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[00:00:07] Thank you for choosing our channels for your news. Here are the headlines from this
[00:00:11] broadcast: several people killed by firearms in Thailand.
[00:00:15] In the city of Bunia, capital of The young man behind this shooting was
[00:00:17] Ituri and epicenter of 14 years old, and he had clearly planned his attack, according to the Prime
[00:00:20] Minister. Before opening fire in his school, the teenager first killed
[00:00:23] his own
[00:00:25] grandparents.
[00:00:28] In Colombia, the inauguration of the... far-right president elected last
[00:00:31] June, Abelardo de la Espriella, says he is determined to
[00:00:35] fight guerrillas and drug trafficking with
[00:00:38] bombardments if necessary. He has today the
[00:00:41] support of Washington and Tel
[00:00:42] Aviv.
[00:00:45] And in this broadcast, we will tell you about these players from the Afghan women's football team.
[00:00:49] They are meeting for the first time in New Zealand to train and
[00:00:52] play friendly matches.
[00:00:55] convent, escaped from A new start for these women deprived of their rights and freedom in their
[00:00:58] country.
[00:01:09] four corners of the world, these players from
[00:01:11] How can we explain that a 14-year-old boy could kill his grandparents and then go
[00:01:15] to his school to kill again? This is what happened
[00:01:19] in Thailand, in a suburb of Bangkok, this Friday. Several people
[00:01:23] were killed in this shooting, according to the police, and the shooter had clearly
[00:01:27] planned this attack, says the Prime Minister.
[00:01:31] Outside the school, crying teachers embraced. The
[00:01:35] staff and students of this school in the Bangkok suburb
[00:01:38] experienced a nightmare in the middle of a school day. A 14-year-old
[00:01:42] teenager opened fire, killing several and injuring about fifteen before
[00:01:46] committing suicide. Some students and teachers managed
[00:01:50] to lock themselves in classrooms, others tried to hide or
[00:01:53] flee.
[00:01:56] found refuge in the toilets, we thought it was over.
[00:02:00] then a teacher shouted, run quickly, the shooter went to another
[00:02:03] building and ran
[00:02:05] there.
[00:02:08] When I arrived there, it was total chaos, the
[00:02:11] students we took care of outside were wounded in the back, chest, and
[00:02:15] arm. We gave them first aid. The shooter
[00:02:18] was still on the loose at that time.
[00:02:22] According to the police, the shooter is one of the college students. He fired more than
[00:02:26] twenty bullets with a pistol belonging to his grandfather and was found
[00:02:30] in possession of about thirty additional rounds. The police
[00:02:33] specified that the shooter had killed his grandparents at their home before
[00:02:37] going to his college and opening fire. I am
[00:02:41] deeply saddened, not only for the victims, but also to
[00:02:45] see that such an incident can occur in our
[00:02:47] country. This is
[00:02:49] Zoé scandal breaks, why the government has not authorized the extension of the right to possess
[00:02:52] firearms, it is exactly for this
[00:02:55] reason.
[00:02:58] The political commitments of recent years to tighten gun control
[00:03:03] This law on the inviolability of legislation have not prevented
[00:03:05] private property aims to the multiplication of shootings. It is estimated that there are more than 10 million firearms in circulation in
[00:03:09] Thailand, or one for every seven inhabitants. This is the
[00:03:13] second fatal school shooting in Thailand this year.
[00:03:17] In 2022, a former police officer had also killed 36 people in a
[00:03:20] day-care center in the north of the country, most of whom were
[00:03:23] children.
[00:03:27] territory, the equivalent of the area of Linked by a defense pact similar to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and
[00:03:30] Turkey want to stand together against any act of aggression,
[00:03:34] say the three states. It is specified in a press release that the objective of this alliance is
[00:03:38] to promote peace, security, and stability in
[00:03:41] a context, we recall, linked to the war in the Middle East
[00:03:45] with a resumption of the conflict in Yemen, a country, a neighboring country of Saudi
[00:03:49] Arabia.
[00:03:53] Meta condemned for disturbing public order and ordered to pay almost
[00:03:56] a billion dollars to compensate for the damages caused to young
[00:04:00] Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp users. This
[00:04:03] decision was rendered by a judge in New Mexico and is a first in the
[00:04:07] United States. The American giant must also create a compensation fund of
[00:04:11] 567 million dollars. This sum must
[00:04:14] allow for the financing, over 5 years,
[00:04:17] infiltrated all spheres of of mental health and prevention programs for young
[00:04:19] people.
[00:04:22] In Colombia, as I told you in the headlines, all eyes will be on Cali later
[00:04:26] today, where a significant security
[00:04:30] deployment is in place. The far-right president, Abelardo de la
[00:04:33] Espriella, will be sworn in. Elected last June, he says
[00:04:38] multiplying within the he is determined to fight guerrillas and
[00:04:40] drug trafficking. His speech marks a change of course and
[00:04:44] strengthens ties with Washington. Romain
[00:04:46] Michelot:
[00:04:49] patrols everywhere in Cali, the third largest city in
[00:04:52] Colombia. It is here, under high security, that the inauguration of the new far-right
[00:04:55] president-elect, Abelardo de la
[00:04:59] Espriella, is taking place. More than 11,000 men and women have been deployed
[00:05:03] here with drones, anti-drone
[00:05:05] provinces. The Director of the systems, armored vehicles, and everything
[00:05:08] necessary for this democratic event to proceed in
[00:05:13] calm. Normally, 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, a political novice, has
[00:05:24] chosen Cali, where attacks claimed by guerrillas have recently taken
[00:05:27] place. A symbol, because the new president promises a strong
[00:05:31] hand to fight these armed groups and drug trafficking, bombardments
[00:05:35] 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 televised since his election in last June and contrary to his
[00:05:45] left-wing predecessor Gustavo Petro who had tried to negotiate the
[00:05:49] 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 have already 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 also worry
[00:06:10] a part of the population.
[00:06:14] according to his announcements, we can clearly see that he will be a rather
[00:06:18] authoritarian leader,
[00:06:21] I just hope there won't be any violence, new violence within the
[00:06:24] population, a challenge, because according to the
[00:06:28] Foundation for Peace, in 2025, nearly
[00:06:32] 25,000 armed people within
[00:06:34] organizations,
[00:06:39] we stay on the continent,
[00:06:43] in the streets of Buenos Aires in Argentina, violence has even pitted the
[00:06:46] crowd against law enforcement. The cause of this anger is a bill
[00:06:49] being examined in the Senate. This text notably provides for the
[00:06:52] facilitation of land expulsion in case
[00:06:55] of non-payment, watch:
[00:06:59] the crowd, pushed back with water cannons, tear
[00:07:03] gas, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Police
[00:07:06] disperse thousands of demonstrators gathered this Thursday, while the Senate
[00:07:10] continued to examine a bill
[00:07:22] We are here because the government and the traitors who
[00:07:26] accompany it want to sell our country. What they want
[00:07:29] with this law is that Argentina ceases to belong to
[00:07:33] Argentinians.
[00:07:36] This bill, named "inviolability of private
[00:07:40] property," aims to facilitate
[00:07:43] repossessions in case of non-payment and to make
[00:07:46] state expropriation of property more complicated. It also provided
[00:07:50] for increasing the share of strategic land that can belong to foreigners from 15 to 25
[00:07:54] %, but this measure was withdrawn due to lack of political support in parliament.
[00:07:57] Behind the idea of this government Miley project, is to attract new
[00:08:01] foreign investors to capitalize on these lands rich in
[00:08:04] lithium, copper, for example, an
[00:08:08] ultra-liberal logic defended by the ruling party during the examination of the
[00:08:11] text.
[00:08:18] guarantee that private property enshrined in this
[00:08:21] constitution is not violated and that
[00:08:24] the state understands that its purpose is to protect and defend and not
[00:08:28] to intervene and control.
[00:08:31] This bill must still be examined by the Chamber of Deputies before being
[00:08:35] adopted. In Argentina, in 2025, nearly 5% of the
[00:08:40] England, already belonged to
[00:08:42] foreigners according to a report from the Land Observatory. This share
[00:08:46] would even exceed 15% in some resource-rich
[00:08:49] regions.
[00:08:53] The number of positive cases of the Ebola virus continues to rise
[00:08:56] in the Democratic Republic of Congo. At least 4,000 people
[00:09:00] are infected to date, according to the country's Public Health
[00:09:03] Institute. The disease is particularly prevalent in the eastern provinces,
[00:09:06] and the decrease in international aid has
[00:09:10] weakened the care for the most deprived.
[00:09:15] One by one, passengers are subjected to temperature checks. The
[00:09:19] health authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo fear that a
[00:09:22] person who has contracted the Ebola virus is on board this
[00:09:26] river vessel bound for Kinshasa. The ship was
[00:09:29] intercepted in Maluku, about sixty kilometers upstream from the
[00:09:32] capital, to prevent the spread of the virus to new
[00:09:36] areas. We were waiting for this boat, we
[00:09:40] prepared so that we could
[00:09:43] screen the boat completely, all the passengers who are
[00:09:46] on board and to be sure
[00:09:49] that there is no
[00:09:52] case that can enter
[00:09:56] Kinshasa. The 17th Ebola epidemic continues
[00:09:59] to rage in the DRC, the number of confirmed cases of this new
[00:10:03] variant has exceeded 4,000 and more than 1,800 people have
[00:10:07] died. In mid-May, the first case was detected in the
[00:10:10] Ituri province in the northeast of the country, since then contaminations
[00:10:14] have multiplied in four other
[00:10:18] WHO visited the DRC on Wednesday, calling for
[00:10:21] intensified medical response.
[00:10:25] I am deeply concerned about the situation on the
[00:10:28] ground.
[00:10:30] The epidemic is ahead of us, it is progressing
[00:10:33] rapidly, so we must speed up the pace to catch up and
[00:10:36] stop it.
[00:10:42] the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and treatment center
[00:10:46] has just been built. While several laboratories are actively researching a
[00:10:49] vaccine, there is currently no approved treatment for this
[00:10:53] variant.
[00:10:58] Something else now, it was one year ago, the Afghan refugee
[00:11:02] football team was created. It has since continued its development. The
[00:11:05] players met in New Zealand to train.
[00:11:08] This is more than 13,000 km from their country, a rebirth for
[00:11:12] these women a few years after the Taliban took power in their
[00:11:16] country. Alice Broga tells us their
[00:11:18] story.
[00:11:25] Facing the Afghan flag, they sing the joy of reuniting and
[00:11:29] putting on their cleats together. Refugees in the
[00:11:34] the Afghan women's football team are meeting for the first time in
[00:11:37] New Zealand to train and play friendly
[00:11:40] matches. Football gave me the strength to be who I am and to
[00:11:44] speak loudly, otherwise I don't know who I would be. All fled their
[00:11:47] country after the Taliban took power, who enacted oppressive laws
[00:11:51] against women and banned them from playing football.
[00:11:55] So they have a message to convey: I want
[00:11:58] to use this platform to defend the cause of women in Afghanistan who have been
[00:12:02] forbidden to study for 5 years. We
[00:12:05] want Afghan girls and women to be free, to be able to choose who they want
[00:12:09] to be. We want to prove that we are still here, we continue to
[00:12:12] fight for the rights that have been taken from us.
[00:12:16] Since April, FIFA has authorized the team to represent
[00:12:19] Afghanistan in official matches, a new start for these
[00:12:22] players. We don't know if we will see each other again, but it's
[00:12:26] great to have this second chance. The team
[00:12:29] now dreams of qualifying for international competitions like the Olympic
[00:12:32] Games and the World
[00:12:34] Cup.
[00:12:37] And that's all for this news report, thank you for your attention.
[00:12:56] Hello everyone and welcome to Actuelle.
[00:13:00] Myanmar has decided to ban sanitary
[00:13:03] protection on its territory, a decision by the army to
[00:13:06] fight against the rebels opposed to the military
[00:13:10] junta. We'll talk about it in a moment with my guest Henriette
[00:13:14] Serak. And then the nuns are rebelling in
[00:13:17] Austria, three retired nuns have escaped from their nursing home
[00:13:21] and returned to their beloved convent.
[00:13:27] The ruling junta in Myanmar has decided to ban
[00:13:30] sanitary pads. What the military accuses them of is
[00:13:34] serving as makeshift bandages for rebels and therefore
[00:13:37] being undesirable in the country. The
[00:13:40] military power returned after a coup in
[00:13:43] 2021, so it decided to ban
[00:13:46] menstrual protection since then 15 million
[00:13:49] women find themselves without solutions every month. To
[00:13:53] talk about it, I have the pleasure of welcoming Henriette Serrak
[00:13:56] from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, you are on assignment. Hello Henriette, you are
[00:14:00] a menstrual health consultant and you founded Pankalai in
[00:14:04] Myanmar, an organization that produces safe sanitary pads, but which was
[00:14:07] forced to close a few
[00:14:11] years ago. Henriette, when
[00:14:13] the junta dictates this prohibition of sanitary
[00:14:17] protection on its territory, is it really convinced by what it claims, that
[00:14:21] the pads are used to treat the rebels' wounds, or is it a
[00:14:25] pretext according
[00:14:26] to you?
[00:14:29] I think it's a pretext. I think no one takes this excuse
[00:14:33] seriously, it's completely fanciful. Uh, we can't
[00:14:36] imagine that a pad could seriously serve
[00:14:40] as a compress in a
[00:14:43] wartime context. What is much more probable, in fact, is
[00:14:47] that in this phase of the civil war—it's a very long civil war, but it's true that since
[00:14:51] the 2021 coup, it has intensified—and
[00:14:55] a characteristic of this new phase of the civil war is that women have
[00:14:59] joined the ranks of the resistance in large numbers. Uh,
[00:15:02] and so what seems much more probable is that the military junta had this
[00:15:06] idea, in fact, to limit the capacity of these
[00:15:10] female resistance fighters to participate in the
[00:15:13] war. Uh, but in fact, it affects all women. Female resistance fighters
[00:15:17] are a fraction
[00:15:20] of Burmese women, and in fact, this prohibition impacts
[00:15:25] all women and girls. Their ability to move, to go to
[00:15:28] school, to go to work will be
[00:15:31] significantly affected.
[00:15:35] It will exclude them socially. Uh, for
[00:15:38] one week a month for those who are of childbearing age. Uh,
[00:15:42] it will also create a lot of shame, a lot of stigmatization. Periods
[00:15:46] are actually a very stigmatized subject in the
[00:15:49] context of Burmese culture. Uh, and so
[00:15:53] preventing them from managing their menstruation
[00:15:57] properly will actually place an even greater
[00:16:00] taboo, a greater shame on these
[00:16:03] women. Concretely, that means that now there are no more
[00:16:07] sanitary pads entering Burmese territory, that means there is a
[00:16:10] shortage. Are there still alternatives for these women who
[00:16:14] have their periods every month?
[00:16:17] In fact, what we don't know very well is the scale
[00:16:21] of this prohibition.
[00:16:23] A priori, it is certain in certain
[00:16:27] regions where resistance is especially strong, particularly the
[00:16:30] Mandalay region, the Sagaing
[00:16:32] region.
[00:16:35] We don't know, in fact, it's very complicated to get
[00:16:38] reliable data on this subject at the moment.
[00:16:42] Uh, but therefore at least in several
[00:16:46] regions of Burma it is the case. Uh, what we can imagine
[00:16:49] again is that, well, in fact, what we know with
[00:16:53] certainty is that a whole black market is developing with
[00:16:57] the price of sanitary pad
[00:17:00] packs increasing
[00:17:04] wildly. Uh, there will also be
[00:17:08] lower quality pads entering
[00:17:11] the Burmese market via the black market. But the most probable thing is that women
[00:17:15] will therefore return a little bit to what their
[00:17:19] mothers, their grandmothers did, that is to say, they will use old
[00:17:22] longyis. The longyi is the traditional Burmese
[00:17:26] jute worn by the vast majority of Burmese women. They will
[00:17:30] use these old fabrics,
[00:17:33] roll them up or attach them in a
[00:17:36] way... anal to absorb their
[00:17:40] blood. What are the health risks when
[00:17:43] it's makeshift sanitary protection like the one you just
[00:17:47] described, rather than the ones we can use, throw away, and
[00:17:49] repurchase?
[00:17:53] It is well documented across the world
[00:17:56] that girls and
[00:17:59] women who use makeshift systems
[00:18:03] are twice as likely to experience urinary
[00:18:07] infections and reproductive tract infections
[00:18:10] uh which themselves can generate more
[00:18:13] serious infections, sometimes life-threatening
[00:18:17] uh and which are also linked to very
[00:18:20] high risks of infertility. You
[00:18:24] mentioned earlier the taboo that it represents to talk about periods,
[00:18:28] to have one's periods in Burma, but it's quite widespread in the
[00:18:31] world, uh and even in Asia in particular, I'm thinking for example of Nepal where women
[00:18:35] must isolate themselves for a week during their period in... a hut so as not
[00:18:38] to pollute the rest of the village. Why, in your opinion,
[00:18:41] uh such a fear of menstruation and why in this region of the
[00:18:45] world in particular?
[00:18:49] The taboo of menstruation is almost universal. Uh,
[00:18:53] it's true that in traditions, in Hindu traditions and therefore in certain
[00:18:56] regions of Nepal
[00:18:59] to which you are referring, it is true that this idea of
[00:19:02] polluting blood and of the menstruating woman being
[00:19:06] polluting, uh it's very strong in the Hindu tradition,
[00:19:09] but in fact what's very interesting is to realize that most
[00:19:13] cultures, most religions have their
[00:19:16] version of this taboo, this stigmatization around
[00:19:20] menstruation. Uh, it's uh, well, it's something
[00:19:24] almost universal. Uh, Burma is a
[00:19:27] largely Buddhist country. Uh,
[00:19:30] they have their version of this stigmatization too, it's
[00:19:34] justified slightly differently, there are nuances. But
[00:19:38] it's something that we find in most cultures, particularly traditional
[00:19:42] cultures. Do you think there are solutions to counter this ban
[00:19:46] in Burma? Will this ban, this
[00:19:49] banishment of sanitary protections, last?
[00:19:53] We must talk about it. I am very happy to see that the media
[00:19:57] is seizing this story, uh which is
[00:20:00] truly shocking. Uh, we absolutely must talk about it. We
[00:20:04] must uh support organizations on the ground in
[00:20:07] Burma. I am what delights me on the other hand
[00:20:11] is that it is an opportunity to actually talk about what is happening, to talk about the civil war in
[00:20:15] Burma, about the military dictatorship uh in which the Burmese
[00:20:18] people have been living for 5 years. Uh and in particular about the condition
[00:20:22] of women in this context. Women are really the first victims
[00:20:25] of this civil war, of this junta
[00:20:29] which is extremely cruel, obscurantist and misogynistic. It is a
[00:20:32] metaphor, in fact, for the
[00:20:36] lack of access to menstrual products, which in fact
[00:20:39] affects a very significant proportion of women
[00:20:43] and girls in the world. It is estimated that 500 million girls and women in the
[00:20:47] world do not have access to sanitary pads, to menstrual
[00:20:50] products every month, and this is not
[00:20:54] only a problem in countries in the global south, in
[00:20:58] France, in rich countries, quote-unquote,
[00:21:00] we also see problems, that is to say, there are 2 million,
[00:21:04] there is an estimate of around 2 million women in
[00:21:07] France who who do not manage every month to
[00:21:11] meet their needs in terms of menstrual products. There is really a huge
[00:21:14] job that we can all do to fight against this taboo, this
[00:21:18] stigmatization to allow women to be
[00:21:22] in better health. Beyond the ban,
[00:21:25] indeed, the issue of menstrual precariousness is very important. Thank you
[00:21:28] very much Henriette Serak for this clarification on the situation in
[00:21:31] Myanmar.
[00:21:34] What a woman wants, God wants, says the adage, and it's apparently true if we are to
[00:21:38] believe the adventure of these retired nuns, not like others, three Austrian
[00:21:41] nuns who didn't want to leave their
[00:21:45] the nursing home where they had been placed against their will, a
[00:21:48] sensational scenario. This is a report by Leon
[00:24:44] And that's the end of this edition, thank you for following
[00:24:47] us. See you soon on France 24.
[00:24:56] This week from a reporter we take you to Spain, it is here
[00:24:59] that in 1928 Opus DI was founded, an ultra-conservative Catholic movement
[00:25:03] that
[00:25:07] Spanish society, schools, universities,
[00:25:10] hospitals. This university is linked to LopusDI, did you
[00:25:14] know? No, it doesn't show, here, it
[00:25:18] focuses mainly on your professional training, not so
[00:25:22] much on your way of thinking.
[00:25:25] In recent years, scandals have been
[00:25:28] organization, you are so manipulated that you obey everything you
[00:25:32] are told without ever asking questions. However,
[00:25:35] Opus Di remains extremely powerful in
[00:25:38] Spain, so how does it achieve this, that's what we tried to
[00:25:41] understand. Opus DI, Spain
[00:25:45] under influence, to see on France
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[00:30:06] you about the world, here are the headlines of this news, several
[00:30:09] people killed by firearms in Thailand, the young man behind this
[00:30:12] shooting was 14 years old, he had clearly planned his attack according to
[00:30:16] the Prime Minister, before opening fire in his school, the teenager first
[00:30:20] killed his own grandparents.
[00:30:23] In Colombia, the inauguration of
[00:30:26] the far-right president elected in June, Abelardo de la Espriella,
[00:30:30] says he is determined to fight guerrillas and drug
[00:30:34] trafficking with bombings if necessary. He now has
[00:30:38] the support of Washington and Tel Aviv.
[00:30:41] And in this news, we will tell you about
[00:30:43] the players of the Afghan women's football team. They are meeting for the first
[00:30:47] time in New Zealand to train and play matches
[00:30:51] there. A new start for these women deprived of their rights and
[00:30:54] freedoms in their country.