Joe Biden calls Vladmir Putin a “war criminal”, comments “unacceptable and unforgivable” for the Kremlin

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06:34 : The violent earthquake of magnitude 7.4 which struck Japan killed four people and injured 107, according to the Japanese government. Originally, the earthquake was announced with a magnitude of 7.3 but its power has been reassessed.

06:30 : ?LIVE – ? Resilience plan announced by Jean Castex ➡️ “It seems well sized to us, we can’t expect everything from the state. These measures are targeted, they seem relevant to us. It will still be very expensive”, reacts Patrick Martin, president of Medef. https://t.co/jEA9U6Dnfm

06:30 : Patrick Martin, president of Medef, welcomes the battery of measures presented yesterday by Jean Castex. “It seems well sized to us (…) These measures are targeted, they seem relevant to us”he says on franceinfo.

06:23 : Last month, on franceinfo, some 1,400 scientists regretted the absence of debates on the climate and environmental crisis in the presidential campaign. In a forum, members of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the High Climate Council called on presidential candidates and the media to get out “talks of inaction”. You can (re)read it here.

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06:20 : Omnipresent in our daily lives, transport, dominated by private cars, is the main source of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, driving global warming in France. In an attempt to highlight this subject in the campaign, franceinfo devotes a focus to it.

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06:15 : Purchasing power has emerged as the main concern of the French. However, housing, the main item of household expenditure, remains little mentioned in this campaign. To contribute to putting this subject at the center of the debates, franceinfo has chosen to devote a focus to it.

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06:13 : Flight of staff, overwork, budgetary restrictions… After two years of pandemic, which left it bloodless, the public hospital is more fragile than ever. Franceinfo has chosen to devote one of its four focuses to it, so that this crisis becomes more of a subject of the presidential campaign.

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06:12 : With the Covid-19 pandemic, the mental health of the French has deteriorated. Nearly one in four adults now shows an anxious state, according to Public Health France. However, the subject is absent from the campaign and remains taboo. This is why franceinfo is looking into this question, which mixes the intimate and the collective.

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06:10 : Less than a month before the first round, franceinfo is launching an operation called “Les focus de franceinfo”. We invite you to explore four themes that deserve to exist in the public debate, even if they do not necessarily manage to impose themselves at the heart of this campaign. Reports, testimonials, decryptions… Follow the guide.

06:06 : It is a little after 6 o’clock, let’s do a first reminder of the main titles:

• A theater housing “hundreds of civilians” was the target of a Russian airstrike in Mariupol. “It is impossible to establish the toll immediately because the bombing of residential areas continues”, writes the town hall of this city in the south-east of Ukraine. Yesterday, Joe Biden for the first time called Vladimir Putin a “war criminal”.

• Jean Castex presented yesterday afternoon a series of measures to mitigate the consequences of the invasion of Ukraine on the French economy, including aid for businesses, fishermen and even farmers. Here is a summary of the announcements.

• For the home stretch of this electoral campaign, franceinfo has chosen to focus on four major subjects, as close as possible to your concerns: the cost of housing, the public hospital crisis, the carbon footprint of transport and the taboo of mental health. Discover our reports, testimonials and decryptions here.

• A turning point in the campaign. Emmanuel Macron is to hold a press conference this afternoon to present his program.

06:01 : Hello everyone ! We are together until noon to follow all the news for this Thursday, March 17. As always, do not hesitate to write to me if you have a question, a remark or a link that is worth the detour.