British gardening business LV Bespoke wins trademark lawsuit against LVMH • FRANCE 24 English

British gardening business LV Bespoke wins trademark lawsuit against LVMH • FRANCE 24 English

Deepa Lon is here now in studio for a press review she’ll be taking us through the main stories in the papers today deep you’re starting in Israel and those cracks that are starting to show in political circles there over how Benjamin nanah who has been handling the

War in Gaza yeah that’s why crack’s beginning to show in any support that he may have had uh gadii Isen cot who runs Israel’s war cabinet gave a televised interview on Thursday in which he appeared to criticize uh Benjamin netanyahu’s handling uh of the war against Hamas now this is uh this

Interview and his comments have been widely relayed by the Israeli presses from The Times of Israel um Eisen cot called the idea of a complete victory over Hamas totally unrealistic he also uh advocated for new elections within months in order to restore public trust in the Israeli government Eisen cot’s

Party the national Unity party actually joined netanyahu’s government uh just after those uh October attacks but on a temporary basis he also appeared to attack Netanyahu for his refusal really to take responsibility for the military uh leadership and also uh intelligence failures in the leadup to those October

2023 attacks now this criticism also follows divergences between the US and Israel Over the future of the war in uh war against Hamas uh the New York Times today reporting that Netanyahu has rebuffed a uh post-war peace process and refused the idea of granting um pales uh

Of of a sovereign Palestinian State now President Joe Biden and the Secretary of State Anthony blinkin urg Israel to move uh towards establishing a Palestinian State eventually but this is something that Netanyahu has uh refused outright in this position has really put them uh at odds with each other meanwhile Center

Left paper haritz uh is Israeli daily which is um you know which has an editorial line that’s very critical of Benjamin Netanyahu uh cites a member of cabinet meetings as saying that Netanyahu is simply dragging on this war against Hamas in order to distract attention deflect attention away from

His own corruption uh issues as well as escaping responsibility for the failures that led to that octob to those October Terror attacks the source even saying that he’s not particularly concerned about the welfare of Israeli hostages held by Hamas rather he’s using he’s he’s happy for the situation to drag out

Um as long as possible to avoid what re what he really fears or to delay what he really fears and those are protests against him against his governance uh and uh on Spotlight being shed on his corruption issues and while here in France deept the papers are focusing on

Paris Town Hall’s decision to suspend funding of a private school called Stanislas now that’s been at the center of controversy here hasn’t it yeah and not least of all Sharon because the new education Minister em udak cera’s children are enrolled there uh which of course is a scathing indictment on what

The new education Minister thinks of the public education system furthermore a recent report accuses the school of racism homophobia and authoritarianism uh uh this report was widely relayed by The French Press today this luiga which is the uh French conservative paper is looking at the reactions and the staction or the

Surprise among students and parents uh at the school um because the Paris Town Hall has announced that it will be withdrawing its support its Financial Funding towards the school the school has a budget of about 23 million EUR and the Paris Town Hall is believed to have

Uh funded uh the school of about of a sum of about a million euros the right-wing paper luigo slamming the backlash against the school today saying that the public system is I quote plagued by a thousand problems like teacher absenteeism violence islamism and wokeism instead uh it slams mayor

Andy delgo for sanctioning a private school that I quote promotes discipline and urges appropriate dressing of its students now on the other side of the political spectrum is quite a different story this is Liber which is the leftwing paper um which is also focusing on uh the funding being withdrawn for

The school on its front page today uh the paper attacks a private system a private school for its culture of silence and an admission system based on who you know outrage over public money funding the nefarious detail uh dealings of this private school uh is really the

Theme we see on Lion’s front page today crossing the channel then to the UK DT um what’s been described as a David and Goliath la suit a couple has won that it saw it being sued by Louis Vuitton that’s right a David and Goliath battle

In indeed a couple from the UK have won a legal battle over trademark with Louis vuo now uh this couple uh began making and selling metal uh plant supports during the pandemic uh basically like things for your garden garden accessories if you like they started doing this during the pandemic and um

After lockdown restrictions were eased their business really took off um it’s called LV bespoke LV representing the initials of this couple um and uh they’ve even attended large scale events they were even commissioned by uh King Charles’s Sandringham estate to provide Garden accessories as well um well lves

Launched a trade suit law a trademark lawsuit against a couple for their business name saying that it would cause confusion uh a judge has ruled against elve Mash ruling rather in favor of the couple who are allowed to continue trading under this name so a victory indeed for this couple from the UK

Against the fashion giant finally then deept from you a quick update on our favorite athlete of the year that’s the teenage Dart sensation Luke ller that’s right he’s competing in the World Series darts competition taking place in Bahrain right now uh Sharon of course Luke L ller suffered a diet breaking uh

World Championship loss uh World Championship Finals loss recently that final uh was the most watched darts match of all time uh the 16-year-old uh who is now a household name thanks to his uh incredible darts career um is in bahin for the World Series he’s also a very eccentric character he calls

Himself Luke the nuke while he’s moved to the quarterfinals that will be played this Friday in bin actually the quarterfinals semis and finals will be played played on the same day uh it means he could well come face to face with another Luke Luke humph the man who

Uh won the World Championship and really robbed him of that world championship title anyway liter will be hoping for a win that would be a welcome early birthday present he turns 17 on Sunday Sharon so you get an idea of just how young he is and how much he’s achieved

In I guess the sport of darts deep te thank you so much for that that’s deep te joining us there with our press review do stay with us for more world news we’ll be right back

IN THE PRESS – Friday, January 19: Cracks are beginning to emerge at home in support for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, after war cabinet leader Gadi Eisenkot appeared to criticise him in a televised interview. Also: French papers react to Paris City Hall withdrawing funding for a controversial Parisian private school. A UK couple win a trademark lawsuit against French fashion giant LVMH. Finally, we bring you an update on our favourite athlete of the year so far: teenage darts sensation Luke Littler!

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