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[00:00:00] Enok and Alexandre Poussard to be seen on France
[00:00:03] 24.
[00:00:07] You are on France 24, here are the news headlines:
[00:00:11] ordered evacuation in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are
[00:00:15] forced to flee the city under attack from the Russian army,
[00:00:19] more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after Moscow's bloody
[00:00:22] offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky demands
[00:00:26] the head of the health organization, visiting Kinshasa, to alert.
[00:00:30] calls for intensified response,
[00:00:33] false and bears the signature of then FIFA's apologies, after having tried to privatize the World Cup,
[00:00:36] the global football body, makes an act of contrition while
[00:00:40] supporting its very controversial boss Gianni Infantino. To
[00:00:43] discuss this, Romain Molina, investigative journalist,
[00:00:47] football specialist and our guest.
[00:01:00] interference. This is the objective of
[00:01:03] In Ukraine, six people died last night during
[00:01:07] Russian strikes on
[00:01:09] He launches the alert: the head of the regions of Kharkiv and Sumy in the east of the country
[00:01:13] according to the authorities. For its part, Russia
[00:01:17] to her that what I had were sequelae. She announces having shot down during the night 605 Ukrainian drones
[00:01:21] over about twenty of these regions and the
[00:01:25] annexed Crimean peninsula. The war is raging and in Kramatorsk,
[00:01:28] Ukraine, hundreds of
[00:01:32] families are called to evacuate following the intensification of
[00:01:34] Russian attacks on the
[00:01:38] region. 525 children will
[00:01:41] to envision a future outside have to leave their homes and President Volodymyr
[00:01:45] Zelensky is appealing for more aid from his
[00:01:48] allies. Alice
[00:01:50] Brogar's story. After more than 20 hours of
[00:01:54] searching, Ukrainian rescuers extract a lifeless
[00:01:57] body from the rubble. A civilian. is in a Russian strike
[00:02:01] that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
[00:02:04] multiplication of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
[00:02:08] region in eastern Ukraine, ordered on Wednesday evening
[00:02:11] the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who still
[00:02:15] lived in the city. In the Kiev region too, attacks
[00:02:19] are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
[00:02:23] railway line, railway workers are evacuating one by one the bodies of
[00:02:26] eight victims, killed after a strike on a busy station.
[00:03:00] Russia fired 115 long-range drones and 28 missiles overnight
[00:03:04] from Tuesday to Wednesday, but only 98 drones could be
[00:03:08] neutralized. Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses failed to
[00:03:12] intercept any missiles, a weakening attributed by President
[00:03:15] Zelensky to delays in missile interceptor deliveries
[00:03:19] compared to
[00:03:20] 2025.
[00:03:23] Ukraine has started to receive about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to
[00:03:27] defend our state. This situation. mainly linked to the
[00:03:30] war, or as it is now fair to say,
[00:03:34] to hostilities and wars in the
[00:03:37] Middle East.
[00:03:40] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky had again traveled to
[00:03:43] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
[00:03:47] missiles, the only ones capable
[00:03:49] Libertadores, the equivalent of of intercepting the most efficient Russian missiles. But according to the
[00:03:52] Financial Times, Trump refused this request due to the
[00:03:56] shortage of Patriots in US stocks since the start
[00:03:59] of... the war in the Middle East.
[00:04:03] The war led by Russia is also being fought on the Internet. In
[00:04:07] France, suspicions of Moscow's interference hang over the presidential
[00:04:10] pre-campaign. Raphael Glucksmann, a potential candidate, claims to be the
[00:04:14] target of an operation attributed to a pro-Russian network. The same goes for
[00:04:18] former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. And just a few
[00:04:23] been detected, so the head of plot as quickly as possible to avoid weeks ago, Édouard Philippe also declared himself a victim. Explanations from our colleagues from France
[00:04:26] 2.
[00:04:29] Is this a foretaste of? the presidential campaign,
[00:04:32] disinformation operations target declared candidates, Édouard Philippe and
[00:04:36] Gabriel Attal, or potential ones like Raphael Glucksmann, leader of
[00:04:40] Place Publique. A website and a
[00:04:43] allowed to temporarily leave video made with artificial intelligence accuse his partner
[00:04:46] and Salamé, presenter of the 8 p.m. news on France
[00:04:49] 2. She is accused of having tried to bribe
[00:04:53] the media in exchange for the publication of articles aimed
[00:04:56] at giving a positive image of her husband. Everything is
[00:05:00] false, fabricated from scratch. The website and video
[00:05:03] reproduce the codes of a real online media
[00:05:06] blast. According to the government, the manipulation is
[00:05:11] a third of the controlled by the Russian secret services. Raphael Glucksmann has long
[00:05:15] denounced this interference. The
[00:05:17] goal for the Russians is to create chaos in our
[00:05:21] country and lead to the electoral victory of
[00:05:25] pro-Russian political forces. On July 21, the Horizon
[00:05:29] candidate Édouard Philippe was also targeted.
[00:05:32] This video falsely claims that he suffers
[00:05:36] from a disease. Édouard Philippo recently received a
[00:05:39] diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Again, everything is
[00:05:45] Russia. The candidate's entourage fears other
[00:05:49] manipulations during the campaign. A country
[00:05:52] like Russia will want to weaken all those who rightly
[00:05:56] consider that Vladimir Putin is an
[00:05:59] aggressor who has violated international law, so yes, we must expect
[00:06:03] something violent. Russia accused by several
[00:06:06] candidates of wanting to influence the vote of electors in
[00:06:10] France, to better punish
[00:06:13] the Élysée and Matignon. A bill will be examined in the
[00:06:16] Senate next September.
[00:06:22] the World Health Organization, visiting the Democratic
[00:06:25] Republic of Congo yesterday, calls to intensify the response because
[00:06:29] Ebola is spreading faster than previous outbreaks.
[00:06:32] 3973
[00:06:34] cases are confirmed, including 1800 deaths. For now, there is
[00:06:38] no vaccine nor treatment for it.
[00:06:49] care and disinfection operations. Here,
[00:06:53] everything is real or almost, these doctors are still in training,
[00:06:57] in this center near Nairobi in Kenya, 200 of them have already
[00:07:00] been prepared to face the Ebola
[00:07:02] epidemic.
[00:07:04] We organize this training for 3 days and give them contextual
[00:07:08] information about the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to
[00:07:12] protect themselves as health personnel before, during and after this
[00:07:16] epidemic.
[00:07:19] The objective, then, is for these health professionals to become
[00:07:22] operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
[00:07:25] are sent there, to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
[00:07:29] where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging. In mid-May, the
[00:07:33] first case was detected in the Ituri province in the northeast of the
[00:07:36] country. Since then, contaminations have multiplied in
[00:07:40] four other provinces, nearly 4000 cases have been confirmed and more than
[00:07:44] 1800 people have died. The number of cases of this new variant
[00:07:48] of Ebola, the Bundibugyo strain, is already higher
[00:07:51] than during the last epidemic in the country between 2018 and
[00:07:55] 2020. The WHO, whose director visited the site this
[00:07:58] Wednesday, calls for an intensified medical
[00:08:01] response. In the city of Bunia, capital of Ituri
[00:08:05] and epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and
[00:08:08] treatment center has just been built. We have uh...
[00:08:12] more than 300 personnel who will work in this
[00:08:16] center and we count on the community to
[00:08:19] accelerate the process of case
[00:08:22] identification. At the same time, efforts to create an effective
[00:08:26] vaccine against this new variant continue. At the end of July,
[00:08:30] a British volunteer received the first dose of a vaccine developed at
[00:08:33] Oxford. Others are in the testing phase elsewhere in the world, but
[00:08:37] none have yet been
[00:08:38] validated.
[00:08:41] And now, as every day, it's time for the eco-news with you,
[00:08:45] Christophe Denset. Hello, Christophe, hello, so we're going to talk about
[00:08:48] game consoles, prices are soaring and not just a few
[00:08:52] euros, Christophe. Yes, Sony was
[00:08:55] the first to strike, increasing the price of its
[00:08:58] PlayStation 5 as early as May, and not by €10,
[00:09:02] but by €100. The PS5 went from €550
[00:09:05] to €650 for one of its models, which is almost
[00:09:09] 20% more. Microsoft
[00:09:13] did even better with its Xbox Series X and Series
[00:09:16] S with up to €200 increases in Europe
[00:09:20] since August 1st with up to uh
[00:09:23] that is, up to 50% more depending on the
[00:09:27] models. Nintendo, which had resisted this increase, finally
[00:09:30] gave in and should adjust its price by about thirty
[00:09:34] euros from September for its Switch 2. In other
[00:09:37] words, the three big manufacturers are
[00:09:40] increasing their prices and uh other manufacturers that I haven't mentioned here are doing
[00:09:44] exactly the same thing. So Christophe, normally with time, an electronic
[00:09:48] product costs less. Why is it the opposite
[00:09:51] because consoles are in the middle of a global battle
[00:09:55] for an essential component, which is electronic
[00:09:58] memory. The cause almost comes down to three
[00:10:01] letters: RAM. RAM for random access
[00:10:05] memory, working memory. These are these small memory chips that cost
[00:10:09] more and more. According to trend force, the price of some of these
[00:10:13] chips increased uh and almost doubled between the
[00:10:16] first and second quarters of this year. As a result, memory
[00:10:20] accounts for between a quarter and
[00:10:24] cost of manufacturing consoles, and so manufacturers can no longer
[00:10:27] play with their margins and they say they are forced to pass this
[00:10:31] increase on to the consumer. So why such an increase
[00:10:35] for these memory chips? Well, I would say there are two main reasons.
[00:10:38] First, the market is extremely concentrated. There are
[00:10:42] three companies that manufacture
[00:10:44] the vast majority of these RAMs in the
[00:10:48] world. Two are South Korean,
[00:10:51] Samsung and SK Hynix, and there's Micron, which is
[00:10:55] American. Of course, we are seeing
[00:10:59] new competitors emerging, for example in China, but for
[00:11:02] now, they don't yet equip the main consoles at the same time. And that's the
[00:11:06] second reason, well, artificial intelligence is also starting
[00:11:10] to consume these same chips in gigantic quantities, and all the
[00:11:13] industry giants, Open AI, Anthropic, Google,
[00:11:17] Meta, and Amazon, are buying these chips
[00:11:20] like crazy. Uh, then well, it's just the simple law
[00:11:24] of supply and demand, too much demand, not
[00:11:28] enough supply, that creates chip shortages, prices soar, and the
[00:11:32] crisis already has a name, it has been dubbed the
[00:11:35] RAMageddon for RAM and Armageddon,
[00:11:39] a biblical name that can be frightening because it is, you know, the
[00:11:43] name, the place of the battle between good and evil. But
[00:11:46] how are players reacting, Christophe? Well, on social media,
[00:11:49] we are seeing more and more players expressing themselves. Uh
[00:11:53] on specialized forums, reactions are
[00:11:57] often very, very critical. Many players talk
[00:12:00] about consoles becoming overpriced. They
[00:12:04] prefer to postpone their purchase or hope for year-end promotions. The
[00:12:07] problem is that according to analysts, prices are not likely to
[00:12:11] drop, as they do not see a lull before
[00:12:14] 2027 or even 2028, time for a number
[00:12:18] of new manufacturers to arrive. And if this
[00:12:21] memory tension continues, then consoles may only be the first
[00:12:25] victims. Uh, behind them are smartphones, computers, and even
[00:12:28] electric cars, which also use
[00:12:32] similar components, these chips. So this battle,
[00:12:35] this RAMageddon, this RAMageddon, it's not over,
[00:12:39] it's far from over. Thank you,
[00:12:42] Christophe. And now, we're going to take a look at the fires in
[00:12:46] France. 12 days after the start of the blaze, it's time
[00:12:50] for an assessment for the owners of the devastated
[00:12:53] forests. Thousands of hectares
[00:12:55] of blackened pine, leaving hundreds of forest operators in great
[00:12:58] distress with one question: what to do with all this
[00:13:02] burnt wood? A report by our colleagues from France
[00:13:04] 2.
[00:13:06] The destruction as far as the eye can see, entire
[00:13:10] rows of scorched maritime pine. In
[00:13:13] Gironde, the tens of thousands of hectares of burnt forest seem totally
[00:13:17] lost. This forester returns to his
[00:13:20] 40-hectare plot for the first time, distraught. They
[00:13:23] didn't live long. It's so sad, so desolate,
[00:13:27] it's abominable. Under the blackened
[00:13:30] bark, he wonders what he can still save,
[00:13:34] but
[00:13:38] I realize that the bark has been burned a lot. I
[00:13:41] think there are places where it will not be burned through
[00:13:45] but very, very, very affected. If
[00:13:48] by chance it remained in good condition, the tree can still yield timber
[00:13:52] for construction or parquet, which brings in money. But
[00:13:56] is it even possible to market it? The sector is not
[00:13:59] dimensioned to exploit so much wood in so little
[00:14:02] time and then it will degrade,
[00:14:05] dry out, fungi can set in, insects
[00:14:09] too. Four to five million tons
[00:14:12] of more or less damaged wood must be removed, a
[00:14:15] project that will take at least two years according to
[00:14:18] professionals. Another well-preserved source this
[00:14:22] time is wood from firebreaks. These
[00:14:25] are trees cut down by hand over hundreds of meters to
[00:14:29] block the advance of the flames, left by the roadside. This
[00:14:33] forestry cooperative must take care of it, remember to remove the wood as quickly
[00:14:37] as possible, there's still a bit left to put
[00:14:39] there. In the middle of summer, this director had to call in reinforcements.
[00:14:42] What we call skidding is to remove the wood from the
[00:14:47] leaving fuel on the plot, put it here by the roadside, and
[00:14:51] then now we actually come to take this wood and bring it to the
[00:14:55] platform, a storage platform that can hold up to
[00:14:58] 20,000 tons of wood. Once weighed, the logs are
[00:15:02] deposited here until they are sold to local
[00:15:05] companies. So here we have wood that can, for the largest
[00:15:09] diameters, be used for the manufacture of pallets
[00:15:13] for logistics, and then there is also much smaller
[00:15:17] wood that will be destined for the paper industry or
[00:15:21] cardboard manufacturing. With so much wood to clear in such
[00:15:24] a short time, foresters fear a collapse
[00:15:27] in prices that would prolong the crisis.
[00:15:31] Sport now, FIFA Gate continues and perhaps ends after
[00:15:35] abandoning its highly controversial project. To open
[00:15:38] the body to private investors, the management of the
[00:15:41] International Football Federation held a crisis meeting
[00:15:44] yesterday. At its conclusion, it acknowledged errors and presented
[00:15:48] apologies, but nevertheless confirmed its support for
[00:15:51] President Gianni Infantino. Alice Broga.
[00:15:55] Leaving FIFA's African headquarters in Salé, Morocco,
[00:15:59] its president Gianni Infantino hopes to turn the page on
[00:16:02] controversies. Under fire for having single-handedly set up a project
[00:16:05] to sell part of FIFA's commercial rights, he
[00:16:09] leaves with the full support of his executive committee.
[00:16:12] However, the latter apologized to member countries for the errors
[00:16:16] committed.
[00:16:18] It was agreed that there was no intention of excluding the FIFA Council and FIFA
[00:16:22] member associations from the process, and that this
[00:16:26] should have been handled differently.
[00:16:29] Last week, leaks in the press revealed Gianni Infantino's
[00:16:33] plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
[00:16:36] FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
[00:16:40] investors. Faced with a storm of protest, the project was
[00:16:43] abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
[00:16:47] football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
[00:16:51] have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, criticisms
[00:16:54] which are now joined by political voices.
[00:16:56] FIFA has its own procedures for
[00:16:59] making this kind of decision, but for
[00:17:03] my part, I no longer have confidence in Mr. Infantino after what happened.
[00:17:07] But Gianni Infantino benefits from the
[00:17:10] support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the
[00:17:13] Middle East, through which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an
[00:17:17] extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes
[00:17:20] to be re-elected for a fourth term at the next March
[00:17:23] congress. His opponents, such as UEFA and the Confederation of
[00:17:27] North, Central, and Caribbean Football, have until November
[00:17:30] 18 to find another
[00:19:37] will disappear for a few moments. The solar eclipse will be visible in
[00:19:41] France and Spain, an exceptional but dangerous
[00:19:44] spectacle to observe with the naked eye. So how are the special
[00:19:48] glasses for observing them made? A report by our colleagues from
[00:19:52] France 2.
[00:19:55] Night in broad daylight, as in 1999
[00:19:59] with this twilight atmosphere when the sun
[00:20:02] plays hide-and-seek with the moon, but to admire this eclipse, you still need
[00:20:06] to be well equipped? With adapted glasses, you shouldn't look at the sun
[00:20:10] for too long anyway, so if you don't have the right glasses, you can really damage your
[00:20:13] eyes. In recent weeks, this Alsatian
[00:20:16] manufacturer has been multiplying deliveries of protective
[00:20:19] glasses, hundreds of thousands of pairs specially
[00:20:23] designed to observe this phenomenon as rare as
[00:20:26] spectacular. The moon passes between the Earth and
[00:20:29] the sun, preventing its light from reaching our
[00:20:33] planet, a spectacle to observe with opaque
[00:20:37] glasses. It's a filter that reflects the
[00:20:40] harmful rays of the sun outside and inside the filter is black,
[00:20:43] it's a filter that reproduces
[00:20:47] the orange image of the sun. These
[00:20:50] protective glasses meet precise standards and come with a
[00:20:53] certificate of conformity. At this optician's, fifty
[00:20:57] pairs have already been sold at €3 per unit.
[00:21:00] It's now or never because apparently there won't
[00:21:04] be another one as complete for a while and
[00:21:08] maybe it will be the last of our lives. In
[00:21:11] 1999 in France during the last total eclipse,
[00:21:15] some people improvised by making their own glasses, which should be avoided because
[00:21:18] even part of the sun's light can pass through the eye and burn the
[00:21:22] retina in a few seconds, a painless burn
[00:21:26] with sometimes irreversible consequences.
[00:21:29] The sun's light ray will burn these fundamental
[00:21:32] cells, a black spot that is engraved a little bit in front of
[00:21:36] us, and well, this black spot doesn't go away, and so when we look at
[00:21:40] people, we no longer see their faces, we no longer see the center, we can no longer
[00:21:43] read. It is in Bayonne that the darkness will be the
[00:21:47] most intense, almost total. The spectacle
[00:21:50] will be visible throughout France, but one week before the big night, the
[00:21:54] Directorate General of Health is concerned about possible shortages
[00:21:57] of glasses to observe
[00:29:57] You are on France 24, here are the headlines,
[00:30:01] evacuation ordered. in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are
[00:30:05] forced to flee the city under attack by the Russian army,
[00:30:09] more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after Moscow's
[00:30:12] bloody offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on his allies
[00:30:16] for urgent help. The increasingly rapid spread
[00:30:19] of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
[00:30:22] 3973 cases have
[00:30:26] the World Health Organization, visiting Kinshasa, warns, he
[00:30:30] calls for intensifying the response then. FIFA's
[00:30:33] apologies, after attempting to privatize the World Cup,
[00:30:36] the world football body makes an act of contrition while
[00:30:40] supporting its highly contested boss, Gianni Infantino, to
[00:30:44] talk about it, Romain Molina, investigative journalist, football
[00:30:48] specialist, is our guest.