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[00:00:00] Liberty, equality,
[00:00:02] news.
[00:00:11] news report we will be in Cali, the third largest city in
[00:00:15] Colombia for the inauguration ceremony of Abellardo de la
[00:00:17] Espriella, the new president of the country. It has just
[00:00:21] begun. This president wants to embody a break with the past, and that starts with the
[00:00:24] choice of this city and not Bogota, the capital, a very
[00:00:27] symbolic choice, as you will see. Spain is carrying out its
[00:00:30] threats. Travelers from Italy will be subject to
[00:00:34] musical EP? controls upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid had issued
[00:00:37] an ultimatum to Rome, which has been applying these same controls to
[00:00:41] Spaniards since the migration crisis in Ceuta. And
[00:00:45] then drones to fight forest fires, that's Turkey's new
[00:00:49] October 2007, the Ark of asset. They allow us to spot fires earlier and thus speed up
[00:00:53] the intervention of
[00:00:54] firefighters.
[00:01:09] And live coverage right away, we're going to Cali,
[00:01:13] Colombia for the inauguration ceremony of Abellardo de la
[00:01:17] Espriella, the new
[00:01:19] According to experts, this is the president. He was elected on June 21st and officially takes
[00:01:22] office today, as you can see. It's happening in Cali,
[00:01:25] which is the third largest city in the country and not Bogota. This is highly
[00:01:29] symbolic because... this city is one of the strongholds of armed groups
[00:01:32] involved in
[00:01:34] affects five provinces in the drug trafficking, as Hugo Corince,
[00:01:37] a specialist on Colombia,
[00:01:38] explained to us earlier.
[00:01:41] The symbolic significance of the choice is quite vast
[00:01:44] since Abellardo de la Espriella campaigned
[00:01:47] by criticizing Bogota-centrism a lot, meaning
[00:01:51] the fact that political power was concentrated in the capital, Bogota. He said he
[00:01:55] wanted to govern in the regions and he also said he wanted to restore order in the
[00:01:59] regions. Uh, how does he intend to do it? He was quite
[00:02:03] clear. It was mentioned in the segment you just
[00:02:06] showed, by force, with
[00:02:08] the army, by deploying soldiers everywhere,
[00:02:13] Director-General of the World and you saw it well, it's also a way to show his
[00:02:16] strength by going to Cali where he had problems with armed groups,
[00:02:20] going there with thousands of soldiers and being inaugurated there. What needs to be said
[00:02:24] about this is that he is an far-right figure who has
[00:02:27] surpassed a far-right that already existed in Colombia, which had been
[00:02:30] dominant for 20 years, the one that is somewhat improperly called
[00:02:34] the Democratic Center, so the
[00:02:37] Democratic Center, and even if there are differences between these political formations, we
[00:02:41] can expect them to govern together, and in reality
[00:02:44] the majority in Congress that he will be able to
[00:02:47] rely on is still relatively comfortable for him, so he
[00:02:50] should still have sufficient support.
[00:02:54] Spain is therefore putting its threats into action tonight
[00:02:58] and will exercise controls
[00:03:00] commercial transport to the north of over travelers coming from Italy and
[00:03:04] going to Spain. A little earlier, Spain had issued an
[00:03:07] ultimatum to Italy and threatened the country with retaliatory
[00:03:11] measures if it did not lift the suspension of the Schengen agreement for
[00:03:15] its nationals. Rome, I remind you, had taken this decision following
[00:03:19] the massive influx of migrants into the Spanish enclave of
[00:03:22] Ceuta and had refused to go back
[00:03:25] on it before next week. We will come back to that
[00:03:30] later in our next
[00:03:32] the boat, and we necessarily reduce news report.
[00:03:34] Shock and emotion in Thailand after the deadly shooting at a high school in the
[00:03:38] Bangkok suburbs. A 14-year-old adolescent killed five
[00:03:42] school employees and two of his grandparents before taking his
[00:03:45] own life, an act that was planned according to
[00:03:49] authorities. Gun ownership is very widespread in
[00:03:52] Thailand, a country that has experienced other deadly shootings
[00:04:00] Outside the school, teachers in tears embraced. The
[00:04:03] staff and students of this school in the Bangkok suburbs
[00:04:06] experienced a nightmare in the middle of a school day. A
[00:04:11] based on capturing 14-year-old adolescent opened fire, leaving several dead and about fifteen injured before committing
[00:04:14] suicide. Some students and teachers managed to
[00:04:18] lock themselves in classrooms, others tried to hide or
[00:04:21] flee.
[00:04:24] took refuge in the toilets. We thought it was over,
[00:04:28] then a teacher shouted, "Run fast!" The shooter went to another
[00:04:31] building and ran
[00:04:33] here.
[00:04:36] When I arrived there, it was total chaos. The students
[00:04:39] we took care of outside were injured in the back, chest, and
[00:04:43] arm. We gave them first aid. The shooter
[00:04:46] was still at large at that moment.
[00:04:50] According to the police, the shooter is one of the school's students. He fired more than
[00:04:54] twenty bullets with a pistol belonging to his grandfather and was found
[00:04:58] in possession of about thirty additional ammunition. The police
[00:05:01] stated that the shooter had killed his grandparents at their home before
[00:05:05] going to his school and opening
[00:05:07] fire. I am
[00:05:10] You are on France 24, it's time for the Africa news, welcome deeply saddened, not only for the victims. but also to
[00:05:13] realize that such an incident can occur in our
[00:05:15] country. This is the reason why the government has not
[00:05:19] authorized the extension of the right to gun ownership, it is exactly for this
[00:05:23] reason.
[00:05:26] The political commitments of recent years to tighten gun control legislation
[00:05:30] have not prevented the proliferation of shootings.
[00:05:34] It is estimated that there are more than 10 million firearms in circulation in
[00:05:37] Thailand, or one for seven inhabitants. This is the
[00:05:41] second fatal shooting in a school in Thailand this year.
[00:05:45] In 2022, a former police officer had also killed 36 people in a
[00:05:48] daycare in the north of the country, the majority of whom were
[00:05:51] children.
[00:05:55] A direct message to Taiwan which has carried out important
[00:05:58] military exercises to test its capabilities in the face of a
[00:06:01] major conflict. The island, I remind you, is in China's sights, which
[00:06:05] claims it. Suzanne de Roi, our correspondent on
[00:06:08] site.
[00:06:20] What you just heard is the Taiwanese army training
[00:06:23] for a scenario of invasion by the Chinese
[00:06:26] army on this small island of Tidman. This Taiwanese
[00:06:30] territory is located only 6 km from China and here you
[00:06:34] can see on the banks Taiwanese tanks
[00:06:37] exercising with live ammunition. They will aim at
[00:06:41] targets that are... there in the background, in the sea, as you
[00:06:44] can see. So, Timm, like the rest of the country,
[00:06:48] is training, these are national military exercises,
[00:06:51] and Tinman in particular is exposed to
[00:06:55] China due to its proximity. It had already been the subject
[00:06:59] of an attempted landing in 1949. So
[00:07:02] today, would China be able to invade this small
[00:07:06] territory again? The strategic and military
[00:07:09] stakes are colossal, and ultimately perhaps strategists
[00:07:12] believe that invading the main island of
[00:07:15] Taiwan directly is perhaps much more pertinent for
[00:07:18] China.
[00:07:20] 1 billion dollars, Meta, the parent company of Facebook
[00:07:24] and Instagram, is once again sanctioned, this time for the
[00:07:28] damages to minors attributed to its platforms. The group will have to
[00:07:32] limit their access to certain functionalities. This
[00:07:35] decision has just been taken by the New Mexico Court of Justice, at the
[00:07:38] very moment when the group is also targeted by other
[00:07:42] proceedings in Europe and
[00:07:43] Australia.
[00:07:48] The digital giant Meta, singled out by the American
[00:07:52] justice system for failures in the protection of
[00:07:56] minor users of its platforms.
[00:08:00] The decision comes from a judge in New Mexico, a
[00:08:03] first in the United States that could set a precedent.
[00:08:07] The court finds and concludes that just as harmful pollution generated by a
[00:08:11] factory can harm the collective right to reasonably clean air,
[00:08:15] the harmful effects of Meta's platforms on children are not limited to these
[00:08:18] platforms, they spread across the entire internet and, perhaps most
[00:08:22] worrying, to the real world. This is a slap in the face
[00:08:26] for Mark Zuckerberg's company, which is
[00:08:28] being fined a record 942 million
[00:08:32] dollars. Meta is ordered to create a compensation
[00:08:35] fund of 567 million dollars intended
[00:08:39] to finance mental health programs over 50 years. and
[00:08:43] prevention for young people. These platforms,
[00:08:46] Instagram and Facebook, will have to limit young people's access to certain
[00:08:50] functionalities, young people particularly vulnerable to
[00:08:53] scrolling, likes and notifications of all
[00:08:56] kinds. Meta for its part, claims to do everything in its
[00:08:59] power to protect teenagers and has announced
[00:09:02] it will appeal. For this specialist, we are seeing
[00:09:06] a change in logic today. Very often, social
[00:09:09] networks have hidden behind their role
[00:09:12] as hosts by explaining that they were only there to host
[00:09:16] videos and that they were in no way responsible for the videos that were on their
[00:09:20] platform. These services are actually
[00:09:23] attention, and therefore it is they who must be held
[00:09:27] responsible for these services since it is they who exploit the vulnerabilities and
[00:09:31] weaknesses of children's attention. Among the other
[00:09:34] measures to protect minors ordered by the court,
[00:09:37] a limitation of network use to 90 hours per
[00:09:41] month and... notifications blocked after
[00:09:44] 10 p.m. and during
[00:09:46] classes.
[00:09:48] Drones to fight forest fires, this is Turkey's new
[00:09:52] weapon. By spotting fires earlier, they allow rescue
[00:09:56] teams to intervene more quickly. The report by our
[00:10:00] correspondent Jaina Lebra with Adria
[00:10:02] Rochacutier.
[00:10:07] In this control tower, fires are mainly
[00:10:11] detected by... the human eye. An essential
[00:10:14] surveillance job, because when it comes to forest
[00:10:17] fires, every minute counts. In the Mugla
[00:10:21] region, the dominant tree is the red pine, a species very vulnerable to fires.
[00:10:25] We are therefore in an area where the risk of fire is
[00:10:27] high.
[00:10:29] Turkey is now relying on its fleet of drones, one of the most
[00:10:33] developed in the world, to strengthen the control of its forests. It
[00:10:36] allows fires to be detected as soon as they start and
[00:10:40] to intervene more quickly.
[00:10:42] Mustapha Hülkudur has his eyes glued to the screens. In the
[00:10:46] center of the Muğla Forest Directorate, he constantly monitors
[00:10:50] images transmitted live by drones
[00:10:53] operated remotely from
[00:10:55] Ankara.
[00:10:58] The drone has become an indispensable tool in our fight against
[00:11:01] fires. Look at the screen top left, under the smoke, it is impossible to
[00:11:04] see the embers with the naked eye, but as soon as we switch to the thermal camera, what we call
[00:11:08] infrared, look, the image appears in an instant. You
[00:11:12] can now see the lower part of the screen, the heat source is much better
[00:11:15] detected.
[00:11:20] Technology now makes it possible to save precious time, but
[00:11:24] on the ground, firefighters remain on the front line
[00:11:27] against the flames.
[00:11:30] Honestly, it's difficult, it's a demanding job. We remain ready to
[00:11:33] intervene at any time. As soon as an alert is given, we leave
[00:11:36] immediately with the teams. Six teams have been mobilized and are working tirelessly.
[00:11:40] The day after this fire, Hülkudur
[00:11:43] takes a look from above to assess the damage. With increasingly
[00:11:47] hot summers, protecting these forests can
[00:11:50] sometimes seem like an endless task, but once again,
[00:11:54] the threat has been contained.
[00:11:58] And you may have noticed that in Europe and France, heatwave
[00:12:02] episodes have caused exceptional drought this summer. A
[00:12:05] quarter of small and medium-sized rivers are dry, which hasn't happened in almost
[00:12:09] 15 years, disrupting navigation. The report by
[00:12:17] lock and just a few centimeters of stagnant
[00:12:20] water. 20 km from Dijon, the Burgundy Canal
[00:12:24] is... impassable and unnavigable. A
[00:12:27] sad sight for this cyclist who has been cycling here for 15
[00:12:31] years. It's the first time it's been so disheartening to see such
[00:12:34] a disaster. Since this summer, we haven't seen any boats, whereas before
[00:12:38] we used to meet them
[00:12:41] often. Due to the lack of water, 3/4 of the Burgundy Canal
[00:12:44] is closed. Pleasure boats remain here in the
[00:12:48] port, like this one belonging to a retiree who wanted to sail across
[00:12:51] Europe. I would prefer right now to be
[00:12:55] traveling uh on on canals,
[00:12:59] visiting cities, obviously. A consequence
[00:13:03] of a historic drought that has affected all of France this summer,
[00:13:06] like here, the Loire at its lowest, not a single drop
[00:13:10] in some rivers, dusty river beds instead. The Rhine
[00:13:13] also suffers. Here in
[00:13:17] Koblenz, Germany, water levels are so low that barges navigate
[00:13:21] slowly. A passage that blocks all
[00:13:25] Europe, with repercussions on the French
[00:13:28] side. The only way to navigate
[00:13:32] is to travel very light. In
[00:13:35] Alsace, this is the only cargo of this half-empty barge,
[00:13:39] heading to Antwerp, two mining
[00:13:41] shovels. If we load more, we'll sink much
[00:13:44] deeper, the boat won't be able to pass. We calculate
[00:13:48] with the captains to see what the boat can take, what
[00:13:51] it's capable of loading, where to load it in the boat to balance
[00:13:57] the flow, we can take fewer goods. With
[00:14:00] boats filled to less than 10% of their capacity, this port near
[00:14:04] Colmar is considering putting employees on partial unemployment, and the
[00:14:08] water level is not expected to rise anytime soon. No rain is
[00:14:11] forecast in the coming
[00:14:45] 24, we'll meet again for another update on the news later.
[00:14:48] l'heure.
[00:14:56] "It was not the drought that led us to famine, but the Russians who
[00:15:00] took everything we had in the
[00:15:01] granary.
[00:15:04] They came with a big truck, I can still see it, on it there were
[00:15:08] sacks they had taken from other
[00:15:10] houses.
[00:15:13] They opened the door, they went up to the granary and they were coming down,
[00:15:16] they were coming down with the beans and all the
[00:15:18] rest.
[00:15:22] Return ticket to the big family of..."
[00:15:38] Congo, a new worrying milestone has been reached, the authorities announce
[00:15:42] that more than 4000 people have now been infected with
[00:15:45] Ebola and that 1850 people have died from it, the speed
[00:15:49] of the virus's spread remains the main source of concern in the country,
[00:15:53] you will see it in the correspondence of Aurélie Bazarak and
[00:15:55] Mangola.
[00:15:57] In Kenya's Rift Valley, the lakes are overflowing, climate change
[00:16:01] is raising water levels to heights never seen in decades, submerged
[00:16:04] villages, crocodiles approaching...
[00:16:29] cases of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which exceeds
[00:16:33] 4000 according to government data, which estimates that
[00:16:36] the epidemic is progressing at a rarely observed
[00:16:39] speed. To deal with this situation, the WHO has called
[00:16:42] for an intensified medical response while trials to find a
[00:16:46] vaccine, still non-existent for this virus, continue.
[00:16:50] The report with Aurélie Bazar Kimoula in
[00:16:52] Kinshasa.
[00:16:57] second largest Ebola epidemic ever
[00:17:00] recorded in the world, and above all, the fastest spreading
[00:17:04] one. Started in the Ituri province a little over
[00:17:08] 3 months ago, the epidemic now
[00:17:11] east of the country. For the past few days, the Congolese authorities
[00:17:15] have also been focusing their efforts on another risk,
[00:17:19] that of the virus spreading along the Congo
[00:17:22] River. This week, a passenger suspected of being infected
[00:17:26] with Ebola died while on board a
[00:17:29] boat going down the river towards the capital. The approximately 200
[00:17:32] people on board were
[00:17:36] placed in... quarantine. The priority is
[00:17:39] to identify any potential contact cases and to determine
[00:17:43] if any of these passengers pose a risk
[00:17:46] of infection. On a visit to the Democratic Republic of Congo, the
[00:17:51] Health Organization called for intensified
[00:17:55] efforts to try to stop the spread of the
[00:17:58] Ebola epidemic.
[00:18:02] In Kenya's Rift Valley, several lakes have seen their size explode
[00:18:05] to levels never seen in decades. These floods have brought
[00:18:09] some wild species like crocodiles close to human habitations,
[00:18:13] leading to an increase in attacks. The report by Laurent
[00:18:16] Bertécher:
[00:18:20] on the shores of Lake Baringo in Kenya, the roofs of an
[00:18:23] former tourist complex, now
[00:18:26] submerged by the waters, still protrude from the
[00:18:28] surface. On one of them, a couple
[00:18:32] of crocodiles bask in the sun. For about
[00:18:36] fifteen years... the lake level has been steadily rising,
[00:18:39] submerging land and dangerously approaching
[00:18:43] surrounding homes.
[00:18:46] In 2014, we understood that the lake's floods were changing
[00:18:50] completely, so since 2009 or 2010 until
[00:18:54] today, the water level has never
[00:18:56] dropped. According to some
[00:19:00] estimates, the lake's surface has grown by 70%
[00:19:04] in 15 years, forcing tens of thousands of residents to
[00:19:07] leave their homes. Some have been rehoused nearby,
[00:19:10] but the waters of Lake Baringo continue to
[00:19:14] follow them. Other consequences of these unprecedented floods
[00:19:17] that scientists attribute to extreme rainfall, the
[00:19:21] local wildlife is getting closer and closer to homes and
[00:19:24] today represents a real danger to local
[00:19:27] populations. In 2011, Marie Tirenne lost
[00:19:31] her husband in a hippopotamus attack. 10 years
[00:19:34] later, a crocodile attacked her son, who was then
[00:19:38] and tried to tear off his arm. He still bears the
[00:19:41] scars.
[00:19:45] He was going to get water when he was attacked. There were children
[00:19:49] with him and they were the ones who helped him and fought with
[00:19:52] the animal. They struggled with the crocodile and
[00:19:56] they were all bitten.
[00:20:00] Powerless against wild animal attacks and floods threatening
[00:20:04] their homes, more and more families today hope for...
[00:20:07] to move away from the lake, but most cannot afford
[00:26:27] information
[00:26:28] continues
[00:26:52] Zoé scandal breaks out, the
[00:26:54] people who the children, France, yes or
[00:26:57] no, a couple of humanitarian workers claimed
[00:27:00] to offer a second chance.
[00:27:32] 18 years later, meeting with these fake orphans. They
[00:27:36] told us that each child would receive €60,000 in damages and
[00:27:39] interest, but for now, they haven't
[00:27:41] received anything.
[00:27:44] If the person recognizes their mistakes and asks for
[00:27:47] forgiveness, then you know that they have
[00:27:49] evolved, but if this same person refuses
[00:27:53] to admit their wrongs, then you
[00:27:56] cannot forgive. Return ticket, the Ark of
[00:27:59] Zoé scandal, to be seen on Franc24.
[00:30:07] Thank you for being with us on France 24, we will together make a new point on
[00:30:10] the news and in the news, we are, we
[00:30:14] will be live from Cali, 3rd city of Colombia for the
[00:30:18] inauguration ceremony of Abelardo de la Espriella, you
[00:30:21] see him in these images, he is the new president of the country, this
[00:30:25] ceremony has just begun and he wants to embody rupture,
[00:30:29] it starts with the choice of this city and not Bogotá, the
[00:30:33] capital to take office, a symbolic choice, you will
[00:30:36] see it in a moment, Spain,
[00:30:40] but its threats are being carried out, travelers from Italy will be
[00:30:43] subject to controls upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid
[00:30:47] had issued an ultimatum to Rome which applies these same controls
[00:30:51] vis-à-vis Spaniards since the migration crisis of
[00:30:54] Ceuta. And then drones to fight forest
[00:30:58] fires, this is Turkey's new asset.