Two new rulings have agreed with the government on its decision to increase the ecological flow of the Tagus (the minimum amount of water that must circulate), which means a reduction in the amount of water directed into the Mediterranean for irrigation and domestic consumption in Tagus -Segura transfer. The National Court of Justice has dismissed the controversial administrative appeal lodged by the Region of Murcia (ruled by the PP) in 2019 seeking a doubling of the amount transferred, while the Supreme Court has shelved the appeal by the Generalitat Valenciana de Ximo Puig (PSOE), which It was declared in presented in 2021. The two rulings, which add to the same vein to five other previous Supreme Court rulings, come at a time when water warfare has resumed, having come into force mid-this month, a recent cut in the amount of water that can be transferred, something that rejected by Murcia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community (who presented new resources) demanding more water, while Castilla-La Mancha celebrates it.

The judgments known today respond to two appeals that do not take into account the last change in ecological flow, which was set at an average of 6 cubic meters per year and has now increased by 7 cubic meters per second in Aranjuez since the approval of the Basin Rehabilitation Plan until 2026. In January this year it will increase to 8 cubic meters, and in 2027 to 8.6. The greater this flow, the less water can be diverted to be sent to Murcia, Andalusia and the Valencian Community.

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Murcia’s appeal protested because a transfer of 7.5 cubic hectometers from the Entrepeñas-Buendía reservoirs had been ordered in November 2019, while the Murcia executive asked for 14.7 hectometers, claiming the Tagus had sufficient reserves to allow them that to send what they requested The applicants understood that the government did not adequately justify its proposal for a reduced transfer, which was rejected by the First Division of the contested Administrative Chamber of the National Court, which also concluded that the Ministry of Ecological Transition with “Prevention and precaution” acted “before the hydrological situation. This judgment will be appealed.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court rejects the appeal of the Valencian Community, which has requested the repeal of Royal Decree 638/2021 of July 27 (BOE of the following day), which establishes various regulatory provisions for transmission through the Tajo-Segura Aqueduct approved. at the same time sentenced Ximo Puig’s government to bear the costs. This claimed that some mandatory reports were missing, such as that from the National Water Council, but the Supreme Court understands this absence “does not invalidate” the royal decree.

Immediately after the announcement of these two new judgments, the President of Castile-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, celebrated this Monday the last two judgments which, as he stressed, “make it very clear that we have the right to water”. and that the exploitation rules of the Tagus-Segura transfer were “unfair”. During an event in Torrijos (Toledo), he announced that he would demand that the Spanish government not exhaust the existing one-year deadline to change the exploitation rules for the transfer and be “as early as possible”.

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A man has been sentenced to a year in prison in Spain for beating his wife live on the social network TikTok, a decision all the more rare given that the victim refused to lodge a complaint, the court hearing the case said on Tuesday monday with

In a judgment published on Monday, the Soria City Court (North) found the defendant guilty of ill-treatment and violence against women.

The crime happened on the night of January 27th to 28th in Soria. During a live “battle” on TikTok with three friends in front of a virtual audience of several thousand people, a woman received a punch in the face, so hard you could see her head snapping around and her hair flying.

The court emphasized in its decision that the gesture brought tears to the victim’s eyes.

“The defendant publicly and famously assaulted his wife in front of thousands of people with intent to violate her physical integrity and to humiliate her in public. If it has not caused harm, then it is indeed a case of obvious and actual abuse,” the court said.

The judge who delivered the verdict recalled that crimes against gender-based violence “do not require the victim to report it and the sanction can be imposed once the facts are known.”

An important clarification as the defendant had refused to answer during the trial and the victim had defended her husband.

“This simple live transmission of the slap was enough for the authorities to apply the victim protection protocol, regardless of whether they recognized themselves as such or not,” the judge writes.

The fact that “the victim agrees to the slap and justifies it” does not speak against the sanction, since “in the case of violent crimes against women, as with all serious injury crimes, the consent of the victim is irrelevant and the sanctions apply in any case”.

“This behavior,” the judge continued, “deserves as severe a sanction as possible, since the accused cannot even respect his wife in public.”

The court also sentenced the defendant to three years of estrangement from the victim and a ban on contact with her and a three-year ban on gun ownership.

For twenty years, Spain has made the fight against sexist violence a priority. In 2004, her parliament passed the first law in Europe making the sex of the victim an aggravating factor in the event of aggression.

It was a fire that helped Adolf Hitler consolidate his power in Nazi Germany – and the mystery of who started it has occupied historians for decades.

Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe, found guilty that day in 1933 of setting the Reichstag fire, was guillotined and buried in an unmarked grave.

Now, 90 years later, his presumed body has been exhumed – and experts are eagerly awaiting a pathologist’s report to see if the remains contain traces of toxins.

While most historians have long believed van der Lubbe was responsible for the fire, it may be that he was drugged by the Nazis, either to facilitate a truthful confession or to ensure he remained silent about possible co-conspirators.

Adolf Hitler, who had been Chancellor of Germany for less than a month when the Reichstag burned down, used the inferno as an excuse to seize dictatorial power in Germany and crack down on communists and other political enemies.

It has led some to speculate that the fire was a false flag operation to ensure Hitler was able to pull off his takeover, but others think it was sheer luck.

Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe, found guilty that day in 1933 of setting the Reichstag fire, was guillotined and buried in an unmarked grave. Above: Van der Lubbe in court during his trial (left); a monument commemorating van der Lubbe at the Südfriedhof in Leipzig. It was erected in 1999

The Reichstag fire on this day in 1933 helped Adolf Hitler consolidate his power in Nazi Germany

Van der Lubbe was executed on January 10, 1934 and then buried in the Südfriedhof in Leipzig.

A heavy stone was placed on his coffin. The tomb was opened once before, in 1953, and later a second coffin was placed on top of van der Lubbes.

In 2017, a regulation to ensure that the second coffin was not disturbed expired.

Since there had been a total of 35,000 unmarked graves in the area by then, it was unclear exactly where van der Lubbe was.

But Alfred Otto Paul, 70, the founder of the Paul Benndorf Society, an inheritance organization that maintains graves in Leipzig, used cemetery records and historical maps to narrow his location.

The body was exhumed on January 25 and it was quickly revealed that the person had been decapitated, suggesting it was van der Lubbe.

The main objective of the exhumation was to determine that the body was that of van der Lubbe and to properly mark his grave.

A spokesman for the Paul Benndorf Society told The Guardian that the body has since been identified “beyond a reasonable doubt” as belonging to van der Lubbe.

A pathologist is now examining the remains for toxins and the results are expected in a few weeks.

Adolf Hitler, who had been Chancellor of Germany for less than a month when the Reichstag burned down, used the inferno as an excuse to seize dictatorial power in Germany and crack down on communists and other political enemies. Above: Hitler with followers

Van der Lubbe is said to have gone from healthy and energetic to apathetic and unable to blow his nose. Above: The Dutchman at his trial

Van der Lubbe is said to have gone from healthy and energetic to apathetic and unable to blow his nose.

Journalists at the time of his trial suggested he could be given scopolamine, which has been dubbed a “truth serum” because of its alleged ability to trick those to whom it is given into divulging information.

Some believed that the Nazis used the Dutchman to cover up that they started the fire themselves, although there was never any evidence to prove this theory.

Today a delegation from the Netherlands commemorates van der Lubbe in Leipzig, whose remains have already been reburied.

A memorial stone will be placed on the grave at a later date.

In September 1933 the Chron reported how the German Ministry of Propaganda had claimed that van der Lubbe had been examined by a Swedish criminologist and a Dutch newspaper editor to ensure he had not been drugged while in detention.

Journalists at the time of his trial suggested he could be given scopolamine, which has been dubbed a “truth serum” because of its alleged ability to trick those to whom it is given into divulging information. Above: Van der Lubbe at his trial

Marinus van der Lubbe and his interpreter Meyer-Collings are in the process

Van der Lubbe insisted that he acted alone to inspire others to his cause and to revolt against “capitalist rule and fascist seizures of power”.

It added: “They are said to have received reasonable answers to their questions put to him and observed the remains of a luncheon of sandwiches and chocolate on his table.”

Most historians have long believed that van der Lubbe acted alone to start the Reichstag fire and that the timing was just very lucky for the Nazis.

The eminent British historian Richard Evans dismissed the idea of ​​a Nazi conspiracy to start the fire as a “conspiracy theory”.

Van der Lubbe was the only person arrested in the burning Reichstag.

He repeatedly asserted in the weeks leading up to his execution that he acted alone to rally others to his cause and to rebel against “capitalist rule and the fascist seizure of power.”

A September 30, 1933 Chron news report of van der Lubbe’s trial showed him saying “yes” when asked if he was guilty of arson

However, Van der Lubbe had very poor eyesight, no apparent knowledge of the layout of the Reichstag and only a few simple charcoal lighters.

But the entire Reichstag hall remained a smoking ruin.

Historian Peter Black previously told The Smithsonian Magazine that the suggestion that van der Lubbe was solely responsible was wrong.

“I would say that based on the evidence now available, van der Lubbe could not have started the fire alone,” he said.

“It seems likely that the Nazis were involved. But you have nobody who can say: Yes, I saw the Nazis.’

The Reichstag in Berlin is on fire as German citizens look on. The fire was a political gift to Hitler

The uproar caused by the Reichstag fire, which was immediately blamed on the “enemy within”, enabled Hitler to be re-elected Chancellor.

The election had been called after the collapse of a short-lived coalition government led by Hitler. It happened just six days after the fire.

By this time, Hitler had persuaded German President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties in Germany.

It led to mass arrests of communists, including all communist deputies in the Reichstag.

This then crippled communist participation in the elections and helped Hitler to victory.

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HUWARA, West Bank — Dozens of Israeli settlers rampaged through Palestinian towns, setting cars and houses on fire and killing a man, hours after a Palestinian gunman killed two Israelis.

The scenes of Sunday night’s hour-long killing spree bore the hallmark of a once-active settler movement known as the “prize labeller,” whose job is to extort a “price” for any Palestinian attacks or threats to the settler movement.

Sunday’s killing spree, particularly concentrated in the town of Huwara, was in response to a shootout from a passing car that killed two brothers from a nearby settlement. It also came after a rare meeting between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Jordan, where Israel pledged to halt settlement expansion in the West Bank — the land Palestinians envision as part of their future state.

At least 11 Palestinians killed, 100 wounded in Israeli raid on West Bank

While the meeting was taking place on Sunday, a Palestinian gunman opened fire at a traffic junction in Huwara, south of Nablus Israeli-occupied West Bank in which Hillel Menachem Yaniv, 22, and Yagel Yaakov Yaniv, 20, brothers from the nearby settlement of Har Bracha, were killed – likely itself in retaliation for an Israeli raid on Nablus the week before that killed 9/11 people were killed.

After sunset, dozens of settlers descended on Huwara and several other villages in the northern West Bank.

“Instead of Jews not being allowed into Huwara, it should be the Arab enemy who should lock themselves in and not leave their homes!” read a message on a WhatsApp group urging members to take part in the attack.

“A huwara that is closed and burning – that’s the only way we can achieve deterrence,” Tzvika Foghel, an MP for the far-right Jewish power party, told Galei Israel Radio the next day. “We must stop shying away from collective punishment.”

After Sunday’s shooting, the Knesset pushed ahead with legislation imposing the death penalty for terrorism charges, despite arguments from the attorney general and officials at Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, that it would not serve as a deterrent.

During the attack on Huwara, settlers fatally shot Sameh Al-Aqtash, 37, in the abdomen, said Ghassan Doughlas, a Palestinian Authority official in charge of the northern West Bank. He said another four Palestinians were being treated for stab wounds and that an estimated 100 others were injured from beatings with metal batons and from inhaling tear gas.

On Monday, Israel sent hundreds more troops to the West Bank. It also closed many roads and set up roadblocks in and around Huwara, where roads were mostly empty on Monday. Soldiers escorted at least two groups of settlers, some wearing ski masks and others waving Israeli flags at a road junction.

An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the delicate security situation, said the army viewed the violent settlers as “terrorists” whose attacks had forced the redistribution of forces while conducting the manhunt for the Palestinian gunman who was still dead runs.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price on Monday sentenced “These developments underscore the need to de-escalate tensions in word and deed without delay.”

In an attempt to stave off the spiral of unrest, Israeli and Palestinian officials held their first meeting in years in Jordan’s coastal city of Aqaba. They issued a joint statement saying Israel would halt construction plans for settlement units for four months and allow outposts — smaller and typically more radical settlements that are considered illegal under Israeli law — to be approved for six months.

The deal also called on Israel to respect the status quo at the site of Jerusalem, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, and has served as a focal point in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.

But far-right members of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition have indicated they would not go through with promises made during the meeting with US, Egyptian and Jordanian officials.

Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, the third-largest bloc in the coalition, said he had “no idea” about the discussions at the “unnecessary conference” in Jordan, but Israel would not agree to a settlement freeze “even for one day.” .”

“What happened in Jordan (if it happened) stays in Jordan,” tweeted National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. Last month Ben Gvir, who has long been on the extremist fringe of the settler movement, visited Jerusalem’s holy site for a 13-minute tour, sparking international condemnations accusing him of provoking unrest.

The summit was convened to quell a spiral of violence that began with a spate of Palestinian attacks on Israelis last spring, to which the Israeli military has responded with near-night raids. The inauguration in November of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history has led to a sharp acceleration in crackdowns, related deaths and Palestinian attacks on Israelis.

For many on the ground, talks about combating an escalation of violence miss the point – the war is already here.

“It was a war last night, an official war,” Refat Amer, a 47-year-old Huwara resident, said Monday. He added that during the settlers’ four-hour rampage, dozens of cars and a high school near his home were set on fire, and rocks smashed the window of his 7-year-old daughter’s room. Soldiers at the scene just cordoned off the area without moving to stop the violence, he said.

“Sure they will come back, but what can we do?” he asked. “We can throw stones at them and then the military will shoot us too.”

Rubin reported from Tel Aviv. Fatima AbdulKarim in Ramallah, West Bank, contributed to this report.