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[00:00:01] greatly, but Carlos
[00:00:07] Paris direct, continued and concluded on France 24. At the top of this
[00:00:10] edition, Kramatorsk under Russian bombs. On site, civilians
[00:00:14] living in the eastern part of the city have been ordered to evacuate. For its
[00:00:18] part, Moscow says it intercepted more than 600 Ukrainian drones during
[00:00:22] the night. Already more than 2800 dead. The Ebola epidemic continues
[00:00:26] to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head
[00:00:29] of... the World Health Organization is on site, he calls for
[00:00:33] intensifying the health response. And then
[00:00:36] criticism internationally, he is now supported internally.
[00:00:40] In the eye of the storm, after several controversies, FIFA President Gianni
[00:00:43] Infantino wants to turn the page. His management apologized yesterday for
[00:00:47] its mistakes. The analysis will be later on the set with
[00:00:50] Benoît.
[00:01:04] the Kyiv region on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Kramatorsk
[00:01:08] has, in these last hours, Russia continues to shell Ukraine, which today
[00:01:11] concretely no longer has the means to shoot down its enemy's
[00:01:15] missiles. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has again asked his
[00:01:18] Western allies for urgent aid. Alice Broga comments on these
[00:01:22] images. After more than 20 hours of
[00:01:26] searching, Ukrainian rescuers extract
[00:01:29] a lifeless body from the rubble, a civilian killed in a Russian strike
[00:01:33] that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
[00:01:37] multiplication of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
[00:01:40] region in eastern Ukraine ordered on Wednesday evening
[00:01:43] the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who still
[00:01:47] lived in the city. In the Kyiv region too, attacks
[00:01:52] happened to him, are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this railway line, railway workers
[00:01:56] evacuate one by one the bodies of eight victims killed.
[00:02:30] According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia fired 115 long-range
[00:02:34] drones and 28 missiles on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday,
[00:02:38] but only 98 drones could be neutralized. Ukrainian
[00:02:42] anti-aircraft defenses failed to intercept any
[00:02:45] missile. A weakening attributed by President Zelensky
[00:02:49] to delays in missile interceptor deliveries compared to
[00:02:52] 2025.
[00:02:58] Ukraine has started to receive about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend. our state, this situation is
[00:03:02] mainly due to the war,
[00:03:05] or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
[00:03:09] Middle East.
[00:03:12] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky again traveled to
[00:03:15] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
[00:03:19] missiles, the only ones capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian
[00:03:22] missiles. But according to the Financial Times, Trump
[00:03:26] refused this request due to the shortage of Patriots in the
[00:03:29] American stocks themselves since the beginning of the war in the
[00:03:32] Middle East.
[00:03:35] As every year, it is a show of force against the
[00:03:38] appetites of neighboring China. In Taiwan, the army conducted
[00:03:41] new large-scale military exercises, full-scale
[00:03:45] tests, while Beijing has not hidden for several years its
[00:03:48] desire to bring the island back into its fold. Explanation
[00:03:51] Lukiziela.
[00:03:55] In the streets of Taipei, armored maneuvers and on
[00:03:58] board the... president with bulletproof vest and
[00:04:02] helmet. It's an exercise to evacuate the Taiwanese
[00:04:06] head of state from his office to a secret base with his minister of
[00:04:10] defense. For 10 days, the island lives to
[00:04:13] the rhythm of these military exercises named Hankuang. The goal of
[00:04:17] does man's insatiable desire the operation: to check the speed of reaction if China
[00:04:21] tried to paralyze particularly command centers, but also
[00:04:25] logistics like ports or even military industrial
[00:04:28] sites.
[00:04:30] Our forces train for combat against the enemy threat, this shows
[00:04:34] our preparation, strengthens our operational capabilities, our
[00:04:37] defense and our high-level combat readiness. Our power
[00:04:41] will deter any enemy aggression, preserve national security and regional
[00:04:45] stability.
[00:04:47] A stability undermined by Beijing. China threatens
[00:04:51] to invade Taiwan, which it considers as part of its
[00:04:54] territory. To carry out what he calls reunification, Xi
[00:04:56] Jinping does not exclude
[00:05:00] force. The deterrence offered by American
[00:05:03] support to the island is weakened by Donald Trump's
[00:05:07] them, Infantino is no longer the man unpredictability. After his visit to Beijing in May, the American
[00:05:11] president showed himself conciliatory with the Chinese
[00:05:13] leader. Taiwan is now awaiting validation by the American
[00:05:17] Congress of an arms sale of 14 billion dollars.
[00:05:21] It is currently on hold by the Trump
[00:05:24] administration.
[00:05:26] In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola epidemic continues to
[00:05:30] grow. There are already more than 1800 deaths on site. On
[00:05:33] a visit since yesterday in the country, the head of the WHO,
[00:05:37] the World Health Organization, calls for intensifying the
[00:05:40] response. According to him, it is also necessary to better protect frontline
[00:05:44] personnel, workers often left to their own devices, as
[00:05:47] Noémi Roche explains.
[00:05:51] Every day, the same ritual. Wiza Bandelé
[00:05:54] puts on his suit and disinfection equipment, before
[00:05:58] tackling a house whose occupants died of the Ebola
[00:06:01] virus. Essential gestures to
[00:06:05] hope to curb the spread of the virus, which continues to
[00:06:09] affect the country. Yet, since the beginning of his
[00:06:12] mission in mid-May, Wiza has still not been paid,
[00:06:16] in July, he joined
[00:06:19] other health workers to
[00:06:21] strike.
[00:06:23] We went on strike because we realized that we were working in dangerous
[00:06:27] conditions and that we were giving a lot of ourselves. We are in
[00:06:31] risky situations. It can happen that a
[00:06:34] patient vomits blood, we then have to
[00:06:36] clean up.
[00:06:40] In July, the Congolese Minister of Health acknowledged payment
[00:06:43] delays attributed to organizational problems, assuring that they
[00:06:47] would be resolved. Since then, some of his colleagues have indeed
[00:06:50] been paid, but only in part according to Wiza. He claims
[00:06:54] he has still received nothing and yet continues to work 7
[00:06:58] days a week, despite the risks he is
[00:07:01] exposed to. I could contract this
[00:07:04] virus, and then contaminate my family and my
[00:07:08] neighbors. So I realize that because of me, many
[00:07:11] people could
[00:07:12] die.
[00:07:16] Despite the fear, Wiza refuses to leave his post for
[00:07:19] now, guided by the sense of duty, a mission
[00:07:22] all the more crucial as this epidemic has now surpassed that of
[00:07:26] 2018 in terms of cases, according to Congolese
[00:07:29] authorities, more than 8370 cases have
[00:07:32] been confirmed, including 1751 deaths
[00:07:35] since the beginning of the epidemic in May. Also in
[00:07:39] the news this Thursday is this question: what future... for Gianni
[00:07:43] Infantino at the head of FIFA, weakened, as you know, by several
[00:07:47] controversies, which we have talked about a lot on our air. The head of world
[00:07:50] football can now count on the full support of his leadership, internal
[00:07:54] support that is more than welcome for him, while more and more federations are demanding
[00:07:58] his departure. Hello Benoît, hello Florent, at FIFA we want to forget
[00:08:01] the turmoil of recent months, move along, there's nothing to see, that's the message, absolutely as if
[00:08:05] nothing had happened. Florent, a simple communiqué, no statement
[00:08:09] at the end of this crisis meeting organized
[00:08:12] in Morocco around Gianni Infantino and an admission of guilt that we will remember from
[00:08:16] the 211 member countries for, I quote, the
[00:08:20] errors made concerning his now abandoned project to sell part of the commercial
[00:08:23] rights of the World Cup, the management of this project should have been different, the
[00:08:27] communiqué which also reminds us that the high-ranking officials of the institution have
[00:08:30] reaffirmed their full support for Infantino and
[00:08:33] warns that everyone must now fall into
[00:08:36] line, FIFA will no longer tolerate any attacks on its integrity, its good governance and
[00:08:40] the regularity of its procedures. all necessary measures will be
[00:08:44] taken to protect its reputation, you understand, this is a thinly
[00:08:48] veiled threat to all those who
[00:08:51] opposed the project last
[00:08:54] week, absolutely, fall into line, starting with
[00:08:57] Arsène Wenger, current director of world football development within the institution, the
[00:09:01] secretary general of FIFA Matthias Grafstreum or
[00:09:05] Kevin Lamour, the number 3 of FIFA, FIFA which is trying to
[00:09:08] turn the page on what constitutes the biggest crisis since Gianni
[00:09:12] Infantino took office in 2016. A fault confessed,
[00:09:15] a fault half forgiven, that's what the saying goes, that's not so sure, but the fire
[00:09:19] is not out, Benoît, no, Infantino who has put his finger on something that is escaping him,
[00:09:23] has he already gone too far, he whose re-election
[00:09:26] seemed almost certain, he still has two months
[00:09:29] if he is the only declared candidate, this project to sell part of the World
[00:09:33] Cup rights really did not go down well with several confederations,
[00:09:36] UEFA, CONCACAF, the Asian confederation while waiting for
[00:09:40] the position of the African football
[00:09:43] confederation, which meets today and which could therefore
[00:09:47] position itself, we know that it is rather a favorable position for
[00:09:51] Gianni Infantino from the side of the CAF. Infantino's detractors who
[00:09:54] have swallowed, we know, a few bitter pills in recent years, he has
[00:09:58] had the new formula of the Club World Cup in a
[00:10:01] packed schedule, his closeness to Donald
[00:10:05] Trump, the American president, then these
[00:10:08] cooling breaks, ultimately disguised advertising spaces
[00:10:12] during the World Cup and voices are now being raised, the Canadian and British prime
[00:10:16] ministers, for
[00:10:20] for the job, he must leave, this is what the Portuguese football
[00:10:23] legend wrote yesterday in an op-ed in the Daily Mail. We
[00:10:27] understand, Gianni Infantino is more than weakened today, but he is far
[00:10:31] from gone. So the first thing is, he is the only declared candidate
[00:10:34] for this election which will take place next
[00:10:38] March at a congress, the FIFA congress organized in
[00:10:42] Rabat, Morocco. Infantino would be using rather questionable
[00:10:45] methods to retain his post. Prince Ali bin al Hussein, president of the
[00:10:49] Jordanian Football Federation, even accused him of blackmail this
[00:10:53] week on X, I quote, for months FIFA refused to help us with certain
[00:10:56] issues until I was told orally during the World Cup that if I supported
[00:11:00] Infantino, it would greatly help our
[00:11:03] federation. The 2030 World Cup, as you know, co-organized by Spain,
[00:11:07] Portugal and Morocco, where the final will be played, that is not yet
[00:11:10] decided. Infantino reportedly offered
[00:11:14] a deal to the Royal Moroccan Federation, according to our
[00:11:17] colleagues at The Times, "You will host the final in exchange, you will
[00:11:21] support me in the election next March," information denied since by
[00:11:25] FIFA. His detractors will have to actively find a worthy
[00:11:28] opponent, the deadline for submitting candidacies, Florence, is
[00:11:32] November 18th. The name of the Canadian Victor Montagliani,
[00:11:36] president of CONCACAF, and that of the president of the Asian Football
[00:11:39] Confederation, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa, are
[00:11:43] being mentioned, a personality who should in any case be able to attract both
[00:11:46] the most modest federations, we know, very
[00:11:50] dependent on FIFA payments, and then the
[00:11:53] most prosperous associations of historical football passion, there are 211
[00:11:57] members within FIFA, each association has one
[00:12:01] vote for the election, Curaçao, the Comoros, it's exactly the same as
[00:12:05] France and Germany, a simple majority is
[00:12:09] required during the vote for the FIFA president, and a
[00:12:12] priori, we are not at the end of the matter, you will obviously come back to this set to talk about it, if I
[00:12:16] say Vozinha Beno, well, that obviously refers to one of the stars
[00:12:20] of this World Cup, yes, the Cape Verdean goalkeeper who arrived
[00:12:23] yesterday in Chile.
[00:12:46] the pitch of the Monumental stadium in Santiago
[00:12:48] to the delight of the 2000 fans
[00:12:50] present. It's great, everyone is watching us, it's a good thing.
[00:12:58] for the club, it's difficult to bring a player like him to Colo, especially with
[00:13:02] the impact he had during the World Cup and all these new fans, so it's very important
[00:13:06] from a marketing point of view.
[00:13:09] During Cape Verde's first World Cup match against Spain in
[00:13:12] June, he made seven decisive saves and allowed
[00:13:16] his team to draw 0-0 despite
[00:13:19] 63 places difference between the two teams in the FIFA
[00:13:22] rankings. These masterful saves.
[00:13:55] This is for me the best moment of my career in
[00:13:57] club.
[00:14:01] This year, Colo Colo Club, the most successful in Chile, will not play the Copa
[00:14:05] Libertadores, the equivalent of the Champions League in Latin
[00:14:08] America, but with its new goalkeeper, the team hopes to
[00:14:11] at least shine in the Chilean
[00:14:48] The tension is palpable in this command post of a Ukrainian
[00:14:51] unit.
[00:14:56] These soldiers watch live on their screens Russian drones attacking their troops in
[00:15:00] Kupiansk, tens of kilometers
[00:15:02] away.
[00:15:11] This team must protect its soldiers on the ground.
[00:15:25] Okay, I know you're copying me, stay in the sector
[00:15:28] where you are, don't move, okay, we'll inform you when the cucumbers pass a bit,
[00:15:31] the battalion's deputy commander almost
[00:15:35] died in Kupiansk himself. He was saved by two Brazilians while
[00:15:39] leading his unit into combat last
[00:15:41] December,
[00:15:43] an operation carried out mostly by Latin Americans and which marked a
[00:15:47] major turning point by stopping the Russian advance after a year in which Ukraine
[00:15:51] had lost ground.
[00:15:55] Kupiansk was not under enemy control so it was not a counter-offensive, it was
[00:15:59] an operation to infiltrate the city, we had to find them and kick them out, we
[00:16:02] pushed them back and prevented them from consolidating their
[00:16:05] advances.
[00:16:14] It was the fifth time I worked with Latinos and each time they did
[00:16:17] a very good job, today they fight in place of those who fled
[00:16:21] mobilization, who paid bribes who fled Ukraine
[00:16:25] or who have not yet been recruited,
[00:16:28] their contribution is enormous to replenish our
[00:16:31] ranks.
[00:16:34] The first Latinos to enlist in Ukraine came on their own.
[00:17:04] a lot of people, if only we were given the means.
[00:17:07] we only need
[00:17:08] resources,
[00:17:16] from Colombia to Ukraine, the largest contingent of Latin Americans fighting for Ukraine comes from
[00:17:19] Colombia, the country has a significant and well-trained
[00:17:23] army from years of civil war and US support,
[00:17:27] but here soldiers' salaries are low. Having
[00:17:30] served for 8 years, Dario is now preparing to leave for
[00:17:34] Ukraine.
[00:18:07] from Medellín is waiting for his departure with other men who came from elsewhere in Colombia. We
[00:18:11] are committed by vocation, moreover, it is a noble cause to go and fight under
[00:18:15] a flag that is not ours, but that of a people who are attacked. It's a
[00:18:19] bit like my neighbor breaking into my
[00:18:21] house.
[00:18:23] A feeling shared by many men here, but not everyone. What they
[00:18:26] mostly know is that in Ukraine, they
[00:18:30] will earn a much better salary than in Colombia.
[00:18:34] Here, when you leave the army, the best you can hope for
[00:18:37] is a job as a security guard, a security guard, yes, or a
[00:18:41] bodyguard, and if you don't stay in the army until retirement, then you don't even
[00:18:45] get a pension, anyway, it's not enough to survive, you have to
[00:18:49] keep working, fight for your survival and that of your
[00:18:52] family.
[00:18:55] At the airport, a representative of the Ukrainian army gives them their passports and
[00:18:58] boarding passes,
[00:19:01] wishing to remain anonymous, he assures us that these men have been warned of the enormous
[00:19:05] risk they are running. Dairo thinks of his
[00:19:08] daughter,
[00:19:11] if anything happened to me, I want my brother to give my daughter a monthly
[00:19:14] pension until she is of legal age, but I'm not going there thinking
[00:19:17] I'm going to die, no, God
[00:19:19] will decide.
[00:19:23] There is no official count of Colombians,
[00:19:26] it could be a few
[00:19:28] hundred. He's a
[00:19:32] miracle survivor.
[00:19:36] Strongly attached to Ukraine.
[00:20:26] killed my father in 2002 and I had to leave my home in the plains when
[00:20:30] I was 15 because they wanted to recruit me. I always knew that
[00:20:34] communist countries supported the guerrillas, Russia,
[00:20:36] Cuba, Venezuela, so I identify with Ukraine because of
[00:20:40] that too.
[00:20:43] Upon his return from Ukraine, armed groups once again tried to
[00:20:46] recruit him. His experience with combat drones interested them
[00:20:51] refused.
[00:20:54] If you tell any armed group that you served in Ukraine, you become
[00:20:57] interesting. If someone wants to join a gang here or in
[00:21:01] Mexico, they can go to Ukraine and study drones. Yesterday I was talking to
[00:21:05] a friend, one of his comrades with whom he fought in Zaporizhzhia,
[00:21:08] is now fighting alongside the guerrillas in the department of
[00:21:11] Cauca.
[00:21:17] In 2016, a peace agreement led to the disarmament of the...
[00:21:51] Sandra's brother, Neider, wanted to lift his family out of poverty, and he
[00:21:55] also dreamed of becoming a soldier.
[00:21:58] So in January 2024, he decided to leave for
[00:22:00] Ukraine.
[00:22:05] 5 months later he was
[00:22:06] killed.
[00:22:13] I can't stay
[00:22:14] there.
[00:22:25] "I rarely come here, I don't like it, I don't like to think he's
[00:22:29] there,"
[00:22:33] as soon as I saw the + 380 dial code for Ukraine appear,
[00:22:37] I knew something had
[00:22:42] she said, alas, and I immediately threw the phone, I
[00:22:46] collapsed.
[00:23:20] And if I have to die doing what I love, so be it,
[00:23:24] we must respect that.
[00:23:44] The bank said there was no bank account in my brother's name, I was counting on this
[00:23:47] money to pay for my return ticket.
[00:23:51] Finally, a priest paid for her ticket. Sandra returned to
[00:23:54] Colombia on New Year's Eve, without her brother's pay, but with
[00:23:58] the promise of 300,000 € in compensation from the Ukrainian
[00:24:00] state.
[00:24:04] All these are the documents I brought back from Ukraine,
[00:24:08] translations, powers of attorney,
[00:24:11] everything is there. We provide the
[00:24:15] documents, open bank accounts in
[00:24:17] Ukraine and wait for the money
[00:24:20] to arrive. But for now, there are only
[00:24:23] 139 hryvnias, that's the money I
[00:24:27] deposited. I imagined growing old in my son's
[00:24:29] arms.
[00:24:35] I thought he would take care of me when I am
[00:24:37] old.
[00:24:40] If the money doesn't arrive soon, Anna and her daughter could lose this
[00:24:44] house they mortgaged to pay for her trip to
[00:24:47] Kyiv.
[00:24:59] This situation is not systematic, for some
[00:25:02] the pay arrives on time, for others not.
[00:25:06] These men asked to be demobilized after several grueling
[00:25:08] months. Cachorro was wounded during a grenade
[00:25:12] attack.
[00:25:14] It perforated 1 cm from my spinal column, touching my internal
[00:25:17] organs and I also have shrapnel in my
[00:25:20] back, they didn't pay me for this mission, only
[00:25:23] compensation for my serious injuries, then
[00:25:26] in December, I asked why I hadn't received my combat
[00:25:29] bonuses, they replied that I hadn't participated in a front-line
[00:25:33] operation, I told them that we were in a village under constant
[00:25:37] attack and that we were only there because in the village we were
[00:25:41] in before, our house had been
[00:25:42] bombed.
[00:25:45] Finally, Cachorro decided to
[00:25:47] stay.
[00:26:02] Dairo and two of his Colombian comrades are taking their first steps in the Ukrainian snow.
[00:26:26] All the Ukrainians we spoke to seem to be very
[00:26:28] grateful.
[00:27:05] home, reunite with our families, yes, see our families and do all the crazy things we've always dreamed of
[00:27:09] doing. As we finished this
[00:27:12] report, these men were waiting to be deployed in the Kharkiv
[00:27:15] region, probably in
[00:27:17] Kupiansk.
[00:27:20] Welcome to all of you, with Judite, personalities
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