Tottenham-Ajax, injury Vertonghen: exits the field after headshot.

The Belgian defender of Tottenham, however, one of the former of the challenge with the Ajax in the Champions's semifinal, was forced to leave the field after a hard air clash with the Alderwereld and Onana companion. Despite the immediate medical care, Vertonghen has given upfinders by eightfully confusing state due to the abundant loss of blood from the nose

Scary injury for Jan Vertonghen during the first time of Tottenham-Ajax. The Belgian debst of the Spurs remedy a double shot at the head after an air clash: Nasal seat fracture with abundant blood loss, pochettire helps his player to stand and replaces it with Sissoko

At the 31 'of Attach-Ajax, on the developments of a punishment football for SPURS, the on-line host on the high outgoing, finding the pair of Belgian defenders - for the opportunity to climb at jumping attack - Vertonghen and Alderwereld


To get out worst of everyone is Jan Vertonghen, which remedies a first shot to the head from the pernational and a second shot from the goal of the Ajax

The Aja Onana Porter, at the end of the race, will declare to Sky Sport: "I went on the ball, I can not reproach me. I'm the goalkeeper, I can not do anything about us

The pair of spurs defenders had been dangerous in attack under the llorente eyes, pocket mechanical centrifield

Barcelona-Liverpool, Klopp: "Put the best of the players I saw"

The German on the eve of Barcelona-Liverpool: "Messi is the best player I have seen, he said he wants to bring the Champions back home and it will be a threat to us. At Camp Nou we want to play our best football, the draw does not it would be the worst result. If Barça passes, perhaps it is favored. If we pass, we are one of the two teams in the final "

Barcelona and Liverpool are playing at the Camp Nou the first act of the highly anticipated Champions League semi-final. The Reds are aiming to repeat the final of last year, then lost to Kiev against Real Madrid. Jurgen Klopp presented the Barcelona challenge in this way: "We want to play our best football here - he said at the press conference - We will see who can use the advantage of the home game more. Messi? He said before the season he wants bring this cup back home and it is a threat to us, it is the number one among the players I have seen play in. But Barcelona has an entire team of champions, but we also want to go to the final. they created it and we're here now. A good result at the Camp Nou gives us more chances to make another good result at Anfield ". The German then closes the controversy on the Camp Nou: "I am a football fan, how can I think of anything negative in this stadium?".

"A draw would not be the worst result" "If I'm satisfied with a draw? It wouldn't be the worst result in the world. So many teams came to play in Barcelona and they had this plan and then they came out defeated. We saw the match against Real Sociedad and Levante, these teams did "Well, but then Barcelona won. If Barça passes, perhaps it is favored. If we pass, we are one of the two teams in the final. Doubt Firmino? He has trained and I will make a decision in the last hours."

Al Sharqi (Milan Club Arabia): "Unspeakable passion for Milan in the Arab world"

The editors of MilanNews.it contacted Sultan Al Sharouqi, one of the members of the Milan Club Arabia, also very active on social media. Tell us how did the idea of ​​the Milan club Arabia come about? "Milan has been going through a difficult period in recent years and we did not want Milan to become just a beautiful memory of the past, which is why we have taken important steps to preserve the value and image of Milan fans in the Arab world. I would like to stress that Milan fans are present in all Arab countries and we are trying to promote them through social networking programs, so that we can confirm that Milan still has a large number of fans in the Arab world, which is why we are also pushing to have an official page on Twitter (in Arabic). We will try to convey to everyone that Milan still maintains its international popularity, even in the Arab world ”.

What is public participation in Arabia like? How does the day of the game work? "In all Arab countries there are special meetings for people who support Milan through so many groups, and in fact there is continuous communication between us to support Milan, many accounts on social networks, and I want to emphasize that Milan fans in the Arab world talk about games before, during and after, to analyze the races in detail, there is a passion that I cannot describe in the Arab world ".

What are the initiatives you do to expand the Milan club movement? "The initiatives I am doing personally and there are also many people who are doing the same, let's try to communicate directly with Milan fans around the world and with media personalities and close to the club, to confirm the presence of the fans of the world Arabic, personally I conduct numerous interviews with many Italian journalists close to Milan, we affirm our desire that Milan still have a fundamental name in the Arab world, and we are also sure that Milan is the Italian club with more fans in the Arab world even more than Juventus and Inter. "

Have you ever been to San Siro? "Everyone goes to San Siro, our love for Milan brings us easily to the San Siro, and I like to emphasize even at a difficult time for the team we went to Italy to support Milan".

How do you see the current situation of Milan? "The current situation of Milan at the administrative level is moving well thanks to Elliott, and the management team led by Scaroni, Gazidis, Leonardo and Maldini and all the rest, we fully believe in this project. We knew that this season would not be easy, if we do not qualify in the Champions League it will not be the end of the world, we know a lot of things that are happening with Milan, and we know perfectly well that the project is strong, and we are going to come back stronger than before, but we have to be patient and wait for FFP to finish, and work to create the new stadium and hire a great coach for next season as Antonio Conte. Then we will make great progress. I repeat: if Milan does not go to the Champions League it will not be the end of the world, we believe in this project that will bring the club to the top, there are no problems ".

Does Milan in Arabia still have its charm or is the decline of the last few years causing fans to lose? "The Milan fans are still proud because they support one of the biggest clubs in the history of football, but at the same time the fans are sad because they miss the good nights, where we were at the top in Europe and in the world. Milan is still Milan, everyone here in the Arab world supports him and stands beside him. We must have confidence and enthusiasm for the coming years because we believe we will return to the top again ".

Formula 1, 25 years without Roland Ratzenberger: The "other victim" of the Causedee of Imola

The Austrian of the Simtek dreamed of staying in Formula 1. That April 30, in the straight line between the tambourine and the Villeneuve curve, dramatically 315 km / h against the wall. The next day the spectacular accident of Barrichello; the day before the death of Senna

Fifty-three days of Formula 1, a never-before-seen effort to qualify, to race with Simtek, not with Ferrari, McLaren or Williams. Roland Ratzenberger paid to run, handsome boy, tall enough to begin with, so not inclined to box in those cars that go to 300 per hour, more likely to accommodate maximum meter and sixty-five, maximum seventy, typical of the pilot . And at 314, 9 km per hour crashed on a damn Saturday afternoon, April 30th 1994, qualifying for the Imola GP, the day before the king of Formula 1, Ayrton Senna, went away forever.

Educated, he spoke in a faint voice, Ratzenberger knew well that with that car, Simtek, he could not go far. His detachment was not measured in thousandths, cents, not even in tenths, but even in seconds. However, he engaged, fought, Formula 1 was a dream come true, he could vanish from one moment to the next, he feared that Simtek could turn to another driver, on foot, yes, but maybe more experienced than him and certainly with a portfolio of richest and most wealthy sponsors.

Ratzenberger was one of those pilots with the suitcase, whose present is built race after race: in the end they pulled their accounts, in every sense. Aware of the risks that his job entailed, but a driver runs without fear, a companion who cannot be part of his life, otherwise he does not wear a helmet or climb even on those four-wheel technology. He certainly didn't think destiny was going against him.

A destiny born of man to intrude on technology. An aerodynamic wing detaches itself from Simtek, Ratzenberger's car does not take off, it could happen in those mutilated conditions, but it goes crazy, no longer accepts commands, a small wall is waiting for it. There is nothing to do, a tremendous, deadly impact, for that nice boy with kind manners who wanted at all costs to race in Formula 1. Senna is working, running with his Williams, qualifications are being stopped, the show is being stopped. he cannot continue, the Brazilian champion will watch Roland's crash then in the pits, on TV. We see that he is shocked, rushes to the Formula 1 doctor who explains everything to him, reveals the tragedy of death. Twenty-four hours later it will be the same end for him. The whole world will talk about the disappearance of the champion, of Senna, already myth, that of Roland goes into the background, slips into the credits. A bit like all of Roland Ratzenberger's gregarious life: he was 34, the same as Ayrton Senna.

Here's the 'new "Facebook: more privacy, less blue. Zuckerberg:" The future is private »

The novelties of the Social Network from the San Jose Developer Conference: More Privacy and a New Design

Stoping to pushfully or grim. He was really Mark Zuckerberg to have said, "I think the future is private. This is the future of our services. Crypt and stories." Then to admit with a nervous smile not to have a good reputation when you talk about privacy. The context of the statement, confirming the plans announced in the past few weeks, is the annual Conference of Developers, F8, the McNery Convention Center of San Jose, California, a few kilometers from San Francisco and Menlo Park. To those who looked at the overview of the world, offline, from the stage, Zuck is not particularly diverse on the delightful time and the role of his creature: unlike the last two editions, open with the desired apologies for broadcasting live broadcasts (2017, the clever of the Cleverland) and for the improper treatment of data by Cambridge Analytica (2018), this time the 34-year businessman tried to settle, fingers and pressures of the authorities and focus on the products of the products outline what should be a future (economic and not) stable.

On all, the first to literally leap to the eye is the new Facebook aspect, which loses the iconic blue bar with which he was presented in the world in 2004. The idea, with the new design available immediately in the United States and in the coming weeks in the rest of the world, is to push people to continue to communicate from the square to more intimate contexts, starting from the groups, exploited by 400 million people. In essence, Menlo Park wants to turn off page again by further reintivating the main platform to communications between individuals and within groups. "Because privacy allows us to be ourselves" (yes, said it).

The protagonists of the other novelties and the entire strategy are - in order of importance according to the Colosso - Messenger, the WhatsApp and Instagram. The first debut in a lighter version, landing by the end of the year also on desktop with apps for Windows and Mac and introduce the collective video viewing. The second welcomes the catalogs of the products of companies with which the dialogue and the third pushes on the e-commerce with the possibility of purchasing directly from the Creator and introduces the stickers to organize funds. Convinced of its (new) Will to protect privacy, Zuckerberg has rebuted in the melee the device for the calls of Ports, on which the CAPPTA and Messenger exchanges are located, and from next year, Amazon video. From the coming Autumn you will also be able to buy in Europe. Oculus puts on the plate the new quest, to play without cables and without the help of a PC, from May 21 to $ 399.

Calciomercato Naples, Raiola in the city for Insigne: meeting with Giuntoli for the future?

Mino Raiola arrived in Naples to speak with Lorenzo Insigne of mainly administrative and commercial matters. But the agent could also touch on the attacker's future argument: there could be a meeting with Cristiano Giuntoli

After the elimination from the Europa League against Arsenal and the arithmetic qualifying for the group stage of the next Legue Champions, the Napoli season is heading towards its conclusion. And in the blue house we also think about the future, with market strategies that will obviously also be linked to what will be the fate of Lorenzo Insigne. The attacker received, in Naples, the visit of his agent Mino Raiola, accompanied by his collaborator and cousin Enzo Raiola. We mainly talked about administrative and commercial issues concerning the player and not the transfer market.

The meeting with Giuntoli and the future Clearly Insigne is one of the strong points of Ancelotti's Napoli, author of 13 goals and 7 assists in 38 seasonal appearances. But the environmental situation that the attacker is experiencing in the last period, despite being Neapolitan as well as the captain of the team, could suggest a future far from the Azzurri. Insigne did not play from the match against Arsenal, in which he was also booed at the time of substitution. He then remained on the bench against Atalanta and was not called up due to injury for the Frosinone match. Insigne still has a long contract (expiration 2022) and does not have a clause and, above all, there is no willingness on the part of society to sell it. But the environmental situation could lead to different reflections. Napoli, in this case, would start from a valuation of 100 million euros, but the attacker's market value could be around 70 million. The appraisers are there, even if there has not yet been any concrete contact. But the market is about to get underway and there may soon be approaches with other companies.

Lozano back to fashion? Raiola could take advantage of the visit to the city to talk also with Cristiano Giuntoli of the future of Lorenzo Insigne, from this meeting could emerge a situation certainly more definite than the future of the attacker of Napoli. The theme of Lozano, another of Raiola's assistants, could also be tackled with the Italian sports director. Ancelotti likes the Mexican exterior, so it could be the right occasion to deepen the discussion.

Series A: 13 disqualified for one shift

The sports judge disqualified 13 Serie A players for one day after the 34th matchday matches. This is Alessio Romagnoli of Milan (to whom a fine of 1,500 euros was also imposed); Gaston Ramirez, Jacopo Sala and Lorenzo Tonelli (Sampdoria), Federico Barba and Mehdi Leris (Chievo); Samir (Udinese), Senad Lulic (Lazio); Ibrahima Mbaye and Roberto Soriano (Bologna); Emiliano Moretti (Turin), Federico Peluso (Sassuolo), Francesco Vicari (Spal). A fine of 20 thousand euros was imposed on the Turin coach Walter Mazzarri "to have at 8 'of the second half, despite repeated calls, disputed the arbitration proceedings with shouts and blatant gestures and at the time of the removal order, continued to take this attitude, with repeated repeated offense ".

Total emergency in defense in the most difficult moment: it has already happened, Milan must regroup as it did then

Milan came out with broken bones from Torino, losing a direct confrontation, the fourth and half defense: almost K.O. for the formation of Gattuso, were it not for the fact that there are still four days to go until the end of the championship. The classification only reads -3 from the Champions zone (albeit with three teams in front) and the calendar offers four comparisons with teams now lacking motivation: Bologna and SPAL hi, Fiorentina far from the Europa zone and Frosinone relegated. Yet we have to go back to being compact, which we rarely saw in the last period.

FIRST EMERGENCY - Thinking back to the first part of the season, Milan was on the verge of collapse after the defeat against Juventus, with Higuain disqualified and the entire defense in pieces: Romagnoli, Musacchio and Caldara injured, with Gattuso forced to adapt Abate as a central defender alongside Zapata. That team was able to get back on track with nails and teeth, taking advantage of the emergency of the rearguard to square and give the maximum for the group's purposes. It is no coincidence that the results have arrived just from that difficult period.

THE GATTUSO SOLUTIONS - Milan will live an evening without appeal against Bologna on Monday evening. And it will have to do it in an equally complicated situation: Calabria and Conti will be missing due to injury and Romagnoli due to suspension, with the Rossoneri coach still forced to revolutionize his rearguard. The Rossoneri coach could point to Abate and continue with the four-man defense, with Musacchio and Zapata (or Caldara) central and Rodriguez on the left; or try the three-man defense again, but after the disaster in the Italian Cup it is difficult to imagine something like that. Perhaps the presence of Abate would be advisable, not only on a technical level but above all due to a sense of belonging: in a decommissioned Milan, relying on men who lived in certain changing rooms could be the best move. And who knows if the emergency can't compact Milan again at the toughest moment.

B.C. MILAN OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE: Plizzari renews until 2023

AC Milan announces that it has extended the contract of the goalkeeper Alessandro Plizzari, born in 2000, until June 30, 2023.

Notre-Dame, the leader of the guides: "That wood under the roof a mystery that we can no longer study"

Olivier de Chalus accompanies tourists to the church: «I had been amazed by them for 14 years. I prayed for them not to burn the towers. With the "forest" goodbye to a piece of history "

Olivier de Chalus was happy in the forest. As soon as he could he climbed there, alone. That maze of oak beams and poles separated from each other by a maximum of 80 centimeters and 110 meters long that supported the ceiling was the corner that most loved the place that loves more than anything in the world. "It wasn't an attic. It was a living thing, brimming with information about the men who worked on the first construction site, more than 800 years ago. I am happy with this race for reconstruction, but at best we can have an imitation of it. The history of the first Notre-Dame has been reduced to ashes ».

It could have been worse, everyone says. This is the common feeling now, after the sadness and the sense of tragedy unleashed by the burning on Monday, we have moved on to a general sense of relief, almost of optimism. The person who more than any other can explain what was irretrievably lost is Monsieur Olivier, the head of the cathedral's 140 engineer and historian, who was about to give his final work, an essay on the construction of Notre- From me. Journalists who in these days asked for information on hidden treasures, assets at risk, were given a phone number, his own. «I started doing the guide fourteen years ago, just graduated. And again on Sunday, the day before the disaster, I thought of how every time I went in I discovered something new, a detail I didn't know. This church has such richness that it never ceases to amaze me. Notre-Dame is a tunnel that from the present brings us into the Middle Ages and in the past ages ».

That tunnel, says Olivier, 38 years old, a practicing Catholic, polished speech and ways of the past that contrast with mountain hiking clothes, closed on Monday at 8.50 pm with the collapse of the roof. «At 7pm I was in a nearby cafe for an appointment with a client asking for a private visit. When I saw the smoke I got as close as possible to the esplanade ». He remained standing for seven hours, "dazed, helpless", watching the fire that was about to take away his reason for living. "I prayed that the flames would not attack the towers. If it had happened, it would have been the end. Through the bell towers, the fire would have been brought from the air down to the church. And everything would be burned like a match. "

The next morning they called him. The most experienced expert was needed to understand what to do with the debris, how to catalog them. The central nave was flooded with water, like a mirror. On the sides of the apse were two piles of rubble four meters high. On the main organ built in 1400 and located behind the counter-façade, it looms once unsafe. «For the rest, everything is in order» try to joke de Chalus. But it's not good for him. «When I entered, the first thing that struck me was the light that came from the gaps in the ceiling. In the sixth century it was said that Notre Dame was built specifically to create a light of its own. I didn't recognize her the other day. That light daughter of the centuries is now extinguished ».

The forest, this was his nickname, but it no longer exists. It was the most accessible part of the original nucleus of the cathedral. "He could talk. The analysis of the wood could tell us with precision when the cut went up again, the analysis of the structure could tell us how the work had been conceived in the 12th century, revealing a genesis still shrouded in mystery. Other than the novels of Ken Follett ... ». The search on those beams cost as little as twenty thousand euros. The cuts to research are not, however, an Italian exclusive. "A shame. Which has no remedy anymore. It is not true that "only a little wood is burned". A piece of history still unknown has been burned ».

One day de Chalus and his colleagues will start talking about their cathedral. "We are all volunteers, we do it out of passion. We can wait. " But it won't be the same thing, he adds. And the construction of Notre Dame will always remain a mystery.

Venezuela, Guaidó calls for the military uprising: "Operation freedom". Clashes in Caracas: armored vehicles on demonstrators, dozens injured

The appeal to the Venezuelan people following the release of the activist Lopez. Maduro: "A coup attempt is underway, we are foiling it." Shooting and tear gas near the military base where the opponents are barricaded. The US declares its support for opponents

Venezuela could be on the verge of a civil war. This morning Juan Guaidó, leader of the self-appointed opposition leader in January, announced the final act of Operation Freedom, aimed at removing the government of President Nicolas Maduro. Since then clashes have been taking place in the area of ​​the La Carlota air base, east of Caracas, from where Guaidó launched the appeal for the revolt. The Venezuelan authorities define the initiative as a coup attempt. The tension rose during the afternoon until the armored vehicles of the Venezuelan army hit the anti-government demonstrators. Guaidó announced with a tweet that he did not want to retreat: "We talked with our allies in the international community and we have their strong support. Operation Freedom has begun and we will resist until we reach a free Venezuela ». At the moment there are dozens of wounded, at least 35, including a colonel of Bolivarian forces.

Mike Pence, vice president of the United States, spoke on Twitter to Guaidó and "all Venezuelans who love freedom" by saying: "America will be with you as long as freedom and democracy are not restored". In the late afternoon, the position of the vice-president of the Council and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini also arrived, commenting on the developments in the South American country: "For the good of the Venezuelan people and of the many Italians who have suffered for years from the one of the last communist regimes on the face of the earth, we hope for a peaceful and non-violent solution to the crisis that will lead to free elections and the removal of the dictator Maduro who is starving, imprisoning and torturing his people. I am close to the Venezuelan people, the national assembly and its president Guaidò ». Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, we learn from sources at Palazzo Chigi, closely and with the utmost attention follow the developments of these hours in Venezuela. The Italian government hopes for a peaceful political transition and a democratic evolution of the country through free elections as per the wish widely expressed by the Venezuelan people. The government is also particularly close to the vast community of Italian origin present in Venezuela, the same sources stress.

This morning Guaidó asked Venezuelans to take to the streets with a video message to the nation in which he appears alongside Leopoldo López, an historic Venezuelan opponent who was under house arrest until this morning and was released by the military under orders from the proclaimed president. In the video, behind Guaidó you see soldiers and armored vehicles. According to the self-proclaimed president, the armed forces that joined his initiative "made the correct decision. They are on the right side of the story. "In Altamira, near the base, police and military fired tear gas at the protesters - which would be about 3,000 - who responded to Guaidó's call to take to the streets. In the afternoon, Guaidó addressed the protesters with a megaphone and renewed his appeal for the revolt: "Today we are here and we will resist here," he told the people gathered in Piazza Francia, in the Altamira district. Around 6 pm, the escalation: at least three military armored vehicles of the Venezuelan army tried to invest the protesters. Apparently, the means shielded a line of soldiers. At least one person was injured. However, the clashes seem limited to the Altamira district, while around the presidential palace in Miraflores, where a group of government supporters has concentrated, the situation seems calm.

The government of Nicolas Maduro immediately reacted to Guaidó's announcement with a clear statement of intent: "We inform the people that we are neutralizing a small group of traitorous soldiers," Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez wrote on Twitter. The defense minister called the authors of the revolt "cowards" who stood up against the Constitution. In a tweet, President Maduro claimed the army's loyalty: "I spoke with the commanders of all the regions and areas of the country, they showed me total loyalty to the people, to the Constitution, to the homeland". Guaidó, on the other hand, assured that the Armed Forces are "on the side of the people, loyal to the Constitution", and therefore lined up with him against Maduro.

International reactions Bolivia's President Morales appealed to the Latin American governments to condemn the coup. Spain (which had been one of the first countries to recognize Guaidó as interim president) said it would not support a coup. President of Colombia Ivan Duque, on the other hand, on Twitter has launched an appeal to Venezuelans asking them to join "in search of freedom, democracy and institutional reconstruction" by Guaidó.

It's better to run in the evening or in the morning?

Two studies (on mice) show that physical activity at the end of the day improves body performance. The trainer: "Depends on metabolism"

To show that jogging in the evening is better and that in the morning there is much more effort, they put rats on the treadmill. It may seem bizarre but it happened. In two separate universities in California and Israel. Here some researchers have trained rodents as if they were real athletes. The exercise took place at different times of the day. Well, running mice would have shown that they were 50 percent more efficient than those who struggled in the morning. Because they consumed less oxygen and had higher levels of a substance that increases the metabolic activity of tissues.

California and Israel To avoid misunderstandings or easy ironies, it must be said immediately that the teams at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot (Israel) and the University of California have also added that "the results may not be translatable for humans because some people are night owls and some they are early risers ". Gianfranco Beltrami is the vice president of the Italian Federation of Sports Medicine. A doctor who knows the body's movements and reactions. Consider the results of the study (published in the journal Cell Metabolism) which are interesting but in contrast with the literature on the subject. All the more, he adds with a smile, they should not agree with common sense. "The evening effort is greater. Those who run in the morning do not have to deal with mental stress and work that accumulate during the day. In the evening the body is more tired. The physicist needs to run in resting situations. There are many studies that prove it. In general, hormonal rhythms tend to observe those of nature: when there is light an activity takes place while in the dark we tend to rest ".

Daily rhythm The question is complex. Several factors. Light and dark. Physiology and habits dictated by social life. Metabolism and needs of the psyche. However the researchers of the two universities on one point seem to have no doubts: physical exercise is influenced by our daily rhythms. During the study they also compared the results obtained by mice with twelve humans, discovering that humans also consumed less energy in the evening. In an attempt to understand how rodent tissues changed during exercise, the researchers found that a protein, known as Hif-1alpha, was activated by the body during exercise in different ways at various times of the day. "This is a new discovery" - affirmed Paolo Sassone-Corsi, director of the Center for the epigenetics and the metabolism of the Californian university - "because until now we didn't know that its levels fluctuated based on the time of the day ».

Physiology of the person Nothing against scientific tests but Julia Jones, Californian writer and marathon runner who has been training amateur runners for twenty years, starts from a much more prosaic assumption: the physiology of the person. Personal metabolism. The way it is. «From experience I know that everyone has his own biorhythm. Runners are like children: there are those who wake up early and have a lot of energy and those who need to sleep and take longer to fuel. Ditto for the race: there are those who are ready already at dawn. The same person would struggle more in the evening ». Jones has lived in Modena for many years and has married a coach who works with professionals for the Athletics Federation. More than light and dark, he divides the world of runners into two categories: those who want to achieve a result or have a goal (marathon or other distance) and those who instead turn to her to get better. For health reasons. "I advise the first to run in the morning". His explanation introduces a human element here, which has little to do with the scientific results obtained in the laboratories: temptation. "In the evening, especially in summer, there is outdoor dining, more family commitments, maybe there is an aperitif with friends. Here: training would become tiring, heavy ».

Farewell to Jacqui: disfigured after an accident, she was the face of the campaign on drink driving

Jacqui Saburido had been disfigured after a car accident, her car overwhelmed by a drunk young man. She had undergone over 100 surgical procedures. He was 40 years old

His face, disfigured after a car accident, had become the symbol of the risks of driving while intoxicated. She died at the age of 40 Jacqui Saburido: in 1999 when she was 20 she was involved in a car accident in which she had suffered burns on 60% of the body. Jacqui, who grew up in Caracas, Venezuela, died in Guatemala, was suffering from cancer. His name and face had become famous the world over: twenty years ago he was returning from a birthday party in Austin, Texas with four other friends when a car, traveling in the opposite lane, had collided with their. Two of his friends had died instantly, the car had caught fire and she, who was sitting in front, had suffered burns on 60% of her body. The driving boy, an 18-year-old, was drunk: he was sentenced to seven years in prison and released in 2008. Jacqui Saburido had undergone more than 100 operations to rebuild part of the face and hands. At the time of the crash he had been in the US for less than a month and had no medical insurance. The operations she underwent had cost over $ 5 million.

Jacqueline, this is her full name, had become the face of the Texas Department of Transportation's "Faces of Drunk Driving" campaign. She went to schools to tell her story, she had also been on television. "Even if it means putting yourself in front of a camera without a nose, without hair, without ears, I will do it hundreds of times if this can help someone else make the right decision," he always repeated. "It's part of my mission on Earth, if this is this body can help others, why not?

Berlin, summit on the future of the Balkans But Italy is excluded

Convened by Merkel and Macron to discuss how to stabilize the region. Kosovo and Serbia are pushing for an exchange of territories. US favorable, Mogherini opens

Absent Italy, now invariably excluded from the tables where real European matches are played, the summit on the Western Balkans held in Berlin was not and could not produce final decisions. But it has served to open an overall dialogue that is no longer avoidable on the stabilization of a region, never really freed from its endemic and potentially explosive conflicts. Convened together by Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron, the Berlin meeting saw the participation of the leaders of Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Albania, Northern Macedonia, Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the EU High Representative for Foreign policy, Federica Mogherini. "We need a special impulse, it's a small step on a long road," the chancellor explained. "We have no intention of dictating a solution: we must advance without taboos and without increasing tensions," the French president echoed. Of the many issues on the agenda, the hottest was the crisis in relations between Serbia and Kosovo.

The peace negotiations, mediated by the European Union, have been suspended since the summer. Belgrade has never recognized the independence of Pristina, proclaimed in 2008. While, after the break-up in the negotiations, Kosovo imposed 100% punitive duties on all imports from Serbia. The recognition of independence for one, the end of duties for the other are the preconditions set by the two countries to resume negotiations. Also controversial is the idea, supported by the two presidents, the Serbian Aleksandar Vucic and the Kosovar Hashim Tachi, of an exchange of territories along ethnic lines. Vucic above all sees the shortcut to restart the EU accession negotiations, which today are effectively blocked.

Not opposed by Mogherini and other European countries, including France, supported by the US, the hypothesis of ethnic partition is vehemently opposed by Germany, which perhaps rightly considers any change of borders as the recipe for a new conflagration in the entire Balkan area. How fierce the parties are, confirmed Thaci, who after the interview with Mogherini said that "without the participation of the United States there can be no agreement, so far the EU has proved incapable". Then, to illustrate the point, he walked to the American embassy where he met Ambassador Grenell.

Akihito, the emperor of Japan, has abdicated: the Reiwa era begins

The ceremony at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, in front of three hundred dignitaries and Shinzo Abe. "I've been lucky". Tomorrow Naruhito, the new emperor, will receive the Holy Treasures

No drums or brass bands, they haven't been (for decades) in the style of imperial Japan. Akihito abdicated at five in the afternoon with a short ceremony so simple as to be truly moving. In Matsu no Ma, the Pine Room at the heart of the Tokyo Imperial Palace, the chamberlains brought the symbols of imperial power, the Sacred Treasures in boxes (a sword and a jade jewel), the state seals. Three hundred dignitaries waited for Akihito's last entry as emperor. He entered with a slow step at 5 o'clock: in a dark dress with tails; his wife Michiko followed in white. Then of Naruhito and Masako, who at midnight become the new imperial couple on the Throne of Chrysanthemum.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advances, bows deeply and reads a speech in which he immediately recalls that under the leadership of Tenno (the emperor) there was peace for Japan; and also prosperity, despite the many natural disasters that have devastated the country in thirty years; and His Majesty comforted the people on those occasions and rejoiced with the people when there was reconstruction and growth. Less than two minutes.

The Grand Chamberlain now hands the parchment with his speech to Akihito, standing on a dais. The last as an emperor. "Today I finish my duties as an emperor ... I was fortunate to have the support of the people who saw me as the symbol of unity ... together with the empress I hope with all my heart that the new Reiwa era that begins both peaceful and fruitful, I pray for the peace and happiness of our country and the peoples of the world ». Another bow. The ceremonies take away the boxes with the Sacred Treasures and the State seals, which will be handed over to the new emperor Naruhito on May 1. Their footsteps and those of the old emperor who asked to rest and abdicate at the age of 85, still ring like bell tolls. Raining outside. Perhaps even the Sun Goddess from whom the emperors descended is a little sad for Akihito.

Conte met Siri: today the decision on the investigated undersecretary

The prime minister saw the leader of the Northern League under investigation for corruption. The premier in Tunis with Di Maio and Salvini: there will be decided on the permanence in the government of the League's exponent

The face-to-face meeting took place last night and the decision on the fate of Armando Siri could be reached today. The Undersecretary for Transport met Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and spoke with him about the investigation that sees him investigated for corruption. "I will decide on my own, knowing that I am not a judge," the Prime Minister said, but it is clear that the question will be at the center of the talks he will have with the two deputy premier Luigi Di Maio and Matteo Salvini.

In Tunis

 Today all three will participate in the bilateral in Tunis and that will be the occasion to take the final decision. Also because Siri then decided to go to the public prosecutor for "spontaneous declarations" but then he could also answer the questioning. Speaking with his lawyer Fabio Pinelli, Siri ruled out the possibility of suspending himself: "If they don't want me in the government, they must chase me." A position that could change, however, if the executive leadership were to consider it the only possible route to avoid jeopardizing the estate. Siri is under investigation for proposing legal changes in favor of the entrepreneur Paolo Arata in exchange for 30 thousand euros.