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[00:00:07] Good evening everyone and welcome to France 24. Tonight's top story is Bellardo de la
[00:00:11] Espriela, the new president of Colombia. He has just
[00:00:14] taken the oath of office after his election on June 21.
[00:00:18] For his inauguration ceremony, he chose Cali, the third largest city in the
[00:00:21] country, and not Bogota, the capital. A very
[00:00:25] symbolic choice, as you will see. Spain
[00:00:28] is putting its threats into action. Travelers coming from Italy will be
[00:00:32] subjected to controls upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid had
[00:00:35] issued an ultimatum to Rome, which has been applying these same controls to
[00:00:39] Spanish citizens since the migration crisis in Ceuta.
[00:00:43] Technology at the service of firefighters in Turkey. Drones are helping to
[00:00:47] fight forest fires. They allow fires to be detected
[00:00:50] earlier, thus speeding up the intervention of
[00:00:54] emergency services.
[00:00:55] The inauguration ceremony for Abellardo de l'Esprit is currently
[00:01:00] State. From this village in northern
[00:01:10] taking place in Cali, Colombia. He has just taken the oath of office
[00:01:13] as the new president of the country. He was elected on the morning of June last year, and
[00:01:17] he chose Cali, the third largest city in the country, for his
[00:01:21] inauguration, and not Bogota. Cali is one of the strongholds
[00:01:25] of armed groups involved in drug
[00:01:28] trafficking, as Hugo Corten, a specialist in Colombia, explains to
[00:01:32] us. The symbolic scope of the choice
[00:01:35] is
[00:01:38] return. quite vast, since Abellardo de la Espiraria had campaigned
[00:01:42] on criticizing a lot of Bogota-centrism,
[00:01:45] so the fact that political power was concentrated in the capital
[00:01:49] Bogota. He wanted to govern in the regions. He also said
[00:01:52] he wanted to restore order in the regions. How does he
[00:01:55] plan to do it? He was quite clear, it was
[00:01:59] said in the segment you just showed, with the
[00:02:02] army by deploying
[00:02:05] soldiers everywhere. As you saw, it's also a
[00:02:08] way of showing his strength to go to Cali, where he had
[00:02:12] problems with armed groups, to go there with thousands of soldiers and be inaugurated
[00:02:16] there. What needs to be said about this is that he is an extreme
[00:02:20] right-wing figure who has surpassed an extreme right that already existed in Colombia,
[00:02:23] which was in the majority for 20 years, the one that is improperly called
[00:02:27] that of the Democratic Center. So, even if there are
[00:02:31] upheavals between these political formations, we can expect them to govern
[00:02:34] together. And in reality, the majority in Congress
[00:02:38] on which he will be able to rely is still relatively comfortable for
[00:02:41] him. So he should still have sufficient
[00:02:45] support. Also in the news, Spain is
[00:02:48] putting its threats into action.
[00:02:50] attention, and therefore Travelers from Italy will be subjected to controls
[00:02:53] upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid had
[00:02:57] issued an ultimatum to Rome,
[00:03:00] cigarettes, chewing which has been applying these same controls to Spanish citizens
[00:03:02] since the migration crisis in
[00:03:05] the use of networks to Ceuta. The story about this standoff by Loik Chalavon.
[00:03:09] In front of this police station, dozens of unaccompanied minors are waiting
[00:03:13] their turn to be
[00:03:16] identified and placed in a reception center. These
[00:03:20] young adolescents have been living on the streets for several days, in very precarious
[00:03:23] conditions. They have eaten, washed themselves as best they could, and asked people for
[00:03:26] help. Some gave them 1 euro, others bread. That's how they get
[00:03:31] by day to day. The mayor of
[00:03:35] Ceuta indicates that more than 1100 unaccompanied minors are in
[00:03:38] the enclave. Spanish authorities state that they are doing everything
[00:03:41] possible to take care of these minors and manage the approximately 2000 migrants who are still
[00:03:45] in Ceuta, according to figures from the Spanish Interior
[00:03:49] lower and the boat will no longer be able to Ministry. On the diplomatic front, the power struggle continues
[00:03:52] between Spain and Italy. The Spanish
[00:03:55] Interior Ministry announced that border controls will begin Saturday at
[00:03:59] midnight for travelers from Italy, a measure that follows
[00:04:03] a statement published earlier in the day, in which the Spanish
[00:04:07] government threatened to apply retaliatory measures against Rome if Italy
[00:04:11] did not reverse its decision. On
[00:04:14] July 31, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced
[00:04:17] the suspension of free
[00:04:21] end the news: victory for Polish movement with Spain and the strengthening of controls at land borders. Italy has
[00:04:24] maintained these measures at least until August 15.
[00:04:28] The
[00:04:30] direction of Taiwan, which has just carried out important
[00:04:32] military exercises to test its
[00:04:35] capabilities in the face of a major conflict. The island is in the
[00:04:38] sights of China, which claims it. Suzanne Doroi,
[00:04:41] our correspondent on the spot.
[00:04:45] What you just heard is the Taiwanese army training for
[00:05:00] an invasion scenario by the Chinese army on this small island
[00:05:04] of Tidman. This Taiwanese territory is located only 10
[00:05:07] km from China. And here you can see on the banks,
[00:05:11] Taiwanese tanks practicing live
[00:05:14] firing. They will aim at targets that are there
[00:05:18] in the background, in the sea, as you can see.
[00:05:21] So Tim, like the rest of the country, is training. These are national
[00:05:25] military exercises. And Tinman
[00:05:28] particularly is exposed to China by its proximity. It
[00:05:32] had already been the subject of an attempted landing in
[00:05:35] 1900. 49. So
[00:05:39] today, would China be able to invade this small
[00:05:43] territory again? The strategic and military stakes are
[00:05:47] colossal. And finally, perhaps strategists
[00:05:49] estimate that invading the main island of
[00:05:52] Taiwan directly is perhaps much more relevant for
[00:05:56] China. 1 billion dollars,
[00:05:59] Meta, Facebook's parent company and Instagram, again
[00:06:03] sanctioned, this time for damages to minors attributed
[00:06:06] to these platforms. The group
[00:06:09] must limit their access to certain
[00:06:13] features. This decision has just been taken by the New Mexico
[00:06:16] Court of Justice, at the very moment when the group is targeted by
[00:06:19] other lawsuits in Europe and Australia.
[00:06:23] Nadji.
[00:06:24] The digital giant
[00:06:28] Meta, singled out by American justice for
[00:06:32] failures in protecting underage users of its
[00:06:36] platforms. The decision comes from a New
[00:06:39] Mexico judge, a first in the United
[00:06:43] States that could set a precedent.
[00:06:47] The court notes and concludes that just as harmful pollution generated by a
[00:06:51] factory can harm the collective right to reasonably clean air, the
[00:06:55] harmful effects of Meta's platforms on children are not limited to these
[00:06:58] platforms. They spread throughout the Internet and, perhaps most
[00:07:02] worryingly, to the real world. This is a blow for
[00:07:05] Mark Zuckerberg's company, which is being
[00:07:08] hit with a record fine of 942 million
[00:07:11] dollars. Meta is ordered to create a compensation fund
[00:07:15] of 567 million dollars to
[00:07:19] finance mental health and prevention programs for young
[00:07:22] people over 5 years. These platforms, Instagram and
[00:07:26] Facebook, will have to limit young people's access to certain
[00:07:29] features. Young people are particularly vulnerable to
[00:07:33] scrolling, likes, and all kinds of notifications.
[00:07:36] Meta, for its part, claims to be doing everything
[00:07:39] possible to protect adolescents and has announced it will
[00:07:42] appeal. According to this specialist, we are witnessing
[00:07:46] a change in logic. Very often, social networks have hidden behind
[00:07:49] their role as hosts, explaining that they
[00:07:51] were only there to host videos, that they were in no
[00:07:55] way responsible for the videos that were on their platform. These
[00:07:59] services are actually based on capturing
[00:08:03] it is they who must be held responsible for these services, since it is they
[00:08:06] who exploit the vulnerabilities and flaws in children's attention.
[00:08:10] Among the other measures to protect
[00:08:13] minors ordered by the court are a limitation on
[00:08:18] 90 hours per month, and notifications blocked after
[00:08:21] 10 p.m. and during classes.
[00:08:25] Technology at the service of firefighters, drones to fight
[00:08:28] forest fires. This is Turkey's new weapon. By detecting
[00:08:32] fires earlier, it allows rescue teams to
[00:08:35] intervene more quickly. Their report
[00:08:38] by our correspondent with Adria
[00:08:42] Rochakuutier. In this control tower, fires are mainly
[00:08:45] detected by the human
[00:08:50] eye, an essential surveillance job, because
[00:08:54] when it comes to forest fires, every minute
[00:08:57] counts. In the Mugla region, the dominant tree is the red
[00:09:00] pine, a species very vulnerable to fires. We are therefore in an
[00:09:04] area where the risk of fire is high. Turkey is now relying on its
[00:09:08] drone fleet, one of the most developed in the
[00:09:10] world, to strengthen
[00:09:12] the control of its forests. It allows
[00:09:16] fires to be detected at their first signs and to intervene more
[00:09:19] quickly. Mustapha Hulkudur has his
[00:09:22] eyes glued to the screens. In the center of the Mugla Forest
[00:09:26] Directorate, he constantly monitors images transmitted
[00:09:29] live by drones operated remotely from
[00:09:33] Ankara. Indispensable in our fight against
[00:09:36] fires. Look at the screen at the top left. Under the smoke, it is impossible to
[00:09:38] see the embers with the naked eye. But as
[00:09:42] soon as we switch to the thermal camera, what we call infrared,
[00:09:45] look, the image appears in a few moments. You can
[00:09:49] now see the lower part of the screen, the heat source is much better
[00:09:53] detected. Technology now makes it possible to
[00:09:57] save precious time, but
[00:09:58] on the ground, firefighters remain on the
[00:10:03] front line against the flames.
[00:10:07] Honestly, it's difficult. It's a demanding job. We remain ready to
[00:10:10] intervene at any time. As soon as an
[00:10:13] alert is given, we leave immediately with the teams. Six
[00:10:16] teams have been mobilized and are working tirelessly. The day after the
[00:10:19] fire, Hulkdur takes to the air to assess the
[00:10:23] damage. With increasingly hot summers, protecting these forests can
[00:10:27] sometimes seem like a never-ending task. But this time
[00:10:30] again, the threat has been contained.
[00:10:33] It's going to be very hot again in France these coming days, as in
[00:10:36] other European countries. In
[00:10:38] Austria, Croatia, and even
[00:10:41] Slovakia, temperature records have been broken, up to over
[00:10:45] 41 degrees in some places.
[00:10:49] With drought and repeated heatwaves, the
[00:10:52] waters of the Danube are at a historically low level. But
[00:10:58] the river remains, despite everything, a thread of freshness for these
[00:11:01] Slovaks besieged by the oppressive
[00:11:04] heat in Bratislava. I notice that my body reacts
[00:11:07] differently. I am more irritable. I think it's because
[00:11:11] of the heat. What's changing is that during the day, I spend more time at home. I try not to go out. I can't go play sports during the day. It's very
[00:11:13] constraining.
[00:11:18] Slovakia and neighboring Austria recorded absolute
[00:11:21] temperature records this week, over 41
[00:11:33] degrees in some places. After a particularly
[00:11:35] hot and dry July,
[00:11:38] residents and shopkeepers fear a scorching August.
[00:11:41] While the drought has become widespread
[00:11:45] and the concrete shopping streets are shunned by
[00:11:48] tourists and the few passersby.
[00:11:52] We had a doctor's appointment, that's why we're out. Otherwise, with this weather, I would have stayed
[00:11:56] home with my child.
[00:11:59] They, in Croatia, chose
[00:12:01] to shelter in the middle of
[00:12:04] nature. In the Split region, where the thermometer reads
[00:12:07] over 35 degrees, these tourists are taking
[00:12:10] equestrian rides
[00:12:13] in the open sea. We escaped the walls surrounding
[00:12:16] Split. It's over 40 degrees with concrete under our feet. We're
[00:12:20] enjoying this moment in nature. Some forests, like this nature reserve in
[00:12:24] Serbia, are currently ravaged by fires,
[00:12:27] after several days of heatwave and
[00:12:31] drought. Indeed, these heatwave episodes have
[00:12:35] caused an exceptional drought this summer. You may have noticed that
[00:12:38] a quarter of the small and medium-sized waterways are dry. This has not
[00:12:42] happened in almost 15 years, enough to
[00:12:45] disrupt navigation. The story by
[00:12:48] Mathilde Gracia. A deserted lock and
[00:12:51] just a few centimeters of stagnant water. 20 km from Dijon,
[00:12:55] the Burgundy Canal is unrecognizable and impassable. A sad
[00:12:59] sight for this cyclist who has been cycling there for 15 years. It's the first time it's
[00:13:02] so desolate to see such a disaster. Since this
[00:13:06] summer, we no longer see boats, whereas before we
[00:13:09] often saw them. Due to the lack of water, three quarters of the Burgundy
[00:13:12] Canal are closed. Pleasure boats remain here at the
[00:13:16] port, like that of this retiree who wanted to sail across
[00:13:19] Europe. I would rather be
[00:13:23] sailing on canals, visiting
[00:13:26] cities, of course. The consequence of a
[00:13:29] historic drought that is hitting all of France this
[00:13:33] summer. Like here, the Loire at its lowest, not a single
[00:13:37] drop in some waterways, dusty riverbeds instead.
[00:13:40] The Rhine also suffers. Here in Cove, Germany,
[00:13:44] water levels are so low that barges navigate
[00:13:46] slowly, a passage that blocks all river transport to
[00:13:49] northern Europe with repercussions on the French
[00:13:53] side. The only way to navigate is to
[00:13:57] travel very light. In Alsace,
[00:14:00] here is the only cargo of this half-empty
[00:14:04] barge, heading to Antwerp, two
[00:14:08] mining shovels.
[00:14:11] If we load more, we will be much
[00:14:14] pass. We make calculations with the captains to see what the
[00:14:17] boat can take, what it is capable of loading, where to load it
[00:14:21] in the boat to balance the boat, and we necessarily
[00:14:24] reduce the flow. We can take fewer goods. With boats
[00:14:27] filled to less than 10% of their capacity, this port near
[00:14:29] Colmar is considering putting employees on partial
[00:14:33] unemployment, and the water level is not expected to rise
[00:14:36] anytime soon. No rain is forecast in the coming
[00:14:40] weeks. A word about the Women's Tour de France to
[00:14:46] cyclist Kasia Niewiadoma. She won today's
[00:14:49] 7th stage at the summit of Mont Ventoux. She also took
[00:14:53] the yellow jersey with a 15-second lead over Dutch
[00:14:56] Demi Vollering. There are now two stages left before the grand
[00:15:00] finale in Nice next Sunday.
[00:15:04] It was worth it. She just won the most beautiful. Stay with us, the news continues on France
[00:15:07] 24. We will turn towards the
[00:15:11] mountains. We are going to a village called
[00:15:15] Shebad. It was controlled by the Islamic
[00:15:18] State, but it was liberated by the Puntland
[00:15:21] army. There are two ways to fly in a combat
[00:15:28] zone: either you fly very low, or high
[00:15:30] enough to avoid small-caliber
[00:16:07] fire. Because of the terrain, we cannot choose the first
[00:16:11] option, so we will gain
[00:16:15] altitude. If someone shoots
[00:16:16] at us, the bullets will lose their
[00:16:20] velocity before hitting the
[00:16:21] aircraft.
[00:16:26] This whole valley was controlled by the Islamic State. Here is the
[00:16:29] village. Welcome to
[00:16:32] Chebad. This was the new stronghold of the Islamic
[00:16:38] Somalia, the jihadists tried to expand the group's influence in the
[00:16:41] world and finance other
[00:16:42] factions on the
[00:16:48] continent. After the fall of ISIS in the Middle East in 2019, hundreds of
[00:16:51] foreign jihadists flocked here. They
[00:16:53] joined local fighters and captured a
[00:17:00] territory of 5000 km2 in the semi-autonomous
[00:17:04] region of Puntland.
[00:17:07] Somalia is a federation of several states,
[00:17:11] each with its own army and government.
[00:17:14] They were writing verses from the Quran, but I don't know much
[00:17:17] Arabic. No matter what he wrote
[00:17:20] here. We are Somalis, they want to mislead
[00:17:24] us. They have invented their own quotes.
[00:17:26] These are ideological
[00:17:31] usurpers, thieves who have killed people and created
[00:17:35] problems all over the
[00:18:09] world. And they have come here to hide and
[00:18:12] cause chaos in the
[00:18:15] world. You see, it's already damaged.
[00:18:19] We'll soon take it down.
[00:18:22] Today, Colonel Ali's troops will resupply the forward
[00:18:25] post. The front line is inaccessible
[00:18:29] by car. He doesn't need rest. Wherever
[00:18:32] you go, he will follow you. You don't need to refuel,
[00:18:35] no need for spare parts. He has everything he needs.
[00:18:39] You can even slaughter it, yeah, slaughter it and eat its meat wherever
[00:18:59] you are, but only if it's really
[00:19:02] necessary.
[00:19:10] Some are still hidden nearby.
[00:19:12] We must be on alert wherever we
[00:19:17] go. We clear the roads, whether they are paths or tracks for
[00:19:21] cars. These mountainous paths are riddled
[00:19:25] with explosive devices planted by terrorists.
[00:19:28] ISIS is difficult to locate
[00:19:32] and even harder to neutralize.
[00:19:34] So the army calls for help from American
[00:19:51] fighter jets and drones. They have carried out
[00:19:55] over a hundred strikes in Somalia in 2025.
[00:19:59] We'll unload the donkeys, we'll
[00:20:03] tie them up and carry the ammunition ourselves. The front is that
[00:20:14] way. After the night's
[00:20:15] bombardment, the soldiers will launch a new
[00:20:19] offensive.
[00:20:33] They are hiding. Every time one of them pops their head
[00:20:36] up, our army must attack from three different
[00:20:39] sides. Those in the
[00:20:40] caves, we will try to get
[00:20:50] them with artillery.
[00:20:53] Once we have hit
[00:20:55] them, we will move in
[00:20:57] with force. Be careful, when we capture the
[00:21:00] cave, we must not rush. The
[00:21:02] deminers must go first. There may be traps. They must defuse
[00:21:06] them. The ISIS fighters hidden by the
[00:21:09] terrain can appear at any moment.
[00:21:12] But we will not see them.
[00:21:15] For our safety, we are forbidden to approach the
[00:21:18] front.
[00:21:20] This was a position they used to defend Chebad, their so-called
[00:21:24] capital. Underground, the organization's leaders
[00:21:28] commanded the
[00:21:31] attacks. To kill people, they mainly make explosive
[00:21:35] devices. We're going to do some tests.
[00:21:39] They put this clay soil in
[00:21:43] cans to make bombs.
[00:21:46] They fill them halfway with
[00:21:58] it and the rest is explosives.
[00:22:02] We post photos of all the
[00:22:04] army's successes so that our people feel
[00:22:07] confident.
[00:22:15] This is a government priority.
[00:22:18] Hundreds of civilians have been executed. The
[00:22:22] survivors have fled.
[00:22:25] Few dare to
[00:22:28] There is a relative
[00:22:36] calm, that's what we tell our families.
[00:22:40] But the war continues, it's not over. Nothing
[00:22:43] works here.
[00:22:44] Under the yoke
[00:22:47] of the group, it was not welcome
[00:22:51] but
[00:22:51] the villagers had no
[00:22:55] choice.
[00:23:08] It is written that they are the Islamic State, but
[00:23:11] we have seen neither state nor
[00:23:14] Islam. This is the list of forbidden
[00:23:18] things: smoking
[00:23:50] khat. All the vices marked
[00:23:54] here, they did not find many people who practice them. The only ones who do that
[00:23:58] are them.
[00:24:02] In Somalia, the population is Muslim and already respects Sharia. This is
[00:24:05] how I make my living
[00:24:07] now. His daily life before exile, they took
[00:24:11] our village, they stole our homes, they made everyone
[00:24:14] flee, they stole our cattle, especially our
[00:24:18] goats, they did everything to us, we had many
[00:24:21] problems.
[00:24:22] All those who opposed
[00:24:26] them, they beheaded them.
[00:24:40] They did so many things against our
[00:24:41] culture, against our
[00:24:56] religion. This mafia has prospered thanks to money extorted from
[00:24:59] Bosasso, an essential port city for the local
[00:25:03] economy, located downstream from the mountains.
[00:25:07] The Islamic State operates
[00:25:12] clandestinely. It has conducted numerous attacks and caused
[00:25:14] dozens of casualties.
[00:25:17] Since the beginning of the offensive, the government has reduced ISIS's
[00:25:40] control, but the risk of attacks and kidnappings remains
[00:25:42] high.
[00:25:45] These armed men protect our team.
[00:25:49] As you can see, this store is
[00:25:56] closed. The owners closed because of the Islamic
[00:25:59] State, because they were asking them for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
[00:26:05] The owner realized that the amount requested was much larger than what he
[00:26:08] possessed inside the store.
[00:26:11] Look there, there
[00:26:15] is the symbol of this city's
[00:26:16] problems.
[00:26:24] Look at this padlock.
[00:26:28] The owners fled to save their lives.
[00:26:30] Abdulkadirmail
[00:26:33] is the only community leader who dares to publicly denounce the
[00:26:36] Islamic State.
[00:26:38] Explosive on this store, everyone
[00:26:41] was asleep at that time.
[00:26:44] He had attached it at this level to the door. The entire
[00:26:47] interior of the building
[00:26:49] collapsed. There was nothing
[00:26:51] left to recover.
[00:26:55] To avoid such a fate, many businesses ended
[00:26:59] up paying. According to local officials,
[00:27:32] the Islamic State has amassed a fortune of several million
[00:27:35] dollars. They tried everything and it didn't
[00:27:39] work, so they planted a bomb.
[00:27:42] This affects all types of businesses, from the
[00:27:44] smallest to the largest,
[00:27:49] even the small transporter who pushes his wheelbarrow. They found
[00:27:53] him. They told him, "We know where you
[00:27:56] work," and that worker was stolen.
[00:27:59] The role of the sharia is to help the community
[00:28:32] in its daily life, resolve
[00:28:35] disputes, give advice
[00:28:39] discreetly. He also tries to organize the
[00:28:42] resistance. In the mosque, we warn believers
[00:28:45] against the vices of ISIS.
[00:28:48] We tell them their program is to
[00:29:15] steal and kill.
[00:29:18] No religion promises that. The members of ISIS know
[00:29:21] nothing about
[00:29:31] religion. Some recruits were approached after
[00:29:34] praying.
[00:29:38] An ISIS defector hidden in Assot agreed to
[00:29:41] testify, but
[00:29:43] to remain discreet, he cannot be seen in our
[00:29:47] company. We spoke on the phone, his
[00:29:51] words are
[00:29:53] repeated. I'm hiding, I'm afraid
[00:29:56] they'll find me and kill me because
[00:30:04] I dared to leave.
[00:30:07] prié,
[00:30:09] un déserteur de l'état islamique caché dans assot a accepté de
[00:30:12] témoigner, mais pour rester discret, il ne peut
[00:30:16] être vu en notre compagnie, nous avons
[00:30:19] échangé au téléphone, ces propos sont
[00:30:21] répétés,
[00:30:24] je me cache, j'ai peur qu'il me retrouve et qu'il me tue parce que
[00:30:28] run away,
[00:30:31] I can't go home because... if the police find me, they'll
[00:30:34] arrest me,
[00:30:39] I arrived in Bossasso, after several days on the road, I came
[00:30:42] from Ethiopia,
[00:30:46] I was looking for work and apparently found it in this
[00:30:48] country,
[00:30:51] I went to a mosque every Friday and after
[00:30:54] several weeks a Yemeni came to see me to ask if I
[00:30:58] wanted to.