 : To prevent Ukrainian refugees from falling into the hands of human traffickers, Polish women have organized themselves to offer them safe travel across the country. Report by our journalist Valentine Pasquesoone.
(VALENTINE PASQUESOONE / FRANCEINFO)
06:58 : “Coming to Ukraine is my repentance“. Igor Volobuev, a Gazprombank executive, left everything on March 2 to come and help Ukraine, his homeland. “My father, hiding in a cellar, told me that if I did nothing, he would be ashamed of me”, he explains. A testimony collected by our journalist Jean-Sébastien Soldaïni.
08:17 : British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the Ukrainian Parliament today around 10 a.m. by videoconference, a first for a Western leader since the start of the Russian invasion. He is to announce 300 million pounds of additional military aid to kyiv.
06:25 : Evacuations should resume Tuesday morning with the support of the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mariupol, a martyred city almost conquered by the Russians after weeks of siege.
08:16 : “He there will be other Russian banks that will come out of Swift (…) In the energy sector, we are working to prepare proposals that will limit energy imports from Russia, especially oil.”
During a press conference, the head of European diplomacy gave some details on the new package of sanctions that should be taken against Russia.
08:10 : We start with a first point on the news:
• The sixth round of EU sanctions against Russia will include the withdrawal “other banks” of the Swift transaction system, its High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, announced last night.
• The Supreme Court of the United States is preparing to overturn the historic judgment of 1973 in which it recognized the right to abortion, assures the American media Politico this night, which is based on an unprecedented leak of documents.
• Negotiations on the left to try to enlarge the New People’s Ecological and Social Union in view of the legislative elections did not succeed last night and should continue on Tuesday.