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[00:00:00] to see on France
[00:00:01] 24:
[00:00:06] you are in the essential on France 24, welcome to those who join us,
[00:00:10] the government of Yemen threatens the Houthi rebels with retaliation after the
[00:00:14] attacks carried out against Yemeni soldiers, with
[00:00:17] 58 dead, the rebels denounce Saudi Arabia's increased support
[00:00:20] for government
[00:00:22] forces.
[00:00:25] Two dead and 14 injured near Damascus, a bomb exploded in a
[00:00:29] bus in a town near the Syrian
[00:00:31] capital,
[00:00:34] and then we will go to Cuba where the energy blockade, as well as
[00:00:38] the sanctions imposed by the United States, are suffocating it, lacking
[00:00:41] gasoline, electricity, which will worsen already precarious living
[00:00:45] conditions, as you will see.
[00:00:48] swallowed up in the waves of
[00:00:51] majority found Anthony
[00:01:01] At least 58 dead among Yemeni forces,
[00:01:05] drone and missile attacks claimed by the
[00:01:08] Houthis, the rebels denounce a reinforcement of Yemeni troops
[00:01:11] supported by Saudi Arabia, the Yemeni government
[00:01:15] threatens retaliation, Loik
[00:01:17] Chalavant
[00:01:20] after several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi oil tankers, the
[00:01:24] Houthis are striking this time on firm ground, a direct response
[00:01:27] according to them to the increased support from Saudi Arabia
[00:01:30] for Yemeni government forces
[00:01:33] break the cycle of for several
[00:01:33] weeks.
[00:01:39] This operation allowed us to kill and injure many Saudi
[00:01:42] mercenaries, to destroy and burn a large number of Saudi
[00:01:45] camps and arms depots in the east of the
[00:01:48] country,
[00:01:50] as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed in
[00:01:54] the targeted
[00:01:55] camps.
[00:01:59] According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck
[00:02:03] several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the country
[00:02:06] and that of Hadhramaut near the border with Saudi Arabia.
[00:02:10] This is the deadliest toll since 2022 between the two
[00:02:13] camps. Since 2014, a proxy war has been taking place in Yemen between the
[00:02:17] Houthi rebels allied with Iran and the Yemeni government supported by
[00:02:21] Riyadh and Washington. In 2022, a fragile truce came
[00:02:25] into force, but it fell apart last month when the Houthis
[00:02:29] welcomed a plane.
[00:03:00] The Yemeni government, recognized by the international community, has
[00:03:04] never been recognized as the owner of announced that it will respond at the
[00:03:05] his life today to these victims of appropriate time and place.
[00:03:09] The initial report indicates two dead
[00:03:11] again, and it is we, the Cubans on and 14 injured, a bomb exploded in Jaramana, southeast of
[00:03:14] Damascus, the Syrian capital, the device
[00:03:17] was placed in a public transport minibus, France 24 correspondent
[00:03:21] Dana Alboze.
[00:03:25] According to our latest report released by the Syrian Ministry of
[00:03:28] Health, two people... have died and 14 others have been
[00:03:32] injured in an explosion that occurred this evening in Jaramana in the
[00:03:36] southeast suburb of Damascus, the explosion occurred
[00:03:40] in the middle of Jaramana's main
[00:03:43] going to law enforcement thoroughfare, it is a very busy road, it targeted a small passenger transport shuttle
[00:03:46] which was completely destroyed according to our
[00:03:50] new album Boulevard de information. The injured were evacuated to
[00:03:53] two hospitals in Damascus and Jaramana, and according to a local
[00:03:57] source, the majority of the injuries would be minor, but these
[00:04:00] informations remain preliminary and the toll could
[00:04:03] worsen, the authorities have established a security perimeter
[00:04:07] around the area and there was
[00:04:10] concern among the residents
[00:04:12] denounce the increased support of of Jaramana, Jaramana is located only a few kilometers
[00:04:16] southeast of Damascus, the city also hosts
[00:04:19] a significant Druze population, but also residents
[00:04:22] from different communities. At this stage,
[00:04:26] no party has officially claimed this
[00:04:29] attack, the... the authorities have not communicated on the exact
[00:04:32] nature of this explosion either, but of course, this
[00:04:35] incident comes as Syria has experienced several explosions in
[00:04:39] Damascus and in its surroundings in recent
[00:04:43] months and even recent weeks, I recall that in early
[00:04:47] July during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron
[00:04:50] two explosions occurred in Damascus, in
[00:04:54] these different cases explosive devices had
[00:04:57] been mentioned and this new explosion occurs
[00:05:00] in a context, I can say,
[00:05:03] the very idea of of security challenges for the new Syrian authorities,
[00:05:06] Syrian authorities who must particularly face the persistence of attacks
[00:05:10] and security incidents. targeting urban
[00:05:13] areas. This new offensive against birthright
[00:05:17] citizenship in the United States, this decree that Donald Trump has just signed,
[00:05:21] a text that aims to prevent birth tourism, meaning
[00:05:25] this possibility for foreign women
[00:05:28] to give birth in the United States so that their children obtain American
[00:05:31] citizenship. A new attempt for the American
[00:05:34] president, to whom at the beginning of July the Supreme Court had reminded
[00:05:37] that being born on American soil allowed
[00:05:41] one to become American, even if the
[00:05:44] parents were in an irregular situation, it had then
[00:05:48] annulled the presidential decree on citizenship by
[00:05:52] birthright. birth.
[00:05:55] We remain in the United States with what could pave the way for legal
[00:05:58] prosecution, a commission of the American Senate with a Republican
[00:06:03] Fauci guilty of contempt of Congress, accused of obstructing an
[00:06:07] investigation, he who had organized the White
[00:06:10] House's response during the COVID-19 pandemic and who had
[00:06:14] then repeatedly contradicted Donald Trump when he was
[00:06:18] president.
[00:06:18] president.
[00:06:22] The United States, which announced this Thursday new sanctions against
[00:06:25] Cuba, they specifically target the Minister of the
[00:06:28] Armed Forces and an arms supply network.
[00:06:31] Washington accuses Havana of procuring weapons from countries
[00:06:34] considered enemies of the Americans and this pressure
[00:06:38] exerted by the Trump administration is putting the communist
[00:06:41] island in great financial difficulties, which will worsen
[00:06:45] already difficult economic conditions and amplify the glaring
[00:06:48] shortages of electricity and gasoline, France 24
[00:06:51] report
[00:06:54] I do braids, my child, you don't want braids
[00:06:57] braids How are you,
[00:07:00] family?
[00:07:02] Tania is a teacher, like many Cubans, she has another
[00:07:06] job to live decently, offering braids to
[00:07:10] passers-by. 50 years old and I face
[00:07:13] life, I will not lose the strength to continue to
[00:07:17] fight, times are harder than ever on the
[00:07:21] communist island,
[00:07:23] there is no more tourism, everything is empty, no
[00:07:27] customers, no one left to style,
[00:07:30] look at this empty hotel, not a single customer coming out, it
[00:07:34] hurts, in January Washington tightened its
[00:07:37] energy blockade, followed by new sanctions against companies
[00:07:41] operating in Cuba. Since then, the terraces of Havana have
[00:07:44] emptied of their customers, the fall in
[00:07:47] tourism, one of the country's main sources of income, is affecting the entire
[00:07:51] economy, the country is
[00:07:55] unrecognizable and the hotel does not earn enough
[00:07:58] money to pay the
[00:08:00] artists,
[00:08:04] it is the entire island that is suffocating, in the markets, local products
[00:08:08] are not lacking, but due to lack of gasoline, the cost of their transport
[00:08:11] increases. Prices are rising against a background of already
[00:08:14] chronic inflation, it is a form of survival, let's say
[00:08:18] it like that, what is imposed on Cuba every day, these are trials again and
[00:08:23] the street, who pay for them.
[00:08:27] Without electricity, without sufficient foreign currency, all
[00:08:30] institutions, like banks, are operating
[00:08:33] slowly.
[00:08:36] I am waiting to get my salary, people are annoyed, they
[00:08:39] scream, I don't even have money to buy food.
[00:08:44] Several days of waiting at the bank to collect a salary or a
[00:08:47] pension, tempers are flaring, Cubans are
[00:08:51] tired,
[00:08:53] civil servants like Tania, the teacher who braids hair in the
[00:08:57] center, earn a ridiculous
[00:08:58] income,
[00:09:01] I earn 6 dollars a month and that is really not enough, I have to
[00:09:05] buy everything, clothes, shoes, and if I think about shoes for the
[00:09:08] children, I can forget food,
[00:09:12] lack of electricity worsens already precarious living
[00:09:15] conditions, only one hour of electricity per day, often
[00:09:18] less, there is nothing inside, if there was something it would have already
[00:09:22] rotted with all these hours without electricity, what we buy, it's
[00:09:26] day by day. Despite a recent opening, Cuba
[00:09:30] seems frozen in time, residents resell what they
[00:09:33] can and in the private businesses now authorized, basic
[00:09:37] products are a luxury. This is a
[00:09:40] butcher shop where people do their shopping, a butcher shop.
[00:09:48] Suddenly a woman intervenes, you
[00:09:51] need authorization to do that, the Committees for the
[00:09:54] Defense of the Revolution are still there, but they are less active,
[00:09:58] worn out by the crisis, Tania, she has nothing to
[00:10:01] reproach herself for,
[00:10:04] I love my island, I am a revolutionary, and even if I have nothing
[00:10:08] to eat, I love our commander Fidel Castro, when he
[00:10:11] died, I cried,
[00:10:15] between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans
[00:10:18] survive day by day, without seeing the end of the
[00:10:22] road,
[00:10:25] we will meet again in about twenty minutes for the essential, see you soon,
[00:10:42] this morning, the maritime rescue ship is saturated from bow to
[00:10:45] stern, it's an anniversary that no one will celebrate and
[00:10:49] especially not in Senegal, it was 20 years ago the
[00:10:53] migratory crisis of 2006.
[00:10:56] At the time, hundreds of clandestine canoes attempted the crossing
[00:10:59] from the Senegalese coast to the Canary Islands with the
[00:11:03] terrible slogan Barça ou Barçax,
[00:11:06] Barcelona or death, a slogan that became a reality for thousands
[00:11:10] of missing people
[00:11:13] the exodus. 20 years later, the crisis is far from resolved,
[00:11:17] quite the contrary, 2024 holds the sad record for the largest
[00:11:20] number of deaths on the Atlantic route, more than 1000
[00:11:24] deaths. A figure that even surpasses that of
[00:11:27] 2006, and for the majority of these victims, the
[00:11:30] tragedy is anonymous, due to lack of means and real political
[00:11:33] will, the shipwrecked are almost never
[00:11:36] identified. Even for the bodies found in Senegal,
[00:11:40] buried hastily in mass graves and leaving behind
[00:11:43] thousands of families unable to mourn.
[00:11:46] But faced with this silence, voices are rising,
[00:11:49] associations and relatives are mobilizing on the ground or on social
[00:11:53] networks. to give a name to the dead and
[00:11:58] exile. Back in Senegal, the shadow of the
[00:12:01] missing migrants. This is a report by Sara Saco and
[00:12:05] Simon Martin.
[00:12:16] All of us, we had friends, or acquaintances who were lost at
[00:12:20] sea,
[00:12:24] there is no... there is no boat, there is no
[00:12:27] information to really identify that there was a shipwreck, these are boats that are
[00:12:31] missing, you see, imaginarily like that, what we call the
[00:12:35] invisible shipwrecks.
[00:12:38] In 2006, Salio Diouf lived
[00:12:41] here in Yarar, a coastal suburb of Dakar, which became
[00:12:45] one of the main departure points for the migratory crisis. Lacking
[00:12:49] money, he had not been able to attempt this risky crossing, which he
[00:12:53] nevertheless dreamed of, like a large part of
[00:12:55] the youth 20 years and thousands of deaths
[00:12:59] later, the former aspiring migrant sees history repeating
[00:13:02] itself in Senegal, today we are
[00:13:05] mourning, these same disappeared because it's a
[00:13:08] phenomenon, you see, that has never been eradicated until today, you
[00:13:12] see, we can only count figures but not people
[00:13:16] and there is no return, no initiative from our authorities to seek
[00:13:20] means, at least when there were shipwrecks, to identify the
[00:13:23] people who died. Since then, Salou has become a humanitarian
[00:13:26] worker, dedicating
[00:13:30] migration, who, for 20 years, have been the
[00:13:34] great forgotten ones of the national narrative and successive
[00:13:37] policies. The feelings I had in
[00:13:41] 2006 are not the same feelings I have today. 2006, it was
[00:13:44] sadness, we lose our children, we lose our brothers, we lose our friends, but
[00:13:48] today, there is a real feeling of anger towards, you
[00:13:52] see, our authorities who neglect the... this
[00:13:55] subject, a wound still fresh in Senegalese
[00:13:58] society, which Salou has made his battle
[00:14:01] horse, salam
[00:14:03] aler,
[00:14:06] with his association, the activist created a caravan
[00:14:09] of remembrance, a form of memorial convoy, the
[00:14:13] 4th edition is about to hit the road, we
[00:14:16] will go to certain parts of the country to discuss with the
[00:14:20] families of the victims of migration on questions of how to conduct
[00:14:24] research. They are about thirty members, activists,
[00:14:28] artists or former migrants, who travel the country,
[00:14:31] their weapons for this journey, some speakers and
[00:14:34] posters to show the reality of the migratory
[00:14:37] drama. These are messages that we have printed
[00:14:41] here to, you know, uh,
[00:14:43] euh
[00:14:47] document, like this banner, several
[00:14:51] tens of meters long, listing cases of deaths at sea
[00:14:55] over the last few years, you see, 'man'
[00:14:59] means it's a great person, you see,
[00:15:01] inclusive,
[00:15:05] in total 66,000 disappeared of different
[00:15:09] nationalities, among them thousands of
[00:15:11] Senegalese, faced with the shortcomings of the census,
[00:15:15] it's difficult to give a precise number according to Salieu, we are an
[00:15:19] organization that is against numbers, because we can't count
[00:15:23] people, we, we say that these are not human beings, that's
[00:15:28] the caravan's initiative to give, to promote the right to
[00:15:32] identity for these people who
[00:15:34] disappear, but also the family's right to know.
[00:15:38] For 10 days, Salou and his team will crisscross the country in
[00:15:42] search of the relatives of those who disappeared in 2006, as
[00:15:46] today, a struggle to unite these families,
[00:15:50] forgotten victims of migration, neglected for 20
[00:15:53] years.
[00:15:57] In 2006, a slogan emerged: Barça or Barçax,
[00:16:01] literally, Barcelona or death, a motto that did not
[00:16:04] take into account... "I told him that to go to Spain
[00:16:42] he had to take a plane,
[00:16:44] but he didn't have the money,
[00:16:47] he told me he would take
[00:16:51] the pirogue, I told
[00:16:55] him I wouldn't allow it, I did everything to prevent
[00:16:58] him."
[00:17:08] Since that day, she has never heard from her
[00:17:12] son again, and no one knows what happened to his
[00:17:15] boat, impossible griefs that
[00:17:19] gnaw at thousands of families in Senegal, because for lack of
[00:17:23] evidence and bodies, some refuse
[00:17:25] the inevitable and set out to find traces of their
[00:17:29] loved ones.
[00:17:34] Mustapha is the founder of the Facebook page "Lost"
[00:17:37] which today has over 200,000 members, with
[00:17:41] 13 other volunteers, he takes turns filtering the hundreds of
[00:17:45] publications and responding to their authors, you see, so all these
[00:17:48] are messages that we must process
[00:17:51] today, approximately 1500 disappearances are
[00:17:54] reported each year on the group, half of which are linked to
[00:17:58] migration, cases rarely resolved due to
[00:18:01] shipwrecks, but not only, when a
[00:18:04] person is at sea for several days, for
[00:18:07] example, it turns out that their supplies are gone, not even
[00:18:11] water to drink, so they can easily lose their mind, there are
[00:18:15] people who think their child died at sea when in fact the child
[00:18:19] arrived but lost their mind, they can't remember that I lived here, this is my
[00:18:23] name, my father's name, my mother's name and so on, these are cases
[00:18:26] we have also encountered, then only
[00:18:29] unanswered publications remain, digital
[00:18:32] traces of these silent
[00:18:33] dramas,
[00:18:36] these people left Barney on October 31, 2023
[00:18:40] aboard a pirogue with 173 people.
[00:18:43] Please contact their sisters if you have seen them
[00:18:46] anywhere. This is my brother, his name is
[00:18:50] Alénias. In February 2006, he took a pirogue from
[00:18:53] Tiaroy to Spain. If you have any information,
[00:18:56] help us.
[00:19:02] We find the caravan of remembrance, just arrived in
[00:19:05] Socon, in the west of the country. Their third destination this
[00:19:09] year, as at each stop, Salou and his team
[00:19:12] will have to break a taboo. The important thing is that families
[00:19:16] must dare to talk about it to at least, you know, start
[00:19:20] a fight that will probably resolve certain issues, because as we say,
[00:19:24] we can't do the fundraising for them, we can just
[00:19:27] accompany them, and for that, we must first
[00:19:30] find them. For lack of registers and in the face of the
[00:19:34] silence in which many are walled, the association.
[00:19:51] Throughout the day, activists multiply their meetings
[00:19:54] from one end of the city to the other, a search, but also an
[00:19:58] educational work to raise awareness among these community
[00:20:01] leaders. The caravan did it, we went, we found a
[00:20:05] family of 13 people. Senegal
[00:20:08] it is important that for example today we create something
[00:20:11] that will talk about this water, it is very important
[00:20:14] it is very important what they taught me today
[00:20:18] and it is us who are on the ground
[00:20:22] we will be able to talk about it and transmit the
[00:20:24] message
[00:20:30] after several hours of searching Salou and his team finally
[00:20:34] go back to a first family okay
[00:20:38] Mohamed's cousin took a pirogue in secret 8
[00:20:41] months ago. After 8 days without news, another member
[00:20:45] of his family who was on the same pirogue, told him the
[00:20:48] tragedy.
[00:20:51] "It was a pirogue that carried 148
[00:20:54] people, you must have heard about it, he got on
[00:20:58] it, but in the pirogue it was too hot, so he got on
[00:21:01] the side to get some air, and at that moment, a wave made him fall into the
[00:21:05] sea, he also explained to me, people who die of
[00:21:08] hunger or other things, their bodies are also thrown into the
[00:21:12] sea, a valuable
[00:21:16] testimony recorded by the members of the association to cross-reference..."
[00:21:20] information and perhaps provide answers to other
[00:21:24] families.
[00:21:28] In 4 years of caravanning, the group conducted similar investigations
[00:21:32] across the country, sometimes with unexpected results.
[00:21:36] We discovered a mass grave in Cafoontine,
[00:21:39] I think it's good now when we discover a mass
[00:21:42] grave to ask questions about how people are
[00:21:46] managed. disappear in Senegal,
[00:21:50] to get to the site, you must
[00:21:54] first go deep into the Bolongs, these arms of the sea
[00:21:57] surrounded by mangroves and forest, places difficult
[00:22:01] to access, known departure zones for the route to the
[00:22:05] Canaries, it was in 2022 that we
[00:22:07] found a pirogue in the Casselle Bolong that had caught
[00:22:11] fire, we found the dead, that
[00:22:14] day, under the gaze of the authorities who remained in
[00:22:18] Kay, Thas and other fishermen left
[00:22:20] urgently to look for the bodies. They found
[00:22:23] 15, even if they were probably many more,
[00:22:26] according to the rare survivors. Anonymous people summarily buried
[00:22:30] in this forest near the site of the shipwreck. Yes, the stake
[00:22:34] there, that's where we buried the people who
[00:22:37] died, we should enclose it with a wall
[00:22:41] maybe. Well, we don't have the means, that's why we put the stakes
[00:22:45] there. Four pieces of wood that mark their only grave.
[00:22:48] grave.
[00:23:51] 5 years since she remarried, she has
[00:23:54] the house he left her, for lack of precise
[00:23:57] documents. If I don't change the papers to my name,
[00:24:01] I can be evicted at any time, and in that case, where would I go with my
[00:24:04] children? It's so that there are no problems and to protect them that I
[00:24:08] am here. With the help of the Red Cross,
[00:24:12] Ami is trying to obtain a death certificate, a process
[00:24:15] that still largely intimidates
[00:24:18] families. refuse to testify,
[00:24:21] these are problems of custom, perhaps ignorance
[00:24:24] and, I don't know, of reservations from
[00:24:28] the populations regarding this, because we are not used to often
[00:24:33] or the law to express ourselves, some
[00:24:37] imagine being an accomplice of a crime and fear retaliation from
[00:24:41] justice, unjustified fears reassure the
[00:24:44] magistrates, the court is willing to
[00:24:47] assist them so that precisely... uh that all
[00:24:51] questions related, in any case, legal questions are
[00:24:54] handled uh in the best possible way, but
[00:24:58] uh the Court awaits to be seized to be
[00:25:00] able to rule on these questions, the court
[00:25:04] does not have the power to refer itself.
[00:25:08] Today, few families have yet taken the
[00:25:10] step, throughout the country, only one
[00:25:14] woman has so far managed to obtain a death certificate for her
[00:25:18] husband, enough to...
[00:25:54] Associations and activists know, these absent ones
[00:25:58] have not finished haunting the country, we don't bury
[00:26:01] them because they are not there, but at least we can
[00:26:05] say the prayer we say for all our missing, for all our dead, it is a last way
[00:26:08] to restore
[00:26:10] dignity,
[00:26:14] a wound that continues to perpetuate itself, in
[00:26:18] 2024, 10,000 men, women and
[00:26:21] children have again disappeared on the Atlantic
[00:26:24] route.
[00:27:05] Join us from all over Europe, in France, the worst
[00:27:09] student of the European club when it comes to transforming European
[00:27:12] subsidies into growth and we will
[00:27:15] see this in two regions particularly in difficulty,
[00:27:19] Corsica due to its insularity with its
[00:27:22] 36,000 inhabitants who nevertheless have many
[00:27:25] projects in terms of research on clementines,
[00:27:28] sea urchins and many other sectors and
[00:27:31] here in Creuse, a rural French department that is
[00:27:35] depopulating, European aid is highly anticipated to boost
[00:27:39] growth and employment, it is particularly
[00:27:42] directed towards the timber industry or
[00:27:45] tourism and culture with here the Valley of the
[00:27:49] Painters or the beautiful Aubusson tapestry.
[00:27:53] all over Europe, presented by Caroline de
[00:27:55] Camaret, to be seen on France
[00:27:58] 24.
[00:30:03] welcome to those who join us, the Yemeni government threatens
[00:30:07] retaliatory tools after the attacks carried out against Yemeni
[00:30:10] soldiers, there were 58 dead, the rebels
[00:30:15] Saudi Arabia for government
[00:30:16] forces,
[00:30:19] two dead and 14 injured near Damascus, a bomb exploded in a
[00:30:23] bus in a city near the Syrian capital,
[00:30:25] syrienne,
[00:30:29] and then we will go to Cuba where the energy blockade, just like the
[00:30:32] sanctions imposed by the United States, are suffocating it,
[00:30:36] lack of gasoline, electricity, which will worsen already precarious
[00:30:39] living conditions, as you will see,
[00:30:56] at least.