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[00:00:15] fight narco-terrorism relentlessly, the
[00:00:18] first words of the new far-right Colombian president
[00:00:22] after his official inauguration,
[00:00:25] a ceremony unprecedentedly organized
[00:00:28] this Thursday in...
[00:00:30] 3rd city of the country, we will
[00:00:33] also talk about these strained relations in the headlines between
[00:00:37] Spain and Italy, Madrid has just announced the implementation
[00:00:40] of border controls for travelers
[00:00:44] from Italy precisely, a response after
[00:00:47] the suspension of free movement
[00:00:50] decided by Rome following the influx of migrants into
[00:00:54] Spain from Ceuta
[00:00:56] Seuta
[00:00:58] and then we'll take you to Turkey. to meet the country's firefighters
[00:01:02] to fight fires, these latter, rely on drones,
[00:01:06] Ankara can count on an expertise, you will see, built
[00:01:09] on a very efficient local industry in the field,
[00:01:14] solely on
[00:01:27] of order and authority, it is no surprise. who promised
[00:01:30] Belardo de la Espriella, the far-right lawyer
[00:01:34] was officially inaugurated yesterday, president of
[00:01:37] Colombia, a ceremony organized, as
[00:01:41] to Morocco, but hundreds of unaccompanied I read to you, in an unprecedented way in Cali, it is the third city of Colombia, it is not a
[00:01:44] coincidence, Belardo de la Espriella makes the
[00:01:48] fight against drug trafficking and the guerrilla the heart of his
[00:01:52] future mandate in Cali constitutes
[00:01:54] the epicenter of this traffic, Loïc
[00:01:57] Chalavo.
[00:02:04] facing them since the beginning of
[00:02:12] week, the rest of
[00:02:34] military, a symbol, because the new far-right president promises a strong hand to fight against armed groups and
[00:02:37] drug trafficking. A program at
[00:02:41] odds with that of his left-wing predecessor Gustavo Petro, absent from the
[00:02:44] ceremony who had tried to negotiate the disarmament of the
[00:02:47] warriors. There will be no false peace process, the
[00:02:51] only possible peace is that imposed by arms. Any bandit who does not
[00:02:54] submit will be
[00:02:55] eliminated.
[00:03:01] and in particular from a member of on the support of the United States and Israel whose representatives were present at the inauguration
[00:03:04] ceremony. The arrival in
[00:03:07] the humidity of the power of Abellardo de la Espriella tips Latin America even further to the right,
[00:03:09] engaged in an anti-drug war led by Donald Trump.
[00:03:13] The American president promised good relations between Bogotá and
[00:03:17] Washington after the deep tensions under the Petro
[00:03:20] government. And Bellardo de la Espriella does not
[00:03:24] hide his closeness to Donald Trump, the American president has
[00:03:27] moreover openly supported the new Colombian
[00:03:31] president and from words to deeds, there is only one step, Washington has
[00:03:34] announced aid of one billion dollars to
[00:03:38] Colombia to help it, according to American diplomacy, in its
[00:03:42] economic policy and also in its security
[00:03:45] policies, and Donald Trump, precisely, we are talking about it, does not hide
[00:03:49] his anger in recent hours, the Court of Appeals for the District of
[00:03:53] suffered attacks in recent months from Columbia has again blocked the
[00:03:56] White House ballroom project desired by the billionaire, a
[00:04:00] national shame reacted the American president, the
[00:04:03] jurisdiction, it does not dispute the relevance of the
[00:04:07] project but the fact that Donald Trump simply did not
[00:04:11] it's time for a new news report, at the top of seek the opinion of Congress, in the
[00:04:13] aftermath, the American president announced his intention to
[00:04:16] seize the Supreme Court, listen
[00:04:19] to the reactions of these American
[00:04:21] senators,
[00:04:25] we will never give our presidential
[00:04:27] United States has with countries in agreement for the Arc de Triomphe or for the ballroom of the White
[00:04:30] House, these are projects dictated by vanity and the president would
[00:04:34] literally spend 70% of his time on them. The
[00:04:38] president is a very busy person and he has many things to pay
[00:04:41] attention to, including the war in Iran, so
[00:04:44] no.
[00:04:47] already the president has raised a lot of
[00:04:50] a NATO member, is also seeking to private funds to finance this project and that could be useful for future
[00:04:53] administrations of all stripes. This is an advantage, so in any case
[00:04:57] we will find a solution and we will deal with this problem.
[00:05:00] Well, the news this Saturday is also the
[00:05:03] war in Ukraine which knows no respite, a new round of
[00:05:07] Russian bombardment on Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital tonight,
[00:05:10] these have killed at least three people near
[00:05:14] the Ukrainian capital. On Wednesday, Kyiv had already been targeted
[00:05:17] by missile fire. It is in this context that
[00:05:21] Volodymyr Zelensky is in Serbia since
[00:05:25] yesterday, a visit to a traditional ally of
[00:05:28] Moscow that Kyiv hopes to ally at least partly to
[00:05:32] its cause. This question now, is there trouble
[00:05:36] between Spain and Italy? Relations are strained in any case between the two
[00:05:39] countries after the massive influx of migrants. Ceuta last
[00:05:43] week, Italy had immediately suspended the free
[00:05:46] movement of the Schengen area, and Madrid
[00:05:50] is responding in recent hours, Spain has just announced the implementation
[00:05:53] of border controls for travelers from
[00:05:57] Italy to Lisbroga.
[00:06:00] New clash between Madrid and Rome on the migration
[00:06:03] issue. Travelers from Italy will be checked
[00:06:06] upon their arrival in Spain at ports and airports from
[00:06:10] Saturday midnight until September 7th. Madrid thus
[00:06:14] claims to want to deal with the persistence of the irregular migratory pressure suffered by
[00:06:18] Italy, a way of passing the buck to Rome, which
[00:06:21] used the same argument to implement border controls for
[00:06:25] travelers coming from Spain. On July 31st, the
[00:06:29] far-right Italian Prime Minister Georgia Melony had announced
[00:06:33] to suspend until August 15th the Schengen agreement of free
[00:06:36] movement with this country. A measure taken
[00:06:39] after 72,000 migrants crossed the border between
[00:06:43] Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in
[00:06:46] North Africa last week. According to the Spanish government,
[00:06:49] 7,000 migrants have now returned
[00:06:53] children have remained on site in Ceuta. Some
[00:06:57] are being registered with the Spanish police. Morocco
[00:07:01] says it is ready to cooperate with Spain for their
[00:07:03] repatriation. The figure I can give you at
[00:07:07] this stage is that 1342 boys and
[00:07:10] girls have been registered and... integrated into the reception
[00:07:13] system, the process continues of course, the
[00:07:17] situation has been complex due to the volume of arrivals and a certain
[00:07:21] overpopulation, but things are gradually returning to
[00:07:24] normal. According to the Minister of Youth, some
[00:07:27] minors will be transferred to less saturated reception centers in the
[00:07:31] Spanish peninsula in the coming weeks. Let's
[00:07:35] head to the Middle East now in your edition where the Houthi continue
[00:07:38] their offensive, a new strike by the Houthi group in the center
[00:07:42] of the country, it was near the city of Marib, resulting in at least
[00:07:46] two dead and 14 injured, once again, the Houthi
[00:07:50] claim to have targeted positions of Saudi Arabia, allies of the
[00:07:54] central Yemeni
[00:07:56] government.
[00:07:58] And Saudi Arabia has indeed strengthened its military
[00:08:02] cooperation in recent days. The Kingdom has concluded a defense
[00:08:05] pact with Pakistan and Turkey,
[00:08:09] a way for Saudi Arabia to attract new support,
[00:08:20] Mecca. Side by side, the leaders of Saudi
[00:08:24] Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan attend Friday prayers at the Grand
[00:08:27] Mosque. Three Sunni
[00:08:30] regional powers that share maritime or land
[00:08:33] borders with Shiite Iran, perceived as a threat.
[00:08:37] So, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Turkish President
[00:08:41] Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz
[00:08:45] Sharif signed a defense pact on Friday.
[00:08:48] The agreement aims to strengthen collective deterrence against any act
[00:08:52] of aggression and stipulates that any armed attack against one of the three
[00:08:55] states will be considered an attack against all. A mechanism
[00:08:58] whose solidity could be tested very quickly by
[00:09:02] Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has
[00:09:05] Iran and its proxies such as the Houthis in Yemen who have recently
[00:09:09] multiplied strikes against Saudi targets. Riyadh,
[00:09:13] Ankara and Islamabad, who have been involved in recent weeks to try to
[00:09:17] resolve the conflict between the United States and Iran, are also
[00:09:20] seeking to diversify their defense in the face of an American
[00:09:24] partner deemed increasingly
[00:09:25] unreliable.
[00:09:28] The other factor is distrust of American security guarantees.
[00:09:32] To be clear, this is not an alternative to the
[00:09:36] security relationship that the
[00:09:39] the region, but a complement, in fact. The
[00:09:42] United States remains indispensable for many
[00:09:45] regional actors, they are also perceived as unreliable and
[00:09:48] unpredictable. If Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are
[00:09:52] already bound by a defense agreement, the inclusion of Turkey
[00:09:56] in this new pact was precipitated by the war in the
[00:09:59] Middle East. Turkey,
[00:10:02] gain influence and to attract Saudi
[00:10:05] investments.
[00:10:07] And Turkey has, in fact, developed in recent years an industry of
[00:10:11] very high-performance combat drones,
[00:10:14] devices also used in the civil sector and in the fight against forest
[00:10:18] fires, with a real advantage in detecting fires earlier,
[00:10:22] they allow rescue teams to intervene
[00:10:37] are mainly detected by the human eye,
[00:10:40] an essential surveillance work, because when facing forest
[00:10:43] fires, every minute counts. In the
[00:10:46] Mugla region, the dominant tree is the red pine, a species very vulnerable to
[00:10:50] fires. We are therefore in an area where the risk of fire is high.
[00:10:53] risque de feu est élevé.
[00:10:57] Turkey is now relying on its drone fleet, one of the most
[00:11:00] developed in the world, to strengthen the control of its
[00:11:03] forests. It allows fires to be detected from their first
[00:11:07] signs and to intervene more quickly.
[00:11:10] Mustapha Hulkudur has his eyes glued to the screens.
[00:11:14] In the center of the Moula forest department, he constantly
[00:11:18] monitors images transmitted live by
[00:11:21] drones operated remotely from Ankara.
[00:11:25] The drone has become an indispensable tool in our fight against
[00:11:28] fires, look at the screen in the top left, under the smoke, it is impossible to see
[00:11:32] the flames with the naked eye, but as soon as we switch to the thermal camera, what we call
[00:11:36] infrared, look, the image appears in a few moments, you now
[00:11:39] see the lower part of the screen, the heat source is much better
[00:11:42] detected,
[00:11:47] technology now allows us to save precious time, but
[00:11:51] on the ground, firefighters remain at the forefront against the flames.
[00:11:57] Honestly, it's difficult, it's a demanding job, we remain ready to
[00:12:01] intervene at any time, as soon as an alert is given, we leave
[00:12:04] immediately with the teams, six teams have been mobilized and are working
[00:12:07] tirelessly, the day after this fire, the drone
[00:12:11] takes to the air to assess the damage, with increasingly
[00:12:14] hot summers, protecting these forests can
[00:12:18] sometimes seem like an endless task, but this time
[00:12:21] again the threat has been contained.
[00:12:25] and forest fires, in fact, France has been
[00:12:29] summer, as well as drought, while
[00:12:33] a new heatwave episode is expected in France next
[00:12:37] Europe is not spared in Austria, Croatia or
[00:12:40] even Slovakia, temperature records are
[00:12:44] being recorded, up to more than 41
[00:12:53] episodes.
[00:13:49] generalized and the concrete shopping streets are deserted by tourists and the
[00:13:53] few passers-by.
[00:13:56] We had a doctor's appointment, that's why we're outside, otherwise,
[00:14:00] with this weather, I would have stayed at home with my
[00:14:02] child.
[00:14:06] They, in Croatia, chose to take shelter in the middle
[00:14:09] of nature. In the region of Split, where the thermometer shows
[00:14:13] more than 35°, these tourists go on horseback
[00:14:16] rides in the middle of the sea.
[00:14:20] We escaped the walls surrounding Split, it is over 40 degrees with
[00:14:24] concrete under our feet. We enjoy this moment in nature,
[00:14:27] some forests, like this nature reserve in Serbia, are
[00:14:31] currently plagued by devastating fires after
[00:14:35] several days of heatwave and
[00:15:00] They live isolated in the mountains of northern Vietnam on the
[00:15:03] border of China and Laos. The
[00:15:06] Hmong, a people of 10 million people, formerly nomadic
[00:15:10] farmers, who have kept their language and their
[00:15:13] fields.
[00:15:22] I'm not a very good singer. I sing
[00:15:25] this song when starting a new
[00:15:28] crop after the New Year, it's about the joy
[00:15:32] we feel at that moment, but this
[00:15:35] joy is becoming rarer and rarer because of...
[00:15:55] but now there's no more,
[00:15:57] to grow rice you have to wait for it to rain and only then can
[00:16:01] you start to plant.
[00:16:04] like many families in his village, he therefore chose to abandon
[00:16:08] the ancestral rice cultivation which requires continuous flooding.
[00:16:10] Now I only grow
[00:16:13] taro because it grows better and
[00:16:17] adapts better to global
[00:16:19] warming.
[00:16:25] Taro is gradually becoming a substitute crop, a little better
[00:16:28] adapted to water scarcity. In this village, it's the second consecutive year that it has been
[00:16:32] cultivated.
[00:16:36] Far from rejoicing.
[00:16:44] Climate change worries me, because if we run out of water, I'm afraid my
[00:16:48] children and grandchildren will suffer because we depend
[00:16:51] agriculture, without water we can no longer live
[00:16:55] here.
[00:16:59] Pony has three children and lives in this traditional house about 100 meters
[00:17:03] high, like her mother, she is worried about what
[00:17:06] the future holds for her.
[00:17:10] If the climate changes and there is no more water for cultivation, then I will do
[00:17:14] like others and I will have to go down to the city to work as a laborer.
[00:17:18] In this region, residents are observing increasingly unpredictable seasons,
[00:17:21] milder winters, droughts, and more violent
[00:17:24] seasons. Here, the year 2025 was the warmest in 60
[00:17:28] years. To avoid a massive rural
[00:17:31] exodus, an NGO helps Hmong families adapt to climate
[00:17:35] change and better manage water.
[00:17:39] "Have you already looked at this notebook? You will have to note down how many
[00:17:43] kilos you harvested, how many bags, you have to note
[00:17:45] everything,
[00:17:48] but the difficulty is not only agronomic, in these very
[00:17:52] conservative
[00:17:53] villages,
[00:17:58] because the Hmong hardly speak Vietnamese, we are obliged to
[00:18:01] translate all the advice and directives we offer them into images,
[00:18:05] it's mandatory because otherwise they don't understand..." that the information is not
[00:18:08] too technical if we want them to succeed in implementing
[00:18:12] projects.
[00:18:16] According to a local study, nearly 40% of farmers in this
[00:18:19] northern Vietnamese province have already changed
[00:18:22] crops.
[00:18:24] Encourage this adaptation by basing it on scientific data analyzed from
[00:18:28] their office in Hanoi.
[00:18:31] Among the climatic factors we monitor, first there is
[00:18:35] the number of hours of sunshine,
[00:18:37] the average air temperature, there is also the amount of water that
[00:18:40] evaporates that can be observed on the ground, as well as
[00:18:44] air.
[00:18:48] these indicators allow us to anticipate which crops will still be able to withstand
[00:18:52] in the years to come?
[00:18:55] before proposing an alternative crop, we study whether it
[00:18:58] corresponds to the soil, the climate, and if there is a sales
[00:19:01] circuit. With our analyses, we see that taro,
[00:19:04] peanuts and squash
[00:19:07] are the most suitable crops, these are plants that can live at this
[00:19:11] altitude, that require little water and that do well
[00:19:14] with significant temperature
[00:19:17] variations.
[00:19:19] 840 families have joined this crop change project launched in
[00:19:23] 2023.
[00:19:25] The objective is also to lift the Hmong out of precariousness, the first
[00:19:29] results are already
[00:19:30] being felt.
[00:19:33] with this squash harvest, we should earn about €1200.
[00:19:38] Before, on the same land, we earned barely €500 with
[00:19:40] rice.
[00:19:45] In the mountainous north of Vietnam, the Hmong are already
[00:19:48] experiencing the effects of a climate that could warm by 3.4 degrees in the country
[00:19:51] by the end of the century,
[00:19:55] a shift that threatens their harvest, but above all their way of
[00:19:59] life on these ancestral
[00:20:00] lands.
[00:30:13] the news this Saturday, Kyiv and its region again
[00:30:17] struck by a Russian attack, missile salvos on the Ukrainian capital
[00:30:20] last night, at least three dead. At the same time, you see Volodymyr
[00:30:24] Zelensky is in Serbia, why this
[00:30:28] trip? We will discuss it with our correspondent in Ukraine, Emmanuel
[00:30:32] Chass. To learn more, see you right away Emmanuel. Belardo de la
[00:30:36] Espriella promises to fight narco-terrorism relentlessly.
[00:30:39] The first words of the new far-right Colombian president
[00:30:43] after his official inauguration, a ceremony
[00:30:45] organized in an unprecedented way this Thursday in
[00:30:48] Cali, the third city in the
[00:30:51] country. And we will also talk in the headlines about these
[00:30:55] strained relations between Spain and Italy. Madrid has just
[00:30:58] announced the implementation of border checks.