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[00:00:00] News,
[00:00:05] news from around the world, live on France 24,
[00:00:09] with first his apologies deemed insufficient, those of Janny Infantino
[00:00:13] after his aborted offer to open the commercial exploitation of World Cups to private
[00:00:17] investors, the proposal still does not go down well with several
[00:00:20] confederations, particularly those in Latin America, which joins its voice to the
[00:00:24] criticisms expressed by UEFA, a new
[00:00:27] exchange of strikes between Ukraine and Russia with drones. launched on Russian
[00:00:30] refineries against attacks on several Ukrainian cities, which hopes
[00:00:34] to convince its Western allies to deliver anti-missile
[00:00:36] defenses. Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the third
[00:00:40] day of ongoing negotiations in Rome with the Lebanese
[00:00:43] authorities. Clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims,
[00:00:47] soldiers killed by an explosive device.
[00:00:48] extremely hot, drink
[00:01:02] Janny Infantino's apologies
[00:01:05] refused. are clearly insufficient for UEFA, the European Football Confederation intends
[00:01:09] to maintain its boycott of international competitions, including the World
[00:01:12] Cups, after the project, although withdrawn a while ago, to open these
[00:01:16] last ones to international investors by the FIFA boss, Janny
[00:01:20] Infantino, who apologized for it, received the support of the organization yesterday during
[00:01:23] an emergency meeting in Rabat, but that's not enough to extinguish
[00:01:27] the fire, as the South American confederation. Conmebol
[00:01:30] comes out of its reserve, it in turn expresses its concern about,
[00:01:34] and I quote, "the repeated unilateral actions of FIFA", we'll take stock
[00:01:38] with Xavier Barret, independent journalist.
[00:01:42] Yes, we are now facing, regarding Janny Infantino's situation, a
[00:01:45] real outcry from almost all continents' representatives,
[00:01:49] and that's what's new. For a long time, FIFA
[00:01:52] relied on its stronghold, which was South
[00:01:55] America, also Africa, and then a part of Asia,
[00:01:59] particularly in the Middle East, to govern world football
[00:02:03] and be able to compete against UEFA, which
[00:02:06] remains the European Union, which remains the
[00:02:10] strong point of world football, the center of world football, and now not
[00:02:13] only is UEFA which has risen against
[00:02:17] Janny Infantino's way of governing for several days,
[00:02:21] several weeks already, but it is joined by a number of other
[00:02:25] continents, and that is a truly new element. We must remember that South
[00:02:28] America, for example, the... it was during the time of Joao Havelange,
[00:02:32] be observable in part of the Brazilian president of the international federation from
[00:02:36] 1960 to
[00:02:39] 1998, it was truly the
[00:02:43] stronghold of FIFA, and Sepp Blatter, when he succeeded
[00:02:46] Joao Havelange as president of FIFA, also relied, of course, on
[00:02:50] this South American stronghold, but also on the
[00:02:54] African federations and those of the Middle East to
[00:02:58] confront and defeat the European candidate, Lennart
[00:03:02] phone, I collapsed, Johansson, who was the candidate, the president of UEFA, so
[00:03:05] there's always this rivalry between the two, and now what
[00:03:09] explains UEFA's perseverance is that it feels
[00:03:13] that the FIFA president's position is for the first time in
[00:03:16] over 40 years truly weakened, not only
[00:03:20] vis-à-vis the Europeans, but vis-à-vis most of the federations worldwide. world.
[00:03:23] Ukraine and Russia are striking back and forth in recent hours, as Kyiv
[00:03:27] has again targeted Russian territory in depth,
[00:03:31] refineries up to 1300 km beyond the front line. Russian
[00:03:34] strikes have killed seven people on the Ukrainian side in the regions of
[00:03:38] Kharkiv, Sumy and the Black Sea. Another illustration of the
[00:03:41] lack of interceptor missiles, explanations in
[00:03:44] images by Nicolas Chamontin.
[00:03:47] Chamontin.
[00:03:50] Guided bombs fell around 2am in Sumy.
[00:03:55] the electrical power of In this city in northeastern Ukraine, a Russian attack damaged residential
[00:03:57] areas and shops and surprised residents,
[00:04:01] "it was as if aliens had arrived, the explosion was so
[00:04:05] powerful that everything was expelled from the apartment, I barely had time to
[00:04:09] Gianni Infantino after his aborted offer to open get out." Several people were injured in Sumy and
[00:04:12] several others killed in localities in
[00:04:14] promise of 30,000 euros in compensation from the region. Authorities also report casualties in
[00:04:17] the Kharkiv oblast, a little further east. Russian strikes that
[00:04:21] are in addition to those of Wednesday on the Kyiv region as well as on
[00:04:25] Kramatorsk. 500 children and their families who still lived in
[00:04:29] this eastern city had to be evacuated due to the violence of
[00:04:32] the attacks. If the Ukrainian army manages to intercept most
[00:04:35] of the drones, it has great difficulty stopping the
[00:04:39] missiles, a weakening attributed by President
[00:04:42] Zelensky to delays in the delivery of interceptors compared
[00:04:46] to
[00:04:46] 2025.
[00:04:52] anti-ballistic missiles to defend our state, this situation is
[00:04:56] mainly linked to the war,
[00:05:07] Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky again went to
[00:05:10] Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
[00:05:14] systems to him, the only ones capable of intercepting the most powerful
[00:05:18] Russian missiles, a request refused by the American
[00:05:21] president because of the shortage of Patriots in his stocks
[00:05:24] since the beginning of the war in the Middle East. At the same
[00:05:28] time, Kyiv continues its attacks in Russian territory. On Thursday,
[00:05:31] a fire broke out in this important refinery in the Yaroslavl
[00:05:35] region, about 250 km northeast of
[00:05:38] Moscow. According to the local governor, all drones launched
[00:05:43] were intercepted, but shrapnel hit storage tanks and
[00:05:46] injured several
[00:05:48] people.
[00:05:50] The continuation and end of negotiations in Rome between Israelis and
[00:05:53] Lebanese, they aim to allow a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli army from
[00:05:57] southern Lebanon in exchange for the disarmament of Hezbollah, but the
[00:06:01] Shiite movement refuses to lay down its arms and the Hebrew state
[00:06:05] continues to strike Lebanese territory. Two Israeli soldiers have
[00:06:08] died, Romain Michelot.
[00:06:12] of Lebanon, again traversed by Israeli flares. Here, in the
[00:06:15] south of the country, the army has resumed its bombardments and clashes with
[00:06:19] Hezbollah.
[00:06:21] In response to a blatant violation of the ceasefire by
[00:06:25] Hezbollah, the Israeli army began to conduct targeted strikes in
[00:06:28] southern Lebanon. At least one person has died on the Lebanese
[00:06:32] side. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion, the first
[00:06:35] in over a month. Sporadic but recurrent clashes despite a
[00:06:39] security agreement that came into force at the end of
[00:06:42] June. Israel occupies a so-called security zone in
[00:06:46] southern Lebanon, about ten kilometers near the
[00:06:49] border, but residents of towns and villages north of this
[00:06:52] zone can officially return home. In practice, this
[00:06:56] resumption of clashes and evacuation orders complicates this
[00:07:00] process, according to the UN. This new order
[00:07:02] comes as displaced families have returned home in southern
[00:07:06] Lebanon in recent weeks. The situation
[00:07:09] remains fragile, and residents remain in
[00:07:13] uncertainty. Demolition operations,
[00:07:16] bombardments, and other military activities damage homes,
[00:07:20] agricultural land, and civilian infrastructure. These clashes
[00:07:24] are taking place during a period of negotiations led in Rome under the auspices
[00:07:27] of the United States. They concern the deployment of the Lebanese army in pilot
[00:07:31] areas evacuated by Israel, but they involve the
[00:07:34] disarmament of Hezbollah, which the Shiite group has so far refused.
[00:07:38] Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hezbollah, at least
[00:07:41] 4300 people in Lebanon and 38 Israeli soldiers have
[00:07:45] died, according to the authorities.
[00:07:47] Israel, which is also locking down the West Bank,
[00:07:51] blocked roads, closed checkpoints like an applause after the death of
[00:07:55] two Israeli settlers and four Palestinians, that was on
[00:07:59] July 24th. For ambulances, it's a daily
[00:08:02] headache, Claire du Hamel on site, embedded
[00:08:05] with an ambulance driver who regularly transports pregnant women to the
[00:08:09] hospital.
[00:08:12] On this road, on July 27, a 6-month
[00:08:15] pregnant Palestinian woman had a miscarriage,
[00:08:18] then she was stopped at the checkpoint while she was bleeding
[00:08:22] out. Bashar Mouramar is the ambulance driver who
[00:08:25] was transporting the young woman, when
[00:08:28] we arrived, it was closed, where the ambulances are
[00:08:31] here, the soldiers are in this watchtower
[00:08:34] up high,
[00:08:38] of course the army only came down from the tower after a long time, then when we entered here.
[00:08:42] "They held us for half an hour, we entered here, this barrier was closed,
[00:08:46] they left us stuck for half an hour between these two barriers, the fetus was
[00:08:50] dead, it came out in the amniotic sac, the woman also had a
[00:08:53] hemorrhage and she lost consciousness, very quickly we started to
[00:08:56] take care of her, but the army forced us to cut the engine of the ambulance,
[00:09:00] stopped the ambulance, all the devices stopped, it has
[00:09:04] equipment here that works thanks to
[00:09:07] the ambulance, the medical devices stopped, no more
[00:09:11] monitors,
[00:09:14] nothing. This is where the woman who lost her baby lives and who wishes to remain
[00:09:18] anonymous. Five days after her miscarriage, she is still
[00:09:22] recovering with difficulty. Sabrine is the midwife who delivered her at
[00:09:26] home, and it was she who then saved her life in the ambulance.
[00:09:30] She recounts her interaction with a soldier at
[00:09:32] the checkpoint.
[00:09:36] I told the soldier that we had to help the mother so that she wouldn't die. He didn't listen to me, he
[00:09:40] raised his weapon at me, told me to go back to the ambulance, so I was scared, I went
[00:09:44] back, I did everything to keep the patient awake, and after half
[00:09:48] an hour, they opened the barrier for us, and we finally reached the hospital thanks to
[00:09:51] God, but unfortunately, she had lost a lot of
[00:09:53] blood.
[00:09:57] Upon arrival at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, the young woman was taken
[00:10:01] care of by Dr. Rachael Hamous for 24
[00:10:04] hours. For 3 years we have suffered throughout
[00:10:08] Jordan from the problem of checkpoints and barriers, of course this has had
[00:10:12] an impact. on the ability of women and more generally patients to access
[00:10:16] hospitals, and it also affects the arrival of medical teams, all this
[00:10:19] obviously has negative consequences on the functioning of the hospital, both from
[00:10:23] a medical point of view and from...
[00:10:26] We contacted the Israeli army, which states that the
[00:10:29] ambulance personnel had not carried out the required prior
[00:10:32] coordination before arriving at the checkpoint.
[00:10:36] The army says it has no intention of delaying medical care and
[00:10:40] medical
[00:10:40] evacuations.
[00:10:44] The heatwave currently sweeping the northern hemisphere is not sparing
[00:10:48] Asia. After Japan, Korea is also experiencing a
[00:10:52] heatwave episode. Since May 15, no less than 19
[00:10:55] people have succumbed to the heat. To warn
[00:10:59] the residents of the agricultural regions of South Korea, drones are entering the scene,
[00:11:03] Noémie Roch.
[00:11:06] Above a field, a drone hums before
[00:11:09] delivering its message. It is
[00:11:13] water and take breaks in air-conditioned
[00:11:15] shelters.
[00:11:18] In the middle of a heatwave, these devices are now used
[00:11:21] to protect farmers from heat-related risks. We
[00:11:25] can monitor temperatures on the ground and
[00:11:29] in greenhouses in real time. If we spot
[00:11:32] areas that seem particularly dangerous, we send drones there to
[00:11:35] broadcast heat-related warnings. Valuable
[00:11:39] alerts for farmers. In
[00:11:42] this agricultural province in the east of the country, temperatures have
[00:11:46] exceeded 41 degrees in recent days.
[00:11:50] It's very useful, elderly farmers are often so absorbed in their work that they
[00:11:54] continue. without realizing the heat and that's where accidents happen, compared
[00:11:58] to last year, we are seeing a drop of about 30% in agricultural
[00:12:01] yields.
[00:12:04] the whole country is going through a historic heatwave,
[00:12:07] the president speaks of a national
[00:12:09] disaster,
[00:12:11] extreme heat of unprecedented scale continues day after
[00:12:15] day. I ask all ministries and local
[00:12:18] authorities to do everything possible to minimize the damage related to the
[00:12:21] heatwave by fully mobilizing all available
[00:12:25] personnel and resources. More frequent and intense heatwaves
[00:12:29] due to human-induced climate change, which also
[00:12:32] highlight profound inequalities.
[00:12:35] In the shadow of the air-conditioned buildings of this upscale neighborhood
[00:12:39] in Seoul, residents of one of the capital's last shantytowns
[00:12:43] are suffocating, waiting for the heatwave to
[00:12:45] subside.
[00:12:48] In a week, the sun will disappear for a few moments, a solar
[00:12:51] eclipse, it will even be visible in France. It will also
[00:12:57] Spain, an exceptional but dangerous spectacle to observe with the naked
[00:13:01] eye, even for a few seconds, only protection, special
[00:13:04] glasses that meet very strict standards, how are they made,
[00:13:08] how to recognize reliable models and where to get them,
[00:13:12] Lætitia Legendre and Justine Veil went to
[00:13:15] meet one of the manufacturers based in Alsace here in
[00:13:19] France,
[00:13:22] night in broad daylight as in 194. 99
[00:13:26] with this twilight atmosphere when the sun
[00:13:29] plays hide-and-seek with the moon, but to admire this eclipse you still need
[00:13:33] to be well equipped with appropriate glasses, you shouldn't look at the sun
[00:13:36] for too long anyway, so if you don't have the right glasses you can really damage your
[00:13:40] eyes, in recent weeks, this Alsatian manufacturer
[00:13:44] has been multiplying deliveries of protective glasses, hundreds
[00:13:48] of thousands of pairs specially designed to observe this phenomenon
[00:13:51] as rare as spectacular, the moon.
[00:13:55] which passes between the earth and the sun, preventing its
[00:13:58] light from reaching our planet, a spectacle to
[00:14:02] observe with opaque glasses, it is a filter
[00:14:05] that reflects the harmful rays of the sun
[00:14:09] outside and inside, the filter is black,
[00:14:12] it is a filter that restores the orange image of the
[00:14:15] sun, these protective glasses meet precise
[00:14:18] standards and are delivered with a certificate of conformity,
[00:14:22] at this optician's already about fifty have been
[00:14:26] sold at 3 euros each, it's
[00:14:29] now or never because apparently there won't be another
[00:14:33] one as complete for some time and maybe it will be the
[00:14:36] last of our lives. In 1999 in France, during
[00:14:40] the last total eclipse, some had improvised by rigging up
[00:14:43] glasses, at Bagnères, because even partial sunlight can
[00:14:47] pass through the eye and burn the retina in a matter of seconds,
[00:14:50] a painless burn with sometimes irreversible
[00:14:53] consequences. the sun's light ray will
[00:14:57] burn these cells that are fundamental, a black spot that
[00:15:01] is engraved a little bit in front of us, but this black spot
[00:15:05] never leaves and so when we look at people we no longer see their faces, we
[00:15:09] no longer see the center, we can no longer read, it is in
[00:15:12] Bayonne that the darkness will be the most important, almost
[00:15:15] total, the spectacle will be visible everywhere in France, but
[00:15:19] a week before the big night, the Directorate General of Health
[00:15:22] is concerned about possible stock shortages. glasses to
[00:15:26] observe the eclipse,
[00:15:28] stay with us, the news returns to France 24 live in one
[00:15:31] card.
[00:15:52] The tension is palpable in this command post of a Ukrainian
[00:15:55] unit.
[00:16:00] These soldiers see live on their screens Russian drones attacking their troops in
[00:16:04] Kupiansk, dozens of kilometers away.
[00:16:37] The deputy commander of the battalion himself almost died in Kupiansk. He
[00:16:41] was saved by two Brazilians while leading his unit into combat last December,
[00:16:45] an operation carried out mainly by
[00:16:47] Latin Americans which marked a major turning point by stopping the Russian
[00:16:51] advance after a year in which Ukraine had lost
[00:16:55] ground.
[00:16:56] terrain.
[00:17:00] was not under enemy control, so it was not a counter offensive, it was an operation to
[00:17:04] infiltrate the city, we had to find them and kick them out.
[00:17:38] Okay, the first Latinos to enlist in Ukraine came by
[00:17:41] themselves,
[00:17:44] then this Ukrainian soldier
[00:17:48] from Latin
[00:17:48] America.
[00:17:54] A friend told me, "Listen, I have 20 guys who want to come, but they
[00:17:58] don't have any money." So, I organized two flights at our
[00:18:01] expense, to show the Ukrainian army that it was possible to bring
[00:18:05] many people.
[00:18:41] the brigade pays for our plane tickets, for our meals and for our
[00:18:44] accommodation here in Bogota, it takes care of all the administrative
[00:18:48] travel formalities, when I heard about it, I seized
[00:18:51] this opportunity, it's what
[00:18:53] I was waiting for,
[00:18:56] for a February in Ukraine, Daero doesn't seem sufficiently
[00:18:59] equipped, they told me not to bring too much, I was
[00:19:02] very cold when I served in
[00:19:04] Israel.
[00:19:09] In this hotel, Daero, originally from Medellín, awaits his departure with
[00:19:13] other men, from elsewhere in Colombia, we enlist by
[00:19:16] vocation, moreover, it is a noble cause to go fight under a flag that is not
[00:19:20] ours, but that of a people who are attacked, it's a bit like my
[00:19:24] neighbor broke into my house,
[00:19:28] a feeling shared by many men here, but not everyone,
[00:19:31] what they know above all is that in Ukraine they
[00:19:34] will earn a much better salary than in Colombia.
[00:19:38] Here, when you leave the army, the best you can hope for is a job
[00:19:42] as a security guard, a security guard, yes, or a bodyguard,
[00:19:45] and if you don't stay in the army until retirement, then you don't even
[00:19:49] have a pension. Anyway, it's not enough to survive, you have to
[00:19:53] keep working, fighting for your survival and that of your
[00:19:56] family.
[00:19:59] At the airport, a representative of the Ukrainian army distributes their passports and
[00:20:03] boarding passes.
[00:20:05] Wishing to remain anonymous, he assures us that these men have been warned of the enormous
[00:20:09] risk they are taking. Daero thinks of his
[00:20:13] daughter. If anything ever happened to me, I want
[00:20:17] my brother to give my daughter a monthly pension until she is
[00:20:20] of age, but I am not going there thinking I will die, no, God will
[00:20:23] decide.
[00:20:27] There is no official count of Colombians killed in Ukraine,
[00:20:31] it could be a few hundred. Carlos
[00:20:34] Gonzalez was able to return home. He is a miracle survivor.
[00:20:40] Strongly attached to Ukraine, Carlos was able to renovate his house thanks to the money earned in
[00:20:44] combat,
[00:20:48] but he bears on his body.
[00:20:51] In May 2024, near Kherson, he survived a chemical attack,
[00:20:55] which killed two other Colombians from his
[00:20:57] unit, that's how they found
[00:20:59] me,
[00:21:04] I told the workers, stop work on the house, I'm going to
[00:21:07] Ukraine,
[00:21:10] but Carlos convinced me not to go, saying it was too
[00:21:13] dangerous and they wouldn't have let me into the military hospital anyway.
[00:21:16] façon,
[00:21:30] killed my father in 2002 and I had to leave my home on the plains when
[00:21:34] I was 15 because they wanted to recruit me, I always knew that
[00:21:38] communist countries supported the guerrillas, Russia,
[00:21:41] Cuba, Venezuela, so I identify with them also because of
[00:21:45] that.
[00:21:47] On his return from Ukraine, armed groups became interested in his experience
[00:21:52] with combat drones, but Carlos
[00:21:55] refusé.
[00:21:58] If you tell any armed group that you served in Ukraine, you become
[00:22:02] interesting. If someone wants to join a gang here or in Mexico,
[00:22:06] they can go to Ukraine and study drones. Yesterday I was talking to a
[00:22:09] friend, one of his comrades with whom he had fought in Zaporizhzhia,
[00:22:13] is now fighting alongside the guerrillas in the department of
[00:22:15] Cauca.
[00:22:21] In 2016, a peace agreement led to the disarmament of the
[00:22:24] FARC, but other insurgent groups remain active.
[00:22:28] More than 7 million people have been displaced by the fighting, among
[00:22:31] them Sandra Cordoba's family.
[00:22:35] On
[00:22:38] We don't know by what group he was kidnapped, but he
[00:22:41] disappeared. He was 25 or 26
[00:22:44] years old. My mother raised us
[00:22:47] alone.
[00:23:29] "I rarely come here, I don't like it, I don't like to think that he
[00:23:33] is
[00:23:37] there, as soon as I saw the +380 code for Ukraine
[00:23:40] appear, I knew something had happened to him,"
[00:23:43] arrivé,
[00:23:46] then the officer said alas, and I immediately
[00:23:49] threw the
[00:23:52] the next day, I dried my tears and contacted the embassy,
[00:23:56] they asked for my authorization for a cremation, it went
[00:23:59] fast, 45 days later, my brother's ashes were in
[00:24:03] Bogota, he wanted to have this experience,
[00:24:07] he was happy to have this experience,
[00:24:10] he said, it's another level sis, it's crazy
[00:24:14] here, he said everyone has to die one
[00:24:17] day, so let it be in Colombia,
[00:24:20] here one day I will
[00:24:22] die, and if I have to die doing what
[00:24:26] I love, so be it, we must respect
[00:24:29] that,
[00:24:32] if Nader's ashes were repatriated without difficulty, the money he earned in
[00:24:36] Ukraine is taking time to arrive. Sandra
[00:24:39] went to Kyiv to claim her inheritance, she had to stay there
[00:24:43] for several months, I don't know what
[00:24:46] happened, the bank said there was no bank account in my brother's name.
[00:24:51] "I was counting on that money to pay for my return
[00:24:52] ticket."
[00:24:55] Finally, a priest paid for her ticket. Sandra returned to
[00:24:58] Colombia on New Year's Eve, without her brother's balance, but with the
[00:25:04] the Ukrainian
[00:25:04] state.
[00:25:08] All these are the documents I brought back from Ukraine,
[00:25:12] translations, powers of attorney, everything is
[00:25:14] there.
[00:25:17] We provide the documents, we open bank accounts in Ukraine. and wait for
[00:25:20] the money to arrive,
[00:25:24] but for now, there are only 139 hryvnias, that's
[00:25:27] the money I deposited there.
[00:25:31] I imagined growing old in my son's
[00:25:33] arms,
[00:25:39] I thought he would take care of me when I was
[00:25:41] old,
[00:25:44] if the money doesn't arrive soon, Anna and her daughter could lose this
[00:25:48] house they mortgaged to... to pay for her brother's trip to
[00:25:51] Kyiv.
[00:25:59] it's cold, man.
[00:26:03] This situation is not systematic, for some the
[00:26:06] salaries arrive on time, for others not. These
[00:26:10] men asked to be demobilized after several exhausting months.
[00:26:26] They didn't pay me for this mission, only compensation for my severe injuries, then in
[00:26:30] December, I asked why I
[00:26:32] hadn't received my combat bonuses, they replied that I hadn't participated in
[00:26:36] an operation on the front line, I told them that we
[00:26:40] were in a village under constant attack and that we were only
[00:26:43] there because in the village where we were before, our house had been
[00:26:46] bombed.
[00:26:49] Finally, Katchoro decided to
[00:26:51] stay.
[00:27:00] In the streets of Dipro, this volunteer collects...
[00:27:37] Istanbul, a member of their group defects,
[00:27:41] someone allegedly bought him a ticket to
[00:27:42] Barcelona.
[00:27:45] We told him: "Brother, it's your life, you're an adult, it's your
[00:27:48] decision, but he could have been more honest, the one who
[00:27:52] bought him his ticket from Istanbul, could have bought him a ticket from Bogota, and
[00:27:56] Ukraine would not have wasted its
[00:27:57] money."
[00:28:02] "It's a great experience really, may we
[00:28:05] come out alive and go home, find our
[00:28:07] families, yes, see our families and do all
[00:28:11] the crazy things we've always dreamed of doing.
[00:28:15] As we were finishing this report, these men were waiting to be
[00:28:18] deployed in the Karkif region, probably in
[00:28:22] Kupyansk.
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[00:30:04] It's live on France 24 with first these
[00:30:08] apologies deemed insufficient, those of
[00:30:11] commercial exploitation of World Cups to private investors, the
[00:30:15] proposal still does not pass in the eyes of several
[00:30:17] confederations, including that of Latin America, which joins its voice to the
[00:30:21] criticisms expressed by UEFA, a new
[00:30:24] exchange of strikes between Ukraine and Russia, drones dropped on
[00:30:27] Russian refineries against attacks on several Ukrainian cities, which hopes to
[00:30:31] convince its Western allies to deliver anti-missile
[00:30:34] defenses to it. Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the third
[00:30:38] day of negotiations, however, currently underway in Rome with the Lebanese
[00:30:41] authorities. The clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli casualties,
[00:30:45] soldiers killed by an explosive device.