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[00:00:08] On the front page, here are the headlines of this edition: evacuation ordered
[00:00:11] in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are facing
[00:00:16] is sounding the alarm, the head of the are forced to flee the city due to attacks by the Russian
[00:00:18] army, more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after
[00:00:22] Moscow's bloody offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on his
[00:00:26] allies for emergency aid. The ever faster spread of...
[00:00:30] in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 3973 cases have
[00:00:34] been detected, so the head of the World Health
[00:00:37] Organization on a visit to Kinshasa Alert, he
[00:00:40] calls for intensifying the response, then FIFA's apologies
[00:00:43] after trying to privatize the World Cup,
[00:00:47] the world football body is showing contrition while supporting
[00:00:51] its very contested boss, Janny
[00:00:53] Infantino.
[00:01:08] In Ukraine, three people were killed in Russian shelling around
[00:01:11] the city of Balaklia located in the northeast of the
[00:01:15] country, in the northeast of the country, so Russian attacks
[00:01:18] are intensifying, and in Kramatorsk, an evacuation
[00:01:22] order has been issued for families, 525
[00:01:25] children will have to leave their homes, a difficult but
[00:01:29] necessary decision according to the governor of the
[00:01:32] region. Kramatorsk is one of the last cities
[00:01:36] controlled by Ukraine in the
[00:01:38] everywhere in the world and at any time of Donetsk province and is subject to particularly
[00:01:41] violent attacks by Russian forces. The correspondence of Emmanuel
[00:01:44] Chaz. These last days, there has been a lot of talk about Russian
[00:01:48] bombardments, especially on the capital, but less talk about this city of
[00:01:52] Kramatorsk, one of the last strongholds of the Donetsk
[00:01:55] region, a city which, just like the satellite city of
[00:01:59] Slovyansk, is in fact within reach of Russian
[00:02:02] artillery, within reach of Russian drones, within reach of gliding
[00:02:06] bombs, these guided aerial bombs which are not very
[00:02:09] expensive, relatively speaking compared to missiles to
[00:02:13] produce for Russia, however, they are
[00:02:17] devastating. To give you an idea, yesterday the city of Kramatorsk was
[00:02:20] attacked more than 31 times with
[00:02:23] various bombs like the one I just mentioned, so this mandatory
[00:02:27] evacuation order for children, more than 500
[00:02:31] children, from certain villages near Kramatorsk as well as from several
[00:02:34] districts of Kramatorsk, a city that once had
[00:02:37] allowed to temporarily leave up to 200,000 inhabitants and now has only about
[00:02:41] 45,000 to 50,000 at present. This order comes
[00:02:44] as the city has already emptied of many of its inhabitants,
[00:02:48] but there are still families. One might wonder why
[00:02:52] these families are still there. Often, they do not have the financial
[00:02:55] means to leave. Often, they have relatives they need to
[00:02:58] take care of. Often, they are also part
[00:03:01] of families of civil servants, so firefighters, families of
[00:03:05] police officers, also families of soldiers who are there, so many
[00:03:09] reasons why we will still find hundreds
[00:03:13] of children who are trapped
[00:03:16] ultimately in this city which a few years ago
[00:03:20] was not affected by bombs, but which since
[00:03:23] 2022 has really experienced a
[00:03:26] significant decline. So today we can...
[00:03:30] go to Kramatorsk without hearing these bombardments, it is necessary to
[00:03:34] constantly scan the sky since the inhabitants
[00:03:38] are at the mercy of FPV drones, in addition to being at the
[00:03:40] mercy of other bombs, so a city where it has become very
[00:03:44] dangerous to be a civilian. And meanwhile,
[00:03:47] Emmanuel, on the front of Ukrainian domestic politics,
[00:03:51] Volodymyr Zelensky is struggling to quell the crisis amidst accusations of
[00:03:55] corruption against some
[00:03:56] officials.
[00:04:00] Yes, exactly, a crisis that was ultimately
[00:04:03] provoked by his cabinet reshuffle a few weeks
[00:04:07] ago, a sudden reshuffle that saw the departure of the very popular Minister of
[00:04:11] Defense Mykhailo Fedorov. The population did not
[00:04:14] understand why this minister was virtually dismissed, as he
[00:04:17] was considered very effective and was also
[00:04:21] trying to tackle corruption within his own
[00:04:24] ministry. The latest scandal
[00:04:27] to date is the resignation a few days ago. The ambassador to
[00:04:31] the United States, Yevgeniya Stefanishyna, had caused a lot of talk. She was
[00:04:35] indicted in a corruption case,
[00:04:38] and Volodymyr Zelensky also appointed
[00:04:41] his former defense minister Rustem Umerov,
[00:04:45] whom he had then appointed
[00:04:48] to imagine a future outside secretary of the National Defense and Security Council. He appointed him
[00:04:51] head of foreign intelligence, another
[00:04:55] decision that is causing a lot of talk here because Rustem is
[00:04:58] cited as a witness in the Mindish case, this
[00:05:01] corruption case that broke out last
[00:05:04] autumn. Consequently, the Ukrainian population
[00:05:08] continues its rallies across the
[00:05:11] country, if... the first demand of the people is the
[00:05:15] return of Mykhailo Fedorov, it is also, it is also
[00:05:18] a way to show Volodymyr Zelensky that
[00:05:22] many here are unhappy with his way of managing this
[00:05:25] government. He
[00:05:29] World Health Organization, visiting yesterday in the Democratic
[00:05:32] Republic of Congo, calls for intensifying the response because the Ebola
[00:05:36] epidemic is spreading faster than previous ones.
[00:05:39] 3973 cases are confirmed,
[00:05:42] including 1801 deaths. For now, there is no vaccine
[00:05:46] or treatment for this variant of the epidemic. So neighboring
[00:05:49] countries are organizing to train their caregivers and help
[00:05:53] the DRC. Details from Romain Michelot.
[00:05:56] Disinfection care operation. Here,
[00:06:00] everything is real or almost, these doctors are still in training.
[00:06:04] In this center near Nairobi, Kenya, 200 have already
[00:06:07] been prepared to face the Ebola
[00:06:09] epidemic.
[00:06:12] this training for 3 days and give them contextual information about
[00:06:16] the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to protect themselves as
[00:06:20] healthcare personnel before, during and after this
[00:06:23] epidemic.
[00:06:26] The goal is therefore for these healthcare professionals to become
[00:06:29] operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
[00:06:33] are sent there, to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
[00:06:36] where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging. In mid-May, the
[00:06:40] first case was detected in the... Ituri province in the northeast of the
[00:06:44] country. Since then, contaminations have multiplied in
[00:06:47] four other provinces. Nearly 4,000 cases have been confirmed
[00:06:51] and more than 1,800 people have died. The number of cases of this
[00:06:54] new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo strain, is already higher
[00:06:58] than during the last epidemic in the country between 2018 and
[00:07:02] 2020. The WHO, whose director visited the site this
[00:07:05] Wednesday, calls for intensifying the medical
[00:07:08] response. In the city of Bunia, capital of Ituri
[00:07:12] and... epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and
[00:07:16] treatment center has just been built. We have
[00:07:19] more than 300 staff who will work in this center,
[00:07:23] and we are counting on the community to
[00:07:26] be able to accelerate the process of identifying
[00:07:29] cases. At the same time, efforts to create an effective
[00:07:33] vaccine against this new variant are continuing. At the end of July,
[00:07:37] a British volunteer received the first dose of a vaccine developed at
[00:07:40] Oxford, others are... in testing phase elsewhere in the world, but
[00:07:44] none have yet been
[00:07:45] validated.
[00:07:49] two Israeli reservist soldiers were killed yesterday in
[00:07:53] fighting in southern Lebanon where Israel is fighting Hezbollah
[00:07:57] backed by Iran. The two Israeli soldiers are
[00:08:00] the first deaths of the country in southern
[00:08:04] Lebanon since last June
[00:08:06] 28.
[00:08:10] the Houthi rebels of Yemen, supported by Iran, declared
[00:08:13] that they had attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea
[00:08:17] and in the Gulf of Aden as part of the blockade they announced
[00:08:21] against the Saudi fleet. These are the
[00:08:24] 8th and 9th ships targeted since the announcement of the blockade
[00:08:28] at the end of July against the Riyadh fleet, according
[00:08:32] to the rebel
[00:08:33] statement.
[00:08:36] For its part, Iran indicated yesterday that it had reached an agreement
[00:08:40] with Oman on a new transit route for ships in the Strait
[00:08:43] of Hormuz, of which they are both riparian states and which is at the heart of tensions
[00:08:47] with the United States. The two countries are working on a joint
[00:08:51] declaration, provided that third parties do not hinder
[00:08:55] the process. Marion Meyer.
[00:08:58] In the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is playing the master and
[00:09:01] tightening its control over its strategic waters. According
[00:09:05] to Iranian diplomacy, an agreement concluded with Oman
[00:09:09] would allow the opening of a new viable maritime route for this.
[00:09:13] for 2 to 4 months. The
[00:09:15] geographical coordinates of the planned route by both parties have
[00:09:19] been approved. Relations between the two countries had
[00:09:22] become tense last June after the failure of the agreement between
[00:09:26] Washington and Tehran on the reopening of the Strait.
[00:09:29] Iran refused a return to the pre-war situation and
[00:09:32] only allowed one shipping corridor along its coasts,
[00:09:36] here in red. Oman then opened an alternative
[00:09:39] route further south in its territorial waters,
[00:09:43] an initiative that had provoked Tehran's anger. While the new
[00:09:46] route negotiated this time between the two countries is not yet known,
[00:09:50] the draft agreement would give Tehran control over ship
[00:09:53] entries into the Gulf, a strategic advantage against
[00:09:57] Washington, which for its part asserts that the opening of the Strait is
[00:10:00] imminent. It could happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, a lot of
[00:10:04] progress has been made. Iran wants a deal, it doesn't want to be
[00:10:08] hit. Tehran still denies any negotiation with
[00:10:11] Washington and assures that the discussions held with Oman do
[00:10:15] not guarantee at this stage the safety of traffic in the Strait of
[00:10:19] Hormuz.
[00:10:21] Also in the news in France, the episode of high
[00:10:25] heat is now moving. The departments of Drôme and Isère have been
[00:10:28] downgraded to yellow vigilance for heatwaves, but Météo France
[00:10:32] still maintains six departments in the southeast and
[00:10:35] Corsica at orange alert level at least
[00:10:38] until Friday, until tomorrow, indicate the forecasters.
[00:10:42] And
[00:10:44] since the beginning of summer, millions of poultry have died,
[00:10:48] suffocated by the heat. The meadows are burnt, cows
[00:10:52] produce less milk. The French government... therefore
[00:10:55] responded yesterday to the alert launched by the agricultural world. It
[00:10:59] announced an aid plan to, I quote, "leave no
[00:11:02] farmer behind." Details with Erwan
[00:11:05] Druyak. Here we can clearly see that the soil is extremely
[00:11:09] dry, in this market gardener's farm, soils reduced to
[00:11:13] dust and completely dried out cauliflowers,
[00:11:15] unsellable, you see normally the foliage in
[00:11:19] normal weather should be greener. Due to the
[00:11:22] drought, Richard could lose more than 60% of his cauliflower
[00:11:26] plants, and it's not the only vegetable suffering from the heat on his
[00:11:30] farm. His red onion production, for example, could be halved,
[00:11:33] if things don't
[00:11:37] improve in the coming weeks, then it will
[00:11:40] be more than complicated. Like Richard, many
[00:11:43] farmers are directly suffering the consequences of the last heat
[00:11:47] waves. Faced with the urgency, the Minister of Agriculture announced a
[00:11:50] plan to support struggling farmers, with
[00:11:54] several measures to support their cash flow, such as
[00:11:58] covering social security contributions, as well as
[00:12:01] simplification and derogation measures, aid that
[00:12:05] will be allocated on a case-by-case basis according to needs. The prefects must
[00:12:09] also designate drought references to establish a precise
[00:12:12] diagnosis and adapt this aid according to the territories. In
[00:12:15] France, 98 departments are affected by drought,
[00:12:18] 57 are in a crisis
[00:12:21] situation.
[00:12:24] To sports after. in the FIFA Gate continues and perhaps ends
[00:12:28] after abandoning its highly controversial project to open
[00:12:31] the body to private investors. The management of the
[00:12:34] International Football Federation held a crisis meeting
[00:12:38] yesterday. At its conclusion, it admitted errors and offered
[00:12:41] apologies, but nevertheless confirmed its full support for
[00:12:45] its president Jenny Infantino. Details with Alice
[00:12:48] Broga. On leaving the African headquarters of
[00:12:51] FIFA in Salé, Morocco, its president Johnny Infantino
[00:12:55] hopes to turn the page on controversies, under fire for
[00:12:58] having single-handedly set up a project to sell part of FIFA's
[00:13:01] commercial rights, he leaves with the full support of his
[00:13:05] executive committee. The latter, however, apologized to
[00:13:08] member countries for the errors
[00:13:10] committed.
[00:13:12] It was agreed that there was no intention of excluding the FIFA Council and
[00:13:16] FIFA member associations from the process and that it
[00:13:20] should have been handled differently.
[00:13:23] Last week, leaks to the press revealed Gianni
[00:13:27] Infantino's plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
[00:13:31] FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
[00:13:34] investors. Faced with a wave of opposition, the project was
[00:13:38] abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
[00:13:41] football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
[00:13:45] have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni
[00:13:47] Infantino. Now political
[00:13:50] voices.
[00:13:55] procedure to make this kind of decision, but for my
[00:13:57] part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened.
[00:14:01] happened. But Gianni Infantino benefits from the
[00:14:04] support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the
[00:14:07] Middle East, through which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an
[00:14:11] extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes
[00:14:14] to be re-elected for a fourth term at the next March
[00:14:17] congress. His opponents, like UEFA and the Confederation of
[00:14:21] North, Central and Caribbean Football have until the 18th.
[00:14:25] to find another
[00:14:26] candidate,
[00:14:29] still on the football planet, this beautiful image of the triumphant
[00:14:33] welcome received by the Cape Verdean goalkeeper Vosina in
[00:14:36] Chile, the footballer discovered his new jersey, number
[00:14:40] 29, delivered by paragliding in the Monumental stadium in
[00:14:44] Santiago, the atmosphere had the air of World
[00:14:47] Cup victories, so happy the supporters were,
[00:14:50] and then everything
[00:14:54] has an end, that's also the case for our editor-in-chief, it's the
[00:14:57] end of an era for Baptiste Falavos, after 10
[00:15:01] years at the helm of the morning show, he is leaving for China where he
[00:15:04] will cover the news as a correspondent, the entire morning
[00:15:07] show team salutes and thanks this news enthusiast, Margot,
[00:15:11] Hélène, Hugo, Damien and Christophe whispered that they
[00:15:15] were impatiently awaiting his morning debriefs on the
[00:15:19] bridge from 2 a.m. onwards, now Baptiste, you will
[00:15:22] have 6 to... 7 hours ahead of us,
[00:15:25] we hope you won't find us too far behind, good
[00:15:29] luck to you,
[00:15:33] and that's the end of this edition, stay with us on France 24.
[00:15:59] In the inland sea of Japan,
[00:16:02] Nagashima Island had everything to be a little
[00:16:05] paradise.
[00:16:07] The government finally built a hell for thousands of sick people like
[00:16:11] Shinji, when he landed in this port in
[00:16:14] 1948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
[00:16:18] years old.
[00:16:21] when I arrived here without knowing anything, I was
[00:16:25] rather relaxed at first, but once
[00:16:28] I arrived, everyone told me that I wouldn't be able to go home
[00:16:32] anymore.
[00:16:34] Shinji had contracted leprosy a year earlier when his family sent
[00:16:38] him here. He then knew nothing of this disease that was about to
[00:16:41] deform his face and body by attacking his
[00:16:44] nerves. Once disembarked, suspected patients
[00:16:48] were locked up for a week in this building to be
[00:16:51] examined.
[00:16:54] At the time, disinfection was carried out
[00:16:58] here first, because they sometimes arrived with lice,
[00:17:01] pus or skin diseases,
[00:17:05] so no one was really happy. Everyone
[00:17:08] cried, even the nurses wore rubber
[00:17:12] boots and masks made of several layers of
[00:17:15] protection.
[00:17:22] Like him, 5000 children and adults were forcibly removed
[00:17:25] from their families and sent to this
[00:17:29] sanatorium.
[00:17:31] A confinement policy applied throughout Japan thanks to a 1931
[00:17:35] law, the same year Nagashima Island welcomed its
[00:17:38] first patients, their belongings were confiscated for
[00:17:42] fear that they too were contaminated.
[00:17:46] Here you can see what are called internal circulation tickets, a
[00:17:50] special currency whose use was only authorized on the
[00:17:53] island. The main objective was the prevention of
[00:17:56] escapes, so even if someone managed to escape from here
[00:17:59] without ordinary money, they could neither take the train nor
[00:18:02] eat.
[00:18:04] 17 years later, real money was introduced, because from
[00:18:08] 1948, a new treatment allowed lepers to be
[00:18:11] cured and some patients were
[00:18:15] the island, a fleeting joy, because for these
[00:18:19] disfigured people, reunions with their loved ones
[00:18:21] became a drama.
[00:18:24] When a leper was detected in a house, all members of their family
[00:18:28] were discriminated against, it then became very difficult
[00:18:30] to accept their return afterwards.
[00:18:33] Rejected by their families, the cured lepers were also forced by law
[00:18:37] to remain living on the island.
[00:18:40] So they built their own
[00:18:44] society, built
[00:18:47] roads or even schools for child
[00:18:50] patients.
[00:18:53] They created their own jobs, Shinji became
[00:18:56] a farmer,
[00:18:58] this is a photo from when I played baseball, there's no field anymore, but we used to play
[00:19:02] games often. Shinji is now 91
[00:19:06] years old, 70 of which were spent here, he
[00:19:10] knew loneliness, but also laughter and
[00:19:13] love. His wife, now deceased, was also
[00:19:17] a patient. Like thousands of lepers, they
[00:19:20] were forced into sterilization.
[00:19:24] In 2024, this abusive practice was ruled
[00:19:26] unconstitutional by the Japanese Supreme Court, condemning the state to
[00:19:30] pay up to €8,000 in compensation per
[00:19:33] victim. It's hard to say, but I felt
[00:19:41] like I was no longer really a man. Without children, Shinji cannot even count on his nephews or nieces. His
[00:19:45] family never fully believed in his recovery,
[00:19:49] as evidenced by the last call with his mother to visit her at
[00:19:52] the hospital,
[00:19:55] she asked me if my face had returned to normal, if my hands had
[00:19:58] healed. I told her that what I had were sequelae.
[00:20:02] She said no, finally it's no use coming,
[00:20:06] it shouldn't be known.
[00:20:09] In 1996, almost 50 years after the appearance of the first
[00:20:13] treatments and long legal battles, Japan finally
[00:20:16] authorized all lepers to leave the country's sanatoriums.
[00:20:19] A late victory, Shinji was then
[00:20:22] 61 years old, it was impossible
[00:20:26] the island.
[00:20:28] Nagashima still belongs to the state and only former patients and a few
[00:20:32] civil servants are allowed there. Here
[00:20:34] the needs of former lepers are taken care of by the government. A new
[00:20:38] hospital has even been built, it has more doctors than
[00:20:42] patients.
[00:20:46] Shinji goes there several times a week.
[00:20:56] His disease is no longer contagious, but it is
[00:20:58] above all the sequelae that doctors
[00:21:00] monitor.
[00:21:03] You just have to be careful of weakened nerves which make the
[00:21:06] wounds more susceptible to infection.
[00:21:10] Apart from that, we can say that it has become almost an ordinary
[00:21:13] disease today.
[00:21:18] In total, more than half of the... 5000 patients died
[00:21:22] on this prison island. For
[00:21:24] many, the deaths are related to old age or other diseases
[00:21:28] rather than leprosy. Only 66 like
[00:21:32] Shinji have decided to end their days here.
[00:23:12] Let's go!
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[00:29:11] Join us in the four corners of Europe, in France, the worst
[00:29:14] student of the European club when it comes to transforming European
[00:29:18] subsidies into growth, and we will
[00:29:21] note this in two regions particularly in difficulty, Corsica
[00:29:25] due to its insularity with its
[00:29:27] 36,000 inhabitants who nevertheless have many projects
[00:29:31] in terms of... research on Clementines, sea urchins and many
[00:29:35] other sectors, and
[00:29:37] here in Creuse, a rural French department that is
[00:29:40] depopulating, European manna is highly anticipated to revive
[00:29:44] growth and employment, it is particularly directed
[00:29:48] towards the timber industry or tourism and
[00:29:52] culture with here the valley of painters or the
[00:29:55] very beautiful Aubusson tapestry
[00:29:58] in the four corners of Europe presented by Caroline de
[00:30:01] Camaret. on France
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[00:30:07] Hello everyone and thank you for being here on France 24, we will spend the next
[00:30:11] hours together. On the front page of this edition, Kramatorsk under Russian
[00:30:15] bombs. On the spot, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have been
[00:30:18] ordered to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted more
[00:30:22] than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night, already
[00:30:26] more than 1700 dead, the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in
[00:30:29] the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head
[00:30:32] of the World Health Organization was on site, he is now calling for
[00:30:36] an intensified response, and then
[00:30:39] FIFA president Gianni Infantino, criticized internationally and supported
[00:30:42] internally, in the eye of the storm after several controversies,
[00:30:46] wants to turn the page. He apologized yesterday for,
[00:30:49] he says, his
[00:30:50] mistakes.