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[00:00:00] News on France
[00:00:02] the European Parliament in Brussels and 24.
[00:00:05] It's 8:30 PM here in Paris, good evening everyone
[00:00:08] resigned to the increase in petrol and welcome if you're joining us for the rest of "At the Heart of the News". Here are the main
[00:00:11] headlines this Sunday: a catastrophe, the words of the
[00:00:14] German Chancellor to describe the results of his party in the state
[00:00:18] of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The far-right party
[00:00:21] AfD is in the lead,
[00:00:23] left, the AfD on the far credited with 37 to 38% of the votes, 20 points more than in
[00:00:26] 2021. The SPD would be around 36%. The
[00:00:31] several people including an employee of CDU, it plummets to barely above 5% at this
[00:00:35] stage. Another setback in Berlin is the
[00:00:38] radical left party Die Linke winning. Success
[00:00:41] also for the AfD in Berlin, which will reach between 13 and 16% of the
[00:00:47] talk about votes, compared to 9% in 2023. Chancellor Merz spoke immediately
[00:00:50] after these results. He said he takes his responsibilities and promised
[00:00:54] to continue his reforms, details in a moment
[00:00:57] from Caroline Duble in
[00:00:59] of belonging to the Islamic Berlin.
[00:01:01] Third and final day of legislative elections in Russia marked this Sunday by massive
[00:01:05] cyber attacks and
[00:01:08] French members of a shower of Ukrainian drones. At least two people were
[00:01:10] killed and about twenty injured according to Russian
[00:01:14] authorities. According to preliminary results that were
[00:01:17] released a short while ago, the United Russia party surprisingly
[00:01:21] comes out on top with approximately
[00:01:23] the global increase in energy
[00:01:24] 58% of the votes, but this election is nevertheless a farce in the absence of any
[00:01:28] credible opposition.
[00:01:30] And then in Iraq, the trial of six French nationals accused
[00:01:33] of belonging to the Islamic State organization opened
[00:01:36] today. The defendants face the death penalty. They are among the
[00:01:41] the far-right reveled in it and 47 French members of the Islamic State organization transferred from prisons in
[00:01:45] northeastern Syria last year. We will join
[00:01:48] Marie-Charlotte Roupi in Baghdad to
[00:01:51] discuss this.
[00:02:04] two weeks after the AfD's triumph in Saxony-Anhalt, the
[00:02:08] results of this Sunday's regional elections in Berlin and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
[00:02:11] confirm the very strong breakthrough of the
[00:02:15] far-right. It is in the lead in Mecklenburg, credited with
[00:02:19] 37 to 38% of the votes, 20 points more than in
[00:02:22] 2021. The SPD would be around 36% in this
[00:02:26] state, the CDU is plummeting, it reaches...
[00:02:30] 5%. Another setback for the CDU this time in
[00:02:34] Berlin, where the radical left party Die Linke wins. Success
[00:02:38] also for the AfD in Berlin which would reach between 13 and 16%
[00:02:41] of the votes compared to 9% in 2023. Chancellor
[00:02:45] Merz spoke earlier, he spoke of
[00:02:49] catastrophe.
[00:02:53] dating from the period of We cannot sugarcoat the result in
[00:02:55] largest train maintenance workshop of Mecklenburg, it's a
[00:02:57] disaster.
[00:03:00] The CDU fought, but it ended up being crushed in
[00:03:04] the growing confrontation between the SPD and
[00:03:06] the AfD.
[00:03:10] In our capital here in
[00:03:13] very much Antoine for this analysis from "Au cœur de Berlin, our candidate Stephan Ewers took up the torch as head of the list in a
[00:03:17] very difficult situation.
[00:03:21] He threw himself body and soul into the election campaign, with total
[00:03:24] dedication, unwavering commitment, he
[00:03:28] led the CDU.
[00:03:33] And we're talking about these results in Germany again with Antoine Mariotti, good evening Antoine,
[00:03:36] good evening, uh, well,
[00:03:39] requires honesty, already what we can say is that the AfD definitely
[00:03:40] commitment, has the wind in its sails, not only in Berlin
[00:03:41] demanding standards, and but especially uh in
[00:03:44] this state of the former GDR like Saxony, Mecklenburg,
[00:03:47] West Pomerania with this very strong
[00:03:50] breakthrough, 37 to 38 %. It's beyond what the
[00:03:54] polls predicted, yes, it's absolutely colossal as a result, it shows that this
[00:03:58] victory in Saxony two weeks ago was not an exception, there's a
[00:04:01] deep-seated movement finally in Germany which is pushing this
[00:04:05] far-right and populist parties uh towards
[00:04:08] summits sometimes, so it's the radical left in Berlin, but here we're
[00:04:12] talking about a far-right, an extremely uninhibited far-right which has used
[00:04:16] absolutely
[00:04:18] uh members of unacceptable words that we cannot elaborate on here
[00:04:21] but but it's obviously a colossal
[00:04:24] success because two weeks ago it was already a surprise that had shaken up the
[00:04:28] political landscape in Germany. But far beyond, we haven't stopped talking about it in
[00:04:32] France, in Belgium, everywhere, because obviously these
[00:04:35] populist movements and especially the far right, well, they are pushing everywhere,
[00:04:39] they are pushing here in France with the National Rally which is stronger and
[00:04:42] more solid than ever and which is almost at the gates of the Elysée, they are pushing in the
[00:04:46] United Kingdom where Nigel Farage, well, similarly is soaring in
[00:04:49] the polls, whereas a few years ago he was considered finally
[00:04:53] as a pawn almost of the British
[00:04:56] political scene and it's a bit the same everywhere. Or
[00:05:00] almost the perfect counter-example is Hungary, which got rid of Viktor
[00:05:04] Orbán after years of
[00:05:07] populism, sometimes liberty-killing,
[00:05:09] which is rather seen as good news from... the European Commission,
[00:05:15] most countries, for example on support for Ukraine,
[00:05:18] it was Hungary that blocked the most.
[00:05:21] So the AfD, well, finally Germany is not an
[00:05:25] island despite its past, because it's even scarier when you see the far
[00:05:29] right in Germany, obviously, and
[00:05:33] well, it's not an island and the populist parties there too
[00:05:36] are pushing and we see that the AfD, which is a fairly recent party, very
[00:05:40] uninhibited, we're not at all in the dedicated mobilization version of Marine Le Pen and
[00:05:44] the National Rally, well, it works, it has the wind in its sails
[00:05:48] and even when in Berlin, they are not at all
[00:05:51] winners, well, they almost double their
[00:05:54] score compared to 2023, it's obviously
[00:05:58] extremely important as a figure. So Chancellor Friedrich
[00:06:02] Merz spoke immediately after the announcement of these
[00:06:06] partial results. He
[00:06:09] spoke of disaster, of catastrophe, however no... resignation
[00:06:12] announced. Some expected it since he said he was taking
[00:06:16] his responsibilities, which for some was the logical conclusion, but no, he
[00:06:19] stays the course and simply promises to continue, he says,
[00:06:23] his reforms. It's true that when we heard him say "I take my
[00:06:26] responsibilities, this failure, well, it's also mine," generally,
[00:06:29] the end of the sentence, as you said, is "I draw all the
[00:06:33] consequences and I resign," which a part of the
[00:06:36] opposition would like, an important part that some would also like
[00:06:40] within his own party, the CDU, which has been making things difficult for him
[00:06:43] for a few days and even weeks. But no, he said: I take my
[00:06:47] responsibility because I want to move the country forward, so I will continue the
[00:06:51] reforms and I will even accelerate these reforms, in other
[00:06:54] words, I will stay the course more or less to be able to move forward because
[00:06:58] I believe that these reforms are essential for the country and it's
[00:07:01] not because there's anger, there you go,
[00:07:04] and he believes that it's not because there's anger that is potentially
[00:07:07] temporary and expressed in the ballot box that we shouldn't go through with reforms that
[00:07:11] are necessary for the country. He might also be thinking, for
[00:07:14] example, of Gerhard Schröder, who was chancellor and made big reforms, who at one
[00:07:18] point was pushed out like any political
[00:07:21] figure, and who finally, a few years later, said, "Hey, Schröder's
[00:07:25] reforms weren't so bad after all," at least many people thought so in Germany
[00:07:29] and it allowed the country to move forward. So,
[00:07:32] whether he's right or not, everyone thinks what they want, obviously it's not for me to enter that debate, but that's kind of the
[00:07:36] position of Fredrik Schmerz, who had already said he would refuse to
[00:07:40] resign, and that is confirmed. Where it was a close call
[00:07:43] though, is that he loses Berlin, even though the mayor
[00:07:47] and governor are the same thing in Berlin, it's the same person,
[00:07:50] the mayor, we say, it was
[00:07:53] CDU, now it's the radical left, so it's a clear failure, but
[00:07:57] on the other hand, it wasn't completely collapsed, it's 20% for the CDU,
[00:08:00] on the other hand, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, so in the far northeast
[00:08:03] of the former GDR of Germany,
[00:08:07] well, there it was close to absolute disaster
[00:08:10] for the CDU, the Chancellor, because it barely misses 5%,
[00:08:14] and if you're below 5%, well, you're simply
[00:08:18] wiped out from local political life because you're no longer present, your party is no longer
[00:08:21] present in parliament, and there it's between 5.1 and 5.5%
[00:08:25] depending on the estimations from exit polls, so we'll see, but in any
[00:08:29] case, it's close to this humiliation,
[00:08:33] even if very clearly we are already in humiliation, it's not supreme humiliation, but it's a
[00:08:36] good humiliation, he himself says that the CDU was, I quote,
[00:08:40] crushed in this... region, so this state of Mecklenburg,
[00:08:44] Western Pomerania, a very clear debacle
[00:08:48] therefore for the CDU, a disaffection also more generally towards traditional
[00:08:51] parties, we can say, towards traditional parties, I was talking earlier about
[00:08:55] several European countries and Germany is no exception, there is a
[00:08:59] kind of "degagisme" as it's sometimes called, a
[00:09:02] desire for populist parties
[00:09:05] to say that finally nothing is going well and nothing will go
[00:09:09] well and and as in the population we see things that are not going well. that things
[00:09:13] are not evolving as we would like, that the prices of fuel, for example, are constantly soaring
[00:09:16] and that this directly affects our wallets, that the cost of living has not
[00:09:20] improved in recent years, well, there is a desire for novelty, for
[00:09:23] "degagisme", even if it means going towards the most extreme, whether left or
[00:09:27] right, and Fredrik, like many other German or
[00:09:31] European leaders, well, bears the brunt of it. That doesn't mean he's
[00:09:35] doing well and that his reforms are good or not good on taxation, pensions, health, but in any case
[00:09:38] he bears the brunt of it, he is
[00:09:41] extremely unpopular. He's only been in power for 16 months
[00:09:45] and he doesn't even have 16 % of favorable
[00:09:48] ratings in the polls, he's at 13% only,
[00:09:52] 13% of Germans who are satisfied with his policies, that's still
[00:09:55] not much, that's 87 % dissatisfied and
[00:09:58] institutes have never recorded such a low rate for a
[00:10:02] sitting German chancellor, which is to say how complicated his situation is,
[00:10:06] it was before these elections, it is even
[00:10:09] more so tonight after these two local elections, you mentioned
[00:10:12] Antoine, the economic problems of the country, which obviously affect the entire
[00:10:16] German population, but in the
[00:10:19] states of the former GDR, which include Saxony and Pomerania,
[00:10:23] uh Mecklenburg,
[00:10:25] Western, there is also a feeling of downgrading that
[00:10:29] is added to this persistent 40 years after the
[00:10:32] reunification, a feeling of persistent disparity also
[00:10:36] between East and West? Yes, absolutely, there is still that feeling that has never been
[00:10:39] completely resolved, there is also a feeling for example, we see a clear
[00:10:43] difference, we talk about populist parties Die Linke on the radical
[00:10:48] right. Die Linke has more space and weight
[00:10:52] in a big city like Berlin than in a more rural region, like
[00:10:56] Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where it is also a region, for example, I
[00:10:59] was talking about fuel prices earlier, it is a region where people use their cars a lot, we
[00:11:03] are not with public transport in the center of Paris, Berlin or London, so
[00:11:07] we need cars enormously and the prices of fuel, while we are already
[00:11:11] in a region, as you say, quite downgraded
[00:11:13] and with more difficulties, well, it obviously affects
[00:11:17] the wallet even more and those who have managed to capitalize on this are
[00:11:21] the far-right who have been from a practical electoral point of view
[00:11:25] extremely effective in their campaign to try to
[00:11:28] convince a majority, an important part of the population, 37,
[00:11:32] 38%, that's still colossal, and that they potentially
[00:11:35] could do things differently, that they hadn't been tried and that therefore they had to get rid of all these
[00:11:39] old parties that had finally led us all into a wall, so
[00:11:43] it's a difficulty for
[00:11:47] Fredrik Schmerz who tried urgently to come up with
[00:11:50] some emergency measures to lower fuel prices, that was
[00:11:54] obviously badly perceived because everyone said, "Well, he's losing
[00:11:58] control, so he's trying to throw a tiny baby life jacket
[00:12:01] to stay afloat." And besides,
[00:12:06] said, "You see, this is who governs us, it's a, it's
[00:12:09] nothing at all," while frankly there are more
[00:12:13] important measures to take, which we will also see if these
[00:12:17] countries, if these parties manage to govern, what they will do with them, but the far-right does not
[00:12:20] necessarily have free rein to govern either because they have to get
[00:12:24] majorities. The sanitary cordon that existed until now, Germans
[00:12:28] talk about a fire wall, that's the big question, now will it
[00:12:31] break? Yes, the fire wall on the German side, the
[00:12:35] cordon, the republican sanitary cordon
[00:12:38] in France, we have seen that on all sides, there were still
[00:12:42] cracks in these fire walls or sanitary cordons, call them
[00:12:46] what you want, it was the case for example in France
[00:12:49] with the right-wing Eric Ciotti who led the right-wing party and
[00:12:53] who reached out to Le Pen, who, you see, still
[00:12:57] faces resistance because his whole party then kicked him out, so he created another
[00:13:00] party, but he wasn't punished for it, he became mayor of the 5th
[00:13:04] largest city in France, Nice, since then, so you see, that's something that is also seen by countries
[00:13:08] like Germany, so obviously the AfD tries
[00:13:11] to play on that, to
[00:13:14] crack these republican resistances to
[00:13:18] be able to finally get the support of one or two parties, even if not very
[00:13:22] large, but which would allow it to achieve a majority in local parliaments and
[00:13:25] therefore to govern in these local parliaments, knowing that the local
[00:13:29] parliaments, so in the Länder, have significant weight, they are more
[00:13:33] important than regional councils in France, for example. Thank you
[00:13:38] l'info" dedicated therefore to the results of this double regional
[00:13:42] election in Germany, I remind you, marked therefore by
[00:13:46] a very strong breakthrough of the far-right AfD, not only in Berlin, but
[00:13:49] especially in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
[00:13:53] where the AfD even comes out on top, credited with 37 to 38
[00:13:57] % of the votes. A double election which also confirms the total
[00:14:00] debacle of the CDU which would barely reach
[00:14:04] 5% precisely in Mecklenburg, we will of course
[00:14:07] come back to this at length in a few
[00:14:11] minutes. In the meantime, we are heading to Russia,
[00:14:14] the 3rd and last day of the legislative elections marked
[00:14:17] today by massive cyberattacks and a shower of Ukrainian
[00:14:21] drones. At least two people were killed and about twenty
[00:14:25] injured according to Russian authorities, preliminary
[00:14:28] results were communicated a few minutes ago by the Russian
[00:14:31] electoral commission, the United Russia party, without any surprise, comes out on
[00:14:35] top with approximately 58% of the votes. It must be said that this
[00:14:38] election is just a farce in the absence of
[00:14:41] any opposition worthy of the
[00:14:44] name.
[00:14:48] According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
[00:14:52] The Russian capital and its region were the target of several hundred
[00:14:55] Ukrainian drones, if most were intercepted and shot down,
[00:14:58] several escaped Russian air defense and notably
[00:15:02] struck several floors of a residential building in the capital
[00:15:05] and this oil refinery, other
[00:15:08] devices fell in this residential district of Sofino in the Moscow
[00:15:12] region, causing casualties and significant
[00:15:14] damage.
[00:15:18] I was leaving my building, I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when
[00:15:21] the explosion occurred, the windows shattered, people started
[00:15:25] screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors had been
[00:15:28] blown away, there were injured, probably even
[00:15:31] dead, but we can't be sure, the rescue workers who arrived on
[00:15:35] the scene didn't let us get close.
[00:15:38] This massive Ukrainian drone attack comes in a context of
[00:15:42] intensified fighting on both sides. A series of Russian
[00:15:45] strikes on over 30 sites in the Kiev region caused several deaths, including
[00:15:49] children, on Saturday and Sunday. This
[00:15:52] offensive also comes on the 3rd and final day of voting in Russia and
[00:15:56] has been denounced by Russian authorities as aiming to disrupt the
[00:16:00] election process. In the Kherson region, a region in
[00:16:03] southern Ukraine controlled by Russia, a drone notably killed
[00:16:09] the electoral commission. More than
[00:16:11] 4 and a half years after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
[00:16:14] 2022, these legislative elections aim to renew the
[00:16:17] Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. In a context of
[00:16:21] repression of all forms of opposition, they should, without
[00:16:24] surprise, result in the victory of Vladimir
[00:16:27] Putin's party.
[00:16:30] In other international news, in Iraq, the trial of six
[00:16:33] French nationals accused
[00:16:36] State organization opened today. The defendants
[00:16:40] face the death penalty. These accused are among the 47
[00:16:45] ISIS transferred last year from prisons in northeastern Syria. We're
[00:16:49] going to join our correspondent in Baghdad, Marie-Charlotte
[00:16:52] Roopi. Good evening Marie-Charlotte,
[00:16:56] first appearance this morning of these French nationals suspected
[00:16:59] of links with the Islamic State organization. How did
[00:17:03] this first hearing unfold?
[00:17:06] Well, for this... first hearing, which was the first presentation
[00:17:10] of these six detainees before a judge after 7 years
[00:17:13] of imprisonment in Syria and 1 year in prison in
[00:17:17] Iraq, they came forward one after the other to the
[00:17:20] bar, in yellow prisoner's uniforms with their hair
[00:17:23] cut short and their features mostly drawn,
[00:17:27] uh, and before the judge they were presented with the accusations
[00:17:30] against them. As you said, they are suspected of being
[00:17:34] affiliated with the Islamic State organization,
[00:17:37] and suspected, uh, possibly for some, of participation in
[00:17:41] terrorist activities, uh, endangering
[00:17:44] Iraqi territory. Uh, they were
[00:17:47] able to choose whether to be
[00:17:51] represented by an Iraqi public defender. Two of them
[00:17:54] also requested an adjournment in order
[00:17:58] to await the presence of their French
[00:18:01] lawyers, but for those who accepted this Iraqi
[00:18:04] representation, they were presented with the evidence that
[00:18:08] was gathered during the investigations over the
[00:18:11] past few years, notably intelligence
[00:18:15] gathered and collected by the Iraqi intelligence services
[00:18:19] but also national and international security services,
[00:18:21] among which the judge notably
[00:18:25] cited the presence of administrative documents
[00:18:30] the Islamic State organization. What exactly do
[00:18:33] we know about these French people, Marie-Charlotte, and their
[00:18:39] background? Well, for those who were presented this morning, they are
[00:18:43] between twenty and forty, almost fifty
[00:18:46] years old for the oldest among them, they are
[00:18:50] all part of, as you said, these 47 detainees
[00:18:54] who were transferred from Syria to Iraq in
[00:18:58] the summer of 2025 and according to the information that was
[00:19:02] presented by the judge for the cases that were analyzed
[00:19:06] during the first hearing, well, they were arrested in
[00:19:09] 2018 by the Syrian Democratic Forces after some of
[00:19:13] them had joined Syria voluntarily
[00:19:17] around 2014,
[00:19:20] and after being convinced after watching,
[00:19:23] notably for some, propaganda videos, but
[00:19:26] there is a second scenario, notably for one
[00:19:30] of the people who was presented this morning, who was allegedly
[00:19:33] taken to Syria by his parents when he was
[00:19:37] still an adolescent. What can they expect
[00:19:41] now? Well, the judge gave
[00:19:44] them until October 5th to prepare
[00:19:47] their defense, but whether they were, as
[00:19:51] some information disseminated by the judge this morning
[00:19:55] the Islamic State as a nurse or accountant,
[00:19:59] well, uh according to Iraqi law, simple affiliation to
[00:20:03] the Islamic State organization, if proven,
[00:20:06] can lead to the death penalty,
[00:20:09] a penalty that could then be commuted to life imprisonment,
[00:20:13] but the French lawyers uh who
[00:20:16] represent some of these detainees continue to request
[00:20:20] their repatriation to France. Thank you very much Marie-Charlotte for all this information
[00:20:24] from Baghdad.
[00:20:27] In Syria, now, after the demonstrations
[00:20:31] that took place in several provinces of the country at the beginning of the week to
[00:20:34] protest against the increase in fuel prices in connection with, of course,
[00:20:38] the situation in the Middle East and notably the blocking of the Strait of
[00:20:42] Bab-el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz, the
[00:20:45] Syrians are now continuing to express their dissatisfaction in the
[00:20:48] streets. Details in a moment.
[00:20:53] In this service station in the Syrian capital, customers seem
[00:20:58] prices decreed last week by the
[00:21:01] authorities.
[00:21:04] The rise in fuel prices is a global phenomenon, I mean that all countries have
[00:21:08] already increased fuel prices. Until now, the government has absorbed these
[00:21:12] increases since the beginning of the year by taking charge of each increase in
[00:21:15] costs. Syria, once a producer and
[00:21:18] exporter of oil, has been devastated by years of civil war. The country now
[00:21:22] produces only about 100,000 barrels per day, a volume well below the
[00:21:26] daily domestic demand which fluctuates around 300,000
[00:21:29] barrels. The price of petrol has increased, but customers
[00:21:33] still pay us the same amount, they say that the increase
[00:21:37] is temporary and that if the price of diesel goes down tomorrow, we will not lower our
[00:21:41] prices. At the beginning of the week, several
[00:21:44] demonstrations took place in the Syrian capital and in other
[00:21:48] provinces of the country against the drastic increase in fuel prices,
[00:21:52] the first since the Islamist coalition that overthrew Bashar
[00:21:56] al-Assad took power in late 2024. A few
[00:21:59] days earlier, the government had announced an increase in prices of
[00:22:03] 25 to 40% for petrol and diesel.
[00:22:06] The Syrian Ministry of Energy described this decision as
[00:22:10] temporary and justified it by
[00:22:13] prices since the outbreak of the war against Iran. To this
[00:22:17] are added tensions around the straits of Hormuz towards
[00:22:23] under Houthi control.
[00:22:24] Yemen.
[00:22:27] Let's move on to something completely different now, it's the 43rd edition of the European Heritage
[00:22:31] Days. An average of 11 million French people participate
[00:22:34] every year, an opportunity to discover exceptional
[00:22:38] sites usually closed to the general public. A quick overview
[00:22:41] with our colleagues from France 2. It's a
[00:22:44] fortress that is almost never entered.
[00:22:48] Fort Boyard. They discover it for the first
[00:22:51] time with a sporty arrival, we can go, we attach ourselves to the
[00:22:54] carabiners, they are about fifty people drawn by lot
[00:22:58] to experience this unique adventure, a total
[00:23:01] immersion behind the scenes of the TV game show, with
[00:23:05] the discovery of the treasure room, a few years ago there were tigers, real tigers
[00:23:09] that came into the fort, and the famous
[00:23:13] return of the perfouras, we recognize all the places we see on
[00:23:17] TV but we see that it's different. Still, there are things that
[00:23:21] seem smaller, others bigger, we see a bit behind the scenes, I
[00:23:24] remember myself very, very small watching the shows at grandma's, I
[00:23:28] touch the bricks, I check if everything is well, if it's really
[00:23:31] life, if it's not a dream, always further, always
[00:23:35] higher,
[00:23:37] far from Fort Boyard, 700 km away, another forbidden
[00:23:41] place opens to the public, the
[00:23:45] the SNCF near Lille, a hundred train sets
[00:23:48] are renovated each year. Here everything seems
[00:23:52] disproportionate, what impresses me is the effect of size,
[00:23:55] of grandeur, because here we are underneath the train sets, we also sometimes have the chance
[00:23:59] to pass over them and in fact it doesn't give at all the same impression as when you take the
[00:24:03] train every day, playing with toy trains or
[00:24:07] putting yourself in the shoes of an airplane pilot, in Orléans, this
[00:24:10] air base also exceptionally opens its doors,
[00:24:14] an unprecedented visit right into the cockpit of military planes, the
[00:24:18] children, well, obviously a bit amazed.
[00:24:21] It's always nice to see that because I was in their place, well, it's been
[00:24:24] 20 years now, so it's really nice to see that we can pass
[00:24:28] that on a bit, it feels strange because I often
[00:24:30] fly but a plane like that is
[00:24:34] impressive, thousands of sites are still open all over
[00:24:38] France until this evening for these heritage
[00:24:40] days.
[00:24:43] And that's the end of the news update, thank you all for your loyalty, international
[00:24:46] news returns in a few minutes on our channel. Have a very good evening all of you on France 24.
[00:25:53] There is a part of the history of this city that is disappearing
[00:25:57] due to demolitions and
[00:26:00] rehabilitations that do not quite respect what
[00:26:04] we call the conservation and enhancement plan. There is
[00:26:07] the enhancement plan, it is a kind of architectural regulation
[00:26:11] that allows, well, truly that
[00:26:14] the buildings are rehabilitated, that they comply
[00:26:17] with the
[00:26:20] old
[00:26:22] architecture, don't they?
[00:26:39] Our population, generally people don't want to talk about it, especially in
[00:26:42] Saint-Louis, it's really like a taboo subject. It's
[00:26:46] rare to see populations
[00:26:49] slavery in Saint-Louis. Well, I'm sure
[00:26:52] that many Saint-Louisians don't know about that slavery,
[00:26:56] that slavery,
[00:27:01] but the national heritage... by methodology
[00:27:04] has focused on
[00:27:07] slavery on Gore and on colonization on
[00:27:10] Saint-Louis, trying to show both sides, the
[00:27:13] bad side and the
[00:27:16] useful side, so that's why it was said that colonization is a
[00:27:20] necessary evil, so the colonial empire is also a necessary evil, so there is a
[00:27:24] very painful part that we don't even want to talk about, but still there is another
[00:27:27] part today that can be well
[00:27:30] valued.
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[00:30:09] Good evening everyone. In the news this Sunday, the far-right is once again
[00:30:13] leading a regional election in Germany. The AfD is predicted to win in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
[00:30:17] The German Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz acknowledges a
[00:30:20] disaster for his party, the CDU, which only comes in 3rd position. We
[00:30:24] will be live from Berlin in a moment. Analysis by
[00:30:28] Antoine Mariotti will also follow. Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister. Canadian
[00:30:32] Mark Carney in a one-on-one meeting in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The two leaders say
[00:30:36] they want to strengthen ties between their two countries, two independent
[00:30:39] nations that intend to remain so, they specified, a clear message
[00:30:43] addressed to Donald Trump. Finally, the
[00:30:46] party of Vladimir Putin, United Russia, unsurprisingly wins the legislative
[00:30:50] elections, a vote disrupted by numerous drone
[00:30:53] attacks from Ukraine. Moscow promises in response
[00:30:57] to intensify its strikes against Kyiv.