Fresh Mexican police down protesters against Enrique Pe?a Nieto, who took office as president. Picture: ReutersEnrique Pe?a Nieto has officially take his duties as the new Mexican president with a vow to restore peace and security and to tackle vested interests that have hampered economic prosperity.
As several hundred protesters threw firebombs at police and Windows smashed, Pe?a Nieto marked the return of the institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) with a 13 point including the populist documents plan, but also reforms intended to boost the economy and modernize the education and justice systems.
Enrique Pe?a Nieto, new president of the Mexico, celebrates with his family. Photo: Reuters/Mexican Government"To the Mexico did not achieve progress that the population requires or deserves", Pe?a Nieto said. "It is time for breaking us the myths and paradigms and everything else that has limited our development."
Inaugural events have marred the day by protesters opposed to the return of the PRI after 12 years in power.
Both inside and outside the houses of Congress, where he took the oath of office, his opponents called his inauguration a "tax" of a party that ruled from 71 years of age, with a mix of documents, registry and rigged elections. At least four protesters and four policemen were injured as protesters clashed with police who used tear gas and 65 people were arrested.
Vandals broke the Windows of stores, banks and a hotel and the furniture is dragged through the streets, bonfires. A bank downtown where all the Windows were broken is the words "Welcome to Pe?a" painted on the front in green.
Pe?a Nieto has countered with a speech full of details, the creation of a prevention program crime purchase of teachers to end the patronage positions that the rules of the public education system.
He said that would be at the centre of all policies for Mexicans and their families safely and would endeavour to ensure that the roads and cities were again "areas of calm where Mexicans can travel safely without fear of the loss of their freedom or their lives.
Mexico has suffered an increase in violence from the outgoing president, Felipe Calder?n launched an offensive against organized crime in the coming to power six years ago. It is estimated that 60,000 people have been killed by drug violence since then. While officials said first most of the victims were involved in organized crime, the massacres and the removal of propagation to innocent civilians, as drug gangs came to whole cities rule and even parts of some States.
In his speech, Pe?a Nieto turned to his usual style of results-oriented governing the list, having started his term as Governor of the State of Mexico with 608 projects, which he has promised to complete.
The tone was conciliatory, attempting to allay fears of a return to the autocratic PRI passed. "I will respect each voice," he said. "I'm going to run an open Government that speaks with honesty, seeks advice, listen to its citizens..." I will be a president who is close to the people."
Many of its proposals recalled back to the old populist PRI, promising pensions to the elderly of life insurance for single mothers to support their children through college, a program aimed at eradicating hunger and a new system of passenger trains.
Political analyst Jesus Silva Herzog Marquez said: "it is very concrete, very practical, no ideology." I think that Pena Nieto is not a person who thinks in abstract terms."
Before taking the oath of office, the members of Congress left inside the Chamber speech of protest and hung banners, including a reading of a giant "consumed tax. Mexico cries".
"One word sums up December 1: restoration." Back to the past, "said Deputy Ricardo Monreal of the movement of citizens party.
Pe?a Nieto had campaigned as the new face of the PRI, repentant and rebuilt after having been voted out of the Presidency in 2000.
Prior to its administration of oath public Saturday from hundreds of opponents banged on height around Congress steel safety barriers, threw stones, bottle rockets and firecrackers on the police and yelled "Mexico without PRI." Police responded by spraying tear gas by a truck and used fire extinguishers to put out the flames of Molotov cocktails. A group of demonstrators beaten and dented the barrier with a large truck before being repelled by police gun in water.
"We are against oppression, the imposition of a person," said Alejandro, 25, a student protester. "It was grocery money and much more for people would vote for him."
"The president is as Salinas: 'I do see you, I hear you,'" said Aurelio Medina, 64, supplier and one demonstrator referring to the PRI former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
Despite protests from the public, the atmosphere inside the Congress during the swearing-in ceremony was much less chaotic than six years ago, when Calderon safety unit was literally beyond the blockages and the demonstrators to enter him in the building muscle, so he could take the oath of office after a victory challenged in the thin on a leftist candidate.
A major road tunnel collapsed at the Japan, trapping a number of vehicles and leaving seven people missing, local media reports say.
Survivors described how large sections of concrete fell on top of cars in the Sasago tunnel.
Rescuers managed to make the scene but didn't know how many cars were buried there.
The incident occurred about 08: 00 local time (23 h 00 GMT Saturday), about 80 km (50 miles) West of Tokyo.
The tunnel - one of the longest of the Japan - connects the capital to the city of Nagoya.
Public broadcaster NHK cited its black smoke that said journalist came out of the tunnel and there appeared to be a fire indoors.
'Fear '.
Images from cameras inside the tunnel closed circuit television showed a section of the tunnel of up to 100 m (328 ft) which had given Tokyo liaison channels on the motorway on Chuo in Yamanashi prefecture.
"We do not know exactly how many vehicles is on fire", a traffic police officer told the AFP news agency.
The representative added that a woman was taken to hospital after what she had made his way out of the tunnel.
Smoke was seen billowing Sasago tunnelThe woman said that she was with five other people in a van, but added: "I have no idea what happened to the other five." I do not know how many vehicles was before and behind ours. »
NHK reporter described driving through the tunnel, as it began to collapse, because other car bombs and fire. His car was badly damaged, he said.
Another survivor said the broadcasting organization that he saw "a concrete part of the ceiling. "fall of a sudden when I was driving on the inside I saw a fire from crushed car".
He added that he was 'scared' and marched for an hour out of the tunnel.
Sasago tunnel is a 4.3 km (2.7 miles). The tunnel double-barrel is on one of the main streets of Tokyo, the BBC Rupert Wingfield Hayes in the reports of the Japan.
The road had to be closed because of the seriousness of the accident, adds our correspondent.
Firefighters are still trying to extinguish the fire.
We know not what might have caused the roof to collapse.
Japan is prone to large earthquakes, but none have been reported in the area this morning, says our correspondent.
Closure of the tunnel, he said, should translate traffic chaos then thousands of weekend travellers head to Tokyo Sunday afternoon.
Announcement of the North Saturday that it would launch the rocket between 10 and 22 December was made as president Barack Obama prepares for his second term and the South Korea holds presidential elections on December 19.
It would be the second attempt to launch the Korea of the North under leader Kim Jong-Un, which took power after the death of his father, Kim Jong-Il there is almost a year. Some analysts have expressed scepticism that the North Korea has corrected what caused the embarrassing ignition of its latest rocket eight months ago. The launch received widespread international condemnation of the country.A spokesman of the Korean Committee of space technology to North Korea, however, said scientific "analyzed the errors" in the April launch failed and improved the accuracy of its Unha rocket and satellite Kwangmyongsong, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.
The release, the launch was an application of the late leader Kim Jong Il. He died December 17, 2011, and the North Koreans are supposed to mark the date this year with fanfare. The space agency, said the rocket should be mounted with a maintained and polar orbit Earth observation satellite its right to develop a space program Pacific.Washington considers North Korea rocket launches to be veiled cover for testing technology for the long-range missiles designed to establish in the United States, and these tests are prohibited by the United Nations.
"A North Korean launch"satellite"would be an extremely provocative act," said the spokesman for the Department of State Victoria Nuland in Washington, D.C. "any North Korean launch using ballistic missile technology is a direct violation of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council."In 2009, North Korea directed rocket and nuclear testing in the months of Obama enter in function.
North Korea was able to short and medium-range missiles, but the fire at long range in 1998, 2006, 2009 and April of this year ended with a failure. North Korea is not known to have managed to assemble an atomic bomb on a missile, but is expected to have enough used as a weapon of plutonium at least five or six bombs, according to US experts. In 2010, he revealed a program of uranium enrichment which would provide a second source of material for nuclear weapons.Negotiations of the six nations on the nuclear programme of the Korea of the North in return for dismantling aid collapsed in early 2009.
There was some scepticism about the question of whether North Korea will succeed."Getting ready for a launch in less than a year after a failure calls into question whether the North could have analyzed and fixed everything that was wrong", David Wright, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, wrote on the Organization's Web site this week.
In Seoul, the South Korean authorities have accused North Korea of trying to influence the presidential election with what they consider provocations intended to exert pressure on voters and the United States as the North is seeking concessions. Conservative Park Geun-hye, the daughter of the late president Park Chung-hee, is faced with Moon Jae-in liberal in the South Korean presidential election. Polls show the candidates in a tight race.North Korea "works hard to influence the upcoming election. They have a person selected, "South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said in an interview with a small group of foreign journalists in the Presidential Blue House." "Even if they test fire a missile, it will not have a big impact on the election," Lee said, speaking through an interpreter.
Lee gave the interview Thursday, but his Office under embargo the release of his comments until Sunday.The Korea of the North as part of its young leader is committed to strengthening its nuclear arsenal unless Washington waste that the North calls a "hostile" policy North Korea says it built the bombs to defend itself against what it considers a US nuclear threat in the region.
This year is the centenary of the birth of national founder Kim Il Sung, the grandfather of Kim Jong-Un. According to North Korean propaganda, 2012 aims to put the North on the way to "a strong, prosperous and great nation"."North Korea seems to be under pressure to redeem his failed to launch April preceding the year of the end of the"strong, prosperous and great nation',"said Koh Yu-hwan, an expert on North Korea at Dongguk University in Seoul.
He added that a successful rocket launch would increase the bargaining power of the North Korea of South Korea and in the United States "because it means that the country is closer to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear warheads."Before his last two rocket launches, North Korea notified the International Civil Aviation Organization and the International Maritime Organization on his intentions to run. Natasha IMO spokesman Brown said that as of Friday the Organization had not been advised by North Korea.
North Saturday announcement comes two days after South Korea canceled what would have been the launch of its first satellite from its own territory. Scientists in Seoul cited technical difficulties. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea said that the planned launch of the North is "a serious provocation and a challenge with the head to the international community."Missile and nuclear programs of North Korea will be a challenge for Obama in his second term and for the incoming South Korean leader. Last attempt by Washington to negotiate a freeze of the nuclear programme of the North and a moratorium on testing in exchange for food aid collapsed with the launch of April.
In Japan, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said he would coordinate with the United States, South Korea, China and the Russia in urging the North to refrain from the launch of the rocket.Minister of defence of the Japan also ordered units of missile to intercept the North Korean rocket if it or its fragments are threatening to hit the Japan.
Kyodo News Agency said that Japan postponed also the high-level talks with the Korea of the North scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday.British Foreign Secretary William Hague condemned North Korea launch plan, indicating a failure of the Korea of the North to cancel the ignition will lead to a further response from the international community.
The Korean peninsula remains in a State of war because the 1950-53 Korea war ended in a truce, not a peace treaty. Washington stations close to 30,000 troops in South Korea as a buttress against any North Korean aggression. Tens of thousands more are in nearby Japan.___
Related to writers Jean h. Lee, Hyung-jin Kim and Sam Kim in Seoul Press, Jill Lawless in London, Thomas Strong in Washington, D.C. and Elaine Kurtenbach in Tokyo contributed to this report.
New York Times said that israel gave the United States a few hours in advance of the decision to continue a development that could prevent the creation of the Palestinian State viable and contiguous. "It's one of the most sensitive areas of the territory," said former Ambassador Kurtzer
The Israeli approval of 3,000 new housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has been a shock to the US administration, the New York Times reported Saturday.The Americans were particularly angry with the decision to continue "preliminary zoning and planning of preparations" for a development on the segment connecting the city of my ' Ma'aleh Adumim with Jerusalem (called area E1) that separate Bethlehem from Jerusalem and Ramallah and could prevent the creation of a Palestinian State viable and contiguous.
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According to the New York Times, the point where the two actions seemed intended to punish the Palestinians for their submission of the United Nations, which led to the Palestine, updated the status of a non-Member State.
The Obama administration rushed to condemn the action, and senior officials have expressed their frustration on the fact that the construction decision came after the Israeli authorities had suggested that he employ only severe measures of retaliation if the Palestinians their new status to turn to the International Criminal Court in the Hague.
According to the American newspaper, Israel gave the United States a few hours in advance of the plan, and president Barack Obama has not called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
"This is not just another bit of houses in Jerusalem and another summit of the Hill on the West Bank," said former American Ambassador to Israel and Egypt Dan Kurtzer. "This is one of the most sensitive areas of the territory, and I hope that the United States will lay down the law".
"A number of important countries tell us that they think that it is wrong to make regulations, and these are our best friends," noted an Israeli Government official, who according to the New York Times, spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of being fired.
"After that they say that, directly or indirectly, the immediate reaction is to create settlements, even in one of the most controversial areas. E1? How does make sense? What is the message of the Government sends her best friends? »
While Israel has frequently announced expansions of the colony at political times delicate, the New York Times said, the displacement of E1 was a shock for many after a week where the Israelis and Palestinians have toned down talk about the next day answers to the vote of the United Nations.
According to the report, the Palestinians are already progressing moves less controversial: the Palestinian Authority has begun to change its name to the "Palestine" on websites, contracts and official documents, and several countries are considering raising to the level of diplomatic relations, the Palestinian envoys the title of Ambassador.
iPad mini & iPhone 5 Arrive in China in December
CUPERTINO, California?November 30, 2012?Apple® today announced the Wi-Fi versions of iPad® mini and fourth generation iPad with Retina™ display will be available in China on Friday, December 7, and iPhone® 5 will be available on Friday, December 14. iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad with Retina display are currently available in 42 countries, and iPhone 5 is available in 47 countries, including the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan and the UK.
iPad mini is a completely new iPad design that is 23 percent thinner and 53 percent lighter than the third generation iPad, and features a stunning 7.9-inch Multi-Touch™ display, FaceTime® HD and 5 megapixel iSight® cameras, ultrafast wireless performance* and an incredible 10 hours of battery life.** The fourth generation iPad features a gorgeous 9.7-inch Retina display, new Apple-designed A6X chip, FaceTime HD camera and ultrafast wireless performance*. Both iPad mini and the new fourth generation iPad come with iOS 6.
iPhone 5 is the thinnest and lightest iPhone ever, completely redesigned to feature a stunning new 4-inch Retina display; an Apple-designed A6 chip for blazing fast performance; and ultrafast wireless*-all while delivering even better battery life.** iPhone 5 comes with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system with over 200 new features including: Shared Photo Streams, all-new Maps app, Passbook® organization and even more Siri® features and languages.
iPad mini with Wi-Fi models come in black & slate or white & silver for a suggested retail price of $329 (US) for the 16GB model, $429 (US) for the 32GB model and $529 (US) for the 64GB model. The fourth generation iPad with Wi-Fi models come in black or white for a suggested retail price of $499 (US) for the 16GB model, $599 (US) for the 32GB model and $699 (US) for the 64GB model. In China, iPad mini and the fourth generation iPad will be available through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), select Apple Authorized Resellers and by reservation from Apple retail stores. Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. beginning Thursday, December 6 for pick up the following day. Additionally, iPad 2 will be available at just $399 (US).
iPhone 5 comes in either black & slate or white & silver for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model, $299 (US) for the 32GB model and $399 (US) for the 64GB model. In China, iPhone 5 will be available through the Apple Online Store (www.apple.com), select Apple Authorized Resellers and by reservation from Apple retail stores. Reservation requests will be accepted daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for pick up the following day. iPhone 4S is available for just $99 (US) and iPhone 4 is available for free with a two-year contract from participating carriers.
*Network speeds are dependent on carrier networks. Check with your carrier for details.
**Battery life depends on device settings, usage and other factors. Actual results vary.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
