The coronavirus, which has already caused the death of nearly 9,000 people in the country and forced the French to be confined, rightly stifles all other news. Some may have escaped you in this tsunami of information related to Covid-19.
"The Bureau of legends" which is making a comeback on Canal +, radioactivity rekindled by a fire at the Chernobyl site, a majestic bear immortalized in the Pyrenees, a category 5 cyclone that sweeps the Pacific or even the United States who declare war on white supremacists. Serious or lighter, find below five news from this Monday, guaranteed without coronavirus.
Radioactivity revived in Chernobyl
Thirty-four years later, a fire revives radioactivity near Chernobyl, the scene of the worst nuclear accident in history. Flames have invaded more than 100 hectares around the old Ukrainian power plant. The head of the government ecological inspection reported on Sunday an increase in radioactivity in this area: measured by a Geiger counter, its level appears 16 times higher than normal.
VIDEO. Chernobyl: fire revives radioactivity near nuclear power plant
Two planes, a helicopter and a hundred firefighters are mobilized to fight against this fire which started a hundred kilometers north of the capital, Kiev. Later in the day, the Ukrainian authorities said they had not recorded any increase in radioactivity.
A bear, on a perched ridge
Fresh out of hibernation, Goiat, a Slovenian bear released in the Pyrenees in 2016, made Nathan Birrien a happy man. The young photographer immortalized the plantigrade last Saturday at 2800 meters above sea level, using a telescope, above the town of Loudenvielle in the Hautes-Pyrénées. On his pictures posted on Facebook, you can see the massive silhouette of the male standing out from a snowy crest, alone in the world in the middle of the white vastness.
Probably one of the most beautiful meetings of my life! When Nature takes back its rights, it offers us ...
Gepostet von Nathan Birrien Visual am Samstag, 4. April 2020"Probably one of the most beautiful meetings of my life! », Moved the 24 year old photographer, in front of the spectacle of this« nature [which] takes back its rights ». Forty bears live in the Pyrenees, according to a count made in 2018.
"The Office of Legends" is back
Fans of Malotru, Phenomenon, the Mule and Sisteron were impatient. The wait has just ended: their favorite spies return to Canal +. This Monday evening, the encrypted channel broadcasts the first episode of season 5 of the "Office of legends".
This new vintage will answer several questions that remain unanswered. Will Guillaume Debailly, played by Mathieu Kassovitz, be part of the cast? Doubt is allowed after the season 4 finale. What role will Louis Garrel take on, who is appearing in the credits?
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Finally, what will be the leg of filmmaker Jacques Audiard, who boxed the last two episodes of the season? Éric Rochant, the creator and historical director of the "Bureau des légendes", gently wished to leave his hand so that new looks could be seen on his "baby". First response elements at 9 p.m.
The violent cyclone Harold sweeps Vanuatu
It is a category 5 monster, the highest possible. After 27 people were killed in the Solomon Islands last week, Hurricane Harold strengthened on the night of Sunday to Monday and hit Vanuatu, an archipelago of 80 islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Cyclone #Harold in the southern Pacific Ocean is bearing down on #Vanuatu. The forecast track also includes #Fiji. https://t.co/Kp8GDAdfbk pic.twitter.com/dynGT2VToF
- UW-Madison CIMSS (@UWCIMSS) April 4, 2020Winds exceeding 235 km / h have blown across the country. For the moment, no human or material balance has been transmitted and Cyclone Harold is now heading for the Fiji Islands. In 2015, Vanuatu was ravaged by Pam, a cyclone of similar strength.
White supremacists in sight
The Russian Imperial Movement is considered a terrorist by the United States. If this American blacklisting is a first, it is because it targets an organization advocating white supremacism, "which shows how seriously this government takes this threat", insisted the coordinator of the fight counterterrorism, Nathan Sales. According to the latter, "the world has seen an increase in terrorism linked to white supremacism" in the past five years.
This movement is accused by Washington of "providing paramilitary training to neo-Nazis and supremacists" in two centers located in Saint Petersburg. There were trained Swedes who then carried out attacks in their country in late 2016. For Nathan Sales, "the United States is not immune to this threat", referring to recent attacks "targeting people of their race or religion in places like Pittsburgh, Poway or El Paso ”.
