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[00:00:00] equality,
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[00:00:07] Hello everyone, very happy to welcome you back to France 24, you're joining
[00:00:11] us for the headlines, that's an excellent idea, right now, here's a new news bulletin, headlining
[00:00:14] international news this Friday, this question, will the specter
[00:00:18] of sectarian violence resurface in Syria, a
[00:00:22] car bomb attack in a Christian and Druze suburb of
[00:00:25] Damascus kills two and injures more than a dozen this Thursday,
[00:00:29] a... new deadly attack in the Syrian
[00:00:32] capital in a matter of months, as you'll see, we'll also discuss in the
[00:00:36] headlines the explosive situation also in the occupied West
[00:00:39] Bank, a new episode of violence by Israeli
[00:00:42] settlers in a Palestinian village, resulting in many
[00:00:47] inhabitants. injured and burned houses, violence that sparks outrage, as you'll
[00:00:51] years of see, among Israeli Arabs, and then we'll also
[00:00:54] talk in the headlines about a man more than ever in
[00:00:57] turmoil, Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful... head of FIFA
[00:01:00] is more fragile than ever, UEFA is
[00:01:04] maintaining its boycott of the competitions of the
[00:01:06] world football organization after the aborted project
[00:01:10] to open FIFA to external
[00:01:13] investors, details in your edition.
[00:01:28] So there are your headlines. This question, then,
[00:01:31] remain in office? The head of first of all, to start your edition, is Syria heading again towards instability and
[00:01:35] violence? Concern is in any case present after the explosion of a
[00:01:39] bomb in a vehicle this Thursday near Damascus, with two
[00:01:42] dead and 13 injured, as I told you, the attack
[00:01:46] occurred in Jaramana, a
[00:01:48] The Congo pavilion of predominantly Druze and Christian town located in the suburbs of
[00:01:51] the Syrian capital and already the scene of sectarian
[00:01:55] violence back in the spring of 2025. Alice
[00:01:58] Broga. At the scene of the tragedy in Jaramana, in the suburbs
[00:02:02] of Damascus, chaos reigns
[00:02:05] to their non-participation in FIFA before the arrival of aid, this public transport minibus has
[00:02:08] just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
[00:02:10] the explosion. The residents are in
[00:02:14] shock.
[00:02:16] We came out and saw the minibus, it made a deafening noise, it was
[00:02:20] damaged, two women fled the explosion and a fragment flew towards our
[00:02:23] store, a shell fragment flew in my direction and hit the
[00:02:26] display case. The explosion was caused
[00:02:30] the ceremony will appease... the members of by a bomb located inside the vehicle, according to state
[00:02:33] television, several people died and a dozen injured
[00:02:37] were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the driver of
[00:02:41] the minibus.
[00:02:43] killing innocent people who have done nothing wrong, simply to sow chaos in the country
[00:02:47] in Syria, it is a purely sadistic act. This
[00:02:51] explosion strikes a predominantly Druze and Christian city, two
[00:02:54] communities that feel threatened under the new Syrian regime led by
[00:02:58] former jihadist Ahmad. "Last year, sectarian violence
[00:03:01] between armed groups linked to the government and Druze fighters left
[00:03:05] more than 100 dead in Jaramana and the surrounding areas, according to the
[00:03:09] London-based NGO OSD, and several attacks or planned attacks
[00:03:13] have targeted Christian places of worship in recent months.
[00:03:15] The new Syrian government is struggling to establish its
[00:03:19] authority and ensure
[00:03:23] security throughout the territory, where
[00:03:26] dormant cells of the jihadist Islamic State organization are still present.
[00:03:30] In Damascus, several deadly attacks have occurred in recent months, including a bomb
[00:03:34] attack that left one dead and 36 injured during the visit of French
[00:03:37] President Emmanuel Macron in
[00:03:39] July.
[00:03:44] In the Middle East, the consequences of the conflict between
[00:03:46] Iran and the United States are multiplying in Yemen, the Houthi
[00:03:50] rebels have launched their largest attack against Yemeni governmental
[00:03:53] forces in years, with a toll of
[00:03:56] the ambulance's electrical 58 dead and here targets hit
[00:03:59] also in Saudi Arabia,
[00:04:01] all over the world, these players from an ally of the central government, this is also the resumption of a conflict
[00:04:04] after a ceasefire concluded in
[00:04:07] 2022.
[00:04:11] After several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi oil tankers, the
[00:04:15] Houthis are striking this time on land, a direct response
[00:04:18] according to them to Saudi Arabia's increased support for
[00:04:22] Yemeni governmental forces for several
[00:04:24] weeks.
[00:04:30] operation has killed and wounded many Saudi mercenaries, and destroyed and
[00:04:34] burned a large number of camps and weapons depots of the Saudi enemy in
[00:04:38] the east of the country,
[00:04:41] as well as destroying a large number of military vehicles stationed in the targeted
[00:04:45] camps.
[00:04:49] According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck
[00:04:53] several military camps in Marib province in the center of the country
[00:04:56] and Hadramout province near the border with Saudi Arabia. This is
[00:05:00] the deadliest toll since 2022 between the two sides. The
[00:05:04] Yemeni government announced that it would retaliate at the opportune
[00:05:07] time and place. Since 2014, a proxy war has been raging in
[00:05:11] negative consequences for the functioning of Iran, and the Yemeni
[00:05:14] government, supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
[00:05:17] 2022, a fragile truce came into effect, but it
[00:05:21] shattered last month when the Houthis welcomed an Iranian plane to
[00:05:25] Sana'a, violating Saudi control over Yemeni
[00:05:28] airspace. The Houthis then announced a naval
[00:05:31] blockade of Saudi ports and began targeting the kingdom's
[00:05:34] oil tankers.
[00:05:37] We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
[00:05:41] against our country and our people, they will
[00:05:44] bear the consequences of any
[00:05:46] escalation.
[00:05:49] According to a senior Saudi official, several intelligence services confirm that Iraqi
[00:05:53] Shiite militias are preparing attacks on Saudi territory in
[00:05:57] coordination with the Yemeni Houthis and under the direction of the
[00:06:00] Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Saudi Arabia indicates that it
[00:06:03] will take necessary measures to respond to any
[00:06:05] aggression.
[00:06:08] And still in the Middle East, in the occupied West Bank, now these new acts of violence
[00:06:12] by... Israeli settlers, they affected a hamlet located
[00:06:15] in the south of the Palestinian territory, destroyed houses,
[00:06:19] injured residents and fires in particular, you
[00:06:23] can see it in these images, endemic violence in the Palestinian
[00:06:26] territory, as you know, which also causes, as you can see, the
[00:06:30] anger of Israeli Arabs, you will see it, the
[00:06:33] latter demonstrated in Tel Aviv in particular to
[00:06:36] denounce systemic racism from settlers
[00:06:40] and the Israeli police, listen.
[00:06:45] "We are here against the so-called Garinim
[00:06:48] Toranim, these are very violent settler outposts present within
[00:06:52] Palestinian communities, and that's not to be
[00:06:56] neighbors, but to push them out, to make them
[00:06:58] flee, as they have been doing in the West Bank for
[00:07:02] years, so we came here together to say "enough
[00:07:05] is enough" to fight against these
[00:07:07] racists.
[00:07:13] We are here to say no to endemic violence against the Arab
[00:07:16] community, violence mainly perpetrated
[00:07:20] by police officers against Arabs, Muslims, for no
[00:07:24] apparent reason or for a minimal
[00:07:26] provocation.
[00:07:28] And this violence is proof of the systemic racism that prevails in this
[00:07:32] government, it creates a dangerous environment for
[00:07:35] children, for everyone, and this is not
[00:07:37] acceptable.
[00:07:41] And you've just heard that this violence in Jordan is not new, since the
[00:07:45] attacks of October 7, it has even sharply increased, and as with each episode,
[00:07:49] well, Israel locks down the territory like a snail,
[00:07:52] especially after the death of two Israeli settlers and four Palestinians,
[00:07:56] that was on July 24 last year, for
[00:07:59] ambulances in particular, it's a real headache every day, our correspondent Claire
[00:08:03] Duamell was able to embark with an ambulance driver who regularly
[00:08:06] transports pregnant women to the hospital. Watch her
[00:08:10] report.
[00:08:13] On this road, on July 27, a six-month
[00:08:16] pregnant Palestinian woman had a miscarriage,
[00:08:20] then she was stopped at the checkpoint while bleeding
[00:08:23] heavily. Bachar Mouramar is the ambulance driver who
[00:08:26] transported the young woman. When
[00:08:29] we arrived, it was closed, where the ambulances
[00:08:32] are. The soldiers are in this watchtower
[00:08:36] up high.
[00:08:40] Of course, the army only came down from the tower after a long time.
[00:08:46] Then when we got here, they held us for half an hour, we got here, this barrier was closed, they left us for half an hour stuck between these two
[00:08:49] barriers, the fetus was dead, it came out in the amniotic
[00:08:53] sac, the woman also had a hemorrhage and lost
[00:08:56] consciousness, very quickly we started to treat her, but the army forced us to
[00:09:00] turn off the ambulance engine, stopped the ambulance, all the machines
[00:09:04] stopped, there are equipments here that work thanks to
[00:09:08] power, the medical devices stopped, no more...
[00:09:42] his weapon at me and told me to go back into the ambulance, so I was scared, I went
[00:09:45] back, I did everything to keep the patient awake, and after half
[00:09:49] an hour, they opened the barrier for us, she was finally able to reach the hospital thanks to
[00:09:53] God, but unfortunately, she had lost a lot of
[00:09:55] blood.
[00:09:59] Arriving at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, the young woman was taken
[00:10:02] care of by Dr. Racha Al Hamous for 24
[00:10:05] hours. For 3 years now, we have been suffering throughout the West
[00:10:09] Bank from the problem of checkpoints and barriers. Of course, this has
[00:10:13] had an impact on the ability of women and, more generally, patients to
[00:10:17] access hospitals, and it also affects the arrival of medical
[00:10:20] teams. All of this obviously has
[00:10:23] the hospital, both from a medical point of view and for nursing
[00:10:26] care. We contacted the Israeli army, which
[00:10:30] states that the ambulance staff had not performed the required
[00:10:34] prior coordination before arriving at the checkpoint.
[00:10:37] The army says it has no intention of delaying medical care and medical
[00:10:41] evacuations.
[00:10:42] In the United States, Donald
[00:10:47] Trump is once again hardening
[00:10:50] his immigration policy. At least in words, the American president has
[00:10:54] signed a new decree intended to prevent,
[00:10:57] according to him, birth tourism, which is a practice consisting
[00:11:01] of certain women giving birth in the United States so that their
[00:11:05] children benefit from American citizenship,
[00:11:08] a new attempt by the American president to challenge birthright
[00:11:12] citizenship.
[00:11:13] Listen to him.
[00:11:17] The Supreme Court made a very regrettable decision regarding
[00:11:20] the acquisition of citizenship by birth. The vote was
[00:11:23] close but the decision is very... on the table, so we're going to make
[00:11:26] adjustments because it's very unfair. This rule was
[00:11:29] established for another reason, it was right after the Civil War, it was for the
[00:11:33] children of slaves. But today, what's happening is that
[00:11:37] wealthy people are doing business around this birthright
[00:11:40] citizenship. It shouldn't work like that, it's a shame, they're
[00:11:44] buying their access to
[00:11:45] citizenship.
[00:11:51] So, this question now, how long can Gianni Infantino still
[00:11:56] FIFA has never seemed so weakened after his
[00:12:00] desire to open FIFA to foreign investors,
[00:12:03] now abandoned, UEFA is maintaining its
[00:12:06] boycott of FIFA World Cups, according to the European
[00:12:10] football body, trust is no longer there,
[00:12:12] Nicolas Chamontin.
[00:12:14] The apologies from FIFA's management
[00:12:17] are useless, UEFA
[00:12:21] assures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect.
[00:12:25] UEFA member federations have been very clear on the conditions related
[00:12:30] competitions. These conditions have not been met. In addition to
[00:12:34] abandoning FIFA's commercial company project decided
[00:12:37] on Friday, the European football body demands assurances
[00:12:41] that such an idea will never see the light of day. UEFA
[00:12:44] reaffirms having lost confidence in Gianni Infantino.
[00:12:48] Wednesday evening, the head of world football received the full support of his
[00:12:52] management, gathered in Morocco for a crisis meeting. In a
[00:12:55] press release, FIFA apologized after the
[00:12:59] controversy over opening to private investors, a
[00:13:02] project that leaked to the press without the football stakeholders being
[00:13:06] informed. This Thursday, the South American confederation
[00:13:09] Conmebol, yet considered close to Infantino, in turn
[00:13:13] denounced the president's methods. The Conmebol
[00:13:16] council unanimously expresses its concern over
[00:13:19] repeated unilateral actions, adopted without resorting
[00:13:23] to dialogue or institutional mechanisms
[00:13:25] provided for handling this type of situation.
[00:13:28] Apparently immovable a few weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems
[00:13:32] more fragile than ever. The man who has led FIFA for a
[00:13:36] decade still hopes to be re-elected next March thanks
[00:13:40] to the support of many federations in Africa and the
[00:13:42] Middle East.
[00:13:45] All right, we're still talking about football, but with good news this
[00:13:48] time. FIFA, once again, has authorized the Afghan refugee
[00:13:51] team to represent their country in competitions. Formed a
[00:13:55] year ago, this team continues its development in
[00:13:58] New Zealand because the female players, forbidden to play their
[00:14:02] sport by the Taliban, cannot play in
[00:14:05] Afghanistan. They hope today to one day qualify,
[00:14:08] why not, for a World Cup. Alice
[00:14:11] Broga.
[00:14:18] Facing the Afghan flag, they sing the joy of reuniting and
[00:14:22] putting on their cleats together again, refugees. from
[00:14:26] the Afghan women's football team are meeting for the first time in
[00:14:30] New Zealand to train and play friendly
[00:14:33] matches. Football has given me the strength to be who I am and to
[00:14:36] speak out, otherwise I don't know who I would be. All fled their
[00:14:40] country after the Taliban took power, who imposed restrictive
[00:14:43] laws against women and banned them from playing football.
[00:14:47] So they have a message to convey. I want
[00:14:51] to use this platform to advocate for the cause of women in Afghanistan who have been
[00:14:55] banned from studying for 5 years. We
[00:14:58] want Afghan girls and women to be free, to be able to choose who they want
[00:15:02] to be. We want to prove that we are still here, we continue to
[00:15:05] fight for the rights that have been taken away from us.
[00:15:09] Since April, FIFA has authorized the team to represent
[00:15:12] Afghanistan in official matches, a new start for these
[00:15:15] players. We don't know when we'll see each other again, but it's
[00:15:19] great to have this second chance. The team now
[00:15:22] dreams of qualifying for international competitions, such as the Olympic
[00:15:25] Games and the World
[00:15:26] Cup.
[00:15:30] That's all for these beautiful images, end of this edition, thank you for watching and stay with
[00:15:34] us on France 24, of course.
[00:15:52] Notes that have rarely resonated within the grounds of this
[00:15:56] cemetery. In Antwerp, the Congolese anthem rings out in
[00:16:00] tribute to the seven men who died more than a century ago, after being
[00:16:03] exhibited during the 1894 World Exhibition.
[00:16:07] Organized in the Flemish city, 144 Congolese from the Congo
[00:16:11] Free State were exposed to the public.
[00:16:14] They were to show their daily lives and their traditions and customs to
[00:16:18] visitors in what is today recognized as an inhumane
[00:16:22] practice, called Human Zoo.
[00:16:26] At the time, they didn't talk about Human Zoos, but about African
[00:16:29] villages, a term that masked a much more
[00:16:33] brutal reality. Congolese people were brought by force to Belgium, exposed to
[00:16:36] the public in precarious conditions, among
[00:16:40] them, dozens would end up contracting diseases,
[00:16:43] seven would not
[00:16:45] survive.
[00:16:49] Victims finally recognized by this ceremony, demanded by the
[00:16:53] Congolese community, but which the city of Antwerp took a long time to
[00:16:56] accept. Ladies and
[00:17:00] gentlemen, unfortunately, the way
[00:17:03] they were treated and depicted was not unique in Europe.
[00:17:08] Elsewhere, during World Exhibitions, these villages were
[00:17:11] used for colonial propaganda,
[00:17:15] dehumanizing and
[00:17:16] racist.
[00:17:20] There is no other description for that.
[00:17:26] the 1894 exhibition
[00:17:29] is one of the dark pages in our city's
[00:17:31] history.
[00:17:34] A recognition welcomed by the Congolese side.
[00:17:37] From now on, a monument will remind visitors of the tragic
[00:17:41] episode. It's something we must keep and especially
[00:17:44] for the history that links us, that is, the DRC and
[00:17:48] Belgium. Today the relationship is going well, so it's
[00:17:52] just time to heal our wounds and together
[00:17:56] go even further. An official discourse that resonates
[00:17:59] with the young generation, like this
[00:18:02] influencer who is very popular on social media. She hopes that
[00:18:08] the Congolese community in
[00:18:09] Belgium. How will this ceremony
[00:18:13] continue to
[00:18:15] guide us in
[00:18:19] the questions we face every day as children of the
[00:18:23] diaspora, questions about our dual
[00:18:26] identity, the question about
[00:18:29] these wounds that must be transformed into strength and
[00:18:32] opportunities for others.
[00:18:35] An important step for the Congolese
[00:18:38] community, even if many would have liked the monument to be in the
[00:18:42] heart of the city and not in an outlying cemetery.
[00:18:46] Colonial history researcher, Georgina Dibua, is one of those who
[00:18:50] advocates for a plaque to be placed here in front of this museum,
[00:18:54] at the very spot where the human zoo took place 132
[00:18:57] years ago. exhibiting people as if in
[00:19:01] a human zoo, that must be part
[00:19:04] of what people
[00:19:07] who come here must know. The cemetery, in any case, people don't
[00:19:11] necessarily go to the cemetery to know what
[00:19:15] happened, but here we are still in the center of Antwerp, especially
[00:19:19] since the port city still bears the scars of its heavy colonial
[00:19:23] history. At the time, Antwerp quickly
[00:19:26] grew rich, the city housed in particular the offices of large
[00:19:30] rubber companies, Antwerp was the gateway for all
[00:19:34] colonial products, both rubber,
[00:19:37] ivory, cocoa,
[00:19:40] coffee, tobacco in the first
[00:19:43] instance, and later with
[00:19:46] the mineral
[00:19:49] products, there's diamond, copper
[00:19:53] essentially.
[00:19:55] A meticulously cataloged commercial past
[00:19:59] in the city's archives, oilseed
[00:20:01] products, here we can see at the end a sort
[00:20:05] of list of textiles. uh
[00:20:08] other products for example,
[00:20:11] so uh we still see
[00:20:14] that already in 1894 there was a
[00:20:18] wide range of products, right, which
[00:20:21] were already
[00:20:24] uh which were made available to the people
[00:20:27] of Antwerp and which gave them ideas of what they
[00:20:31] could exploit, because that was the purpose of the exhibition
[00:20:34] too. Very precise details contrast with
[00:20:38] the lack of information concerning the people exhibited in the human
[00:20:41] zoo, apart from the men who passed through hospitals,
[00:20:45] there are no names of the people, who are they, where
[00:20:48] exactly do they come from? Because the Congo is large when we know
[00:20:52] that Banggala were exhibited, we know that people from
[00:20:56] Kasai were exhibited, but we know that,
[00:20:58] that's recorded, but what are the names of these people, we
[00:21:02] see faces, but they are nameless faces. Belgian colonial history
[00:21:06] is a history of nameless people, a
[00:21:10] question that goes far beyond the sole case of Antwerp, how many
[00:21:13] other European human zoos are still waiting to
[00:21:16] give a name to a large part of their victims.
[00:25:31] I'm auctioning, I'm auctioning.
[00:26:43] It is difficult to imagine the extent of the devastation of this city of 200,000
[00:26:50] This people suffers from climate change. Five
[00:26:53] drought.
[00:27:23] Aya was born in Bamako, Mali. Her journey began
[00:27:27] far from the glittering lights of Paris. Arriving in
[00:27:30] France as a child, she found her voice amidst the diverse
[00:27:34] cultural landscape in the Nesugua.
[00:27:37] Although she was drawn to fashion early on, music flowed in her
[00:27:41] veins. This daughter of a griot, a traditional West African
[00:27:44] storyteller and singer, embraced her heritage
[00:27:48] while forging her own unique voice. In
[00:27:51] 2014, social media became her stage, launching her
[00:27:55] first single to an eager online audience. Becoming
[00:27:59] French in 2021, she is the most listened-to Francophone artist in
[00:28:03] the world in 2024, her cultural
[00:28:06] influence reaching new heights when she performed at the
[00:28:10] opening ceremony of the Paris Summer Olympics.
[00:28:14] This is Aya Nakamura.
[00:30:12] Hello and welcome to Aux Avant-Postes, the show that seeks to make
[00:30:16] sense of the chaos of the world. Words have
[00:30:19] meaning, and using them wrongly and
[00:30:22] indiscriminately leads to confusion and error. This is the case with
[00:30:26] the term mafia. Not all
[00:30:29] criminal organizations are mafias. By confusing
[00:30:32] everything, we risk reducing the effectiveness of
[00:30:36] fighting these scourges. To discuss this, I welcome two
[00:30:40] experts on the matter, Clotilde Champeyrache,
[00:30:43] lecturer at CNAM, the National Conservatory of
[00:30:47] Arts and Crafts, who is publishing in paperback with Cavalier
[00:30:50] Bleu, Geopolitics of Mafias, and
[00:30:54] Jean-François Guérraud, director of the Academy of
[00:30:57] Intelligence and author of