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UK accused of harbouring Hong Kong 'fugitives' by China<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Judge Anthony Chan said he considered whether a ban on the song would act as a wider deterrence than the city\u2019s criminal law already in place. That includes a National Security Law imposed by Beijing in 2020 under which many of the city's leading activists have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot be satisfied that it is just and convenient to grant the injunction,\u201d he wrote in a ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The government went to court after Google resisted pressure to display China\u2019s national anthem as the top result in searches for the city\u2019s anthem instead of \u201cGlory to Hong Kong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google had asked that a ruling prove the song violated the law before it could be removed, Hong Kong's Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong told a local broadcaster earlier. Google did not reply to a request for comment on its earlier exchanges with officials.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s leader, Chief Executive John Lee, told reporters he had asked government lawyers to study the judgment and decide how to respond.<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong, a former British colony, returned to Chinese rule in 1997 and was promised that it could keep its Western-style civil liberties intact for 50 years after the handover. But the security law and other changes since the 2019 protests have shrunk the openness and freedoms that were once hallmarks of the city.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s secretary for justice sought the injunction last month after the song was mistakenly played as the city\u2019s anthem at international events. And a mix-up in an ice hockey competition in February resulted in the city\u2019s top sports body reprimanding the Hong Kong Ice Hockey Association, which appealed for forgiveness for what it called an \u201cindependent and unfortunate\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p>In seeking the court order, the government wanted to target anyone who uses the song to advocate for the separation of Hong Kong from China. It also sought to ban actions that use the song to incite others to commit secession and to insult the national anthem, including online.<\/p>\n<p>However, Friday\u2019s ruling will not mean the end of the controversy for tech giants, said George Chen, former head of public policy for Greater China at Meta.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was a new beginning for the platforms and the government to work together on content-related issues, given there was \u201czero chance\u201d that the government would just leave all versions of the protest song online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow the ball is back to the government but it doesn\u2019t mean platforms can relax,\u201d said Chen, who now works as a managing director for business advisory firm The Asia Group.<\/p>\n<p>He said the city is now a \u201chighly political place\u201d and many lawmakers were surprised by the ruling, predicting that the political pressure on content removal on tech platforms will remain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may feel more like Season 1 of a long series,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Lai, visiting researcher of King\u2019s College London\u2019s School of Law, said that the government was trying to abuse the legal system by using an injunction to tackle a political matter when it sought the court order. The ruling reflects that the court still wants to defend the integrity of the city\u2019s legal system, Lai said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad this injunction been granted by the court, it would further create a more restrictive environment for both the internet and the public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lai cautioned that it\u2019s a worrying trend to see that the secretary for justice \u201cis so eager to politicize the court and the legal proceedings\u201d to suppress the opposition camp and dissenting opinions, adding that he would monitor how the government would respond to the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The government earlier said the lyrics contain a slogan that could constitute a call for secession. The song was already banned at schools. 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West turned its gaze away from Iran, but the regime's cruelties are far from over","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The West turned its gaze away from Iran. The cruelties continued","titleListing2":"VIEW | More than 30 years ago, the regime in Tehran tried to silence me. My heart aches for the young women imprisoned and still suffering in Iran today, Nasrin Parvaz writes. ","leadin":"More than 30 years ago, the regime in Tehran tried to silence me. My heart aches for the young women imprisoned and still suffering in Iran today, Nasrin Parvaz writes. ","summary":"More than 30 years ago, the regime in Tehran tried to silence me. My heart aches for the young women imprisoned and still suffering in Iran today, Nasrin Parvaz writes. ","url":"the-west-turned-its-gaze-away-from-iran-but-the-regimes-cruelties-are-far-from-over","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In the 1980s, I was imprisoned in Iran for eight years just for taking to the streets and fighting for my freedom and demanding liberty.\u00a0 \n\n\nThe regime in Tehran tried to silence me with torture and threats of sexual violence. My heart aches for the young women who are still being subjected to the same kind of torture that I was more than thirty years ago. \n\nOn 15 March 2023, Sepideh Qolyian, one of Iran\u2019s most prominent female activists, was re-arrested only a few hours after being released. Prior to that, s he had already spent five years in prison.\u00a0 \n\nSepideh was imprisoned in Evin Prison\u00a0 \u2014 \u00a0one of the primary sites for housing Iran\u2019s political prisoners since 1972\u00a0 \u2014 \u00a0kept in solitary confinement in its notorious Wing 209 and threatened with rape by the prison guards.\u00a0 \n\nSepideh is one of many sharing the same harrowing fate. \n\nTehran has continued to ramp up its use of systemic torture \n\nThirty-five years ago, I was held in the very same wing, and it was used as a torture chamber. Prisoners then, just like now, were threatened with rape and were physically and mentally abused.\u00a0 \n\nSome of my fellow prisoners hanged themselves with their chadors because they just couldn\u2019t go on anymore. \n\nA chador \u2014 a full body-length piece of fabric \u2014 covers the whole body except the face, and it was compulsory to wear when I was imprisoned.\u00a0 \n\nThe regime\u2019s excuse for the hijab law is that women should be covered.\u00a0 But we, Iranian women, know that we are just mere scapegoats being used to suppress an entire country.\u00a0 \n\nT he regime has recently ramped up its use of systemic torture to frighten and silence activists since the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran\u2019s abusive \u201cmorality police\u201d in September 2022. \n\nThe authorities have responded to the largely peaceful protests, which began in response to Mahsa's death, ruthlessly, with brutal, and in many cases lethal, force.\u00a0 \n\nHundreds have been killed in the streets, and hundreds more have been shot in the eyes, chest and genitals. I\u2019ve listened and watched in horror as the stories of violence and torture continue to trickle out of my home country. \n\nExecutions and torture-tainted confessions \n\nAnd the stories really are horrific. Stories of people being tortured, left to sit in solitary confinement for days on end, and denied medical treatment for their injuries.\u00a0 \n\nThere have also been reports of children as young as twelve being sent to detention centres and being physically, psychologically and sexually abused. \n\nOver the last few months, we\u2019ve seen prisoners who were arrested during the protests being sentenced to death and executed. \n\nPrisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn\u2019t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison. \n\nForced confessions have long been used by this regime, but the reports of torture emerging since the killing of Mahsa have been truly alarming.\u00a0 \n\nAnd there are many prisoners currently at serious risk of being executed. In most cases, there\u2019s absolutely no evidence, just a torture-tainted confession.\u00a0 \n\nThis month, the UN reported that 26 people have been sentenced to death in relation to the protests since November 2022. \n\nKeep shining a spotlight \n\nI\u2019ve watched as the West has slowly turned its gaze away from what\u2019s happening in Iran. \n\nYet, we need to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the women and people demanding the basic rights we take for granted and enjoy every single day. \n\nWe must try and save the lives of those sentenced to death by raising the political cost of their executions and making sure that those languishing in prisons are released. \n\nI\u2019m calling on the international community and media to keep shining a spotlight on my country to demand that the regime stops using torture immediately. \n\nI\u2019m still hopeful that one day the regime \u2014 the people in power, the prison guards, the interrogators \u2014 will have to answer for the atrocities they\u2019ve committed. \n\nNasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, tortured and imprisoned for eight years. Parvaz is the author of \"One Woman\u2019s Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir\", and \"The Secret Letters from X to A\". \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n\n","htmlText":"<p>In the 1980s, I was imprisoned in Iran for eight years just for taking to the streets and fighting for my freedom and demanding liberty.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The regime in Tehran tried to silence me with torture and threats of sexual violence. My heart aches for the young women who are still being subjected to the same kind of torture that I was more than thirty years ago.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 March 2023, Sepideh Qolyian, one of Iran\u2019s most prominent female activists, was re-arrested only a few hours after being released. Prior to that, she had already spent five years in prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sepideh was imprisoned in Evin Prison\u00a0\u2014\u00a0one of the primary sites for housing Iran\u2019s political prisoners since 1972\u00a0\u2014\u00a0kept in solitary confinement in its notorious Wing 209 and threatened with rape by the prison guards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sepideh is one of many sharing the same harrowing fate.<\/p>\n<h2>Tehran has continued to ramp up its use of systemic torture<\/h2><p>Thirty-five years ago, I was held in the very same wing, and it was used as a torture chamber. Prisoners then, just like now, were threatened with rape and were physically and mentally abused.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some of my fellow prisoners hanged themselves with their chadors because they just couldn\u2019t go on anymore.<\/p>\n<p>A chador \u2014 a full body-length piece of fabric \u2014 covers the whole body except the face, and it was compulsory to wear when I was imprisoned.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Hundreds have been killed in the streets, and hundreds more have been shot in the eyes, chest and genitals. I\u2019ve listened and watched in horror as the stories of violence and torture continue to trickle out of my home country.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//55//10//808x539_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_0d1252e1-b202-5c8c-ae97-391d4a0be035-7785510.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A woman holds a banner as people demonstrate against the Tehran regime's oppression in Lyon, January 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Laurent Cipriani<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The regime\u2019s excuse for the hijab law is that women should be covered.\u00a0But we, Iranian women, know that we are just mere scapegoats being used to suppress an entire country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The regime has recently ramped up its use of systemic torture to frighten and silence activists since the death of 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iran\u2019s abusive \u201cmorality police\u201d in September 2022.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7187700,7037738\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//09//23//un-experts-demand-accountability-for-death-of-mahsa-amini-in-iran/">UN experts demand accountability for death of Mahsa Amini in Iran<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//11//11//iran-responding-to-mahsa-amini-protests-with-overwhelming-repression/">Iran responding to Mahsa Amini protests with 'overwhelming repression'<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The authorities have responded to the largely peaceful protests, which began in response to Mahsa's death, ruthlessly, with brutal, and in many cases lethal, force.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds have been killed in the streets, and hundreds more have been shot in the eyes, chest and genitals. I\u2019ve listened and watched in horror as the stories of violence and torture continue to trickle out of my home country.<\/p>\n<h2>Executions and torture-tainted confessions<\/h2><p>And the stories really are horrific. Stories of people being tortured, left to sit in solitary confinement for days on end, and denied medical treatment for their injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There have also been reports of children as young as twelve being sent to detention centres and being physically, psychologically and sexually abused.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last few months, we\u2019ve seen prisoners who were arrested during the protests being sentenced to death and executed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn\u2019t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//31//04//86//808x539_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Michel Euler\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/384x256_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/640x427_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/750x500_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/828x552_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/1080x720_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/1200x800_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/31\/04\/86\/1920x1281_cmsv2_067fe5ca-6263-5568-9f8a-df2b16cdb16d-7310486.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">The Eiffel Tower lits the night with the a slogans "Woman, Life, Freedom" and "Stop Executions in Iran in support for the protests across Iran in Paris, January 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Michel Euler<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Prisoners have been tortured into confessing, and if physical torture didn\u2019t work, interrogators would threaten their families. Many women have reported being raped whilst in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Forced confessions have long been used by this regime, but the reports of torture emerging since the killing of Mahsa have been truly alarming.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7757406,7574160\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//17//irans-morality-police-back-on-the-streets-to-impose-strict-islamic-dress-codes/">Iran's morality police back on the streets to impose strict Islamic dress code<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//08//protests-in-iran-the-transformation-of-a-movement-in-the-face-of-repression/">Protests in Iran: the transformation of a movement in the face of repression <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And there are many prisoners currently at serious risk of being executed. In most cases, there\u2019s absolutely no evidence, just a torture-tainted confession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This month, the UN reported that 26 people have been sentenced to death in relation to the protests since November 2022.<\/p>\n<h2>Keep shining a spotlight<\/h2><p>I\u2019ve watched as the West has slowly turned its gaze away from what\u2019s happening in Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, we need to continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with the women and people demanding the basic rights we take for granted and enjoy every single day.<\/p>\n<p>We must try and save the lives of those sentenced to death by raising the political cost of their executions and making sure that those languishing in prisons are released.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">I\u2019m still hopeful that one day the regime \u2014 the people in power, the prison guards, the interrogators \u2014 will have to answer for the atrocities they\u2019ve committed.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//55//10//808x539_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg/" alt=\"Georg Wendt/dpa via AP\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/384x256_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/640x427_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/750x500_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/828x552_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1080x720_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1200x800_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/1920x1281_cmsv2_eeed818c-2dd0-58d1-922c-4195add8221a-7785510.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A participant of a demonstration with her face painted with a peace dove and the Persian name Mahsa Amini in Hamburg, January 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Georg Wendt/dpa via AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m calling on the international community and media to keep shining a spotlight on my country to demand that the regime stops using torture immediately.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m still hopeful that one day the regime \u2014 the people in power, the prison guards, the interrogators \u2014 will have to answer for the atrocities they\u2019ve committed.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic regime took power in 1979. She was arrested in 1982, tortured and imprisoned for eight years. Parvaz is the author of \"One Woman\u2019s Struggle in Iran: A Prison Memoir\", and \"The Secret Letters from X to A\".<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690543001,"publishedAt":1690546544,"updatedAt":1690546547,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/the-west-turned-its-gaze-away-from-iran-but-the-regimes-cruelties-are-far-from-over","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/55\/10\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_093d7013-26ec-54f7-981c-038120c0ab33-7785510.jpg","altText":"A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran, October 2022","caption":"A portrait of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally calling for regime change in Iran, October 2022","captionCredit":"AP 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At least one person has died, a woman who fell into the river and was swept away by the current.\u00a0 \n\nTens of thousands of homes were without power and there were several landslides. Fears of more landslides forced the evacuation of more than 3,000 people from the town of Kaohsiung. \n\nIn the Philippines, a week of stormy weather across the main island of Luzon killed at least 39 people, including 26 who died when a passenger ship capsized.\u00a0 At least 13 others were reported killed earlier due to landslides, flooding and toppled trees, and thousands were displaced, disaster response officials said.\u00a0 \n\nMore than 20 others remained missing, including four coast guard personnel whose boat overturned while on a rescue mission in hard-hit Cagayan province, disaster response officials said Friday. \n\nThe storm caused widespread power outages and agricultural damage and prompted the suspension of work, school and sea travel at the height of the onslaught, officials said, adding they were monitoring another approaching storm. \n\nChina has upped its typhoon preparedness through text messaging and notices on social media. 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celebrating the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The festivities were apparently to be highlighted by a military parade Thursday evening in the capital, where Kim could showcase his most powerful, nuclear-capable missiles. \n\nWhile the truce left the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war, the North still sees it as a victory in the \u201cGrand Fatherland Liberation War.\u201d \n\nIn a rare case of diplomatic outreach since the start of the pandemic, North Korea invited delegations from Russia and China to attend the celebrations.\u00a0 \n\nKCNA said Kim also took Shoigu to an arms exhibition that showcased some of North Korea\u2019s newest weapons and briefed him on national plans to expand the country\u2019s military capabilities. State media photos and video from the exhibition showed Kim and Shoigu walking near a row of large missiles mounted on launcher trucks. \n\nSome experts say North Korea sees US confrontations with China and Russia over regional influence and the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to break out of diplomatic isolation and insert itself into a united front against Washington. \n\nBoth Moscow and Beijing have been derailing US efforts to strengthen UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea over its flurry of missile tests since 2022. \n\nThe sight of Kim sharing a stage with Shoigu and Li at a military parade is a major spectacle to show off to North Korean viewers, as well as a statement of defiance toward the US. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was joined by senior Russian and Chinese delegates as he displayed his most powerful nuclear-capable missiles in a military parade marking a major war anniversary with a show of defiance against the United States and deepening ties with Moscow as tensions on the peninsula hit their highest point in years.<\/p>\n<p>Edited footage from North Korean state TV on Friday showed streets and stands packed with tens of thousands of mobilised spectators, who roared in approval as waves of goose-stepping soldiers, tanks and huge, intercontinental ballistic missiles wheeled out on launcher trucks filled up the main road.<\/p>\n<p>People were brought from around the country to the capital, Pyongyang, to fill the crowd, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>The parade began with warm-up events that featured ceremonial flights of newly developed surveillance and attack drones, which were first unveiled by state media this week as they reported on an arms exhibition attended by Kim and Shoigu.<\/p>\n<p>The parade came after Kim met with Shoigu earlier this week to discuss military issues and the regional security environment, illustrating Pyongyang's support for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget 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<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea has been aligning with Russia over the war in Ukraine, insisting that the \u201chegemonic policy\u201d of the US-led West forced Moscow to take military action to protect its security interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has accused North Korea of providing arms to Russia to aid its fighting in Ukraine, although the North has denied the claim.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, Shoigu conveyed to Kim a \u201cwarm and good letter\u201d signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, KCNA said.<\/p>\n<p>Shoigu also held talks with North Korean Defence Minister Kang Sun-nam that were aimed at \u201cstrengthening cooperation between our defence departments,\u201d Russia\u2019s Defence Ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>KCNA reported that Kang, while hosting a reception for Shoigu, expressed support for the \u201cjust struggle of the Russian army\u201d to defend the country\u2019s sovereignty and security, in an apparent reference to Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.\u00a0The agency also said Shoigu praised the North Korean People\u2019s Army as \u201cthe strongest army in the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Russian media reports did not include that comment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//30//14//808x539_cmsv2_d93bc974-cf8f-5537-ae4b-1c82a567f119-7783014.jpg/" alt=\"AP/KCNA via KNS\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/384x256_cmsv2_d93bc974-cf8f-5537-ae4b-1c82a567f119-7783014.jpg 384w, 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<span class=\"widget__captionText\">Kim Jong-un shakes hands with Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu at the headquarters of the ruling North Korean Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s Central Committee.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP/KCNA via KNS<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>North Korea is celebrating the 70th anniversary of an armistice that halted fighting in the 1950-53 Korean War. The festivities were apparently to be highlighted by a military parade Thursday evening in the capital, where Kim could showcase his most powerful, nuclear-capable missiles.<\/p>\n<p>While the truce left the Korean Peninsula in a technical state of war, the North still sees it as a victory in the \u201cGrand Fatherland Liberation War.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a rare case of diplomatic outreach since the start of the pandemic, North Korea invited delegations from Russia and China to attend the celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KCNA said Kim also took Shoigu to an arms exhibition that showcased some of North Korea\u2019s newest weapons and briefed him on national plans to expand the country\u2019s military capabilities. State media photos and video from the exhibition showed Kim and Shoigu walking near a row of large missiles mounted on launcher trucks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5622\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//78//30//14//808x454_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_ce9130ea-096e-57b0-aaae-08b6500bb091-7783014.jpg 640w, 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class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Some experts say North Korea sees US confrontations with China and Russia over regional influence and the war in Ukraine as an opportunity to break out of diplomatic isolation and insert itself into a united front against Washington.<\/p>\n<p>Both Moscow and Beijing have been derailing US efforts to strengthen UN Security Council sanctions on North Korea over its flurry of missile tests since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The sight of Kim sharing a stage with Shoigu and Li at a military parade is a major spectacle to show off to North Korean viewers, as well as a statement of defiance toward the US.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690465091,"publishedAt":1690535534,"updatedAt":1690986394,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/north-korea-shows-off-new-weapons-to-russia-and-china","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/30\/14\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_45c576c7-ddfc-5203-9ee6-6869f14f7ca0-7783014.jpg","altText":"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hosts Russia's Sergei Shoigu and China's Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the country\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress, Li Hongzhong","caption":"North Korean leader Kim Jong-un hosts Russia's Sergei Shoigu and China's Vice Chairman of the standing committee of the country\u2019s National People\u2019s Congress, Li Hongzhong","captionCredit":"AP 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executes first woman in 19 years for drug trafficking","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Singapore executes first woman in 19 years for drug trafficking","titleListing2":"Singapore executes first woman in 19 years for drug trafficking","leadin":"Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offences and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. ","summary":"Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offences and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. ","url":"singapore-executes-first-woman-in-19-years-for-drug-trafficking","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Saridewi Djamani, a 45-year-old citizen, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams of diamorphine, or pure heroin.\u00a0 \n\nIn a statement, the Central Narcotics Bureau\u00a0said the amount was, \u201csufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.\u201d \n\nSingapore\u2019s laws mandate the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis and 15 grams of heroin. \n\nDjamani\u2019s execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, 56-year-old Mohammed Aziz Hussain, for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin. \n\nThe narcotics bureau said both prisoners were accorded due process, including appeals of their conviction and sentence and petition for presidential clemency. \n\nHuman rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offences and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply. \n\nSince resuming hangings in March 2022, Human Rights groups say Singapore has executed 15 people for drug offences - approximately one person a month. \n\nAnti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004. \n\nAccording to the Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group which advocates for the abolishment of capital punishment, a new execution notice has been issued to another prisoner for the 3 August, making it the fifth this year alone. \n\nThe group said the prisoner is an ethnic Malay citizen who worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. He was convicted in 2019 for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin, it said.\u00a0 \n\nAlthough the court found he was merely a courier, the man was still given the death penalty, the mandatory sentence for such an offence. \n\nCritics say Singapore's harsh policy merely punishes low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalised groups with vulnerabilities. They also add that the city-state is out of step with its neighbouring countries, which are moving away from capital punishment.\u00a0 \n\nNeighbouring Thailand has legalised cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Saridewi Djamani, a 45-year-old citizen, was sentenced to death in 2018 for trafficking nearly 31 grams of diamorphine, or pure heroin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the Central Narcotics Bureau\u00a0said the amount was, \u201csufficient to feed the addiction of about 370 abusers for a week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Singapore\u2019s laws mandate the death penalty for anyone convicted of trafficking more than 500 grams of cannabis and 15 grams of heroin.<\/p>\n<p>Djamani\u2019s execution came two days after that of a Singaporean man, 56-year-old Mohammed Aziz Hussain, for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1683113770317660160\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The narcotics bureau said both prisoners were accorded due process, including appeals of their conviction and sentence and petition for presidential clemency.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights groups, international activists and the United Nations have urged Singapore to halt executions for drug offences and say there is increasing evidence it is ineffective as a deterrent. Singapore authorities insist capital punishment is important to halting drug demand and supply.<\/p>\n<p>Since resuming hangings in March 2022, Human Rights groups say Singapore has executed 15 people for drug offences - approximately one person a month.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-death penalty activists said the last woman known to have been hanged in Singapore was 36-year-old hairdresser Yen May Woen, also for drug trafficking, in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Transformative Justice Collective, a Singapore group which advocates for the abolishment of capital punishment, a new execution notice has been issued to another prisoner for the 3 August, making it the fifth this year alone.<\/p>\n<p>The group said the prisoner is an ethnic Malay citizen who worked as a delivery driver before his arrest in 2016. He was convicted in 2019 for trafficking around 50 grams of heroin, it said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although the court found he was merely a courier, the man was still given the death penalty, the mandatory sentence for such an offence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1684588711554719747\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Critics say Singapore's harsh policy merely punishes low-level traffickers and couriers, who are typically recruited from marginalised groups with vulnerabilities. They also add that the city-state is out of step with its neighbouring countries, which are moving away from capital punishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neighbouring Thailand has legalised cannabis while Malaysia ended the mandatory death penalty for serious crimes this year.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690519594,"publishedAt":1690533642,"updatedAt":1690533645,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/singapore-executes-first-woman-in-19-years-for-drug-trafficking","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/43\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_31583a20-ddde-5956-87a4-835c78b0829e-7784376.jpg","altText":"Singapore","caption":"Singapore","captionCredit":"Vincent Thian\/Copyright 2019 The AP. 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","summary":"Beijing has \"probably\" provided Moscow with key technology, including drones and fighter jet parts, it is using to wage war in Ukraine, a US report claimed. ","url":"china-likely-supplying-russias-war-in-ukraine-alleges-us","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A US intelligence report has alleged China is likely supplying Russia's army in Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\nIt claimed Beijing was an \"increasingly important buttress for Russia in its war effort, probably supplying Moscow with key technology and dual-use equipment used in Ukraine.\"\u00a0 \n\nNavigation equipment, jamming technology and fighter jet parts were some of the items being supplied by China, despite international controls.\u00a0 \n\nThe report, published on Thursday, risks escalating tensions with the US, which has previously warned Beijing against aiding Russia's deadly assault on Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\nChina's stance on the Ukraine war is complicated, with the country pushed and pulled in competing directions.\u00a0 \n\nBeijing has not condemned the Russian invasion and echoes many of Moscow's anti-western claims, yet it has also stressed the territorial integrity of Ukraine and put forward a peace plan.\u00a0 \n\nChina has denied it is sending military aid to Russia.\u00a0 \n\nThursday's report also alleged China has helped Russia circumvent Western sanctions, becoming \"an even more critical economic partner\" for Moscow since the start of the war in February.\u00a0 \n\nBeijing has brought more Russian energy, including oil and gas supplies rerouted from Europe, it claimed, noting that Russia exported twice as much liquified petroleum gas to China in 20022 compared to 2021.\u00a0 \n\nRevenue from oil and gas is a vital source of funding for Russia's war in Ukraine.\u00a0 \n\nSome energy sales to Europe have dried up due to the sanctions, though Global Witness claimed on Thursday that French energy giant Total is still purchasing massive amounts of Russian liquified natural gas.\u00a0 \n\nThough China has reportedly long supplied the Russian armed forces with non-lethal aid, such as ammo and uniforms, the US report found that it has provided Moscow with \u20ac10 million in drones and drone parts.\u00a0 \n\nSpeaking to Euronews in June, Dr Jade McGlynn, Research Fellow in War Studies at King's College London, said Moscow has used drones and missiles to \"terror bomb\" Ukrainian civilians in a deliberate strategy to wear down their resolve.\u00a0 \n\nIn April, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Defence Minister Li Shangu met in Moscow to discuss military cooperation, which they described as a \"boundless\" partnership.\u00a0 \n\nDuring that meeting, Putin announced Russia and China's militaries were regularly sharing information, cooperating on military and technical matters, and holding joint exercises in Europe and the Far East. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A US intelligence report has alleged China is likely supplying Russia's army in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It claimed Beijing was an \"increasingly important buttress for Russia in its war effort, probably supplying Moscow with key technology and dual-use equipment used in Ukraine.\"\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Navigation equipment, jamming technology and fighter jet parts were some of the items being supplied by China, despite international controls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report, published on Thursday, risks escalating tensions with the US, which has previously warned Beijing against aiding Russia's deadly assault on Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China's stance on the Ukraine war is complicated, with the country pushed and pulled in competing directions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has not condemned the Russian invasion and echoes many of Moscow's anti-western claims, yet it has also stressed the territorial integrity of Ukraine and put forward a peace plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>China has denied it is sending military aid to Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thursday's report also alleged China has helped Russia circumvent Western sanctions, becoming \"an even more critical economic partner\" for Moscow since the start of the war in February.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1631340512119595029\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Beijing has brought more Russian energy, including oil and gas supplies rerouted from Europe, it claimed, noting that Russia exported twice as much liquified petroleum gas to China in 20022 compared to 2021.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Revenue from oil and gas is a vital source of funding for Russia's war in Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some energy sales to Europe have dried up due to the sanctions, though Global Witness claimed on Thursday that French energy giant Total is still purchasing <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//27//french-energy-giant-total-funding-russias-war-machine-claims-ngo/">massive amounts<\/strong><\/a> of Russian liquified natural gas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though China has reportedly long supplied the Russian armed forces with non-lethal aid, such as ammo and uniforms, the US report found that it has provided Moscow with \u20ac10 million in drones and drone parts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Euronews in June, Dr Jade McGlynn, Research Fellow in War Studies at King's College London, said Moscow has used drones and missiles to \"terror bomb\" Ukrainian civilians in a deliberate strategy to wear down their resolve.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In April, Russian President Vladimir Putin and China's Defence Minister Li Shangu met in Moscow to discuss military cooperation, which they described as a \"boundless\" partnership.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During that meeting, Putin announced Russia and China's militaries were regularly sharing information, cooperating on military and technical matters, and holding joint exercises in Europe and the Far East.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690526822,"publishedAt":1690530281,"updatedAt":1690545032,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/28\/china-likely-supplying-russias-war-in-ukraine-alleges-us","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/78\/46\/76\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_d76b8a33-723e-546b-bcaa-4df661eda3c1-7784676.jpg","altText":"Flags of Chin and Russia","caption":"Flags of Chin and Russia","captionCredit":"Canva Stock image","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1920,"height":1080}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"askew","title":"Joshua 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Arabia: The rising star of international football","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Saudi Arabia: The rising star of international football","titleListing2":"Saudi Arabia: The rising star of international football","leadin":"In partnership with Media City Qatar. \n\nSaudi Arabia has got everyone talking as they continue to attract some of football's star players. ","summary":"In partnership with Media City Qatar. \n\nSaudi Arabia has got everyone talking as they continue to attract some of football's star players. ","url":"saudi-arabia-the-rising-star-of-international-football","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The world witnessed one of the biggest shake ups in football history during the summer transfer window of 2023.\u00a0 \n\nIt was business as usual across Europe, with leagues signing players left and right. But Saudi Arabia got everyone talking as they continue to attract some of football's star players. \n\n\"Football is already something of a way of life in Saudi Arabia. They were already seeing 70-80,000 spectators in the stadium every week before all this began with bringing in superstars. They want to make the next step in development.\" explained Mohammed Hamdi, former director of Al Jazira FC. \n\nCristiano Ronaldo paved the way to the Middle East with a move to Al-Nassr shortly after the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar. After a well-documented fall-out at Manchester United, the star was declared a free agent during the tournament. And he continued to play for his country and progressed through the knockout rounds. \n\nOn December 30th 2022, he signed a pre-contract that became effective on January 1st. According to reports, Ronaldo's salary is the highest in football history. His new club Al-Nassr instantly felt the benefits of landing such a massive star. Overnight, their profile as a football club skyrocketed. They gained over 15 million Instagram followers in less than a week as Ronaldo fans from all around the globe were desperate to learn about his new club. \n\nOn the pitch, his transfer garnered mixed results. Scoring 14 goals in 16 appearances is a fantastic result, but his team could only finish runners-up in the Pro League behind Riyadh rivals Al-Hilal. \n\nHis arrival in the Middle East has opened the floodgates for others to follow. Several top-level players have left Europe and headed for Saudi, including the current Ballon 'or Winner and Ronaldo's former Real Madrid teammate, Karim Benzema, who has joined Jeddah-based Al-Ittihad. \n\nUri Levy, the founder of Middle-East football news website Babagol, believes his arrival has enormous cultural significance alongside his sporting acclaim. \n\n\"I think Karim Benzema is a player who is good enough to start for any team in Europe this season, but he chooses Saudi. I also think that Benzema being a practising Muslim could mean he becomes a more familiar face for the project. Obviously, you need to score goals and provide assists, but he will get unconditional love.\" \n\nAlso, joining Benzema and Ronaldo in the region has been a host of English Premier League talent. Ex-Chelsea players Edouard Mendy and N'Golo Kante have joined Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad, respectively. While, Wolverhampton Wanderers starman, Ruben Neves, joined the champions Al-Hilal, hoping his new team can retain the title next season. \n\nPlayers aren't the only ones making the move to Saudi Arabia. Steven Gerrard signed up as the new manager for Al-Ettifaq, in Dammam. His signing is the first big-name managerial appointment in the region. The former Liverpool midfielder has had momentous experience in the English Premier League. He also won the Scottish Premier League with Celtic Rangers just two years ago. Gerrard is considered one of the most exciting younger managers Ettifaq could have endeavoured to hire. \n\n\"It's a win-win situation for both sides. Gerrard needs a fresh start and a place where he can, you know, put his fingerprints on his football. I don't want to say he will have endless resources to do so, but he will have very generous resources to pick his players and his methods.\" Uri Levy continued. \n\nEttifaq is one of the smaller clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Gerrard may have difficulty attracting big-name players. With less money to spend than some of the bigger clubs, their goal this season will be to finish in the top six next season. That would be considered a success for Steve Gerrard. \n\nSaudi Arabia is a leading hotspot for top footballers. Making it an exciting time to follow football in the Middle East. Rumour has it that many more high-profile players could make a move next time the transfer window opens in January. \n\n","htmlText":"<h2>The world witnessed one of the biggest shake ups in football history during the summer transfer window of 2023.<\/h2><p>It was business as usual across Europe, with leagues signing players left and right. But Saudi Arabia got everyone talking as they continue to attract some of football's star players.<\/p>\n<p>\"Football is already something of a way of life in Saudi Arabia. They were already seeing 70-80,000 spectators in the stadium every week before all this began with bringing in superstars. They want to make the next step in development.\" explained Mohammed Hamdi, former director of Al Jazira FC.<\/p>\n<p>Cristiano Ronaldo paved the way to the Middle East with a move to Al-Nassr shortly after the FIFA 2022 World Cup in Qatar. After a well-documented fall-out at Manchester United, the star was declared a free agent during the tournament. And he continued to play for his country and progressed through the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n<p>On December 30th 2022, he signed a pre-contract that became effective on January 1st. According to reports, Ronaldo's salary is the highest in football history. His new club Al-Nassr instantly felt the benefits of landing such a massive star. Overnight, their profile as a football club skyrocketed. They gained over 15 million Instagram followers in less than a week as Ronaldo fans from all around the globe were desperate to learn about his new club.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//74//68//28//808x539_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg/" alt=\"Samah Zidan/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/384x256_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/640x427_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/750x500_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/828x552_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/1080x720_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/1200x800_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/1920x1281_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ronaldo has been a star in Saudi<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Samah Zidan/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On the pitch, his transfer garnered mixed results. Scoring 14 goals in 16 appearances is a fantastic result, but his team could only finish runners-up in the Pro League behind Riyadh rivals Al-Hilal.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival in the Middle East has opened the floodgates for others to follow. Several top-level players have left Europe and headed for Saudi, including the current Ballon 'or Winner and Ronaldo's former Real Madrid teammate, Karim Benzema, who has joined Jeddah-based Al-Ittihad.<\/p>\n<p>Uri Levy, the founder of Middle-East football news website Babagol, believes his arrival has enormous cultural significance alongside his sporting acclaim.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think Karim Benzema is a player who is good enough to start for any team in Europe this season, but he chooses Saudi. I also think that Benzema being a practising Muslim could mean he becomes a more familiar face for the project. Obviously, you need to score goals and provide assists, but he will get unconditional love.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//81//41//22//808x539_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg/" alt=\"STR/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/384x256_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/640x427_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/750x500_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/828x552_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/1080x720_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/1200x800_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/81\/41\/22\/1920x1281_cmsv2_f40825ed-d54c-5094-bd5d-9c7c58b2cf9e-7814122.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Practicing muslim Benzema will be a cultural figure<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">STR/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Also, joining Benzema and Ronaldo in the region has been a host of English Premier League talent. Ex-Chelsea players Edouard Mendy and N'Golo Kante have joined Al-Ahli and Al-Ittihad, respectively. While, Wolverhampton Wanderers starman, Ruben Neves, joined the champions Al-Hilal, hoping his new team can retain the title next season.<\/p>\n<p>Players aren't the only ones making the move to Saudi Arabia. Steven Gerrard signed up as the new manager for Al-Ettifaq, in Dammam. His signing is the first big-name managerial appointment in the region. The former Liverpool midfielder has had momentous experience in the English Premier League. He also won the Scottish Premier League with Celtic Rangers just two years ago. Gerrard is considered one of the most exciting younger managers Ettifaq could have endeavoured to hire.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's a win-win situation for both sides. Gerrard needs a fresh start and a place where he can, you know, put his fingerprints on his football. I don't want to say he will have endless resources to do so, but he will have very generous resources to pick his players and his methods.\" Uri Levy continued.<\/p>\n<p>Ettifaq is one of the smaller clubs in the Saudi Pro League. Gerrard may have difficulty attracting big-name players. With less money to spend than some of the bigger clubs, their goal this season will be to finish in the top six next season. That would be considered a success for Steve Gerrard.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia is a leading hotspot for top footballers. Making it an exciting time to follow football in the Middle East. Rumour has it that many more high-profile players could make a move next time the transfer window opens in January.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1689167946,"publishedAt":1690479016,"updatedAt":1692360289,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/27\/saudi-arabia-the-rising-star-of-international-football","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_29a3d761-bd51-5ae2-8b7c-f62bfbcc6bc4-7746828.jpg","altText":null,"caption":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1280,"height":720},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/74\/68\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e4e38928-bc90-5319-bf0c-050a9c3b9569-7746828.jpg","altText":"Ronaldo has been a star in Saudi","caption":"Ronaldo has been a star in Saudi","captionCredit":"Samah Zidan\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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Before its reconstruction, it was an earthen canal, and seepage was a major problem. \n\n\"You can see yourself: here are dunes and sands. Around 50% of the water went into the soil,\" said Project Manager Azat Serjanov. \"Therefore, we decided to concrete the canal.\" \n\nWater enters through the Right Bank Canal from the Tuyamuyun\u00a0reservoir, which is located on the territory of neighbouring Turkmenistan. \n\nThe Bustan Canal is connected by a network of secondary canals. Their total\u00a0length is more than 800 kilometres, and they've all been reconstructed as part of a project which covers three regions and 100,000 hectares of agricultural land. \n\n\"Here we felt an acute shortage of water resources.\u00a035,000 hectares of irrigated land have been taken out of circulation,\" revealed Shavkat Khamrayev, the\u00a0Republic of Uzbekistan's Minister of Water Resources. \n\n\"We concrete canals, reduce seepage losses, increase the efficiency of irrigation systems, and save about 300 million cubic meters of water by reducing losses and putting these agricultural lands back into circulation.\" \n\nTo reduce water losses, the bottom, as well as the banks of the 70 kilometres-long Bustan Canal, were concreted.\u00a0Concrete was placed on geomembrane, a special material that helps minimise water seepage. \n\n\u201cThe geomembrane is made of high-density polyethylene. It's 1mm thick and 100% waterproof,\" explained Project Engineer,\u00a0Bahodir Kulumbetov. \n\n\"It is used in hydraulic works as a waterproofing layer under canals, and this helps us save water,\u201d he added. \n\nPreviously, electric pumps were used to bring water up to the fields.\u00a0Now the bottom of the Bustan Canal is raised, so it is higher than the level of the secondary canals and irrigated fields - thus allowing\u00a0gravity to distribute water. Simply put, it just flows by itself. \n\nThis allows the state and the farmers to save around $3 million on electricity annually. \n\n\"We are removing more than 400 farm pumps, as well as 20 small and three large pumping stations, which are operated at the expense of the state budget,\"\u00a0Shavkat Khamrayev told Focus. \"Thus, we reduce the emission of CO2 greenhouse gases - we reduce 36,000 cubic meters of gas.\" \n\nWater gates: Helping farmers cut costs and boost production \n\nWe visited a farm that grows fruits in the Ellikalla region, on one of the secondary canals, to see how gravity is used in action. \n\nFarmer Muzafar Saparboyev just has to open this gate when he needs to water his garden. \n\n1600 such water gates have been installed across the secondary canals in South Karakalpakstan. \n\nMuzafar says that his farm has saved \u20ac6000 on electricity in one year and explained the benefits of the project. \n\n\u201cThe ground on our farm was levelled with a laser as a part of the project, and it allowed us to boost productivity, so our income is increasing,\" he said \"The speed of the water flow has increased significantly compared to last year.\u201d \n\nLand levelling saves water that would otherwise be wasted in uneven fields, and increases yields. \n\nIt is one of the elements of the vast South Karakalpakstan Water Resources Management Improvement project, which also aims to increase the productivity and sustainability of agriculture in this water-scarce region close to the Aral Sea. \n\nThe total cost of the project implemented by the government with the support of the World Bank is $374 million. \n\n\u201cThe project provided job security to over 38,000 people who are directly working in irrigated agriculture. At the same time, you also have a lot of indirect jobs. Employment, climate adaptation, efficient use of water - it is extremely important and it is within the government and the World Bank strategy,\" said\u00a0Azad Abdulhamid, the Lead Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Office for Uzbekistan. \n\nThe strategy of the state is to apply the modernised management of water resources to the whole country, making farming - one of Uzbekistan\u2019s main employment sectors - greener and more resilient to the problems caused by climate change. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Uzbekistan is modernising its regional irrigation system to improve water supply to the agricultural sector.<\/p>\n<p>In South Karakalpakstan, gravity is now being used instead of electric pumps to irrigate the fields.\u00a0A recent major infrastructure project is also drastically reducing the loss of a major resource - water.<\/p>\n<p>The Bustan Canal is a major water artery. Before its reconstruction, it was an earthen canal, and seepage was a major problem.<\/p>\n<p>\"You can see yourself: here are dunes and sands. Around 50% of the water went into the soil,\" said Project Manager Azat Serjanov. \"Therefore, we decided to concrete the canal.\"<\/p>\n<p>Water enters through the Right Bank Canal from the Tuyamuyun\u00a0reservoir, which is located on the territory of neighbouring Turkmenistan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//75//83//14//808x454_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_002c8707-9496-5c91-8093-7324c5e030a9-7758314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Azat Serjanov, project manager<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Bustan Canal is connected by a network of secondary canals. Their total\u00a0length is more than 800 kilometres, and they've all been reconstructed as part of a project which covers three regions and 100,000 hectares of agricultural land.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7551252,7210310\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2022//12//02//betting-on-renewables-can-kazakhstan-become-carbon-neutral-by-2060/">Betting on renewables: can Kazakhstan become carbon neutral by 2060?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//next//2023//05//09//uzbekistan-attracts-foreign-investors-thanks-to-extensive-government-reforms/">Uzbekistan attracts foreign investors thanks to extensive government reforms <\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"Here we felt an acute shortage of water resources.\u00a035,000 hectares of irrigated land have been taken out of circulation,\" revealed Shavkat Khamrayev, the\u00a0Republic of Uzbekistan's Minister of Water Resources.<\/p>\n<p>\"We concrete canals, reduce seepage losses, increase the efficiency of irrigation systems, and save about 300 million cubic meters of water by reducing losses and putting these agricultural lands back into circulation.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//75//83//14//808x454_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_5267d23f-8fb3-588d-8053-d4a60615b580-7758314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Shavkat Khamrayev, minister of Water Resources of the Republic of Uzbekistan<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To reduce water losses, the bottom, as well as the banks of the 70 kilometres-long Bustan Canal, were concreted.\u00a0Concrete was placed on geomembrane, a special material that helps minimise water seepage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe geomembrane is made of high-density polyethylene. It's 1mm thick and 100% waterproof,\" explained Project Engineer,\u00a0Bahodir Kulumbetov.<\/p>\n<p>\"It is used in hydraulic works as a waterproofing layer under canals, and this helps us save water,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//75//83//14//808x454_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_920c6165-a450-58e3-999a-de21e7260207-7758314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Concrete is placed on geomembrane, a special material that helps minimise water seepage<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Previously, electric pumps were used to bring water up to the fields.\u00a0Now the bottom of the Bustan Canal is raised, so it is higher than the level of the secondary canals and irrigated fields - thus allowing\u00a0gravity to distribute water. Simply put, it just flows by itself.<\/p>\n<p>This allows the state and the farmers to save around $3 million on electricity annually.<\/p>\n<p>\"We are removing more than 400 farm pumps, as well as 20 small and three large pumping stations, which are operated at the expense of the state budget,\"\u00a0Shavkat Khamrayev told Focus. \"Thus, we reduce the emission of CO2 greenhouse gases - we reduce 36,000 cubic meters of gas.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Water gates: Helping farmers cut costs and boost production<\/strong><\/h2><p>We visited a farm that grows fruits in the Ellikalla region, on one of the secondary canals, to see how gravity is used in action.<\/p>\n<p>Farmer Muzafar Saparboyev just has to open this gate when he needs to water his garden.<\/p>\n<p>1600 such water gates have been installed across the secondary canals in South Karakalpakstan.<\/p>\n<p>Muzafar says that his farm has saved \u20ac6000 on electricity in one year and explained the benefits of the project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//75//83//14//808x454_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/75\/83\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_52ab2173-301b-5aac-af2e-61c28ddb58a2-7758314.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Muzaffar Saparbayev, Farmer<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ground on our farm was levelled with a laser as a part of the project, and it allowed us to boost productivity, so our income is increasing,\" he said \"The speed of the water flow has increased significantly compared to last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Land levelling saves water that would otherwise be wasted in uneven fields, and increases yields.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the elements of the vast South Karakalpakstan Water Resources Management Improvement project, which also aims to increase the productivity and sustainability of agriculture in this water-scarce region close to the Aral Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The total cost of the project implemented by the government with the support of the World Bank is $374 million.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" 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EU has to be aware the threat to Cambodia's democracy has reached its pinnacle","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The EU has to be aware of the ultimate threat to Cambodia's democracy","titleListing2":"VIEW | If the West were to recognise recent election results enabling a dynastic one-party state, it would mean encouraging dictators worldwide and failing the Cambodian people and the international legal order, Sam Rainsy writes.","leadin":"If the West were to recognise recent election results enabling a dynastic one-party state, it would mean encouraging dictators worldwide and failing the Cambodian people and the international legal order, Sam Rainsy writes.","summary":"If the West were to recognise recent election results enabling a dynastic one-party state, it would mean encouraging dictators worldwide and failing the Cambodian people and the international legal order, Sam Rainsy writes.","url":"the-eu-has-to-be-aware-the-threat-to-cambodias-democracy-has-reached-its-pinnacle","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"On Sunday, the world witnessed yet another wholly fraudulent election in Cambodia. \n\nThis Soviet-style pseudo-act of democracy, in a country that has been ruled by one man since 1985, was about paving the way for a dynastic transition between Hun Sen and his son, Hun Manet. \n\nThe current leader of the country\u2019s army, and a graduate of West Point, NYU, and Bristol University, many hope that Cambodian democracy may be reborn with Manet coming to power \u2013 but, make no mistake, just like with Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un, this will not be the case. \n\nHun Manet will continue the rule of this father, who, for almost four decades, has built a highly centralised power structure, which prioritises self-aggrandisement, and that has little respect for democracy or human rights. \n\nUnder Hun Sen\u2019s watch, extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, summary trials, censorship, bans on assembly and association, and a national network of spies and informers have become commonplace. \n\nThis is the backdrop to Cambodia\u2019s fledgling democracy and an environment that the international community is seemingly incapable of responding resolutely. \n\nThe formal transition between Hun Sen and Hun Manet was announced on Wednesday and is set to happen by the end of the summer, in time for the son to address the UN General Assembly in September. \n\nFor the international community to recognise this undemocratic handover of power on the back of a sham election in which the main opposition party was formally banned from fielding candidates means to condone the regime\u2019s systemic human rights abuses and totalitarianism. \n\nCambodia is no longer a pluralist nation as defined in its constitution \u2014 it is merely a one-party state. \n\nHun Sen's threats are not just threats \n\nOver a quarter of candidates in this year\u2019s elections are related to members of Hun Sen\u2019s government. Political opposition has been stifled in the country. \n\nI, myself, have spent the past seven years in exile. In my absence, Hun Sen\u2019s administration sentenced me to life in prison, and on 31 May, publicly threatened to kill me with missiles if I return to my country. \n\nI am only one of hundreds that he has threatened in this way \u2014 and these are not mere threats. \n\nCandlelight, the only credible opposition party, was banned from the elections in May on a bureaucratic technicality. \n\nThis year, its members have reported being attacked in the street by masked men. \n\nPolitical dissidents of all kinds have been targeted, including the president of the labour union Chea Vichea, who was killed in 2004; environmentalists like the members of the NGO Mother Nature, arrested and imprisoned in 2020; as well as independent political analysts like Kem Ley, who was shot dead in 2016. \n\nKem Sohka, leader of our party, the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on spurious charges. \n\nThere has also been a systematic assault on the country\u2019s free press, with popular newspapers, including Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post, either closed or subject to hostile takeovers by those allied with Hun Sen. \n\nIn the case of the latter, the outlet was sold out of state to a Malaysian investor linked with the prime minister and, in turn, has subsequently shifted its editorial line to support government activity. \n\nThe case of Hun Sen vs Facebook \n\nHun Sen\u2019s campaign to obstruct the freedom of expression for Cambodians extends to social media. \n\nLast month, he deleted his Facebook account following a ruling by Meta\u2019s Oversight Board that he should face a six-month ban from the platform over a video post in which he yet again threatened to have opponents beaten. \n\nThe following day, the Cambodian Ministry of Post and Telecommunications announced they would deport a Meta representative immediately, and Cambodia would cease all cooperation with the company. \n\nIn a subsequent statement, all members of its Oversight Board were banned from entering the country. \n\nMeanwhile, in the past few weeks, Hun Sen threatened to block Facebook entirely for the election period, thus depriving citizens of access to a forum that is free of government censorship. \n\nThis, ultimately, did not happen, but Hun Sen was explicit in his desired aims: to prevent contact between exiled opposition leaders and citizens of the country. \n\nTo achieve this, China-style National Internet Gateway was introduced, offering blanket regime control over any online activity. \n\nVoided ballots led to immense fines and arbitrary arrests \n\nAhead of fraudulent elections, we led a campaign for Cambodians to void their ballot papers, en masse, in protest at Hun Sen\u2019s regime and the absence of an alternative political opposition. \n\nAnd this was something that Hun Sen feared. To mitigate against the impacts of such a move, he made spoiling a ballot a fineable offence of 20 million riels (\u20ac4,500) and charged me and others who advocated this hitherto lawful behaviour with attempting to undermine the election process. \n\nHe also ensured that polling booths were staffed only by members of his ruling Cambodian People\u2019s Party (CPP), thus adding a further layer of intimidation. \n\nAnd this was all after a widespread series of arbitrary arrests, focusing on local Candlelight leaders, including youth and women\u2019s wings, and the forced defection of political prisoners \u2014 with some being offered government roles in exchange for their release, or even access to medical care previously denied to them. \n\nThe EU and the West should not fail the Cambodian people \n\nThe international community must back the democrats of Cambodia. They signed the Paris Accords as an obligation, when the first free and fair elections were held in June 1993, to guarantee that the Cambodian vote was free and peaceful. \n\nThey\u2019re reneging on that promise. Hun Sen should be an international pariah, yet he chaired ASEAN for the third time in 2022. \n\nIn this capacity, under false hope for the restoration of democracy, he was invited to co-chair a summit with the EU in the US, further lending his regime the legitimacy of the West. \n\nThe UK just signed a billion-dollar trade agreement with Cambodia, while the EU\u2019s partial withdrawal of tariff-free benefits for Cambodian goods entering the EU-27, on human rights and labour rights grounds, affects just 20% of exports. \n\nGiven the blatant breach of international obligations, the restriction of these special privileges ought to be significantly increased, and new sanctions from other countries should include asset freezes imposed on high-ranking officials involved in human rights violations. \n\nWe fear that, despite talk of monitoring Hun Sen\u2019s disregard for human rights, many democratic leaders, particularly in the West, will ultimately recognise these fraudulent elections and give Sen the international legitimacy he needs to complete the dynastic transition to his son. \n\nDoing so would come at a high cost, as it will mean encouraging dictators worldwide and failing the Cambodian people and the international legal order. This cannot happen. \n\nSam Rainsy is the interim leader of the Cambodian National Party, the main opposition party that was banned from standing in the 2018 Cambodian General Election. He lives in exile in Paris. \n\nAt Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>On Sunday, the world witnessed yet another wholly fraudulent election in Cambodia.<\/p>\n<p>This Soviet-style pseudo-act of democracy, in a country that has been ruled by one man since 1985, was about paving the way for a dynastic transition between Hun Sen and his son, Hun Manet.<\/p>\n<p>The current leader of the country\u2019s army, and a graduate of West Point, NYU, and Bristol University, many hope that Cambodian democracy may be reborn with Manet coming to power \u2013 but, make no mistake, just like with Syria\u2019s Bashar al-Assad and North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong Un, this will not be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Hun Manet will continue the rule of this father, who, for almost four decades, has built a highly centralised power structure, which prioritises self-aggrandisement, and that has little respect for democracy or human rights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Cambodia is no longer a pluralist nation as defined in its constitution \u2014 it is merely a one-party state.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//70//80//808x539_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Heng Sinith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4b35bb52-5114-5fbc-8484-cb5657164692-7777080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Hun Manet receives a flag of Cambodian People's Party from his father and Prime Minister Hun Sen during their party election campaign ceremony in Phnom Penh, July 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Heng Sinith<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Under Hun Sen\u2019s watch, extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary arrests, summary trials, censorship, bans on assembly and association, and a national network of spies and informers have become commonplace.<\/p>\n<p>This is the backdrop to Cambodia\u2019s fledgling democracy and an environment that the international community is seemingly incapable of responding resolutely.<\/p>\n<p>The formal transition between Hun Sen and Hun Manet was announced on Wednesday and is set to happen by the end of the summer, in time for the son to address the UN General Assembly in September.<\/p>\n<p>For the international community to recognise this undemocratic handover of power on the back of a sham election in which the main opposition party was formally banned from fielding candidates means to condone the regime\u2019s systemic human rights abuses and totalitarianism.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia is no longer a pluralist nation as defined in its constitution \u2014 it is merely a one-party state.<\/p>\n<h2>Hun Sen's threats are not just threats<\/h2><p>Over a quarter of candidates in this year\u2019s elections are related to members of Hun Sen\u2019s government. Political opposition has been stifled in the country.<\/p>\n<p>I, myself, have spent the past seven years in exile. In my absence, Hun Sen\u2019s administration sentenced me to life in prison, and on 31 May, publicly threatened to kill me with missiles if I return to my country.<\/p>\n<p>I am only one of hundreds that he has threatened in this way \u2014 and these are not mere threats.<\/p>\n<p>Candlelight, the only credible opposition party, was banned from the elections in May on a bureaucratic technicality.<\/p>\n<p>This year, its members have reported being attacked in the street by masked men.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">There has also been a systematic assault on the country\u2019s free press, with popular newspapers, including Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post, either closed or subject to hostile takeovers by those allied with Hun Sen.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//70//80//808x539_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Heng Sinith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_87ab7c43-3dd7-5845-9ec3-4b6ab61a157b-7777080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Cambodian-American lawyer Theary Seng, dressed in a pageant costume that reads "Lady Justice", shouts slogans outside Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, May 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Heng Sinith<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Political dissidents of all kinds have been targeted, including the president of the labour union Chea Vichea, who was killed in 2004; environmentalists like the members of the NGO Mother Nature, arrested and imprisoned in 2020; as well as independent political analysts like Kem Ley, who was shot dead in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Kem Sohka, leader of our party, the banned Cambodia National Rescue Party, was sentenced to 27 years in prison on spurious charges.<\/p>\n<p>There has also been a systematic assault on the country\u2019s free press, with popular newspapers, including Cambodia Daily and The Phnom Penh Post, either closed or subject to hostile takeovers by those allied with Hun Sen.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the latter, the outlet was sold out of state to a Malaysian investor linked with the prime minister and, in turn, has subsequently shifted its editorial line to support government activity.<\/p>\n<h2>The case of Hun Sen vs Facebook<\/h2><p>Hun Sen\u2019s campaign to obstruct the freedom of expression for Cambodians extends to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, he deleted his Facebook account following a ruling by Meta\u2019s Oversight Board that he should face a six-month ban from the platform over a video post in which he yet again threatened to have opponents beaten.<\/p>\n<p>The following day, the Cambodian Ministry of Post and Telecommunications announced they would deport a Meta representative immediately, and Cambodia would cease all cooperation with the company.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">In the past few weeks, Hun Sen threatened to block Facebook entirely for the election period, thus depriving citizens of access to a forum that is free of government censorship.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//70//80//808x539_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Heng Sinith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_4fc78b38-490d-5f08-a032-99d4c25199a3-7777080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A man views Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's Facebook page on his mobile phone on the sidewalk in downtown Phnom Penh, April 2016<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Heng Sinith<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In a subsequent statement, all members of its Oversight Board were banned from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the past few weeks, Hun Sen threatened to block Facebook entirely for the election period, thus depriving citizens of access to a forum that is free of government censorship.<\/p>\n<p>This, ultimately, did not happen, but Hun Sen was explicit in his desired aims: to prevent contact between exiled opposition leaders and citizens of the country.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, China-style National Internet Gateway was introduced, offering blanket regime control over any online activity.<\/p>\n<h2>Voided ballots led to immense fines and arbitrary arrests<\/h2><p>Ahead of fraudulent elections, we led a campaign for Cambodians to void their ballot papers, en masse, in protest at Hun Sen\u2019s regime and the absence of an alternative political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>And this was something that Hun Sen feared. To mitigate against the impacts of such a move, he made spoiling a ballot a fineable offence of 20 million riels (\u20ac4,500) and charged me and others who advocated this hitherto lawful behaviour with attempting to undermine the election process.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//70//80//808x539_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Heng Sinith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_f974c6f2-7035-5413-8720-a0c73e7a32dd-7777080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">People line up for voting at a polling station at Krang Thnung village outside Phnom Penh, July 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Heng Sinith<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He also ensured that polling booths were staffed only by members of his ruling Cambodian People\u2019s Party (CPP), thus adding a further layer of intimidation.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"3005275\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2017//11//14//cambodia-s-hun-sen-should-be-granted-dignified-exit-former-opposition-leader/">Cambodia/u2019s Hun Sen should be granted 'dignified exit': former opposition leader<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>And this was all after a widespread series of arbitrary arrests, focusing on local Candlelight leaders, including youth and women\u2019s wings, and the forced defection of political prisoners \u2014 with some being offered government roles in exchange for their release, or even access to medical care previously denied to them.<\/p>\n<h2>The EU and the West should not fail the Cambodian people<\/h2><p>The international community must back the democrats of Cambodia. They signed the Paris Accords as an obligation, when the first free and fair elections were held in June 1993, to guarantee that the Cambodian vote was free and peaceful.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re reneging on that promise. Hun Sen should be an international pariah, yet he chaired ASEAN for the third time in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In this capacity, under false hope for the restoration of democracy, he was invited to co-chair a summit with the EU in the US, further lending his regime the legitimacy of the West.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">We fear that, despite talk of monitoring Hun Sen\u2019s disregard for human rights, many democratic leaders ... will ultimately recognise these fraudulent elections and give Sen the international legitimacy he needs to complete the dynastic transition to his son.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//70//80//808x542_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg/" alt=\"AP Photo/Heng Sinith\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/384x257_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/640x429_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/750x502_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/828x555_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1080x724_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1200x804_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/1920x1286_cmsv2_1a5444df-c461-5c2f-aa90-e8025789b29f-7777080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Russian observation members stand at a polling station in Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, July 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo/Heng Sinith<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The UK just signed a billion-dollar trade agreement with Cambodia, while the EU\u2019s partial withdrawal of tariff-free benefits for Cambodian goods entering the EU-27, on human rights and labour rights grounds, affects just 20% of exports.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"3241876,3241632\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2018//07//28//europe-s-populists-head-to-cambodia-to-observe-controversial-vote/">Europe/u2019s populists head to Cambodia to observe controversial vote<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2018//07//29//pm-hun-sen-set-to-extend-rule-in-cambodia-after-disputed-vote/">Cambodia's ruling party claims victory after disputed election<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Given the blatant breach of international obligations, the restriction of these special privileges ought to be significantly increased, and new sanctions from other countries should include asset freezes imposed on high-ranking officials involved in human rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>We fear that, despite talk of monitoring Hun Sen\u2019s disregard for human rights, many democratic leaders, particularly in the West, will ultimately recognise these fraudulent elections and give Sen the international legitimacy he needs to complete the dynastic transition to his son.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so would come at a high cost, as it will mean encouraging dictators worldwide and failing the Cambodian people and the international legal order. This cannot happen.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sam Rainsy is the interim leader of the Cambodian National Party, the main opposition party that was banned from standing in the 2018 Cambodian General Election. He lives in exile in Paris.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>At Euronews, we believe all views matter. Contact us at view@euronews.com to send pitches or submissions and be part of the conversation.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690286663,"publishedAt":1690387513,"updatedAt":1690387530,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/26\/the-eu-has-to-be-aware-the-threat-to-cambodias-democracy-has-reached-its-pinnacle","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/70\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_95cefcc9-1910-5373-8635-69ff3934a4ce-7777080.jpg","altText":"Hun Manet, the son of Cambodian leader Hun Sen, attends a ceremony in in Phnom Penh, April 2023","caption":"Hun Manet, the son of Cambodian leader Hun Sen, attends a ceremony in in Phnom Penh, April 2023","captionCredit":"AP 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Cuisine: traditional recipes enriched with imported ingredients ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Qatar 365: Discover the region's mouthwatering cuisine ","titleListing2":"Qatari Cuisine: traditional recipes enriched with imported ingredients ","leadin":"How did Qatari dishes become local, and how have they evolved through trade with other nations? Euronews went to the Zekreet Peninsula in western Qatar to find out","summary":"How did Qatari dishes become local, and how have they evolved through trade with other nations? Euronews went to the Zekreet Peninsula in western Qatar to find out","url":"qatari-cuisine-traditional-recipes-enriched-with-imported-ingredients","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"This week, Euronews dives into traditional Qatari foods and discovers how vendors, chefs and food lovers alike use spices and ingredients from all over the world to make its cuisine unique. \n\nIn the heat of the desert, a sip of Arabic coffee is always welcome and a quintessential Qatari gesture. On the\u00a0Zakreet Peninsula in western Qatar, locals have fused coffee from nearby Yemen with a rich Indian spice to make a staple of their own. \n\nUnlike traditional coffee, this lightly roasted blend is yellow in colour and has a creamy and delicate texture with a hint of spice. \n\n\u202f\"The main flavours come from the spices that we add. You'll notice a hint of coffee. Then there's the cardamom, then there are the spices that give it the richness and then the caffeine and the flavour as well\" said\u00a0Qatari Entrepreneur,\u00a0Khaled Alrayes. \n\nCoffee culture aside, the region boasts an international food scene influenced by its 2.3 million expats. But Qatar also has a wide range of traditional recipes which take their influences from neighbouring countries.\u00a0 \n\nOutside of the capital Doha, most of the terrain is flat, arid, low-lying desert. \"It was not self-sufficient. Qatar was not able to rely on itself and had to import, you know, different products from abroad. So, we have common spices like turmeric, for example, and we have cumin. They have been brought in from India\" said Randa Sheik, a food writer and blogger. \n\n\"You also have rosewater. Rosewater is from Iran. So, we have imported these ingredients from many different countries and also the raw materials as well, rice, bread, chicken, meat, and then we combined them in their own way to make fantastic and delicious dishes\" she added. \n\nWhat are some of Qatar's most popular traditional dishes? \n\nMachboos, saloona, madrouba and harees are four traditional Qatari dishes that are enjoyed across the Arab world but each country offers its own unique twist. \n\nMachboos is Qatar's, Bahrain's, Kuwait's and the UAE's national dish. Chicken, fish or lamb is first marinated in a rich blend of spices and then mixed with garlic, ginger and peppers before it is grilled and served on a bed of basmati rice. \n\nQatar's ancient spice trade has been the key to elevating its traditional foods. \n\nSpices like ginger, star anise and black pepper were brought over from the Indian subcontinent while garlic and cumin crossed the desert from east of the Meditteranean.\u00a0 \n\nDried fruits such as the looming, otherwise known as the black lime, travelled up from Oman. \n\n\u00a0And while these items have become staple ingredients in Qatari cuisine, cross-cultural influences continue to elevate Qatar's food scene. \n\nEvery year hundreds of vendors gather from all over the world at the Katara Summer Trade Fair to display and sell products from their home countries, including vibrant spices, international foods, oud - a woody, fragrant oil - jewellery and handicrafts. \n\nThe trade fair lasts for two weeks and gives both locals and residents of Qatar a chance to try many international delicacies. Yunis Ghallab is a master spice mixer from Yemen.\u00a0 \n\nHe\u2019s been coming to the Katara Summer Trade Fair for more than a decade and every year he\u2019s proud to bring the best products from Yemen. \n\n'Liquid gold\u2019 honey \n\n\"We always bring Yemeni honey, the best of its kind, Sidr honey and Brown honey. We have special spices, which are distinguished by unique mixtures like machboos. We also make mixtures for white rice\", Ghallab told Euronews. \n\nSidr honey is famous for its apparent health benefits. It is made from the aromatic blossoms of the Sidr tree which grow uncultivated across the desert in Yemen and Pakistan's Potohar region. \n\nTraditional recipes for every preference \n\nNoor Al Mazroei , a\u00a0Qatari chef has created a market for healthy versions of popular Qatari dishes in a bid to diversify the local cuisine, regardless of diet restrictions or preferences. \n\nWhile machboos is traditionally made with meat, Al Mazroei argues that it can also be made vegetarian or vegan and gives people a chance to get creative with their ingredients.\u00a0 \n\n\u00a0\"Because the recipe doesn't have specific ingredients that you have to use, it is more to do with the taste. Some people like to add onion, tomato. Some people like to add more turmeric. Some people like to make it a little bit more spicy. So, it is like a space where you can be creative and share your love of food\" said Al Mazroei. \n\nInstead of basmati rice, these traditional recipes can also be made with buckwheat or quinoa. \n\nFrom innovative and modern Qatari recipes to discovering new twists on old classics, Qatar offers the Gulf a fresh take on traditional Arabic cuisine. \n\n","htmlText":"<h3>This week, Euronews dives into traditional Qatari foods and discovers how vendors, chefs and food lovers alike use spices and ingredients from all over the world to make its cuisine unique.<\/h3><p>In the heat of the desert, a sip of Arabic coffee is always welcome and a quintessential Qatari gesture. On the\u00a0Zakreet Peninsula in western Qatar, locals have fused coffee from nearby Yemen with a rich Indian spice to make a staple of their own.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional coffee, this lightly roasted blend is yellow in colour and has a creamy and delicate texture with a hint of spice.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7679164\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//12//feast-your-eyes-on-qatars-ample-collection-of-world-cuisines/">Feast your eyes on Qatar\u2019s ample collection of world cuisines<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u202f\"The main flavours come from the spices that we add. You'll notice a hint of coffee. Then there's the cardamom, then there are the spices that give it the richness and then the caffeine and the flavour as well\" said\u00a0Qatari Entrepreneur,\u00a0Khaled Alrayes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_da656714-7c3f-5132-b077-102d2f66ce17-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Katara Summer Trade Fair<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Coffee culture aside, the region boasts an international food scene influenced by its 2.3 million expats. But Qatar also has a wide range of traditional recipes which take their influences from neighbouring countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the capital Doha, most of the terrain is flat, arid, low-lying desert. \"It was not self-sufficient. Qatar was not able to rely on itself and had to import, you know, different products from abroad. So, we have common spices like turmeric, for example, and we have cumin. They have been brought in from India\" said Randa Sheik, a food writer and blogger.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7651340\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//28//discover-the-exciting-world-of-wildlife-conservation-in-qatar/">Discover the exciting world of wildlife conservation in Qatar<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"You also have rosewater. Rosewater is from Iran. So, we have imported these ingredients from many different countries and also the raw materials as well, rice, bread, chicken, meat, and then we combined them in their own way to make fantastic and delicious dishes\" she added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a6bff904-a81a-57f4-9d1f-e85a7d6314c8-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Some of Qatar's traditional dishes<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>What are some of Qatar's most popular traditional dishes?<\/h2><p>Machboos, saloona, madrouba and harees are four traditional Qatari dishes that are enjoyed across the Arab world but each country offers its own unique twist.<\/p>\n<p>Machboos is Qatar's, Bahrain's, Kuwait's and the UAE's national dish. Chicken, fish or lamb is first marinated in a rich blend of spices and then mixed with garlic, ginger and peppers before it is grilled and served on a bed of basmati rice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Food is your paint, so be creative<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Noor Al Mazroei\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Qatari Chef\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Qatar's ancient spice trade has been the key to elevating its traditional foods.<\/p>\n<p>Spices like ginger, star anise and black pepper were brought over from the Indian subcontinent while garlic and cumin crossed the desert from east of the Meditteranean.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dried fruits such as the looming, otherwise known as the black lime, travelled up from Oman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_0c5fda2a-5e2d-56a5-a355-0c1060dc4808-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Wares at Katara Summer Trade Fair<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0And while these items have become staple ingredients in Qatari cuisine, cross-cultural influences continue to elevate Qatar's food scene.<\/p>\n<p>Every year hundreds of vendors gather from all over the world at the Katara Summer Trade Fair to display and sell products from their home countries, including vibrant spices, international foods, oud - a woody, fragrant oil - jewellery and handicrafts.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7627382\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//14//discover-how-qatar-is-rejuvenating-its-cultural-heritage-sites/">Discover how Qatar is rejuvenating its cultural heritage sites<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The trade fair lasts for two weeks and gives both locals and residents of Qatar a chance to try many international delicacies. Yunis Ghallab is a master spice mixer from Yemen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been coming to the Katara Summer Trade Fair for more than a decade and every year he\u2019s proud to bring the best products from Yemen.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_19f68d4c-5c0a-5c0a-b39d-23988982562e-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Yunis Ghallab, Spice Mixer from Yemen<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>'Liquid gold\u2019 honey<\/h2><p>\"We always bring Yemeni honey, the best of its kind, Sidr honey and Brown honey. We have special spices, which are distinguished by unique mixtures like machboos. We also make mixtures for white rice\", Ghallab told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>Sidr honey is famous for its apparent health benefits. It is made from the aromatic blossoms of the Sidr tree which grow uncultivated across the desert in Yemen and Pakistan's Potohar region.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_b09e8c4d-dc68-5043-89bd-0164ac63fa12-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sidr honey and other varieties<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2>Traditional recipes for every preference<\/h2><p><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////nooralmazroei.com//about///">Noor Al Mazroei<\/strong><\/a>, a\u00a0Qatari chef has created a market for healthy versions of popular Qatari dishes in a bid to diversify the local cuisine, regardless of diet restrictions or preferences.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7545192\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//05//17//how-qatar-is-putting-sustainability-at-the-heart-of-its-economy/">How Qatar is putting sustainability at the heart of its economy<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>While machboos is traditionally made with meat, Al Mazroei argues that it can also be made vegetarian or vegan and gives people a chance to get creative with their ingredients.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\"Because the recipe doesn't have specific ingredients that you have to use, it is more to do with the taste. Some people like to add onion, tomato. Some people like to add more turmeric. Some people like to make it a little bit more spicy. So, it is like a space where you can be creative and share your love of food\" said Al Mazroei.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//69//05//14//808x454_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg/" alt=\"Euronews\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/384x216_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/640x360_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/750x422_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/828x466_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1080x608_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1200x675_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/69\/05\/14\/1920x1080_cmsv2_a772d4c8-5c4b-549f-9f61-86cb71f17b2f-7690514.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Noor Al Mazroei, Qatari Chef, preparing machboos<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Euronews<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Instead of basmati rice, these traditional recipes can also be made with buckwheat or quinoa.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">I like to think about food being accessible to everyone. It should be accessible. No one should go to a restaurant or see a dish and feel they cannot have it. Like, if I want that cake, I cannot have it because I'm gluten-free or I'm vegan, I should have it.<\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <div class=\"widget__authorText\">\n Noor Al Mazroei\n <\/div>\n <div class=\"widget__author_descriptionText\">\n Qatari Chef\n <\/div>\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>From innovative and modern Qatari recipes to discovering new twists on old classics, Qatar offers the Gulf a fresh take on traditional Arabic 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Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the invention of the atom bomb, has Murphy reading from the holy text during a sex scene with his lover Jean Tatlock (played by Florence Pugh). \n\nMurphy quotes the famous extract, \u201cNow I am become death, the destroyer of worlds\u201d, a line the physicist would become forever associated with after he recalled it when witnessing the first test detonation of a nuclear bomb. \n\nThe real Oppenheimer was known to have a great interest in mysticism and taught himself Sanskrit to read texts like the Bhagavad Gita. However, the use of the holy text during a sex scene has drawn ire from Hindus. \n\nSave Culture Save India Foundation released a statement calling for an investigation into the scene, with its founder and government information commissioner Uday Mahurkar saying it was \u201ca direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus.\u201d It constituted \u201cwaging a war on the Hindu community,\u201d Mahurkar continued. \n\nPrime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also called the film an \u201cattack on Hinduism\u201d. \n\nSome Hindus have also taken to social media to criticise the explicit scene with #BoycottOppenheimer trending. \n\nThere are also reports that a nude scene featuring Pugh has been digitally edited to put a CGI black dress on the actor. \n\nDespite the criticism, Oppenheimer has had an impressive opening weekend in Indian cinemas. While in most markets, Greta Gerwig\u2019s more family-friendly Barbie has outperformed the three-hour period drama, in India, Oppenheimer had the bigger market share. \n\nThe film made Rs 60 crore, or 600 million rupees (\u20ac6.5 million) across 1,923 screens, nearly triple the amount Barbie took. It\u2019s the biggest opening weekend for a Hollywood film in India this year and is the third biggest opening in the world behind the US and the UK. \n\nIn India, the film is rated U\/A, recommending parental guidance for viewers under the age of 12. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A scene in Christopher Nolan\u2019s new biopic <em><strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//21//euronews-cultures-film-of-the-week-barbie-vs-oppenheimer/">Oppenheimer has stoked controversy in India over a scene where actors read from the Bhagavad Gita.<\/p>\n<p>The film, which has Cillian Murphy play J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the invention of the atom bomb, has Murphy reading from the holy text <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//21//euronews-cultures-film-of-the-week-barbie-vs-oppenheimer/">during a sex scene<\/a><\/strong> with his lover Jean Tatlock (played by Florence Pugh).<\/p>\n<p>Murphy quotes the famous extract, \u201cNow I am become death, the destroyer of worlds\u201d, a line the physicist would become forever associated with after he recalled it when witnessing the first test detonation of a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>The real Oppenheimer was known to have a great interest in mysticism and taught himself Sanskrit to read texts like the Bhagavad Gita. 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Robert Oppenheimer?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Save Culture Save India Foundation released a statement calling for an investigation into the scene, with its founder and government information commissioner Uday Mahurkar saying it was \u201ca direct assault on religious beliefs of a billion tolerant Hindus.\u201d It constituted \u201cwaging a war on the Hindu community,\u201d Mahurkar continued.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has also called the film an \u201cattack on Hinduism\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some Hindus have also taken to social media to criticise the explicit scene with #BoycottOppenheimer trending.<\/p>\n<p>There are also reports that a nude scene featuring Pugh has been digitally edited to put a CGI black dress on the actor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-freeform\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A censored version of \u2018OPPENHEIMER\u2019 is being screen in several countries, with a CGI black dress covering Florence Pugh. <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.co//3SXea7pbCt/">pic.twitter.com//3SXea7pbCt— Florence Pugh Daily (@bestofpugh) <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////twitter.com//bestofpugh//status//1683465517556793347?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\%22>July 24, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////platform.twitter.com//widgets.js/" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Despite the criticism, <em>Oppenheimer<\/em> has had an <strong><a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//07//24//barbenheimer-historic-weekend-as-barbie-takes-box-office-crown/">impressive opening weekend<\/a><\/strong> in Indian cinemas. 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It\u2019s the biggest opening weekend for a Hollywood film in India this year and is the third biggest opening in the world behind the US and the UK.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the film is rated U\/A, recommending parental guidance for viewers under the age of 12.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690282456,"publishedAt":1690290902,"updatedAt":1690291449,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2023\/07\/25\/hindus-criticise-sex-scene-in-oppenheimer","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/68\/94\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_253961e2-2680-5033-818b-498de2caf432-7776894.jpg","altText":"Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer","caption":"Cillian Murphy as J. 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Residents in Timbulsloko, in the Demak region, have been forced to adapt to a new life on the water. \n\nMore than 200 people have stayed in what is one of the country's fastest-sinking areas. \n\nThe landscape of lush rice paddies has turned into a network of boardwalks and canoes in an alarming sign of how climate change could upend coastal communities around the world. \n\nResidents have been modifying their houses to keep dry, but others see no future in Timbulsloko. \n\nThe sinking village in Indonesia \n\nIn Timbulsloko, many buildings including the town\u2019s mosque are already submerged beneath the water. \n\n\"It's only memories now,\" says 49-year-old Sulkan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. \"Why? Because the place is already flooded by the tide.\" \n\nTimbulsloko residents' lives have been drastically altered by rising sea levels , coastal erosion and excessive groundwater extraction causing the land to sink. \n\nThe coastline has also been left vulnerable to floods after locals cut down mangroves for fishing ponds in the 1990s. \n\nWater has since reached five kilometres inland around Timbulsloko and the surrounding Demak region, according to Denny Nugroho Sugianto, professor at nearby Diponegoro University. \n\nHe calls it a \"slow disaster\" happening before the world's eyes. \n\nData shows some areas around Timbulsloko sinking up to 20 centimetres annually, double the rate recorded in 2010. \n\nThis is the \u201clargest rate of land subsidence\" ever recorded in the area, according to Sugianto. \n\nThere is \u2018no future\u2019 for Timbulsloko\u2019s residents \n\nLarge parts of Indonesia\u2019s megalopolis capital Jakarta are expected to be submerged by 2050, researchers say, but villagers along the Javan coast are on the front lines of the emergency. \n\nSulkan was forced to move his kindergarten from an old wooden building next to his house to another structure on higher land to prevent it from being lost. \n\nResidents have elevated the floors of their homes by adding soil and then installing wooden decks to keep themselves dry as the floods become more severe. \n\nThis has left them with shrinking space, forcing anyone entering to stoop low to avoid bumping their heads. \n\nSularso, 54, says he has raised his floor three times since 2018, by a total of 1.5 metres, spending around 22 million rupiah (\u20ac1,322). \n\n\"For me, there is no future,\" the fisherman says. \"This village will be gone in less than five years. We can't build, we can't do anything.\" \n\nHe says his floor can still be submerged in water during high tides , leaving him worried high waves could collapse his home. \n\nHousewife Khoiriyah, 42, says she has had difficulty buying groceries or taking her three children to school because of flooded roads. \n\n\"Life is harder now. Whenever the water comes inside my house, I always wish I could move out,\" she says. \n\nYet the problem is due to become even worse as climate change takes hold. \n\nThe UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says an increase of two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times could raise sea levels by 43 centimetres by the next century. \n\n\u2018As long as there are still houses, I\u2019m staying\u2019 \n\nThe village's cemetery has also been raised to prevent it from sinking, with villagers installing a wood fence, nets and tyres to keep the waters at bay. \n\nResidents have also crowdfunded a boardwalk to connect their houses and give them access to their relatives' graves. \n\nTimbulsloko's younger generation often spend their time outside their homes, escaping the floods that haunt their everyday lives. \n\n\"Life is monotonous here. The youths often go out as they hate being in their house,\" 24-year-old Choirul Tamimi says. \n\nBefore the use of boats in the village, Tamimi says he would walk through the flood on his way to work with a change of clothes. \n\n\"When I came back from work, it's annoying because I'm not only tired, but I also got wet,\" he says. \n\nProfessor Sugianto has called on the government to expand piped water access to residents to reduce groundwater use and look to sand filling to replace what has been eroded. \n\n\"Without restoring the original coastline, we cannot solve this problem sustainably,\" the professor said. \n\nYet those who remain in Timbulsloko refuse to surrender to the elements. \n\nSulkan insists that he will stay to keep his kindergarten open and teach children like the ones who once stood on the now-submerged road. \n\n\"As long as there are still neighbours, there are still houses, I'm staying here,\" he said. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>In Indonesia, a Javan coastal village is being swallowed by the rising tides. Residents in Timbulsloko, in the Demak region, have been forced to adapt to a new life on the water.<\/p>\n<p>More than 200 people have stayed in what is one of the country's fastest-sinking areas.<\/p>\n<p>The landscape of lush rice paddies has turned into a network of boardwalks and canoes in an alarming sign of how climate change could upend coastal communities around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have been modifying their houses to keep dry, but others see no future in Timbulsloko.<\/p>\n<h2>The sinking village in Indonesia<\/h2><p>In Timbulsloko, many buildings including the town\u2019s mosque are already submerged beneath the water.<\/p>\n<p>\"It's only memories now,\" says 49-year-old Sulkan, who like many Indonesians goes by one name. \"Why? Because the place is already flooded by the tide.\"<\/p>\n<p>Timbulsloko residents' lives have been drastically altered by <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//10//21//the-great-melt-this-village-in-fiji-has-been-forced-to-move-inland-as-sea-levels-rise/">rising sea levels<\/strong><\/a>, coastal erosion and excessive groundwater extraction causing the land to sink.<\/p>\n<p>The coastline has also been left vulnerable to floods after locals cut down mangroves for fishing ponds in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Water has since reached five kilometres inland around Timbulsloko and the surrounding Demak region, according to Denny Nugroho Sugianto, professor at nearby Diponegoro University.<\/p>\n<p>He calls it a \"slow disaster\" happening before the world's eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Data shows some areas around Timbulsloko <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2021//11//05//we-will-have-to-abandon-coastal-cities-like-new-york-new-orleans-rotterdam-and-hamburg/">sinking up to 20 centimetres annually, double the rate recorded in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>This is the \u201clargest rate of land subsidence\" ever recorded in the area, according to Sugianto.<\/p>\n<h2>There is \u2018no future\u2019 for Timbulsloko\u2019s residents<\/h2><p>Large parts of Indonesia\u2019s megalopolis capital Jakarta are expected to be <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//03//10//watch-floodwaters-rise-as-parts-of-australia-receive-almost-a-year-of-rainfall/">submerged by 2050, researchers say, but villagers along the Javan coast are on the front lines of the emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Sulkan was forced to move his kindergarten from an old wooden building next to his house to another structure on higher land to prevent it from being lost.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have elevated the floors of their homes by adding soil and then installing wooden decks to keep themselves dry as the floods become more severe.<\/p>\n<p>This has left them with shrinking space, forcing anyone entering to stoop low to avoid bumping their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Sularso, 54, says he has raised his floor three times since 2018, by a total of 1.5 metres, spending around 22 million rupiah (\u20ac1,322).<\/p>\n<p>\"For me, there is no future,\" the fisherman says. \"This village will be gone in less than five years. We can't build, we can't do anything.\"<\/p>\n<p>He says his floor can still be submerged in water during <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//05//09//china-sets-new-record-for-rising-sea-levels-how-will-its-cities-cope/">high tides<\/strong><\/a>, leaving him worried high waves could collapse his home.<\/p>\n<p>Housewife Khoiriyah, 42, says she has had difficulty buying groceries or taking her three children to school because of <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//03//23//early-warning-systems-will-protect-everyone-on-earth-in-5-years-un-announces/">flooded roads.<\/p>\n<p>\"Life is harder now. Whenever the water comes inside my house, I always wish I could move out,\" she says.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the problem is due to become even worse as climate change takes hold.<\/p>\n<p>The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says an increase of two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial times could raise sea levels by 43 centimetres by the next century.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018As long as there are still houses, I\u2019m staying\u2019<\/h2><p>The village's cemetery has also been raised to prevent it from sinking, with villagers installing a wood fence, nets and tyres to keep the waters at bay.<\/p>\n<p>Residents have also crowdfunded a boardwalk to connect their houses and give them access to their relatives' graves.<\/p>\n<p>Timbulsloko's younger generation often spend their time outside their homes, escaping the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//08//30//in-pictures-historic-pakistan-floods-leave-thousands-homeless-and-almost-100-billion-of-da/">floods that haunt their everyday lives.<\/p>\n<p>\"Life is monotonous here. The youths often go out as they hate being in their house,\" 24-year-old Choirul Tamimi says.<\/p>\n<p>Before the use of boats in the village, Tamimi says he would walk through the <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2022//11//24//an-act-of-god-the-european-countries-where-homeowners-should-be-most-worried-about-climate/">flood on his way to work with a change of clothes.<\/p>\n<p>\"When I came back from work, it's annoying because I'm not only tired, but I also got wet,\" he says.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7768874,7742016\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//21//summer-of-extremes-is-climate-change-to-blame-for-heatwaves-and-flooding/">/u2018Summer of extremes\u2019: Is climate change to blame for heatwaves and flooding?<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//green//2023//07//10//japan-sees-heaviest-rain-ever-is-climate-change-making-downpours-more-extreme/">Japan sees \u2018heaviest rain ever: Is climate change making downpours more extreme?<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Professor Sugianto has called on the government to expand piped water access to residents to reduce groundwater use and look to sand filling to replace what has been eroded.<\/p>\n<p>\"Without restoring the original coastline, we cannot solve this problem sustainably,\" the professor said.<\/p>\n<p>Yet those who remain in Timbulsloko refuse to surrender to the elements.<\/p>\n<p>Sulkan insists that he will stay to keep his kindergarten open and teach children like the ones who once stood on the now-submerged road.<\/p>\n<p>\"As long as there are still neighbours, there are still houses, I'm staying here,\" he said.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690209170,"publishedAt":1690261221,"updatedAt":1690261565,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2023\/07\/25\/we-cant-do-anything-see-the-village-where-homes-are-permanently-surrounded-by-water","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/50\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_756d8a95-3781-5a02-8465-fadfd7c009ff-7775030.jpg","altText":"In Timbulsloko, many buildings including the town\u2019s mosque are already submerged beneath the water. 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limiting the Supreme Court\u2019s ability to challenge parliamentary decisions and changing how judges are selected.","summary":"The overhaul will introduce sweeping changes aimed at curbing the judiciary's powers; limiting the Supreme Court\u2019s ability to challenge parliamentary decisions and changing how judges are selected.","url":"israels-parliament-greenlights-controversial-judicial-reform-amid-raging-protests","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Israeli lawmakers have passed through parliament a key portion of\u00a0Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s divisive plan to reshape the country\u2019s justice system despite massive protests that have exposed unprecedented fissures in Israeli society. \n\nMPs annulled a law which allowed the Supreme Court to review and overturn government decisions or appointments and is seen by the opposition as a fundamental democratic guarantee against abuses of power.\u00a0 \n\nThe law was passed by all 64 members of the governing coalition. The 56 MPs from the opposition bloc absented themselves from the vote. \n\nThe ballot comes just hours after Netanyahu was released from a hospital. The plan has tested the delicate social ties that bind the country, rattled the cohesion of its powerful military and repeatedly drawn concern from its closest ally, the United States. \n\nOpposition lawmakers screamed out \u201cshame\u201d as the vote, the second of three required, approached. \n\nDemonstrators, many of whom feel the very foundations of their country are being eroded by the government's plan, stepped up their opposition, blocking a road leading up to parliament before the vote. \n\nEfforts to find a last-ditch compromise were underway, with President Isaac Herzog shuttling between the sides, including a meeting at the hospital where Netanyahu was treated, to find an agreement on the way forward. But it was unclear whether those would result in a compromise ahead of the final vote. \n\n\u201cWe are headed for disaster,\u201d said opposition leader Yair Lapid in a speech. \u201cIf you vote today on this bill, you are bringing the end of the people\u2019s army closer. You are strengthening Israel\u2019s enemies. You are harming the security of the state of Israel.\u201d \n\nProtesters banging on drums and blowing horns blocked a road leading to the Knesset, and police used water cannons to push them back. The protest movement said one of its leaders was arrested. \n\n\u201cThe state of Israel stands before destruction and ruin that is being brought upon it by a gang of extremists and kooks. We must go up to Jerusalem today!\u201d one branch of the protest movement called out to demonstrators on social media. \n\nIsraeli media reported that a consortium of businesses announced late Sunday that some of their members wouldn't open on Monday to protest the government's plans, leading to big mall chains and some gas stations sealing their doors. \n\nThe dramatic events were being watched closely in Washington, where the Biden administration has frequently spoken out against Netanyahu's government and its overhaul plan. In a statement to the news site Axios late Sunday, Biden warned against pushing ahead with the legal changes that were sparking so much division. \n\n\u201cGiven the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn\u2019t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this - the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus,\u201d he told the site. \n\nNetanyahu\u2019s sudden hospitalisation for the implant of a pacemaker added another dizzying twist to an already dramatic series of events that have bitterly divided his country and are certain to shape Israel's future. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Israeli lawmakers have passed through parliament a key portion of\u00a0Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s divisive plan to reshape the country\u2019s justice system despite massive protests that have exposed unprecedented fissures in Israeli society.<\/p>\n<p>MPs annulled a law which allowed the Supreme Court to review and overturn government decisions or appointments and is seen by the opposition as a fundamental democratic guarantee against abuses of power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The law was passed by all 64 members of the governing coalition. The 56 MPs from the opposition bloc absented themselves from the vote.<\/p>\n<p>The ballot comes just hours after Netanyahu was released from a hospital. The plan has tested the delicate social ties that bind the country, rattled the cohesion of its powerful military and repeatedly drawn concern from its closest ally, the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Opposition lawmakers screamed out \u201cshame\u201d as the vote, the second of three required, approached.<\/p>\n<p>Demonstrators, many of whom feel the very foundations of their country are being eroded by the government's plan, stepped up their opposition, blocking a road leading up to parliament before the vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//43//00//808x539_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg/" alt=\"Mahmoud Illean/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1920x1281_cmsv2_c8e2b5a5-1f7a-5c00-a1db-94b517810993-7774300.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israeli police disperse demonstrators blocking the road leading to the Knesset, Israel's parliament, during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's gove<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Mahmoud Illean/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Efforts to find a last-ditch compromise were underway, with President Isaac Herzog shuttling between the sides, including a meeting at the hospital where Netanyahu was treated, to find an agreement on the way forward. But it was unclear whether those would result in a compromise ahead of the final vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are headed for disaster,\u201d said opposition leader Yair Lapid in a speech. \u201cIf you vote today on this bill, you are bringing the end of the people\u2019s army closer. You are strengthening Israel\u2019s enemies. You are harming the security of the state of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7760162,7729348\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//05//palestinians-survey-destruction-after-most-intense-israeli-west-bank-raid-in-decades/">Palestinians survey destruction after most intense Israeli West Bank raid in decades<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//18//watch-fresh-protests-in-israel-against-planned-overhaul-of-judicial-system/">WATCH: Fresh protests in Israel against planned overhaul of judicial system<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Protesters banging on drums and blowing horns blocked a road leading to the Knesset, and police used water cannons to push them back. The protest movement said one of its leaders was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe state of Israel stands before destruction and ruin that is being brought upon it by a gang of extremists and kooks. We must go up to Jerusalem today!\u201d one branch of the protest movement called out to demonstrators on social media.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//43//00//808x539_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg/" alt=\"Maya Alleruzzo/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/384x256_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/640x427_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/750x500_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/828x552_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1080x720_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1200x800_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/1920x1281_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Maya Alleruzzo/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Israeli media reported that a consortium of businesses announced late Sunday that some of their members wouldn't open on Monday to protest the government's plans, leading to big mall chains and some gas stations sealing their doors.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatic events were being watched closely in Washington, where the Biden administration has frequently spoken out against Netanyahu's government and its overhaul plan. In a statement to the news site Axios late Sunday, Biden warned against pushing ahead with the legal changes that were sparking so much division.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the range of threats and challenges confronting Israel right now, it doesn\u2019t make sense for Israeli leaders to rush this - the focus should be on pulling people together and finding consensus,\u201d he told the site.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u2019s sudden hospitalisation for the implant of a pacemaker added another dizzying twist to an already dramatic series of events that have bitterly divided his country and are certain to shape Israel's future.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690195702,"publishedAt":1690203629,"updatedAt":1690214083,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/israels-parliament-greenlights-controversial-judicial-reform-amid-raging-protests","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bc586fbf-f203-5188-b492-c6717ab6f687-7774300.jpg","altText":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan, outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023. ","caption":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan, outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023. ","captionCredit":"Maya Alleruzzo\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.","captionUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"sourceUrl":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"height":683},{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/43\/00\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_e708bb3c-d1b8-5657-8dc3-326efd3204b4-7774300.jpg","altText":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023.","caption":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Monday, July 24, 2023.","captionCredit":"Maya Alleruzzo\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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","summary":"Israel's parliament is to vote on Monday on proposed judicial changes to limit the powers of the Supreme Court that have sparked the biggest protests in the nation's history. ","url":"israeli-parliament-to-vote-on-netanyahus-judicial-reforms-on-supreme-court-powers","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Thousands of Israeli protesters have ended their four-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a mass mobilisation to oppose the government's justice system changes. \n\nMany are now camped in a park near the country's parliament. A final vote on the bill is due to take place on Monday. \n\nThere have been months of protests in Israel over the reforms, which seek to limit the Supreme Court's powers. \n\nCritics of the proposed changes say the Supreme Court is the only channel to scrutinise the government's use of power and prevent abuse by the state.\u00a0 \n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday but vowed to be present for the vote.\u00a0 \n\nThe judicial revamp proposed by his hard-right government has split the nation and, since its unveiling in January, sparked one of the most significant protest movements in Israel's history. \n\nThe final vote Monday will be on the \"reasonability\" clause through which judges can strike down government decisions. \n\nNetanyahu's government, which includes extreme-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies, plans to curb the Supreme Court's powers granted under this clause. They argue the changes are necessary to ensure a better balance of power. \n\nCritics accuse Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges he denies, of trying to use the reforms to quash possible judgements against him. He rejects the accusation. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>Thousands of Israeli protesters have ended their four-day march from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem in a mass mobilisation to oppose the government's justice system changes.<\/p>\n<p>Many are now camped in a park near the country's parliament. A final vote on the bill is due to take place on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There have been months of protests in Israel over the reforms, which seek to limit the Supreme Court's powers.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of the proposed changes say the Supreme Court is the only channel to scrutinise the government's use of power and prevent abuse by the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent surgery to implant a pacemaker on Sunday but vowed to be present for the vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The judicial revamp proposed by his hard-right government has split the nation and, since its unveiling in January, sparked one of the most significant protest movements in Israel's history.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7412688,7489228\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//03//27//our-security-under-threat-israels-president-joins-calls-to-ditch-judicial-reform/">Israeli unions launch general strike as opposition to judicial reforms grows<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//02//19//seventh-week-of-protests-in-israel-over-netanyahus-planned-judicial-reforms/">Seventh week of protests in Israel over Netanyahu's planned judicial reforms<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The final vote Monday will be on the \"reasonability\" clause through which judges can strike down government decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu's government, which includes extreme-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish allies, plans to curb the Supreme Court's powers granted under this clause. They argue the changes are necessary to ensure a better balance of power.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accuse Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges he denies, of trying to use the reforms to quash possible judgements against him. He rejects the accusation.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690140863,"publishedAt":1690189144,"updatedAt":1690189928,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/24\/israeli-parliament-to-vote-on-netanyahus-judicial-reforms-on-supreme-court-powers","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/29\/66\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_cc716c12-b9ed-5a41-a0c6-31a6474cbac7-7772966.jpg","altText":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 23, 2023. ","caption":"Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's judicial overhaul plan outside the parliament in Jerusalem, Sunday, July 23, 2023. 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He says he will push ahead with judicial overhaul","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Netanyahu to push ahead with judicial plan after 'emergency' surgery","titleListing2":"Israel's Netanyahu goes to hospital for pacemaker. He says he will push ahead with judicial overhaul","leadin":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital early Sunday for an emergency implantation of a heart pacemaker, plunging Israel into deeper turmoil after widespread protests over his contentious judicial overhaul plan.","summary":"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital early Sunday for an emergency implantation of a heart pacemaker, plunging Israel into deeper turmoil after widespread protests over his contentious judicial overhaul plan.","url":"israels-netanyahu-goes-to-hospital-for-pacemaker-he-says-he-will-push-ahead-with-judicial-","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A physician at the Sheba Medical Center said later that the procedure went well and Netanyahu felt fine. \n\n\nIn announcing the hospitalization, Netanyahu's office said that he would be sedated and that a top deputy, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, would stand in for him while he underwent the procedure. In a brief video statement before the implantation, Netanyahu said he \u201cfeels excellent\u201d and planned to push forward with the judicial overhaul as soon as he was released. \n\nNetanyahu's announcement, issued well after midnight, came a week after he was hospitalized at Sheba for what was described as dehydration. It also came after a tumultuous day that saw some of the largest protests to date against the judicial overhaul plan. \n\nHundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Israel on Saturday night, while thousands marched into Jerusalem and camped out near the Knesset, or parliament, ahead of a vote expected Monday that would approve a key portion of the overhaul. \n\nFurther ratcheting up the pressure on the Israeli leader, over 100 retired security chiefs came out in favour of the growing ranks of military reservists who say they will stop reporting for duty if the plan is passed. \n\nNetanyahu and his far-right allies announced the overhaul plan in January, days after taking office. They claim the plan is needed to curb what they say are the excessive powers of unelected judges. Critics say the plan will destroy the country\u2019s system of checks and balances and put it on the path toward authoritarian rule. US President Joe Biden has urged Netanyahu to halt the plan and seek a broad consensus. \n\nNetanyahu, 73, keeps a busy schedule and his office says he is in good health. But over the years, it has released few details or medical records. On 15 July, he was rushed to Sheba with dizziness. He later said he had been out in the hot sun and had not drunk enough water. \n\nHis return for the pacemaker procedure indicated his health troubles were more serious than initially indicated. In the video, Netanyahu said that he was outfitted with a monitor after last week's hospitalization and that when an alarm beeped late Saturday, it meant he required a pacemaker right away. \n\n\u201cI feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,\u201d he said. \n\nProfessor Roy Beinart, the senior physician and director at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba's Heart Institute, said in a video that Netanyahu was called in to get the pacemaker because he experienced \u201ca temporary arrhythmia,\u201d or irregular heartbeat, Saturday evening. \n\n\"The implantation went smoothly, without any complications. He is not in a life-threatening condition. He feels great and is returning to his daily routine,\u201d Beinart said. \n\nIt was not immediately clear what the hospitalization meant for the judicial overhaul, which has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu said he expected to be released in time to go to the Knesset for Monday's vote. In the meantime, his office said the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, usually held each Sunday morning, had been postponed. \n\nA pacemaker is used when a patient\u2019s heart beats too slowly, which can cause fainting spells, according to the National Institutes of Health. It can also be used to treat heart failure. By sending electrical pulses to the heart, the device keeps a person\u2019s heartbeat at a normal rhythm. Patients with pacemakers often return to regular activities within a few days, according to NIH. \n\nThe procedure normally involves a doctor inserting the pacemaker near the collarbone, according to Mayo Clinic. A hospital stay of at least a day is usually required. \n\nAs Netanyahu spoke, thousands of Israelis camped out in Jerusalem's main park, just a short walk from the Knesset, after completing a four-day march from Tel Aviv to rally opposition to the judicial overhaul. Late Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities in a last-ditch show of force hoping to head off the judicial overhaul. \n\nIn scorching heat that reached 33C, the procession into Jerusalem turned the city's main entrance into a sea of blue and white Israeli flags as marchers completed the last leg of a four-day, 70-kilometre trek from Tel Aviv. \n\nThe marchers, who grew from hundreds to thousands as the march progressed, were welcomed in Jerusalem by throngs of cheering protesters before they set up camp in rows of small white tents. \n\nThe proposed overhaul has drawn harsh criticism from business and medical leaders, and a fast-rising number of military reservists in key units have said they will stop reporting for duty if the plan passes, raising concern that Israel's security could be threatened. An additional 10,000 reservists announced they were suspending duty Saturday night, according to \"Brothers in Arms,\" a protest group representing retired soldiers. \n\nMore than 100 top former security chiefs, including retired military commanders, police commissioners and heads of intelligence agencies, joined those calls on Saturday, signing a letter to Netanyahu accusing him of compromising Israel\u2019s military and urging him to halt the legislation. \n\nThe signatories included Ehud Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, and Moshe Yaalon, a former army chief and defence minister. Both are political rivals of Netanyahu. \n\n\u201cThe legislation is crushing those things shared by Israeli society, is tearing the people apart, disintegrating the IDF and inflicting fatal blows on Israel\u2019s security,\u201d the former officials wrote. \n\nIn his statement, Netanyahu said he would continue to seek a compromise with his opponents. He paused the plan in March after widespread demonstrations, but he revived it last month after compromise talks collapsed. \n\nIsrael Katz, a senior Cabinet minister from Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, said the bill would pass one way or another Monday and rejected the pressure from the ranks of the military, the most respected institution among Israel's Jewish majority. \u201cThere is a clear attempt here to use military service to force the government to change policy,\u201d he told Channel 12 TV. \n\nThe overhaul measure would limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers by preventing judges from striking down government decisions on the basis that they are \u201cunreasonable.\u201d \n\nProponents say the current \u201creasonability\u201d standard gives judges excessive powers over decision-making by elected officials. Critics say removing the standard, which is invoked only in rare cases, would allow the government to pass arbitrary decisions, make improper appointments or firings and open the door to corruption. \n\nMonday's vote would mark the first major piece of legislation to be approved. \n\nThe overhaul also calls for other sweeping changes aimed at curbing the powers of the judiciary, from limiting the Supreme Court\u2019s ability to challenge parliamentary decisions, to changing the way judges are selected. \n\nProtesters, who come from a wide swath of Israeli society, see the overhaul as a power grab fueled by personal and political grievances of Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, and his partners, who want to deepen Israel\u2019s control of the occupied West Bank and perpetuate controversial draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A physician at the Sheba Medical Center said later that the procedure went well and Netanyahu felt fine. <\/p>\n<p>In announcing the hospitalization, Netanyahu's office said that he would be sedated and that a top deputy, Justice Minister Yariv Levin, would stand in for him while he underwent the procedure. In a brief video statement before the implantation, Netanyahu said he \u201cfeels excellent\u201d and planned to push forward with the judicial overhaul as soon as he was released.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu's announcement, issued well after midnight, came a week after he was hospitalized at Sheba for what was described as dehydration. It also came after a tumultuous day that saw some of the largest protests to date against the judicial overhaul plan.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//14//42//808x539_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg/" alt=\"Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_92a4a64b-01be-5bb1-9f71-777e7fc53b52-7771442.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Thousands of Israelis march along a highway towards Jerusalem in protest of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across Israel on Saturday night, while thousands marched into Jerusalem and camped out near the Knesset, or parliament, ahead of a vote expected Monday that would approve a key portion of the overhaul.<\/p>\n<p>Further ratcheting up the pressure on the Israeli leader, over 100 retired security chiefs came out in favour of the growing ranks of military reservists who say they will stop reporting for duty if the plan is passed.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu and his far-right allies announced the overhaul plan in January, days after taking office. They claim the plan is needed to curb what they say are the excessive powers of unelected judges. Critics say the plan will destroy the country\u2019s system of checks and balances and put it on the path toward authoritarian rule. US President Joe Biden has urged Netanyahu to halt the plan and seek a broad consensus.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7761902,7724876,7709858\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//06//27//israel-government-approves-plans-for-thousands-more-homes-in-occupied-west-bank/">Israel government approves plans for thousands more homes in occupied West Bank<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//03//israeli-strikes-in-the-occupied-west-bank-kill-at-least-eight/">Israeli strikes in the occupied West Bank kill at least eight<\/a> <\/li><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2023//07//19//israeli-protesters-block-highways-train-stations-as-netanyahu-moves-ahead-with-judicial-ov/">Israeli protesters block highways, train stations as Netanyahu moves ahead with judicial overhaul<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Netanyahu, 73, keeps a busy schedule and his office says he is in good health. But over the years, it has released few details or medical records. On 15 July, he was rushed to Sheba with dizziness. He later said he had been out in the hot sun and had not drunk enough water.<\/p>\n<p>His return for the pacemaker procedure indicated his health troubles were more serious than initially indicated. In the video, Netanyahu said that he was outfitted with a monitor after last week's hospitalization and that when an alarm beeped late Saturday, it meant he required a pacemaker right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Roy Beinart, the senior physician and director at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba's Heart Institute, said in a video that Netanyahu was called in to get the pacemaker because he experienced \u201ca temporary arrhythmia,\u201d or irregular heartbeat, Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//14//42//808x539_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg/" alt=\"Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_dc78adc5-f141-5efb-bb98-fd9474dae864-7771442.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Marchers who completed the last leg of a four-day trek from Tel Aviv to Israel's parliament to protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\"The implantation went smoothly, without any complications. He is not in a life-threatening condition. He feels great and is returning to his daily routine,\u201d Beinart said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately clear what the hospitalization meant for the judicial overhaul, which has bitterly divided the nation. Netanyahu said he expected to be released in time to go to the Knesset for Monday's vote. In the meantime, his office said the weekly meeting of his Cabinet, usually held each Sunday morning, had been postponed.<\/p>\n<p>A pacemaker is used when a patient\u2019s heart beats too slowly, which can cause fainting spells, according to the National Institutes of Health. It can also be used to treat heart failure. By sending electrical pulses to the heart, the device keeps a person\u2019s heartbeat at a normal rhythm. Patients with pacemakers often return to regular activities within a few days, according to NIH.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure normally involves a doctor inserting the pacemaker near the collarbone, according to Mayo Clinic. A hospital stay of at least a day is usually required.<\/p>\n<p>As Netanyahu spoke, thousands of Israelis camped out in Jerusalem's main park, just a short walk from the Knesset, after completing a four-day march from Tel Aviv to rally opposition to the judicial overhaul. Late Saturday, hundreds of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities in a last-ditch show of force hoping to head off the judicial overhaul.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//14//42//808x539_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg/" alt=\"Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/384x256_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/640x427_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/750x500_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/828x552_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1080x720_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1200x800_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/42\/1920x1281_cmsv2_be2b3e4d-939b-52d4-a207-439a587f8c05-7771442.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Thousands of Israelis march to Jerusalem.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Ohad Zwigenberg/Copyright 2023 The AP All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In scorching heat that reached 33C, the procession into Jerusalem turned the city's main entrance into a sea of blue and white Israeli flags as marchers completed the last leg of a four-day, 70-kilometre trek from Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n<p>The marchers, who grew from hundreds to thousands as the march progressed, were welcomed in Jerusalem by throngs of cheering protesters before they set up camp in rows of small white tents.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed overhaul has drawn harsh criticism from business and medical leaders, and a fast-rising number of military reservists in key units have said they will stop reporting for duty if the plan passes, raising concern that Israel's security could be threatened. An additional 10,000 reservists announced they were suspending duty Saturday night, according to \"Brothers in Arms,\" a protest group representing retired soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 top former security chiefs, including retired military commanders, police commissioners and heads of intelligence agencies, joined those calls on Saturday, signing a letter to Netanyahu accusing him of compromising Israel\u2019s military and urging him to halt the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The signatories included Ehud Barak, a former Israeli prime minister, and Moshe Yaalon, a former army chief and defence minister. Both are political rivals of Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-euronews\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//embed//2325008/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe legislation is crushing those things shared by Israeli society, is tearing the people apart, disintegrating the IDF and inflicting fatal blows on Israel\u2019s security,\u201d the former officials wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In his statement, Netanyahu said he would continue to seek a compromise with his opponents. He paused the plan in March after widespread demonstrations, but he revived it last month after compromise talks collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Katz, a senior Cabinet minister from Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, said the bill would pass one way or another Monday and rejected the pressure from the ranks of the military, the most respected institution among Israel's Jewish majority. \u201cThere is a clear attempt here to use military service to force the government to change policy,\u201d he told Channel 12 TV.<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul measure would limit the Supreme Court's oversight powers by preventing judges from striking down government decisions on the basis that they are \u201cunreasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proponents say the current \u201creasonability\u201d standard gives judges excessive powers over decision-making by elected officials. Critics say removing the standard, which is invoked only in rare cases, would allow the government to pass arbitrary decisions, make improper appointments or firings and open the door to corruption.<\/p>\n<p>Monday's vote would mark the first major piece of legislation to be approved.<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul also calls for other sweeping changes aimed at curbing the powers of the judiciary, from limiting the Supreme Court\u2019s ability to challenge parliamentary decisions, to changing the way judges are selected.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters, who come from a wide swath of Israeli society, see the overhaul as a power grab fueled by personal and political grievances of Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption charges, and his partners, who want to deepen Israel\u2019s control of the occupied West Bank and perpetuate controversial draft exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1690047560,"publishedAt":1690092695,"updatedAt":1690093083,"expiresAt":0,"canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2023\/07\/23\/israels-netanyahu-goes-to-hospital-for-pacemaker-he-says-he-will-push-ahead-with-judicial-","images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/14\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_1ddc6d32-0bf8-567a-a0a6-75e8b74a7219-7771458.jpg","altText":"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting, in the Western Wall tunnels in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, May 21, 2023.","caption":"Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the weekly cabinet meeting, in the Western Wall tunnels in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, May 21, 2023.","captionCredit":"Maya Alleruzzo\/Copyright 2023 The AP. 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cancels music festival after The 1975's Matty Healy kisses male bandmate","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"The 1975 upset Malaysia's anti-gay laws as male band members kiss","titleListing2":"Malaysia cancels music festival after 1975's Matty Healy kisses male bandmate","leadin":"The British indie band say they've been banned from Kuala Lumpur after 'gay stage kiss'. Malaysian authorities insist there will be no 'compromise with any party that challenges, belittles or violates' its laws.","summary":"The British indie band say they've been banned from Kuala Lumpur after 'gay stage kiss'. Malaysian authorities insist there will be no 'compromise with any party that challenges, belittles or violates' its laws.","url":"malaysia-cancels-music-festival-after-1975s-matty-healy-kisses-male-bandmate","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"British indie rockers The 1975 have fallen foul of Malaysian authorities by protesting against the country's strict anti-homosexual laws.\u00a0 \n\nLead singer Matty Healy sparked fury within the government by attacking the anti-gay legislation and kissing a male bandmate during their performance at the start of the Good Vibes Festival last night.\u00a0 \n\nHealey used profanity in his speech before kissing bass player Ross MacDonald. Footage of the fiasco was posted on social media and sparked a backlash in the predominantly Muslim nation. \n\nIn response, Malaysia's Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil described Healy's conduct as \"very rude.\" \n\nAfter meeting the festival organizers Saturday, Fahmi said the festival, which was scheduled to go on this weekend, will be cancelled. \n\n\"There will be no compromise with any party that challenges, belittles or violates Malaysian laws,\" he said in a statement on Facebook. Homosexuality is a crime in the country that is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and caning. \n\nThe agency in charge of approving performances by foreign artists said it was disappointed with the band's conduct, calling it \"an insult and disrespecting the laws of the country.\" It said the group will be blacklisted from performing in Malaysia. \n\nIt wasn't the first time that Healy used the stage to defend lesbian and gay rights. In 2019, he kissed a male fan during a concert in the United Arab Emirates, which also outlaws homosexual acts, according to media reports. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>British indie rockers The 1975 have fallen foul of Malaysian authorities by protesting against the country's strict anti-homosexual laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lead singer Matty Healy sparked fury within the government by attacking the anti-gay legislation and kissing a male bandmate during their performance at the start of the Good Vibes Festival last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Healey used profanity in his speech before kissing bass player Ross MacDonald. Footage of the fiasco was posted on social media and sparked a backlash in the predominantly Muslim nation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6923828125\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//77//12//34//808x561_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg/" alt=\"Owen Sweeney/2017 Invision\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/384x266_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/640x443_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/750x519_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/828x573_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/1080x748_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/1200x831_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/77\/12\/34\/1920x1329_cmsv2_b472337b-8f5b-57bb-9acc-0092df59b4c0-7771234.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">George Daniel, from left, Matthew Healy, Adam Hann and Ross MacDonald of The 1975 backstage at the Radio 104.5 10th Birthday party in New Jersey, May 2017<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Owen Sweeney/2017 Invision<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In response, Malaysia's Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil described Healy's conduct as \"very rude.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//tyWxYOJNXy0/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Sealed with a kiss - Matt Healy and Ross MacDonald make their feelings clear about Malaysia's strict anti-gay laws<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>After meeting the festival organizers Saturday, Fahmi said the festival, which was scheduled to go on this weekend, will be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>\"There will be no compromise with any party that challenges, belittles or violates Malaysian laws,\" he said in a statement on Facebook. Homosexuality is a crime in the country that is punishable by up to 20 years in prison and caning.<\/p>\n<div\n data-stories-id=\"7643150\"\n data-event=\"widget_related\"\n class=\"widget widget--type-related widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <ul class=\"widget__related_list\"><li class=\"widget__related_listItem\"> <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//05//31//the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-of-the-glastonbury-festival-line-up/">The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Glastonbury festival line-up<\/a> <\/li><\/ul>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The agency in charge of approving performances by foreign artists said it was disappointed with the band's conduct, calling it \"an insult and disrespecting the laws of the country.\" It said the group will be blacklisted from performing in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn't the first time that Healy used the stage to defend lesbian and gay rights. 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From tactical advancements to increased global exposure, elite level football has seen widespread changes to the game over the last 30 or so years. ","summary":"In partnership with Media City Qatar. From tactical advancements to increased global exposure, elite level football has seen widespread changes to the game over the last 30 or so years. ","url":"is-football-becoming-less-competitive-than-before","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"From tactical advancements to increased global exposure, elite-level football has seen widespread changes to the game over the last 30 years. \n\nAll teams share the desire to win. Scoring goals at the start of the season brings joy to fans and players. But as modern-day football goes hand in hand with finance, is the sport in danger of becoming less competitive than ever before? \n\nIt has been widely reported that football has become predictable, so how serious is the problem? Manchester City has won four out of the last five Premier League titles in England. In Germany, Bayern Munich picked up their 11th Bundesliga title in a row. While in Spain, no one other than Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have won La Liga since Valencia did in 2004. \n\n\"I think football goes in cycles in terms of who's at the top. It will be another team in a few years' time. I don't like to see that dominance, but it happens in every country at the moment.\" explained former Premier League footballer Neil Mellor. \n\nThere are, of course, exceptions to every rule. And this is why football fans love the sport so much. There is the rare occasion when smaller teams achieve enormous success, but these moments are becoming fewer and further between. \n\n \"I do think the Premier League is the most competitive league because of how much money it generates. For example, a team like Bournemouth, who are towards the bottom of the table, can spend more than 100 million euros when the transfer window opens. If the teams at the top of the table aren't doing the same, they can lose more frequently against teams lower down the table. We've seen that happen this season with Liverpool and Chelsea, who have struggled for form.\" Mellor continued. \n\nConsistently winning teams are a huge problem causing uneasiness with the game. \n\n\"I think the main concern is that people begin a new season pretty much able to predict the future. They already think, 'Well, City are going to win it again this year'. I think that's the biggest problem for English football because, at least previously, you had three or four teams that could be in the mix.\" Alex Batt, journalist for GiveMeSport. \n\nSo, how do football players remain motivated to win championships? Former Brazil defender Gilberto Silva was part of one of the best Premier League teams ever. He was a member of Arsenal's unbeaten 'invincible' team. He says the game has changed a lot since he played professional football. \n\n\"It was really, really competitive when I was there. Now when I look at the players on the field, they look much more athletic. They are a lot more broad in their size, and they're a lot more physical. Things like club infrastructure and information are improving from generation to generation.\" Says Gilberto. \n\nSport is a big business the world over, but how do other disciplines handle the cash disparity while keeping things interesting? Different sports have turned to innovative ways to try and keep things on a level playing field. In Formula 1, teams that finish lower in the championship standings are entitled to more wind tunnel time the following season to run more tests on their cars. As well as this, the entire grid is now bound by a cost cap in an attempt to stop the richer teams from running away with races every week. \n\nOver in America, the NFL operate their famous 'draft' system. To ensure no one loses out, the team that finishes last at the end of a season move to the top of the table. This gives them first refusal on the young stars coming out of college-level football. By the same token, the league champions are pushed way down to the bottom of the table. Franchises also have salary caps that apply to their whole roster, meaning if they want to trade for a superstar, room for them has to be made financially. \n\nSo, with the same teams continually winning the big prizes, it may be time for football to rethink its strategy. The inspiration is out there, but only time will tell if governing bodies like FIFA and UEFA are open to change. \n\n","htmlText":"<h3>From tactical advancements to increased global exposure, elite-level football has seen widespread changes to the game over the last 30 years.<\/h3><p>All teams share the desire to win. Scoring goals at the start of the season brings joy to fans and players. But as modern-day football goes hand in hand with finance, is the sport in danger of becoming less competitive than ever before?<\/p>\n<p>It has been widely reported that football has become predictable, so how serious is the problem? Manchester City has won four out of the last five Premier League titles in England. In Germany, Bayern Munich picked up their 11th Bundesliga title in a row. While in Spain, no one other than Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Barcelona have won La Liga since Valencia did in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think football goes in cycles in terms of who's at the top. It will be another team in a few years' time. I don't like to see that dominance, but it happens in every country at the moment.\" explained former Premier League footballer Neil Mellor.<\/p>\n<p>There are, of course, exceptions to every rule. And this is why football fans love the sport so much. There is the rare occasion when smaller teams achieve enormous success, but these moments are becoming fewer and further between.<\/p>\n<p>\"I do think the Premier League is the most competitive league because of how much money it generates. For example, a team like Bournemouth, who are towards the bottom of the table, can spend more than 100 million euros when the transfer window opens. If the teams at the top of the table aren't doing the same, they can lose more frequently against teams lower down the table. We've seen that happen this season with Liverpool and Chelsea, who have struggled for form.\" Mellor continued.<\/p>\n<p>Consistently winning teams are a huge problem causing uneasiness with the game.<\/p>\n<p>\"I think the main concern is that people begin a new season pretty much able to predict the future. They already think, 'Well, City are going to win it again this year'. I think that's the biggest problem for English football because, at least previously, you had three or four teams that could be in the mix.\" Alex Batt, journalist for GiveMeSport.<\/p>\n<p>So, how do football players remain motivated to win championships? Former Brazil defender Gilberto Silva was part of one of the best Premier League teams ever. He was a member of Arsenal's unbeaten 'invincible' team. He says the game has changed a lot since he played professional football.<\/p>\n<p>\"It was really, really competitive when I was there. Now when I look at the players on the field, they look much more athletic. 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