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[00:00:04] Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us
[00:00:06] then the president of on France 24. On the front page, you're in the right place because here's a
[00:00:10] new broadcast with our main headlines: will the specter of sectarian
[00:00:15] the ambulance's electrical violence resurface in Syria? A car bomb attack
[00:00:19] in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus leaves two
[00:00:22] dead and more than a dozen injured this
[00:00:25] Thursday, a new deadly attack in the Syrian capital in
[00:00:28] the space of... a few months. On the front page, we'll also discuss
[00:00:32] the explosive situation in occupied
[00:00:35] West Bank, a new episode of violence by Israeli settlers
[00:00:39] in a Palestinian settlement, resulting in numerous
[00:00:42] injuries and burned houses. This
[00:00:46] violence also causes outrage
[00:00:49] in Israel among part of the population, as you will see. And then
[00:00:53] we'll also talk about a man in turmoil,
[00:00:55] starting to come out there and I mentioned Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful head of FIFA
[00:01:00] think that... if we talk about and more... fragile than ever.
[00:01:01] money, about UEFA is maintaining its boycott of the world football organization's competitions
[00:01:04] after FIFA's aborted plan to open up to
[00:01:08] external investors. We'll discuss it
[00:01:11] with our guest at the end of our broadcast.
[00:01:27] to attract money, Is Syria once again heading towards instability and violence?
[00:01:31] The concern is certainly present after the explosion of a bomb in a
[00:01:34] vehicle this Thursday near
[00:01:37] tournament, the equivalent of Damascus, with a toll of two dead and 13 injured. An attack
[00:01:39] that occurred in Jaramana, a predominantly
[00:01:43] Druze and Christian town located in the suburb of the capital and
[00:01:46] already the scene of sectarian violence, it was in the spring of
[00:01:50] 2025. Alice 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 transport
[00:02:00] minibus has just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
[00:02:04] the explosion. Residents are in
[00:02:08] entries. Don't you think that beyond shock. We came out and saw the minibus,
[00:02:13] work to be done on water it made a deafening noise, it was damaged. Two women fled
[00:02:15] the explosion and a fragment headed towards our store. A shrapnel flew in my
[00:02:19] direction and hit the window.
[00:02:22] The explosion was caused by a bomb located inside the
[00:02:26] vehicle, according to state television. Several people
[00:02:29] are... dead and a dozen injured
[00:02:32] between water were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the minibus
[00:02:35] driver.
[00:02:37] Killing innocent people who have done nothing wrong simply to sow chaos in the country.
[00:02:41] In Syria, it is a purely sadistic act. This
[00:02:44] explosion strikes 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-Shara. Last year, sectarian
[00:02:55] violence between armed groups linked to the regime and Druze fighters
[00:02:59] resulted in... more than 100 deaths in Jaramana and its surroundings
[00:03:02] according to the London-based
[00:03:05] present in this region of OSD NGO, and several attacks or planned attacks have targeted
[00:03:08] Christian places of worship in recent
[00:03:09] months.
[00:03:13] The new Syrian government is struggling to assert its authority and ensure
[00:03:17] security throughout the territory, where dormant
[00:03:20] cells of the jihadist organization Islamic State are still
[00:03:23] present. In Damascus, several deadly attacks have occurred in recent
[00:03:27] months, including a bomb attack that left one dead and 30 injured
[00:03:30] during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron in
[00:03:33] July.
[00:03:38] Still in the Middle East, in occupied West Bank, these new acts of violence
[00:03:42] by Israeli settlers have affected a village in the
[00:03:46] south of the Palestinian territory, as you can see in
[00:03:49] these images, resulting in destroyed houses and
[00:03:53] injured residents. Endemic violence also in the
[00:03:57] Palestinian territory, particularly increasing since the attacks of
[00:04:01] was... vice-president of the October 7th. And
[00:04:04] this violence is not new, as I told you, in occupied
[00:04:08] he has already lost the support of West Bank. And as with every episode of violence,
[00:04:10] Israel locks down the territory.
[00:04:12] a new newspaper right away, in the news This was the case in Nablus after the death of two Israeli settlers and four
[00:04:16] Palestinians at the end of July. For ambulances, it's a daily
[00:04:19] headache. Our
[00:04:21] correspondent Claire Duhamel was able to ride with an ambulance driver who
[00:04:25] regularly transports pregnant women to the hospital.
[00:04:29] Here's her report.
[00:04:33] heading to the On this road, on July 27, a six-month pregnant Palestinian woman
[00:04:37] has a miscarriage. Then she is stopped at
[00:04:40] the checkpoint while bleeding
[00:04:43] I'm coming back to the situation in profusely. Bachar Moramar is the ambulance driver who was transporting the young
[00:04:46] woman. When we arrived, it was
[00:04:49] closed, where the ambulances are here. The
[00:04:53] soldiers are in this watchtower
[00:04:55] above.
[00:05:00] the tower, after a long time, then when we entered here, they held us for
[00:05:03] half an hour. We entered here, this barrier was closed, they kept us for
[00:05:07] half an hour stuck between these two
[00:05:09] that were taken, especially you mentioned the barriers, the fetus was dead, it came out in the amniotic sac.
[00:05:13] The woman also had a hemorrhage and lost consciousness. Very quickly, we started
[00:05:16] to take care of her, but the army forced us to turn off the ambulance engine.
[00:05:20] We stopped the ambulance, all the equipment stopped. He
[00:05:24] has equipment here that works thanks to
[00:05:27] supply. The medical devices stopped, no more
[00:05:31] monitors, no more oxygen, nothing.
[00:05:35] This is where the woman who lost her baby and wishes to remain
[00:05:38] anonymous lives. 5 days after her miscarriage, she is still recovering
[00:05:42] with difficulty. Sabrine is the midwife who delivered her at
[00:05:46] home, and it was she who then saved her life in
[00:05:49] the ambulance. She recounts her interaction with a soldier at
[00:05:52] the checkpoint.
[00:05:57] I told the soldier we had to go to the mother so she wouldn't die. He didn't listen to me,
[00:06:00] he raised his weapon at me, told me to go back to the ambulance. So I was scared, I went
[00:06:04] back, I did everything to keep the patient awake, and after half
[00:06:08] an hour, they opened the barrier for us, and we were finally able to reach the hospital, thanks to
[00:06:11] God. But unfortunately, she had lost a lot of
[00:06:14] blood.
[00:06:18] Arriving at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, the young woman is taken care
[00:06:21] of by Dr. Rashaal for 24
[00:06:24] hours. For 3 years we have suffered throughout the West
[00:06:28] Bank from the problem of checkpoints and barriers. Of course, this has
[00:06:32] impacted the ability of women and more generally of patients to
[00:06:35] access hospitals, and it also affects the arrival of medical
[00:06:39] teams.
[00:06:47] We contacted the Israeli army, which states that the
[00:06:49] ambulance personnel had not carried out the required prior
[00:06:52] coordination before arriving at the checkpoint.
[00:06:56] The army says it has no intention of delaying medical care and
[00:07:00] medical
[00:07:01] evacuations.
[00:07:06] In Thailand now, what exactly happened
[00:07:09] in Bangkok just a few hours ago? A
[00:07:12] shooting took place, as you can see in these images, in
[00:07:16] a high school in the Thai capital. The provisional
[00:07:19] toll, according to the police, is seven dead
[00:07:23] and 15 injured. The shooter
[00:07:26] is believed to be a teenager, he is deceased, it is not yet known if he was
[00:07:30] shot by the police. Among the
[00:07:34] deceased, there are notably
[00:07:37] three high school teachers and at
[00:07:40] least three students. We will of course come back to this in more detail in our
[00:07:44] next editions.
[00:07:48] Heading to Colombia now, where Abelardo de la Espriella
[00:07:51] will take an oath. The new far-right Colombian
[00:07:54] president will be inaugurated this Friday,
[00:07:57] determined to fight drug trafficking and an ally of
[00:08:01] President Trump. The millionaire lawyer will therefore take
[00:08:04] an oath in Cali, as you can see in these images, the country's third
[00:08:08] largest city, an unusual choice justified by
[00:08:11] his desire to fight against the guerrillas and drug
[00:08:14] trafficking, which are very
[00:08:18] Colombia.
[00:08:22] News from France now, with the consequences of the
[00:08:25] heatwaves that are being felt with record
[00:08:28] droughts as well, and the winegrowers of
[00:08:32] Bordeaux have therefore had to start harvesting
[00:08:35] at the beginning of August, which is unprecedented. It concerns only a part
[00:08:38] of the harvests concerning the Crémant, a
[00:08:41] drought that also forces us to change
[00:08:45] what we cultivate, notably sorghum originating from Africa grows near the Essonne and
[00:08:48] lentils or chickpeas, notably in
[00:08:52] Alsace. Their common point is that these crops need little
[00:08:55] water. Manon Martel, Romain Gentil and
[00:08:58] Luquex.
[00:09:00] Few farmers have such a green field after
[00:09:04] successive heatwaves. This producer cultivates
[00:09:08] sorghum, a cereal from Africa that is very resistant to
[00:09:11] drought. it has leaves that are
[00:09:15] still very green, that are not yet suffering from the
[00:09:19] heat and lack of water, so
[00:09:22] here is a plant that is entirely interesting
[00:09:25] for tomorrow's food and to respond to climatic
[00:09:29] challenges. He hasn't had to irrigate these 4 hectares since
[00:09:32] the last rains at the end of June. Sorghum develops a fairly
[00:09:36] sophisticated and deep root
[00:09:39] system, which means it will capture the water it needs in the
[00:09:43] depths. Crops that require little water, on which more and more
[00:09:46] farmers are relying in the face of climate change, like
[00:09:50] pistachio. The sector is in full growth in
[00:09:54] Provence. Elsewhere, it's almonds, or
[00:09:57] even pomegranates,
[00:10:00] varieties very present in the south of France, but all
[00:10:03] regions are adapting to drought. In
[00:10:06] Alsace, an unprecedented production is appearing,
[00:10:09] chickpeas. Cedric Steinley is one of the
[00:10:13] first to bet on the legume which requires
[00:10:16] almost no irrigation. He saw
[00:10:18] that something really had to be done because it was really very interesting for the
[00:10:22] consumer. To have these products directly
[00:10:26] in a local production, that was really where we had
[00:10:29] to develop the subject. Across the
[00:10:32] country, the area dedicated to chickpeas has tripled in 10
[00:10:35] years. New crops that could become
[00:10:38] widespread in the years to come.
[00:10:41] And we will continue to discuss
[00:10:44] this agriculture that must face climate change, particularly
[00:10:47] in the wine sector with our guest,
[00:10:51] Simon Lebert, hello. Hello,
[00:10:56] thank you for taking a few minutes to answer our questions this morning on France 24.
[00:10:59] You are a member of the wine commission of the
[00:11:03] Confédération paysanne, which is a farmers' union, of course,
[00:11:06] here in France. I just mentioned it before your intervention.
[00:11:10] So, the harvest has started in Bordeaux. Of course, it concerns a
[00:11:14] small part of the vineyard. It's for the Crémant, for those
[00:11:17] who specialize in it, but in any case, this trend of early
[00:11:21] harvests is unprecedented.
[00:11:25] It's a classic
[00:11:28] evolution of recent years. That means that I started 7 years ago, and
[00:11:32] for 7 years we have been moving the harvest date forward year after year
[00:11:35] from August 25th to August 20th to August 15th. And in the
[00:11:39] same way, I'm starting this weekend, August 9th. So we're getting
[00:11:43] used to adapting and starting earlier and earlier, indeed. And what
[00:11:47] adaptations, more broadly, do you, as a
[00:11:50] winegrower, make? We just saw other farmers with other
[00:11:53] crops who are adapting. Faced with drought, in particular,
[00:11:56] how can winegrowers and vines adapt in the face of
[00:12:00] climate change, and in particular to these repeated heatwaves and these
[00:12:04] droughts?
[00:12:07] So there's work to be done on the grape variety, on the technical
[00:12:10] side, on the plant side. So we're going to have a
[00:12:14] process of finding rootstocks and grape varieties that will adapt
[00:12:18] to the coming decades. There's work to be done on
[00:12:22] grassing and work to be done on the quantity of... that we produce each
[00:12:25] year, because the more the plant is said to be laden with
[00:12:29] grapes, the more it will suffer in case of heatwaves. So there will necessarily be something to do
[00:12:33] at the level of yields, and of course there is
[00:12:38] use. Irrigation, as you mentioned for Bordeaux, is
[00:12:42] a real issue for viticulture in the coming
[00:12:45] decades. And when we talk about irrigation, we are obviously
[00:12:48] talking about the quantity of grapes and therefore wine produced. It's true that we
[00:12:52] at the Confédération paysanne ask for a real reflection
[00:12:57] use in viticulture and the volumes produced
[00:13:01] thanks to the use of this water, because as you probably know, we
[00:13:04] are also experiencing a major crisis in the viticulture sector in France
[00:13:08] with overproduction issues. So we
[00:13:11] really ask for a global strategy
[00:13:13] on how to how to what are the
[00:13:17] means and how viticulture will adapt to this constraint of
[00:13:20] global warming, but also with a concern for quality and
[00:13:23] balance in the sector. You remind us, there is a crisis in the
[00:13:27] wine industry, particularly in Bordeaux, there have been many vine pull-ups precisely because of
[00:13:31] this overproduction. You said a change in the production
[00:13:34] model is needed, one that is less water-intensive. You talked about
[00:13:38] grape varieties, so the types of vines that should be used. Should we, for example,
[00:13:42] use vines that are grape varieties used in southern
[00:13:45] Europe, I am thinking in particular of Italy or Spain, or move
[00:13:48] crops further north if it is
[00:13:51] possible?
[00:13:54] There is a lot of research being carried out, we are supported by
[00:13:58] interprofessional organizations that regularly offer us tastings, indeed, of
[00:14:01] grape varieties from Italy, grape varieties from Spain.
[00:14:05] We ourselves in the Mediterranean region are starting to return to grape varieties, which is
[00:14:09] ironic, varieties that were uprooted in the 80s and 90s,
[00:14:12] like Carignan, Cinsault, Bourboulenc,
[00:14:16] things that were no longer in fashion and are coming back because we
[00:14:20] consider them to be more resilient and more adapted to extreme
[00:14:23] summer temperatures. So there is really a lot of
[00:14:27] work to be done. The problem, of course, is that with a perennial
[00:14:30] plant like the vine, it takes a long time, and it takes several years, even decades,
[00:14:34] before something is truly established, something of
[00:14:37] quality. So for us winemakers and winegrowers, from
[00:14:41] the moment we are talking about a structural
[00:14:45] crisis, but also a daily one, we don't necessarily have the means
[00:14:49] to wait for these times and these moments that will come in
[00:14:53] several years. So at that point, we adapt
[00:14:55] our practices in the field with early sales to
[00:14:58] have a product that is also adapted to the current market. We were
[00:15:02] also talking about a change in the production model, particularly,
[00:15:08] Bordeaux, where it's a production
[00:15:11] of wine that also uses a lot of pesticides. Is that
[00:15:15] also something that might need to be questioned in the future, this
[00:15:19] productivist model of the
[00:15:20] vine?
[00:15:23] Well, you're speaking to... that means we've been fighting for 40 years
[00:15:27] to have much healthier and much more respectful
[00:15:30] models
[00:15:32] in a less globalized, less competitive, less
[00:15:36] global model. You should know that, once again, as we often
[00:15:39] say, these farmers, these peasants, these
[00:15:43] winegrowers, they don't treat for pleasure and they don't do intensive
[00:15:46] farming for pleasure. They do it because we have confronted them with something
[00:15:50] globalized, ultra-competitive, very violent. And
[00:15:53] today, we ask for a much more local, much more
[00:15:57] intelligent, much more resilient vision with a
[00:16:01] strategy that values local production, which is
[00:16:04] there to remunerate farmers above all, and to get out of this model
[00:16:08] courage. So today, we don't necessarily have a political
[00:16:12] strategy that aligns with our vision,
[00:16:15] unfortunately, but still, it's
[00:16:17] working. We were talking about grape varieties, today there is research on
[00:16:21] new varieties of cross-breeding that notably
[00:16:24] require less phytosanitary
[00:16:28] protection with resistant varieties
[00:16:31] of a new generation. We are thinking in particular of Floreal and
[00:16:34] Voltis which are starting to make a breakthrough on wine
[00:16:37] labels. There is a whole approach to limit the use of inputs, let's
[00:16:41] say, whether they are protection products or whether they are
[00:16:45] fertilizers, etc. But once again, it doesn't happen overnight,
[00:16:48] and for that, we need time, we need resources. We really need,
[00:16:52] for us at the Confédération paysanne,
[00:16:55] public authorities to be able to
[00:16:59] absorb this adaptation and this
[00:17:03] transition towards more resilient models. That will be the final word. Thank you very much, Simon,
[00:17:06] for taking a few minutes to answer our questions this morning, winegrower and
[00:17:10] member of the wine commission of the Confédération paysanne. Thank you again.
[00:17:13] This question, now, how long can Gianni
[00:17:17] Infantino remain in office? The head of FIFA
[00:17:21] has never seemed so weakened after his desire
[00:17:24] to open FIFA to foreign investors, now abandoned.
[00:17:28] UEFA maintains its boycott of the World Cups. According to the
[00:17:32] European football body, trust is simply no longer there. Nicolas
[00:17:36] Chamontin.
[00:17:39] The FIFA management's apologies do nothing. UEFA
[00:17:43] assures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect. The
[00:17:46] member federations of UEFA have been very clear about the conditions related to
[00:17:50] their non-participation in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
[00:17:54] met. In addition to the abandonment of FIFA's commercial
[00:17:57] company project, decided on Friday, the European
[00:18:01] football body demands assurances that such an idea will never see the
[00:18:04] light of day again. UEFA reaffirms having lost confidence
[00:18:08] in Gianni Infantino. Wednesday evening, the head of world
[00:18:11] football received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for
[00:18:15] a crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
[00:18:19] apologized after the controversy over opening up to
[00:18:22] private investors, a project that leaked in the press without
[00:18:26] football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
[00:18:29] South American Confederation Conmebol, although considered close
[00:18:33] to Infantino, also denounced the president's
[00:18:36] methods. The Conmebol Council unanimously
[00:18:39] expresses its concern over repeated unilateral
[00:18:42] actions, adopted without resorting to dialogue or the institutional
[00:18:46] mechanisms provided for dealing with this type of
[00:18:48] situation. Apparently irremovable a few
[00:18:52] weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems more fragile than
[00:18:55] ever. The man who has led FIFA for a decade still
[00:18:59] hopes to be re-elected next March thanks to the support of
[00:19:02] many federations in Africa and the
[00:19:04] Middle East.
[00:19:07] So that's the news. We're going to continue to discuss the situation of
[00:19:11] FIFA and Gianni Infantino with our guest, vouutibia,
[00:19:14] hello. Hello, thank you for taking a few minutes to join us this morning on the
[00:19:18] front page. You are a sports journalist, you know the world of football
[00:19:21] well. We're going to talk about it with you. We just saw it in the short segment that
[00:19:25] just preceded you, summarizing the situation. The question
[00:19:29] everyone is asking themselves now after this crisis is: can
[00:19:32] Gianni Infantino still remain in office? I think
[00:19:36] so. Because when we see how things
[00:19:40] are going now,
[00:19:45] UEFA, which means 55
[00:19:48] seats of support. Well, more and more, we see, just now it was the
[00:19:52] Conmebol. We see how many states or
[00:19:56] member associations there are in it, but this is before
[00:19:59] elections. So if we talk about preparation before the elections,
[00:20:02] we see by the support or lack thereof that he has or doesn't
[00:20:06] have. So recently, I think it was two days ago, there was the CAF,
[00:20:10] it's the African Football Federation, which
[00:20:13] expressed their support for Gianni Infantino. That has almost the
[00:20:16] same weight as UEFA, so we're talking about 54 member
[00:20:20] associations, and that's good for Gianni Infantino to have the
[00:20:23] support, but what we see is that internally there
[00:20:27] is a difference of entry. So if there
[00:20:30] is the CAF that sets
[00:20:33] the entry for the continuation of
[00:20:36] Gianni Infantino. in the presidential
[00:20:39] seat, I think that starts
[00:20:41] to show that there are stakes
[00:20:45] that are much deeper than what we see openly
[00:20:49] or what we see in the decisions that are explicitly made.
[00:20:52] UEFA, we understand why they can have the
[00:20:55] stance or the position they have taken there to
[00:20:58] boycott the World Cup. They can do that, they have the Champions
[00:21:02] League, they have enough money, they have enough, well,
[00:21:06] development. Compared to development, they are strong
[00:21:10] enough as a federation to make decisions like that and also
[00:21:13] to really say that if the president does not change this
[00:21:17] decision to advance the FIFA Forward and...
[00:21:20] hm and this privatization of 20 % which has never happened
[00:21:24] during the 120 years or more of
[00:21:28] FIFA. And that means in terms of value, UEFA really
[00:21:32] took a position of we will protect
[00:21:35] football but we will protect a style of football. Because the
[00:21:39] support of CAF for Gianni Infantino, I understand
[00:21:42] why. Because here is a president who advances the
[00:21:45] development of African football, and if he has
[00:21:49] someone. in the seat, let's say for example, he will have Laura
[00:21:53] McAllister and the two of them escape me
[00:21:57] there, Welsh, she's Welsh,
[00:22:00] that's it, she's Welsh. She supports women's football
[00:22:04] and she supports European football.
[00:22:07] And that means for the CAF president Patrice
[00:22:11] Motsepe or other federations in the
[00:22:13] CAF, we will move away from
[00:22:17] developing African football. If we
[00:22:20] talk now, there's the women's CAF, the women's AFCON,
[00:22:23] meaning the
[00:22:27] the Euros, but in Africa, for women, we don't see anything in the
[00:22:30] news. That's the whole story of FIFA, that's the whole story of what's happening with Gianni
[00:22:34] Infantino. So that means we see where the entry points
[00:22:38] are to advance the game of football, and it's not in
[00:22:40] favor of Africa. So that's why Mexico,
[00:22:44] Africa is starting to support it because it's really
[00:22:47] beyond that we can have support for... for money, for
[00:22:51] investment, for access, to have a seat at the
[00:22:55] level that can advance the
[00:22:58] Gianni Infantino's policy of development towards the
[00:23:01] African continent, which is a necessity for football, we hear
[00:23:05] Well, he also has a problem with his person, with the decisions he
[00:23:09] made, especially during the last World Cup,
[00:23:12] the controversies followed one another, he had the price of tickets notably, he had the
[00:23:16] controversy about this Somalian referee who couldn't go to the United States.
[00:23:20] and FIFA said absolutely nothing to the American authorities, he had this
[00:23:23] proximity displayed sometimes sickening, it must be said, with Donald
[00:23:27] Trump and especially this red card for
[00:23:31] Balogun in a totally surreal way,
[00:23:35] it's starting to be a lot for Janny Infantino at one point, don't you think
[00:23:38] so? I'm 100% in agreement because even if he advances
[00:23:42] African football entrances as I said earlier, what's a shame for
[00:23:46] him is that he tries to have too many entrances and when... when you do
[00:23:50] that, you lose a bit of confidence because who are you, that's what
[00:23:53] they said, the conon bol, it's that he's someone who
[00:23:57] works autonomously and outside of the federation,
[00:24:01] and that's not a president of a federation, it's someone who
[00:24:05] really as an individual, he has his own
[00:24:08] entrances, are these entrances related to money or
[00:24:12] to influence,
[00:24:14] we don't know, but really I find it
[00:24:18] extremely unfortunate what happened... happened but I think he has other
[00:24:21] issues that we are not aware of because here we see
[00:24:25] Carlos Cordero who resigned on July 31st
[00:24:29] it was his his number 3
[00:24:33] his number 2 yes it's his number 3 and it was his senior
[00:24:36] advisor but when we look at what
[00:24:40] Cordero did, his stake, his
[00:24:43] palmares, he was a Goldman
[00:24:47] Sachs American banker, he
[00:24:51] football association in the United States, so that means
[00:24:54] when he joined, when he was elected
[00:24:58] by Jean Infantino in 2021, it was for a strategic
[00:25:02] role 2021, the 2026
[00:25:05] World Cup, it's about 5 years to
[00:25:09] build entrances, to create
[00:25:12] links, bridges and all that with the United States, so there
[00:25:16] the big question mark is whether he was
[00:25:20] aware and now that it was rejected by UEFA,
[00:25:24] he decides to resign to show
[00:25:27] that Janny Infantino's plan didn't work
[00:25:31] and there you go, I'm going to drop everything now because
[00:25:35] more and more other things will come out when Jeani
[00:25:39] Fantino loses influence or support from certain
[00:25:42] federations, it's going very badly in the United States for Donald Trump and
[00:25:46] it's going especially badly after the World Cup, so politically,
[00:25:50] it's not very good what Diane Infantino is doing to align with the United States because
[00:25:54] it's starting to really bring out things and decisions
[00:25:59] referee who was not allowed to enter. who will also referee
[00:26:03] the European Supercup, thank you we're starting to ask ourselves questions because
[00:26:09] UEFA, Alexander Ceferin, he publicly
[00:26:12] expresses his support for
[00:26:16] the referee and protects him by offering him a
[00:26:19] position to be a referee for a tournament that
[00:26:23] is coming up, the Super Cup if I'm not mistaken, yeah, the European Supercup which is next
[00:26:27] week, August 12th, there you go, and then it's boycotting
[00:26:31] FIFA, so UEFA. they have their own things that are
[00:26:34] happening there and I think he has the
[00:26:37] soft power hot power that is
[00:26:41] at stake there, so he has decisions that were made
[00:26:44] which mean more than what we see, political
[00:26:48] stakes beyond the person of Janny Infantino, power
[00:26:52] struggles between UEFA and FIFA, you think so? Absolutely, several names are
[00:26:58] Laura Mackalesta who is advancing women's football and I
[00:27:04] investment, Tian Infantino, he wanted
[00:27:07] to take the direction of the United States by privatization
[00:27:11] of the World Cup, that was a bad
[00:27:14] decision, but if we look at women's football, he has
[00:27:18] Michel King who is very influential, time is quickly
[00:27:21] running out, yes, so if before the
[00:27:24] elections, Laura Mecalista's name starts to come out
[00:27:29] investment for football and women's football. I think that if
[00:27:33] she has ties with people like Michel Kang and
[00:27:37] other investors, it could really fall for her on her
[00:27:40] side, but really he has several entries, he has several
[00:27:44] names that will come out there, so maybe we will
[00:27:47] wait to see if Jean Infantino will stay and then we
[00:27:51] can start having discussions, then wait and see as they say, so thank
[00:27:55] you very much Bia for answering our questions, you know your subject well,
[00:27:59] it's very pleasant to discuss with you, thank you again.
[00:30:07] Hello everyone and thank you for joining us on France 24, you're joining us in
[00:30:11] the headline, that's an excellent idea, here's
[00:30:15] this Friday, at least 8 dead, that's the toll
[00:30:18] of a shooting that occurred notably in a high school in
[00:30:21] Thailand, a teenager opened fire
[00:30:25] in an establishment in Bangkok, three students and
[00:30:28] three teachers were killed,
[00:30:31] the teenager, died, he had killed his grandparents before
[00:30:36] establishment, also in the headline, will the specter of sectarian violence
[00:30:39] re-emerge in Syria, a car bomb attack
[00:30:43] in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus leaves two dead and
[00:30:47] more than a dozen injured, it was this Thursday, a new deadly attack
[00:30:51] in the Syrian capital in the space of a few
[00:30:54] months, and then we will also talk in the headline about a man in turmoil, Jani
[00:30:58] Infantino, the all-powerful...