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[00:00:06] You are still watching France 24,
[00:00:09] the protection of thank you for being with us, it is 6 PM in Paris, time to
[00:00:11] take another tour of world news, at the top, the
[00:00:15] toll is rising in Ukraine, four dead in the
[00:00:18] massive bombings overnight on Kyiv and its region, Volodymyr
[00:00:22] Zelensky denounced the use of ballistic missiles
[00:00:25] against civilian infrastructure. Moscow
[00:00:28] for its part claims the attacks. which it claims targeted a fuel depot and
[00:00:32] an arms factory, attacks that come, as you can see, as the
[00:00:36] Ukrainian president makes his first visit to
[00:00:39] Serbia, a traditional ally of
[00:00:41] Russia,
[00:00:43] tensions are high between Madrid and Rome, Spain
[00:00:47] announces the implementation of border controls for travelers from
[00:00:51] Italy, a retaliatory measure
[00:00:54] identical to the one Rome had instituted following the Ceuta
[00:00:58] crisis.
[00:01:01] and then is it the beginning of the witch hunt in India a few
[00:01:05] against the nomination of Donald days after the agreement between protesters and the government to
[00:01:08] end the mobilization which cost the Indian Education Minister his job, dozens
[00:01:12] of protesters
[00:01:15] are the target of threats and prosecution,
[00:01:18] their testimony to follow at the end of this
[00:01:20] newscast.
[00:01:34] But we start with this worsening toll in
[00:01:37] Ukraine, four dead in new massive bombings on the
[00:01:41] capital, Kyiv and its region, a toll given this afternoon by President
[00:01:45] Volodymyr Zelensky who denounced the use of
[00:01:49] and the meaning of ballistic missiles against civilian infrastructure. For its part, the
[00:01:52] Kremlin claims its attack, but says it targeted a fuel
[00:01:56] Morocco, but hundreds of unaccompanied depot and an arms factory. The explanations
[00:01:59] with. Emmanuel Chase, correspondent for France 24 in
[00:02:02] Ukraine. This is not the first time this week that Kyiv and its
[00:02:06] region have been targeted by Russian attacks. So there
[00:02:09] were more than 151 drones and most of them were intercepted
[00:02:13] by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense, however, of the six
[00:02:17] missiles that were launched, none could be intercepted, that is the
[00:02:20] reality for Ukrainian air defense right now, there are
[00:02:24] not enough interception means for these ballistic
[00:02:27] missiles, for hypersonic missiles. Russia used
[00:02:31] them, once again, there were civilian casualties, you
[00:02:34] mentioned these four people, one body was
[00:02:37] discovered in Kyiv, and the other three are part of the same family, it is
[00:02:41] a couple of grandparents, and their 3-year-old grandson, while
[00:02:45] the parents and their teenage children were injured, they were
[00:02:49] hospitalized, so it is a daily
[00:02:52] reality for
[00:02:55] entered the territory of Ukrainians to find themselves under such strikes, we talked a lot about these strikes that
[00:02:58] affect the capital. uh and the region, civilian
[00:03:02] Alliance 3 and senior member of infrastructure has been heavily
[00:03:05] affected, whether it's the warehouses of some supermarkets uh
[00:03:09] of which today uh in Kyiv, well there are certain
[00:03:12] shelves that remain empty because the logistics centers have
[00:03:15] been impacted and whether it's also
[00:03:20] everywhere in the world and at all hours of other cities last night uh
[00:03:21] Convention on the Rights of the other regions last night, the Dnipro region was hit more than 10
[00:03:24] times again on civilian infrastructure
[00:03:28] as for Ukrnafta. which produces Ukrainian
[00:03:31] oil, and well the state
[00:03:34] company deplores more than seven
[00:03:36] the best interests of strikes on its infrastructure in the east of the country, while Volodymyr
[00:03:40] Zelensky recalled
[00:03:42] words, when you have unaccompanied today that Russia is also attacking
[00:03:45] infrastructure that affects Ukrainian energy, according
[00:03:48] to him, all the country's thermal power plants have been either
[00:03:52] damaged or destroyed in strikes and during that time, as you
[00:03:55] mentioned, Emmanuel, Volodymyr Zelensky is in
[00:03:58] Serbia, traditionally allied with Russia, with
[00:04:02] security issues on the agenda notably
[00:04:04] absolutely
[00:04:08] security and not only that, it is a
[00:04:11] tour of world very busy and symbolic visit since it is the
[00:04:14] first visit of the Ukrainian
[00:04:17] four dead in the massive bombing president since he took office and even more so since the large-scale invasion of
[00:04:20] Ukraine by Russia first visit to Belgrade
[00:04:24] while Alexander Vučić the Serbian president had already
[00:04:28] autonomous provinces of visited Ukraine twice in 2025 and more
[00:04:31] recently in July with other Southern European countries,
[00:04:34] however, it is true that on
[00:04:37] Serbia, a traditional ally of defense issues, security issues, in general, Belgrade, has somewhat
[00:04:41] new album Boulevard de refused to comment finally because we know that traditionally
[00:04:44] Serbia is closer to Russia, however on the humanitarian
[00:04:47] aspect, notably, we must not forget that Belgrade has
[00:04:51] given since 2022, unlocked more than
[00:04:54] 60 million euros to Ukraine, which is not insignificant for a country with
[00:04:58] a population of approximately 6.2 million
[00:05:01] inhabitants and then we learned in the late morning,
[00:05:05] a drone that entered Bulgaria this Saturday morning exploded
[00:05:09] near the border with Romania and especially approximately
[00:05:12] a gas pipeline that connects Turkey to Ukraine, you will see it
[00:05:16] on this map, a gas pipeline that passes through the
[00:05:20] Balkans, the device was carrying a significant quantity
[00:05:23] of explosives, according to the first elements of the investigation communicated by the
[00:05:27] Bulgarian authorities, the drone is a type of aircraft
[00:05:31] widely used by the Ukrainian armed forces, but
[00:05:34] nothing suggests that it is a deliberate
[00:05:38] incident for the moment, no victims are in any
[00:05:41] case...
[00:05:45] In the rest of the news in Europe, the diplomatic
[00:05:49] standoff is intensifying between Madrid and Rome,
[00:05:52] Spain announces the establishment of temporary
[00:05:55] border controls at its ports and airports for
[00:05:58] travelers coming from Italy, a retaliatory
[00:06:01] measure similar to the one Rome had imposed on Spain
[00:06:05] following the massive influx of migrants into the enclave of
[00:06:08] Ceuta. The weather is stormy between the two European
[00:06:11] allies. Alice Broga.
[00:06:15] New confrontation between Madrid and Rome on the migration
[00:06:18] issue. Travelers from Italy will be controlled upon
[00:06:22] their arrival in Spain at ports and airports, from
[00:06:26] Saturday midnight until September 7. Madrid thus
[00:06:29] states its desire to address the persistent irregular migratory
[00:06:32] pressure experienced by Italy, a way of
[00:06:35] returning the ball to Rome which used the same argument to
[00:06:39] implement border controls for travelers coming from Spain.
[00:06:43] On July 31st, the far-right Italian Prime Minister
[00:06:46] Giorgia Meloni announced the suspension until August
[00:06:50] 15th of the Schengen agreement on free movement with this
[00:06:53] country. A measure taken after 72,000 migrants
[00:06:57] crossed the border between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in
[00:07:00] North Africa last week. According to the Spanish
[00:07:03] government, 7,000 migrants have now returned to
[00:07:09] children have remained in Ceuta. Some
[00:07:13] are being registered with the Spanish police, Morocco
[00:07:16] says it is ready to cooperate with Spain for their
[00:07:19] repatriation. The figure I can provide you with at this
[00:07:23] stage is that 1342 boys and
[00:07:26] girls have been registered and integrated into the reception
[00:07:29] system. The process continues, of course, the
[00:07:32] situation has been complex due to the volume of arrivals and a certain
[00:07:36] overcrowding, but things are gradually returning to
[00:07:39] normal. According to the Minister of Youth, some
[00:07:43] minors will be transferred to less saturated reception centers on the
[00:07:46] Spanish peninsula in the coming weeks, beyond the
[00:07:50] diplomatic crisis, it is the humanitarian crisis that continues,
[00:07:53] 72,000 initially, they are now nearly
[00:07:57] 2,000 according to the authorities to still be in the enclave of Ceuta
[00:08:01] and almost half, as we mentioned in this report, are
[00:08:04] unaccompanied minors, to discuss this situation, we
[00:08:07] welcome Marie-Laure Basilien Guinge, you are a law professor
[00:08:11] at the University. Jean Moulin,
[00:08:14] the University Institute of France, thank you for accepting
[00:08:18] our invitation. The immense majority of migrants who arrived
[00:08:21] in Ceuta, as we saw, have left. Why can't
[00:08:24] these minors be sent back
[00:08:28] directly?
[00:08:31] So, according to the International
[00:08:34] Child, which is also
[00:08:37] an instrument of international law that is targeted by
[00:08:40] the Charter of Fundamental Rights. European Union which is
[00:08:44] upheld by Spanish law, uh
[00:08:49] the child must be given paramount consideration. In other
[00:08:52] primordiale. autrement dit,
[00:08:55] minors, in other words, migrant minors, the situation
[00:08:59] of minors takes precedence over the situation of migrants, including in an
[00:09:02] irregular situation. Therefore, the authorities must
[00:09:06] provide protection, child protection for
[00:09:10] these minors who are...
[00:09:12] foreign and isolated and of course that poses big
[00:09:16] questions for the autonomous government of Ceuta
[00:09:19] because the reception capacity is about a hundred, but there are a
[00:09:23] thousand unaccompanied minors who are in the enclave
[00:09:26] today, so the government wants to mobilize
[00:09:30] a provision that was introduced into its law in 2024 and which
[00:09:34] allows minors to be distributed by sending them to
[00:09:38] other
[00:09:41] Spain. The problem is that the governments of certain
[00:09:44] provinces led by Vox and by the Popular
[00:09:48] Party have opposed the reception of these minors,
[00:09:51] so today there is a difficulty for the enclave of Ceuta to
[00:09:55] manage this thousand minors who must be
[00:09:58] considered by the authorities to determine the fact that they are
[00:10:02] foreign, that they are isolated and that they are indeed
[00:10:05] minors. About 1100 minors for about 2000 migrants
[00:10:09] still on site, that means... that they are without family,
[00:10:12] how can we imagine that they arrived there and can we think
[00:10:16] that they were sometimes sent against their
[00:10:19] will knowing that it is then difficult to expel
[00:10:23] them?
[00:10:27] uh I find it hard to imagine that there are
[00:10:31] desires for trafficking
[00:10:34] in the sending of minors to Ceuta since we know
[00:10:38] very well that there is a restriction of
[00:10:41] movement between the enclave and the Iberian Peninsula,
[00:10:44] so in terms of trafficking it seems completely
[00:10:48] illusory, perhaps families envisioned that
[00:10:52] the future would be better for their children. in
[00:10:55] Europe with a passage through Ceuta, but that also
[00:10:59] seems highly debatable, we can
[00:11:01] rather imagine that these are individual initiatives
[00:11:05] which, mobilized by rumors spread on social networks that
[00:11:09] were totally unfounded rumors, have led to
[00:11:13] gatherings and passages of a certain number
[00:11:17] of unaccompanied minors. You mentioned earlier on
[00:11:20] site the lack of resources, a cruel lack for care, we are
[00:11:24] talking about... 90 places, a hundred places to accommodate
[00:11:27] these minors in Ceuta facing a population of nearly
[00:11:31] 1100 minors to be taken care of, Spain has also
[00:11:34] called for help, how can these minors be taken
[00:11:38] care of given the much larger population than the available
[00:11:41] places,
[00:11:44] well as you said very well, there are about a hundred places, there are more
[00:11:47] than a thousand minors, so we are in a
[00:11:51] crisis and emergency situation and therefore there are
[00:11:54] no... the material means to accommodate
[00:11:58] them properly, there are not enough associations
[00:12:01] to ensure follow-up, there are
[00:12:04] no human means
[00:12:07] to carry out identifications,
[00:12:11] age determination
[00:12:14] the isolation situation, so there is a triple
[00:12:18] challenge for the Spanish authorities and that is why
[00:12:22] they are asking, they are requesting the intervention
[00:12:25] of the other autonomous communities so that
[00:12:29] they accept to welcome a certain number
[00:12:32] of unaccompanied minors, we had during the period
[00:12:35] 2024/2026 about 720
[00:12:39] minors who had been
[00:12:41] uh repatriated from the Canary Islands
[00:12:45] to other Spanish autonomous communities between during the
[00:12:49] same period between 2024 and 2026 400
[00:12:52] minors from Ceuta to other
[00:12:55] Spanish communities, but we clearly see that here, the
[00:12:58] situation is of a different scale with 1100 minors who need
[00:13:02] to be taken care of, and once these minors are taken care of in
[00:13:05] other Spanish communities, would they enter the Schengen area and thus
[00:13:09] benefit from the freedom of movement in the Schengen
[00:13:11] area,
[00:13:14] so for a minor you have once
[00:13:20] the Iberian peninsula and if
[00:13:23] he benefits from the papers allowing him free movement in
[00:13:27] the area, then free movement is possible, but he must
[00:13:30] have a regularization of stay and that obviously
[00:13:34] takes a long time and is very difficult. We will also
[00:13:38] come back to this humanitarian situation in
[00:13:41] Ceuta, the alerts are multiplying about the
[00:13:44] situation of these minors who risk, according to several
[00:13:48] NGOs present on site, of being victims of abuse
[00:13:51] and exploitation, so there is an urgent need to take
[00:13:54] them in charge and to protect them?
[00:13:58] You are absolutely right, because there are about 1000
[00:14:02] minors who do not benefit from comprehensive care
[00:14:05] by the Spanish authorities due to the under-dimensioning
[00:14:08] of the capacities of the enclave of Ceuta, you have thousands
[00:14:11] of minors who are actually in the streets, and we know very
[00:14:15] well that minors who are in the streets, in a situation
[00:14:19] of isolation, in a situation of alterity
[00:14:22] and who... are
[00:14:25] actually available to trafficking networks or
[00:14:28] exploitation can be totally dependent and subject
[00:14:32] to the influence of these networks and this greatly worries the
[00:14:35] associations for the protection of children's rights in particular. There was
[00:14:39] this meeting at the beginning of the week between the
[00:14:42] interior ministers of the 27. We know the tensions that
[00:14:46] animate these relations particularly between Spanish and Italian? Can we imagine
[00:14:50] that European legislation, particularly that which protects these
[00:14:53] unaccompanied minors, could be
[00:14:55] modified under the impetus of supporters of a hard line on
[00:14:59] immigration?
[00:15:02] so you know, I can hardly imagine, after the adoption in
[00:15:06] 2024 of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum,
[00:15:10] these 10 instruments which are over 1500 pages
[00:15:13] supplemented by the reform of the Schengen border code in May
[00:15:16] 2024 also and the implementation of the Pact
[00:15:20] since June 12 2026 that a new
[00:15:23] reform would be considered? the mechanism, the
[00:15:26] system that needs to be implemented due to
[00:15:30] the Pact is of a complexity and requires
[00:15:33] a high intensity involvement of member states, I do not see how
[00:15:37] such a reform would be feasible which would add complexity
[00:15:40] to an already existing super
[00:15:43] complexity. As for
[00:15:46] the best interests of the child, we see that whether it is
[00:15:50] foreign minors or national minors, there are national
[00:15:54] systems that are under-dimensioned to ensure the necessary child
[00:15:58] protection against trafficking, against exploitation or against
[00:16:01] child sexual abuse, so there is rather an
[00:16:04] under-dimensioning that would need to be addressed by the. at the European
[00:16:08] level and at the national level. Thank you very much
[00:16:10] Marie-Laure Basilien Guinge, Professor of Law at
[00:16:14] Jean-Moulin University in Lyon 3 for having
[00:16:17] discussed with us on France 24, the situation of minors, therefore
[00:16:21] still present in large numbers in the enclave of Ceuta.
[00:16:24] Next, the United States. Donald Trump has
[00:16:28] his man at the head of American justice. Todd Blanche, his
[00:16:31] former personal lawyer, was appointed by a very narrow
[00:16:35] 50 votes against 49,
[00:16:39] two Republican senators voted
[00:16:43] Trump's confidant, who notably contributed to making the Justice
[00:16:46] Department an extension of the White
[00:16:49] House, "I act under the direction of the American president,"
[00:16:52] declared the man who was Pam Bondi's deputy in recent
[00:16:56] years, the former Justice Minister fired
[00:16:59] after her handling of the Epstein affair, since then,
[00:17:03] Tod Blanche has been serving as interim. and he notably initiated
[00:17:06] numerous prosecutions against Donald Trump's presumed enemies,
[00:17:10] causing massive departures of career
[00:17:14] prosecutors.
[00:17:17] The American justice system,
[00:17:19] not yet entirely in Donald Trump's hands, the District
[00:17:23] of Columbia Appeals Court confirms the suspension
[00:17:26] of the White House ballroom project, work had been
[00:17:29] stopped by a judge already in April, for lack of a green
[00:17:33] light from Congress, a national disgrace. According to Donald
[00:17:37] Trump.
[00:17:38] Trump.
[00:17:42] Will the White House ballroom ever be built?
[00:17:46] This project, dear to Donald Trump, whose construction began at the end of
[00:17:49] 2025, has just been blocked again by American
[00:17:52] justice. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has
[00:17:56] confirmed a decision from last April. The work must
[00:17:59] stop because it was started without the green light from Congress,
[00:18:02] which is essential for such a project at the White House. A new
[00:18:06] setback for Donald Trump. who fiercely defends this
[00:18:09] construction site, this decision taken when a large part
[00:18:12] of the work has already been completed and paid for, constitutes a
[00:18:16] threat to national security of maximum
[00:18:19] severity, it is also a national
[00:18:21] disgrace, we will immediately appeal this
[00:18:25] decision before the Supreme Court of the United States. This
[00:18:28] ballroom of more than 8300 square meters with a capacity of
[00:18:32] 100 people is financed by private funds according to the American
[00:18:35] president, but the budget is...
[00:19:08] 70% of his time, the president is a very busy person, he
[00:19:11] has many things he needs to pay attention to, including the war in
[00:19:15] Iran. This project does not have unanimous
[00:19:18] support within the Republican party either, Donald Trump's
[00:19:22] government now has 14 days to appeal to the American
[00:19:25] Supreme Court.
[00:19:28] Washington seals its support for the new Colombian president,
[00:19:32] 1 billion dollars in aid has just been promised to
[00:19:35] Bogota following the inauguration of the new far-right president
[00:19:39] Abelardo de la Espriella, an ally of Donald
[00:19:42] Trump, enough to warm up the glacial diplomatic
[00:19:45] relations in recent years between the two countries,
[00:19:49] Axel Simon.
[00:19:52] The Colombian president is barely invested, and Washington is
[00:19:55] already concretizing its support for the new administration in Bogota.
[00:19:59] Friday evening, the US State Department announced a billion
[00:20:03] dollar aid package to support Colombian security policies and economy.
[00:20:07] subject to Congressional validation. In a statement, the
[00:20:11] State Department expressed its joy at being able to soon work in close
[00:20:14] cooperation with the new presidency to guarantee the
[00:20:18] security and prosperity of the United States, Colombia and
[00:20:21] our hemisphere. After the deep tensions between Washington and Bogota
[00:20:25] during Gustavo Petro's presidency, Colombia is becoming
[00:20:29] a new regional ally for the United States, which intends to join
[00:20:32] the alliance of countries led by Donald Trump to fight against
[00:20:36] drug trafficking.
[00:20:40] One of the first acts of my government will be to sign the Shield of the
[00:20:43] Americas
[00:20:49] which will allow us to pool our actions and capabilities to face the threats to national and
[00:20:51] regional security,
[00:20:54] the new far-right president has promised a strong approach to
[00:20:57] guerrillas financed by cocaine trafficking, of which Colombia
[00:21:01] is the world's leading producer. Abelardo de la
[00:21:04] Espriella intends to bury the disarmament negotiations of the
[00:21:07] guerrillas initiated by his predecessor and to engage in
[00:21:11] bombings against the camps of armed groups. He has promised to fight
[00:21:14] relentlessly against what he calls narco-terrorism with the
[00:21:18] support of the Trump administration. also engaged in its anti-drug
[00:21:21] war. Is the witch hunt
[00:21:25] launched in India a few days after the large
[00:21:29] demonstrations led by Gen Z youth who notably
[00:21:32] obtained the resignation of the Indian Education Minister, dozens
[00:21:36] of female protesters are targeted by threats on social
[00:21:39] media. Personal information disclosure, identity
[00:21:42] revealing, authorities are also multiplying
[00:21:46] prosecutions. The report by Navodita Kumari, Joan Nutin.
[00:21:55] years old, the mobilization of Indian GenZ represented a
[00:21:59] moment of hope, but on the eve of the end of the
[00:22:02] mobilization, he claims to have been stopped by Delhi
[00:22:06] police officers,
[00:22:08] they were in plain clothes and their faces were covered, the car had
[00:22:12] no license plate, they blindfolded us and told us: "If
[00:22:16] you try to remove the blindfold, you can't even imagine what could happen..." to
[00:22:20] you, they also warned us, if you meet the
[00:22:23] CGP or if you make the slightest noise, we will prosecute you under the strictest
[00:22:27] national security and counter-terrorism laws.
[00:22:31] After a night of intimidation, he was abandoned 250
[00:22:34] km from Delhi, an experience that still haunts
[00:22:37] him today. On July 20th, the large
[00:22:40] demonstration organized in the capital was violently
[00:22:44] suppressed by the police, but according to the organizers, the
[00:22:47] repression of the movement has not stopped since.
[00:23:03] filmed several humorous videos at the demonstration site, videos that quickly reached over a million
[00:23:06] views, the beginning of a wave of online
[00:23:10] hatred, some people talk to me quite
[00:23:13] normally, but others have gone much too far, they used such
[00:23:16] obscene, such vulgar words. that I can't
[00:23:20] even repeat them in front of a camera, or even tell them to my
[00:23:23] friends, they also insulted my mother, then I started receiving
[00:23:27] rape threats and death threats.
[00:23:30] Two weeks after the end of the movement, the messages of insults and
[00:23:34] threats continue to pour in, but the young woman refuses to give in to
[00:23:38] intimidation.
[00:23:41] if they manage to break me, they will feel authorized to attack
[00:23:44] other women and stifle their determination, they
[00:23:48] too, I will not let them.
[00:24:02] For human rights defenders, this harassment campaign is a coordinated strategy, its objective is to scare protesters into dissuading them from returning to the
[00:24:05] streets.
[00:24:10] We must not forget that doxing can have very real consequences,
[00:24:14] it can lead to threats of physical violence, or even actual
[00:24:17] violence. I also think that placing... protestors in
[00:24:20] detention without any charges being brought against them, before
[00:24:24] releasing them afterwards, was a harassment strategy
[00:24:28] designed to weaken the
[00:24:29] movement.
[00:24:32] If the protestors won their fight, many still face
[00:24:36] legal action. The female protestors denounce
[00:24:39] a smear campaign led
[00:30:09] thank you for being with us, it is 7pm in Paris, the opportunity to take another
[00:30:13] news, on the front page, the death toll is rising in Ukraine,
[00:30:19] of the night on Kyiv and its region, Volodymyr
[00:30:22] Zelensky denounced the use of ballistic missiles against
[00:30:25] civilian infrastructure, Moscow claims responsibility for the attacks but
[00:30:29] says it targeted a fuel depot and a weapons factory. these
[00:30:32] attacks occur, as you can see, while the Ukrainian president is making
[00:30:36] his first visit to Russia.
[00:30:39] Russie.
[00:30:42] Tensions are high between Madrid and Rome, Spain announces it will implement
[00:30:46] controls at its borders for travelers from
[00:30:50] Italy, a retaliatory measure identical to the one that Rome
[00:30:53] had established following the Ceuta crisis, we
[00:30:56] will decipher this diplomatic crisis with...