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Thursday, March 23, 2023
NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT THURSDAY 3/23/2023 POLITICAL SHOW AS HOUSE COMMITTEE QUESTIONS TIK TOK CEO, 3.5 MILLION PROTEST MACRON'S PENSION REFORM IN FRANCE, MASS PROTESTS OPPOSE JUDICIAL REFORM IN ISRAEL,, IMMIGRATION CAUSING POPULATION INCREASE IN CANADA
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LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
Tonight in the Orthodox Jewish city of Bnei Brak, Israel local residents offering food, drink and flowers to protesters opposing judicial reform and the support of Orthodox Jews for it.
One man protesting moved to tears by the experience of hearing a traditional poem recited at Friday evening religious services...YNET NEWS...
More on the judicial reform protests in Israel later in the summary...
IN UKRAINE TONIGHT EXPLOSIONS REPORTED IN ODESSA...TASS RUSSIA
North Korea says its conducted an underwater nuclear weapons test in recent days.
The test said to have involved the launch of an "underwater nuclear attack drone".
The drone was detonated underwater in what was called a mock enemy port...YONHAP NEWS AGENCY SOUTH KOREA...North Korea describing the device as one capable of creating a "radioactive tsunami"...TASS RUSSIA
THE BANK OF ENGLAND RAISING INTEREST RATES A QUARTER OF A POINT TO 4.25 PERCENT TODAY.
THE UK IS FACING DOUBLE DIGIT INFLATION EXCEEDING 10 PERCENT.
TODAY'S RATE HIKE THE 11TH IN LESS THAN 18 MONTHS AND IT COMES IN SPITE OF THE TURMOIL INVOLVING BANKS...THE MELBOURNE AGE AUSTRALIA
TODAY IN WASHINGTON DC A POLITICAL SPECTACLE AS THE CEO OF THE VIDEO APP TIK TOK APPEARED BEFORE A HOUSE COMMITTEE.
VARIOUS PROVOCATIVE QUESTIONS ASKED RANGING FROM THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE CHINESE OWNED COMPANY AND THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT.
ALSO QUESTIONING REGARDING EXTREME VIDEOS POSTED BY CHILDREN ON THE APP.
GOVERNMENT ENTITIES IN THE UNITED STATES AND GOVERNMENTS OF COUNTRIES CLOSELY ALLIED WITH THE US IN THE WAR IN URKAINE MOVING TO BAN TIKTOK FROM GOVERNMENT DEVICES...
Meanwhile more evidence of an increasingly confrontational US policy towards China as another House committee held hearings on the treatment of Uyghur Muslims in western China.
The US says camps for 're-education' were established by China's government among other violations of human rights...THE INDEPENDENT UK
"...let's put it bluntly, they are our enemy. The United States of America is our enemy"
THE WORDS SPOKEN TODAY BY DMITRY MEDVEDEV.
HE IS A FORMER PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER OF RUSSIA, NOW DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIA'S SECURITY COUNCIL...TASS RUSSIA
In South Korea the nation's finance minister says his country is on guard to deal with future global financial instability.
Choo Kyung-ho citing yesterday's interest rate hike by the US Federal Reserve Board during an emergency meeting of economic officials today.
Officially some 240 demonstrations across France today as the labor union led protests against President Emmanuel Macron's imposition of 'pension reform' without a legislative vote intensifies.
Unofficial protests springing up across France as well with unions staging selective strikes affecting trains, airports and oil refineries among other sectors of the economy.
Today demonstrators blocked the Roissy Airport in Paris.
800,000 protesting in Paris alone according to union organizers and 280,000 in Marseille.
Railroad tracks, streets and highways blocked during the day with large percentages of workers walking off the job today on the railroads, in airports and at schools among other places.
Hundreds of peaceful protests across France but also incidents involving black uniformed anarchists.
Protest organizers saying that Mr. Macron's television interview yesterday was tantamount to incitement of the crowds to show up and or be violent.
Macron stood by the pension reform measure saying it was necessary comparing opponents in some cases to those who entrered the US Capitol on January 6th.
The leader of the National Rally in France's National Assembly Marine Le Pen said that today's protests sent "a strong signal".
She added:
"Emmanuel Macron can no longer govern alone, he must now return to the people"
The union organizers calling the next day of strikes and protest in France for next Tuesday March 28th...
(Information from BFM-TV France in this story)
IN A LATE-NIGHT SESSION ISRAEL'S PARLIAMENT APPROVED LEGISLATION THAT PREVENTS THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR ISRAEL'S JUDICIARY FROM REMOVING A PRIME MINISTER FROM OFFICE.
THREE-QUARTERS OF CABINET MINISTERS OR A MAJORITY OF PARLIAMENT WOULD BE ABLE TO REMOVE THE PRIME MINISTER ONLY ON PHYSICAL OR PYSCHOLOGICAL REASONS...AL JAZEERA
NATIONWIDE PROTESTS TO DISRUPT ISRAEL OVER PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU'S JUDICIAL REFORM PROPOSALS
HIGHWAY BLOCKADES, DOZENS OF ARRESTS
NETANYAHU MAKES EVENING SPEECH WITH CONCILIATORY TONE BUT SAYS REFORM WILL GO FORWARD
Russia says that leaflets urging surrender of Ukrainian forces have been dropped in the Zaporozhye region.
The leaflets are designed like the Ukrainian currency (Hryvnia) and they urge an end to fighting with contact information given for those wishing to surrender...TASS RUSSIA
In other news....
IN LONDON TODAY A SUSPECT IN COURT CHARGED WITH TWO BURNING ATTACKS ON MEN LEAVING MOSQUES.
28-YEAR-OLD MOHAMMED AKKBR IS CHARGED IN THOSE ATTACKS...BBC NEWS
The opposition leader in India sentenced to two years in prison.
Raul Gandhi convicted of defaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a 2019 campaign rally.
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