Guy De Launay
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Israel expands offensive in Gaza
He was told this was normal practice, the way that he was being paid and the way that his money was coming in and the way that he was paying his taxes.
Global News Podcast
Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Well, the trial itself is just three days between today and Friday, we've been told. Then the verdict, we don't expect an immediate verdict with these sort of cases. It might take a few days, it might even take a few weeks. Obviously it will be widely awaited because of the fame that Carlo Ancelotti has in Spain.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
He's a very well-known figure and he's a well-known figure in the sports world in general.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Nein, nicht überhaupt. Ich meine, es gab ein paar Fußballspieler und Spieler in Spanien, die verhaftet und mit Taxifraud verhaftet wurden, z.B. Leo Messi und Cristiano Ronaldo ein paar Jahre ago.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
In diesen Fällen wurden sie tatsächlich in Gefängnisgesetze gegeben, aber sie waren viel niedriger, als das Prosecutor gefragt hat, also gingen sie offensichtlich nicht in Gefängnis und endeten mit großen Feinden. Also wissen wir nicht, was mit dem passiert, aber ich denke, dass die Leute den Fall sehr nahe mit Carlo Ancelotti folgen werden.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Die Prosecutoren sagen, dass Mr. Ancelotti während eines vorherigen Spiels, als er Real Madrid-Coach war, 2014, 2015, dass er von den spanischen Staatsanwaltschaften seine Bildungsrechte verhielt hat. Und dass es von diesen Bildungsrechten viel Geld gab. Und er hat den Staatsanwaltschaften nicht darüber gesprochen.
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Israel expands offensive in Gaza
Und deshalb hat er die Staatsanwaltschaften in Spanien von rund einem Millionen Euro verhielt. Also das ist die Anzeige, die natürlich eine sehr ernsthafte ist und mit ihr potenziell eine Gefängnisverfügung von bis zu vier Jahren und neun Monaten hat. Und was sagt Herr Ancelotti? So he was basically saying that he was not aware of this as far as he was concerned. This was normal practice.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
Still to come... Emotions are overflowing in Kochani. Young people took out their anger on a town centre cafe bar.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
Emotions are overflowing in Kotchani. Young people took out their anger on a town centre cafe bar. They believed had the same owner as the nightclub where a fire killed 59 people. The government says the barely converted carpet warehouse was operating with a fraudulent license. It only had one exit and the ceiling proved highly flammable when the band on stage lit pyrotechnics.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
In fact, justice was the word on thousands of lips in Kotchani. People came for a vigil come protest in the small central park. Many queued to sign a book of condolence. Others simply stood and held up signs articulating what they were feeling. Unbearable and corruption were two of the most prevalent words. That reflects the anger that people feel about the way things work in North Macedonia.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
An invitation to the protest said the system didn't provide security, well-being and justice. This man's cousin lost his only child in the fire, a 19-year-old young man. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do.
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Canadian PM Mark Carney says he wants to reduce security reliance on the US
The government is aware it needs to move swiftly and decisively to avoid anger spreading across the country. Prime Minister Christian Mitskoski has repeated his warning that there'll be no mercy for anyone found to be responsible for the fire. But there have already been calls for nationwide gatherings and the name of the organising group indicates the mood. Who's next?
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
I think we can expect perhaps a divided response to this, because on the one hand Mr Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault. But the judge has only given him a fine. He hasn't given him the jail sentence that the prosecutor was calling for, a one-year jail sentence. He has to pay an 11,000 Euro fine.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
He has to stay away from Jenny and Marcel, at least 200 meters away from Jenny and Marcel for the next year. We don't know what the response is going to be, but I think that there will certainly be people who are unhappy with it because they feel it's too harsh. There will be other people who feel that the 11,000 Euro fine is not enough.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
But this is a case which has kept Spain absolutely captivated for months now.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
Yes, Mr. Rubiales and the other three co-defendants who are accused of coercion have all been absolved of that charge. So although Mr. Rubiales has been found guilty of sexual assault, he's not been found guilty of coercion.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
And that was a very serious charge because the prosecutor was calling for Mr. Rubiales and each of the others facing that charge to be given jail sentences of one and a half years. So, they have been absolved of that charge, but Mr. Rubiales is facing this charge. He has been found guilty of the charge of sexual assault.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
I think when you talk to people in women's football, they do want to move on from this. And when it happened, it really did cast a shadow over the celebrations of the World Cup win in 2023. There is a feeling that this court case could be the end of the saga, which has sort of dragged on and on for a year and a half. That the legal phase of all of this could be the end of it.
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Hamas releases the bodies of four Israelis
And it will be time to move on after this.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
The shooting started late in the afternoon in Setinja, a small town which used to be Montenegro's royal capital. Police say a customer at a bar was involved in an argument. He went home, returned with a weapon and started shooting. The bar owner was among those who died. The shooter then drove to the home of the bar owner where he again opened fire.
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New Orleans attack: death toll rises to 15
Two children died and the owner's wife was injured. The authorities say shooting took place in two other locations and members of the suspect's family are among the dead. Montenegro's president, Jakov Milatovic, said he was shocked and shaken and that the whole country felt the pain of the victims' families.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
The resolution, which was adopted unanimously by all 15 members of the Security Council on Friday, calls for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire. It also urged Rwanda and Congo to restart peace talks. In a post on social media, the Congolese government spokesman Patrick Muyaya hailed the resolution as a major diplomatic victory. And he also had this message for Kigali. Get out of our country.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Seit Januar haben die Rebels die Städte von Bukavu und Südkivus, der provinziellen Kapital Goma, in der östlichen Mineralbrücke des Landes, gefangen. Der Konflikt hat Tausende getötet und fast eine Million Zivilisten verletzt, mit vielen fliehenden zu ihren Häusern, insbesondere zu Nachbarländern wie Burundi.
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Israel delays scheduled release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners
Währenddessen hat das Rwanda-Parlament ein Statement kritisiert, das das Europäische Parlament-Proposal kritisiert. for the EU to suspend the Minerals Agreement and aid to Kigali because of its alleged role in the violence in the Congo. Rwanda condemned the decision as selective outrage against the M23 rebels. It said the move deliberately obscures the ongoing crisis and Rwandas security concerns.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
Well, it's been an enormous crowd. And if you take the official numbers, and by the official numbers, I mean the numbers that have come from the government, they're saying that 107,000 people were at the various locations in Belgrade city centre. Now, you know, if you You take official figures and estimates of organisers, the truth is somewhere in the middle, usually.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
We haven't heard from the organisers, we haven't heard from any independent monitors, but 107,000 people in Belgrade is huge by this country's standards. It's certainly the largest protest that I've ever heard of taking place in Serbia. And when you're in the midst of it, It's absolutely staggering. It was quite difficult to make any movement around the city because of it.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
They actually had to change the location of the rally from in front of the National Assembly to Slavia Square, which is a much broader location with fewer obstructions, and crucially, none of the counter-protesters who were blocking the park in front of the National Assembly. And, of course, that was always leading to the possibility that there might have been clashes between the protesters.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
and the counter-protesters. It's been generally good-humoured, no serious incidents have been reported, but once again people raising their voices and saying that they are unhappy with the way that President Aleksandar Vucic and the government have been responding to these allegations of corruption and cost-cutting which they believe led to the disaster at Novi Sad railway station last November.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
It's really difficult to see what the end game to this is, because the students say they're going to carry on protesting until they've had full transparency and accountability with regards to this railway station collapse.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
They want to know why 15 people died at a recently renovated facility that was part of the government's flagship infrastructure project, this high-speed railway line from Belgrade to Budapest. Now, President Vucic says the government has already released a lot of the documentation. We've had the resignation of Prime Minister Milos Vucic, plus the mayor of Novi Sad.
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US launches wave of air strikes on Yemen's Houthis
The charges being brought against 16 people, including a former minister. He says he believes the students will never be satisfied whatever he does, and he thinks they're being manipulated or taken advantage of by opposition parties who are trying to use what he calls the street to overthrow a legitimately elected government.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
This was the moment when a great night out turned into a disaster. Pyrotechnics ignited on stage as part of the performance by the band DNK in Cochini, a small town about 60 miles to the east of North Macedonia's capital, Skopje.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
At first they watched as flames crept across the ceiling while staff tried to put out the fire with extinguishers, but the mood swiftly switched to panic as the blaze intensified. Survivors described the chaos as they fought to escape through the only exit.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
Here in Koceni, police have sealed off access to the Pulse nightclub. It's behind a green and yellow painted hotel on a roundabout on the outskirts of town, and it's now considered a crime scene. Liupso Kosevski is the public prosecutor.
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Arrests made after many fatalities in North Macedonia nightclub fire
The government has held an emergency meeting and declared a week of national mourning. It's also calling for an urgent safety inspection of all clubs and music venues.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
So Amnesty International says it's uncovered the use of multiple different kinds of spyware by the Serbian authorities. And this spyware is targeting phones, specifically phones belonging to journalists, to civil society activists, to people involved in protests.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
And the really interesting aspect, if you follow your spyware news, is that one of the apps that they've discovered was developed locally in Serbia, and it gets onto your phone, and if the phone is able to be cracked, and then it can start spying on you. There's also been detections of the already internationally notorious spyware Pegasus as well. I mean, is this a surprising claim?
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
Well, I mean, Pegasus is, in essence, it's available to governments to use around the world. There have been scandals involving it. Another tool that the Serbian authorities were found to have been using by Amnesty International was developed by an Israeli company called Celebrite. That enables law enforcement officers to unlock phones which are otherwise locked.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
And then the accusation from Amnesty is that while the phones were unlocked, the authorities got busy installing spyware. But yes, I mean, authorities have been known around the world to do this to various people for various reasons. And the software has been developed for that very reason. It's the way in which Serbia is using it, which Amnesty is highlighting.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
saying that it's in essence a campaign of harassment against journalists and civil society activists who are just legitimately going about their business and have no reason to be the target of this sort of law enforcement activity.
Global News Podcast
French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
The intelligence agency known as the BIA has responded because they were specifically accused by Amnesty International of being involved in installing the spyware. And they said that regarding the Amnesty International report, which they put in inverted commas, they say that they can only state the trivial sensationalism of its content indicates the purpose of Amnesty International.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
which is reflected in its working for the interests of individual agencies and pressure groups. So it's not even able to comment on the meaningless statements in their text, just as we do not otherwise comment on similar content. So in other words, they're saying that Amnesty is working for the opposition groups, which it says are being hacked.
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French ministers arrive in Mayotte after devastating cyclone
It's a fairly predictable response, but it doesn't perhaps make people feel any better about what's going on regarding the Serbian authorities.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
Let's face it, even those of us who follow affairs in Serbia for a living, we're having to look up exactly who Dr Matsut is. And the opposition parties say, well, look, this person may be an expert in endocrinology. He may have all sorts of memberships of international organizations in that field. But that doesn't mean that he's fit to run the government of Serbia.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
And the opposition say they figure that he's just going to be a puppet for President Vucic.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
That's a good question. He hadn't been a member of the Progressive Party until now. It's not clear whether he's going to join the Progressive Party at this point.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
Or indeed, whether the government that he's going to put together is going to be drawn from political figures, or whether there's going to be an effort to try and pull together a non-political government, a government of experts, in other words, because he is one himself.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
But that's all got to be decided by the 18th of April, which is the deadline for Mr. Matsut, I should say Dr. Matsut, to form the government. Otherwise, elections will automatically be called.
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Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
It's absolutely a tactic of his, and he's a very good tactician. He's shown time and again that he knows exactly how to neuter opposition discontent and how when to go to the country at the right time for his progressive party to receive another mandate to return to power. Guy De Launay.
Global News Podcast
Trump threatens to escalate trade war with China
I think we can pretty much guarantee that he'll be approved by Parliament because the governing progressive party is extremely dominant in the National Assembly. That's the party of President Aleksandar Vucic. But we've already heard from opposition parties that they're not happy about this nomination of Dr Juro Matsut.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
Blanca Castro has to wash her dishes in the bathtub. That's because her kitchen is dangerous and unusable, with a large hole in the ceiling which leaks water from above. Blanca believes that the company which owns her flat and others in the building has deliberately halted all maintenance work in order to encourage the tenants to leave.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
Blanca is just one of millions of Spaniards who are worried about the cost of housing. Over the last decade, salaries in Spain have increased by around 20%. But during the same period, the cost of an average rental has doubled. I'm next to a group of workmen and some cranes where a block of flats is being built just on the outskirts of Madrid.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
This kind of site is much less common now than in 2007 at the height of Spain's property boom, when more than 600,000 homes were built in just one year. Last year, by contrast, only a sixth of that number of homes were completed. High building costs, lack of available land... The shortage of manpower have all been factors in restricting construction in recent years.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
The socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, says he's now making it easier for cheap housing to be built. His coalition government is also taking more interventionist measures.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
The government has introduced a housing law which puts a cap on rentals in some urban areas. So far, it's only been implemented in a handful of regions, such as Catalonia and the Basque Country. The government has also proposed a tax of up to 100% on the purchase of property by non-residents from outside the EU, which could affect British buyers in particular.
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Global stock markets plunge amid Trump tariff turmoil
Critics say this kind of interventionism scares owners and investors, causing properties to be taken off the rental market and making the situation worse. However, lower-income Spaniards are calling for more drastic measures to be taken as anger over the housing crisis builds.