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Barack Obama and John McCain met for 97 minutes.
Discussion should focus on foreign policy, but ended up including

More than half of the 90 minutes to discuss the North American foreign policy in the first debate between candidates for the presidency of the country was used to address the current economic crisis that devastated the United States. Since the beginning of the meeting, which ended up taking 97 minutes, the moderator, journalist Jim Lehrer, questioned Barack Obama and John McCain on what would be the behavior of them in relation to economic problems, if they were in the presidency.

It was only after 50 minutes of discussion on financial matters that question first appeared on international relations. With the half-time debate, Barack Obama and John McCain still managed to discuss topics such as the U.S. relationship with Iraq, Iran, Russia, Afghanistan, and even subjects that have relation with Brazil.

Both candidates avoided direct and violent confrontations during the debate, and ended up discussing earlier, by more than the formula of the meeting that they would go directly to each other.

While the form of speeches is more important that the content of the two candidates, as the researcher Alan Schroeder said in an interview with G1, the Republican senator on many occasions seemed more secure than Obama. The Democrat seemed nervous, and reached a stutter in an attempt to deny some of the accusations of McCain, who spoke in a more calm paused. Obama came to repeat a few times what McCain had said “was not true.”

An initial survey conducted immediately after the meeting by the TV network CNN, meanwhile, noted that Barack Obama is that McCain came out better. More than half of respondents, 51%, said Obama was better, against 38% who said that if McCain came out better.

Economy

The two candidates followed the same line of reasoning regarding the need for strong and immediate action to control the current financial crisis. Both said was important to support the package of the current government, but disagreed on the form of the package.

The focus of all proposals for McCain on the economy was the cutting of government spending. The Republican accused Obama of wanting to increase spending, and said that Washington is “out of control.”

Obama took a critical stance and said that all the current problems were caused by the Bush administration, which accused McCain of supporting. He avoided saying that priorities open hand on account of the economic crisis, but spoke of cutting taxes for the middle classes and to strengthen the foundations of the popular economy.

Foreign policy

After half of the debate, both candidates began to discuss foreign policy, which should have been the focus of the meeting. It was expected that John McCain had much more easily in the matter, but has been a balance between the two candidates, allowing one or another moment of disagreement stronger.

The Republican tried to show his experience repeating several times he had traveled to key countries of the discussion. At the same time, tried to show inexperience of Obama, who called naive by some positions, including the idea to meet with leaders of countries such as Irã. McCain, including, ended the debate saying that Obama is not ready to be president.

Obama, in turn, responded saying that the prosecution did not intend to invite leaders like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, for example, “to a tea” but they felt important to open dialogue. He says the foreign policy of the Bush administration is responsible for the deterioration of the image of the United States in the world, which increases the risk of attacks against the country.

Both candidates have said Iran considers a threat, and agreed with the concern about the behavior of Russia. They returned to discuss the invasion of Iraq, with Obama saying it was against from the beginning and McCain is saying more prepared to circumvent the situation.

When dealing with Afghanistan, the concern just going to neighboring Pakistan, with Obama taking a posture of surprisingly more violent than the Republican, to threaten the country militarily if it did not cooperate. McCain tried to appear less interventionist, and said he did not threaten the country, but try to approach people of Pakistan.

Brazil

For more that Brazil has not been mentioned by any of the two candidates, when dealing with issues related to economic crisis, the two discussed energy issues and the production of biofuels. The matter is among the most important trade relationship of the two countries.

According Barack Obama, the country needs to have energy independence. “We need to invest in alternative energies such as biodiesel. We need to improve the public health system,” he said. In response, McCain also talked about the importance of alternative sources of energy. “I am opposed to subsidies for ethanol, for example,” he said, directly on an issue that matters to Brazil.

Three Belgian children, aged between seven and eight years, have ransacked 143 cemetery in Essene, in Flanders, about 20 kilometres from Brussels, capital of Belgium.

Acts of vandalism, which caused many complaints, have been the work of two boys and one girl, last Saturday. Account “El Pais”, vandalised because the tombs “were boring.”

Given the young age of children, the police can not take any action. However, according to the authorities, parents of small vandals are responsible for damage caused to the civilian cemeteries.

Social services of the Court of Minors, Brussels opened an investigation to establish whether the children live in a family problem.

A bomb was found and deactivated in a private car of an official of the National Police when it was preparing to enter the headquarters of the Police in the city of Bilbao in the Basque Country (northern Spain).

The agent travelled about 10 kilometres with a bomb attached to his car without explodisse although, according to some information, be ready to be detonated by remote control.

The bomb was located in the arrival of the official headquarters of the National Police Corps in the town of Basauri, near Bilbao, during the review of security that is made all the cars that come in instalções.

Once verified the presence of the bomb, the authorities managed to deactivate it and are now to verify their origin and to other complementary investigations.

The last bomb of this type had been placed by the Basque terrorist organisation ETA on 9 October in automotive safety of Gabriel Ginés.

Ginés was back in custody-socialist councillor Juan Carlos Sunday in the Basque region of Galdácano.

The discovery led to the strengthening of security at the premises of Police, and the reverificação of all vehicles that were inside.

The tropical storm Fay, which killed at least 57 people in other Caribbean countries over the week-end, struck the southwest coast of Cuba, this Monday, a journey which aims to Florida in the United States as a Hurricane likely.

The storm hit Cuba with winds of 80 kilometres per hour and proceeding north.

The National Center for Hurricanes in Miami reported that Fay was to move the nearly 19 kilometres per hour and was expected to reach the Straits of Florida and the Florida Keys late at night. At that time, is approaching the strength of a hurricane, meaning at least kilometer winds to 118 per hour.

Cuba ordered the evacuation of casualties shares of Havana, fearing that heavy rains could flood the capital, causing the collapse of dilapidated buildings.

In Florida Keys, tourists fleeing the storm Fay, the sixth storm of the season of cyclones in the Atlantic.

In Haiti, about 50 people died when a bus tried to cross a river, whose flow has increased with heavy rainfall. Other five people died in Haiti and the Dominican Republic due to accidents related to the floods.

In Jamaica a middle-aged moving couple died in the capital, Kingston, when the car was caught in a flooded road.

In Florida, 500 National Guard officers were deployed and some schools that were planned opening this Monday remain closed.

The athlete has to be Francis Obikwelu today with relative ease to the semi-finals of the 100 meters Olympic Games Pequim2008 and already speaks in the end of Saturday, for which believes that 9.90 or 10.00 seconds ensure the clearance.

The vice-Atenas2004 Olympic champion was third in the fourth series of eliminatory second with 10.09, but at the end ensured that if you saved for Saturday and that was able to download the 10 seconds, if necessary. “Tomorrow [Saturday] if maybe I will do so”

“It gave everything here, I preferred to save Saturday, because I do not want to go home,” said the athlete from Sporting of 29 years, adding that the departure was not very good, because it was with “a bit of fear”, after have been a false departure of Nigerian Obinna Metu.

Affirming is “a bit tired”, because the journey today was “very hard” with two tryouts, Obikwelu promised that on Saturday, semi-finals “very strong” and the final, vai “be much better.”

“I will do my evidence to go to the end there and give everything. In the semi-final I will from better, today was with a bit of fear. It could accelerate more, not here gave everything to save for Saturday. I do not want to go home.” s sometimes things happen and tomorrow [Saturday] I will from everything and reach the final, “he promised.

Their series was won in 9.92 with a calm by Olympic Jamaican Usain Bolt, the record of the World, which made the last 20 or 30 meters looking at the bench, even to the idea of halting the step before the goal .

For Obikwelu, the three main candidates for the title, Usain Bolt, his compatriot Asafa Powell - the previous world record, which also won its series with extreme ease - and Tyson Gay, the American is what is less strong.

“The Bolt is very strong, but you never know. In the end you never know,” said the champion of Europe, who personally hired the Canadian masseur Lawrence Bell and now will make ice and massage to recover for Saturday.

According to D. Zacarias Kamwenho, “there is a political will that these elections are a test of our maturity,” pointing out that this “is an opportunity in the world recognize that Angola has forced a walk after the war.”

Speaking to journalists in Fatima moments before the start of the religious ceremonies of the Pilgrimage of Migrant, the Archbishop of Lubango remember that democracy in Africa “is still in footsteps of children,” and that Angola is no exception.

Highlights after the important role that NGOs and the church have had awareness of the population. “The church is always with the people and therefore knows better to Angola deep that the state itself,” notes D. Zacarias. It says that the church “has helped to understand that elections are an opportunity for people to say and not a step towards war.”

But the situation is not easy and the Archbishop of Lubango acknowledges that the party that is in power “has more strength,” a force unequal when compared with the other parties competing in the elections of September. “We help the politicians to realize that elections are regular,” justifies with a smile D. Zacarias Kamwenho.

Questionado by journalists on whether the church believes that the first election to be held in that country after the war will be free and democratic, the archbishop claims it difficult to respond when it comes to freedom. But ensure that the elections “are the best possible for Angola and for the region.”

“The belief that there may be a miracle, either of the other parties see that there is no more war in Angola”, stressed D. Zacarias, which has been recognized “with interest, enthusiasm and recognition that the Portuguese give to Angola.”

Assuming it is “happy” to be in Fatima, the Archbishop of Lubango want to leave the pilgrims words of encouragement and incentive. “Young people must be protagonists in the world who are living in despair and conflicts and wars”, he argued.

The elections scheduled for September 27 will be a “test” the maturity of Angola. Who is the guarantor the Archbishop of Lubango, the case be enthusiastic and confident that the election will go well. “We want to believe this,” he said.

The footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has decided to receive the Golden Boots trophy from UEFA in  Madeira, birthplace of the current Manchester United player, in tribute to the father who is deceased.

According to the Wednesday edition of the “Jornal da Madeira,” the young “craque” the current European champions and English, which vai be awarded for being the best scorer of the European championships, took the premise granted by UEFA that gives it the right of choice of where they will receive the trophy.

Dolores Aveiro, mother of Cristiano Ronaldo, confirmed the decision, saying in statements to the RDP, that the intention of the child is “honor his father.”

The place where the gala will be held will be the Hall of Congresses of the Madeira Casino, with a date yet to be defined, and probably to 29 or August 30.

Cristiano Ronaldo continues to stand out in the service of Manchester United, which ended this season with 39 goals identified, eight of which counts towards the Champions League.

Eusebius (1967/68 and 1972-73) and Fernando Gomes (1982/83 and 1984-85) were the other Portuguese players already winners of this trophy. Even the Brazilian Mario Jardel in the 1998-99 season, when acting in the service of Portugals FC Porto, received the boots of gold.

In China - where the summer Olympic Games are opened on Friday - is criticized for repressing the rights, freedoms and guarantees to give a speech Thursday by the American president in Thailand.

“The Chinese people should enjoy the rights, freedoms and guarantees that are a natural condition for all human beings,” says George W. Bush in this speech, distributed in advance by the White House.

The North American president stresses that his country opposes the detention of religious activists, human rights defenders and dissidents in China.

“We defend the freedom of expression, assembly and association and the right to work, not to counter the ‘intelligentsia’ Chinese, but because this is the only way for the full development potential of the country,” points out.

Bush arrived this Wednesday to Thailand from South Korea and will from Thursday to China, where they remain until Monday, watching on Friday the official opening of the Olympic Games of summer

This tour is seen by political analysts as the international final goodbye to the American president to Asia.

The presence of Bush in Beijing coincides with complaints of violations of human rights activists by the Chinese authorities because they had not fulfilled the promises undertaken for the organisation of the Summer Olympic Games, citing the pretext of security to exercise repression.

In September 2007, Bush assured that it would the official opening of the Summer Olympic Games and has since resisted all calls for the boycott.

Bush has now to “attack” due to strong pressure notably from Congress, to take the media coverage of the big event in China, where he expects the North American athletes get the largest possible number of medals of gold.

22 people, including 6 children, died and about 20,000 were evacuated following the storms and floods that hit in recent days, the west of Ukraine, according to a new balance of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, disclosed the second Monday.

The previous release had advanced the balance of 13 dead and more than 6,700 Ukrainians evacuated.

Fifteen people died in the region of Ivano-Frankivsk, the most affected by the disaster, including five children, and seven others, including a child, died in the region of Tchernivtsi, moved into the Minister reported.

More than 40 thousand households and 34 thousand hectares of agricultural land were partially flooded, while a hundred
localities was deprived of electricity, as a consequence of cutting of high voltage power lines. More than 900 bridges and 680 km of roads were also damaged. The first aiders evacuated more than 19,800 people.

The President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Ioulia Timochenko visited, on Sunday, the areas most affected.

“We should keep us united. There will be abandoned in this situation, we will solve all the problems together,” said Yushchenko Galytch of the inhabitants in the region of Ivano-Frankivsk.

The Head of State asked the government to prepare, this Wednesday, the estimates of damage and delivery of compensation to people affected by the disaster.

The authorities distributed, Monday, food, drinking water and medicines in areas affected.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, were also ongoing work to restore power supply, the pumping of water in flooded homes, cleaning of rivers and strengthening of coastal areas.

Sales of the new iPhone is to be a success. Apple announced that it has sold a million units.

The previous model took 74 days to reach that number of sales. The new product from Apple is the venda since last Friday.

Faster and adapted to the 3G technology, the new iPhone appears to be available in two versions of 8 GB and 16 GB (in the colors black and white) and combines features multimedia, touch interface (does not have the traditional keyboard) and surfing the Internet .

With autonomy for 300 hours on standby, the iPhone 3G stores music and films, is equipped with GPS and brings integrated camera. Moreover, allows easy access to e-mail, contacts and installation of various computer applications.