FILM: The French film delivers its rewards

With 11 nominations at the 36th ceremony of Caesar, the film by Xavier Beauvois' Of Men and Gods "collect in advance the honors of the profession that brand again its distance from the box office by ignoring" Little Tissues "from Guillaume Canet and "Camping 2" Fabien Onteniente.

After a great year for cinema hexagonal (over 206 million cinema admissions, 35% for French films), appointments spend yet most beautiful successes of 2010, "Potiche" to "Tour "from" The Heartbreaker "to" The Ghost Writer "by Roman Polanski.

The Academy of Caesar accompanies the unexpected triumph of the film by Xavier Beauvois (more than 3 million viewers), already crowned by the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes, "Of Men and Gods," which recounts the fate of the monks of Tibehirine , abducted and murdered in Algeria in 1996, is quoted in ten categories.

It is proposed to Cesar for best film, best director, best original screenplay, best sound, picture editing, best costumes, sets, best actor Lambert Wilson and twice for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Michael Lonsdale and Olivier Rabourdin.

Nominees in major categories:

Best Film

"The Heartbreaker" by Pascal Chaumeil, "The Name of the people" by Michel Leclerc, "The Ghost Writer" by Roman Polanski; "Tour" Mathieu Amalric, "Of Men and Gods" by Xavier Beauvois; "Gainsbourg, life heroic "by Joann Sfar;" Mammuth "Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern.Her Nolan, "The Social Network" by David Fincher, "Invictus" by Clint Eastwood, "Bright Star" by Jane Campion; "Heartbeats" by Xavier Dolan, "In his eyes" by Juan Jose Campanella; "Illegal" d Olivier Masset Depasse.

Best First Film
Simon Werner disappeared "Fabrice Gobert," The Heartbreaker "by Pascal Chaumeil," Gainsbourg, heroic life "by Joann Sfar;" All That Glitters "Géraldine Nakache
"Turk's Head" by Pascal Elbe

A Caesar of honor will be awarded by the Academy to the American director Quentin Tarantino during the Feb. 25 ceremony will be broadcast live at 21:00 Clear Channel Canal +.

IRAQ: At least 10 policemen killed in a suicide bombing in Samarra

AFP - A suicide car bombing against police left 10 dead and 16 injured Monday morning in the Iraqi city of Samarra (center), announced a lieutenant-colonel of the police.

A policeman on guard outside the door, fired on the bomber but he managed to bring his white van filled with explosives into the compound of the Rapid Response Unit, arrived in the south two weeks ago to protect the ceremonies marking the death of an imam revered by Shiites, said the senior officer who wished to remain anonymous.

February 12, near the Sunni town located 110 km north of Baghdad, at least 30 people were killed and 28 wounded by a suicide bomber who detonated his explosive vest in a bus of Shiite pilgrims.

Samarra which houses the mausoleum are buried the 10th and 11th imams revered by Shia Twelver Ali al-Hadi (827-868) and Hassan al-Askari (847-874) in which the faithful commemorate the death Saturday.

The destruction of the Samarra shrine bombing in February 2006 had triggered violence between Shiites and Sunnis in which tens of thousands of people had been killed.

BELGIUM: Belgium beats the world record for the longest political crisis

AFP - With a wink or instead on a serious tone, the Belgian press has widely celebrated Thursday, with large front pages, the world record for the longest matched by political crisis the country increasingly torn between between Flemings and French.

The country has indeed spent Thursday mark 249 days without being able to form a real government since the parliamentary elections of 13 June 2010. Is the time it took to Iraqis, holders of record so far, to reach last year to a power-sharing agreement between Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites.

"Finally the world champions!" Headline of the daily reference in Flanders, De Standaard, which he resolutely chose the party of humor.Its front page is covered by a photo showing Belgian soccer fans cheering after a victory.

For once, everyday Dutch and French are attuned to their front pages.

"Record broken!" Say in chorus the French newspapers Le Soir and L'Echo. He adds that "it is not finished" and published a tally of 249 days reminiscent of a prison cell wall, with series of sticks marked with chalk on black background.

"Fortunately, we have our cheekbones to laugh. Yellow.But amidst this endless political gridlock, you'd better choose the derision that depression, "said one of the chroniclers of the Evening.

More serious, the newspaper La Capitale refers to the "world record that shames us", while De Morgen title "the sorrow of Belgium", in reference to the novel "The Sorrow of Belgium" Flemish disappeared from the famous novelist Hugo Claus .

For La Libre Belgique, "the situation can not continue forever because the markets, we know, not only the current void and want a real government prepares structural reforms."

Flemish and French fail to agree on a common vision for the future.The first, spurred by their main party, independence training, require very extensive regional autonomy. The second fear a loss for their community and eventually splitting the country.

FOOTBALL: "Ronaldo has voluntarily placed his health after his performance"

In his book "Doping in football, the law of silence" (Editions Jean-Claude Gawsewitch), Jean-Pierre Mondenard explains that multiple injuries are mainly caused by Ronaldo taken doping products, especially early in his career. This sports doctor said the actions of a player who scored the game forever, the first day of retirement of the "Fenomeno". Maintenance.

France24.com: In your book, you advance the idea of a causal link between multiple injuries and Ronaldo enhancing drugs - including anabolic steroids - he would have eaten. The player pays he now mistakes of yesterday?

Jean-Pierre Mondenard: This is not the man that I criticize in my book, but the system that allowed him to continue playing football while his body could not keep up.I have examples of players known to the readers better identify the phenomenon, but it is this system which, on one side, advocates zero tolerance and the other, who cares, I condemn .

If Ronaldo is special because, at age 17, when arrived at PSV Eindhoven, he was already a star. At the time, a Brazilian doctor suspected of having the player on steroids to gain weight. But if his muscles have grown in thickness, the resistance of the tendons, it does not increase.However, it was an explosive player who made the difference in the first three meters, a type of displacement in which the tendons are very busy ...

In addition, young players regularly suffer from Osgood Schlatter's disease [wear area of the patellar tendon attaches to the upper end of tibia, Ed]. In the case of Ronaldo, it is possible that taking the anabolic has increased, which led the player to undergo three operations of the patellar tendon.

You insist on the fact that it is the medical profession who pushed Ronaldo to take medication to ease his pain. You give the example of including the 1998 World Cup where he was seized with convulsions before playing the final.A doctor would have done infiltration, just minutes before the match. Is this symptomatic of football?

J.-PM: No doubt. Even the referees are taking doping agents to take over games ... There is also a drift in the medical profession in the sporting world. For a product to be considered doping, it must meet three criteria. First, the substance used to increase the performance of one who takes it. Second, it is dangerous to health and, thirdly, it is contrary to medical ethics.Thus, an injection to cure his problems for Ronaldo tendon few minutes before a game is decidedly unethical: only the rest can cure this problem. Like most young football players that I meet, Ronaldo has voluntarily placed his health after his performance. They always end up regretting it.

Ronaldo said he suffered for several years with hypothyroidism, a disorder of the thyroid. How do you explain it?

J.-PM: It is standard for athletes to use thyroid hormone to lose weight. Ronaldo, who was nicknamed "the big," he surely had to use such products which do not appear on the list of doping products and is very common in gyms.Taking any hormone destabilizes the hormonal system. It is therefore possible that taking too many hormones during a period, Ronaldo had led her thyroid gland to stop secreting the one that stabilizes the weight.

MEXICO: The Mexican justice dismissed the cassation appeal of Florence Break

AFP - A Mexican court of three judges on Thursday rejected the appeal in cassation Break of Florence, the French woman sentenced to 60 years in prison in Mexico for kidnapping and imprisoned for over five years.

"Justice of the Union does not challenge the final decision of the court of appeal against Florence Break", now aged 36 years, according to the ruling made public before the forty journalists.

The three judges of the Supreme Court made their decision after less than two hours of meeting.

The French, who has always protested his innocence, has no recourse to justice in Mexico, but it can still enter international organizations, said the second counselor of the Embassy of France in Mexico, Florian Blazy.

"We need to revise the ruling. There are other international remedies," said the French diplomat. The situations envisaged by the embassy even before the trial were those of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights or the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

"I do not know how is Florence, but I can imagine," said Mr.Blazy.

Cassez, arrested in December 2005 during a mock inquiry held for television, was sentenced to 96 years in prison in the first instance, a sentence reduced on appeal to 60 years in prison in March 2009.

The arrest of Florence Break, along with his former partner Israel Vallarta, had been a television broadcast made at dawn on December 9, 2005 as a live broadcast in a "rancho", a house countryside on the outskirts of Mexico City.

The French had claimed she was arrested yesterday and held incommunicado until dawn.The police had then acknowledged having made a "recovery".

For advocates of the young woman, the cassation appeal (amparo) filed in August 2010 was to demonstrate that all the charges "built on sand" on "false evidence" in the words of counsel French Break Florence, Frank Berton.

At the beginning of the case, the opinion was unanimous Mexican Cassez been hostile to media and the verdict was no appeal against the "evil French".

But in five years, the activities of lawyers and press-depth investigations, including from French journalists on the spot on a record of more than 10,000 pages, had sown doubt in circles wider and wider in Mexico.

In November 2010, the French had received two notable supporters: that the Catholic Church of Mexico and a former federal Attorney-General, the equivalent of the Minister of Justice, who claimed to believe in his innocence.

The church had found a "total violation" of human Cassez and his "absolute innocence".

Former Minister Ignacio Morales Lechuga said for his part that the procedure "has not respected the rules of the Mexican criminal law, violated the rights of the condemned" and "led to freedom by letting the real perpetrators of crime" .

Break The case also became a contentious diplomatic row between France and Mexico, especially since the visit of Nicolas Sarkozy in Mexico in March 2009.

Three months later, in June 2009, Mexican President Felipe Calderon has ruled out personally in a speech for radio and television, the solution advocated by French President to transfer Cassez France.

This decision of the Supreme Court comes as Mexican has been officially launched, a few days ago, the year of France in Mexico.

UNITED KINGDOM: Assange's lawyers challenged the legality of the extradition request

AFP - Lawyers for Julian Assange Monday challenged the legality of the extradition proceedings initiated by Sweden against him for sexual violence and fears "a miscarriage of justice" during the 5th and most important founder of Wikileaks's appearance before the British justice.

Defenders of the Australian 39 years were immediately occupied the land, by posting the outset of the hearing all their arguments, an exceptional gesture intended to "fundamentally calling into question the validity of the mandate European arrest.

Assange has always fiercely denied accusations of sexual abuse made against him by two young Swedes.And his supporters believe he is the victim of a conspiracy related to the disclosure by Wikileaks thousands of official documents that have embarrassed many governments.

On the eve of his trial, a police report was leaked on the internet: one of his accusers told in detail how he imposed an unprotected sex while sleeping.

During the first day devoted to the defense arguments before the hearing on Tuesday from witnesses, lawyers Assange opened a first edge by challenging the charge of rape, the definition is much broader in Sweden.

"What is considered rape in Sweden is not in other countries," argues Mr. Robertson also noted that a rape trial in Sweden "would be held in camera" as usual in this countries, which would constitute "a flagrant denial of justice."

The founder of Wikileaks lawyers also argue that the warrant is not admissible to the extent that the Australian was not charged. And that the prosecutor in charge of the case had no authority to issue it.

Another argument: the "real risk" that once extradited to Sweden, founder of Wikileaks is sent to the United States and, they say, interned at Guantanamo Bay, or even sentenced to death.In violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

United States, where Assange fugure made for some politicians to public enemy number one organized by leaks from his site, Justice opened an investigation against him, but she has not charged and did not ask her extradition.

The hearing, which is attended by a hundred journalists allowed to cover the proceedings via twitter, should last 48 hours.In such cases, the judge's decision is usually taken under advisement.

If the green light to extradition, Australia has many opportunities for appeal and the procedure could take several months to the end.

While the defense fought tooth and nail in court, several personalities, including British Jemima Khan, fashion muse and ambassador for Unicef, had planned to attend a demonstration outside support to the founder of Wikileaks.

Julian Assange, who now lives under house arrest in the English countryside, arrived 45 minutes before the start of the hearing at Belmarsh court, in the east of the city, flanked by his lawyers.

Wearing a gray hooded duffle coat, very talkative in the Australian media since his arrest on December 7 in London, was this time remained silent, merely a hello from the hand towards the international press came to number to cover this new episode of a legal saga that promises to be long.

TURKEY: Several dead and dozens wounded in an accidental explosion in Ankara

AFP - A powerful explosion occurred Thursday accidental origin in a workshop of an industrial district of Ankara killed three and thirty wounded, said the local mayor, Yasar Fethi, the news channel NTV.

"Three people are dead, unfortunately," said Mayor Yenimahalle the district to which the industrial and commercial area Ostim the Turkish capital, where the accident occurred.

The official said "there is a 90% chance that this is an accident," caused by the explosion of the boiler room of the building due to a gas leak.

Workers could be buried under the rubble, the official said.

The blast occurred in a large studio in a building with four floors producing generators and drilling rigs.Maximum 80 workers employed in the workshop, says Yasar.

According to images broadcast by NTV, many ambulances arrived on the scene transported the wounded to hospital while others were injured, most lightly affected and apparently in shock, receiving on-site first aid.

Television channels have also raised the Runway to explain the disaster. The authorities have not yet decided.

Rescuers accompanied by sniffer dogs were busy in the cold area of the accident to search for potential workers trapped under the rubble of the building, including at least two floors have been very badly damaged.