The info not to miss
Infernos are multiplying in France in forests parched by heat waves and the absence of rain.
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin are traveling in Gironde this Thursday noon, where fires have ravaged nearly 6,800 hectares of forest since Tuesday.
Emmanuel Macron announced aid from "Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania and Austria" to fight the fires.
Nearly 10,000 people were evacuated to the area.
Four planes from the EU fleet will also be sent to France from Greece and Sweden, the European Commission announced on Thursday.
As a reminder, nearly 13,000 hectares had burned in July in the Landiras sector.
In Maine-et-Loire, the two main fires which have ravaged more than 1,500 ha mainly in the forests since Monday are now fixed.
🔥#FiresGironde |
Update at 8:00 a.m.
▶️6800ha burned
▶️10,000 people evacuated
▶️1100 #SapeursPompiers mobilized
Very severe fire outbreak risk conditions: ➡️vegetation and dry ground
➡️heat wave
temperature ➡️dry air
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– Prefect of New Aquitaine and Gironde (@PrefAquitaine33) August 11, 2022
What else to remember
The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant on the menu of a meeting of the UN Security Council.
The meeting convened this Thursday afternoon at the UN at the request of Russia will examine the security situation of the nuclear site of Zaporizhya, the largest in Europe, which worries the international community, while the bombings continue in the area, not far from the central.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, deadly bombardments had taken place according to the Ukrainian authorities, who deplored 13 people killed in the Dniepropetrovsk region and another in that of Zaporijjia.
Donald Trump says he is the victim of "a witch hunt".
The former US president remained silent during a six-hour sworn hearing with the New York attorney general on Wednesday.
He is suspected of tax evasion within his group Trump Organization, in the midst of a political storm after a spectacular search by the FBI at his home in Florida in another case.
The former president of the United States has been targeted since 2019 with two of his children - Ivanka and Donald Jr - by a civil investigation by the highest magistrate of the State of New York.
He was heard on Wednesday, but he announced in a press release at the start of the hearing that he had invoked the famous 5th amendment to the American Constitution, which allows any litigant not to testify against himself.
The Disney + streaming platform attracted 14.4 million new subscribers
between March and June, more than its competitor the giant Netflix, bringing its total to 152 million subscribers.
This news reassures a market worried about the risks of saturation of digital services, while the boom linked to the pandemic has come to an end and consumers are facing galloping inflation.
Arrest of a suspected member of the Islamic State in the United Kingdom.
A suspected member of the "Beatles" of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), a cell specializing in the capture, torture and execution of Western hostages, is due to appear in British justice on Thursday, just after his arrest on his return from Turkey and his indictment.
The suspect was arrested at London Luton Airport on Wednesday evening.
Aine Leslie Davis, is due to appear in court at Westminster Magistrates Court in London in the morning, Scotland Yard said in a statement.
it concerns you
The heat wave is still raging in 18 departments of western France, from Charente-Maritime to Pyrénées-Atlantiques and even Gironde.
Locally temperatures could reach up to 40 degrees.
High temperatures that cause repeated power cuts.
If the air is suffocating, underground, the electrical cables are also put to the test by the high heat.
However, electrical installations, buried at least 80 centimeters deep for low voltage lines, are capable of withstanding temperatures of around 90°C.
However, the accumulation of high temperatures raises the temperature of tarred soils, mainly affecting dense and heavily tarred urban areas, according to Enedis, the company responsible for maintaining the network.
