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[00:00:07] Hello everyone, thank you for joining us on France 24 for the main news
[00:00:11] which continues now with a new broadcast. Leading the news
[00:00:14] this Friday, will the specter of sectarian violence
[00:00:18] re-emerge in Syria? An attack with a car
[00:00:21] bomb in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus left two
[00:00:25] dead and more than a dozen injured this Thursday, a new
[00:00:29] option, so we will gain deadly attack in the Syrian capital within
[00:00:32] a few months. As you will see, we will also talk about a man in
[00:00:35] turmoil in the news, Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful
[00:00:38] head of FIFA is more vulnerable than ever,
[00:00:42] UEFA maintains its boycott of
[00:00:45] world football organization competitions
[00:00:48] after the aborted project of FIFA opening
[00:00:51] à des investisseurs extérieurs voulu par Jani
[00:00:54] Infantino, and then we will
[00:00:58] édition confronté à une crise énergétique.
[00:01:00] and economic crisis caused by the American oil blockade. The
[00:01:04] population of the island tries to
[00:01:08] many rhymes with survival, as you will see.
[00:01:25] Is Syria once again heading towards
[00:01:28] in order after a bomb exploded
[00:01:32] in a vehicle this Thursday near Damascus, leaving two
[00:01:35] dead and 13 injured. An attack therefore occurred in
[00:01:39] Jaramana, a town with a Druze and
[00:01:42] Christian majority located in the suburbs of the Syrian capital and
[00:01:46] already the scene of sectarian violence in
[00:01:49] spring 2025. Alice
[00:01:51] Broga
[00:01:54] at the scene of the tragedy in Jaramana, in the suburbs of Damascus, chaos
[00:01:57] reigns before the arrival of emergency services. This public
[00:02:00] transport minibus has just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
[00:02:04] the explosion. The residents are in
[00:02:07] shock.
[00:02:10] We went out and saw the minibus, it was making a deafening noise, it was
[00:02:14] damaged, two women fled the explosion and a fragment headed towards our
[00:02:17] shop, a shell fragment flew in my direction and hit the
[00:02:20] window. The explosion was caused by a
[00:02:24] bomb inside the vehicle, according to state
[00:02:27] television. Several people died and a dozen injured
[00:02:31] were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the driver of the
[00:02:35] minibus.
[00:02:37] Killing innocent people who did nothing wrong just to sow chaos in the country
[00:02:41] in Syria, it's a purely sadistic act. This
[00:02:45] explosion hits a predominantly Druze and Christian city, two
[00:02:48] communities that feel threatened under the new Syrian regime led by
[00:02:52] former jihadist Ahmad al-Shar. Last year,
[00:02:55] sectarian violence between armed groups linked to the regime and Druze fighters
[00:02:59] resulted in more than 100 deaths in Jaramana and the surrounding areas,
[00:03:02] according to the London-based OSD NGO, and several
[00:03:06] attacks or planned attacks have targeted
[00:03:09] months.
[00:03:13] The new Syrian regime is struggling to assert its
[00:03:17] territory, where sleeper cells of the
[00:03:20] Islamic State jihadist organization are still present.
[00:03:23] In Damascus, several deadly attacks have occurred in recent months, including
[00:03:27] une attaque à la bombe ayant fait un mort et 30. blessé lors de la
[00:03:31] French President Emmanuel Macron's visit in
[00:03:33] July.
[00:03:38] In the Middle East, the consequences of the conflict between
[00:03:40] Iran and the United States are multiplying and spreading. In
[00:03:44] Yemen, Houthi rebels have
[00:03:47] attaque contre les forces gouvernementales depuis des années,
[00:03:50] resulting in 58 deaths and targets also hit in
[00:03:54] central government. This is also
[00:03:58] the resumption of a conflict after a ceasefire concluded painfully
[00:04:02] in 2022. After
[00:04:05] several attacks in the Red Sea against
[00:04:08] the Houthis are striking this time on land, a
[00:04:12] increased support from Saudi Arabia
[00:04:15] forces for several
[00:04:18] semaines.
[00:04:24] This operation killed and
[00:04:27] mercenaries, and destroyed and burned a large number.
[00:04:35] as well as destroying a large number
[00:04:39] targeted
[00:04:40] camps.
[00:04:44] According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles hit
[00:04:48] several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the
[00:04:50] country and Adhramaut near the border with Saudi
[00:04:54] toll since 2022 between the
[00:04:58] two sides. The Yemeni government announced that it would retaliate at the appropriate
[00:05:02] Since 2014, a proxy war has
[00:05:05] lieu au Yémen entre les rebelles outier alliés de l'Iran, et le gouvernement
[00:05:09] government supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
[00:05:12] 2022, a fragile truce came into
[00:05:16] last month when the Houthis
[00:05:19] Sanaa, violating Saudi
[00:05:23] airspace. The Houthis then announced a naval blockade of
[00:05:26] Saudi ports and began to
[00:05:30] oil tankers.
[00:05:32] We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
[00:05:36] people. They will have to
[00:05:39] assumer les conséquences de toute escalade.
[00:05:44] According to a senior Saudi official, several intelligence services claim that Iraqi
[00:05:48] militias are preparing
[00:05:52] coordination with Yemeni Houthis and under the direction of the Iranian
[00:05:55] Saudi Arabia indicates that it
[00:05:58] will take the necessary measures to respond to any
[00:06:00] aggression.
[00:06:03] Still in the Middle East, in the occupied West Bank,
[00:06:06] new violence by Israeli
[00:06:09] It affected a village in the south of the
[00:06:13] Palestinian territory, resulting in destroyed and burned
[00:06:16] homes, and residents also
[00:06:20] injured. These are endemic
[00:06:23] Palestinian territory, and they have been
[00:06:26] the attacks of October
[00:06:28] 7th.
[00:06:30] Now, these images come to us from Argentina,
[00:06:33] tense demonstrations between
[00:06:37] opponents and law enforcement in front of the Argentine
[00:06:40] Senate in Buenos Aires.
[00:06:43] These protesters gathered to denounce a private
[00:06:46] property reform law desired by President
[00:06:50] Javier Milei, a text that, among other things, aims to facilitate
[00:06:54] les procédures d'expulsion au canayer qui rend plus difficile
[00:06:57] l'expropriation par l'état d'un bien privé.
[00:07:01] Listen to this
[00:07:01] protester.
[00:07:06] What they're doing is extremely serious, not only do they want to sell to
[00:07:10] the notary, which unfortunately has been happening for a long time, but they're trying
[00:07:14] d'aller plus loin avec cette loi, c'est terrible et nous ne pouvons pas laisser passer
[00:07:17] happen.
[00:07:21] Now to the United States, Donald Trump is once again tightening his
[00:07:25] immigration policy. The American President has signed a
[00:07:28] decree intended to prevent, according to him, birth tourism,
[00:07:32] a practice where some women give birth in the
[00:07:35] United States so that their
[00:07:39] citizenship. This is a new attempt by the American President
[00:07:42] to challenge birthright citizenship.
[00:07:44] Listen to him.
[00:07:48] The Supreme Court made a very regrettable decision regarding
[00:07:51] birthright citizenship. The vote was
[00:07:55] regrettable. So we are going to make
[00:07:58] adjustments because it is very unfair. This rule was
[00:08:01] established for another reason, it was just after the Civil War, it was for the
[00:08:05] children of slaves. But today, what is happening is that
[00:08:08] wealthy people are doing business
[00:08:13] It should not work like that, it is a shame, they buy their access to
[00:08:16] citoyenneté.
[00:08:22] As you know, Donald Trump has also made Cuba a target of
[00:08:26] his administration. The American president
[00:08:30] island, causing months of
[00:08:33] power outages and a serious
[00:08:37] Cubans manage to cope
[00:08:40] with this daily life? A report from Havana by France
[00:08:44] 24. Watch. I braid my
[00:08:48] child's hair.
[00:08:52] How?
[00:08:56] The family is a teacher, like many Cubans,
[00:08:59] working to live decently.
[00:09:02] To propose
[00:09:06] life. I will not lose the strength to keep
[00:09:10] fighting. Times are tougher than ever on the communist
[00:09:14] island.
[00:09:16] There is no more tourism, everything is empty, no
[00:09:19] customers, no one left to braid hair.
[00:09:23] Look at this empty hotel, not a single guest checking out. It
[00:09:27] hurts. In January, Washington tightened its energy
[00:09:30] blockade, followed by new sanctions against companies
[00:09:34] operating in Cuba. Since then, the terraces of Havana have
[00:09:37] emptied of their customers. The fall in
[00:09:40] tourism, one of the main
[00:10:12] Cuba every day, these are trials again and again, and it's us, the
[00:10:16] Cubans on the street who pay for them.
[00:10:20] Without electricity, without enough foreign currency, all
[00:10:23] institutions, like the bank, are running
[00:10:26] slowly. I'm waiting to get my
[00:10:29] salary. People are angry, they're shouting. I don't
[00:10:33] even have money to buy food.
[00:10:36] Several days of waiting at the bank to get a salary or a
[00:10:39] pension. Tempers are flaring, Cubans are
[00:10:43] tired.
[00:10:45] Civil servants like Tania, the teacher who braids hair in the
[00:10:49] center, earn a ridiculously
[00:10:51] low income.
[00:10:53] I earn 6 dollars a month, and that's really not
[00:10:57] enough. I have to buy everything, clothes, shoes, and
[00:11:00] if I think about shoes for the children, I can forget
[00:11:04] food. The lack of electricity aggravates already precarious living
[00:11:07] conditions. Only one hour of electricity per day, often
[00:11:11] less. There's nothing inside. If there were something, it would already be
[00:11:15] rotten. With all these hours without
[00:11:18] always for the day. Despite a recent opening, Cuba
[00:11:22] seems frozen in time. The inhabitants resell.
[00:11:36] $7 a bag of chicken, more than my
[00:11:37] salary. Suddenly a woman
[00:11:41] intervenes, "You need authorization to do
[00:11:45] that." The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution are still
[00:11:48] there, but they are less active, worn out by the crisis.
[00:11:52] Tania, for her part, has nothing to reproach herself for.
[00:11:57] "I love my island, I am a revolutionary, and even if I have nothing
[00:12:00] to eat, I love our commander Fidel
[00:12:02] Castro."
[00:12:06] When he died, between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans
[00:12:10] survive day to day, without seeing the end of the
[00:12:14] road.
[00:12:17] This question now, how much longer can the
[00:12:21] head of FIFA remain in office? He seems more
[00:12:24] vulnerable than ever after his desire, remember,
[00:12:28] to open FIFA to foreign investors,
[00:12:31] now abandoned in the face of the outcry. UEFA
[00:12:34] nevertheless maintains its boycott of the World Cups. According to the European football
[00:12:38] body, trust is no longer there. Nicolas
[00:12:41] Chamontin.
[00:12:43] The apologies from FIFA's management are not enough. UEFA
[00:12:47] confirms that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect.
[00:12:51] The member federations of UEFA have been very clear about the conditions
[00:12:55] linked to their non-participation in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
[00:12:59] met. In addition to the abandonment of FIFA's commercial
[00:13:02] company project decided on Friday, the European football
[00:13:05] body demands assurances
[00:13:09] light of day. UEFA reaffirms that it has lost confidence in
[00:13:13] Gianni Infantino. On Wednesday evening, the head of world
[00:13:16] football received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for a
[00:13:20] crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
[00:13:23] apologized after the controversy over opening
[00:13:27] project that leaked to the press without
[00:13:30] football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
[00:13:34] South American Football Confederation Conmebol, despite being considered close
[00:13:37] denounced the President's
[00:13:41] methods. The Conmebol council unanimously expressed
[00:13:43] its concern over repeated unilateral
[00:13:47] répétées, adoptées sans recourir au dialogue ni au mécanisme
[00:13:50] institutionnel prévu pour le traitement de ce type de
[00:13:53] situation. Apparently immovable a few
[00:13:56] weeks ago, Gianni Infantino
[00:13:59] ever. The man who has led FIFA for a decade still
[00:14:03] toujours être réélu en mars prochain grâce au soutien de
[00:14:06] many federations in Africa and the
[00:14:09] Middle East.
[00:14:11] That's the end of our edition. Thank you for watching and stay with us on
[00:14:15] France 24, of
[00:14:16] course.
[00:15:34] After the coast, we will turn towards the
[00:15:37] mountains.
[00:15:40] We are going to a village called Shebad.
[00:15:44] It was controlled by the Islamic
[00:15:45] State,
[00:15:48] but it was liberated by the Puntland
[00:15:50] army.
[00:15:54] There are two ways to fly in a combat zone: either you fly very
[00:15:58] low, or high enough
[00:16:01] fire. Due to the terrain, we cannot choose the first
[00:16:06] altitude. If someone shoots at us, the bullets will lose their
[00:16:09] velocity before hitting the
[00:16:11] aircraft.
[00:16:16] This entire valley was controlled by the Islamic State. There's the
[00:16:20] village. Welcome to
[00:16:22] Shebad.
[00:16:29] This was the new stronghold of the Islamic State.
[00:16:32] From this village in northern Somalia, the jihadists
[00:16:35] sought to expand the group's influence worldwide and finance the
[00:16:39] other factions on the continent.
[00:16:42] After the fall of ISIS in the Middle East in 2019, hundreds of
[00:16:46] foreign jihadists flocked here. They joined
[00:16:49] local fighters and captured a territory of 5000
[00:16:52] km2 in the semi-autonomous region of
[00:16:54] Puntland.
[00:17:00] Somalia is a federation of several states. Each has
[00:17:04] its own army and government.
[00:17:07] The one in Puntland remained inactive against ISIS for a long
[00:17:10] time,
[00:17:13] but following the group's significant
[00:17:17] 2024 and deployed this elite unit. The
[00:17:20] PMPF were initially formed to fight
[00:17:23] United Arab
[00:17:26] Emirates.
[00:17:31] This is one of the signs on which they wrote their
[00:17:33] lies.
[00:17:37] They wrote verses from the Quran, but my Arabic is not
[00:17:40] good. No matter what is written
[00:17:44] here, we are Somalis, they want to mislead
[00:17:48] us. They invented their
[00:17:51] citations, they are usurpers
[00:17:54] of ideology, thieves who have killed people and created
[00:17:58] problems all over the world, and they have
[00:18:00] come here to hide and to cause chaos in the
[00:18:03] world. You see? It's already
[00:18:07] damaged. We'll take it down soon.
[00:18:27] Today, Colonel Ali's troops will resupply an advanced
[00:18:30] post.
[00:18:39] The front line is inaccessible by
[00:18:41] car. The camel has many
[00:18:44] advantages. It doesn't need to rest. Wherever you go, it
[00:18:48] will follow you. You don't need to refuel, no spare
[00:18:52] parts needed. It has everything it
[00:18:53] needs.
[00:18:56] Okay, you can even beat it, yeah, beat it and
[00:18:59] eat its meat, wherever you are, but only if really
[00:19:03] necessary.
[00:19:20] Some are still hidden in the vicinity, we must be on alert wherever
[00:19:23] we go. We clear the roads, whether it's footpaths or tracks for
[00:19:27] cars.
[00:19:32] These mountainous paths are riddled with explosive devices planted by
[00:19:35] terrorists.
[00:19:42] ISIS is difficult to
[00:19:43] locate,
[00:19:47] and even more difficult to neutralize.
[00:20:01] So the army is calling for help from American fighter jets and
[00:20:04] drones. They have carried out more than
[00:20:08] strikes in Somalia in
[00:20:09] 2025.
[00:20:18] This is where we unload the donkeys, we will tie them up and transport the ammunition
[00:20:21] ourselves, the front is over
[00:20:23] there.
[00:20:26] After the night's bombings, the soldiers will launch a new
[00:20:29] offensive.
[00:20:31] They hide, every time one of them shows their
[00:20:34] head, our army must attack from three
[00:20:37] different sides. Those who are in the caves, we will try to get
[00:20:40] them with artillery.
[00:20:44] Once we've hit them, we go in
[00:20:46] with force.
[00:20:49] Be careful, when we capture the cave, we must not rush. The deminers must
[00:20:53] go first. There can be traps, they must disarm
[00:20:56] them.
[00:21:00] ISIS fighters, hidden by the terrain, can emerge at any
[00:21:04] moment, but we won't see
[00:21:07] them.
[00:21:12] For our safety, we are forbidden to approach the
[00:21:15] front.
[00:21:26] This is a position they used to defend Bad, their so-called capital.
[00:21:49] They put this
[00:22:20] fled,
[00:22:24] few dare to return.
[00:22:36] There is a relative calm, that's what we tell our
[00:22:39] families.
[00:22:43] But the war continues, it's not over. There's
[00:22:46] nothing working here. No hospitals, no
[00:22:50] schools. Why would people come
[00:22:52] back here?
[00:22:55] The few civilians like me who are here, don't have children with
[00:22:58] them. I followed the army to try to
[00:23:00] work.
[00:23:03] As a mother, I worry about my children. They are elsewhere and I am
[00:23:07] here. You can feel my
[00:23:10] pain.
[00:23:16] Mulki Salar spent several months under the yoke of ISIS.
[00:23:21] The group was not welcome,
[00:23:25] but the villagers had no
[00:23:26] choice.
[00:23:30] It says they are the Islamic State, but
[00:23:34] we have seen neither state nor
[00:23:36] Islam. This is the list of forbidden
[00:23:39] things: smoking cigarettes, chewing
[00:23:43] qat. All the vices marked here, they haven't
[00:23:46] found many people who practice them.
[00:23:50] Those who do this, it's
[00:23:51] them.
[00:23:54] In Somalia, the population is Muslim and already respects
[00:23:57] Sharia.
[00:24:01] Little by little, the villagers realize that this so-called state is a
[00:24:04] mafia.
[00:24:06] I serve tea to the soldiers, that's how I earn my living
[00:24:09] now.
[00:24:14] Traumatized by ISIS men, she struggles
[00:24:18] to tell her daily life before.
[00:24:24] "They took our village, they stole our homes, they made everyone
[00:24:28] flee, they stole our livestock, our goats,
[00:24:32] above all, they did everything to us, we had a lot of
[00:24:35] problems.
[00:24:40] All those who opposed them, they
[00:24:43] decapitated them.
[00:24:46] They did so many things against our culture, against our religion."
[00:25:08] This mafia prospered thanks to money extorted from
[00:25:11] Bossaso,
[00:25:14] a port city essential to the local economy, located downstream of the
[00:25:17] mountains.
[00:25:24] The Islamic State operates clandestinely, it has
[00:25:27] conducted numerous attacks and caused
[00:25:30] casualties.
[00:25:33] Since the beginning of the offensive, the government has reduced ISIS's
[00:25:37] influence, but the risk of attacks and kidnappings remains
[00:25:40] high.
[00:25:43] These armed men protect our
[00:25:45] team.
[00:25:52] As you can see, this shop is closed. The owners closed
[00:25:56] because of the Islamic State, as they were demanding hundreds of thousands of
[00:26:00] dollars from them. They realized that the amount requested was much
[00:26:04] larger than what they had inside the
[00:26:06] store.
[00:26:09] Look there, that's the symbol of this city's
[00:26:13] problems. Look how rusty this padlock
[00:26:15] is. The owners fled to save their
[00:26:19] lives.
[00:26:23] Abdulkadir Ismail is the only community
[00:26:27] leader who dares to publicly denounce the Islamic
[00:26:29] State.
[00:26:32] It was in this neighborhood that ISIS caused the most problems.
[00:26:36] They destroyed homes and the goods inside
[00:26:39] them. They killed many people in the big
[00:26:43] market.
[00:26:46] Oh, that one was totally
[00:26:47] destroyed.
[00:26:50] They were forced to rebuild everything from scratch.
[00:26:53] Here they came during the
[00:26:56] night. They
[00:27:00] placed an explosive device on this shop. Everyone was sleeping at that hour.
[00:27:03] They had attached it at this level to the
[00:27:07] door. The entire interior of the building
[00:27:10] collapsed. There was nothing left to
[00:27:12] recover.
[00:27:18] To avoid such a fate, many businesses ended up
[00:27:21] paying. According to local officials,
[00:27:25] the Islamic State has amassed a fortune of several million
[00:27:28] dollars.
[00:27:32] Some guy calls you and says, "I'm from ISIS, I'm the
[00:27:36] head of tax
[00:27:37] collection."
[00:27:41] And he explains what he expects from you.
[00:27:45] For example, he says, "You must pay us 2000 dollars a year for your
[00:27:48] protection."
[00:27:52] Then he sends you threatening messages, "We're going to
[00:27:55] kill you, we're going to burn your shop, you and your
[00:27:58] family will suffer." When they've tried everything and
[00:28:02] it doesn't work, they plant a bomb.
[00:28:06] This affects all types of businesses, from the
[00:28:09] smallest to the largest. Even the small transporter who pushes his
[00:28:13] wheelbarrow, they would find him, they would
[00:28:15] tell him, "We know where you work," and that worker was robbed.
[00:28:43] The role of the Sheikh is to help the community in their daily lives,
[00:28:47] resolve disputes, provide advice.
[00:29:06] In the mosque, believers are warned against the vices of
[00:29:09] ISIS.
[00:29:12] They are told, their program is to steal and
[00:29:15] kill. No religion promises
[00:29:19] that.
[00:29:22] ISIS members know nothing about
[00:29:24] religion.
[00:30:02] to stop me.
[00:30:08] I arrived in Bossaso after several days of travel, I was coming
[00:30:11] from Ethiopia.
[00:30:14] I was looking for work and apparently you could find it in this
[00:30:17] country.
[00:30:20] I went to a mosque every Friday and after
[00:30:23] several weeks a Yemeni came to see me to ask if I
[00:30:27] wanted to join an organization to defend a strong
[00:30:30] This man entrusted
[00:30:34] packages to me to take to different neighborhoods, I was not allowed to
[00:30:38] open them, but I knew what was inside, it was
[00:30:40] weapons. Then one day I was told that I had to leave
[00:30:43] Bossaso, that I was going to go to the mountains, and that's when
[00:30:47] I really understood who I was dealing with, this man was from the Islamic
[00:30:50] State.
[00:30:55] There were many foreigners, there were Syrians, Turks.