Sunday, March 19, 2023

NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT SUNDAY 3/19/2023 NEWSDUMP WEEKEND BIDEN-NETANYAHU TALK BY PHONE ABOUT JUDICIAL REFORM, CREDIT SUISSE BAILOUT, ISRAEL, FRANCE, PAKISTAN POLITICAL PROTEST CLASHES, TRUMP CALLS FOR PROTEST IN USA

 


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(NEWS WILL BE PRESENTED IN A CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER THE LASTEST NEWS AT THE TOP OF THE POST)




                    LATE NEWS TONIGHT:




More protests on the streets of Paris tonight as demonstrations and strikes intensify across France...VIDEO LINK





Opinion polling in France indicating 68 percent of the French people feel anger at President Macron's decision to force through pension reform without a vote in the National Assembly with only 8 percent satisfied with his action...(BFM-TV France)




SIX CENTRAL BANKS SAY THEY WILL 'BOOST' THE FLOW OF US DOLLARS IN THE WORLD FINANCIAL SYSTEM AMDIST CONCERN ABOUT THE SOLVENCY OF BANKS...BBC NEWS




More on the phone conversation on judicial reform in Israel held between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu tonight.



The "Times of Israel" reporting a 'candid' conversation between the two that was also "constructive".    


This based on a source identified as a 'senior administration official'.


The Biden Administration has been pressing Israel's government to water down its judicial reform plan 'as broad a consensus as possible'...TIMES OF ISRAEL





                    EVENING NEWS POST




ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SPEAKING TO JOE BIDEN AS THE US HAS CALLED FOR COMPROMISE ON JUDICIAL REFORM...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS



The deal for UBS the leading Swiss bank to take over Credit Suisse and shore it up financially is official this evening ahead of the opening of markets in Asia...BBC NEWS




The Iranian Foreign Minister visiting Moscow this coming week.   He denies any notion that Iran is supplying weapons to Russia for the Ukraine War as asserted by the US and nations aligned with it....TASS RUSSIA



                        MID-DAY NEWS



A BILLION DOLLAR OFFER ON THE TABLE TO BUY CREDIT SUISSE INVOVLVING SWISS BANKING GIANT UBS...THE NATIONAL UNITED ARAB EMIRATES



IN FRANCE UNION LEADER PHILIPPE MARTINEZ SAYS THE ANGER ON THE STREETS IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON.



MARTINEZ CITING MACRON'S USE OF ARTICLE 49.3 IN FRANCE'S CONSTITUTION TO FORCE APPROVAL OF PENSION REFORM WITHOUT A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VOTE.


MARTINEZ SAYING THAT THE: 


                     "discontent is deep"


HE URGES A BACKDOWN FROM THE GOVERNMENT ON THE PENSION REFORM.


A STONE-THROWING INCIDENT AT THE HOME OF THE LEADER OF LES REPUBLICAINS ERIC CIOTTI.     


61 LES REPUBLICAINS MEMBERS IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HOLD THE KEY TO ANY MOTIONS OF CENSURE AGAINST MR. MACRON'S GOVERNMENT PASSING TOMORROW...(Information from BFM-TV France)





Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urging the military to deal with insubordination and the police to deal with highway roadblocks as opposition to his judicial reform proposals continues to intensify...TIMES OF ISRAEL...


 Prime Minister Netanyahu's government moving forward with judicial reform laws.


This week laws to help both Prime Minister Netanyahu and the leader of the Shas religious party Aryeh Deri are to be considered.


The proposed judicial reforms have triggered huge protests in the streets aimed at his government in general and it's most conservative and religious members in particular...TIMES OF ISRAEL STORY...



Massive protests across Israel Saturday evening including highway blockades...LIVE BLOG TIMES OF ISRAEL...



On the Jewish Sabbath Leftist protesters staging a raucous demonstration with airhorns and megaphones outside a synagogue where the so-called "Far-Right" Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir was praying inside.



Some residents of the community objected to the demonstration.    There were clashes and arrests...ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS




The protests continue in France thousands on the streets this weekend opposing the imposition of a pension reform plan by President Emmanuel Macron with a vote in the National Assembly.


Strike actions launched this weekend include the shutdown of France's largest oil refinery in Normandy.


On Monday motions of censure against the government will be voted on in the National Assembly...(Informaton from BFM-TV France in this story)...


FRANCE YELLOW VESTS POST WITH ROUNDUP OF FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENTS IN FRANCE




In Pakistan a court hearing for former Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad on Saturday cancelled amid clashes between Khan's supporters and police.


Mr. Khan told the BBC that the government wants to put him in jail to prevent him from campaigning in elections later this year.


Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif says that efforts by Mr. Khan's supporters to protect him in recent days 'laid bare his fascist and militant tendencies"...BBC NEWS...



Police stormed the home of Mr. Khan in Lahore Saturday making 61 arrests...ITV UK



From the events in those three nations to the situation here in the USA where President Trump says he will arrested this Tuesday.


A case against him coming from Manhattan-New York City DA Democrat Alvin Bragg.   


A grand jury used in connection with the 'hush money' allegation involving a woman Trump is said to have had a sexual relationship with.


Mr. Trump saying the prosecution is coming from a "corrupt" prosecutor's office.



Three social media posts from Mr. Trump on Saturday the third saying in part that the US is a "nation in steep decline, being led into World War III by a crooked politician".


Mr. Trump calling for protest...FREE REPUBLIC POST-THE CONSERVATIVE TREEHOUSE STORY-DISCUSSION




At least 13 are dead following a 6.5 magnitude earthquake in Ecuador that also impacted northern Peru...ASSOCIATED PRESS-THE GUARDIAN UK





NORTH KOREA FIRING A SHORT-RANGE BALLISTIC MISSILE SUNDAY MORNING.    THE MISSILE FIRED EASTWARDS TOWARDS THE EAST SEA (SEA OF JAPAN).


NORTH KOREA REACTING TO JOINT MILITARY MANUEVERS INVOLVING THE US AND SOUTH KOREA...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA





THE EUROPEAN UNION FOREIGN POLICY CHIEF JOSEP BORRELL ANNOUNCING A DEAL BETWEEN SERBIA AND KOSOVO ON NORMALIZTION OF RELATIONS.


THE US AND EU DEMANDING THAT THE SERBS NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH KOSOVO.



THE EU CONSIDERS NORMALIZATION AS A CONDITION FOR SERBIA TO JOIN ITS RANKS...TASS RUSSIA



                     WAR IN UKRAINE



AIR RAID WARNINGS ACROSS UKRAINE ON SATURDAY



                            PUTIN VISITS MARIUPOL


                  TASS RUSSIA ENGLISH NEWS FEED




There were air raid warning across all of Ukraine on Saturday...TASS RUSSIA...



Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting the territory added to Russia during the war.   Putin visiting Mariupol,..TASS RUSSIA...BBC NEWS





In other news...




In Sevastopol, Crimea Russian President arriving driving a car.   Putin on hand to celebrate the ninth anniversary of Russian annexation of Crimea...TASS RUSSIA

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