Anna Holligan
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
it's a fascinating genre I think there's so much opportunity to explore the human psyche to play with really interesting ideas to push boundaries I mean of course there are many many different types of horror and there's certain types of horror I don't think you'll ever see nominated for Academy Awards but this this kind the substance you know which really does have a very strong social message I think can push through and so I think it is is a great genre in potentially I mean one thing
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
To think about with Academy Awards, I do think there is some prejudice against horror movies. And I think there is perhaps a sense that it's a genre that is quite populist or some people. I mean, when you think about your friends, there's always some people that just don't go near horror because they're too scared or they just don't like the sound of it.
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Bibas family funeral takes place in Israel
And I think the same may apply within the Academy membership. You know, it's not for everyone. The Substance is a great film. I'm so pleased that it's been nominated, but it is quite divisive. You know, everyone has a slightly different take on it.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
The judge indirectly actually condemned the fact that the relatively new cabinet has swept various measures off the table. The previous government had allocated more than 24 billion euros to achieve these types of goals in reducing dangerous nitrogen dioxide and ammonia emissions, which mostly come from transportation and the farming industry.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
But the current government slashed that right down to 5 billion euros. Judges said no new policy is being created to achieve the 2030 targets. And it's up to politicians to determine how those climate goals are achieved. Important to say at this point, both sides can appeal against the ruling.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
The judge, though, has warned that the government should already be taking steps to implement this verdict. So no time to lose, essentially, is the message here. Here in The Hague, significant victory, of course, for Greenpeace. I spoke to Hilda Anna de Vries, a campaigner for Greenpeace, just after the verdict, and she told me what was at risk here.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
Well, the reaction we can expect certainly from the hard right parties, including the farmer-citizen movement. So this is a farmer's party, often referred to as, and it came to power on a promise to protect farmers. And this is exactly the industry which is facing the biggest cuts. So inevitably, it's going to have a political impact, one of those parties.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
sits within the newly formed coalition and they'll try to push back on any proposed changes that will impact upon the agriculture industry. But the cabinet as a whole now is under pressure from this court. A 10 million euro fine is at stake if they fail to meet those targets.
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Rupert Murdoch newspaper group offers full apology for intrusion into Prince Harry's private life
Greenpeace had warned that the Netherlands' entire ecosystem is at risk of extinction if those high inflammations aren't cut. The government had said, you know, this is unrealistic, we can't achieve those targets. What the court said today was, well, actually, you are obliged to make this happen.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
We basically used a very novel way of preparing these samples and we are treating the DNA of the tumours that circulates in the plasma together with then looking and examining the entire genome that helps us to identify lots of different features of tumour DNA.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
That's correct. They're very small fragments of DNA that are shredded by tumours, even by early stage tumours. And it's those fragments of tumor DNA that you can identify from a simple blood draw. That's what we are examining, simply because we think that that is where tumor originates from. It's ultimately a problem with changes in the DNA.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
And then importantly, we can detect imprinting of the DNA that happens very early on that is quite tissue specific. So when you have a pancreas cancer, for example, you can then go back and you can say, oh, this is really... coming from the pancreas. So that allows us to do a tissue of origin estimation.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
Yes, ultimately it will help us identify where the cancer is, which tissue it originates from, but really putting all those different attributes together and then training the algorithms to detect them. That is really where I think the innovation is.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
So it ultimately depends a lot on the cost of the test and how many tests you have to perform. So that's a health economic question and it depends on how much payers are willing to pay. When it comes to resource restricted environments or public health system, then one would say that it complements current existing screening programs, but these are invasive They use radiology.
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First deaths as wildfires wreak havoc in LA
You have to undergo endoscopy. The uptake of these screening programmes is only about 60% overall. So using this as a complement to people who would otherwise not undergo any screening, I think that would be already a success.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Corentin Cradeau zeigt mir den Ort, wo Paul Varé im Oktober 2020 getötet wurde. Corentin kannte Paul, weil sie beide auf Kampagnen geholfen haben, um das Fahrrad in Paris sicherer zu machen. Was passierte zu Paul, machte Headlines.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
The driver ran over Paul's foot. He banged on the bonnet. The driver backed up and then ran over Paul.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
The driver has been charged with murder. He says it was an accident. Paul's death in a bike lane resonated with many here.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
In the last few years Paris has witnessed a cycling revolution. It's put in more than a thousand kilometers of bike lanes. The number of cyclists has soared. More than 11% of trips in Paris are made by bicycle compared to just 4% by car. But bike lanes come in all shapes and sizes and it's not always clear who has the right of way. Arguments are frequent. Corentin took me out cycling.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Car drivers stop when there is a red light, but some bikes, they ignore it. What do you do when there's a cyclist who's annoyed at you because you're in a bike lane and they hit the bonnet?
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Alexandra Lejeune, who works for a motorist lobby group, feels as though the authorities have bent over backwards to accommodate cyclists at the expense of everyone else and not just drivers.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Remy Ferrault is a socialist member of the French Senate.
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Britain announces biggest increase in defence spending in decades
Back on the streets, Corentin believes Paris will stick with its new direction of travel.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
To bring it into the light and almost alchemise some of that evil stuff that went on and take back the power.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
In the statement from Kareem Khan, prosecutor at the ICC, he said they are pursuing the investigation into the alleged crimes by members of the Taliban and the Islamic State. So that remains the focus. In terms of how long it's been going, ever since 2003, in fact, when Afghanistan deposited its instrument of accession to the Rome Statute, which is basically the document which underpins the ICC.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
But As you mentioned, these particular arrest warrant requests exist since the Taliban came to power. So the 15th of August 2021 until the present day is the period within which the prosecutor says these alleged crimes were committed.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Well, not yet. So the ICC prosecutor has taken this body of evidence to the judges, the pretrial trial judges at the ICC. And we have a bit more detail about that evidence. So including expert and witness testimonies, official decrees by the Taliban, forensic reports and statements by the suspects themselves. So all of that has been put on the desks of the judge.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
The ICC judges, they now have to go through it and decide whether they agree with the prosecutor that there are reasonable grounds to believe that these men are responsible for the atrocities, as the prosecutor alleges. So just to give a bit more detail on those suspects, Kareem Khan, prosecutor at the ICC, believes Supreme Leader of the Taliban,
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
Hebatullah Akhundzada and the chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, are criminally responsible for persecuting Afghan girls and women, as well as people who, as you say, the Taliban considers to be not conforming with their ideological expectations. You know, the trouble with all of this, of course, is that the Taliban is firmly in control in Afghanistan.
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
So apprehending and transferring suspects to the Hague will be an immense challenge if I mean, is it in effect gets that far?
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Donald Trump wants to abolish the US emergency response agency
I mean, human rights groups would argue is more than just symbolic as the court would itself. And there are situations in international justice where arrest warrants have been issued and it has taken decades to bring the suspects to the Hague. That does not mean it's inconceivable. But indeed, there is far to go.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
We are slap bang in the middle of New Orleans. There's Bourbon Street, which many people will have heard of. It's the most famous street. Partying for bars, for restaurants, for music. And I was out here last night and it was absolutely thronged with people. And to get a sense of what it's like here in New Orleans is that's not unusual.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
I mean, obviously it was incredibly busy because it was not only the Sugar Bowl college football game, but it's also New Year's Eve. But on any given night, this area is really thronged with people. It's a city where life is lived outside. You know, it was warm last night. Everybody was on the streets. The bars were all open. And there was a parade earlier in the day. There were marching bands.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
There were thousands of people on the street all day long. And that continued into the night. The city is actually at almost 90% capacity. So that just gives you a sense of how busy it is. To me, so I live here, it was one of the busiest weekends I've seen since Mardi Gras. I mean, it was incredibly busy.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
And for it to be such a brazen attack, it's really left the whole city in a complete sense of shock.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
Yes. So this is a very contentious issue. I've spoken to some business owners in the French Quarter, and that is where the real focus of people's concerns are going to be, because it's very difficult to operate in the French Quarter. It's very old. It's a historic neighborhood. You know, it's difficult to park. It's difficult to get through there. So how...
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
This was allowed to happen is now where people's thoughts are going because there are bollards, but they're very rarely up. I walk down this street quite often and there were some bollards further up the street that were kind of up, but that wasn't really near the busy streets. So it wasn't necessarily very effective.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
So we're now seeing a lot of sort of political leaders are coming to the scene and they're wanting to know, you know, what's happened.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Anna Aslam reports. Jean David was initially upset when his bag was stolen from his car in Toulouse. He reported the crime and cancelled his bank cards. But too late. 50 euros had already been spent via contactless payment at a nearby shop.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Speaking to the cashier, he found out two men, who appeared to be homeless, had bought cigarettes and several scratch cards, and they'd won the jackpot of 500,000 euros. They were so excited, they left their cigarettes in the shop and hurried to claim their winnings. But Jean David had told the lottery company about the stolen card, so the pair could now be arrested and the money seized.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
And it's here that Mr. David's frustrations turned into excitement, as he tried to strike a deal with the thieves.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
It's an interesting offer. Neither party can get the money by themselves and they wouldn't have wound up in this situation without each other. It's unclear though whether the lottery company will definitely pay out and if the thieves could still get in trouble. But for a share of half a million euros, the risks may just be worth it.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Scratchcard-Winnern haben 30 Tage von der Verkaufszeit, um ihre Gewinne zu beurteilen. Also ist die Zeit für dieses sehr unwahrscheinliche Team schnell zu erreichen.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Anna Aslam.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
And these archaeological treasures haven't been seen in public since. Actually, time is of the essence now because the longer these objects remain in the hands of criminals, the more chance they have of getting damaged.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
But there's also a risk that if they become too hot, so in other words, if everyone knows there's an international search underway, they become really difficult to sell in the black market or the dark web. And the more chance the thieves will just decide that they're more trouble than they're worth and dump them.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
I have Romanian friends. In fact, I spent today with Romanian friends and they said they grew up learning about these objects. They're in school books, so they have huge cultural and symbolic significance. To give you an idea, one Romanian friend said it would be like Rembrandt's night watch was stolen for the Dutch or the Mona Lisa for Italians.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
The helmet, the centrepiece, was probably a ceremonial helmet rather than one used in battle, made of almost pure gold. It was about the right size for a child. These stolen artefacts represented the Dacian civilisation which thrived in what is today Romania before it was conquered by the Romans.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
Extremely embarrassing, but also this will resonate beyond the Netherlands, beyond Romania, because as art historians and detectives have pointed out, this is a crime that's very difficult to prevent when thieves, and this is something we're increasingly seeing in the Netherlands, explosives being used for robberies and also in other types of crimes.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
It's difficult for museums and galleries to fully protect themselves from this type of breaking. But this is an international incident now. Dutch police have activated the cross-border cooperation mechanism. Interpol, the international crime agency, has been called in to assist.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
The authorities are now asking visitors to report anything suspicious they saw around these objects over the last few days. And bearing in mind the thing that makes it even more painful for the museum probably is that this exhibition just had a couple more days to run. And so really now they're asking everyone to think about whether they may have seen anything that could help the investigation.
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Four Israeli hostages and 200 Palestinian prisoners released in Gaza deal
something out of a heist movie perhaps disappearance of the ancient dacian treasures here is what we know so far so it's pitch black early hours of the morning thieves detonated some kind of explosive device windows shattered they entered the museum seized the most precious piece in this collection not long afterwards police found a burning car nearby they believe it may have been the getaway car used suspects then changed vehicles to hide their tracks
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
This is a whole new realm in AI and cybercrime. This is one of the first cases involving AI-generated child sexual abuse materials. So we've just had details from Europol. This is an operation that has been going on over the last few days. But in fact, the main suspect, who is Danish national, he was arrested last November.
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
He's accused of hosting an online platform where he distributed, he created, produced these AI-generated images, then sold them through social media. So users from all over the world were able to make a symbolic payment online. get a password and then access this platform to watch children essentially being abused.
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
And as this technology is becoming more and more sophisticated, it's increasingly difficult for the authorities to differentiate between those AI-generated images and real world victims. So that's one of the front lines now in terms of Europol's operations.
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
Genau, ja. Also das war der dänische National. Aber insgesamt haben sie 273 Verbrecher identifiziert. Das ist eine Operation, die mit dem Namen Cumberland genannt wird. Und wenn ich die Liste, die von Europol veröffentlicht wurde, schaue, wie viele Autoritäten involviert sind. Es gibt einfach eine Idee, wie breit dieses Problem ist.
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Huge protests in Greece over train crash justice
Also aus Australien, Österreich, Belgien, Bosnien, der Tschechischen Republik, Dänemark, Finnland, Frankreich, Deutschland, Ungarn, direkt über Europa. Vielen Dank. Anna Holligan