Is there a technical problem with Lifestyle / life section. Your article and video http://www.euronews.net/2011/05/05/the-changing-face-of-skopje/ posted today afternoon unfortunately disappeared. Could you kindly put it back? Also where the airing schedule for Macedonia Life series available. please? The presentation of changes in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia is fantastic. So vivid and dynamic. Congratulation to the Team :)

Police and military crackdowns are taking place all over Syria and whilst media attention is focused on Deraa people are being killed in other villages, towns and cities around the country. There was an anti-Government demonstration on Friday in Alrastan, a small town (population 60,000) between Homs and Hama. The demonstration started in the town’s main square. A crowd of 10,000 demonstrators marched to the highway which connects Aleppo with Damascus and decided to block it in protest at the military crackdown in Deraa. The army arrived with more than 8 tanks but initially only the secret police were shooting at protesters. Some of the protesters returned to the demonstration with weapons and started shooting back at the secret police. In the final hours the army used their tanks. The shooting went on for more than 12 hours. 39 (thirty-nine) civilians were killed and more than 50 (fifty) injured in Alrastan in one day. Protesters also set fire to the Al Baath party building and to the secret police building in the town.
Friday night at 8 pm funerals were held for 13 of the victims and another 12 were held Saturday. Injured protesters are being treated at home and in private clinics. The funerals went ahead Saturday with the police and secret police keeping their distance. They are positioned just outside the town. The tanks carried away 5 injured secret policemen.
Residents of Alrastan are afraid that their town will become a second Deraa and government forces will come to “cleanse” the town of “armed thugs”. This information was obtained directly from a resident of Alrastan Syria.

Just watched Adrian Lancashire interview Androulla Vassiliou on the subject of European education policies. I was somewhat disappointed. First question “why is the EU struggling to catch up to the levels of people in university in the US and Japan” What was the reply. A future, where the growth in jobs, will require EU citizens with higher education qualifications. Nothing about the question put to her. Then the commissioner was asked to provide successful examples on education. Low and behold Germany and the Netherlands were referred to. The usual suspects I may add those countries would come out on top despite the EU

“EU states fail education benchmarks”

It’s easy to understand the lack of interest in education when we see so many people with higher education without a job, or with a minimum wage as only revenue.

If you want the donkey to move you got to use the carrot, not the stick…

Dear euronews, first of all thanks for providing an excellent multilingual news site. I find it very useful to keep up on news while practicing my reading of several languages, having the same layout and articles for every language is unprecedented as far as I know.

I would like to offer a suggestion, as I expect many readers are bilingual, I think having the option to read an article in two different languages on the same page would be a great resource to students. I often switch between eg English and French but I think the format of the site is already well organised enough to make a dual-column bilingual layout a great possibility. I hope you do not underestimate the value of this site as a learning resource :)

Watching your news this morning on the TV (English Language channel). The voice over said that the Tchernobyl accident was caused by an “experiment” I think this is wrong , I have searched the web and find only “ accident” or “test” caused the meltdown.

Also, my investigations in to the Russian space history leads me to belive that Gagarin was not the first into space but the first to come back alive? a good point of discussion I know but we must realise the secrecy in which Russia worked in these times.

i am viewer of the euronews,seeing japan frequent earthquakes and recent 7 lel major accident,teaches globe countries to control nuclear planning and reduce risk agenda to world population.
even 25 years happend to chernobyl still over globe nuclear R&D is not reduced though world is suffering for various reasons in nuclear technology also,like mines of uranium etc,
also over globe iraq ,iran,yemen,egipt and libya,iorycoast are seriously effected by wars etc.
if this continues and world population loss is not agood sign for world peace
I cannot say more except fate of world is presently worsened.

PRAMOD DESHPANDE
senior scientific officer
ATOMIC ENERGY INDIA
8 apr 2011

this is open too press radio and tv

My Dish network euronews channel is showing a message that says euronews is no longer available in French. I would really rather have it in French. I hope you will reconsider this change. I am unlikely to watch as much as I do now because I rarely watch it in English. Please let me know why this has changed. Korey Willoughby

12.04.11

regarding mr gbagbo in the ivory coast, what disturbs me about all these reports is the fact that why are we as in britain not demanding he has to face the court for crimes against humanity, why does britain or the un always leave africa to resolve their own conflicts and not interfere. This man is a dictator and a murderer, do the innocent victims and families of the lost souls in ivory coast not deserve justice. Hitler wasnt allowed to get away with it, we took his henchmen to court, the same with sadam hussain, why is gbagbo different. Some of the graffic pictures of the deaths over there are too shocking, yet he (gbagbo) is allowed to walk away. What is happening in this world!

“Colonial aftershock of French strikes in Ivory Coast”

“Paris insists it is backing the right side. Although accusations of a massacre by Ouattara’s forces may, if proven, leave something of a hollow ring to that claim.”

I can’t believe the level of propagandist tone -i.e. gratuitous anti-french bias- which spurs from this article, the “right side” is the one recognized by -nearly- all the international community, the one who have won UN-certified elections and the results given by the CEI (Ivory Coast’s Independent Electoral Commission). Now why the author of this sorry piece of “journalism” single out the “accusations of a massacre” of one camp -which is btw attributed to both camps and is still investigated- while he completely ignores the other side’s widespread abuses is just telling…

http://www.euronews.net/2011/04/05/colonial-aftershock-of-french-strikes-in-ivory-coast/

12.04.11