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[00:00:00] News,
[00:00:04] we meet again for a new update on the news, headlining this newspaper,
[00:00:07] the escalation in Yemen, the Houthis claimed responsibility for the attack which
[00:00:10] left at least 58 dead among the governmental forces supported by
[00:00:14] Riyadh, this is the deadliest attack since the truce of
[00:00:17] 2022. In Syria, a bomb in a bus near
[00:00:20] Damascus kills two in the evening, the attack took place in
[00:00:24] Jaramana, a city with a Druze majority, no
[00:00:27] claim has been made for the moment. And
[00:00:31] then Janny Infantino, more isolated than ever, despite the
[00:00:34] withdrawal of his project to open up to private funds, the pressure
[00:00:38] is tightening, UEFA maintains its boycott of the World Cups and
[00:00:42] the South American football confederation is now distancing itself.
[00:00:58] At least 58 soldiers killed in Yemen, the Houthis
[00:01:02] claim responsibility for attacks against Yemeni governmental forces supported by Saudi
[00:01:06] Arabia, this is the deadliest toll since the truce of
[00:01:09] 2022, the day before, the Houthis had attacked a
[00:01:12] second oil tanker in the Red Sea, details from Loik
[00:01:15] Chalavon.
[00:01:19] After several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi oil tankers, the
[00:01:22] Houthis are striking this time on dry land, a direct response
[00:01:25] according to them, to the increased support from Saudi Arabia to...
[00:01:30] Yemeni governmental forces for several
[00:01:32] weeks.
[00:01:37] This operation allowed us to kill and injure many Saudi
[00:01:40] mercenaries, to destroy and burn a large number of camps and
[00:01:43] weapons depots of the Saudi enemy in the east of the
[00:01:46] country,
[00:01:49] as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed in the
[00:01:53] targeted
[00:01:53] camps.
[00:01:57] According to an anonymous military source, the Houthi drones and missiles struck
[00:02:01] several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the
[00:02:04] country and that of Hadhramaut near the border with Saudi
[00:02:07] Arabia. This is the deadliest toll since 2022 between the two
[00:02:11] camps. The Yemeni government announced that it would retaliate at the right
[00:02:15] time and place. Since 2014, a proxy war
[00:02:19] has been taking place in Yemen between the Houthi rebels, allies of Iran, and the Yemeni
[00:02:22] government supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
[00:02:25] 2022, a fragile truce came into effect, but it broke
[00:02:29] down last month when the Houthis welcomed an Iranian plane in
[00:02:33] Sanaa, violating Saudi control over Yemeni
[00:02:36] airspace. The
[00:02:39] allowed to temporarily leave the Houthis then announced a maritime blockade of Saudi ports and began targeting the kingdom's
[00:02:43] oil tankers.
[00:02:46] We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
[00:02:49] against our country and our people. They will have to bear the
[00:02:53] consequences of any
[00:02:54] escalation.
[00:02:57] According to a senior Saudi official, several intelligence services say that
[00:03:01] Iraqi Shiite militias are preparing attacks on Saudi territory in
[00:03:05] coordination with the Yemeni Houthis and under the direction of the
[00:03:08] Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Saudi Arabia says it will take
[00:03:12] the necessary measures to respond to any
[00:03:14] aggression.
[00:03:16] And a few hours ago, another attack by the Houthi rebels was
[00:03:19] perpetrated on Saudi soil this time in the Najran
[00:03:23] region near the border with Yemen, 11 civilians were
[00:03:26] injured, the deterioration of the situation in the Middle
[00:03:30] East is pushing Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey to
[00:03:34] accelerate their defense agreement, the heads of state of the three countries are due to meet
[00:03:37] today in Jeddah to sign it at a summit, the
[00:03:41] discussions had already begun, the worsening tensions have
[00:03:45] prompted the three countries to finalize it more
[00:03:48] to express her gratitude to the hospital quickly. In Syria, a bomb in a bus near
[00:03:52] Damascus killed two in the evening. The attack occurred in
[00:03:56] Jaramana, a city that is predominantly Druze and which had
[00:04:00] already been the scene of violent clashes last year, details from
[00:04:03] Dana Alboze, our correspondent in
[00:04:05] Damascus.
[00:04:08] According to our latest report communicated by the Syrian Ministry of
[00:04:12] Health, two people have died and 14 others were
[00:04:15] injured in an explosion that occurred this evening in Jaramana in the
[00:04:19] southeastern suburbs of Damascus. The explosion occurred in the
[00:04:23] middle of the main thoroughfare of Jaramana, it's a very busy
[00:04:27] road, it targeted a small passenger
[00:04:30] shuttle which was completely destroyed according
[00:04:33] to our information. The
[00:04:36] effect. The member federations of injured were evacuated to two hospitals in Damascus and
[00:04:38] Jaramana and according to a local source, most of the
[00:04:41] injuries are said to be minor, but this information remains
[00:04:45] preliminary and the death toll could rise. The
[00:04:50] to imagine a future off authorities have established a security perimeter around the area and there was
[00:04:53] concern among the residents of Jaramana. Jaramana is
[00:04:57] only a few kilometers southeast of Damascus, the
[00:05:01] city also harbors a large Druze
[00:05:04] population, but also residents from different communities.
[00:05:08] At this stage, no party has officially
[00:05:11] claimed this attack, the authorities have also not
[00:05:15] communicated on the exact nature of this
[00:05:17] explosion, but of course this incident comes as Syria
[00:05:21] has experienced several explosions in Damascus and in
[00:05:25] its surroundings in recent months and even in recent
[00:05:29] weeks, I remind you that in early July during the visit of French
[00:05:32] President Emmanuel Macron, two explosions occurred in
[00:05:36] Damascus, in these different cases explosive devices
[00:05:40] had been mentioned and this new explosion
[00:05:43] occurs in a context, I would say, of security
[00:05:46] challenges for the new Syrian authorities,
[00:05:49] who must notably deal with the persistence of attacks
[00:05:53] and security incidents targeting urban
[00:05:57] areas. Also in the news, fires
[00:06:00] in France with more than 13,500 fires or fire
[00:06:04] starts and more than 100,000 hectares burned, this year
[00:06:08] 2026 breaks the sad record of burned area most of the
[00:06:12] time due to these fires of human origin, sometimes it
[00:06:15] is a poorly extinguished cigarette butt thrown out of the car
[00:06:18] window. Today, the MP and former Minister of Health
[00:06:22] Yannick Neuder believes that tobacco
[00:06:25] manufacturers should pay.
[00:06:29] A simple gesture, but far from
[00:06:31] trivial, a cigarette butt can cause
[00:06:35] a fire and devastate hundreds of hectares
[00:06:39] in a few hours. Hello sir, where are you from? If one
[00:06:43] in 5 smokers admits to throwing his butt out the window, this
[00:06:46] summer, the authorities have increased surveillance
[00:06:50] operations. We come from a region where it burns so
[00:06:53] it's good to raise awareness among people anyway because
[00:06:56] right now we're not laughing, it only takes one cigarette butt
[00:07:00] in fact and it's perhaps not the number that makes the danger, it's the act of doing it and
[00:07:04] we must continue to raise awareness among people. So
[00:07:07] should cigarettes be taxed again? This is what
[00:07:11] the MP and former Minister of Health, Yannick Neuder, proposes, a
[00:07:15] tax that could bring in, according to him, 350 million
[00:07:19] euros to finance fire prevention. There were
[00:07:22] already behaviors that penalize smokers
[00:07:26] who throw their butts, but there was nothing at
[00:07:29] the level of tobacco manufacturers on this fight
[00:07:33] against environmental impact. In
[00:07:36] 2021, a simple cigarette butt thrown on a highway rest area in
[00:07:39] Var caused the mega-fire of Gonfaron. 7000
[00:07:43] hectares went up in smoke.
[00:07:46] We continue with this new offensive by Donald Trump against birthright
[00:07:50] citizenship. The American president has just signed a decree to
[00:07:54] prevent birth tourism. This involves foreign
[00:07:57] women traveling to the United States to give birth and for
[00:08:00] the child to obtain American citizenship a month ago his
[00:08:04] previous decree challenging birthright citizenship had
[00:08:08] been rejected by the Supreme Court. Listen to Donald
[00:08:11] Trump.
[00:08:15] The Supreme Court made a very regrettable decision regarding birthright
[00:08:19] citizenship, the vote was close but the decision is very
[00:08:22] regrettable, so we are going to make adjustments because it is very
[00:08:26] unfair, this rule was established for another reason, it was
[00:08:29] just after the Civil War, it was for the children of slaves, but
[00:08:33] today what is happening is that wealthy people are doing business around
[00:08:37] this birthright citizenship, it should not work
[00:08:40] like that, it's a shame. their access to
[00:08:43] citizenship,
[00:08:49] the inauguration ceremony of Abelardo de la Espriella, the
[00:08:52] new president of Colombia, is to take place today, he
[00:08:56] takes office after his election on June 21st, close to Donald
[00:09:00] Trump, he had campaigned on the fight against drug trafficking,
[00:09:03] moreover, he preferred the city of Cali to the capital Bogota for his
[00:09:07] inauguration, Cali, a city marked by
[00:09:10] violence linked to drug trafficking.
[00:09:16] he tried to back down, nothing worked, the pressure
[00:09:20] on Gianni Infantino does not subside, despite the
[00:09:23] apologies from part of the FIFA management, UEFA
[00:09:26] maintains its boycott of the World Cups and on its side the
[00:09:30] Conmebol which manages South American football, is
[00:09:33] distancing itself from the methods of the president of FIFA, Nicolas
[00:09:36] Chamontin.
[00:09:40] The apologies from the FIFA management, nothing,
[00:09:43] UEFA assures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in
[00:09:48] UEFA have been very clear about the conditions related to their non-participation
[00:09:52] in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
[00:09:55] met. In addition to the abandonment of the FIFA commercial
[00:09:58] company project decided on Friday. The European football
[00:10:02] body demands assurances that such an idea will never see the
[00:10:05] light of day. UEFA reaffirms having lost confidence
[00:10:09] in Gianni Infantino. Wednesday evening, the boss of
[00:10:12] world football received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for a
[00:10:16] crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
[00:10:20] apologized after the controversy over opening up to
[00:10:23] private investors. A project that leaked in the press without
[00:10:27] the football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
[00:10:30] South American confederation Conmebol, although reputed to be close
[00:10:34] to Infantino, in turn denounced the president's
[00:10:37] methods. The Conmebol council unanimously
[00:10:40] expresses its concern over repeated unilateral
[00:10:43] actions, adopted without resorting to dialogue or the institutional
[00:10:47] mechanism provided for the treatment of this type of
[00:10:49] situation. Apparently immovable a few
[00:10:53] weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems more fragile than ever,
[00:10:57] the one who has led FIFA for a decade still hopes to be
[00:11:00] re-elected next March thanks to the support of many federations
[00:11:04] in Africa and the Middle East.
[00:11:07] A new case of hantavirus has been detected in a Franco-Argentine
[00:11:11] person who had spent her holidays in France during the
[00:11:14] second half of July. This person is now isolated with her
[00:11:18] family in
[00:11:19] Spain.
[00:11:22] The diagnosis came in the afternoon. A new case of
[00:11:25] hantavirus detected in a Franco-Argentine,
[00:11:29] announced by the Ministry of Health. The patient,
[00:11:32] isolated with his family in Spain, is a person on a tourist trip who
[00:11:35] transited through France in the second half of July. The
[00:11:38] man, now in good health, is said to have passed
[00:11:42] through three regions: Normandy, Ile-de-France and
[00:11:45] Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Health authorities are now trying to
[00:11:49] precisely trace his journey to find any contact
[00:11:52] cases. His very mild symptoms reduce the risk of
[00:11:56] contamination,
[00:11:58] there's nothing to worry about, it's not a virus that will cause a global pandemic, however, there
[00:12:02] are people who will need to be found to verify that they will not develop the
[00:12:06] disease and who will be the people who are really in close contact with the
[00:12:09] case. According to the ministry, this case is not linked to
[00:12:13] the epidemic on the MV Hondus ship which had caused a
[00:12:16] global frenzy. Having left Argentina in April, the cruise
[00:12:20] ship had to be diverted and the passengers disembarked after the
[00:12:24] discovery of the virus and the death of a Dutch tourist. In
[00:12:27] France, contact cases had been placed in isolation in different
[00:12:30] hospitals. The only French positive case, a 73-year-old
[00:12:34] woman, was only released today from the hospital
[00:12:37] after 3 months in intensive care. In
[00:12:39] total, at least 13 people have been infected worldwide,
[00:12:43] three have died.
[00:12:47] We end this news report with a very special record, at
[00:12:50] almost 100 years old, British Betty
[00:12:54] Bromage is not afraid of anything, a report by Justin
[00:12:57] Wild. Very relaxed,
[00:13:00] this British woman sets a new world
[00:13:04] record, that of the oldest woman to perform wing walking
[00:13:07] standing on the wings of an airplane. At
[00:13:11] 97 years old, this is Betty Bromage, reaching speeds of
[00:13:14] 240 km/h, with a strong heart and a
[00:13:18] certain thirst for adrenaline.
[00:13:21] When you get old, you can't go here, you can't do that, you can't drive anymore.
[00:13:25] I can't see very well anymore and it frustrates me a little, so I'm going to do things I'm still
[00:13:29] capable of, stunningly
[00:13:33] courageous,
[00:13:37] 4 years ago she was,
[00:13:40] this new exploit today impresses her
[00:13:43] audience,
[00:13:48] I'm so proud of her, I mean, she's visually impaired, almost blind, and she does all
[00:13:51] this, at her age, it's just amazing,
[00:13:55] and when every excuse seems good to take on challenges, here
[00:13:59] she is celebrating her 90th birthday with a dizzying
[00:14:02] zipline descent in Wales.
[00:14:06] This week, something else pushed her to surpass herself,
[00:14:10] a gesture that was close to her heart,
[00:14:13] caregivers who supported her during her stroke. The funds
[00:14:17] raised will be donated to them.
[00:14:20] Information continues on France 24, next news update in a few minutes. is with us,
[00:14:23] l'actualité dans quelques minutes. est avec nous,
[00:21:13] in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan,
[00:21:16] Nagashima Island had everything to be a little paradise.
[00:21:21] The government eventually built a hell for thousands of patients like
[00:21:25] Shinji, when he arrived at this port in
[00:21:28] 1948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
[00:21:32] years old,
[00:21:35] as I arrived here without knowing anything, I was
[00:21:39] rather relaxed at first, but once
[00:21:42] I arrived, everyone told me that I would not be able to return
[00:21:46] home.
[00:21:48] Shinji had contracted leprosy a year before his family sent
[00:21:52] him here, he then knew nothing of this disease that was about to
[00:21:55] disfigure his face and body by attacking his
[00:21:58] nerves. Once disembarked, presumed patients
[00:22:02] were locked up for a week in this building to be
[00:22:05] examined.
[00:22:08] At the time, we first carried out disinfection
[00:22:12] here, because sometimes people arrived with lice,
[00:22:15] fleas or skin diseases.
[00:22:19] So there was no one really
[00:22:22] happy, everyone was crying, even the
[00:22:26] nurses wore rubber boots and masks made of
[00:22:29] several layers of
[00:22:36] protection. Like him, 5,000 children and adults
[00:22:39] were forcibly or willingly separated from their families
[00:22:43] and sent to this
[00:22:45] sanatorium, a containment policy applied throughout Japan thanks to a law of
[00:22:49] 1931. The same year, Nagashima Island welcomed its first
[00:22:53] patients, their belongings were confiscated for fear
[00:22:57] that they would also be contaminated,
[00:23:00] here you can see what are called internal circulation tickets, a
[00:23:04] special currency whose use was authorized only on the
[00:23:07] island, the main objective was the prevention of
[00:23:10] escapes, so even if someone managed to escape from here
[00:23:13] without ordinary money, they could neither take the train nor
[00:23:16] eat, 17 years later, the
[00:23:20] is introduced because from 1948, a new
[00:23:24] treatment allowed lepers to be cured and some patients were
[00:23:29] island, a fleeting joy, because for these
[00:23:33] disfigured people, reunions with their loved ones turned
[00:23:36] into a tragedy,
[00:23:38] when a leper was detected in a house, all members of his family
[00:23:42] were discriminated against, it then became
[00:23:45] very difficult to accept his return.
[00:23:47] Rejected
[00:23:50] by their families, cured lepers were also forced by law
[00:23:53] to continue living on the island,
[00:23:56] so they built their own society,
[00:24:00] built roads or schools for child
[00:24:04] patients,
[00:24:07] they created their own jobs, Shinji became
[00:24:10] a farmer,
[00:24:12] this is a photo from when I played baseball, there are no more fields today, but we often
[00:24:16] played games, Shinji is now 81
[00:24:20] years old, 77 of which were spent here. He has
[00:24:24] known loneliness, but also laughter and
[00:24:27] love. His wife, now deceased, was also a
[00:24:31] patient. Like thousands of lepers, they were
[00:24:35] forced into sterilization.
[00:24:38] In 2024, this abusive practice was deemed
[00:24:41] unconstitutional by the Japanese Supreme Court, condemning the state to
[00:24:44] pay up to €8,000 in compensation per
[00:24:47] victim. to say, but I felt
[00:24:51] like I was no longer really a
[00:24:54] man, without children, Shinji can't even count on
[00:24:57] his nephews or nieces, his family never fully believed in his
[00:25:01] recovery, as evidenced by the last call with his
[00:25:05] mother to go see her at the hospital,
[00:25:09] she asked me, "Has your face returned to normal, have your hands
[00:25:12] healed?" I told her that what I had were sequelae,
[00:25:16] she said no, "Finally it's not worth coming, it shouldn't
[00:25:20] be known."
[00:25:23] In 1996, nearly 50 years after the appearance of the first
[00:25:27] treatments and long legal battles, Japan finally
[00:25:31] authorized all lepers to leave the country's sanatoriums.
[00:25:33] A late victory. Shinji was then
[00:25:36] 61 years old, it was impossible
[00:25:40] the island.
[00:25:42] Nagashima still belongs to the state and only former patients and a few
[00:25:46] officials are allowed there. Here the needs of the old.
[00:26:32] More than half of the 5,000 patients died on this prison
[00:26:36] island, for many, the deaths are linked
[00:26:40] to old age or other diseases rather than to leprosy, they are
[00:26:44] only 66 like Shinji, who have
[00:26:48] resigned themselves to ending their days
[00:26:50] here.
[00:26:58] Since when can we predict the weather? The interest in rain and good
[00:27:01] weather dates back to antiquity, it is in China that we find the first traces
[00:27:05] of regular meteorological observations dating from
[00:27:08] 1216 BC, but the term meteorology comes to us
[00:27:11] from the Greek philosopher Aristotle who, in his treatise on meteorology,
[00:27:15] links weather observations to a physical reality and no longer to a divine
[00:27:19] action. At that time, to predict the weather, we observed the clouds, the
[00:27:22] position of the stars, but also the behavior of animals. We had to
[00:27:26] wait until the 17th century for the practice to become scientific, it was the
[00:27:30] moment of the creation of measuring instruments, the barometer. First, conceived by
[00:27:33] the Italian Evangelista Toricelli, measures atmospheric
[00:27:36] pressure, while the thermometer gives the air temperature.
[00:27:40] A century later, in 1776, the Royal Society
[00:27:43] of Medicine developed the first observation network in France, the rise of the telegraph
[00:27:47] in the 19th century allowed to accelerate the sharing of meteorological
[00:27:50] measurements from one city to another, and this allowed the British Robert Fitzroy
[00:27:54] to publish in 1861 the first daily weather
[00:27:57] forecasts in The Times newspaper, but the real turning point occurred during
[00:28:01] the First World War. The French army needed to know the weather
[00:28:05] to launch its attacks in the sky or on land. Considerable human and technical
[00:28:09] resources were then dedicated to meteorology. However, it was not until
[00:28:12] the technological innovations of the Second World War and finally
[00:28:16] satellites in the 1970s that more precise and accurate
[00:28:19] forecasts were obtained. The success rate is now
[00:28:22] 84% according to Météo France, but global warming complicates the
[00:28:26] work of
[00:28:27] forecasters.
[00:30:06] Hello everyone and welcome if you join us for the headlines of this news,
[00:30:10] the escalation in Yemen, Neoutir claims responsibility for the attack that left at
[00:30:13] least 58 dead among the governmental forces supported by Saudi
[00:30:17] Arabia, it is the deadliest attack since the 2022
[00:30:20] truce. In Syria, a bomb on a bus near Damascus
[00:30:24] kills two people in the evening, the attack occurred in
[00:30:27] Jeramana, a predominantly Druze city, no claim
[00:30:31] has been made for... the moment
[00:30:34] also in this edition, an exceptional report,
[00:30:37] filmed in Havana, Cuba, closer to the
[00:30:40] inhabitants between energy crisis and economic collapse, their
[00:30:44] daily life is punctuated by trials.
[00:30:58] At least 58 soldiers.