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[00:00:00] We are listening to you, presented by Caroline de Camaret, to be seen on France
[00:00:03] 24.
[00:00:08] Paris live continues on France 24, thank you for being with us, here are the top
[00:00:12] headlines, this deadly shooting in
[00:00:14] Thailand, an armed teenager with a pistol killed his two
[00:00:18] grandparents before going to his high school, he still killed six
[00:00:22] people, about fifteen people were injured, the prime minister deplores a
[00:00:25] terrible incident. The
[00:00:28] birth of a new bloc. diplomatic and strategic, Pakistan,
[00:00:31] Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just signed a
[00:00:35] mutual defense agreement, a pact initialed in Mecca, a symbol between
[00:00:39] great Sunni powers against the backdrop of war against Shiite
[00:00:41] Iran. The beginning of a new day today in
[00:00:45] Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella
[00:00:48] will be officially inaugurated as president
[00:00:51] of the Colombian Republic. Symbolically, the
[00:00:55] pressure increasing on the FIFA president, ceremony will take place in Cali, a stronghold of drug traffickers to whom the new head of state has declared
[00:01:00] war.
[00:01:14] How to explain this murderous team in Thailand,
[00:01:17] why did an armed teenager with a pistol kill 8 people
[00:01:21] in total, his own grandparents first, then six
[00:01:25] people from his high school near Bangkok, 15 people were
[00:01:28] also injured. The shooter killed himself and according to the Thai prime
[00:01:32] in Buenos Aires and the police minister, he had clearly planned his attack, the
[00:01:35] details with Axel
[00:01:38] army's Simon. Outside the school, crying teachers
[00:01:41] embraced, the staff and students of this school
[00:01:45] in the Bangkok suburb experienced a nightmare in broad daylight
[00:01:48] at school, a 14-year-old teenager opened fire, killing several
[00:01:52] people and injuring about fifteen before committing suicide.
[00:01:56] ultra-liberal logic, driven by the head of Some students and teachers managed to lock themselves in the classrooms, others.
[00:02:30] According to the police, the shooter is one of the college students, he fired more than
[00:02:33] twenty bullets with a pistol belonging to his grandfather and was
[00:02:37] found in possession of about thirty additional
[00:02:39] ammunition. The police specified that the shooter had killed his
[00:02:43] grandparents at their home before going to his college and opening
[00:02:47] fire. I am deeply pained, not only for
[00:02:51] the victims, but also to see that such an incident can occur in our
[00:02:55] country. This is why the government has not
[00:03:00] the four corners of the world. These players of authorized the extension of the right to possess firearms, it is precisely for this
[00:03:02] reason.
[00:03:06] The political commitments of recent years to tighten legislation
[00:03:10] on arms possession have not prevented the proliferation of
[00:03:13] shootings. It is estimated that more than 10 million firearms are in
[00:03:16] circulation in Thailand, or one for every 7 inhabitants. This
[00:03:20] is the second fatal shooting at a school in Thailand this
[00:03:23] year. In 2022, a former police officer also killed
[00:03:27] 36 people in a daycare center in the north of the country, the majority
[00:03:31] of whom were children.
[00:03:34] This Friday marks the birth of the joint defense agreement of
[00:03:38] Mecca. It is in the holy city of Islam that the
[00:03:41] representatives of Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed this
[00:03:45] defense pact. Signature of Oran with
[00:03:48] Recep Tayyip Erdogan for Turkey, Pakistani Prime Minister
[00:03:52] Shehbaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin
[00:03:55] Salman. The agreement aims to strengthen collective deterrence
[00:03:58] against any act of aggression. It stipulates that any
[00:04:02] armed attack against one of the three states will be considered an
[00:04:05] attack against all of them, an event
[00:04:08] likely to give rise to a new diplomatic and strategic bloc while
[00:04:12] the war between the United States and Iran has
[00:04:15] reshuffled the balances in the
[00:04:17] region.
[00:04:20] A page turns today in Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella
[00:04:23] will officially take on the role of head of state,
[00:04:27] elected on June 21st, the millionaire lawyer.
[00:04:30] from the far right will be inaugurated, once is not
[00:04:33] customary, the ceremony will take place not in Bogota, the capital, but in
[00:04:37] Cali, the 3rd largest city in the country and incidentally a stronghold of
[00:04:40] drug traffickers to whom the new president has already declared war with
[00:04:44] the support of Washington. Romain
[00:04:46] Michelot:
[00:04:49] patrols everywhere in Cali, third city of
[00:04:52] Colombia, it is here under high security that the
[00:04:55] inauguration of the new far-right president elected, Abelardo de la
[00:04:59] Espriella. More than 1100 men and women have been deployed
[00:05:03] here with drones, anti-drone systems, armored
[00:05:06] vehicles, and everything necessary for this democratic
[00:05:10] event to take place in.
[00:05:13] Usually, this inauguration of the Colombian president takes place in the
[00:05:17] capital, Bogota, but not with Abelardo de la
[00:05:20] Espriella, the millionaire lawyer, new to politics,
[00:05:24] chose Cali where attacks claimed by guerrillas recently
[00:05:27] took place, a symbol, because the new president promises a strong
[00:05:31] hand to fight these armed groups and drug trafficking,
[00:05:35] bombings against the camps of these organizations or even the
[00:05:38] creation of mega prisons like in El Salvador, a
[00:05:41] program... since his election last June and contrary to his
[00:05:45] left-wing predecessor, Gustavo Petro, who had tried to
[00:05:48] negotiate the disarmament of these armed groups. There will be no
[00:05:52] false peace process, the only peace possible is that imposed by arms.
[00:05:56] Any bandit who does not submit will be eliminated. I warned
[00:05:59] you. For this, Colombia can count on the support of the
[00:06:03] United States and Israel, whose representatives will be present at the
[00:06:06] inauguration ceremony. But these very muscular outings
[00:06:10] also worry part of the population.
[00:06:14] According to his announcements, we clearly see that he will be a rather
[00:06:18] authoritarian leader.
[00:06:21] I just hope there will be no violence, new violence within the
[00:06:24] population, a challenge, because according to the
[00:06:28] peace idea foundation, in 2025, Colombia had nearly
[00:06:32] 25,000 armed people in illegal
[00:06:35] organizations.
[00:06:38] In Latin America, still these images of anger and violence in
[00:06:41] Argentina. Look, we are
[00:06:45] intervened to disperse protesters who were marching
[00:06:48] in front of the Senate, tear gas and water cannon against
[00:06:52] stone throwers, Argentine media report two injured among the
[00:06:56] police, on the protester side, it is a bill
[00:06:59] initiated by Javier Milei that set off the powder, it notably provides for the
[00:07:03] facilitation of land evictions and it is part of the
[00:07:09] state, the text is being examined by the Senate and it is also.
[00:07:13] for some to criticize the ties between the Miley administration and
[00:07:16] Washington. The double penalty in Cuba, the island is
[00:07:20] still facing the pressure of sanctions imposed by Washington,
[00:07:23] as a result a shortage of oil and a series of
[00:07:27] power cuts that fuel an unprecedented
[00:07:31] economic collapse. In the end, it is the population that suffers. For Cubans, daily
[00:07:34] life often rhymes with survival. The proof in images
[00:07:38] with this report shot in
[00:07:39] Havana.
[00:07:42] I do braids, my child, you don't want braids, not
[00:07:46] expensive, how are you
[00:07:47] family?
[00:07:50] Tania is a teacher, like many Cubans, she has another
[00:07:54] job to be able to live decently, offering braids
[00:07:57] to passers-by. I am a 50-year-old woman and I face
[00:08:01] life, I will not lose the strength to continue to
[00:08:05] fight, times are harder than ever on the communist
[00:08:09] island,
[00:08:11] there is no more tourism. Everything is empty, no
[00:08:14] customers, no one left to style,
[00:08:18] look at this empty hotel, not a single customer coming
[00:08:20] out, in January, Washington tightened its
[00:08:24] energy blockade, followed by new
[00:08:27] sanctions against companies operating in Cuba.
[00:08:42] The country is unrecognizable and the hotel doesn't earn enough
[00:08:46] money to pay the
[00:08:48] artists,
[00:08:51] it's the whole island that's suffocating, in the
[00:08:54] markets, local products are not lacking, but due
[00:08:57] to lack of gasoline, the cost of their transportation increases, prices climb
[00:09:01] against a backdrop of already chronic inflation, it's a
[00:09:04] form of survival, let's put it that way, what is imposed on Cuba every
[00:09:07] day are trials again and again, and it's us, the
[00:09:11] Cubans on the street who pay for them.
[00:09:14] Without electricity, without sufficient currency, all
[00:09:18] institutions, like banks, are running
[00:09:20] slowly.
[00:09:24] I'm waiting to get my salary, people are agitated, they
[00:09:27] shout, I don't even have money to buy
[00:09:29] food,
[00:09:32] several days waiting at the bank to get a salary or a
[00:09:35] pension, tempers flare, Cubans are
[00:09:38] tired, civil servants like.
[00:09:42] the teacher who braids hair in the center, earns a paltry
[00:09:46] income,
[00:09:49] I earn 6 dollars a month, and that's really not enough, I have to buy
[00:09:53] everything, clothes, shoes, and if I think about shoes for the
[00:09:56] children, I can forget about food,
[00:09:59] the lack of electricity worsens already precarious
[00:10:02] living conditions, only one hour of electricity a day, often
[00:10:06] less, there is nothing in it, if there was anything it would have already
[00:10:10] rotted with all this lack of electricity.
[00:10:25] are a luxury, this is a butcher shop where people do their
[00:10:28] shopping, a private butcher shop, 7 dollars a
[00:10:32] bag of chicken, more than my
[00:10:33] salary,
[00:10:36] suddenly, a woman intervenes, you need an
[00:10:39] authorization to be able to do that, the committees
[00:10:42] for the defense of the revolution are still there, but they are less
[00:10:45] active, worn out by the crisis, Tania, she has nothing to
[00:10:49] reproach herself for.
[00:10:52] I love my island, I am a revolutionary. And even if I have nothing
[00:10:56] to eat, I love our commander Fidel Castro, when he
[00:10:59] died, I cried for him.
[00:11:02] Between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans
[00:11:06] survive day to day, without seeing the end of the
[00:11:09] tunnel. Also in the news, football
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[00:15:56] After the coast, we will branch off towards the
[00:15:59] mountains,
[00:16:01] we are going to a village called Shebab,
[00:16:05] it was controlled by the Islamic State.
[00:16:41] This whole valley was controlled by the Islamic State, here is the village, welcome to
[00:16:43] Shebab,
[00:16:50] it was the new stronghold of the Islamic State,
[00:16:54] from this village in northern Somalia, jihadists
[00:16:57] sought to extend the group's influence in the world and finance other
[00:17:01] factions on the continent
[00:17:04] after the fall of Daesh in the Middle East in 2019. Hundreds of
[00:17:08] foreign jihadists flocked here. They
[00:17:10] joined local fighters and captured a territory of 5000
[00:17:14] km2 in the semi-autonomous region of
[00:17:16] Puntland.
[00:17:22] Somalia is a federation of several states. Each has
[00:17:25] its own army and government.
[00:17:29] That of Puntland long remained inactive against
[00:17:31] ISIS.
[00:17:34] But following the group's significant advances, it... went to war in December
[00:17:38] 2024 and deployed this elite unit, the
[00:17:41] PMPF were initially trained to fight piracy
[00:17:45] and trained by the United
[00:17:47] Arab Emirates.
[00:17:53] This is one of the signs on which they wrote their
[00:17:55] lies,
[00:17:59] they wrote verses from the Quran, but I don't master
[00:18:02] Arabic well, no matter what he wrote
[00:18:06] here.
[00:18:49] Today, Colonel Ali's troops will resupply an advanced
[00:18:52] post,
[00:19:01] the front line is inaccessible by
[00:19:02] car.
[00:19:07] doesn't need rest, wherever you go, he will follow you, you
[00:19:11] don't need to refuel, no need for spare parts, he has everything
[00:19:15] he needs.
[00:19:18] Okay, you can even beat him, yeah, beat him and eat his meat,
[00:19:22] wherever you are, but only if it's really necessary.
[00:19:41] Some are still hidden in the vicinity, we must be on high alert.
[00:20:04] Daesh is difficult to locate.
[00:20:09] and even more difficult to neutralize,
[00:20:23] so the army calls for help from American fighter jets and drones,
[00:20:26] they have carried out more than a hundred strikes in Somalia in
[00:20:29] 2025.
[00:20:30] This is where we unload the donkeys, we
[00:20:39] will tie them up and carry the ammunition ourselves, the front is
[00:20:43] that way,
[00:20:45] after the night's bombings,
[00:20:47] the soldiers.
[00:21:22] Daesh fighters hidden by the terrain can appear at any
[00:21:25] moment, but we will not
[00:21:29] see them.
[00:21:33] For our safety, we are forbidden to approach the front,
[00:21:48] it's a position they used to...
[00:22:26] We post photos of all the
[00:22:28] successes so that our people feel
[00:22:31] confident. This is a government priority.
[00:22:58] "It's relatively calm, that's what we tell our
[00:23:01] families,
[00:23:04] but the war continues, it's not over, nothing
[00:23:08] works here, no hospitals, no
[00:23:12] schools, why would people come back
[00:23:13] here,
[00:23:16] the few civilians like me who are here don't have children with them.
[00:23:52] "It is written that they are the Islamic State, but we
[00:23:56] have seen neither state nor
[00:23:57] Islam, this is the list of forbidden
[00:24:01] things, smoking cigarettes, chewing
[00:24:04] khat, all the vices marked here, they haven't
[00:24:08] found many people who practice them, the
[00:24:11] only ones who do that are
[00:24:12] them.
[00:24:16] In Somalia, the population is Muslim and already respects Sharia law.
[00:24:22] Little by little, the villagers realize that this supposed state is a
[00:24:25] mafia,
[00:24:28] I serve tea to the soldiers, that's how I make a living
[00:24:31] now.
[00:24:36] Traumatized by the men of Daesh, she
[00:24:39] struggles to tell her daily life before
[00:24:41] the exile.
[00:24:46] They took our village, they stole our houses, they made everyone
[00:24:51] flee, they stole our cattle, our goats, above all, they did
[00:24:55] everything to us, we had a lot of
[00:24:57] problems.
[00:25:02] All those who opposed them, they
[00:25:04] beheaded them.
[00:25:10] They did so many things against our culture, against our
[00:25:10] religion.
[00:25:30] This mafia prospered thanks to the money extorted in
[00:25:32] Bossasso,
[00:25:35] a port city essential to the local economy, located downstream of the
[00:25:39] mountains.
[00:25:46] The Islamic State operates clandestinely, it
[00:25:49] has carried out numerous attacks and caused dozens
[00:25:51] of victims.
[00:25:55] Since the beginning of the offensive, the government has reduced Daesh's
[00:25:58] influence, but the risk of attacks and kidnappings remains high.
[00:26:05] "These armed men protect our
[00:26:06] team.
[00:26:14] As you can see, this shop is closed, the owners closed
[00:26:18] due to the Islamic State, because they were asking them for hundreds of thousands of
[00:26:21] dollars.
[00:26:25] The owner realized that the amount requested was much larger than what he possessed inside the
[00:26:28] store.
[00:26:31] Look there..." Here is the symbol of the problems of this
[00:26:34] city, look how rusty this padlock
[00:26:37] is, the owners fled to save their
[00:26:41] lives.
[00:26:47] Ismail is the only community leader who dares to publicly denounce the Islamic
[00:26:51] State.
[00:26:54] It is in this neighborhood that ISIS caused the most problems.
[00:26:58] They destroyed houses and the goods
[00:27:01] that were inside. They killed many people in the large
[00:27:05] market,
[00:27:08] oh that one was totally
[00:27:09] destroyed,
[00:27:12] they were forced to rebuild everything from scratch
[00:27:15] here.
[00:27:18] They came during the night, they
[00:27:21] placed an explosive device on this shop, everyone was sleeping at that
[00:27:25] time, he had attached it to the
[00:27:29] door at this level, the entire interior of the building collapsed.
[00:28:33] Even the small transporter who pushes his wheelbarrow, he found
[00:28:35] him, he told him: "We know where you
[00:28:38] work, and this work would have been stolen."
[00:29:05] The role of the sharia is to help the community in its daily life,
[00:29:09] resolve disputes, advice.
[00:29:12] discretely, he also tries
[00:29:21] to organize the resistance.
[00:29:24] In the mosque, believers are warned
[00:29:28] against the vices of Daesh.
[00:29:30] They are told, their program is
[00:29:33] to steal and kill.
[00:29:37] No religion promises that.
[00:29:41] The members of Daesh know
[00:29:43] nothing about religion.
[00:29:46] Some recruits were approached after
[00:29:54] being prayed,
[00:29:57] a defector from the Islamic State hidden
[00:29:59] in Bossasso. "I came
[00:30:32] from Ethiopia,
[00:30:36] I was looking for work and apparently I could find some in this
[00:30:38] country,
[00:30:41] I went to a mosque every Friday and after
[00:30:44] several weeks a Yemeni came to me to ask if I
[00:30:48] wanted to join an organization to defend a strong
[00:30:52] Islam, this man entrusted me with
[00:30:56] packages to take to different neighborhoods, I was not allowed to..."