MY NEWS ROLL PODCAST.

NEWS FROM RAIN.MD RADIO STATION.

Here are the headlines of the 9 o’clock news programme:

1.   “Dignity and Truth” to continue with the planned referendum.

2.   Commonwealth Day in GB.

3.   UNO on condemning the North Korea top leaders for crimes against their people.

4.   Sharapova doping scandal.

1.   The Political Platform “Dignity and Truth” has recently received the tacit approval from the Constitutional Court of Moldova to continue their activity. Although the controversial political project was established first as a civic platform which launched massive protests with sit-in, they had evolved and had constituted a political party with the same denomination, and after several failed attempts they received their license of a political party from the High Court of Justice. Now, they are encouraged to continue to work at implementing their initiative of organizing a plebiscite on urgent questions which are essential for the well-functioning of the state. One of the surveyed questions was on the form of electing the President, a query settled recently by the CC. Now, what remains to offer to the people’s choice is the question of amending the constitution so as to diminish the number of MPs in the Parliament and to annul their immunity in case of necessity.

2.   On the 14 March the day when GB celebrates the Commonwealth, the ruling Monarch Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II addressed a message on the occasion. The main highlighted idea was of “encouraging openness and diversity”, promoting the “willingness to share ideas, knowledge, resources for the common good, by working together for the foundation of a harmonious and progressive society”. We want to mention, how important is the present message proffered by the Queen in the context of a very tense period of heated debates on the problem whether GB should remain within the EU or exit from it. The Brexit issue is planned to be settled by a referendum in the near future. It is to say nothing by qualifying as mixed the general tendencies and moods within the British society. As a result of the continuous economic difficulties within EU, the Syrian refugees crisis and the divisive internal tendencies the Brexit is deemed to be inevitable. The Queen herself has recently inclined in favour. The problem of the British leaving the EU is of enormous interest, for both the Eurosceptics’ camp and for the adepts of the EU consolidation. Even the President of the USA Barack Obama recently has informed the public opinion that he intends to visit UK this autumn in order to discuss the circumstances and advantages for GB to stay within the EU rather than isolate themselves from the world!

3.   The media agency Reuters reports that the UNO has urged for proceeding to an investigation of the Leader of North Korea Kim Jong Un for his crime against humanity. Besides him, other high officials of North Korea should be prosecuted for their infringement of human rights and committing crimes against humanity in this isolated country. The UNO are accusing the North Korean administration of investing resources in developing their nuclear capabilities striving to enter the elitist club of countries who do possess nuclear arms, while the greatest part of the country live in an abject poverty and do not have sufficient food for their families. This declaration comes at the meeting of 47 UNO members in Geneva, evoking a report presented last month on the existent situation.

4.   The enormous scandal that broke out last week within the World Tennis Association when Maria Sharapova the world class tennis player of Russian origins admitted at a press-conference that she had been detected positive for doping, is in progress. The substance in question meldonium, has been created by a Russian pharmaceuticals producer for treating some health related conditions and is considered as of vital importance. However, the WTA blacklisted the medicine in point since the 1 January current, on allegations that it enhances performance and improves the mood if used by professional athletes. The WTA has sent informative letters about this novelty to all the sportsmen concerned, Sharapova included. She admitted herself of having received 5 times the warning. When she was confronted with prohibition to play in the Australian Open on the grounds that the forbidden drug had been detected in her blood samples, she motivated her decision to continue taking the drug which she had been taken for 10 years, as a personal decision and assuming it.  On another occasion she denied having received warnings about meldonium being on the prohibited list blaming it on a broken communication with the specialized commissions. The tennis fans from around the world have alternatively shown her support in her difficult times, as she faces a trial in the near future and a possible punishment in the form of interdiction from playing. The public opinion has nevertheless grown into mistrust for her unconvincing explanations and fans have less confidence in her honesty. Deception was also expressed from the part of other athletes her colleagues of tennis court who reported that she cheated and they would doubt all her past victories were merited. We hope however that Sharapova would recover from this blow to her career and would take her revenge match to the admiration of her public.