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[00:00:06] It's still a world tour on France 24, a tour of international
[00:00:10] news with, first of all, this new exchange of strikes between Ukraine and
[00:00:14] Russia, drones launched on Russian refineries against
[00:00:17] attacks on several Ukrainian cities, who hopes to convince
[00:00:20] his Western allies to deliver anti-missile defenses to him.
[00:00:24] Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the 3rd day of
[00:00:27] negotiations, yet underway in Rome with the Lebanese authorities, the
[00:00:31] clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims, soldiers
[00:00:34] killed by an explosive device.
[00:00:37] UEFA maintains its boycott of football competitions, including
[00:00:40] World Cups, despite yesterday's apologies from Janny Infantino,
[00:00:44] the European body that demands guarantees from FIFA on
[00:00:47] the abandonment of its president's project to bring private
[00:00:51] investors into the World
[00:00:52] Cup.
[00:01:04] Ukraine and Russia have been exchanging
[00:01:08] expensively its TV rights and marketing rights for surtaxes in the United States. This time, they are in the blows in recent hours, while Kyiv has again warned Russian
[00:01:10] territory in depth of refineries up to
[00:01:14] simply the control of the 1300 km beyond the front line, Russian strikes have
[00:01:17] killed seven people on the Ukrainian side in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy
[00:01:21] and the Black Sea. Another illustration of the lack of interceptor
[00:01:24] missiles. Nicolas Chamantin.
[00:01:28] The guided bombs fell around 2 am in Sumy,
[00:01:32] in this city in northeastern Ukraine, a Russian attack damaged residential
[00:01:36] areas and shops and surprised residents. It was
[00:01:40] as if aliens had arrived, the explosion was so
[00:01:43] powerful that everything was ejected from the apartment, I barely had time to
[00:01:47] get out. Several people were injured in Sumy and
[00:01:50] several others killed in localities in
[00:01:53] business, a drift in FIFA's the region. The authorities also report victims in
[00:01:56] the Kharkiv Oblast, a little further east, Russian strikes which...
[00:02:00] are in addition to those of Wednesday on the Kyiv region as well as on
[00:02:03] Kramatorsk, 500 children and their families who were still
[00:02:07] living in this eastern city had to be
[00:02:10] about 2 years now, of continues to empty the coffers of evacuated in the face of the violence of the attacks. If the Ukrainian
[00:02:12] army manages to intercept most of the drones, it has great
[00:02:16] difficulty stopping the missiles, a weakening
[00:02:19] attributed by President Zelensky to delays in the
[00:02:22] deliveries of interceptors compared to
[00:02:25] 2025.
[00:02:30] have three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend our state,
[00:02:33] this situation is mainly linked to the
[00:02:35] war,
[00:02:38] as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
[00:02:41] Middle East.
[00:02:45] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky had again traveled to
[00:02:49] Washington to convince
[00:02:51] profiteers who want to come and make Donald Trump to deliver Patriot systems to him, the only ones
[00:02:54] capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian missiles, a
[00:02:57] request refused by the president. because of
[00:03:01] the shortage of Patriots in its stocks since the beginning of the war in the
[00:03:04] Middle East. At the same time, Kyiv is continuing its attacks in
[00:03:08] Russian territory. On Thursday, a fire broke out in this
[00:03:11] important refinery in the Yaroslavl region, about
[00:03:15] 250 km northeast of Moscow. According to the
[00:03:18] local governor, all drones launched by Kyiv were
[00:03:21] intercepted, but the shrapnel hit storage tanks and
[00:03:25] injured several people.
[00:03:28] Ah, Ukraine would really like to be able to count
[00:03:31] on American missile interceptors, yes, but it seems
[00:03:34] that on the American side, we are facing
[00:03:38] remains the European union, which remains the shortages, at least that's what
[00:03:41] a number of sources in the press report, notably the
[00:03:45] Washington Post and CNN , Renaud Gerard, hello, you are
[00:03:48] a senior reporter, international columnist for Le Figaro, thank
[00:03:51] you for being with us. Donald Trump has long denied it, and yet,
[00:03:55] several sources quoted by CNN claim
[00:03:58] that the... stock of available TAD missiles in the
[00:04:04] Brazilian president of United States today would represent barely 1/5th of what it was before the start of this
[00:04:07] war in Iran, do you believe it? Listen, there
[00:04:11] is a very serious laboratory, a think tank
[00:04:14] called the CSIS which
[00:04:17] calculated that before the war in
[00:04:20] Iran, the war called Epic Fury,
[00:04:23] uh there were 2300 Patriots
[00:04:26] in American stocks therefore.
[00:04:30] highly efficient interceptors and that today there would
[00:04:33] only be 800 and that
[00:04:36] therefore that is perhaps the reason why uh Donald
[00:04:39] Trump is hesitant to deliver them to Ukraine today
[00:04:44] is that it feels that the president's position because he does not know if hostilities will not
[00:04:48] resume in full with Iran, we know that there are
[00:04:52] more or less secret negotiations between the Americans and the Iranians at the moment
[00:04:55] , everything is about the Strait of Hormuz as...
[00:05:00] uh to allow the
[00:05:03] Iranians to police without allowing
[00:05:07] them to collect tolls, that's the whole
[00:05:10] question of the current negotiation. but since
[00:05:13] uh it will not necessarily succeed
[00:05:17] , as the power in Iran is very divided, well uh Donald
[00:05:20] Trump wants uh to keep his
[00:05:23] missiles in case there is a generalized
[00:05:26] confrontation uh in the
[00:05:29] Persian Gulf, he needs his Patriots to obviously protect the
[00:05:33] American bases that are uh in the Persian
[00:05:36] Gulf up to Jordan, yes and precisely
[00:05:39] that makes the United States more wary of
[00:05:43] possible deliveries to Ukraine but also more wary of the
[00:05:47] resumption of fighting with Iran, is that what explains, according to you, the
[00:05:50] procrastinations we are witnessing from Donald
[00:05:53] Trump? Yes, Donald Trump
[00:05:56] he acts on instinct so he tests, he
[00:06:00] well he feels out things a bit, he says to himself, well
[00:06:04] maybe we will have
[00:06:06] an agreement after all with the Iranians uh
[00:06:10] I have threatened them many times but at the last minute I
[00:06:14] withdraw my threats, maybe that makes the Iranians think,
[00:06:18] at least some Iranians, those who are pragmatic, those who
[00:06:21] are ready to have an agreement and to
[00:06:25] respect an agreement with the Americans and uh as far as
[00:06:29] uh Ukraine is concerned
[00:06:32] , they think that this war is not his doing, is not his
[00:06:36] responsibility, that he has nothing to do with it, he has said it many
[00:06:40] times and so... is not his uh
[00:06:44] priority today, he would obviously like to succeed in making
[00:06:47] a peace agreement, that is to say that the Russians accept the ceasefire he had
[00:06:51] proposed several months ago, which the Ukrainians had accepted but
[00:06:55] not the Russians, but that is not his military priority
[00:06:58] today, his military priority
[00:07:01] today is to preserve
[00:07:05] intact, to keep open the Strait of Hormuz because
[00:07:08] he promised all his Sunni allies in the Gulf.
[00:07:12] Persian Gulf, all the oil monarchies, and he promised it
[00:07:15] to the whole world, you have to see that
[00:07:18] it's a very old principle of thalassocracies like
[00:07:22] England and today the United States to have the
[00:07:25] freedom of the seas, the freedom of the straits, it's a
[00:07:28] philosopher uh Dutch
[00:07:31] Grotius who was part of the first thalassocracy, the
[00:07:34] Netherlands, who uh uh
[00:07:38] studied who uh found
[00:07:41] this idea of the... freedom of the straits and it was
[00:07:44] completely then enshrined by
[00:07:47] England and then by the United States of America who are obviously
[00:07:51] the first thalassocracy in the world today
[00:07:55] and it is in the law of the sea it is
[00:07:58] enshrined in international law of the sea and it is something that
[00:08:02] the Americans want to preserve the freedom
[00:08:05] of the straits and that is the stake of
[00:08:09] their confrontation more or more political today
[00:08:12] than military with Iran. To reveal today in
[00:08:16] broad daylight the American shortages in terms
[00:08:19] of missiles, which seemed unthinkable several months ago, makes the
[00:08:23] United States vulnerable because it is more
[00:08:27] predictable in the eyes of their adversaries.
[00:08:30] So, uh more then it is
[00:08:33] obvious that the Americans
[00:08:36] have lost a large part of their deterrent
[00:08:39] power with this failed war against
[00:08:42] Iran since finally they waged a war, several
[00:08:46] wars even, there was the 12-day war in June
[00:08:49] 2025 against Iran without visibly
[00:08:52] weakening the Iranian regime, they
[00:08:56] thought that the Iranian regime of the Mullahs
[00:08:59] would fall like a ripe fruit, that's what the
[00:09:03] Israelis had told them, well that was not the case, it is
[00:09:07] even perhaps, we can say today, reinforced
[00:09:10] and the Iranians
[00:09:13] have realized that they have a new, I put in
[00:09:17] quotes, atomic weapon or weapon, I would say
[00:09:20] strategic, it is the control, it is the control of the
[00:09:22] Strait of Hormuz which, if it is closed, can
[00:09:26] indeed disrupt the entire global
[00:09:29] economy, that is the instrument of blackmail
[00:09:33] of the Iranians , and Trump cannot
[00:09:36] obviously not uh
[00:09:39] accept it, he will never accept either... an
[00:09:42] Iranian nuclear program, but that one is not for tomorrow because the
[00:09:46] Iranian facilities have still been
[00:09:49] considerably damaged by the
[00:09:52] different bombing campaigns of the Americans and Israelis
[00:09:55] in 2025, in
[00:09:59] 2026 and even before in 2025. Thank
[00:10:02] you Renaud Gerard for being with us live on France
[00:10:05] 24, end of the negotiations in Rome between
[00:10:09] Israelis and Lebanese, they aim to allow a withdrawal.
[00:10:12] of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in exchange for Hezbollah's disarmament,
[00:10:16] but the movement refuses to lay down arms and the Hebrew
[00:10:20] state continues to strike Lebanese territory, two Israeli
[00:10:23] soldiers have died.
[00:10:28] The sky of Lebanon, again crossed by Israeli flares,
[00:10:31] here in the south of the country, the army resumed its
[00:10:34] bombardments and the clashes with
[00:10:37] Hezbollah. In response to a blatant
[00:10:41] violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, the Israeli army began
[00:10:44] to conduct targeted strikes in southern Lebanon. At
[00:10:48] least one person has died on the Lebanese side. Two Israeli soldiers were
[00:10:51] killed in an explosion, a first in over a month. sporadic
[00:10:55] but recurrent clashes despite a security
[00:10:58] agreement that came into effect at the end of June. Israel occupies a
[00:11:02] so-called security zone in southern Lebanon about ten
[00:11:05] kilometers near the border, but residents of
[00:11:08] towns and villages north of this
[00:11:12] In fact, this resumption of clashes and evacuation
[00:11:16] orders complicates this process according to
[00:11:18] the UN. This new order comes as displaced families have
[00:11:22] returned home in southern Lebanon. In recent
[00:11:25] weeks, the situation remains fragile and residents
[00:11:29] remain uncertain, demolition operations,
[00:11:32] bombardments and other military activities damage homes, agricultural
[00:11:36] land and civilian infrastructure. These clashes
[00:11:40] are taking place during a period of negotiations held in Rome under the auspices
[00:11:43] of the United States. They concern the deployment of the Lebanese army in pilot
[00:11:47] zones evacuated by Israel, but they involve
[00:11:50] the disarmament of Hezbollah, refused for the moment by the Shiite group.
[00:11:54] Since the beginning. of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, at least
[00:11:57] 4,300 people in Lebanon and 38 Israeli soldiers have
[00:12:01] died according to the authorities.
[00:12:04] Negotiations which are, moreover, well advanced
[00:12:08] between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman, with a view to the
[00:12:11] reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, we'll talk about it with you, Lormannin,
[00:12:15] hello, but Tehran also attacks the United States
[00:12:19] by stating that Donald Trump is an obstacle. Absolutely, in any
[00:12:22] case, Iran and Oman have indeed announced
[00:12:26] a transit route through the Strait of Hormuz, but indeed no
[00:12:30] enthusiasm because Tehran explains that this
[00:12:33] joint declaration with Muscat will be
[00:12:36] finalized on condition, I quote, that third parties do
[00:12:39] not hinder the process, that is to say that Washington does not come to put its
[00:12:43] two cents in. Let's remember that the Strait of Hormuz is between
[00:12:46] Iran and Oman notably and that 1/5th of the world's gas and oil usually
[00:12:50] circulates there, that this strait has been blocked since the beginning of the
[00:12:54] bombardments. against Iran and that this has an impact
[00:12:57] on the entire global economy. Today, the Tehran
[00:13:01] regime does not want ships to pass as
[00:13:05] in the past in the middle of the strait but rather on its coasts.
[00:13:08] The idea is also perhaps to impose service fees, a
[00:13:11] kind of toll for passing ships which could bring in a huge
[00:13:15] amount of money to Iran, which is under the weight of international sanctions.
[00:13:19] And all this could indeed be a
[00:13:22] source of additional dispute. with
[00:13:25] Donald Trump after having already been the object of a power struggle with
[00:13:29] Oman who had proposed an alternative passage closer to
[00:13:32] its coast a few weeks ago, it is therefore difficult
[00:13:36] to know today whether this agreement will succeed and to what extent, in any case what is
[00:13:39] certain is that the markets are taking this news with great caution, not
[00:13:43] normally, even with mistrust since oil has
[00:13:47] risen by about 2%, at the same time it should be known
[00:13:51] that on the southern coast of the...
[00:13:55] Arabian Peninsula is the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb under the control of the Houthi
[00:13:58] Yemeni rebels allied with Tehran who attack
[00:14:02] Saudi oil tankers, this possibility, this alternative route that
[00:14:06] had been put in place to export part of the oil
[00:14:09] from the Gulf is also threatened, hence this new rise
[00:14:13] in North Sea Brent, which is trading at a little over $81
[00:14:16] today and American WTI, the Texas benchmark, is at almost
[00:14:19] $77 and Donald Trump
[00:14:23] who watches oil prices with some concern because if the price
[00:14:27] of oil is too high, it has an indirect influence on the cost of living in
[00:14:30] the United States and therefore on his popularity, indeed, that is perhaps why Donald
[00:14:34] Trump is preaching a little less fire and combat these last
[00:14:38] days, in any case the memorandum of understanding that had
[00:14:41] been put in place between the United States did not survive July,
[00:14:44] the price of oil was affected again and it has an effect on the American
[00:14:47] population which depends enormously on the
[00:14:51] car and therefore on fuel for its daily commutes, but also.
[00:14:55] uh for all his life, if we look at prices in the
[00:14:58] United States, oil is usually extremely cheap, it
[00:15:01] has not stopped increasing since February and the first
[00:15:04] bombardments, the price of a gallon, it is usually around
[00:15:08] $3, it rose to an average of $4 with
[00:15:11] even a peak in California where it is generally a little higher at
[00:15:15] rather $5.60 a gallon,
[00:15:18] this upward trend is very clearly linked
[00:15:22] to the bombings in February, we see that everything is increasing at this... time, the
[00:15:26] price of gasoline therefore has an effect on travel, it also has an effect on the
[00:15:29] transport of goods, of all daily consumer goods
[00:15:33] , especially on food and necessarily
[00:15:36] that weighs. in the household budget , particularly the most
[00:15:39] modest, to these prices must be added even more
[00:15:43] inflation, which is increasing, necessarily a reflection of all these price
[00:15:46] increases, and of course the price of the war itself, the military
[00:15:50] cost, about $150 billion since February, is
[00:15:54] an estimate by the Moody's agency and according to its chief
[00:15:57] economic economist Marc Zandi, that
[00:16:00] represents an additional cost of $1,100 per American household,
[00:16:03] so it is considerable, households no longer have purchasing power,
[00:16:07] or at least see it decrease, so they draw a little more
[00:16:10] from their savings, their savings rate has also been increasing
[00:16:14] since February, in any case all this
[00:16:18] weighs on the cost of living, on the price of gasoline, but also in the long
[00:16:22] run on the popularity or rather the unpopularity of Donald Trump, who has
[00:16:26] never been so high, and at the same time Donald Trump also manages
[00:16:29] internal opposition, 25 states contest the
[00:16:33] latest customs duties he imposed several days ago to officially.
[00:16:37] fight against forced labor. Yes, these are new surtaxes, it's the
[00:16:41] third time he has imposed customs
[00:16:44] order of 10 to 12.5 %. This concerns about
[00:16:48] sixty states and the European Union who are accused either of
[00:16:52] resorting to forced labor, or of not implementing sufficient measures
[00:16:56] to combat this scourge, and so the
[00:16:59] United States imposed, well, Donald Trump imposed these new measures
[00:17:02] on July 24th, except that 25 American states, 23
[00:17:06] Democrats but two. Republicans are attacking this new measure,
[00:17:09] arguing that it is not really a question of legality and that
[00:17:13] otherwise, well, Washington would have put in place
[00:17:15] alternatives or proposed to these states certain
[00:17:18] measures, and then it should be known that this is not the first, the first
[00:17:22] snub on customs duties concerning Donald Trump since in February the
[00:17:26] Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump had overstepped his rights
[00:17:29] by imposing punitive customs tariffs on a great many
[00:17:33] trading partners and even ordered the reimbursement of a few hundred.
[00:17:37] 29 billion dollars collected in this way, 100 billion have
[00:17:41] already been reimbursed, that represents a significant sum, especially it
[00:17:46] the American state, that does not increase neither his
[00:17:49] popularity nor the money that Donald Trump had promised to
[00:17:53] the population. Thank you, so that's what we could say about
[00:17:56] these discussions about a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to
[00:18:00] maritime traffic. The apologies of Janny Infantino
[00:18:03] are clearly insufficient for UEFA, the European
[00:18:07] football confederation intends to maintain its boycott of international
[00:18:11] competitions including the World Cups after the project, since withdrawn
[00:18:14] , to open the latter to international investors by the head of
[00:18:18] FIFA. Jenny Infantino who apologized received the
[00:18:22] support of the organization yesterday, it was during an emergency meeting in
[00:18:26] Rabat. Hello Xavier Barret, independent journalist, specialized
[00:18:29] in football, thank you for being with us. So the latest
[00:18:33] is Conmebol, which represents South America, which
[00:18:36] expresses. its turn its concern about what it calls
[00:18:40] repeated unilateral action by FIFA, will
[00:18:43] Jenny Infantino be able to remain in office despite this?
[00:18:46] Good evening, good evening everyone, yes we are
[00:18:48] now facing, concerning
[00:18:52] Jenny Infantino's situation, a real uprising from almost all
[00:18:56] continental representatives and that's what's new. For a long time, FIFA
[00:18:59] uh relied on its stronghold, which was
[00:19:03] South America, uh also Africa and part
[00:19:07] of Asia, particularly the Middle East, to govern world
[00:19:10] football and to be able to face UEFA, which
[00:19:16] the strong point of world football, the center
[00:19:19] of world football. And there, not only UEFA, so
[00:19:23] which rose against Jenny Infantino's way of governing
[00:19:27] for several days, several weeks already now, but it is
[00:19:31] joined by a number of other continents and that is a really
[00:19:34] new element, it must be remembered that notably South America. it was
[00:19:38] during Joan Avolange's time, the
[00:19:41] the international federation from
[00:19:44] 196 10 to
[00:19:47] 1998 it was really the stronghold
[00:19:51] of FIFA and Sepp Blatter when he succeeded Joao Havelange
[00:19:55] as FIFA president, he also relied, of course, on this South American
[00:19:59] stronghold but also on uh the
[00:20:02] African federations and those from the Middle East to
[00:20:06] face and beat. the European candidate, Lennart
[00:20:09] Johansson who was the candidate, the president of UEFA, so
[00:20:13] there is always this rivalry between the two, and what
[00:20:16] uh explains UEFA's perseverance
[00:20:22] for the first time in over 40 years
[00:20:25] is truly fragile, not only vis-à-vis Europeans but
[00:20:29] vis-à-vis most federations worldwide , yes so FIFA
[00:20:33] despite Gianni Infantino's apologies has nevertheless declared that it will
[00:20:36] no longer tolerate any attack on its integrity,
[00:20:40] its good governance and the regularity of its procedures,
[00:20:44] silence in the ranks then, but we have just seen, these
[00:20:47] confederations do not really seem determined to fall in line, who will have the
[00:20:52] last in the coming months, who will win
[00:20:56] this new war of chiefs between UEFA who wants
[00:20:59] to ally with the other confederations to
[00:21:02] co-govern the world of football and FIFA who relies
[00:21:06] directly on the presidents of federations worldwide, there are
[00:21:09] 213 to try
[00:21:12] to consolidate its power. The stake is not just political
[00:21:16] power at the head of world football, it's primarily an
[00:21:20] economic stake, you have to know that UEFA generates
[00:21:23] a lot of money thanks to the Champions League, its many
[00:21:27] sponsors and TV rights that are broadcast worldwide,
[00:21:30] while FIFA for its part
[00:21:33] plays its economic existence with the sale
[00:21:37] of TV rights and marketing for the World Cup every
[00:21:41] 4 years, so on one side there is an organization, FIFA,
[00:21:45] which sells its TV rights very expensively but
[00:21:48] only every 4 years. under the will of Jenny
[00:21:51] Infantino to try to make it happen every 2 years and on the other
[00:21:54] side, UEFA which also sells very
[00:21:58] the Champions League which takes place every year, so the stakes are
[00:22:04] economy of world football and for that, well
[00:22:07] it's politics, all blows are allowed, is it just a matter
[00:22:11] of big money Xavier Barret or is there behind it all anyway
[00:22:13] moral or ethical considerations when we see
[00:22:17] that among the private investors envisaged... for this
[00:22:20] opening of about 20% of the commercial rights
[00:22:24] related to the World Cups, well there is notably the brother of Donald
[00:22:27] Trump's son-in-law Joshua Kuschner with
[00:22:31] all the risks of conflict of interest that this implies there is
[00:22:34] truly from these confederations
[00:22:36] today UEFA Conmebol an outcry
[00:22:40] against
[00:22:43] practices or finally are they all in the
[00:22:46] same boat today and do they all practice the same type
[00:22:50] today of... collusion.
[00:22:52] Well, you know, he doesn't need to go that far, you just need to see what's happening in France
[00:22:56] with the creation, it's been
[00:23:00] LFP Media, the marketing subsidiary of the
[00:23:03] LFP, which was in charge of marketing the rights of French
[00:23:07] professional football, and in the end, what happens is, there are no more TV rights for
[00:23:11] Ligue 1, and in France, so we have witnessed
[00:23:14] a pauperization of French football, even though there was a CVC
[00:23:18] investment fund that had come to take significant shares in this
[00:23:21] newly created company, so investment funds, when they
[00:23:25] come into sport, it's to, at one point or another, make money
[00:23:29] again, and when they no longer make money, it naturally doesn't interest
[00:23:33] them. So far, most of the
[00:23:36] international institutions have more or less resisted these
[00:23:41] money in the organization of sport. FIFA,
[00:23:45] Dianin Fantino, we know, we saw it with the last World Cup, which still
[00:23:49] generated 16 billion dollars in
[00:23:52] revenue for FIFA, so FIFA is open to everything, as President
[00:23:56] Infantino says, to all opportunities, but
[00:24:00] obviously, this one goes too far, because if you grant
[00:24:03] even 20% to private investors, they will
[00:24:07] come into football, not for the beauty of football, but to get their
[00:24:10] money back, to make money, so somewhere you are no longer in control
[00:24:14] of your organization, and that's what the various presidents of
[00:24:18] federations and above all, the presidents of the confederations,
[00:24:21] UEFA, as you reminded us, Raphael, but also Conmebol and
[00:24:25] perhaps others tomorrow, absolutely do not want. They want
[00:24:29] to remain the bosses of world football and
[00:24:32] organize it in one way or another, but without the
[00:24:35] pressure of investors who would already be
[00:24:39] in the organization. Thank you, Xavier Barret, for being with us to
[00:24:43] decrypt what is happening
[00:24:59] unique event in the world, the terrible military service lottery. Young
[00:25:02] men who draw a red card are
[00:25:06] automatically conscripted for 2
[00:25:08] years.
[00:25:14] Between disappointment and relief, this ritual masks a real social
[00:25:17] injustice. France 24,
[00:26:09] another point of view,
[00:26:13] liberty, equality,
[00:26:14] news.
[00:26:20] October 2007, the "Ark of Zoé" scandal
[00:26:22] breaks. The people who entrusted their children to you, did they know they were going to France? Yes or
[00:26:26] no? No. A humanitarian couple claimed to offer
[00:26:30] a second chance to orphans from
[00:26:33] children who, for the most part, resided in Chad with their
[00:26:36] families. They say: you have your children, but who sells their
[00:26:40] child? It's because we were promised an education that we
[00:26:43] accepted.
[00:26:46] It was a child theft, a real
[00:26:48] kidnapping.
[00:26:51] We heard a lot of stories, that we would be taken advantage of.
[00:26:54] Maybe to make us work in the factory.
[00:26:58] We were small, we didn't understand anything. 18
[00:27:01] years later. Meeting these fake orphans, they
[00:27:05] told us that each child would receive €60,000 in damages and
[00:27:08] interest, but for now, they haven't received
[00:27:10] anything.
[00:27:13] If the person recognizes their mistakes and asks for
[00:27:16] forgiveness, then you know they have
[00:27:18] evolved. But if that same person refuses
[00:27:22] to admit their wrongs, then you
[00:27:25] cannot forgive. Return ticket, the Ark of Zoé scandal,
[00:27:28] to be seen on France 4.
[00:28:46] With Judith, personalities look back on their destiny, the moment
[00:28:50] their lives changed. I didn't intend to become the
[00:28:53] Green candidate in every election that
[00:28:56] came along. I never had this fantasy, this dream of
[00:29:00] going behind the camera, the movement. The whole liberation of speech is an
[00:29:03] extraordinary movement and it's a cultural
[00:29:07] revolution. They bought millions of masks,
[00:29:10] but the next crisis might not be a respiratory
[00:29:12] virus.
[00:29:17] With Judith, exclusively on the France 24 YouTube channel
[00:29:21] and all podcast
[00:29:22] platforms.
[00:29:26] Last year, France 24
[00:29:28] reached...
[00:30:02] It's still around the world on France 24, the international news
[00:30:06] with first this new exchange of strikes between Ukraine and
[00:30:10] Russia, drones dropped on Russian refineries against attacks
[00:30:13] on several Ukrainian cities, Kyiv hopes to convince
[00:30:16] its Western allies to deliver anti-missile defenses.
[00:30:20] Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the 3rd day of
[00:30:23] ongoing negotiations in Rome with the Lebanese authorities. The
[00:30:27] clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims, soldiers
[00:30:31] killed by an explosive device.
[00:30:33] UEFA maintains its boycott of football competitions, including the
[00:30:37] World Cups, despite yesterday's apologies from Gianni Infantino,
[00:30:40] the European body which is demanding guarantees from FIFA on
[00:30:43] the abandonment of its president's project to bring private investors
[00:30:47] into the World
[00:30:48] Cups.