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[00:00:00] equality,
[00:00:00] news.
[00:00:05] Hello everyone and welcome, if you are joining us, the top story of this
[00:00:08] edition is the escalation in Yemen, the Houthis claim responsibility for the attack which
[00:00:12] killed at least 58 people among the governmental forces supported by
[00:00:16] Riyadh, it's the deadliest attack since the 2022
[00:00:19] truce. In Syria,
[00:00:23] Authority for Media and a bomb in a bus near Damascus killed two people last night. The attack occurred in
[00:00:26] Jaramana, a city with a Druze majority, no
[00:00:30] claim of responsibility has been made so far. Also in this
[00:00:33] newscast, an exceptional report filmed in Havana, Cuba, close
[00:00:37] to the inhabitants, between energy crisis and economic collapse,
[00:00:40] their daily life is punctuated by challenges.
[00:00:56] At least 58 soldiers killed in
[00:00:58] General of the Yemen, the Houthis claim the... attacks against Yemeni governmental forces
[00:01:01] supported by Saudi Arabia, it's the deadliest toll
[00:01:05] since the 2022 truce, the day before the
[00:01:08] Houthis had attacked a second oil tanker in the Red
[00:01:11] Sea, with Lohic Chalavon. After
[00:01:15] several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi oil tankers, the
[00:01:18] Houthis strike this time on solid
[00:01:20] press and information ground. A direct response according to them, to the
[00:01:23] reinforced support of Saudi Arabia to the Yemeni governmental forces
[00:01:26] for several weeks.
[00:01:32] This is the end of this Africa news, thank you for This operation allowed us to kill and wound many Saudi
[00:01:36] mercenaries, to destroy and burn a large number of camps and
[00:01:39] weapons depots of the Saudi enemy in the east of
[00:01:42] the country,
[00:01:44] as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed in
[00:01:48] the targeted
[00:01:49] camps.
[00:01:53] According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck
[00:01:57] several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the
[00:02:00] country and in Hadhramaut near the border with Saudi
[00:02:03] Arabia. This is the deadliest toll since 2022 between the two
[00:02:07] camps. The Yemeni government has announced that it will retaliate at the right
[00:02:11] time and place. Since 2014, a proxy war
[00:02:15] Boulevard de has been taking place in Yemen between the Houthi rebels, allies of Iran, and the Yemeni government
[00:02:18] supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
[00:02:21] 2022, a fragile truce came into effect, but it broke
[00:02:25] down last month when the Houthis welcomed an Iranian plane in
[00:02:28] Sanaa.
[00:02:34] The Houthis then announced a maritime blockade of Saudi ports and began targeting
[00:02:38] the kingdom's oil tankers.
[00:02:41] We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
[00:02:45] against our country and our people. They will have to bear the
[00:02:49] consequences of any
[00:02:50] escalation.
[00:02:53] According to a senior Saudi official. Several intelligence
[00:02:56] services claim that Iraqi militias are preparing attacks on Saudi
[00:03:00] territory in coordination with the Yemeni Houthis and under the
[00:03:03] direction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Saudi Arabia
[00:03:07] indicates that it will take the necessary measures to respond to any
[00:03:09] aggression.
[00:03:12] And last night another Houthi attack was perpetrated on Saudi
[00:03:15] soil. In the Najran region near the border with Yemen,
[00:03:19] civilians were injured. The deterioration of the situation in the Middle East
[00:03:23] as a whole is pushing Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey to
[00:03:26] accelerate their mutual defense agreement. The heads of state of the three
[00:03:30] countries are to meet today in Jeddah to sign it at a
[00:03:33] summit, discussions had already been initiated, but the worsening
[00:03:37] tensions have prompted the three countries to sign as quickly as
[00:03:41] possible.
[00:03:45] In Syria, a bomb in a bus near
[00:03:46] Patrice Talon returns to the forefront, Damascus, killed two people last night, the attack occurred in
[00:03:50] Jaramana, a city with a Druze majority and which had already been the
[00:03:53] scene of violent clashes last year. We take stock with Alice
[00:03:57] Broga.
[00:04:00] at the scene of the tragedy in Jaramana in the suburbs of Damascus, chaos
[00:04:03] reigns before the arrival of emergency services, this public
[00:04:06] transport minibus has just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
[00:04:12] immediately, here is a new news report, headlining
[00:04:12] effect. UEFA member federations have been the explosion, the inhabitants are in shock,
[00:04:16] we came out and saw the minibus, it was making a deafening
[00:04:19] noise and was damaged, two women fled the explosion and a fragment
[00:04:22] went towards our shop, a shell fragment flew in my direction and hit the
[00:04:26] window, the explosion was caused
[00:04:30] by a bomb located inside the vehicle, according to state
[00:04:33] television, several people died and a dozen injured
[00:04:37] were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the minibus
[00:04:41] driver.
[00:04:43] killing innocent people who have done nothing wrong, simply to sow chaos in the country
[00:04:47] in Syria, it is a purely sadistic act. This
[00:04:50] explosion strikes a predominantly Druze and Christian city, two
[00:04:54] communities that feel threatened under the
[00:04:57] first discuss the visit of the WHO new Syrian regime led by the former jihadist Ahmad.
[00:05:00] Last year, sectarian violence between armed groups linked to the government
[00:05:04] and Druze fighters killed more than 100 people in Jaramana and the
[00:05:08] surrounding area, according to the London-based SOHR NGO
[00:05:11] and several attacks. or attempted attacks targeted Christian places of worship
[00:05:14] in recent
[00:05:15] months.
[00:05:19] The new Syrian government is struggling to establish its authority and ensure security
[00:05:23] throughout the territory where dormant cells of the Islamic
[00:05:27] State jihadist organization are still present. In Damascus, several
[00:05:31] deadly attacks have occurred in recent months, including a bomb attack that
[00:05:34] killed one person and injured 36 during the visit of French President
[00:05:38] Emmanuel Macron in July.
[00:05:43] Also in the news, fires in France with more than
[00:05:47] 13,500 fires or fire starts and nearly 12,000 hectares of
[00:05:51] forest already burned this year 2026 is breaking records,
[00:05:54] most of the time the cause of fires is human, sometimes it's
[00:05:58] a poorly extinguished cigarette butt thrown out of a car window.
[00:06:02] Today, MP Yannick Neder believes that tobacco
[00:06:06] manufacturers should be made to pay.
[00:06:09] A simple gesture but far from...
[00:06:12] insignificant, a cigarette butt, can be the cause
[00:06:16] of a fire, and ravage hundreds of hectares
[00:06:19] in a few hours. Hello sir, where are you from? If one
[00:06:23] in 5 smokers throws their butt out the window, this
[00:06:27] summer, the authorities have multiplied surveillance
[00:06:30] operations. We come from a region where it burns,
[00:06:33] so it's not bad to raise awareness among people, because
[00:06:37] right now we're not kidding, it just takes
[00:06:41] a cigarette butt and... it's not the number that makes the danger, it's the act of doing
[00:06:45] it and we must continue to raise awareness among people. So, should we
[00:06:48] tax cigarettes again? This is what
[00:06:51] is proposed by the MP and former Minister of Health Yannick
[00:06:55] Neuder, a tax that could bring in, according to him,
[00:06:58] 350 million euros to finance fire
[00:07:02] prevention. There were already behaviors that
[00:07:05] sanctioned smokers who throw their cigarette butts, but
[00:07:09] there was nothing at the level of tobacco manufacturers.
[00:07:13] on this fight against environmental impact. In
[00:07:16] 2021, a single cigarette butt thrown on a highway rest area in
[00:07:20] Le Var had caused the mega-fire of Gonfaron, 7000
[00:07:23] hectares had gone up in smoke.
[00:07:27] New offensive by Donald Trump against birthright citizenship, the American
[00:07:31] president has just signed an executive order to prevent
[00:07:34] birth tourism. This involves foreigners going to the United
[00:07:38] States to give birth and for the child to obtain American
[00:07:41] citizenship. A month ago, his previous executive order, challenging
[00:07:45] birthright citizenship, had been rejected by the Supreme Court. Let's listen to
[00:07:49] Donald
[00:07:49] Trump.
[00:07:53] The Supreme Court made a very regrettable decision regarding birthright
[00:07:57] citizenship. The vote was close but the decision is very
[00:08:01] regrettable. So we are going to make adjustments because it is very
[00:08:04] unfair. This rule was established for another reason. It was
[00:08:08] just after the Civil War, it was for the children of slaves. But
[00:08:11] today, what is happening is that wealthy people are doing business around
[00:08:15] this birthright citizenship, it should not work like that, it's a
[00:08:18] shame, they are buying their access to
[00:08:21] citizenship.
[00:08:27] The inauguration ceremony of Abelardo de la Espriella, the
[00:08:30] new president of Colombia, is to take place
[00:08:34] today. He therefore takes office after his election last June 21, close to
[00:08:37] Donald Trump, he had campaigned on the fight against drug
[00:08:40] trafficking. Moreover. He preferred the city of Cali to the capital
[00:08:44] Bogota for his inauguration, Cali,
[00:08:47] a city marked by violence linked to drug
[00:08:50] trafficking.
[00:08:54] He had to backtrack, but the pressure on Gianni
[00:08:58] Infantino does not subside despite the apologies from part of the
[00:09:01] FIFA leadership, UEFA maintains its boycott of the World
[00:09:05] Cups and for its part, CONMEBOL, which manages South American
[00:09:08] football, distances itself from the president's
[00:09:11] methods.
[00:09:16] The apologies from the FIFA leadership are useless,
[00:09:19] UEFA ensures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in
[00:09:25] very clear on the conditions related to their non-participation
[00:09:29] in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
[00:09:32] met. In addition to abandoning FIFA's commercial
[00:09:35] company project, decided Friday, the European football
[00:09:38] body demands assurances that such an idea will never see the light of day.
[00:09:47] Wednesday evening, the head of world football received the full support of his
[00:09:51] leadership, gathered in Morocco for a crisis meeting. In a
[00:09:55] statement, FIFA apologized after the controversy
[00:09:58] over opening up to private investors, a project
[00:10:01] that leaked to the press without the football stakeholders being
[00:10:05] informed. This Thursday, the South American Confederation
[00:10:08] Conmebol, although reputed to be close to Infantino, has in turn
[00:10:12] denounced the President's methods. The Conmebol Council unanimously
[00:10:16] expresses its concern about repeated unilateral
[00:10:20] actions, adopted without resorting to dialogue or the institutional
[00:10:23] mechanisms provided for the handling of this type of
[00:10:26] situation, apparently unmovable a few
[00:10:29] weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems more fragile than
[00:10:32] ever, he who has led FIFA for a decade still hopes
[00:10:36] to be re-elected next March thanks to the support of
[00:10:39] many federations in Africa and the
[00:10:41] Middle East.
[00:10:44] Typhoon alert in Japan, 26,000 inhabitants of the
[00:10:47] southwest of the country have been ordered to evacuate, more than 500
[00:10:51] flights have been canceled today, the winds accompanying
[00:10:55] this category 1 typhoon could reach 200
[00:10:58] km/h and very heavy rains are also
[00:11:01] expected.
[00:11:06] This is an exceptional report, filmed in Havana, Cuba, where
[00:11:09] the daily life of the population is a real ordeal. The energy
[00:11:13] crisis is compounded by an unprecedented economic collapse while
[00:11:17] Washington multiplies sanctions, between American pressure
[00:11:20] and internal crisis, Cubans try to hold on day after
[00:11:23] day.
[00:11:27] I braid my
[00:11:28] child's hair,
[00:11:37] like many to be able to live decently,
[00:11:51] times are harder than ever on the communist island.
[00:11:56] there is no more tourism, everything is empty, no
[00:11:59] customers, no one left to cut hair,
[00:12:03] look at this empty hotel, not a customer coming out, it hurts. In
[00:12:06] January, Washington tightened its
[00:12:10] energy blockade, followed by new sanctions against companies
[00:12:13] operating in
[00:12:14] Cuba.
[00:12:19] The fall of tourism, one of the country's main sources of
[00:12:22] revenue, affects the entire economy.
[00:12:55] and it is we, the Cubans on the street, who
[00:12:56] pay for them,
[00:12:59] without electricity, without sufficient currency, all
[00:13:03] institutions, like banks, are running
[00:13:05] slowly,
[00:13:08] I'm waiting to get my salary, people are annoyed, they
[00:13:12] are screaming, I don't even have money to buy
[00:13:14] food,
[00:13:17] several days waiting at the bank to get a salary or a
[00:13:20] pension, tempers are flaring, Cubans are
[00:13:23] tired.
[00:13:26] Civil servants like Tania, the teacher who braids hair in the
[00:13:29] center, earn a negligible
[00:13:31] income,
[00:13:34] I earn 6 dollars a month, and that's really not enough, I have to buy
[00:13:38] everything, clothes, shoes, and if I think about shoes for the
[00:13:41] children, I can forget about food,
[00:13:44] the lack of electricity worsens already precarious living
[00:13:47] conditions, only one hour of electricity per day, often
[00:13:51] less, there is nothing in it, if there was something that.
[00:14:12] This is a butcher shop where people do their shopping, a private
[00:14:15] butcher shop, 7 dollars, the bag of chicken, more than my
[00:14:18] salary, suddenly, a woman
[00:14:22] intervenes, an authorization is needed to be
[00:14:26] able to. The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution are still there, but they are less
[00:14:30] active, worn out by the crisis. Tania, she has nothing to
[00:14:34] reproach herself for.
[00:14:37] I love my island, I am a revolutionary, and even if I don't have
[00:14:40] anything to eat, I love our commander Fidel Castro, when he
[00:14:44] died, I cried for him.
[00:14:47] Between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans
[00:14:51] survive day by day, without seeing the end of the road.
[00:14:57] Continuous information on France 24, stay with us, have a very nice day,
[00:15:13] good evening everyone, welcome to France 24, we will be together for about ten minutes for the
[00:15:16] Africa news, we start with the headlines of this edition, we will
[00:15:22] chief to the Democratic Republic of Congo, he affirms that he wants to
[00:15:26] intensify the response against Ebola and better protect health
[00:15:29] personnel, while in the country many doctors claim not to have received any
[00:15:33] salary in recent months.
[00:15:36] Textile factories. They may have to close in South Africa,
[00:15:40] many positions are vacant since the departure of migrants
[00:15:44] at the end of June, driven by anti-foreign protests,
[00:15:47] since then it has been difficult to find
[00:15:49] labor.
[00:15:51] And then we'll go to Rwanda where cinema has gained popularity in recent months
[00:15:55] since the Golden Camera won at Cannes by the feature film
[00:15:58] Benimana, Rwandans flock to movie theaters and outdoor
[00:16:02] festivals.
[00:16:03] air.
[00:16:07] The response against Ebola must be intensified, this is what the head of the World
[00:16:11] Health Organization declared earlier. He has been visiting the Democratic
[00:16:15] Republic of Congo since yesterday. Since
[00:16:18] May 15, more than 3,900 cases have been
[00:16:21] recorded in the country, including 1,801 deaths.
[00:16:25] Earlier, a suspected case was reported on a boat heading to
[00:16:28] Kinshasa. The man died with symptoms
[00:16:31] consistent with those of the Ebola virus. Let's listen to the Director-
[00:16:35] WHO.
[00:16:40] I think one of the peculiarities of this
[00:16:43] epidemic is its unprecedented speed,
[00:16:46] it is spreading really, really
[00:16:48] fast
[00:16:50] and I'm not going to hide what I
[00:16:54] feel, I am deeply very
[00:16:58] concerned by the situation on the
[00:17:00] ground.
[00:17:04] But as our report says, five other provinces
[00:17:07] are already affected.
[00:17:13] The head of the WHO also calls for better protection of health
[00:17:17] personnel, and indeed, on the front line, doctors and
[00:17:20] nurses denounce their working conditions, they claim not to
[00:17:24] have been paid since the beginning of the crisis despite a strike in July, the story
[00:17:28] by Noemie Roche:
[00:17:32] every day, the same ritual, Wiza Bandelé
[00:17:35] puts on his suit and disinfection
[00:17:37] equipment before tackling a house whose occupants
[00:17:41] died of the Ebola virus, essential
[00:17:44] actions to hope to curb the spread of the
[00:17:48] virus that continues to plague the country.
[00:17:52] However, since the beginning of his mission in mid-May, Wiza
[00:17:55] has still not received any salary. In
[00:17:58] July, he joined other health workers to go on
[00:18:01] strike.
[00:18:04] We went on strike because we observed that we were working in conditions.
[00:18:11] We operate in risky situations, it can happen
[00:18:14] that a patient vomits blood, we then have to
[00:18:17] clean up.
[00:18:20] In July, the Congolese Minister of Health acknowledged payment delays
[00:18:24] attributed to organizational problems, assuring that they
[00:18:27] would be resolved. Since then, some of his colleagues have indeed
[00:18:31] been paid, but only in part according to Wiza. He
[00:18:34] claims to have still received nothing and
[00:18:38] continues to work 7 days a week, despite the risks to which he is
[00:18:41] exposed. I could contract this
[00:18:44] virus. And subsequently, contaminate my family and my
[00:18:48] neighbors. So I realize that because of me, many
[00:18:52] people could
[00:18:53] die.
[00:18:56] Despite the fear, Wiza refuses to leave his post for
[00:18:59] now, guided by a sense of duty, a mission
[00:19:03] all the more crucial as this epidemic has now surpassed that of 2018
[00:19:07] in terms of case numbers, according to Congolese authorities, more than
[00:19:11] 8,370 cases have been confirmed, including
[00:19:14] 1,751 deaths since the start of the epidemic in
[00:19:18] May. 2 months after leaving power,
[00:19:24] the former Beninese head of state has been elected president of the
[00:19:28] Senate, a 5-year term that makes him today, the
[00:19:31] third most important figure in the country after the president and the
[00:19:35] vice-president of the Republic.
[00:19:39] Is this a sign that Senegal is regaining its colors? In any case, the
[00:19:43] World Bank has decided to grant it funding of 340
[00:19:47] billion CFA francs. The country was almost
[00:19:50] blacklisted by international partners since the crisis with
[00:19:53] the International Monetary Fund over the hidden debt issue. Details
[00:19:57] from our correspondent in Dakar
[00:19:59] Elimandao.
[00:20:01] This global funding of 340 billion CFA
[00:20:05] francs is intended for several. such
[00:20:08] as agriculture, energy or transport,
[00:20:12] this announcement was made during an audience granted by President
[00:20:15] Bassirou Diomaye, to the Vice President of the World Bank,
[00:20:18] Ousmane Diagana, the World Bank has especially
[00:20:22] decided on direct budgetary support to the
[00:20:25] Senegalese state, budgetary support which is welcome in a
[00:20:28] difficult economic context, Senegal which has been going through several
[00:20:32] months of crisis and tension on its public finances
[00:20:36] linked notably to the service. the debt that the country has
[00:20:39] decided to honor as best it can, this
[00:20:43] announcement of new funding from the World Bank is a positive
[00:20:46] signal according to government officials, a
[00:20:49] positive signal towards more favorable economic
[00:20:52] tomorrows, Senegal which aims notably for an agreement with the International
[00:20:56] Monetary Fund on a new program to
[00:20:59] restore its credibility on the
[00:21:02] international market and attract more new
[00:21:05] investors.
[00:21:08] A decision that is causing a lot of talk in Chad, that of the High
[00:21:13] Audiovisual which suspends until further notice the examination of
[00:21:16] requests for the creation of online newspapers, the regulator
[00:21:20] states that it wants to better regulate this rapidly expanding sector and thus
[00:21:24] fight against disinformation. Listen to our correspondent Anne
[00:21:28] Jamena Gislen Anataroum.
[00:21:31] This is a decision that challenges media stakeholders. The High
[00:21:34] Authority for Media and Audiovisual freezes the examination of applications
[00:21:38] for the creation of new online newspapers. The measure is part
[00:21:42] of, according to the regulator, the implementation of its strategic plan
[00:21:45] 2026-2028.
[00:21:50] with the ambition of sanitizing the sector and better responding
[00:21:53] to the informational abuses observed on digital
[00:21:57] platforms. While the Association of Online Media of Chad
[00:22:00] Ahmed says it understands the need for better
[00:22:03] regulation, it believes that this objective must remain
[00:22:07] compatible with freedom of the
[00:22:10] pluralism. The organization notably questions
[00:22:13] the link established between the suspension of new
[00:22:17] authorizations and the fight against disinformation. This is a
[00:22:20] decree line between freedom of expression, the various
[00:22:24] sources of information, did we need, for example, to
[00:22:27] suspend the creation of new
[00:22:31] sites, new information sites or new online
[00:22:34] media to
[00:22:35] fight
[00:22:39] the proliferation of fake pages on the net, I don't
[00:22:42] think so, now the decision has been made and that's why I'm telling you
[00:22:45] that it's this somewhat unhealthy link that bothers us in the association.
[00:22:50] we suspend and then we say that there is a proliferation of
[00:22:53] Facebook pages or pages but
[00:22:57] Facebook pages not media. Lamed
[00:23:00] nevertheless says it remains open to dialogue and declares itself willing to
[00:23:04] accompany the Ama in the search for a consensual
[00:23:07] regulatory framework. For its part, the regulatory authority
[00:23:11] insists on the temporary nature of this suspension. It announces
[00:23:15] the upcoming opening of consultations with sector
[00:23:18] stakeholders in order to define
[00:23:20] a new governance model for online media.
[00:23:24] Several factories at a standstill in South Africa, a situation
[00:23:27] caused by the departure of many migrants after weeks of
[00:23:31] anti-foreigner protests. Some positions are
[00:23:34] vacant. This is the case in Newcastle in the northwest of the
[00:23:38] country. More details with Laurent
[00:23:39] Berstécher.
[00:23:44] This South African textile factory has been running slowly
[00:23:47] for weeks here. entire
[00:23:50] rows of sewing machines are left abandoned since the departure
[00:23:53] of foreign workers. Most
[00:23:57] fled the country following anti-immigrant demonstrations and the
[00:24:00] factory director is struggling today to replace
[00:24:02] them.
[00:24:05] We cannot immediately replace this expertise with
[00:24:09] local workers, it takes time and we were not
[00:24:12] prepared.
[00:24:14] Since March, South Africa has been shaken by violent demonstrations
[00:24:17] and attacks against migrants. The organizers
[00:24:21] of these rallies accuse foreign workers of stealing jobs from
[00:24:25] native South Africans and see them as the cause of the country's
[00:24:29] economic difficulties, violence that recently forced more
[00:24:32] than 16,000 foreign nationals to leave South
[00:24:36] Africa. In Newcastle, a hub of the textile
[00:24:39] industry located in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, approximately
[00:24:43] 15% of the workforce fled. Since then, companies
[00:24:46] have been struggling to convince qualified workers to commit.
[00:24:54] I think young South Africans prefer to look for more
[00:24:57] comfortable jobs, they want to be nurses or cashiers because
[00:25:01] the textile industry is very tough, you sit on this
[00:25:04] bench for about 9 hours a day, it's not an easy
[00:25:07] job.
[00:25:10] For others, these jobs are simply not well
[00:25:13] paid enough. Here workers are often paid per item
[00:25:17] produced and earn less. that the... South
[00:25:20] African minimum wage,
[00:25:23] we're now going to talk about cinema. We're taking you to Rwanda, Kigali, where
[00:25:27] the sector is booming. Many cinemas
[00:25:30] have been rehabilitated, and open-air festivals have been organized
[00:25:34] in recent weeks. This is partly due to the
[00:25:37] success at Cannes of a Rwandan feature film, Benïmana, which won
[00:25:41] the Golden Camera. Watch this report from Kigali by Aurore
[00:25:44] Baylou.
[00:25:47] In the streets of Nyamirambo, the director. scouts for
[00:25:51] locations for his first feature film. In Rwanda,
[00:25:55] for lack of a real industry, cinema has long been invented solely
[00:25:58] by the strength of its directors. It has something specific.
[00:26:03] for filmmakers here, I don't know if it's because
[00:26:05] it's a small country or a small
[00:26:09] town, but it has a sense of
[00:26:12] community, we had common problems,
[00:26:14] so mutual aid
[00:26:18] and collaboration was a necessity. A
[00:26:22] its ashes, closed in
[00:26:25] 2019, this 70s cinema was saved by two young
[00:26:29] directors who made it the last cinema in the country in...
[00:26:35] We believe that films are not only there to entertain, they also have a
[00:26:38] depth, they transmit a lot of things and today at a time when we are constantly
[00:26:42] bombarded with content and people spend their time scrolling through images on
[00:26:46] their phone, we don't want what we offer to be reduced to just
[00:26:49] watching a few images, there is a real selection behind our programming, further
[00:26:53] down on the esplanade of Imbuga City Walk, a
[00:26:56] giant screen hosts open-air screenings of the Kigali Cine
[00:27:00] Junction festival which is celebrating its 4th edition. That evening, the
[00:27:04] blind couple from Mali, a musical portrait of Amadou and Mariam, is on the
[00:27:07] bill. When these films are made by Africans, they bring something richer,
[00:27:11] more nuanced, because they are nourished by lived
[00:27:14] experiences. And it's also important that we are there to see them and support
[00:27:18] them, so we can learn, we can see our own stories on
[00:27:22] screen. For the first time, Rwandan filmmakers no longer have to
[00:27:26] wait for foreign funding. The state has also started
[00:27:29] co-financing.
[00:27:34] watching, stay with us on France
[00:27:36] 24,
[00:27:43] this week in Paris des Arts, singer and
[00:27:46] guitarist Axel Bauer takes us into a musical
[00:27:49] whirlwind with Grand 8. He resembles
[00:27:52] me by his rock side, I think by the
[00:27:55] guitars, by the lyrics too and by the
[00:27:59] artistic choices, then meeting with. who
[00:28:03] sublimates ink through monumental works, water is
[00:28:06] totally uncontrollable, so in fact it's a balance between control
[00:28:10] and abandonment, finally between intimate poetry and committed
[00:28:14] gaze, Govincer touches us with his new album
[00:28:18] l'Enfance. Follow Valérie Fayolle in Paris des
[00:28:22] Arts on France
[00:28:23] 24.
[00:30:00] current affairs.
[00:30:07] Hello everyone, very happy to see you on France 24, you are
[00:30:11] joining us for the headlines, it's an excellent idea,
[00:30:14] international news this Friday, this question, will the spectre
[00:30:18] of sectarian violence resurface in Syria, a car
[00:30:22] bomb attack in a Christian and Druze suburb of
[00:30:25] Damascus kills two and injures more than a dozen this
[00:30:29] Thursday, another deadly attack in the Syrian
[00:30:32] capital within a few months, you will see, we will also discuss
[00:30:36] in the headlines the explosive situation also in occupied
[00:30:39] West Bank, new episode of violence by Israeli
[00:30:42] settlers, in a Palestinian village, resulting in numerous
[00:30:46] injuries and burned houses, violence that
[00:30:49] provokes indignation, you will see from Israeli
[00:30:52] Arabs, and then we will also talk in the headlines about a
[00:30:56] man more than ever in turmoil, Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful...