"SCOPE" · 총 82건
필터 보기현재 지수
50.3
0 = 부정 우세
50 = 중립
100 = 긍정 우세
최근 7일 기준 85,735건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.2(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,431건(5.2%)·중립 79,147건(92.3%)·부정 2,157건(2.5%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 15.3(중도 균형)입니다.
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[Economy] : Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visited major companies on Monday, his fourth day in South Korea, as he works to expand the scope of AI cooperation beyond semiconductors to robots and data centers. On Monday, Huang first visited SK Group's headquarters, where he agreed to work with the company on AI data centers ... [more...]
The government said on Monday that proposed subsidiary legislation to clearly define the classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security under the law of the HKSAR” does not involve the introduction of any new offences. Under the proposal to be enacted under Section 110 of the Safeguarding National Security Ordinance (SNSO), if the chief executive issues a certificate under the law confirming that a criminal act involves national security, the case shall be treated as one. And where a person is charged with – or convicted of – an alternative offence arising from the same act in a case involving a national security offence, that alternative offence shall also be classified as an offence endangering national security. At a Legislative Council panel meeting, Secretary for Justice Paul Lam said there are no changes to the implementation details or scope of application of the SNSO or the Hong Kong National Security Law. “I want to emphasise that no additional powers, offences, or penalties are introduced," he said. "[I have to] particularly emphasise that the chief executive's certificate only involves determining whether or not acts already constituted as criminal offences involve national security. "As for whether a defendant is guilty or not, it still has to be ruled by a court following an independent trial conducted in accordance with the law, and the court will ensure that the defendant is given a fair trial.” Following the meeting, Lam said the chief executive’s certificate cannot be thrown out by the court. This is because in determining whether an incident involves security, it usually touches on very sensitive and highly confidential information, and the judicial bodies are not in a position to make such a determination when exercising their powers, he said, and that is why such a certificate is binding on the courts. Secretary for Security Chris Tang stressed that the move would not affect the general public at all or the “normal operations” of organisations and groups. He said that the authorities will keep reviewing the national security mechanism and propose improvements when necessary, through administrative measures and legislation. Edited by Edmond Fong
China’s President Xi Jinping hailed an “invincible friendship” with Pyongyang as he arrived in North Korea on Monday, his first trip abroad this year after hosting back-to-back summits in Beijing. China, Washington’s chief geopolitical rival, has been North Korea’s main trading partner by far for decades and a key source of diplomatic and economic support for the country hit by multiple international sanctions. Military officers lined a red carpet as an Air China plane carrying Xi arrived for his first visit since 2019, video from Xinhua showed. A banner that read “We warmly welcome Comrade Xi Jinping” and hailing the two countries’ “unbreakable friendship” hung below Chinese and North Korean flags at the airport. Xi made the trip after hosting US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin separately in Beijing, and as North Korea’s nuclear talks with Washington remain deadlocked. The White House said last month that Xi and Trump “confirmed their shared goal to denuclearise North Korea” during their summit in Beijing. However, leader Kim Jong Un’s powerful sister said on the eve of Xi’s arrival that North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme was “the line of no retreat”. Minseon Ku, a diplomacy professor at DePaul University, told AFP that “Beijing probably has accepted North Korea as a nuclear state” but Xi “will probably tell Kim that China wants stability more than anything”. China has “always prioritised stability and is currently having to manage its relations and differences with the US”, Ku said. Seong-Hyon Lee, a visiting scholar at the Harvard University Asia Centre, also said Beijing is shifting towards “underwriting regime durability” rather than seeking to coerce North Korea into denuclearisation. “China’s broader regional strategy benefits from a stable, heavily armed, and aligned buffer state that absorbs US and allied military bandwidth,” he told AFP. Elevated status North Korea has repeatedly declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear state since Kim and Trump’s 2019 summit collapsed over the scope of denuclearisation and sanctions relief. Kim has also been emboldened by the war in Ukraine, securing critical support from Moscow after sending troops to fight alongside Russian forces. Some analysts say the summit could be Xi’s way of countering Russia’s growing influence over North Korea, but DePaul’s Ku stressed that “overall, Moscow is not a major power like China”. “Moscow-Pyongyang power relations are more equal than Beijing-Pyongyang; Moscow needs Kim for their war in Ukraine as much as Kim needs technology sharing and food from Russia,” she said. In an article published on the front page of North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun, Xi pledged closer cooperation. “No matter how the times change or how the international situation evolves, the traditional friendship between China and North Korea is always invincible,” Xi wrote. Xi last met Kim in September, when he invited the North Korean leader and Putin to a military parade in Beijing marking the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Taiwan counterweight Trump has made little progress on North Korea, especially on the nuclear front, despite his earlier high-profile summits with Kim. North Korea is also the only country with an official, binding military alliance with China. “America is currently engaged in offensive warfare potentially harmful to China’s key interests, such as energy supplies,” Vladimir Tikhonov, Korean Studies professor at the University of Oslo, told AFP. “It appears Xi is trying to consolidate the alliance” with North Korea partly for that reason, he said. Beijing claims self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, and North Korea could also serve as a useful counterweight to US partners in the region, including South Korea and Japan, analysts said. Long-frosty China-Japan ties have deteriorated since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, a security hawk, suggested last year that Tokyo might intervene militarily in any Chinese attempt to take Taiwan. “As China’s international standing rises, Beijing is likely seeking to draw Pyongyang more actively into its diplomatic orbit,” said Lim Eul-chul, a North Korea expert at Kyungnam University.
• Rs4.7tr federal, provincial development plans may be revised • Federal PSDP may rise above Rs1.3tr; provincial ADPs could be trimmed • Mega projects face major cost, time overruns ISLAMABAD: The National Economic Council (NEC) is set to meet on Monday (today) and may revise federal and provincial development plans worth Rs4.715 trillion for the next fiscal year amid conflicting fiscal needs of critical political and other institutional stakeholders. The NEC — the highest economic decision-making forum of the federation, led by the prime minister and comprising the four chief ministers and four federal ministers — has a four-point agenda for the meeting. The first item pertains to a review of the Annual Plan 2025-26, approval of the Annual Plan 2026-27 and a presentation on key socio-economic indicators of the provinces. This will be followed by a review of Public Sector Investment (PSI) 2025-26, the proposed PSI 2026-27 and confirmation of changes made in the PSDP 2025-26 through addendums, corrigendums and adjustments on the directives of the prime minister, including a cut of around Rs175bn. The meeting will also include presentations on provincial annual development plans by the four chief secretaries. Besides, the NEC will take up a progress report of the Central Development Working Party (CDWP) from April 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026, and schemes approved by the CDWP and the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) during the same period. Projects face delays, overruns The Planning Commission will also present highlights of the monitoring and evaluation report of mega projects. According to the report, the PSDP 2025-26 portfolio comprised 801 projects, including 734 ongoing and 67 new initiatives being implemented by 40 ministries, divisions and state-owned enterprises. Out of 240 projects selected for monitoring during the current financial year, 170 had been monitored by March 2026, including specially assigned cases. Priority monitoring was accorded to mega projects, government special initiatives, donor-funded interventions and slow-moving schemes. The monitoring exercise revealed that delays in project completion were mainly caused by inadequate financing, weak project planning and preparation, delays in land acquisition and no-objection certificates, litigation, procurement bottlenecks, delayed release of provincial shares, weak project management capacity and changes in scope. “Analysis indicates that approximately 25 per cent of ongoing projects are facing cost overruns, while nearly 79pc are experiencing time overruns, placing additional burden on public finances and affecting development outcomes,” the report said. Senior government officials said the consolidated federal and provincial development programme for next year, approved by the Annual Plan Coordination Committee (APCC) last week, could see significant changes because of the Centre’s greater financial needs while protecting the primary budget surplus at 2pc of GDP, or more than Rs2.8tr, as committed to the IMF. However, the annual plan projections for next year cleared by the APCC are expected to remain mostly unchanged. Officials said the federal PSDP of Rs1.126tr cleared by the APCC may go beyond Rs1.3tr, while the size of provincial annual development plans could be lower than the Rs3.138tr indicated last week. They said the PSDP summary for next year contained the Rs1.126tr allocation with a request for enhancement by the NEC. They added that these changes would be finalised during the NEC meeting as political engagements continued with coalition partners to reach common ground. Officials said the Centre’s push for Rs1.7tr in additional fiscal space from the provinces, on top of a cash surplus of close to Rs2tr, or about 1.4pc of GDP, for next year had now been reduced by almost one-third to around Rs1tr. However, allocations for coalition partners’ schemes and ruling party parliamentarians are expected to remain largely unchanged at Rs87bn and Rs70bn, respectively, for next year. Slippages, targets The NEC will also be briefed on slippages in the economic growth target, mainly because of external factors, with next year’s GDP growth target set at 4pc and inflation projected at 8.2pc. The commodity-producing sectors are targeted to expand by 3.9pc next year, driven by 3.8pc growth in agriculture and 4.5pc growth in large-scale manufacturing. Agricultural growth is expected to be supported by recovery in important crops, projected at 3.6pc, cotton ginning at 2.5pc and livestock at 3.9pc. The industrial sector is targeted to grow by 4pc in 2026-27, mainly due to a revival in large-scale manufacturing, alongside growth momentum in mining and quarrying, construction and energy, including gas and water supply. The services sector is targeted to grow by 4.2pc, underpinned by stronger performance in wholesale and retail trade at 4.2pc, transport, storage and communications at 3.7pc, financial services at 4.5pc, and information and communication at 7.7pc. “These targets are contingent on effective macroeconomic management and stable external conditions,” the Planning Commission warned. It projected national savings for the next fiscal year at 14.3pc of GDP compared to 14.1pc in the current fiscal year. The investment rate is targeted to reach 15pc of GDP, against 14.4pc in the current fiscal year. Highlighting a risk, the Planning Commission said the external sector could face pressure as easing import controls and debt repayments were likely to widen the current account deficit next year. Published in Dawn, June 8th, 2026
The Hong Kong government has sought to clarify what constitutes national security cases in a new round of proposed subsidiary legislation. Security and justice authorities submitted the proposed amendments under the city’s national security laws to the Legislative Council on Monday. The proposal introduces a classification mechanism for “other offences endangering national security”, under which any case accompanied by a certificate from the chief executive confirming it involved national...
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MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Education’s annual “Brigada Eskwela” drew nationwide participation last week, evolving into a wider “Brigada Pamilya” movement as schools mobilized families, educators, and stakeholders ahead of the June 8 class opening. Beyond the usual cleaning and repainting activities, this year’s campaign widened its scope to address broader community needs, evolving
Manav Suthar's dream materialized with his maiden India Test call-up against Afghanistan, a moment his sister first shared. The left-arm spinner, who debuted receiving his cap from Kuldeep Yadav, spoke of years of hard work and family emotions. Inspired by Yuvraj Singh and R Ashwin, Suthar's journey from street cricket to the international stage is a testament to his perseverance.
North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme is “absolutely non-negotiable”, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un said in a statement carried by state media on Sunday, ahead of a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping. Pyongyang has long insisted on its right to a nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes although they are forbidden under the terms of UN Security Council sanctions. It enshrined its nuclear status in its constitution in 2023. “Our status as a nuclear power is absolutely non-negotiable,” Kim’s sister Kim Yo Jong said in a statement published by North Korea’s official Rodong Sinmun, adding that the North “will not tolerate any threats”. A key player in the country’s communications and foreign policy, Kim Yo Jong’s statement came on the eve of Xi’s visit to North Korea, scheduled to take place from Monday to Tuesday, according to state media. Beijing is a vital source of political and economic support to North Korea, which is one of the most diplomatically isolated countries in the world and under heavy international sanctions. Xi’s upcoming visit to Pyongyang would be his first in seven years, and comes after he hosted back-to-back summits with US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin last month. Pyongyang has repeatedly declared itself an “irreversible” nuclear state since Kim Jong Un’s 2019 summit with Trump collapsed over the scope of denuclearisation and sanctions relief. North Korea’s leader has since been emboldened by the war in Ukraine, securing critical support from Moscow after sending thousands of troops to fight alongside Russian forces. He inspected a major munitions factory at the weekend and called for it to boost production capacity, according to a separate report by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Sunday. This was “in order to supply enough quantity of missiles”, KCNA quoted him as saying. False information Kim Yo Jong, in her statement, went on to slam Washington over its comments that the goal of North Korea’s denuclearisation had been reaffirmed during last month’s summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing. The White House posted a fact sheet following the summit stating that “President Trump and President Xi confirmed their shared goal to denuclearise North Korea”, which Kim Yo Jong said was false. “Some officials in the United States still have yet to awaken from their escapist and anachronistic dream,” she said. “This is nothing more than Washington’s habitual dissemination of false information.” She rejected Washington’s attempts to deny or challenge the North’s status as a nuclear power, saying it “carries no legal force”. “The policy of continuously strengthening the country’s self-defensive nuclear deterrent, as set out by the nation’s leader, is an irreversible course that must be implemented without fail,” she added. The statement underscores Pyongyang’s “sensitivity” to any suggestion of a US-China agreement on North Korean denuclearisation, Hong Min, an analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification, told AFP. “Kim’s core message was a categorical rejection of reports of US-China discussions on North Korean denuclearisation as ‘false information’”, he said. It is possible that Pyongyang had “confirmed with Beijing” during the coordination process for the summit that such discussion had not taken place, Hong added.
KARACHI: Visiting Lyari around this time when the FIFA World Cup is just round the corner is an experience. Football fever is on the rise. Walking down each lane and alley tells you a story about the community’s love for football. Ill-famed for turf wars and drug trafficking, Lyari is also known as ‘Mini Brazil’ because while the negatives divide the community, football unites it. The narrow winding alleys of Lyari permit the children and youth playing football here to give short passes mostly and become great dribblers of the ball. Their playing style resembles that of Brazilian players. Their looks resemble too and to enhance that particular feature you’ll find most youngsters sporting the hairstyles of their favourite Brazilian players. This reporter must have run into five or six Neymar look-alikes just because of the hair. With giant screens being installed and walls painted with flags, youngsters sport their favourite footballers’ hairstyles Still, over time, there has been some change in opinions. Abdul Waheed, a popular football coach and entrepreneur, said that earlier the people of Lyari had a favourite team, Brazil, which they all associated with. “But now, you’ll find the lovers of football here associating with particular players rather than teams. The fan following for a player is what brings them closer to the teams,” he said. “For example, the Neymar fans are drawn to Brazil, the Messi fans cheer for Argentina and the Ronaldo fans are all for Portugal,” he explained. “That’s how the craze for Brazil in Mini Brazil has dropped from 100 per cent to 80 per cent,” he added. The kids playing football at the Al Usmani Sports Academy, which include girls, are mostly Brazil fans. Ali Mohammad, Tanya Faisal, Umme Safa Abdul Majeed, Safa Shakeel and Sonia are all loyal Brazil fans but there are also Abdul Aziz and Saima who are willing to bet that Portugal will do better than Brazil in this World Cup. “What to say about Portugal, Brazil will lose its very first match against Morocco on the 14th, you’ll see,” said Abdul Aziz. “Every four years, as the football World Cup approaches, Lyari’s entire mood changes. The place just comes alive like no other. With big screens installed in all the grounds, parks and even at intersections and crossroads, we forget all our troubles to just enjoy the game despite there being no scope in football in this country,” Abdul Waheed points out. Abdul Rasheed is a local painter and decorator in Lyari’s Baghdadi area. But during this time he diverts all his energies to painting flags of the participating nations in the World Cup on neighbourhood walls. Of course, Brazilian flags take up entire building walls. “Brazil has its own charm but I do paint other flags too besides painting portraits of various star players of different teams,” he said. World Cup fever has reached a high temperature in Ali Mohammad Mohallah in Lyari’s Kalri area where there is no wall left that does not have a flag or a popular footballer on it. Tied to strings, different country flags, too, fluttered away. An Iranian flag on a tall pole on the roof of a building also flapped in the evening breeze. “This year it deserved the highest point,” smiled Yasir Ali, a neighbourhood youth. He also said that he along with other kids went around collecting money for the flags, paint and decorations. “The shopkeepers in the area happily donated 50, 100 or 200 rupees for decorating our lanes and alleys. It is not every day that you have the World Cup,” he smiled. Among the flags was a Pakistan flag, which raised a question. He said. “People don’t realise that Pakistan is also always participating in the FIFA World Cup as all the footballs used in the over-a-month-long competition are made in Pakistan,” he reminded. Published in Dawn, June 7th, 2026
Construction on the Tibetan plateau of some of the Earth’s most powerful optical telescopes is putting China on track to house the world’s biggest astronomy base by the mid-2030s, according to project scientists. Deng Licai, lead scientist for site planning at the National Astronomical Observatories of China (NAOC) in Beijing, said the telescopes at Saishiteng Mountain in northwestern Qinghai province would stretch between 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) and 14.5 metres across, and partner with dozens of...
REPORTAGE - De la radiologie à l’anatomie pathologique, en passant par les urgences ou les comptes rendus de consultations, le centre hospitalier universitaire (CHU) de Lille développe depuis plusieurs années des projets d’IA.
• Approves Rs100bn financing facility for PSO • Oil company facing over Rs900bn receivables from SOEs • Special honoraria expanded to more ministries, departments • Rs10.15bn cleared for Pakistan Navy’s Hangor Project • Rs4.38bn granted to Gilgit-Baltistan ahead of elections ISLAMABAD: Less than a week before the next budget, the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet on Friday approved more than Rs40 billion in supplementary grants and a Rs100bn sovereign-guarantee-backed financing facility for the Pakistan State Oil (PSO), which is facing over Rs900bn in receivables from other state-owned enterprises, raising concerns about smooth oil supplies. And despite financial constraints forcing development cuts in the name of IMF restrictions, the ECC meeting, presided over by Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, also allowed Rs10bn additional funds for parliamentarians’ development schemes and expanded the scope of special honoraria running up to six-month additional salaries to more ministries and departments involved in federal budget preparations. The benefit, already available to officials in around a dozen ministries and entities, including finance, revenue, planning, development, FBR, National Assembly, Senate and the Prime Minister’s Office, was expanded to the Law and Justice Division, Commerce Division and the Accountant General of Pakistan Revenue (AGPR). The fiscal impact was not disclosed. The meeting also changed the composition of a committee set up to settle about Rs60bn in petroleum levy dues charged to consumers but allegedly withheld by Cnergyico Refinery since 2019, citing concerns over conflict of interest, and ordered a tightened recovery plan. An official statement said the ECC approved a summary submitted by the Cabinet Division for Rs7.026bn through a technical supplementary grant for the Sustainable Development Goals Achievement Programme (SAP). “The allocation will facilitate continuity of development projects, prevent cost escalations, and timely achievement of programme objectives,” the statement said. Officials said the finance minister was under pressure from the leadership to provide funds for parliamentarians’ schemes in the outgoing fiscal year despite an about Rs175bn cut in the core development programme. The ECC also approved a summary of the Ministry of Defence for Rs10.15bn for the Hangor Project of the Pakistan Navy under the Rafale Aircraft and Force Development Package (RAFDP)-2030. The committee approved letters of comfort and government guarantees worth Rs100bn for PSO through a syndicated running finance facility to address its liquidity constraints and ensure uninterrupted oil supplies. The meeting was informed that state-owned enterprises, particularly gas companies, owed more than Rs904bn to PSO, making it increasingly difficult for the company to manage supply challenges under current geopolitical conditions. Instead of arranging recovery of those payments, the ECC approved borrowing of Rs50bn each from Habib Bank and Bank of Punjab to meet oil requirements. The borrowing will appear on PSO’s balance sheet. The meeting also took up the Deed of Settlement with Cnergyico PK Limited, which had collected petroleum levy from consumers but allegedly did not deposit it in the government treasury. The company is also seeking benefits under the Refining Policy for the upgradation of existing brownfield refineries. The ECC had earlier approved the constitution of a committee under the Special Investment Facilitation Council (SIFC) to resolve the late payment surcharge issue. Subsequently, the Law and Justice Division proposed amendments to strengthen safeguards for government revenues by requiring Cnergyico to deposit incremental incentives in a joint escrow account with Ogra and restricting withdrawals until the outstanding petroleum levy and late payment surcharge amounts were fully settled. The ECC was informed that the composition of the committee needed to be reviewed due to concerns over potential conflict of interest arising from the inclusion of the Cnergyico chief executive officer. A new committee was constituted under the convenership of the finance secretary, comprising representatives of the Law and Justice Division, Petroleum Division and SIFC, to resolve the late payment surcharge issue with Cnergyico and strengthen recovery of around Rs60bn, including Rs47.5bn in principal amount. The committee approved seven grants for the Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control worth Rs2.826bn. These included Rs693m for security arrangements for the Islamabad peace talks, Rs241m as compensation for the suicide bombing at Imambargah Khadijah-tul-Kubra in Taralai, Islamabad, Rs528m for the Pakistan Land Ports Authority, Rs800m for procurement of fast patrol boats for the Pakistan Coast Guards, Rs1.884bn for the expansion of the Safe City Islamabad project, Rs150m for the National Counter Terrorism Authority and Rs414m for security charges relating to the Reko Diq project. The ECC approved Rs733m for Pakistan Television Corporation for payment of salaries for June 2026 and Rs183.5m for the Special Communication Organisation for installation of telecom sites and towers in Shigar district of Gilgit-Baltistan. It also approved Rs120m for the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs to meet employee-related expenditures arising from revised salaries and allowances of parliamentary secretaries during FY26. The meeting approved two grants for the Ministry of Housing and Works for placement of development funds into the current account of Pakistan Infrastructure Development Company Limited. These included Rs8.759bn for Karachi and Hyderabad Urban Infrastructure Development Packages and Rs2.84bn for parliamentary schemes in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The ECC also granted Rs1.3bn for the Modernisation and Upgradation of Pakistan Mint Phase-II-A and Rs4.377bn to the Gilgit-Baltistan government to support current expenditure requirements and priority initiatives launched ahead of elections. The committee also approved budget estimates of IPO-Pakistan for FY26, submitted by the Ministry of Commerce, comprising regular expenditure of Rs914.7m and projected revenue receipts of Rs918m. The ECC also approved a summary of the Ministry of Maritime Affairs regarding the operational continuity of Engro Vopak Terminal Limited. Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2026
Foragido da Justiça é preso com drogas e armas em flutuante na zona rural de Beruri, no interior do AM. Reprodução Um homem de 34 anos, condenado por roubo e foragido da Justiça, foi preso nesta sexta-feira (5) em Beruri, no interior do Amazonas. A ação aconteceu durante uma operação conjunta das polícias Civil e Militar na zona rural do município. Na ação, os agentes apreenderam drogas, armas de fogo, munições e materiais usados no tráfico. De acordo com as investigações, o suspeito usava um flutuante na região da Boca do Purus como ponto de apoio para armazenamento e distribuição de entorpecentes. O cumprimento dos mandados de prisão, busca e apreensão levou os policiais até o local, onde o homem estava acompanhado de uma adolescente de 17 anos. 📲 Participe do canal do g1 AM no WhatsApp Agora no g1 Durante as buscas, foram apreendidos cerca de 1,5 quilo de pasta base de cocaína e 800 gramas de skunk. Os agentes também encontraram materiais para embalar drogas, celulares e rádios comunicadores. Além dos entorpecentes, os policiais apreenderam uma escopeta, uma pistola, um revólver e diversas munições. O homem foi autuado em flagrante por tráfico de drogas, posse de arma de fogo de uso restrito e corrupção de menores. Segundo a polícia, ele também voltou a cumprir, em regime fechado, a pena pela condenação por roubo que motivava sua condição de foragido da Justiça.
Waarom ging het zo en niet anders? De eerste volledige week van de openbare verhoren over corona zit erop en daarmee is de enquêtecommissie klaar met het thema 'het begin van de pandemie'. Destijds werden ingrijpende besluiten genomen, waar ook kritiek op was. Maar wie deze week op excuses hoopte, kwam bedrogen uit. Met de kennis van toen deden we wat we konden, was vaak de boodschap. En ook: als er toch iets niet goed is gegaan, ligt dat misschien aan iemand anders. Een van de hoofdpersonen in coronatijd was Jaap van Dissel, voorzitter van het Outbreak Management Team, dat het kabinet adviseerde. "Veel was onzeker", zei Van Dissel. Bij hem leefden begin 2020, toen het virus via Italië uit China was overgewaaid, vooral vragen als: hoe is de overdracht, hoe gedraagt het virus zich, hoe wil je het bestrijden? Daarvoor was hij afhankelijk van de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie. "Zij waren in het begin onvolledig", vertelde Van Dissel. "Achteraf had ik daar kritischer op moeten zijn." Doodskisten in Italië In die tijd werd het OMT opgetuigd, een groep van 30 tot 40 experts. Kritiek was dat er vooral virologen inzaten en bijvoorbeeld minder kinderartsen of huisartsen. Lag daardoor niet te veel nadruk op het bestrijden van het virus en minder op andere aspecten? Misschien was dat even zo, erkende Van Dissel. "De beelden uit Italië van doodskisten in de straten hebben in het begin zeker de focus bepaald." Even later werd het OMT in zijn ogen diverser, maar niet zo dat er echt voorbij virusbeheersing werd gekeken. De weging van negatieve maatschappelijk aspecten "hoorde niet in het OMT thuis", zei Van Dissel daarover. Daar gingen anderen over, zoals de politiek. Van Dissel had zelfs "ongevraagd" geadviseerd aan het kabinet om breder te kijken, zei hij. Uiteindelijk kwam er een Maatschappelijk Impact Team om het kabinet te adviseren, maar dat was volgens hem rijkelijk laat. Een van de leden van het OMT was Jan Kluytmans, die als microbioloog in een Bredaas ziekenhuis "in het oog van de storm" zat. Hij werd maandag verhoord. Noord-Brabant werd zwaar getroffen, maar het lukte niet om de urgentie aan iedereen over te brengen. "In het zuiden was het volledig verspreid op grote schaal, onder de radar", zei Kluytmans. Terwijl in de rest van het land nauwelijks besmettingen waren. Dat uitleggen "kostte tijd" en die was kostbaar. Uiteindelijk leidde de brandhaard in het zuiden tot een lijst met vergaande maatregelen, opgesteld door Brabantse bestuurders. Nog voordat ze daar werden aangekondigd, nam het kabinet ze over. Nederland ging half maart 2020 in lockdown. Verpesten Had dat niet eerder gemoeten, was een vraag van de commissie. OMT-voorzitter Van Dissel draaide het om: het had schadelijk kunnen zijn. "Een goede maatregel op het verkeerde moment kan de hele boel verpesten", zei hij. Je riskeert het vertrouwen van burgers te verliezen. OMT-lid Marion Koopmans, die vorige week als eerste werd verhoord, stelde dat eerder ingrijpen "in theorie veel had uitgemaakt". Maar benadrukte dat het "niet realistisch" was, omdat er nog weinig bekend was. Dat het om "loodzware" besluiten ging, illustreerde topambtenaar Ernst van Koesveld in zijn verhoor woensdag. Hij was op het ministerie van Volksgezondheid betrokken bij het bezoekverbod voor verpleeghuizen. Hij herinnerde zich "dat het een steen op de maag" was, maar dat iedereen het nodig vond. Aan het besluit lag geen OMT-advies ten grondslag, maar het lag volgens hem wel "in het verlengde" van het advies om voorzichtig om te gaan met kwetsbaren. Specifieke vragen Dat niet alle kabinetsmaatregelen rechtstreeks van het OMT kwamen, was voorzitter Van Dissel overigens wel wat waard. In die tijd ontstond een beeld dat het OMT alles bepaalde; op enig moment noemde premier Rutte de adviezen zelfs heilig. "Je wil niet dat het advies gepolitiseerd wordt", aldus Van Dissel. De OMT-voorzitter zei in zijn verhoor ook dat het adviesorgaan later in de crisis wel heel veel te verstouwen kreeg van het kabinet. De adviesvragen waren soms zo specifiek dat "je je daar kriegelig bij voelde". Van Dissel, die nog een keer gehoord zal worden, stelt dat alles werd gewogen met het oog op de uitbraak. "Maar het was een politieke keuze of bioscopen open konden en restaurants niet, bij wijze van spreken." Die keuzes van het kabinet kwamen ook aan bod in de Tweede Kamer. De enquêtecommissie kijkt nadrukkelijk naar de rol van de Kamer en in dat kader was toenmalig voorzitter Khadija Arib uitgenodigd. Kortgezegd was haar boodschap "dat de Kamer het heel goed heeft gedaan". De controlerende taak werkte prima wat haar betreft. Ze erkende dat er geen crisisplan lag om de Kamer te laten functioneren in een pandemie. "Maar het was ook nooit voorgekomen." De Tweede Kamer ging door met vergaderen, maar wel minder en in aangepaste vorm. De ambtelijke top, waar Arib geen goede relatie mee had, ging aan de slag met een crisisplan, maar daar werd zij buitengehouden, vertelde ze. "Het was mosterd na de maaltijd." Uitgewoond Of de Kamer inderdaad zo goed functioneerde, waagde ex-Nationaal Coördinator Terrorismebestrijding en Veiligheid Pieter-Jaap Aalbersberg te betwijfelen in zijn verhoor. Hij zag overwerktheid bij ambtenaren van VWS, mede doordat de Kamer veel van ze vroeg. "Het parlementaire werk vrat de ambtenaren op." Ze raakten het eerste half jaar "uitgewoond". Net als de Kamer was heel Nederland niet goed voorbereid, zei Aalbersberg. Er waren draaiboeken voor uitbraken, maar alleen gericht op "een enkele besmettingshaard ergens in Nederland". Voldoende transparant De NCTV werd als laatste verhoord deze week en was naar eigen zeggen "het oliemannetje" van de crisis. Hij was bijvoorbeeld aanwezig bij de zogenoemde Catshuisoverleggen, waar ministers afspraken maakten over de coronamaatregelen. Hij weerspreekt dat de besluitvorming daar "schimmig" was. Veel onderliggende adviezen waren openbaar en de bewindslieden moesten in het openbaar verantwoording afleggen, is zijn idee. "Vanuit mijn perspectief was het voldoende transparant." Hoe de bewindspersonen daar zelf naar kijken, wordt volgende week duidelijk. De commissie verhoort dan onder anderen oud-premier Rutte en toenmalig ministers Van Ark en Koolmees.
What if your best mate slept with your child? The stars of Alice and Steve, the new taboo-busting comedy about friends at war, open up about drug-taking, iffy sex – and why British jokes are so hard to understand Alice and Steve, the new “wrongcom” starring Nicola Walker and Jemaine Clement, starts like the story of a lifelong friendship between two 50ish exes. They went out for a short time, a million years ago, and ever since have been platonically inseparable. In one of the first scenes, Alice (Walker) tells Steve (Clement) that she loves him so much that if he were ever drowning, she’d hollow out her own mother’s body and use it as a canoe. Alice and Steve go to funerals, get drunk, talk frankly about their disappointments, devise ill-advised solutions, take cocaine but only once every epoch; all the stuff of a loving friendship is here. But creator Sophie Goodhart also uses it to put every kind of relationship under the microscope. “It’s every stage of love Sophie is looking at,” says Walker. So it’s also about the doldrums of a long marriage, between Alice and Daniel (Joel Fry). And it’s about first love going exquisitely well for Dom, Alice and Daniel’s teenage son, until they take an edible and everything goes awry. Unavoidably, though, all the fireworks are around one love story – and how it puts paid to Alice and Steve’s relationship. Continue reading...