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[00:00:00] You are listening to Caroline de Camaret, on France
[00:00:03] 24.
[00:00:06] Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us on France 24. Last stretch
[00:00:10] for the front page with a new newspaper, here are our headlines. On the front page,
[00:00:13] Kyiv and its region once again struck by a Russian attack,
[00:00:17] a salvo of missiles on the Ukrainian capital tonight,
[00:00:20] three dead. At the same time, as you can see, Volodymyr Zelensky
[00:00:24] is in Serbia to improve relations between
[00:00:28] Ukraine and... the Balkan country. Abelardo de la
[00:00:32] Espriella promises to fight tirelessly against
[00:00:34] narcoterrorism. These are the first words of the new far-right Colombian president
[00:00:38] after his official inauguration, a ceremony
[00:00:42] organized this Friday in Cali,
[00:00:45] the country's third largest city. This was
[00:00:48] unprecedented. We will also talk on the front page about the strained relations
[00:00:52] between Spain and Italy. Madrid has just announced the
[00:00:56] solely on implementation of border controls for travelers
[00:00:58] coming from Italy, a response after the suspension of
[00:01:02] free movement decided by Rome following the influx of
[00:01:05] migrants to Ceuta.
[00:01:21] So we begin with the war in Ukraine, which knows
[00:01:24] no respite. A new round of Russian shelling, as I told
[00:01:28] you, on Kyiv tonight. You can see images of it,
[00:01:32] bombings that killed three people in the
[00:01:34] region of the Ukrainian capital. On Wednesday,
[00:01:38] Kyiv had already been targeted by
[00:01:41] facing them since the beginning of missile fire. It is in this context that Volodymyr Zelensky, the
[00:01:43] Ukrainian president, has been in Serbia since yesterday,
[00:01:46] visiting a country that is presented as historically
[00:01:50] allied with Moscow, but which in recent years has taken a
[00:01:54] more balanced position, especially with regard to Europe. So what is the Ukrainian
[00:01:57] president seeking in the Balkans? We will
[00:02:02] opposition sees it as a symbol of see with Evac Emmanuel Chase, our correspondent in Ukraine. Firstly, it is
[00:02:05] Volodymyr Zelensky's first visit as president to Belgrade.
[00:02:09] It is also the first visit since the large-scale
[00:02:12] invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and it is true that
[00:02:16] Belgrade has maintained since 2022
[00:02:20] a rather precarious balance of
[00:02:23] neutrality by trying not to alienate Moscow, while also
[00:02:26] providing humanitarian aid to... We must not
[00:02:30] forget 60 million euros since
[00:02:34] 2022. However, it is true that Serbia has
[00:02:37] kept its distance from certain European decisions, such as the sanctions against
[00:02:41] Moscow. But there was a visit
[00:02:43] by Aleksandar
[00:02:45] Vučić, the president, who went to
[00:02:49] the humidity of Kyiv this July. He did not
[00:02:51] sign the declaration that was made at that time by other
[00:02:55] countries in Southern Europe
[00:02:59] regarding the support offered by these countries to Ukraine, but he declared
[00:03:02] himself dissatisfied with what
[00:03:05] Serbia was providing. So we expect
[00:03:08] discussions, at least that is what Volodymyr Zelensky also wants. He
[00:03:12] says he is ready for any constructive discussion with
[00:03:15] Belgrade. Order and authority, this is not
[00:03:19] surprisingly what Abelardo de la Espriella promised. The far-right
[00:03:22] lawyer was officially inaugurated yesterday as president of Colombia,
[00:03:26] a ceremony organized in an unprecedented way in Cali, the third
[00:03:29] largest city in the country, and this is no
[00:03:32] coincidence. Abelardo de la Espriella makes the fight against drug trafficking
[00:03:36] and guerrilla warfare the core of his future
[00:03:38] mandate, and Cali has been the epicenter
[00:03:42] in recent months of this lucrative
[00:03:45] trafficking. From King Felipe VI of Spain to Argentine President Javier
[00:03:50] Morocco, but hundreds of unaccompanied Milei, and even the FIFA boss Gianni
[00:03:52] new album, Boulevard de Infantino, they were all gathered this Friday in Cali for
[00:03:55] the inauguration of the new Colombian
[00:03:56] president.
[00:04:03] Ordinarily, the inauguration of a Colombian president takes place in the capital,
[00:04:06] Bogota, but not with Abelardo de la Espriella. The 48-year-old
[00:04:10] millionaire lawyer, a political novice, chose Cali, the country's
[00:04:14] third largest city, where attacks have recently occurred. The city is patrolled by
[00:04:18] more than 11,000 soldiers, a powerful symbol because the new far-right
[00:04:21] president promises a strong hand to
[00:04:24] to detach Belgrade from the Russian fight against armed groups and drug trafficking, a program
[00:04:27] at odds with that of his left-wing predecessor, Gustavo Petro. Absent from the
[00:04:30] ceremony, he had tried to negotiate the disarmament of the
[00:04:33] guerrillas. There will be no false peace process. The
[00:04:37] only possible peace is that imposed by arms. Any bandit who does not surrender
[00:04:40] will be eliminated. I warned you. For this,
[00:04:44] Colombia can count on the support of the United States and Israel, whose
[00:04:48] representatives were present at the inauguration ceremony. The arrival in
[00:04:51] power of Abelardo de la Espriella further shifts Latin
[00:04:55] America to the right. Engaged in a drug war led by Donald
[00:04:58] Trump, the American president promised relations at their best between
[00:05:02] Bogota and Washington after the deep tensions under the Petro
[00:05:06] government. And you
[00:05:09] Here, before, there was have just heard it, Abelardo de la Espriella does not hide his closeness to Donald Trump. The American president has also
[00:05:13] openly supported the new Colombian president, and from words to deeds there is only one step.
[00:05:17] Washington announced a billion
[00:05:20] dollar aid package to Colombia to help it, according to American
[00:05:24] diplomacy, in its economic and especially
[00:05:27] security policies.
[00:05:30] Donald Trump, for his part, is not hiding his anger in recent hours. The District
[00:05:34] of Columbia Court of Appeals again blocked the White House
[00:05:37] ballroom project, a national shame, reacted
[00:05:40] the American president. The jurisdiction does not
[00:05:44] dispute the relevance of the project, but the fact that Donald Trump did not
[00:05:48] seek the advice of Congress. The billionaire immediately
[00:05:51] announced his intention to appeal to the
[00:05:59] ever be built? This project, dear to Donald Trump,
[00:06:03] whose construction began at the end of 2025, has just been
[00:06:06] blocked again by the American justice system. The District
[00:06:09] of Columbia Court of Appeals confirmed a decision from last
[00:06:12] April. The work must cease because it was launched without
[00:06:16] the approval of Congress, which is essential for such a project
[00:06:19] at the White House. A new setback for Donald
[00:06:22] Trump, who defends this construction tooth and nail.
[00:06:25] This decision, taken when a large part of the work has already been carried out
[00:06:29] and paid for, constitutes a threat to national
[00:06:33] security of the utmost gravity. It is also a national
[00:06:36] shame. We will immediately appeal this
[00:06:40] decision to the Supreme Court of the United States. This ballroom,
[00:06:43] more than 8,300 square meters with a capacity of
[00:06:47] 1,000 people, is financed by private funds, according to the American
[00:06:50] president, but the envelope has already increased from 200
[00:06:54] to 400 million dollars today. Donald Trump
[00:06:57] justifies this project and assures that the building will contain other
[00:07:01] military defense devices, but it is very
[00:07:03] criticized. The National Trust for Historic
[00:07:06] Preservation, an NGO for the preservation of historic
[00:07:10] buildings, challenged it in court. The Democratic
[00:07:15] the president's ego.
[00:07:18] These are projects dictated by vanity, and the president would literally
[00:07:21] spend 70% of his time on it. The president
[00:07:25] is a very busy person and has many things he needs to pay
[00:07:28] attention to, including the war in Iran. This
[00:07:32] project is also not unanimously supported within the Republican
[00:07:35] party. Donald Trump's government now has 14 days to appeal
[00:07:39] to the American Supreme Court.
[00:07:43] Now, the question is, are relations strained between Spain and
[00:07:47] Italy? Relations are tense between the two countries after
[00:07:50] the massive influx of migrants to Ceuta last week.
[00:07:54] Italy, you remember, had suspended the free movement of the Schengen area,
[00:07:58] and Madrid is retaliating. Spain has just announced
[00:08:01] the implementation of border controls for travelers
[00:08:04] coming from
[00:08:10] Rome over the migration issue.
[00:08:13] Travelers from Italy will be controlled upon their arrival in
[00:08:16] Spain at ports and airports from
[00:08:19] Saturday midnight until September 7th. Madrid thus
[00:08:23] claims to want to cope with the persistent irregular migratory
[00:08:26] pressure suffered by Italy. A way to
[00:08:29] throw the ball back to Rome, which used the same argument to
[00:08:32] implement border controls for travelers coming from
[00:08:35] Spain. On July 31st, the far-right Italian Prime Minister
[00:08:38] Giorgia Meloni announced the suspension
[00:08:42] until August 15th of the Schengen agreement for free movement
[00:08:46] with that country, a measure taken after 72,000
[00:08:49] migrants crossed the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of
[00:08:53] Ceuta in North Africa last week. According to the Spanish
[00:08:57] government, 60,000 migrants have now returned to
[00:09:02] children have remained in Ceuta. Some
[00:09:06] are being registered with the Spanish police. Morocco
[00:09:10] says it is ready to cooperate with Spain for their
[00:09:12] repatriation. The figure I can give you at this
[00:09:16] stage is that 1342 boys and
[00:09:19] girls have been registered and integrated into the reception
[00:09:22] system. The process continues, of course. The situation
[00:09:26] has been complex due to the volume of arrivals and a certain
[00:09:30] overcrowding, but things are gradually returning to
[00:09:33] normal. According to the Minister of Youth, some
[00:09:36] minors will be transferred to less saturated reception centers in the
[00:09:40] Spanish peninsula in the coming weeks. Now
[00:09:43] let's head to Turkey. The country has developed in recent
[00:09:47] years, as you may know, a highly efficient combat drone
[00:09:50] industry. These devices are also used
[00:09:54] today in the civilian sector and in the fight against forest
[00:09:57] fires, with a real advantage: by detecting fires earlier,
[00:10:01] they allow firefighters
[00:10:14] fires are primarily detected by the human
[00:10:17] eye, an essential surveillance task,
[00:10:21] because when it comes to forest fires, every minute
[00:10:24] counts. In the Mugla region, the dominant tree is the red
[00:10:27] pine, a species very vulnerable to fires. We are therefore in an area where the
[00:10:31] risk of fire is high.
[00:10:34] Turkey is now relying on its drone fleet, one of the most developed
[00:10:38] in the world, to strengthen the control of its forests. It
[00:10:42] allows fires to be detected at their first sign and
[00:10:45] for intervention to be quicker.
[00:10:48] Mustafa Ilkudur has his eyes glued to the screens.
[00:10:51] In the center of the Moula Forest Directorate, he surveys...
[00:11:25] technology now makes it possible to save precious time, but
[00:11:29] on the ground, firefighters remain on the front line against the
[00:11:32] flames.
[00:11:35] Honestly, it's difficult, it's a demanding job, we remain ready to intervene
[00:11:39] at any time, as soon as an alert is given, we leave immediately with
[00:11:42] the teams. Six teams have been mobilized and are working tirelessly.
[00:11:45] The day after this fire, Ilkudur
[00:11:48] takes to the skies to assess the damage. With increasingly
[00:11:52] hot summers, protecting these forests can
[00:11:55] sometimes seem like a never-ending task, but this time
[00:11:58] again, the threat has been
[00:12:00] contained.
[00:12:02] And fires, precisely, France has been
[00:12:06] summer, also a consequence of drought and a
[00:12:09] heatwave, and historic heatwaves, I apologize. And a
[00:12:13] new heatwave episode is also expected in mainland France next
[00:12:16] week, and this is also the case for the rest of Europe, which is not
[00:12:20] spared from the high temperatures in Austria, Croatia, or
[00:12:23] even Slovakia. Temperature records are thus
[00:12:26] being recorded, up to more than 41°C in some places in
[00:12:35] repeated heatwaves, the waters of the
[00:12:38] Danube are at an historically low level. But
[00:12:42] the river remains, however, an island of freshness
[00:12:45] for these Slovaks overwhelmed by the crushing heat in
[00:12:48] Bratislava.
[00:13:03] What's changing is that during the day I spend more time at home,
[00:13:07] I try not to go out, I can't go playing sports during the day,
[00:13:11] it's very restrictive.
[00:13:13] Slovakia and neighboring Austria recorded this
[00:13:16] week absolute temperature records,
[00:13:19] more than 41°C in some
[00:13:21] places, after a particularly hot and dry
[00:13:25] July. Residents and traders fear a scorching
[00:13:29] August, especially since drought is
[00:13:31] widespread and the concrete shopping streets are
[00:13:34] shunned by tourists and rare
[00:13:36] passers-by.
[00:13:39] We had an appointment at the doctor's, that's why we're outside, otherwise
[00:13:43] with this weather I would have stayed home with my
[00:13:45] child.
[00:13:48] In Croatia, they chose to take shelter in the heart
[00:13:52] of nature in the Split region, where the thermometer shows
[00:13:55] more than 35°C. These
[00:13:58] tourists go on horse rides in the open
[00:14:01] sea. We escaped the surrounding walls in Split,
[00:14:04] it's over 40°C with concrete underfoot. We are enjoying this
[00:14:08] moment in nature. Some forests, like this natural
[00:14:12] reserve in Serbia, are currently suffering from devastating
[00:14:16] fires, after several days of heatwave
[00:14:19] and drought.
[00:14:23] End of this edition, thank you for watching and stay with us on France 24.
[00:14:41] They live isolated in the mountains of northern Vietnam, on the
[00:14:45] border with China and Laos. The
[00:14:48] Hmong, a people of 10 million people, farmers,
[00:14:52] formerly nomads, who have kept their language and...
[00:15:27] has been working here since she was a child, and at only 27
[00:15:30] years old, she no longer recognizes her land.
[00:15:34] water, but now there
[00:15:37] is none. To cultivate rice, you have to wait for it
[00:15:41] to rain, and only then can we
[00:15:44] start
[00:15:46] planting. Like many families in her village, she has therefore chosen to abandon the ancestral
[00:15:49] cultivation of rice, which requires continuous flooding.
[00:15:52] continue.
[00:15:55] Now, I only grow taro because it grows
[00:15:59] better and adapts better to climate
[00:16:01] change.
[00:16:06] Taro is gradually establishing itself as a substitute crop, a little better adapted to
[00:16:10] the lack of water. In this village, it is the second consecutive year that it is
[00:16:14] being cultivated.
[00:16:18] Far from being delighted, Pony's mother, 63, is
[00:16:22] concerned about the future.
[00:16:26] Climate change worries me, because if we run out of water, I'm afraid my
[00:16:30] children and grandchildren will starve, because we depend
[00:16:33] agriculture. Without water, we can no longer live here.
[00:16:40] Pony has three children and lives in this traditional house at about 100
[00:16:44] meters altitude. Like her mother, she is worried about what
[00:16:48] the future holds for her.
[00:16:51] If the climate changes and there is no more water to cultivate, then I
[00:16:55] will do as others and I will have to go down to the city to work as
[00:16:58] a factory worker. In this region, residents are observing increasingly
[00:17:02] unpredictable seasons, less harsh winters, droughts, and
[00:17:05] more violent seasons. 2025 was the warmest
[00:17:09] year in 60 years. To avoid a massive
[00:17:13] rural exodus, an NGO helps Hmong families adapt to
[00:17:17] climate change and better manage water.
[00:17:20] Have you already looked at this notebook? You will have to write down how many
[00:17:24] kilos you have harvested, how many bags, you have to write
[00:17:27] everything down.
[00:17:30] But the difficulty is not only agronomic. In these remote
[00:17:34] and very conservative villages, change often arouses
[00:17:37] mistrust.
[00:17:40] Because the Hmong hardly speak Vietnamese, we are obliged to visually
[00:17:43] translate all the advice and directives that we offer them. This is mandatory because
[00:17:47] otherwise they do not understand. The information must not be too
[00:17:50] technical if we want them to succeed in implementing
[00:17:53] projects.
[00:17:58] According to a local study, nearly 40% of farmers in this northern
[00:18:02] Vietnamese province have already changed their crops. The NGO
[00:18:05] Care encourages this adaptation,
[00:18:07] based on scientific data analyzed from their office in
[00:18:11] Hanoi.
[00:18:13] Among the climatic factors we monitor, first there is
[00:18:17] the number of hours of sunshine, then the average air temperature.
[00:18:21] There is also the amount of water that evaporates that we can observe
[00:18:24] on the ground, as well as
[00:18:26] the air.
[00:18:32] What crops will still be able to survive in the coming
[00:18:34] years?
[00:18:37] To propose an alternative crop, we study whether it matches the soil, the
[00:18:40] climate and if there is a sales circuit. With our
[00:18:44] analyses, we see that taro, peanuts
[00:18:47] and squash are the most suitable crops.
[00:18:51] These are plants that can live at this altitude, require little
[00:18:54] water and do well with significant temperature
[00:18:58] variations.
[00:19:01] 840 families have joined this crop change project, launched in
[00:19:04] 2023.
[00:19:07] The objective is also to lift the Hmong out of poverty, and the first
[00:19:11] results are already being
[00:19:12] felt.
[00:19:15] With this squash harvest, we should earn around €1200.
[00:19:18] Before, on the same land, we barely earned €500 with rice.
[00:19:22] riz.
[00:19:27] In the mountainous north of Vietnam, the Hmong are already experiencing the effects of a
[00:19:30] climate that could warm by 3.4°C in the country by the end of the
[00:19:34] century.
[00:20:32] I also give everything right now, your program with Crédit Mutuel. To all those who play sports,
[00:20:35] Crédit Mutuel gives the impetus.
[00:30:07] You are on France 24, welcome to Paris direct, here are
[00:30:10] the news headlines for this Saturday: new strike in
[00:30:14] Ukraine, once again Kyiv, the capital was targeted by Russian
[00:30:17] ballistic missiles, three dead. On the diplomatic
[00:30:20] front, Volodymyr Zelensky went to Serbia to try
[00:30:26] camp. Icy relations between Spain
[00:30:29] and Italy after the Ceuta migration
[00:30:32] crisis, Rome decided to re-establish
[00:30:36] border controls between the two countries in retaliation, Madrid decided to
[00:30:40] do the same starting tonight, the Sanchez government denounces an
[00:30:43] infringement of the principle of free movement in the Schengen
[00:30:46] area.
[00:30:49] A national disgrace, Donald Trump is furious after the court decision
[00:30:52] that halted the construction of the White House ballroom. According to the Court of Appeals,
[00:30:56] it is Congress that...