FRANCE24 — broadcast 20260806 090000 UTC 427 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:00] presented by Caroline de Camaret, to be seen on France [00:00:03] 24. [00:00:08] You are still watching live on France 24 and you are right to follow the [00:00:11] headline of this edition Kramatorsk under Russian bombs, [00:00:14] on site, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have [00:00:19] future, these are not projects of received orders to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted [00:00:22] more than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night. Already more than [00:00:26] 1700 deaths, the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in the Republic. [00:00:30] Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of the World Health Organization is on [00:00:35] in the long term, through the revitalization of site, he calls for intensifying the response, and then [00:00:38] criticized internationally, he is supported internally in [00:00:41] the eye of the storm after several controversies, FIFA President Janin Fantino wants to turn the [00:00:45] page, his management apologized [00:00:48] yesterday for its [00:00:50] mistakes. [00:01:04] the Kyiv region on Tuesday to Wednesday, Kramatorsk, these [00:01:08] last few hours, Russia continues to pound Ukraine, which today [00:01:12] no longer has the means to shoot down the missiles fired by its enemy. President [00:01:15] Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday again asked his allies for emergency [00:01:19] aid. Attention, some [00:01:21] the great forgotten of images may be difficult to view, they are commented by Alice [00:01:26] Fresselines, it's in the heart of Broga. it's painting and After more than 20 hours of searching, [00:01:29] Ukrainian rescuers extracted a lifeless body from the rubble, [00:01:32] a civilian killed in a Russian strike that occurred the [00:01:35] day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the [00:01:39] increase in Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk [00:01:42] region in eastern Ukraine ordered the evacuation of about 500 [00:01:46] children and their families who still [00:01:49] lived in the city on Wednesday evening. In the Kyiv region too, the attacks [00:01:53] are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this [00:01:57] railway line, railway workers are evacuating one by one. [00:02:00] and the [00:02:04] I am Benoît de la Rousière, I am the director of [00:02:13] the future. Creuse has France, we [00:03:00] fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend our state, this [00:03:03] taken from situation is mainly linked to the war, [00:03:07] sell part of FIFA's commercial rights, or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the [00:03:11] Middle East. [00:03:14] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky again went to [00:03:17] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot missiles to him, [00:03:21] the only ones capable of intercepting the most [00:03:24] advanced Russian missiles, but according to the Financial Times, Trump [00:03:28] refused this request due to... the shortage of Patriots in American [00:03:31] stocks since the beginning of the war in the [00:03:34] Middle East [00:03:37] and I would add that for its part, Russia says it shot down [00:03:40] 605 Ukrainian drones overnight, announced by the Ministry of [00:03:43] Defense in Moscow. As every [00:03:46] year, it is a show of force in the face of the appetites of neighboring [00:03:50] China in Taiwan, the army carried out new large-scale [00:03:53] military exercises, a [00:03:56] full-scale test as Beijing does not hide its desire to bring it [00:04:00] back into its fold, explanation [00:04:01] Lukiziela. [00:04:05] In the streets of Taipei, [00:04:07] So we find ourselves at the confluence of armored maneuvers, and on [00:04:09] be at the right time, you need board, the president, with [00:04:12] bulletproof vest and [00:04:13] living in the eastern part helmet. This is an exercise to evacuate the Taiwanese [00:04:16] head of state from his office to a secret base with his defense [00:04:20] minister. For 10 days, the island lives to the rhythm of [00:04:24] these military exercises named Hankuang. The aim of [00:04:27] the operation is to verify the rapid [00:04:30] reaction if China tried to paralyze command centers in particular, [00:04:34] it is also a place that is the heart of but also logistics centers such as ports or even military [00:04:38] industrial sites. [00:04:40] Our forces train for combat in the face of the enemy threat, this shows [00:04:45] since tapestries are made of our preparation, strengthens our operational capabilities, our defense and our high-level [00:04:49] combat readiness. Our power will deter any enemy aggression, [00:04:53] preserve national security and regional [00:04:55] stability. [00:04:58] this one. Patrick Chevalier is a member of A stability undermined by. China threatens to invade Taiwan, [00:05:02] which it considers part of its [00:05:04] and fights to preserve the forests of territory, to carry out what it calls [00:05:07] reunification, Xi Jinping does not rule out using [00:05:10] force. The deterrent opportunity offered by American support to [00:05:14] the island is lessened by Donald [00:05:17] Trump's unpredictability. After his visit to Beijing in May, the American [00:05:21] president was conciliatory with the Chinese number 1. [00:05:25] Taiwan is now waiting for validation by the American Congress [00:05:28] of a 14 billion dollar arms sale. It is currently [00:05:32] paused by the Trump [00:05:34] administration. [00:05:37] In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola epidemic [00:05:40] continues to grow, already more than 1700 [00:05:44] deaths in the country, the head of the WHO [00:05:47] calls for intensifying the response, according to him, it is also necessary [00:05:51] to better protect frontline personnel, we will take stock with Romain [00:05:54] Michelot. Disinfection [00:05:58] and care operation. Here, everything is real or almost, these [00:06:02] doctors are still in training. In this center near Nairobi in [00:06:05] Kenya, 200 have already been prepared to face the Ebola [00:06:09] epidemic. [00:06:12] this training for 3 days and we 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. The objective is therefore for these [00:06:27] healthcare professionals to become operational very quickly. [00:06:31] 40% of the doctors trained here are sent there, [00:06:35] to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the 17th Ebola epidemic [00:06:38] is raging. In mid-May, the first case was detected in the... [00:06:42] Ituri province in the northeast of the country. Since then, infections [00:06:45] have multiplied in four other provinces. Nearly [00:06:49] 4000 cases have been confirmed and more than 1800 people have [00:06:52] died. The number of cases of this new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo [00:06:56] strain, is already higher than during the last epidemic [00:07:00] in the country between 2018 and 2020. The WHO, [00:07:04] whose director visited the site this Wednesday, calls for [00:07:07] intensifying the medical response. In the city of [00:07:10] Bouna, capital of Ituri [00:07:13] epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and treatment center [00:07:16] has just been built. We have more than 300 [00:07:20] staff who will work in this center and we [00:07:23] count on the community to [00:07:26] accelerate the process of identifying [00:07:29] cases. At the same time, efforts to create an effective vaccine [00:07:33] against this new variant continue. 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 has yet been [00:07:45] validated. [00:07:49] This question now, what future for Gianni Infantino at the [00:07:52] head of FIFA, weakened, as you know, by several controversies, [00:07:56] the boss of world football can now count on the full support [00:08:00] of his board, internal support while more and more [00:08:03] federations are calling for his departure, Alice [00:08:06] Broga. On leaving the African headquarters of FIFA [00:08:09] in Salé, Morocco, its president Infantino [00:08:13] hopes to turn the page on controversies, under fire from [00:08:16] critics for having unilaterally set up a project to [00:08:20] he leaves with the full support of his executive [00:08:23] committee. The latter, however, apologized to member [00:08:27] countries for the mistakes made. [00:08:30] It was agreed that it was not at all the intention to exclude the FIFA council and [00:08:34] FIFA member associations from the process and that it [00:08:38] should have been handled differently. [00:08:41] Last week, leaks in the press revealed Gianni [00:08:45] Infantino's plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing [00:08:49] FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private [00:08:52] investors. Faced with a backlash, the project was [00:08:56] abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several [00:08:59] football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA, [00:09:03] have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, criticisms [00:09:06] now joined by political voices. [00:09:08] his own procedures to make this kind of [00:09:12] decision, but for my [00:09:15] part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened. [00:09:19] Gianni Infantino benefits from the [00:09:23] support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the [00:09:25] Middle East, thanks to which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an [00:09:29] extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes [00:09:32] to be re-elected for a fourth term at the congress next [00:09:35] March. His opponents such as UEFA and the Confederation of [00:09:39] North, Central American and Caribbean Football have until [00:09:43] November 18 to find another [00:10:37] So it's an association that takes in mostly abandoned Nordic dogs, [00:10:40] it opened the association in 2019, [00:10:44] clearly without European funds, it would never have seen the light of day, it [00:10:48] financed the global project by almost 50%, [00:10:52] i.e. almost 9500 €. So now we have [00:10:56] 36 dogs now, about [00:10:59] 3000 people per year who come to enjoy the activities [00:11:02] or as I explained where we go directly after into the [00:11:05] structures. [00:11:09] Hello everyone and thank you for joining us from all over Europe. Today we are in one of the [00:11:12] most difficult French departments and [00:11:16] which is losing its population, La Creuse and its 11,500 inhabitants and [00:11:19] La Creuse is trying to develop with the support of European [00:11:23] funds. to boost its growth [00:11:27] but also its demographics, we will look at [00:11:30] a few examples right away, let's go, [00:11:43] is the department of La Creuse [00:11:46] Europe? [00:11:49] The whole challenge here for European funds is precisely [00:11:53] to manage well... decline that has demographic origins but [00:11:56] also economic origins, so we see that European [00:12:00] funds there have little leverage [00:12:03] with nevertheless some [00:12:07] companies that manage to mobilize these European funds in a [00:12:11] useful way and who also easily declare [00:12:14] that if these European funds did not exist, they would probably [00:12:17] have left the territory on the ground, few [00:12:20] project leaders and those who knit their European files [00:12:24] correctly make their nest egg of essential aid, [00:12:29] the Fonty spinning mill, one of the last wool spinning mills still in activity in [00:12:34] restarted in 2006 with six [00:12:37] employees, today we are a good thirty and it is true [00:12:40] that the ERDF Massif Central helped us a lot because we [00:12:44] have an investment budget of about 4 million and the ERDF [00:12:48] supports us up to almost 1 million, it's a project that is [00:12:51] exceptional this extension project. [00:13:03] banks follow because they know that there is [00:13:07] co-financing, Europe, region, [00:13:11] at war, European funds will help to transform this VSE, [00:13:15] very small laundry company into an SME, multiplying [00:13:18] jobs by two in the coming years. [00:13:22] We exceptionally received an allocation from [00:13:25] the ERDF with an advance of 30%, which allowed us to [00:13:28] reserve our equipment, okay, the chamber of [00:13:32] commerce and industry cites the company as an example, that is to say that [00:13:36] there is a 3.7 million project in Creuse, [00:13:39] there aren't that many projects of such magnitude, [00:13:42] there are a lot of VSEs, very small companies, it's 98% [00:13:46] of the geographical sector, it had to be helped [00:13:50] to calibrate its [00:13:53] project to move from a so-called artisanal structure to a [00:13:56] real industrial project, which is not [00:14:00] the case for many companies that have the [00:14:03] obstacle, especially of complex files, for them [00:14:07] Europe, the term they will use is red tape. [00:14:10] Barely populated with 20 inhabitants per square kilometer compared to 125 in [00:14:14] France, this department has difficulty in making itself heard at the regional level, [00:14:18] and despite cohesion efforts in France, the gap between the [00:14:21] richest and poorest regions is widening. [00:14:32] the Creuse with another river, the Sedelle, [00:14:36] in front of the ruins of Croissant which inspired the [00:14:39] romantics, the authoress, George Sand, her lover Frédéric Chopin for what concerns music, [00:14:43] and we find ourselves in the company of Pierre Vessex, [00:14:47] hello, hello, with moreover many people who come [00:14:50] today to visit this very beautiful fortress, it is the most [00:14:54] visited place of... anyway with its 25 to 27 visitors, but [00:14:59] the tourist destination valley, this [00:15:02] emblematic site is an emblem for the department of Creuse as for the department of [00:15:06] Indre and this with some help from the European [00:15:09] Union, it needs crystallization [00:15:12] work, we are on a historical monument, these are always [00:15:15] somewhat substantial envelopes given the position of the place which often [00:15:19] requires work that we will say is all brought by [00:15:22] helicopter, these are projects that are between [00:15:26] 20 and 30% financed by the European Union, so is Creuse [00:15:29] not falling into the famous development trap denounced by [00:15:33] Brussels which consists, when projects are completed, of not [00:15:36] developing. It's very sparsely populated and then [00:15:40] with an income of 24,000 [00:15:43] € per inhabitant per year, which is well below the national [00:15:46] average of 41,000, a [00:15:49] territory which certainly has some big companies, but in fact wanted and [00:15:53] wanted to transform and capitalize on this history of [00:15:56] painters, this history also linked to a landscape that is still [00:15:59] very spectacular when we look at what is behind us and [00:16:03] so it was about making this cultural and heritage notion a challenge [00:16:07] for economic development, but also a challenge that will allow [00:16:12] the department's image, to attract populations back to the territory, we need to [00:16:16] find a sweet spot that allows residents to [00:16:19] live year-round and have sufficiently interesting [00:16:23] sources of income thanks to tourism, and we are going to see another [00:16:26] example of this very cultural tourism [00:16:30] as well. [00:16:44] Yes, I took my paintbrush because it's a painting workshop today with you [00:16:48] Pierre and we are also with Laurence Rouet who is the [00:16:51] Vice-President of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region where Creuse is located, [00:16:55] what exactly are we doing tell me what we are doing here [00:17:00] exhibition, we are in the village of [00:17:03] the Creuse valley in a territory called the Valley of the Painters and this territory. [00:17:07] there it hosted Claude Monet so you have made the Monet [00:17:10] Moulina space that's it with the help of Europe so that's it [00:17:14] the global envelope of the project was around a little less than a million [00:17:18] euros at European level it's 273,000 € [00:17:22] ah well precisely Laurence we are going to visit with you a little because [00:17:25] Creuse is a very small department in the large Aquitaine [00:17:29] region, it's barely 12 [00:17:32] million cohesion funds over the period [00:17:35] 2021-2027. in this large new Aquitaine envelope [00:17:39] 875 million euros, it's the [00:17:42] smallest department and it's losing population [00:17:46] and it's losing population, but it's not the only one, it has a demographic issue in general [00:17:50] in Creuse, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and in [00:17:53] France, so Creuse still has 19% of its population [00:17:57] below the poverty line, it's a land [00:18:00] of livestock farming, it's a land with a historical [00:18:04] industrial past that [00:18:06] needs to be supported. For example, we invested [00:18:10] in La Souterraine, we try to be reactive, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region [00:18:14] and with the help of European funds too when there are what we [00:18:18] call industrial accidents, difficulty in bringing out projects, these are things that concern [00:18:22] us a lot because France in general is a very bad [00:18:25] student of cohesion policy which does not achieve its goal [00:18:28] with however 18 billion over the 7-year exercise that we [00:18:32] talked about for this country which does not achieve its goal of rebalancing the regions and [00:18:36] departments, we are very much for cohesion policy, so perhaps [00:18:40] we still need to simplify certain [00:18:43] procedures, the fact that the regions, and we believe a lot in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in the [00:18:46] fact that the regions, the more they are directly involved, the [00:18:50] more they will have a hand and the better they will be positioned to precisely help [00:18:54] local projects emerge, you are here in a territory which indeed [00:18:58] has problems of attractiveness, questions of [00:19:01] decline, one of the battles to be fought from this point of [00:19:04] view to make projects emerge, but... there [00:19:07] is an awareness on which all actors, whether it be [00:19:10] the state, whether it be the region, whether it be the department, whether it be all the [00:19:13] inter-municipalities and communes of Creuse, we have created a special plan for [00:19:17] Creuse, we are in phase two precisely to make [00:19:21] the mechanisms known, to ensure that in any case when there is a local [00:19:24] initiative, when there is a project, an idea that can emerge, well, that we public [00:19:28] promoters and public financiers are present from the outset to [00:19:31] be able to break, [00:19:34] simplify as much as possible in an environment that is [00:19:38] not simple and with European funds we know that the subject is that first you have to be [00:19:42] in the right strategy, you have to [00:19:46] engineering, you need a lot of reporting, and then you also [00:19:50] need a little cash because aid is only paid after [00:19:54] long periods of administrative [00:19:57] verification. Thank you Laurence for being with us, so regarding the [00:20:00] companies that wanted to invest in Creuse, there was a [00:20:04] famous biocine that wanted to develop. But there was [00:20:08] a lot of reluctance from the timber industry and environmentalists, as [00:20:11] Luke [00:20:13] Brown reports right away. [00:20:19] Under this fresh snow, this is what remains of 3 hectares of forest after [00:20:23] clear-cutting. We are in a tree cemetery, when we see this type of [00:20:27] subject that has been cut, we could have avoided cutting it, we can exploit [00:20:30] wood while preserving subjects that harbor biodiversity like [00:20:36] the Canopé association. Living forest, he documents these wood cutting operations [00:20:41] the region. Its inhabitants are also activists, they oppose [00:20:45] the arrival of a wood pellet factory near Guéret. They fear that [00:20:49] the future installation of biocyle will [00:20:53] generate two evils: the destruction of biodiversity, the natural habitat of [00:20:56] frogs, and the overexploitation of the region's forests (145,000 tons of wood each [00:20:59] year). Projects like that of biocyle are projects of the [00:21:03] past, ultimately they are projects that will emit carbon, which will clear the [00:21:06] carbon sink, these are not projects of the [00:21:09] tomorrow. In their sights biocyd which cites its Auvergne [00:21:13] factory as an example, it produces 85,000 tons of wood pellets per [00:21:16] year. The French company has reduced its activity in Creuse to minimize the [00:21:20] environmental consequences, it [00:21:22] bought 2 hectares to create a resting area for the yellow-bellied toad, [00:21:26] it moved the entire factory to destroy [00:21:30] only a very small part of the wetland that we will compensate, [00:21:34] there is no project that takes the environment more [00:21:36] into account than our project even though we are in an [00:21:40] industrial zone. Of the 25 million planned to finance this project, [00:21:44] 1 million must be financed by European funds. For its CEO, [00:21:47] biosil mainly uses wood residues from sawmills and non-compliant [00:21:51] trees for carpentry, we are the [00:21:54] solution for managing and [00:21:57] maintaining the forest, timber is valued at [00:22:00] 10 to 20 times what wood used for energy is valued at, those who [00:22:04] tell us that we take wood that can go into sawmills, [00:22:08] these are false information. At war, [00:22:12] this project is a political storm, the mayor reluctantly signed the [00:22:16] building permit for the new site, but Creuse has lost 60% of its population [00:22:20] in a century for biosil supporters, the 40 jobs must [00:22:23] be protected, Creuse needs entrepreneurs, [00:22:27] young people who decide to invest, to [00:22:30] set up their own businesses and make sure they develop, we are very good in Creuse, [00:22:34] but we don't want to be in the middle of an Indian reserve, there you go, the EU [00:22:38] supports innovative solutions for the traditional timber industry, for three [00:22:41] generations, Nodon Maté has been building wooden doors and windows, thanks to one million [00:22:45] euros in subsidies, the company is turning to aluminum and PVC and [00:22:48] is expanding with 15 new employees, it's a real boost [00:22:51] for our development, but also for the local [00:22:54] economy, by sustaining employment, local [00:22:58] employment by allowing us to adapt to [00:23:03] received 12 million euros in cohesion funds, the debate on their [00:23:06] environmental impact is just beginning. [00:23:23] the International City of Tapestry in Aubusson, it's a museum [00:23:27] that brings together important collections, a know-how that dates back to the [00:23:30] 15th century, it's also a training place where we train [00:23:34] tapestry weavers, these are people who weave tapestries and there is a [00:23:37] contemporary creation policy with a grand tapestry policy [00:23:40] like the Aubusson tapestry [00:23:44] weaver and especially more contemporary [00:23:47] the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki. We are in the [00:23:51] process of weaving a tapestry [00:23:53] the anime My Neighbor [00:23:55] Totoro, [00:24:02] Valérie Simonet, hello, hello, it is indeed Miyazaki's [00:24:05] tapestry, we recognize Chihiro's journey [00:24:08] and with quite massive support from the European [00:24:11] Union, we have been talking since the creation and [00:24:14] opening of this international city about more than 3 [00:24:17] million euros, and then for... certain projects [00:24:21] substantial amounts of nearly 40,000 €. Absolutely, [00:24:25] it's a real policy in which we are [00:24:28] rooted. The example of the Miyazaki tapestry which is [00:24:32] currently underway, today, four quite monumental [00:24:35] tapestries have been made, [00:24:37] benefited from about 50 % of funds [00:24:41] from the ERDF to [00:24:45] Behind this are workshops, manufacturers who are also maintained [00:24:48] in the territory, other activities, I mentioned it with the arrival [00:24:52] of tourists in our department, so for us, [00:24:55] this truly responds to what these European policies [00:24:59] are, which aim to reduce [00:25:02] inequality between territories, and so territories like Creuse have [00:25:06] fortunately benefited from it, it works well, by the way, for [00:25:10] this international city that has developed a lot, yes, [00:25:14] from a small museum that was there [00:25:17] precisely to present the collections of departmental [00:25:21] tapestries, the project from [00:25:24] 2010 consisted of precisely [00:25:27] opening and creating new spaces, and then there are also the [00:25:30] other induced trades that are also related to agricultural development, [00:25:35] wool, so there's the whole question of [00:25:38] maintaining a sheep flock in a department like ours [00:25:42] and finding a wool [00:25:45] sector again, even in Brussels we see that inequalities are [00:25:49] widening between departments. [00:25:52] How do you explain it in the context of Creuse? What's missing from the equation? We know how complex it is to obtain [00:25:56] these European funds, but you know that there is, in any case, in France [00:26:00] today, a discourse that would want more [00:26:04] simplification, that rebels against norms and [00:26:07] constraints, but one can imagine that at the scale [00:26:11] of Europe, it's a bit complicated to distribute [00:26:14] billions like that without an evaluation of what it has [00:26:18] brought and produced. In any case, we [00:26:21] can, on institutions like ours, [00:26:24] mobilize precisely living [00:26:27] forces to precisely complete the [00:26:31] files and bring them to fruition. "The reality may be completely different [00:26:35] when we are dealing with projects that take place on a very small [00:26:38] scale, and I advocate for collective action and to ensure [00:26:42] that instead of having multiple entry points to [00:26:45] support a project, there should be a single window. Thank you, Ms. [00:26:49] Simonet, for being our guest. Thank you for following us through Creuse, [00:26:53] a department that tries to highlight its [00:26:56] assets, and you can find a program dedicated to Corsica, [00:27:00] another region in difficulty," with [00:27:03] a handicap, being insular, on our channels and our website. [00:27:25] We will be better off, it is not the drought that led us to famine, [00:27:28] but the Russians who took everything we had in the granary. [00:30:00] to be seen on France 24. [00:30:06] You are still watching Paris Direct on France 24, and you are right to. The [00:30:10] headline of this edition is Kramatorsk under Russian [00:30:13] bombs. On the ground, civilians [00:30:16] have been ordered to evacuate. For its part, Moscow [00:30:19] has already reported more than 1700 deaths from the epidemic.