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[00:00:00] 24.
[00:00:09] Paris direct continues on France 24, welcome to all. Here are
[00:00:12] the main headlines of today's news this Friday: Deadly shooting in
[00:00:16] Thailand, an adolescent armed with a pistol killed his two
[00:00:20] grandparents before going to his high school where he killed six
[00:00:25] and a relaunch of the be remembered, is a member of more people, about fifteen people were injured, the prime minister laments
[00:00:27] a terrible incident.
[00:00:31] Perhaps the birth of a new diplomatic and strategic bloc,
[00:00:34] Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just signed a mutual
[00:00:38] precedent since Turkey defense agreement, an impact between major Sunni powers against a backdrop of war
[00:00:42] against Shiite Iran. Mélina Uet will help us
[00:00:45] understand the stakes of this summit in
[00:00:48] Mecca. It's the beginning of a new era today in
[00:00:52] Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella will be officially
[00:00:55] sworn in as president of the Republic of Colombia. Symbolically, the
[00:00:59] ceremony will take place in Cali, a stronghold
[00:01:01] There is another group called the of drug traffickers to whom the new head of state has declared war,
[00:01:05] Jean-Louis Martin, a specialist in Latin America, will be with us to
[00:01:08] explain what will happen on the very first day of this new presidential term.
[00:01:26] How to explain this deadly team in Thailand, why?
[00:01:30] An adolescent armed with a pistol killed eight people in
[00:01:34] total, his own grandparents first, then six people at
[00:01:37] his school near Bangkok, 15 people
[00:01:41] were also injured, the shooter killed himself and according to the
[00:01:45] Thai prime minister, he had clearly planned his
[00:01:48] attack, details with Axel Simon.
[00:01:52] Outside the school, crying teachers embraced, the
[00:01:56] staff and students of this school in the Bangkok suburb
[00:02:00] experienced a nightmare in broad daylight at school, a 14-year-old
[00:02:03] adolescent opened fire, killing several people and injuring about fifteen before
[00:02:07] committing suicide, some students and teachers managed
[00:02:10] to lock themselves in the classrooms, others tried to hide or
[00:02:14] flee,
[00:02:17] found refuge in the toilets, we thought it was over,
[00:02:21] then a teacher shouted run fast, the shooter went to another
[00:02:24] building and ran
[00:02:26] here, when I was...
[00:02:32] there it was total chaos, the students we took care of outside were injured in the back,
[00:02:35] chest and arm, we gave them
[00:02:38] I could write 10,000 words about FIFA's problems, but the solution is only in first aid, the shooter was still active at that
[00:02:41] moment. According to the police, the shooter is one
[00:02:45] of the school's students, he fired more than twenty bullets with a pistol
[00:02:50] a complete overhaul of FIFA's governance. belonging to his grandfather and was
[00:02:51] January there was a source close to found in possession of about thirty additional ammunition. The police
[00:02:54] specified that the shooter had killed his
[00:02:57] investors, Gianni Infantino has grandparents at their home before going to his school and opening
[00:03:00] fire, I am deeply pained, not
[00:03:04] only for the victims, but also to see that such an incident can
[00:03:07] occur in our country. This is the
[00:03:10] reason why the government has not authorized the extension of the right to own
[00:03:13] firearms, it is exactly for this
[00:03:16] reason.
[00:03:19] The political commitments of recent years to toughen legislation on
[00:03:24] too, is someone who comes from gun ownership have not prevented a multiplication of shootings.
[00:03:27] It is estimated that there are more than 10 million firearms in circulation in
[00:03:30] Thailand, or one for every seven inhabitants. This is the
[00:03:34] second deadly school shooting
[00:03:37] quite easily with people from in Thailand this year. In 2022, a former police officer had
[00:03:40] also killed 36 people in a daycare center in the north of the country,
[00:03:43] most of whom were
[00:03:46] has not delegated the management of children.
[00:03:48] big guest confronted with the burning topic of The pact was signed just
[00:03:50] current events in the 27 countries of a few minutes ago. Gathered
[00:03:52] of economics, in Mecca, representatives of Turkey, Pakistan and
[00:03:54] Saudi Arabia signed a
[00:03:57] four corners of the world, these players of defense agreement. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister,
[00:04:00] Pakistani Shebaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince
[00:04:05] delegate the management of Mohammed Bin Salman signed the text in Mecca,
[00:04:07] an event likely to give birth
[00:04:09] you for being with us, here are the headlines to a new diplomatic and strategic bloc as the war
[00:04:12] between the United States and Iran reshuffles regional
[00:04:15] balances. Mélanie Huette, Mélina Huette
[00:04:18] pardon, you are an international columnist and senior reporter for
[00:04:22] France 24, you will help us see things more clearly, first
[00:04:25] what is in this text, Mélina? So according to the joint
[00:04:29] declaration of the three countries, it provides that any armed attack
[00:04:32] against one of them will be considered as an attack against the
[00:04:36] three, in fact it is a collective defense
[00:04:38] clause which, in its very wording,
[00:04:42] in fact, is like Article 5, for example, of the North Atlantic Treaty
[00:04:46] of NATO. In fact, the text extends to Turkey a pact that
[00:04:50] control of the had already been concluded almost a year ago, now it was in September 2025 between Riyadh and
[00:04:54] Islamabad and which already laid down this formula, so we can talk about a new alliance
[00:04:58] but in fact it is rather the...
[00:05:00] the enlargement, pardon, of a pre-existing alliance and then there is something
[00:05:04] interesting, it's a bit like Ankara's after-sales service which is almost as
[00:05:07] instructive as the agreement itself, a Turkish official quoted by
[00:05:11] Reuters specifies three things. The pact is purely
[00:05:14] defensive, so it does not target any particular actor and remains
[00:05:18] open to other countries in the region and above all what
[00:05:21] this official adds is that the agreement does not abrogate or
[00:05:24] replace any existing commitment, whether bilateral
[00:05:28] or multilateral. In fact, who is this
[00:05:31] clarification addressed to? Well, to Brussels and to Washington, why? Because Turkey, it must
[00:05:37] NATO and so one could question the compatibility of the
[00:05:40] two commitments. Imagine that... tomorrow NATO is at war
[00:05:44] against Pakistan, what does Turkey do in that case? Well,
[00:05:47] there is a
[00:05:51] joined NATO in 1952 and in 1955 the
[00:05:54] Baghdad Pact was signed which already
[00:05:58] linked Turkey to other countries including
[00:06:01] Pakistan. One more thing to remember: Pakistan
[00:06:04] is the only Muslim country to possess nuclear
[00:06:07] weapons. So Mélina, can we really
[00:06:11] talk about... the creation of a Sunni bloc which
[00:06:14] would therefore constitute a defense axis against
[00:06:18] Shiite Iran? Well, it is true that presented like that and with
[00:06:22] the forces present we would be tempted to say so but the map you are going to see on
[00:06:25] the screen shows precisely why this reading does not stand
[00:06:29] up to the test of facts. In fact, what you see here are
[00:06:32] two pieces of information, two superimposed pieces of information. The
[00:06:35] background color indicates the majority confession of the population,
[00:06:39] pay attention, the border indicates the alignment of the power in place. In fact, when...
[00:06:42] look at Syria for example, it is predominantly Sunni with a
[00:06:45] border on the Riyadh side, except that until December 2024, as you know, the same map would
[00:06:49] have shown it with this border, on the Tehran side since the
[00:06:53] country was governed by an Alawite minority, therefore Shiite.
[00:06:57] The population has not changed, the power has. It's the same for
[00:07:00] Bahrain. In fact, zoom in a little to show you, it presents the
[00:07:03] inverse configuration with a population that is predominantly Shiite, but a monarchy that
[00:07:07] is aligned with Riyadh. In fact, what unites the three countries
[00:07:11] that have signed this agreement in Mecca today can be seen
[00:07:15] elsewhere on this map, it's on the red dots that you see scattered everywhere. For
[00:07:19] example, Saudi Arabia finds itself caught
[00:07:22] in a vise on its two maritime fronts, on one side to
[00:07:25] the east, the Strait of Hormuz, as you know, locked down since the beginning of the
[00:07:29] American and Israeli
[00:07:31] war against Iran, to the west, descending
[00:07:35] towards Marib, there is the resumption of the Yemeni conflict with tools that
[00:07:39] target Saudi ships in the Red Sea and then we recall that the tools... well,
[00:07:42] they are proxies of Iran, hence this initiative in fact which was
[00:07:46] launched by Riyadh a week ago to secure
[00:07:50] precisely the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden,
[00:07:53] 14 countries have joined it, including Turkey
[00:07:57] and Pakistan, that is to say the two guests of the day, and then a small
[00:08:00] clue to finish, in
[00:08:04] the Saudi army who assured our AFP colleagues that Ankara
[00:08:07] would not join this alliance, 7 months later
[00:08:10] Turkey. is at the table, thank you
[00:08:14] Mélina Huette, international columnist, senior reporter on
[00:08:17] France, thank you for all these lines of
[00:08:20] thought. So a page turns in
[00:08:24] Colombia, today Cabellardo de la
[00:08:27] Espriella will officially assume the role of
[00:08:31] head of state, elected on June 21st, the millionaire
[00:08:34] ultra-right lawyer will be sworn in, for once, the
[00:08:38] ceremony will take place, not in Bogota, the capital.
[00:08:44] but in Cali, the country's third largest city and incidentally a stronghold of
[00:08:47] drug traffickers to whom the new president has declared war
[00:08:50] with the support of Washington, the explanations of Romain
[00:08:53] Michelot:
[00:08:56] patrols everywhere in Cali, the 3rd city of
[00:08:59] Colombia, it is here under high security that the
[00:09:02] inauguration of the new far-right president-elect Abelardo de la
[00:09:06] Espriella takes place. More than 1100 men and women have been
[00:09:10] deployed here with drones. Anti-drone
[00:09:12] system, armored vehicles and all the
[00:09:16] necessary equipment for this democratic event to take place
[00:09:19] peacefully. Ordinarily, this inauguration of the
[00:09:23] Colombian president takes place in the capital, Bogota, but not
[00:09:26] with Abelardo de la Espriella. The millionaire
[00:09:29] lawyer, new to politics, chose Cali where attacks
[00:09:33] claimed by guerrillas recently occurred, a symbol, because the
[00:09:37] new president promises a strong approach to fight against these armed
[00:09:40] groups and drug trafficking. Bombings against the camps of these
[00:09:44] organizations or even the creation of mega-prisons like in
[00:09:47] El Salvador, a program reiterated since his election last
[00:09:51] June and contrary to his left-wing predecessor Gustavo
[00:09:54] Petro who had tried to negotiate the disarmament of these armed
[00:09:57] groups. There will be no false peace process, the only peace
[00:10:01] possible is that imposed by arms. Any bandit who does not submit will
[00:10:05] be eliminated. I have foreseen this. For this,
[00:10:08] Colombia can count on the support of the United States and Israel, whose
[00:10:12] representatives will be present at the inauguration ceremony,
[00:10:16] but these very strong statements also worry a part of the
[00:10:19] population.
[00:10:22] According to these announcements, we can clearly see that he will be... a rather
[00:10:26] authoritarian leader,
[00:10:28] I just hope there will be no violence, new violence within the
[00:10:32] population,
[00:10:34] a challenge, because according to the Peace Foundation, in
[00:10:37] 2025, Colombia had nearly 25,000 armed people
[00:10:41] within illegal organizations.
[00:10:45] So what will happen on the very first day of this new presidential
[00:10:49] term? We will ask Jean-Louis
[00:10:52] Martin, economist and specialist in Latin
[00:10:55] America at Ifri, the French Institute of International Relations, hello and thank you for accepting
[00:10:59] France 24's invitation. First of all, do you agree
[00:11:03] that the choice of Cali
[00:11:06] for the inauguration ceremony is not an innocent
[00:11:09] choice?
[00:11:12] No, I think there can be two explanations.
[00:11:16] Albert is a provincial from the coast
[00:11:19] and that is a region that has given relatively few
[00:11:23] presidents to Colombia, so there is a kind of
[00:11:25] almost identity
[00:11:28] claim in having chosen
[00:11:31] to organize this inauguration in the
[00:11:34] provinces. Afterwards, there may also be a provocative side, which is
[00:11:37] that Cali is a city that, during the last
[00:11:40] elections, voted rather for his
[00:11:44] opponent, so it is also perhaps a kind of marking of the
[00:11:47] territory. Jean-Louis Martin, the Colombian authorities announced
[00:11:51] yesterday that they had found a bus loaded with explosives, which would have been
[00:11:55] prepared to target precisely the president-elect. Does this
[00:11:59] foreshadow a rather tense start to the
[00:12:02] term from a security
[00:12:04] point of view?
[00:12:08] probably because he
[00:12:11] is clear that the
[00:12:15] armed opposition
[00:12:17] forces in the
[00:12:20] countryside will not remain inactive,
[00:12:24] because he has directly threatened
[00:12:27] them and he has very
[00:12:31] concretely threatened to use a strong hand against
[00:12:34] them. They will react and their priority
[00:12:38] is to maintain territorial control because they need
[00:12:41] that for coca production, for transformation into
[00:12:45] cocaine and then in their spare time to do
[00:12:49] a bit of extortion from the local population, merchants, etc.
[00:12:52] So yes, he will oppose them.
[00:12:55] and they will probably react
[00:12:58] and certainly in part through
[00:13:01] attacks or attempted attacks like that. So we
[00:13:05] see in the images that accompany your words
[00:13:09] that Abelardo de la Espriella
[00:13:12] always appears behind armored glass, he is always accompanied by
[00:13:16] heavily armed guards with
[00:13:20] bulletproof shields.
[00:13:24] Can we say that he is a target today?
[00:13:28] Politics is a dangerous
[00:13:30] profession in Colombia. There have been several
[00:13:33] prominent leaders who have been assassinated, the
[00:13:37] last one was Miguel
[00:13:39] Uribe last year in 2025,
[00:13:42] who was at
[00:13:44] the time the main right-wing candidate
[00:13:47] for this year's presidential elections,
[00:13:50] so yes... he
[00:13:54] but like almost all Colombian politicians,
[00:13:57] he has a target on his back. Yes, Abelardo de la
[00:14:01] Espriella, who has received Donald Trump's support,
[00:14:04] intends to align himself with the American administration
[00:14:08] in the war on drugs. What
[00:14:12] is the risk for Colombians, this time not for him,
[00:14:16] of seeing an open war break out with drug
[00:14:19] traffickers?
[00:14:21] Well, it is quite likely that violence will increase in the short
[00:14:25] term because, as I told you, these armed groups, which are pure
[00:14:29] narcos now, that is to say that there is
[00:14:32] no longer anything political in this opposition, it
[00:14:36] was still possible to negotiate a political
[00:14:39] agreement around 2015-2016 and that is
[00:14:42] what Santos did at the time, which led to the Havana
[00:14:45] agreement with the FARC guerrilla,
[00:14:49] even though the FARC themselves had also deviated quite a bit in the production of...
[00:14:53] at that time it was still possible to talk politics with
[00:14:56] them, that's no longer the case at all, we're dealing with
[00:14:59] simple armed gangs who have territorial
[00:15:03] control in certain regions and it is
[00:15:06] likely that Deslaspira
[00:15:09] will concentrate his forces in
[00:15:11] these regions to regain
[00:15:15] territory, it's a bit contradictory with what
[00:15:18] he says elsewhere because if
[00:15:21] the armed groups are strong in certain regions, it's
[00:15:25] precisely because the state is rarely there, and he
[00:15:28] explains that he wants to both reconquer these
[00:15:31] territories but
[00:15:34] reduce the size of the state by 40 %, yet the Colombian state is
[00:15:38] not an omnipresent state, to say the least,
[00:15:41] meaning it is a large country with a complicated
[00:15:44] geography, but there are many regions of the country where the state is rather
[00:15:48] conspicuous by its absence, and therefore his desire to
[00:15:52] massively reduce, since his
[00:15:55] model is Miley in Argentina, to massively
[00:15:58] reduce public spending, is a bit
[00:16:01] contradictory with his idea of regaining control of the territory.
[00:16:05] So, the president-elect has given one
[00:16:08] month to the FARC rebels to lay down their arms. What you are saying is that he
[00:16:12] has little chance of winning the showdown that he himself
[00:16:15] initiated? No, not within a month,
[00:16:18] these people are not going to give in, so you mentioned the
[00:16:22] FARC rebels, indeed, the opponents, there
[00:16:26] are two, three main groups,
[00:16:30] there are FARC dissidents who refused the peace agreement in
[00:16:33] 2016 or who accepted it and then changed their minds.
[00:16:39] ELN which has a long tradition,
[00:16:42] but a very distant tradition, because as I said, there is nothing political left in their actions or their
[00:16:46] claims, they no longer make any political speeches. So
[00:16:49] this group is called the ELN, and it is a national
[00:16:53] liberation army, and then there is another group called the Gulf
[00:16:56] Clan, which also has no
[00:17:00] political agenda, but is a simple grouping
[00:17:03] of drug mafias. So,
[00:17:07] none of the three will give in so easily to simple
[00:17:10] threats, they will resist, there will be
[00:17:13] attacks and so I think that in the short term,
[00:17:17] the Colombian population will have a bad
[00:17:19] time. After that, I'm not saying that he's completely
[00:17:23] wrong because the
[00:17:26] objective, the discourse of total peace through
[00:17:29] negotiations by the outgoing president Gustavo Petro was
[00:17:33] also an illusion, meaning that there was really not much to negotiate with
[00:17:37] these people. Since the only thing that interests them, as I told you, is territorial
[00:17:40] control, which is something that a state will certainly
[00:17:44] not accept. Jean-Louis Martin, you
[00:17:48] mentioned the alignment of the
[00:17:51] Colombian president-elect with the Argentinian Javier
[00:17:54] Milei. The program he put forward
[00:17:57] foresees 40% savings and 7%
[00:18:01] annual growth. Do you believe that this
[00:18:03] is realistic?
[00:18:05] No, it is not realistic. That is the short answer. After
[00:18:09] that, he needs to do something about public
[00:18:12] finances. One of the problems in Colombia is not just
[00:18:16] the narcos, it's that public finances have seriously
[00:18:19] deteriorated during the Petro government,
[00:18:22] not at the beginning, it was quite well managed, but the
[00:18:25] last two or three years, the first year was
[00:18:29] fine and then it really went off track. He has a
[00:18:31] budget deficit that must be something like
[00:18:34] around 7% of GDP, he needs to do something very
[00:18:38] quickly and in fact he will govern
[00:18:41] with the traditional right, he has chosen as
[00:18:44] vice-president someone who was
[00:18:47] Minister of Finance under Ivan Duque, who was the
[00:18:51] conservative president before
[00:18:54] Petro and he has in his government
[00:18:56] several, for example his Minister of Finance
[00:19:02] the traditional right, it's something quite classic in Latin America,
[00:19:06] we see it in Brazil with
[00:19:09] Bolsonaro where in fact he governs
[00:19:14] the traditional right, the exception there is perhaps Milei
[00:19:18] who also governs with people from the traditional right, but to whom he
[00:19:23] the economy to this traditional right because he
[00:19:27] has his own ideas in terms
[00:19:30] like Bolsonaro, he has absolutely
[00:19:33] none, it's not at all his field of expertise,
[00:19:37] so he will
[00:19:42] the economy in large part, I think, to his
[00:19:45] vice-president and his Minister of Finance. So to
[00:19:49] continue in the same vein, to return to your question, pardon
[00:19:52] me, it's not realistic because it already has a weak
[00:19:56] state, so it certainly has savings to make,
[00:20:00] abuses of corruption to eliminate,
[00:20:04] I'm not sure he'll do much better than his predecessors on these plans. And
[00:20:07] yet he announces a reduction in social services, a decrease in
[00:20:11] public programs, should we conclude that the daily life of
[00:20:14] Colombians will significantly change in the
[00:20:17] future?
[00:20:20] He has efficiency gains to make, for example,
[00:20:23] in the health sector, he has
[00:20:26] other things that would require more investment and more people,
[00:20:30] such as in justice and police, we don't
[00:20:34] really see where
[00:20:36] he will find massive savings, in any
[00:20:40] case, 40 % of central government
[00:20:43] public spending less is a total
[00:20:46] illusion unless it's a trap because on the other
[00:20:50] hand, he also explains that he wants to delegate a certain number
[00:20:53] of functions to the Colombian
[00:20:57] departments since it is organized into departments in Colombia
[00:21:01] as well. But
[00:21:03] I don't know where these departments will
[00:21:07] get the resources. So he talks
[00:21:10] about accelerated growth, new resources,
[00:21:15] exploitation of natural resources, particularly
[00:21:18] oil. That won't go far simply for a
[00:21:21] physical reason, which is that Colombia has only
[00:21:25] a few mineral resources,
[00:21:28] it is quite well endowed with coal, but
[00:21:32] that is a little more complicated to sell, even if it is very
[00:21:35] good quality coal, Colombian coal, but oil
[00:21:39] will not work miracles. Thank you
[00:21:42] Jean-Louis Martin, thank you for answering France's questions, I remind you that you are
[00:21:46] an economist and specialist in Latin America at Ifri.
[00:21:50] We were talking about Argentina, the country was the scene of violent
[00:21:54] hours, look at these images, we are in Buenos Aires and
[00:21:58] the police intervened to disperse protesters who
[00:22:01] were marching in front of the Senate, tear gas
[00:22:05] and water cannons against Jettepierre, Argentinian
[00:22:07] media reported two injured in the police ranks, one injured on the
[00:22:11] protester side, it is a bill initiated by Javier Milei that set the
[00:22:15] powder on fire, it notably provides for the facilitation of land
[00:22:18] expulsions and is therefore part of the ultra-liberal logic
[00:22:21] driven by the head of state, the text is being examined by the
[00:22:25] Senate and it is also an opportunity for some to criticize the link between
[00:22:28] the Milei administration and Washington, as you can see, the American
[00:22:32] flag was
[00:24:25] country, a renaissance for these
[00:24:29] takeover in
[00:25:02] who passed oppressive laws against women and banned
[00:25:06] them from playing football, so they have a message to convey:
[00:25:10] I want to use this platform to defend the cause of
[00:25:13] women in Afghanistan who have been banned from studying for 5
[00:25:17] years. We want girls and...
[00:25:50] And that's it, that's the end of this newscast, thank you for watching, stay with us, we'll be back in a few
[00:25:54] moments for another update on
[00:25:56] the news.
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[00:30:08] Paris Live continues on France 24, thank
[00:30:12] of the news, this fatal shooting in Thailand, a
[00:30:15] teenager armed with a pistol killed his two grandparents before going
[00:30:19] to his high school, he still killed six people, about fifteen
[00:30:23] people were injured, the Prime Minister deplores a terrible
[00:30:27] incident, birth of a new diplomatic
[00:30:30] and strategic bloc, Pakistan...
[00:30:32] Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just signed a mutual
[00:30:36] defense agreement, a pact initialed in Mecca, a symbol between great
[00:30:39] Sunni powers against the backdrop of war against
[00:30:41] Shiite Iran.
[00:30:44] The beginning of a new today in Colombia Abelardo de la
[00:30:48] Espriéla is going to be officially invested
[00:30:51] as President of the Colombian Republic. Symbolically, the
[00:30:54] ceremony will take place in Calli, a stronghold of drug traffickers to whom the
[00:30:58] new head of state has...