The Ukrainian crisis the West deploys 3,000 soldiers, and Washington is considering sending gas to Europe

The Pentagon announced that President Joe Biden has decided to deploy about 2,000 additional US troops to Europe, while Bloomberg reported that the US administration has discussed with major importers of gas in Asia to persuade them to send it to Europe in the event of an armed conflict in Ukraine.

The Pentagon indicated that it will deploy 2,000 US soldiers to Europe in the coming days, and 1,000 soldiers will be redeployed from Germany to Romania, stressing that the deployment of these forces comes as a deterrent, and that it sends a message that Washington is ready to repel any aggression.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price also said that the US forces announced to be sent to Europe will not fight in Ukraine, but their goal is to ensure the strong defense of the territory of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Price explained that these moves are not permanent, but rather come in response to the current security environment. He added that the measures announced at the Pentagon were deterrent and defensive.

As for contacts with Russia, he indicated that the Russians are preparing a written response to what Washington has provided. He expected the response to convey in detail their position and the path that seemed to them to be applicable.

He explained that the United States and NATO did not present Russia with a specific road map, but rather proposals for further diplomatic engagement.

Russian warning

On the other hand, the Russian State Duma warned against the move to deploy US forces in Eastern Europe, and said it was a counterproductive step that might prompt Moscow to respond.

On the other hand, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba confirmed that diplomacy is continuing to ward off any Russian attack.

This comes at a time when pictures showed Russia's reinforcement of its forces near its borders, and in Belarus.

On the other hand, Reuters news agency reported, quoting the Elysee, that French President Emmanuel Macron and American Joe Biden agreed on the need to continue dialogue in order to implement the Minsk agreements.

The White House also said that Biden and Macron discussed in a telephone conversation the continuation of the Russian military build-up on the border with Ukraine, adding that Biden and Macron affirmed their support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The two presidents reviewed their countries' continuous coordination in the diplomatic field and their willingness to impose rapid and severe economic costs on Russia in the event of its invasion of Ukraine.

The White House said Biden and Macron agreed to maintain close contact between their teams and with NATO allies and the European Union on a coordinated and comprehensive approach to managing Ukraine.

In the same context, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian warned of the dangerous situation in Ukraine.

In response to a question about the consequences of any Russian intervention in Ukraine, Le Drian said that Russia would be subject to severe sanctions if it violated Ukraine's sovereignty.

Russian british contact

On the other hand, the Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a telephone conversation, during which they exchanged in detail their views in the context of the crisis in Ukraine, and the issue of legal security guarantees demanded by Russia.

The Kremlin explained that Putin drew Johnson's attention to what he called Kiev's sabotage of the Minsk agreements.

Putin spoke of NATO's unwillingness to respond appropriately to Russia's concerns, and said that the West was hiding behind the so-called "open door" policy of NATO, which contradicts the basic principle of indivisibility of security.

On the other hand, Bloomberg quoted informed sources as saying that the US administration had contacted a number of the largest importers of gas in Asia to persuade them to send it to Europe in the event of an armed conflict in Ukraine.

The website indicated that Biden spoke to officials in Japan, South Korea, India, as well as China, whose officials had limited contact with them, according to the website.

Washington is trying to avoid a gas crisis in Europe if Russia invades Ukraine and European countries respond by imposing sanctions on it.

European countries, whose needs are 40% of Russian gas, fear that Moscow will reduce supplies in response to any possible sanctions.

Macron supports Christian schools in the Middle East and closes Islamic institutions in France

The French president announced the doubling of funding for Christian schools in the Middle East, in a move he described as France's "secular commitment", followed on the other hand by the fight against its Islamic counterpart in his country and the persecution of its Muslims.

In a unique move, coming a few weeks before the French presidential elections, the country's president has decided to double its support for Christian schools in the Middle East. He justified this as a "historic secular commitment" of the republic, in a discourse that closely resembles what his rivals on the far right usually say.

On the other hand, Emmanuel Macron and his government are still leading a war against Islamic schools in France, persecuting its Muslims and portraying them as a threat to the country, which opened the door to the rise of hate speech against that community that represents an important number of the country's population.

Macron supports Christian schools in the Middle East

During his meeting with activists in defense of Christian minorities in the Middle East on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that he would double the funds allocated to help Christian schools there, while facing the dangers of jihadist conflicts and attacks.

Under this decision, the French state's contribution to the East Schools Support Fund will be doubled, to reach four million. In a move that the president justified, he said: "Supporting the Christians of the East is a secular commitment of France and a historical mission, as well as a response to the need not to abandon the struggle for culture, education and dialogue in this troubled region."

Macron also announced that France would renew its $30 million contribution to the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Zones. This alliance in 2017, in partnership with the UAE, which supports 150 cultural sites, whose conditions range from devastated and threatened by the conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan or the explosion of the Port of Beirut in the year 2020.

While the East Schools Support Fund was established in January 2020, a total of 174 schools were supported in 2021, including 129 in Lebanon, 16 in Egypt, 7 in Israel, 13 in the Palestinian territories and 3 in Jordan.

According to Vatican statistics, the number of Christians in the Middle East has decreased to about 15 million, and today they constitute only four percent of the region's total population, after they made up 20 percent before the First World War.

Macron's dangerous game!

In return, Emmanuel Macron and his government are still persecuting the country's Muslims and cracking down on their institutions. That is since the President of the Republic delivered his speech calling for combating what he called "Islamic isolationism", making the country's Muslims the danger to the Republic, just as his government enacted a special law for that.

A law according to which the charges are ready to close mosques and schools in countries that follow the Islamic religion. In the year 2021, that government closed 21 mosques in the country, and dissolved a large number of schools, associations and institutions affiliated with its Muslims, and created a political rift between representatives of the religious affairs of the Muslim communities there.

This indicates the radical shift in the speech of the president , who in his previous election campaign was opposing the right calling for the persecution of Muslims in France, on his double standards and his political exploitation of issues, especially in conjunction with the approaching presidential elections in the country. A number of French intellectuals and journalists were surprised by the president's tendency to enact a law on Muslims, at a time when the country is experiencing successive crises.

One of these intellectuals was Alain Grech, a veteran French journalist and editor-in-chief of the "Orion 21" website, who commented at the time: "These are electoral motives that push the search for votes on the right, and then the preparations for a possible interview with Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election. The upcoming elections, which will, in turn, force the left to give him their votes because they do not want Le Pen as president of the republic, and thus guarantee his chances for a second term but it is a dangerous game!”

A dangerous game is also confirmed by the head of the Democratic Union of Muslims in France, presidential candidate Najib Arezki, in a previous interview with TRT Arabic, saying: "The same strategy is repeated, the government fails to find solutions to the daily preoccupations of the French, and instead of recognizing its failure, It tends to create a fake problem to distract the people from the reality of that failure.”

Greece brought them back, barefoot. The bodies of 12 migrants were found in Edirne, who had died of freezing.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said that of the 22 migrants forced by Greek forces to take off their shoes and strip their clothes, 12 died after freezing in the cold.

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Wednesday that 12 migrants died in the Ipsala border area after they froze in the cold due to the practices of the Greek border guards.

Soylu said in a tweet on Twitter that "of the 22 migrants who were forced by the Greek forces to take off their shoes and strip their clothes, 12 migrants froze."

The Turkish minister continued: "The European Union is helpless, weak and inhuman."

And he added: "The Greek border forces are a killer of innocents, and sympathetic to the Gulen terrorist organization."

At the end of his tweet, Soylu called for mercy to the deceased victims of migrants.

The Edirne state said in a statement that the bodies of 9 migrants who died due to cold were found in the village of Pashakoy, pushed by Greece towards it.

She added that the authorities rescued one immigrant who was about to freeze from the cold, and treated him at Kishan Governmental Hospital in the state.

She added that the authorities continue to comb the area for other migrants who may need urgent medical assistance.

The state indicated that the judicial authorities had opened an investigation into the incident.

Greece is one of the main routes to the European Union for refugees and migrants seeking to escape war and the hardships of living in the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

The border forces and the Greek coast guard commit heinous practices and crimes against irregular migrants, deliberately exposing their lives to the risk of death, regardless of any humanitarian standards or international laws.

Extensive violations and abuse A scandal rocks nursing homes in France

After opening several administrative and financial investigations into the Orbe company that owns homes for the elderly, the French official authorities revealed grave violations and many violations and mistreatment of the elderly, which sparked a heated debate in the media and widespread human rights condemnation.

With the approaching date of the presidential elections in France, the spotlight began to shed light on many files and issues that have always been kept in obscurity and secrecy. The last of these cases was provoking the abuses and violations committed by the Orbi group for the elderly over the years, without being held accountable or punished.

In this context, the official authorities pledged to open an investigation into the matter, follow up the case, and reveal all violations, the most important of which is the mistreatment of the elderly, which was described as "silent" violence.

In this context, the Minister of State in charge of elderly policy, Brigitte Bourguignon, said in a statement to the radio station "France Inter", saying: "We will question the entire group." She vowed that she would "hit hard," as she put it.

On the other hand, the group insisted on denying the allegations against it, as mere "biased lies", as it put it, and in the meantime fired its CEO.

Elderly care homes grave violations

Numerous investigative reports have confirmed that, over the years, the "Europe" group of nursing homes in France has placed its profit interest over the welfare and care of the elderly.

The home employed a small number of staff and workers, who were unable to provide adequate care and attention to the elderly under its care.

Numerous testimonies revealed that many of them had to wait a long time, until there was a staff to take care of them, at a time when most of them were unable to do anything on their own.

In the same context, many reports claimed that these places also lacked hygiene and could smell unpleasant odors since entering the corridors of some of them. The droppings are scattered throughout.

An investigation that, in turn, shed light on the abuses that occur in nursing homes, under the title "Les Fossoyeurs", in turn, in 400 pages, stated that most residents in these homes also complain about limited and bad food, and that most of them usually suffer from Alzheimer's or various diseases, which makes Some of them are violent and aggressive, and thus become vulnerable to the abuse of nurses and care workers, who were far too few in number to deal with these stressors.

All this, despite its badness, did not force the "Urbi" group to increase the number of its staff to provide the necessary care, as it overcame the profit and material interest over the interest of the elderly.

The situation was tragic and unfortunate, as described by officials and human rights defenders, and it called for quick action to put an end to these serious violations against a fragile group of French society.

Orbi insists on denial

As soon as the "Les Fossoyeurs" investigation was published, which sparked a heated media controversy and prompted the official authorities to open an investigation into the matter, the Board of Directors of "Europe" announced the dismissal of its CEO, Yves Le Massin, who quickly began selling shares, in anticipation of the repercussions and repercussions of the scandal, and appointed Philippe Charrier in his place. Executive Director of "Europe".

As soon as he assumed the new position, Charrier was summoned by Brigitte Bourguignon, Minister Delegate for the Autonomy of the Elderly, to a hearing on Tuesday, 1 February. The minister expressed her regret and anger behind the scenes of the session, saying, "Urbe continues to deny, even the new director has explanations for everything, and he has proof of everything." Bourguignon confirmed that the official bodies will continue to investigate the case.

In light of the coincidence of this issue, with the presidential elections approaching, this file, in turn, has become the subject of competition between many currents and candidates, who have expressed their determination to hold accountable those involved in the mistreatment of the elderly or to cover it up.

Human rights organizations and many media outlets also stressed the need to hold Orbi accountable for the violations it committed against a weak group of society that, in fact, has no one to defend it or care about it.