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[00:00:00] 24 and
[00:00:02] these books, there are france24.com,
[00:00:06] you are indeed on France 24, welcome to Paris live, here are the headlines for
[00:00:10] about a month, a little less than this Friday's news: fatal
[00:00:12] shooting in Thailand, a teenager armed with a handgun killed his two
[00:00:16] grandparents before going to his high school where he killed
[00:00:20] six more people, about fifteen people were also injured, the Prime
[00:00:24] Minister deplores a
[00:00:26] terrible incident, the war in Ukraine and...
[00:00:30] daily bombing, Kyiv primarily targets Russia's logistical centers,
[00:00:33] Moscow also targets
[00:00:36] state, elected on June the cultural life of Ukrainians, Emmanuel Chas is on the ground,
[00:00:39] she will be live with us in this
[00:00:40] news report.
[00:00:43] This is the beginning of a new era, today in Colombia, Abelardo de la
[00:00:46] Espriella will be officially inaugurated as president of the
[00:00:50] Colombian Republic, and symbolically the ceremony will take place in
[00:00:53] Cali, a stronghold of drug traffickers against whom the new head of
[00:00:56] state has already declared war.
[00:01:07] Valérie and all her companions from
[00:01:12] How to explain this murderous rampage in Thailand,
[00:01:15] why did a teenager armed with a handgun kill 8
[00:01:19] people in total, his own grandparents first, then
[00:01:22] six people from his high school near Bangkok, 15
[00:01:26] people were also injured in what the Thai
[00:01:29] Prime Minister called a terrible incident, the perpetrator
[00:01:32] of the shooting is dead, and I propose we listen to this testimony from a
[00:01:36] high school student,
[00:01:41] at first I thought it was firecrackers or someone hitting something violently,
[00:01:45] but I finally understood that it wasn't
[00:01:48] that, there was a moment of calm but then the shooting
[00:01:52] resumed, I didn't think it could be gunshots, after that,
[00:01:56] we took refuge in the toilet, we thought it was over.
[00:02:01] then a teacher shouted run fast, the shooter went to another
[00:02:04] building and ran
[00:02:06] here.
[00:02:10] The news also includes these echoes of the war between Ukraine and
[00:02:15] the Russia, not a day without bombing on both sides. Emmanuel Chaz is live with us
[00:02:18] from Kharkiv in Ukraine. Emmanuel, Ukraine is focusing
[00:02:22] its strikes on logistical centers in Russian
[00:02:25] territory.
[00:02:28] Yes, absolutely, it's been several
[00:02:30] weeks already that we practically every day have news of a logistical
[00:02:34] center Whilberry, it's a bit the Russian equivalent
[00:02:38] of Amazon that goes up in smoke after Ukrainian
[00:02:41] bombardments, the latest one is the
[00:02:44] warehouse in Yekaterinburg, which is located
[00:02:48] going to look for about 2000 km from the border between Russia
[00:02:51] and Ukraine, so that
[00:02:53] think why would I look for shows the deep strike capabilities of Ukrainian
[00:02:56] drones, Ukrainian long-range weapons.
[00:03:00] According to the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's
[00:03:04] drone systems, Robert Brofdit Macard, who
[00:03:07] spoke a few days ago about these strikes on
[00:03:11] uh 15 logistical centers, so minus the one in
[00:03:15] Yekaterinburg, which were hit, 13 were completely
[00:03:18] destroyed. So what does that represent uh for Russia, which uses these
[00:03:22] logistical centers uh for military purposes as
[00:03:26] well? Well, there are about
[00:03:30] 200 of these centers in Russia, except that there are only about
[00:03:33] twenty, a little over twenty of significant size, so
[00:03:37] that represents about 15, 16%
[00:03:41] of these centers' inability to function normally. The
[00:03:44] goal for Ukraine with these strikes, obviously, is to
[00:03:48] try to weaken Russia's financial capacity, to
[00:03:51] cripple these logistical routes that
[00:03:55] supply the army in particular, and
[00:03:58] then above all, it makes the Russian population react
[00:04:02] who, through supply problems through
[00:04:06] these centers, realize the consequences of the Russian war
[00:04:10] against Ukraine in their daily
[00:04:11] this Friday's news: lives. So we've just talked about Ukrainian strikes
[00:04:15] on Russian territory, but Russia continues
[00:04:18] its bombardments and beyond the
[00:04:21] rest from human toll, Emmanuel, it also has a significant impact on Ukrainian
[00:04:24] culture.
[00:04:28] Yes, absolutely, it's true that the... strikes mostly target
[00:04:31] private property effectively uh the dead, the injured, that's the
[00:04:35] human tragedy, the human drama that Ukrainians face
[00:04:38] daily, and then there's another tragedy for
[00:04:42] them, which is the strikes that directly
[00:04:45] affect Ukrainian identity. Here
[00:04:48] in the Kharkiv region, just a few days ago, on the night of
[00:04:52] August 1st, a warehouse
[00:04:56] England, already belonged to used by several publishing houses was targeted by
[00:04:58] a Russian strike, more than... 8 million books were destroyed,
[00:05:02] so one might say, well, it's not a human life, however, 8 million
[00:05:05] books out of an annual production in Ukraine of
[00:05:09] 25 million books represents an enormous quantity. Among
[00:05:15] Ukrainian language books, there are novels, essays, but there
[00:05:18] are also school textbooks, we are
[00:05:22] a month before the start of the school year, it will be necessary to reprint textbooks
[00:05:26] urgently, and for Ukrainians, this is an assumed strategy by
[00:05:30] Russia, ultimately, to destroy a part of Ukrainian
[00:05:33] identity. Emmanuel Chase live from
[00:05:36] Kharkiv, thank you, Emmanuel, for all these explanations. We
[00:05:40] turn to Colombia, it is today that Abelardo de la
[00:05:44] Espriella will officially assume the role of head of
[00:05:48] 21st, the millionaire ultra-right lawyer will therefore be
[00:05:52] inaugurated, for once, the ceremony will take place not in
[00:05:56] Bogota, the capital, but in Cali, the country's third largest city and
[00:05:59] a stronghold of drug traffickers against whom the new president has
[00:06:03] already declared war with the support of Washington, Romain
[00:06:07] Michot, patrols everywhere
[00:06:11] in Cali, third largest city in Colombia, it is here under
[00:06:14] high security that the inauguration of the new far-right president
[00:06:18] elect Abelardo de la Espriella takes place. More than
[00:06:21] 11,000 men and women have been deployed here with drones, anti-drone
[00:06:25] systems, armored vehicles and everything
[00:06:29] necessary for this democratic event to take place
[00:06:32] peacefully. Normally, this inauguration of the
[00:06:36] Colombian president takes place in the capital, Bogota, but
[00:06:39] not with Abelardo. The millionaire lawyer, a political
[00:06:43] novice, chose Cali where attacks claimed by guerrillas recently
[00:06:47] took place, a symbol, because the new president
[00:06:51] promises a strong hand to fight against these armed groups and drug
[00:06:54] trafficking, bombardments against the camps of these
[00:06:57] organizations or the creation of mega-prisons like in
[00:07:00] El Salvador, a program hammered home since his election last
[00:07:04] June and contrary to his left-wing predecessor Gustavo
[00:07:07] Petro who had tried to negotiate the disarmament of these groups.
[00:07:11] There will be no false peace processes, the
[00:07:13] only possible peace is that imposed by arms, any bandit who does not submit
[00:07:17] will be eliminated, I warned you, for this,
[00:07:21] Colombia can count on the support of the United States and Israel, whose
[00:07:25] representatives will be present at the inauguration ceremony, but
[00:07:29] these very strong statements also worry part of the
[00:07:32] population.
[00:07:34] Based on his announcements,
[00:07:37] we can clearly see that he will be a rather authoritarian leader.
[00:07:40] I just hope that there will be no violence,
[00:07:43] new violence among the population,
[00:07:46] a challenge, because according to the Idea for Peace Foundation, in
[00:07:50] 2025, Colombia had nearly 25,000 armed
[00:07:54] people within illegal organizations.
[00:07:57] This text that ignited
[00:08:00] the powder keg in Argentina, we are talking about a bill initiated by
[00:08:03] Ravier Milley, it notably provides for the facilitation of
[00:08:07] land evictions and is part of the ultra-liberal logic
[00:08:11] driven by the head of state, the text is being examined by the Senate, it
[00:08:14] is at the heart of an anger that has been expressed in the streets, you can
[00:08:18] see that the demonstrations were violently
[00:08:21] repressed by the forces of order, explanation Romain Michelot:
[00:08:25] The crowd, pushed back with
[00:08:28] water canons, tear gas, in Buenos
[00:08:31] Aires, Argentina, the police dispersed thousands of demonstrators
[00:08:34] gathered this Thursday as the Senate continued to examine a bill
[00:08:38] aimed at simplifying and extending... access to private
[00:08:42] property, despite the withdrawal of certain unpopular measures,
[00:08:45] the anger is still there.
[00:08:48] We are here because the government and the traitors who
[00:08:52] accompany it want to sell our country. What they want
[00:08:56] with this law is for Argentina to stop
[00:08:59] belonging to Argentinians.
[00:09:02] This bill, named
[00:09:05] "Inviolability of Private Property", aims to facilitate
[00:09:08] evictions in case of non-payment and to make the expropriation of property by
[00:09:12] the state more complicated. It also intended to increase the share of
[00:09:16] strategic land that can belong to foreigners from 15
[00:09:19] to 25%, but this measure was withdrawn due to lack of political
[00:09:23] support in parliament. Behind the idea of this government project by Miley,
[00:09:27] is to attract new foreign investors to capitalize on these
[00:09:30] lands rich in lithium, copper for example, an
[00:09:34] ultra-liberal logic defended by the ruling party during the examination
[00:09:37] of the text.
[00:09:39] This law on the inviolability of
[00:09:44] aims to guarantee that private property enshrined in this
[00:09:47] constitution is not violated and that
[00:09:50] the state understands that its purpose is to protect and defend and
[00:09:54] not to intervene and control.
[00:09:57] This project must still be examined by the
[00:09:59] Chamber of Deputies before being adopted. In Argentina in
[00:10:03] 2025, almost 5% of the territory, equivalent to the surface area of
[00:10:08] foreigners according to a report by the land observatory. This share would even exceed 15
[00:10:13] % in certain resource-rich regions.
[00:10:17] And that's the end of this news report, stay with
[00:10:20] us, information continues on France 24.
[00:10:23] This is a national
[00:10:47] emergency, often forgotten.
[00:10:50] In France, hundreds of people
[00:10:53] die in the street every year,
[00:10:56] encounters, alcohol, drugs, well, I've been
[00:10:58] through some bad times.
[00:11:01] I thought I'd get out of it right
[00:11:07] away, I didn't think it would be that hard,
[00:11:11] women, men, but also
[00:11:14] children who live on the fringes of
[00:11:18] society, on the streets, they develop
[00:11:21] fears, anxieties, limits that make them lose
[00:11:25] confidence in themselves and in others,
[00:11:28] associations are sounding the
[00:11:30] alarm and calling for solidarity. Valerie likes to come to Porte
[00:11:47] d'Orléans, south of Paris.
[00:11:50] Here, she knows all the streets,
[00:11:56] cafes, gardens,
[00:11:58] she wanders through them
[00:12:02] tirelessly.
[00:12:03] I read and I watch
[00:12:07] nature, I listen to the birds and I watch the children
[00:12:10] play and hear them laugh,
[00:12:13] that's where
[00:12:16] I recharge, that's my
[00:12:19] freedom, the parks.
[00:12:23] Valérie is homeless,
[00:12:30] after a divorce and the death of her parents, she finds herself
[00:12:34] alone, in a precarious situation
[00:12:38] at the age of 60.
[00:12:40] After COVID, they bought back our company,
[00:12:43] myself too, but I gave
[00:12:47] manic and well, after a while, you get
[00:12:50] tired. You get tired
[00:12:53] so I had one sick leave, two sick leaves and
[00:12:57] after one day no one called me for over 30 years in the
[00:13:00] company, I said to myself, but why are you
[00:13:04] going, so I didn't send a sick leave, I didn't do
[00:13:08] anything at all and I received a letter more than a month later
[00:13:11] saying "no news, no sick leave,
[00:13:15] give us your news, otherwise it's job abandonment", and well, I
[00:13:18] replied by registered letter,
[00:13:21] "I accept the term job abandonment". For Valérie, this is the turning
[00:13:28] point, without financial resources, she no longer
[00:13:31] pays her rent. Between 7 and 7:30 am, on a
[00:13:35] Friday in June, you arrive
[00:13:39] home after 10 pm, it was
[00:13:42] what, 8:30 pm, and
[00:13:44] there you have, you see that it's no longer your lock, you see that you
[00:13:48] have a folded paper anyway,
[00:13:52] saying "no longer allowed to enter, you are evicted,
[00:13:55] otherwise you will be fined", and on a Friday night,
[00:13:58] what do you want to do? You have nothing left, I find myself in the
[00:14:02] street with my bag
[00:14:05] thinking what am I doing?
[00:14:08] In France, the number of homeless people
[00:14:15] has doubled in 10 years.
[00:14:18] Today, there are nearly 350,000.
[00:14:22] Romain also lived on the street for
[00:14:26] 2 years, after a separation, he lost his
[00:14:30] home then his job to end up
[00:14:32] in a tent with his dog Marley.
[00:14:36] When you sleep in a tent,
[00:14:39] at night when you're sleeping, there can be people walking around and she
[00:14:43] would warn me, she would warn me if she growled if there were
[00:14:46] people lurking around my tent,
[00:14:50] I, well, that's it, and she's a companion, and
[00:14:54] I was sure with her that nothing could
[00:14:57] happen to me. The problem is that
[00:15:01] shelters long refused to take in the dogs of
[00:15:04] the homeless until the Paris 2024 games. A
[00:15:08] charity came to see me called "Les Enfants du Canal" that
[00:15:11] would come to see me at the tent, and when the Olympic Games came
[00:15:14] and they didn't want any more homeless people outside, they found a solution
[00:15:18] with my dog because there was no way I was getting rid of my dog.
[00:15:21] And so they did, well they knocked on every door
[00:15:25] to get me here.
[00:15:29] This shelter is La Mie de Pain, a
[00:15:33] neighborhood association that welcomes nearly
[00:15:36] 1500 people every day in its various
[00:15:39] facilities.
[00:15:40] Here at La Mie de Pain, we
[00:15:44] attach great importance to welcoming each person as a unique individual. We
[00:15:48] have many people over
[00:15:52] 40, 50 years old, who have long histories of homelessness. It can
[00:15:55] be a few years, but sometimes it's decades.
[00:15:59] People who stay on the streets for so long are
[00:16:02] people who move away from the codes of normal society, so there's
[00:16:06] work to be done with them to meet them where
[00:16:10] they are and bring them to live in a community
[00:16:14] again with the rules of living together, so a
[00:16:18] pantomime the association is 70%
[00:16:21] funded by public authorities, but it also
[00:16:24] relies on patrons and donors, what's a little
[00:16:27] thing? La Mie de Pain collects
[00:16:30] 5 million in donations each year. This is
[00:16:34] extremely important because in what we can do, for
[00:16:38] example, to be able to have a nurse who will accompany people with
[00:16:41] chronic illnesses, well, that is paid for exclusively by
[00:16:44] donations, the fact that in each facility there is a permanent
[00:16:48] psychologist who can support uh the increase
[00:16:51] in the number of people present around the homeless, these are
[00:16:55] the donations, the cigarettes consumed and the coffees and a little toothache, a little
[00:16:59] toothache and do you
[00:17:03] do you have do you
[00:17:07] According to a recent report, the homeless have a life expectancy 30 years lower than the general population. One more year on the street, I think
[00:17:23] I would have given up,
[00:17:27] I would have sunk, you meet them, alcohol,
[00:17:30] drugs, well, I've been through some bad times
[00:17:33] and it could have been worse. And I think if
[00:17:37] I had I wouldn't be
[00:17:40] here and my children, I think
[00:17:42] well maybe dead or
[00:17:45] not far from it,
[00:17:47] but
[00:17:51] actually I felt good right away the
[00:17:53] rest
[00:17:57] Oh, the first 23:25, that's
[00:17:59] fine, I'll take the 1 AM
[00:18:02] one.
[00:18:05] Valerie has not yet found a place to live.
[00:18:09] For months she has been trying to get by without begging or calling for
[00:18:12] help. You find yourself
[00:18:15] alone in the world,
[00:18:18] and then there's also our
[00:18:22] dignity, it's like
[00:18:26] help, you can't because at first you
[00:18:30] help, then uh I'll manage,
[00:18:34] I thought I'd get out of it right away, I didn't think it
[00:18:37] would be that hard.
[00:18:55] The bus is the journey,
[00:18:59] that's how I spend my days escaping,
[00:19:01] maybe to forget what
[00:19:03] I'm living. That day, Valérie
[00:19:15] joins Arche d'Avenir, a day
[00:19:17] center for men and women where she has her
[00:19:21] habits.
[00:19:22] See you later, how are
[00:19:29] you, you're fine, yes, I'm fine, it's been a long time,
[00:19:33] don't worry, I'm fine,
[00:19:35] thanks.
[00:19:39] "Oh madam, how are you, it's a
[00:19:43] pleasure.
[00:19:46] In this mixed shelter, women have a dedicated space
[00:19:50] where they can relax in complete
[00:19:52] safety. Here is the
[00:19:55] dormitory, where we
[00:19:58] opening until noon and even in
[00:20:01] the afternoon, for me personally,
[00:20:04] they do this at the top, it's really a..."
[00:20:19] These are birthday presents for my daughter for tomorrow and I'm
[00:20:23] about to wrap them, I just bought the wrapping paper and later
[00:20:26] I'm going to wrap them. The big present is for her and the small present is
[00:20:30] for the older one because there's always a present for the
[00:20:32] second one
[00:20:35] and there's even a present for Marley too.
[00:20:41] At La Mie de Pain, Romain works on his files with the social
[00:20:44] worker.
[00:20:50] of right for the girls, well, I want us and I want her to
[00:20:53] ask that I be granted
[00:20:57] half-days at least so that I can go out with the girls, take them to the
[00:21:00] museum, maybe even that I be allowed to pick them up from school
[00:21:04] or something, that's good, we know that, everyone knows it, it's
[00:21:07] Romain's objective now, reintegration, we support you in any
[00:21:10] case, now I've gone back to work so uh life on
[00:21:14] the platform, I come home to sleep, I wake up in the morning to go to work, in
[00:21:17] fact it's maybe it's almost a
[00:21:20] return to real life, there you go, thank you Katia, have a good day, good luck,
[00:21:24] thank you too, good luck, for what comes next,
[00:21:27] I'm waiting for the social worker to help me find housing or a family
[00:21:31] pension so I can start welcoming my
[00:21:34] children again, to be able to live with them again, the main
[00:21:38] objective is really to live with my
[00:21:40] daughters. That's all I have as
[00:21:43] a plan.
[00:21:50] In the late afternoon, it's time to leave the
[00:21:53] shelter for
[00:21:57] the arch.
[00:22:00] I'm like them, I'm on the street, they know what
[00:22:03] I'm going through, and that's what's important, we don't have the same
[00:22:07] words, we have the same needs, a social
[00:22:10] link, we're not
[00:22:12] invisible,
[00:22:14] you have to stay positive, there's always a ray of sunshine in the
[00:22:18] day. That's all I have to tell you and
[00:22:22] hang in there, we'll get there.
[00:26:47] I'll do it
[00:26:48] there
[00:26:57] advantage.
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[00:30:08] Paris live continuing on France 24, here are the headlines for
[00:30:13] fatal shooting in Thailand, a teenager armed
[00:30:17] with a handgun killed his two grandparents before going to
[00:30:20] his high school, where he killed six more people, about fifteen people
[00:30:24] were injured, the Prime Minister deplores a
[00:30:28] terrible incident. This is the beginning.
[00:30:32] of a new era beginning today in Colombia, Abelardo
[00:30:35] de la Espriella will be officially inaugurated as
[00:30:39] president of the Colombian Republic.
[00:30:42] Symbolically, the ceremony will take place in Cali, a stronghold of
[00:30:45] drug traffickers against whom the new head of state has declared
[00:30:48] war. And then France 24 on the ground and a report
[00:30:52] in the occupied West Bank. Our
[00:30:55] correspondent experienced the daily life of an ambulance driver who has to juggle
[00:30:59] checkpoints.