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Cannes, on high alert, tries to balance security, festivity
CANNES — Coming six months after the Paris attacks in November, the 69th Cannes Film Festival has elevated security measures, swarming the French Riviera resort town with an increased police presence. But particular care has been made, festival organizers say, to preserving the spirit of the annual cinema celebration. Bomb sweeps and bag checks have been stepped up. A dramatic, unnerving drill was held last month in which mock gunmen stormed the festival’s palace hub. And festival president Pierre Lescure has said that about 500 highly-trained security agents will be on guard around Cannes’ red-carpeted headquarters, the Palais des Festivals. That’s in addition to around 200 police and extensive surveillance cameras throughout Cannes. But the festival, which opens Wednesday, has also sought to counter the heightened state by continuing with business as usual. The party will most
definitely go on. “The atmosphere is good,” festival director Thierry Fremaux said in an interview Tuesday. “Cannes is a celebration of life, of cinema.” “These films have a big fighting spirit,” he added. “This is also what makes Cannes and we still want to show that.”
Perhaps signaling that maintaining such a balance will have its difficulties, moments after Fremaux spoke, alarms rang out inside the Palais, forcing an evacuation. But on the eve of Wednesday’s opening festivities — including a new “welcome party” for festivalgoers on the beach — beefed up security was far from omnipresent. The most striking change, as many noted, weren’t security agents but a wardrobe change for the ubiquitous festival ushers. To glowing reviews from critics, their traditionally beige suits have been replaced with blue ones. “The French public statement was very clear, is very clear,” Fremaux said. “The festival is as usual, the same way as usual, so everything will be fine.” That was consistent with earlier statements made by Lescure, who pledged that “the maximum” has been done to balance security and ensure “that the festival remains a place of freedom.” Others have emphasized that Cannes, the world’s pre-eminent film festival, must be diligently guarded. “We must keep in mind as we prepare to open this festival that we are faced with a risk which has never been as high, and faced with an enemy determined to strike us at any moment,” French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday in Cannes.(ap)
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Hundreds of surveillance cameras in Badung MANGUPURA - The activities of residents of and visitors to the district of Badung will soon be monitored by hundreds of closed-circuit television (CCTV). This year, approximately 100 CCTVs will be installed and focused in the area of Kuta. Head of the Badung Communication and Infocom Agency, Wayan Weda Dharmaja, said on Tuesday (May 10) that Badung needs about 300 CCTVs to keep an eye on the territory of the south end to the north end of Badung. “We need about 300 CCTVs. Installation of the surveillance cameras in Badung will be somewhat difficult because of the hilly topography of the area that extends from Bangkung River in Petang to Uluwatu in South Kuta” he said. Dharmaja explained that they are in the stage of tender for the the procurement of 100 of the CCTV cameras that are considered a priority for monitoring activities in Kuta. “Pursuant to the detailed engineering design to oversee the area of Badung from the Bangkung River Bridge to Uluwatu, at least 300 CCTVs are required. This year however we will only be procuring 100 of them”, he added.
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People protest next to large inflatable doll of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff wearing a presidential sash with the words “Goodbye dear” and “Mother of Big Oil” written in Portuguese, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday, May 9, 2016.
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Impeachment of Brazil president goes from longshot to likely
RIO DE JANEIRO — When a measure to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was introduced to Congress late last year, the possibility that she would actually be removed from office seemed remote. The charges against her were obscure, not the variety that spurs outrage: She is alleged to have broken fiscal rules in her handling of the federal budget to hide deficits and bolster an embattled government. The allegations also came with a good dose of irony: Her main opponents in Congress are accused of crimes much worse. Yet, what started as a long shot
bid has gained momentum and, as the Senate prepares to vote Wednesday on whether to put her on trial, many analysts consider Rousseff’s ouster all but a foregone conclusion. “Dilma will be impeached for a variety of reasons,” said Marcos Troyjo, a professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “And
the possibility of her coming back is zero.” If a simple majority of the Senate’s 81 members vote to take up the impeachment measure, Rousseff will be suspended from office while a trial is conducted within the next 180 days. In the interim, Vice President Michel Temer will take over. A conviction, requiring a two-thirds vote, would remove her permanently. Brazilian newspapers’ polling of senators has found that around 50, many more than necessary, plan to vote for a trial. But it’s not clear
that all of those would also vote to convict her. A tally by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo suggests that so far only 41 senators are willing to remove Rousseff from office permanently — 13 short of the number needed. The expected Senate action comes after the lower Chamber of Deputies voted 367-137 last month in favor of impeachment, an anti-Rousseff verdict so resounding that many Brazilians believe it will influence the Senate, where she has traditionally been seen to have more allies.
Rousseff has repeatedly called the impeachment drive a “coup” because she has not been charged with a crime. She argues that previous presidents used similar accounting practices. News can also be heard in “Bali Image” at Global Radio FM 96.5 from 9.30 until 10.00 am. Listen to Global Radio FM at http:// globalfmbali.listen2myradio.com or live video streaming at http://radioglobalfmbali.com and http:// ustream.tv/channel/global-fm-bali.