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[00:00:00] back to the great famine of
[00:00:03] has actively supported since the beginning of Moldova,
[00:00:08] changes the color of hello, welcome, thank you for following us on France 24 and France info, here are the headlines of
[00:00:12] this news: Ukraine says it lacks
[00:00:15] anti-aircraft defense to fight against Russian ballistic missiles.
[00:00:19] Voladimir Zelenski points the finger at the Middle East wars, you
[00:00:22] will hear him, we will review the latest
[00:00:24] in 1892 during the sacking of the capital of attacks. In Germany, a drone with an explosive device
[00:00:28] discovered in the airport. port spotted not far from Ukrainian
[00:00:31] plane, it's an unprecedented hybrid attack scenario that worries
[00:00:35] the Germans, another drone has also damaged a
[00:00:38] plane.
[00:00:41] after his setback last week, Janni Infantino comes out
[00:00:44] however strengthened by this
[00:00:47] episode, his council reiterates its
[00:00:50] support, but FIFA still presents
[00:00:53] apologies.
[00:01:07] Last night was particularly deadly in
[00:01:11] Kyiv with 17 dead from strikes that destroyed logistical sites
[00:01:15] and warehouses. The Ukrainian
[00:01:17] getting this technique accepted by the art anti-aircraft defense was able to shoot down the hundred drones launched by
[00:01:20] the Russians but not the thirty ballistic missiles that caused
[00:01:24] fires. The Ukrainian army lacks
[00:01:27] defensive weapons, Volot complains.
[00:01:30] Details with Alice
[00:01:32] Broga.
[00:01:35] this is the end of this Africa After more than 20 hours of search, Ukrainian
[00:01:38] rescuers extricate a lifeless body from the rubble. A
[00:01:42] civilian killed in a Russian strike that occurred the day before on this building in
[00:01:45] Kramatorsk. Faced with the multiplication of Russian attacks, the
[00:01:49] authorities of this city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine
[00:01:53] ordered Wednesday evening the evacuation of about 500
[00:01:56] children and their families who still lived in the city. In the
[00:02:00] Kyiv region too, the attacks are increasingly numerous and
[00:02:04] deadly. Along this railway, the railway workers
[00:02:07] evacuate one by one the bodies of eight victims, killed after a
[00:02:12] representatives. strike on a busy station 30 km from the capital.
[00:02:15] A local resident testifies to a night
[00:02:16] of horror.
[00:02:21] The noise was deafening, and since the air alert was still
[00:02:24] ongoing, I didn't dare look around
[00:02:26] me.
[00:02:29] Then. there were explosions, structures collapsing and a lot of
[00:02:33] smoke,
[00:02:36] there's a station nearby and then I saw people covered in blood
[00:02:39] running in the street. according to the Ukrainian army, Russia
[00:02:44] state, from his fired 115 long-range drones and 28 missiles on Tuesday night
[00:02:47] to Wednesday, but only 98 drones could be
[00:02:51] neutralized. Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses failed to
[00:02:55] intercept any missiles. weakening attributed by President
[00:02:58] Zelensky to...
[00:03:02] the political space.
[00:03:12] to defend our state, this situation is mainly linked to the
[00:03:13] war, or as it is now fair to say,
[00:03:17] to hostilities and wars in the
[00:03:20] Middle East.
[00:03:23] state. And until proven Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky went again to
[00:03:26] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver missiles to him.
[00:03:30] the only ones capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian missiles,
[00:03:33] but according to the Financial Times, Trump
[00:03:36] refused this request due to the shortage of Patriots in
[00:03:40] American own stocks since the beginning of the war in the
[00:03:43] Middle East.
[00:03:46] We continue with this drone laden with explosives discovered in
[00:03:49] a German airport, that of Leipzig
[00:03:53] the country's governance, the would not have exploded due to a technical issue. This event is
[00:03:56] not attributed to Russia at this stage, but still...
[00:04:00] major security incidents by the
[00:04:03] outings towards the head of German interior minister, an anti-terrorist investigation has been opened, details from Mario
[00:04:06] Mayer,
[00:04:08] a demining robot inspects
[00:04:12] for the headlines, here are the news the tarmac of Leipzig airport in the middle of the night, a drone
[00:04:14] association, the eight leaders of equipped with explosives has just been spotted a few
[00:04:18] you are, that's the end of this news, thank you for meters from these Antonov Airlines planes, a Ukrainian cargo
[00:04:22] company. Shortly after, a DHL
[00:04:26] aircraft collides in mid-air with a flying object, the plane had just
[00:04:30] been diverted after the closure of
[00:04:33] flee the city under attack from the the airport, it is fortunately only slightly damaged. Berlin
[00:04:36] denounces a possible hybrid attack, a threat
[00:04:39] taken extremely
[00:04:41] seriously.
[00:04:46] replaced classic pigments with I completely understand the intuition that these threats are not the work
[00:04:50] visit to the DRC by the Director General of of amateurs. On the contrary, they require
[00:04:53] very professional preparation
[00:04:55] and execution.
[00:05:00] represents a new level of threat, why is this
[00:05:03] incident so worrying? Leipzig
[00:05:06] airport is a key logistical hub for NATO, it allows
[00:05:10] the transport of material and civilians to Ukraine, which Berlin
[00:05:15] the Russian invasion, so according to the Ukrainian ambassador in
[00:05:18] Germany, the responsibility for this incident undoubtedly
[00:05:22] lies with Moscow, Berlin mentions the possible involvement of
[00:05:26] foreign powers, an anti-terrorist investigation has been
[00:05:29] opened.
[00:05:32] Developments this time in the Middle East with new exchanges of strikes on the
[00:05:36] southern border of Lebanon. The Israeli army announced that it was conducting
[00:05:40] operations following a violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, a
[00:05:43] Taliban media reported one dead and 11 injured,
[00:05:47] and yet there are negotiations taking place right now in Rome,
[00:05:51] between Lebanese and Israelis in the presence of the Americans for the
[00:05:55] deployment of pilot zones, explanation by Claire
[00:05:58] Duhamel. Israel says it targeted the
[00:06:01] roof of a building that was in a
[00:06:04] cemetery in the town of Tebnine, a targeted strike
[00:06:08] therefore, according to the Israelis, which is part of...
[00:06:12] a presumed violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, that's what the
[00:06:16] Israelis say, who speak of a flagrant violation but do not provide
[00:06:19] more details and then for the first time in several weeks, a little
[00:06:23] earlier in the day Israel had ordered an
[00:06:27] evacuation order for another village in southern Lebanon that is
[00:06:30] nearby, a village where civilians had been able to return
[00:06:34] as the Israeli army withdrew, these strikes
[00:06:37] south of Lebanon are therefore part of a negotiation context that is
[00:06:41] currently taking place in... Rome between the Israeli state and the
[00:06:45] Lebanese state, this is the 7th round of negotiations which
[00:06:48] provides in particular for the deployment of the Lebanese
[00:06:52] army in pilot zones evacuated by the Israeli
[00:06:55] army, this is the objective of these negotiations, but these negotiations
[00:06:58] are extremely difficult, particularly because the main belligerent is not
[00:07:02] part of them, Hezbollah, which has refused these negotiations since
[00:07:06] the beginning, Naim Qassem, the secretary general of the Shiite movement, said
[00:07:09] today, and I quote, that these negotiations bring nothing
[00:07:12] but shame, humiliation and successive
[00:07:15] compromises. In this context, we can clearly see the limits of these
[00:07:18] negotiations which, for now, have not achieved the objective of
[00:07:22] disarming Hezbollah. And
[00:07:25] on this August 6th, we commemorate the anniversary of the explosion of the
[00:07:29] bomb in Hiroshima in 1945, Japan holds a
[00:07:32] memorial peace ceremony every year, Prime Minister
[00:07:35] Kaishi, he gave a speech
[00:07:39] reaffirming his country's anti-nuclear doctrine. Listen to her.
[00:07:44] Our nation firmly defends the three anti-nuclear principles
[00:07:48] and as the only country in the world to have suffered atomic bombings in wartime,
[00:07:52] it has a mission to relentlessly pursue its efforts to
[00:07:56] create a world without nuclear
[00:07:57] weapons.
[00:08:00] In the United States, in the primaries that are to determine the candidates for the November
[00:08:04] mid-terms, the surprise is Abdul El Sayed, it is
[00:08:07] he who will be the Democratic candidate from Michigan to keep the Senate
[00:08:11] seat, he who has... won against a more
[00:08:15] moderate candidate, he is part of the left wing of the party in the so-called
[00:08:19] progressive movement that brought Zeran Mamodanie to power in New York a few
[00:08:22] months ago. Jules
[00:08:23] Boadeau:
[00:08:27] he wants to embody the Democratic renewal. Abdul El
[00:08:30] Sayed, son of Egyptian immigrants, will represent
[00:08:33] the party in Michigan for a Senate seat after his victory in the
[00:08:37] primary.
[00:08:39] I want to express all the gratitude I feel in being able to participate in this beautiful
[00:08:43] democracy, my family immigrated from a place where there is
[00:08:46] no democracy, you simply cannot run, as the great Mohamed
[00:08:50] Ali would say, we have shaken the
[00:08:52] world,
[00:08:55] shaken the world, but especially the Democratic Party with
[00:08:59] a political line of rupture with the
[00:09:02] centrist candidate and former
[00:09:04] advisor to Barack Obama, Abdul El Sayed campaigned against
[00:09:08] the influence of big donors and pro-Israel organizations in the...
[00:09:21] that a
[00:09:26] Cortes, he now wants to prove
[00:09:28] radical voice in the Democratic Party can block the MAGA Republican. Donald Trump seemed to welcome this result. Great news for the Republican Party, the
[00:09:32] communist loser El Sayed who hates Jews and Israel won
[00:09:36] the Democratic primary. The crazy proposals of the democratic
[00:09:39] idiots will get even worse. but before
[00:09:42] facing Donald Trump's candidate, Abdoul El Sayed will have
[00:09:46] to rally his own party. The end of the primary
[00:09:49] was marked by personal attacks and a frontal
[00:09:52] opposition on the question of support for Israel. After the announcement of
[00:09:56] his victory, the now Democratic candidate
[00:09:59] immediately called for
[00:10:01] unity.
[00:10:04] FIFA apologizes, it was the uproar of recent days after
[00:10:07] the disclosure of its commercial entity project, the International Football
[00:10:11] Federation. recognized errors after a crisis meeting of its
[00:10:15] board of directors, however, the members of the board
[00:10:18] reaffirmed their full support, Johnny Infantino, we'll see that with Alice
[00:10:21] Broga, leaving the headquarters in...
[00:10:25] Salé, Morocco, FIFA president Johnny Infantino
[00:10:29] hopes to turn the page on controversies, under fire from
[00:10:32] criticism for having unilaterally set up a project to sell part of FIFA's
[00:10:35] commercial rights, he leaves with the full support of his
[00:10:39] executive committee. He nevertheless apologized
[00:10:43] to member countries for the errors committed.
[00:10:46] It was agreed that there was no intention to exclude the FIFA council and member
[00:10:50] associations from the process and that this should have been...
[00:10:54] different:
[00:10:57] last week, leaks in the press revealed Janny Infantino's
[00:11:01] plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
[00:11:05] FIFA competitions and selling 20% of them to private
[00:11:08] investors. Faced with a strong backlash, the project was
[00:11:12] abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
[00:11:15] football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
[00:11:19] indicated that they had lost confidence in Janny Infantino, criticisms that are now
[00:11:22] echoed by voices.
[00:11:27] "FIFA has its own procedures for making this kind of decision, but
[00:11:31] for my part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened.
[00:11:35] Gianni Infantino benefits from the
[00:11:39] support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the Middle East,
[00:11:42] thanks to which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an extraordinary congress
[00:11:46] to replace him. He also hopes to be re-elected for a fourth
[00:11:50] term at next March's congress. His opponents, such as
[00:11:53] UEFA and the..." of football of North, Central and Caribbean
[00:11:57] America have until November 18 to find another
[00:12:00] candidate.
[00:12:03] In one week, the sun will disappear for a few
[00:12:07] moments, a solar eclipse that will be visible in France,
[00:12:11] but also completely from Spain or almost completely from the
[00:12:15] southwest, an exceptional but dangerous spectacle to
[00:12:18] observe with the naked eye even for a few seconds, know that the only
[00:12:21] protection is special glasses meeting very strict standards. So how are they
[00:12:25] made and how to recognize them?
[00:12:28] The son-in-law:
[00:12:30] at night, in broad daylight, as in 1999
[00:12:34] with this twilight atmosphere, when the sun
[00:12:37] plays hide-and-seek with the moon, but to admire this eclipse, you still need
[00:12:41] to be well equipped with adapted glasses, you shouldn't look at the sun
[00:12:45] for too long anyway, so if you don't have the right glasses, you can really damage your
[00:12:49] eyes, these last weeks, this Alsatian
[00:12:52] manufacturer has been multiplying deliveries of protection
[00:12:56] glasses, hundreds of thousands of pairs specially designed to observe this
[00:13:00] phenomenon as rare as spectacular, the
[00:13:03] moon passing between the earth and the sun, preventing its
[00:13:07] light from reaching our planet, a spectacle to
[00:13:10] observe with opaque glasses, it's a filter
[00:13:14] that reflects the harmful rays of the sun
[00:13:17] outside and inside, the filter is black,
[00:13:20] it's a filter that restores the orange image of
[00:13:23] the sun, these protective glasses comply with precise
[00:13:27] standards and come with a certificate of conformity,
[00:13:31] at this optician, already about fifty pairs sold at 3
[00:13:34] euros each, it's now or never because
[00:13:38] apparently there won't be another as complete
[00:13:41] for some time and maybe it will be the
[00:13:45] last of our lives. In 1999 in France, during
[00:13:48] the last total eclipse, some had improvised by tinkering with
[00:13:52] glasses to be banned, because even partial sunlight can
[00:13:56] pass through the eye and burn the retina in a few
[00:13:59] seconds, a painless burn with sometimes irreversible
[00:14:02] consequences. the sun's light ray will
[00:14:06] burn these fundamental cells, a black spot that is a little
[00:14:10] engraved before us, and
[00:14:13] except that this black spot doesn't go away anymore and so when we look at people we no longer see
[00:14:16] their faces, we no longer see the center, we can no longer read,
[00:14:20] it is in Bayonne that the darkness will be the most important, almost
[00:14:23] total. the spectacle will be visible
[00:14:27] everywhere in France, but one week before the big night, the
[00:14:30] Directorate General of Health is concerned about possible stock
[00:14:34] shortages of glasses to observe the eclipse, and so see you on August
[00:14:38] 12 between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. depending on where
[00:14:43] watching, stay tuned, the next report will be back in about fifteen
[00:14:47] minutes.
[00:15:02] Good evening everyone, welcome and thank you for being with us on France 24, it's time for
[00:15:06] the Africa news, here are the headlines, we'll start by discussing
[00:15:09] the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with this
[00:15:15] the World Health Organization. The epidemic is intensifying in the
[00:15:19] country. Since May 15, it has already caused the death of more than
[00:15:22] 1700 people.
[00:15:25] We will also talk about this request from the Beninese government, which is demanding
[00:15:29] that France return 35 new works, this
[00:15:32] request also includes colonial
[00:15:34] archives.
[00:15:37] And then the crisis continues in Ceuta, this Spanish enclave located in northern
[00:15:41] Morocco, if most of the migrants who arrived last week have been
[00:15:44] expelled, there are still around a thousand who hope to obtain
[00:15:48] asylum.
[00:15:52] Before developing these headlines, this information we learned in the
[00:15:56] evening, 308 victims of kidnapping in Nigeria have been
[00:16:00] released, 163 of them were kidnapped this year
[00:16:03] in a single village, it's a government announcement.
[00:16:08] Nigerian, we know that in recent years, kidnappings have become a major source of income for
[00:16:11] armed groups in the country.
[00:16:15] This visit by the Director General of the WHO to the Democratic
[00:16:18] Republic of Congo, the country facing its 17th
[00:16:22] Ebola epidemic. Since May 15, more than 3800 cases
[00:16:26] have been registered, including 1751
[00:16:28] deaths. The disease shows no signs of
[00:16:31] slowing down. Listen to the details from our correspondent in
[00:16:34] Kinshasa, Emmet Livingston.
[00:16:38] the Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo continues
[00:16:42] to worsen. Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus, Director
[00:16:46] General of the WHO, is scheduled to meet with Congolese President
[00:16:49] Felix Tshisekedi in Kinshasa on Wednesday to discuss the
[00:16:52] situation. He called for an urgent and massive
[00:16:56] strengthening of the health response. On site, Ebola
[00:16:59] cases continue to increase and most deaths
[00:17:02] still occur within the population, rather than in health
[00:17:05] facilities. According to Congolese authorities, the
[00:17:09] transmission of the disease largely escapes the detection
[00:17:12] system. On Wednesday, Doctors Without Borders
[00:17:15] made the same observation, stating in a press release that the
[00:17:18] virus was spreading at an alarming and unprecedented
[00:17:21] rate. The virus is now present in five
[00:17:25] provinces of the country. This week, fears of a wider spread
[00:17:28] emerged linked to a suspected case who died on board a
[00:17:32] boat that had left the city of Kisangani heading towards
[00:17:36] Kinshasa, this person was disembarked in Mongala province
[00:17:39] before the boat docked on Wednesday north of
[00:17:42] Kinshasa, where it was met by health authorities
[00:17:46] and WHO
[00:17:49] We're now going to Chad, one of
[00:17:52] the main opposition figures, Max Kenkoy, has sent
[00:17:56] a letter to the President of the Republic, a letter sent from his
[00:18:00] cell, he has been incarcerated for 100 days, just like the
[00:18:03] main leaders of the former consultation group of political
[00:18:07] actors, Maxemkoy denounces the economic
[00:18:10] and social situation of the country, the explanations of
[00:18:13] Gislen Alataron,
[00:18:15] three pages presented as a
[00:18:17] letter of fraternity addressed to the head of
[00:18:21] cell, Maxemkoy, spokesman for the former group of
[00:18:24] political actors' consultation, GCAP, addresses an
[00:18:28] indictment against the current governance. He denounces the decline
[00:18:31] of public freedoms, the deterioration of economic
[00:18:35] and social conditions as well as the narrowing of
[00:18:40] We are in prison simply because a group of individuals wanted
[00:18:43] us to be arrested, accused, judged and
[00:18:47] condemned to serve their own interests, he writes. The
[00:18:50] government rejects these accusations. His
[00:18:53] spokesman Gassim Sheriff Mamad judges this statement
[00:18:56] as derogatory towards the highest institution of the
[00:19:01] otherwise, he is a prisoner, he was condemned for that. And
[00:19:05] I don't know by what
[00:19:07] alchemy, by what means, he had the
[00:19:11] possibility to express himself, to go out on social
[00:19:14] networks, and when we listen and read the essence of his
[00:19:17] message, it's not what it appears to be, it's not a
[00:19:21] fraternal message, it's a message that is coated with
[00:19:25] fraternity, but the core is a message of questioning
[00:19:30] management of the country itself, you can't call the head of state on one side fraternity
[00:19:34] and allow yourself such disrespectful
[00:19:40] state, condemned at first instance for armed
[00:19:44] gathering, rebellion, illegal possession of war weapons, insurrectional
[00:19:48] movement and criminal
[00:19:52] the former GCAP are now awaiting the examination of the appeal lodged by
[00:19:56] their lawyers. In their letters, they ask the President of the
[00:19:59] Republic to reopen the political dialogue, to
[00:20:02] guarantee the rule of law and to provide answers to the concerns
[00:20:06] of the citizens.
[00:20:09] These new restitutions of property requested by Benin from
[00:20:12] France, 5 years after the return of 26 objects to the country, the
[00:20:16] Beninese government is demanding 35 new works
[00:20:19] as well as colonial archives, a request based
[00:20:22] on an unprecedented framework law in force since May. The
[00:20:26] details with our correspondent in Cotonou, Emmanuel
[00:20:29] Soji.
[00:20:33] This iron sculpture dedicated to Vaudangu is one of the pieces
[00:20:37] that... Benin is claiming, it is exhibited at the Pavillon des Sessions,
[00:20:40] the branch of the Quai Branly, at the Louvre Museum, also
[00:20:44] requested, a divination table, a rifle, a
[00:20:48] banner and royal sabers.
[00:21:14] the ancient kingdom of Dahomey by the troops of French general
[00:21:18] Dodds, they were, shall we say,
[00:21:21] uh extorted, paid,
[00:21:24] forcibly taken. Benin also claims archives related to the
[00:21:27] conquest and administration of the kingdom.
[00:21:30] Archives of three
[00:21:33] colonial administrators who were
[00:21:36] aware of these works that we claim, which should allow
[00:21:40] us to know under what conditions the works were
[00:21:44] taken. This request is facilitated by a change of method
[00:21:47] on the French side since the framework law of May 9,
[00:21:51] 2026, the restitution of cultural property no longer requires a law
[00:21:55] voted on a case-by-case basis as in 2021, but a simple
[00:21:59] decree taken after the advice of a bilateral scientific
[00:22:02] committee. Unlike the 27 treasures already
[00:22:06] returned, originating from the Kingdom of Dahomey, this
[00:22:09] new list includes objects from Ketou, Savet and
[00:22:12] Portonovo. If it has a ritual dimension, they
[00:22:15] will no longer be used for ritual purposes. they become
[00:22:19] objects, star objects, objects
[00:22:22] representing the artistic
[00:22:25] genius of Dahomey and Benin. A national scientific committee was
[00:22:29] established in July in Cotonou as part of this
[00:22:33] restitution request. According to Beninese experts,
[00:22:37] there are at least 15,000 objects belonging to Benin in
[00:22:40] public and private collections around the world, all
[00:22:44] taken during the colonial period.
[00:22:47] Dissenting voices are increasingly
[00:22:51] repressed in Ethiopia, three people have been arrested,
[00:22:55] accused of preparing terrorist attacks, which these three
[00:22:58] men deny, among them, two members of an opposition party as well
[00:23:02] as a lawyer. They appeared today before a court in Addis Ababa.
[00:23:06] According to the police, the three accused also wanted to seize
[00:23:09] power by force.
[00:23:12] The Spanish enclave of Ceuta sent back most of the 72,000
[00:23:16] migrants who arrived by swimming at the end of July, but in this area of the northern coast of
[00:23:20] Morocco, there are still about a thousand young migrants still
[00:23:24] wandering, all keeping hope of obtaining asylum.
[00:23:27] Noémi Roche.
[00:23:29] On this strip of beach, there are
[00:23:33] several dozens waiting. Arriving last
[00:23:36] week, these migrants have not been expelled
[00:23:40] yet. Most of them originate from Sub-Saharan
[00:23:42] Africa, they fled war, violence or persecution
[00:23:46] that they say they experienced in their country of
[00:23:49] origin, I was threatened with death, threatened with being put
[00:23:53] in prison, I held out until
[00:23:56] the moment I couldn't hold out anymore, I
[00:24:00] decided to flee Senegal. For these
[00:24:02] exiles, arriving in the Spanish enclave represents above all the hope
[00:24:06] of a safe life. Ali left Mali in
[00:24:10] 2024. After four attempts, he finally
[00:24:14] managed to reach Ceuta. His
[00:24:17] objective now is to obtain asylum in Europe. but in
[00:24:21] waiting, the reality is far from their expectations, we are
[00:24:24] here to ask, since we arrived, there is no food, there is
[00:24:28] no water, but in any case we will not give up, but if we are going to
[00:24:32] die, we will die if we are going to die, but to
[00:24:34] go back no, a shared motto
[00:24:37] by many, despite the hardships endured during the
[00:24:40] journey.
[00:24:44] in Morocco, if you don't have a passport or papers, no one will hire you, we
[00:24:47] suffer without ever getting anything.
[00:24:51] That's why we want to go to Europe, we want a better life and we want to
[00:24:55] work there,
[00:24:58] a promise for which they accepted to risk everything on one of the deadliest
[00:25:01] migratory routes in the world, according to the NGO SOS
[00:25:05] Méditerranée, 2312 people died
[00:25:08] or disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea in
[00:25:10] 2025.
[00:25:14] Let's talk about art now, in Nigeria in Lagos, an
[00:25:17] artist reinvents the technique of portraiture. His method,
[00:25:21] using clay as paint, you will see, it's an original marriage between
[00:25:24] science, tradition and creation, the story by Clarice
[00:25:28] Fortuné.
[00:25:31] In his Lagos studio, Emmanuel Olatunde has
[00:25:36] clay. This 39-year-old Nigerian artist has
[00:25:40] developed a technique that transforms earth into a natural color palette, giving
[00:25:43] rise to portraits with unique
[00:25:46] textures. His idea was born at university. By
[00:25:50] experimenting with clay, he discovered that once mixed, it
[00:25:54] adhered perfectly to the canvas. Thanks to his
[00:25:57] knowledge of chemistry, he then enriched his formula by adding
[00:26:00] metal oxides and ions.
[00:26:02] capable of producing a wide range of
[00:26:04] colors.
[00:26:07] I discovered that oxidation
[00:26:10] clay more than simple natural color variations
[00:26:13] due to soil or other factors. So I
[00:26:17] looked for oxides which are substances that ceramists also
[00:26:20] use to change the color of their clay. That's how I got
[00:26:24] different colors. I mixed the oxides with an ion, then I
[00:26:27] tried it and it worked.
[00:26:29] Today he harvests the clay himself before
[00:26:33] transforming it into paint. For him, this material has its
[00:26:37] own
[00:26:37] personality,
[00:26:41] key, the clay has its own way of being, you know, even if I
[00:26:45] can influence the result, once it dries, it simply becomes what it
[00:26:49] wants to be, I like not having all the answers in
[00:26:52] advance, not being able to decide exactly how it will
[00:26:55] turn out, the only thing I really control is what
[00:26:59] I do with my brush, the process of... drying, the change of
[00:27:03] shade towards gray, all of this comes from the clay
[00:27:06] itself,
[00:27:08] his work is part of a new generation of African artists who
[00:27:12] favor natural and sustainable materials, while pushing
[00:27:15] the boundaries of creation, but
[00:27:19] market remains a challenge. In the meantime, Emmanuel
[00:27:23] Olatunde continues to perfect his art and
[00:27:26] share his work on social networks, convinced that
[00:27:29] innovation can arise from the simplest material. The
[00:27:32] earth,
[00:27:38] news, thank you for watching, stay with us on France 24,
[00:27:51] join us from all over Europe, in France, the worst
[00:27:55] student of the European club when it comes to transforming European
[00:27:58] subsidies into growth and we will see this.
[00:28:02] in two regions particularly in difficulty, Corsica due to its
[00:28:06] insularity with its 36,000 inhabitants who
[00:28:10] nevertheless have many projects in terms of
[00:28:13] research on clementines, sea urchins and many other
[00:28:15] sectors, and here in Creuse, a rural French
[00:28:19] department that is depopulating, the European windfall
[00:28:23] is highly anticipated to revive growth and employment,
[00:28:26] it is particularly directed towards the timber
[00:28:29] industry or also tourism and
[00:28:33] culture with here the valley of painters or also the very beautiful
[00:28:37] Aubusson tapestry from all over Europe
[00:28:40] presented by Caroline de Camaret to be seen on France 24.
[00:30:08] Hello everyone, Thursday, August 6th, 6 AM, Paris
[00:30:11] time, happy to find you
[00:30:15] headlines, in Germany, an anti-terrorist investigation after the
[00:30:18] discovery yesterday of an explosive drone at Lepsich
[00:30:22] airport, Berlin denounces a new dimension of threat, suspicions
[00:30:25] are directed towards Russia,
[00:30:28] evacuation ordered in Kramatorsk, hundreds of
[00:30:31] families. are forced to
[00:30:35] Russian army, more than 500 children should leave their
[00:30:39] home and after the bloody offensive by Moscow yesterday
[00:30:42] Volodimir Zelensky calls on his allies for emergency
[00:30:44] aid, then the FIFA apology after trying
[00:30:48] to privatize the World Cup, the world football
[00:30:51] body acts with contrition while supporting its highly
[00:30:55] contested boss, Janny
[00:30:56] Infantino.