The 7 news you need to know this Wednesday morning, January 31

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Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
30 January 2024 Tuesday 10:01
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The 7 news you need to know this Wednesday morning, January 31

Hello good morning!

It is the small print that is currently spoiling the Amnesty law. A scenario full of uncertainty opens up for the majority that supports the Government and for the independence movement. Beyond politics, the drought and the countryside are getting worse.

Junts yesterday stopped the Amnesty law in the Congress of Deputies. Those of Carles Puigdemont vote against the PSOE bill, which on the other hand does receive the support of those of ERC.

PSOE and posconvergents will continue looking for an agreement to vote for after the Galician elections, which are on February 18. For this reason, there are many who understand that the processing of the law is delayed, it does not decline. But Junts plays with its “either all or none.”

Weeks ago the independence party defended that it was not necessary to modify the initial draft. Now he doesn't think the same. And everything gets complicated, starting with the budgets and continuing with the course of the legislature: it affects the majority that supports Sánchez.

The feared drought emergency phase will be declared tomorrow in Girona and Barcelona, ​​affecting almost six million people. The population will have to limit water consumption to 200 liters per inhabitant per day.

The discontent of the agricultural world besieges Paris and floods Europe. And now the Spanish countryside joins the wave: the main organizations in the field will mobilize throughout the country. They protest against extra-EU imports and demand improvements.

The will to negotiate a truce in Gaza seems to be shared, but the Israel-Hamas agreement seems far away and the problem is fundamental. Hamas wants guarantees of a path to a definitive ceasefire that Israel is not willing to give. It conditions everything.

Barcelona is these days the world capital of audiovisual professionals thanks to the ISE fair. There is a big news: Chinese visitors are coming in force for the first time.

Jordi Nomen, professor and philosopher. “You have to talk to teenagers with headlines, without nonsense and briefly.” Read it here.

Elon Musk announced yesterday the implantation of the first brain chip by one of his companies, Neuralink, but without clarifying the purpose. It represents another technological revolution in which shadows abound. For now it is barely known that it works like this.

In São Paulo there is the “temple of the pig”, A Casa do Porco, which claims to use the entire animal as a way of respecting its life and death without waste. It has been among the best restaurants in the world. His story is not wasted either.

The 16.5 by 16.5 cm napkin with which Barcelona unofficially signed Messi in 2000 at the age of 13 is up for auction. For thousands of euros. But her significance even today is priceless after she single-handedly changed the recent history of the club.

Pim van Lommel, cardiologist surgeon; investigates near-death experiences. “Our consciousness is still alive when the brain has already died.” Read it here.

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