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[00:00:00] France 24, freedom, equality,
[00:00:07] elements so humility, news, this is the essential weekend on France 24,
[00:00:09] criticism within his party and good evening everyone, in the news this Sunday, the far right again at the top
[00:00:13] of a regional election in Germany, the AFD is predicted to win in Mecklenburg
[00:00:17] Western Pomerania, German Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz acknowledges a
[00:00:20] disaster for his party, the CDU, which only comes in 3rd position,
[00:00:24] we will be live from Berlin in a moment, a debrief to follow
[00:00:28] also from Antoine Maryouti.
[00:00:30] Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Marc Carny in a one-on-one
[00:00:34] in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the two leaders say they want to strengthen ties between their two
[00:00:38] countries, two independent nations that intend to remain so,
[00:00:41] they specified, a clear message addressed to Donald
[00:00:44] Trump. Finally, the party of Vladimir Putin, United Russia
[00:00:49] from Brazilian striker wins the legislative elections without surprise, an election
[00:00:51] disrupted by numerous drone attacks from Ukraine,
[00:00:55] Moscow promises in response to intensify its strikes against
[00:00:59] Kyiv.
[00:01:02] In sports news, a
[00:01:15] Richard Verlie, would the government be setting the country on fire,
[00:01:19] it wants to make 54 billion euros in cuts in the 2027
[00:01:22] budget, anger is already starting to
[00:01:25] rise.
[00:01:40] We therefore begin with the results of two regional elections in Germany,
[00:01:44] two weeks after the victory of the far right in Saxony-Anhalt, Life Day
[00:01:47] is again predicted to be ahead in Mecklenburg
[00:01:51] region, a southern Western Pomerania. It is also making strong progress in Berlin, a bitter
[00:01:56] killed several people including an employee of failure for the CDU of Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz who speaks of a catastrophe, we will...
[00:02:25] Our response to this situation must
[00:02:27] Hokusono, you see her in the center of be to prepare the future of our country. to
[00:02:30] achieve this, we need change,
[00:02:34] change requires effort, but reforms must move
[00:02:37] forward.
[00:02:40] Indeed, we are in a difficult situation, but we
[00:02:44] take responsibility,
[00:02:48] freedom in the middle of I personally take this
[00:02:49] aggression, far from responsibility because I want to see our country
[00:02:52] move forward,
[00:02:55] and we are with Caroline Duble, good evening, you are our correspondent in
[00:02:58] Berlin, we will return in a moment to this speech by Friedrich Schmerz, but
[00:03:02] first a word about the AFD which continues its
[00:03:05] ascent tonight.
[00:03:10] Yes, absolutely, the AFD wins the election in the state of
[00:03:14] Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania.
[00:03:18] It was a close race until the last day with the
[00:03:20] SPD, the outgoing Minister President Manuel Lagesich
[00:03:24] was extremely popular and seemed to have caught up in recent
[00:03:27] days, but it wasn't enough, she remains two points behind the
[00:03:31] AFD candidate who wins
[00:03:35] 37.9% of the votes, it's a huge
[00:03:38] score, 20% more than in the last elections for the
[00:03:42] AFD in this region, for the head
[00:03:46] of the party, it's clearly a mandate to form a
[00:03:50] government, that said, it won't be
[00:03:53] think outside of Europe but of easy because they will have to find other
[00:03:55] the European Union but on the parties with which to form a coalition to achieve an absolute majority and be
[00:03:59] able to form a
[00:04:02] now they have foils, there are government, but whatever happens, it's a big defeat for the
[00:04:06] It's 9:30 PM in Paris and it's time for SPD and for the CDU which is around 5%, we will have to wait for the final
[00:04:09] count to know if Friedrich Schmerz's party will be able to enter this regional
[00:04:13] parliament or not, in any case it's the worst result in
[00:04:17] the history of the CDU in a regional election. So the reaction of German Chancellor
[00:04:20] Friedrich Schmerz is awaited, who speaks of a disaster for the
[00:04:24] CDU and promises to continue reforms, not a
[00:04:28] word about a possible mission despite speculation on this
[00:04:31] subject?
[00:04:35] Yes, indeed, names were already circulating in recent
[00:04:38] days in Germany about a possible replacement for
[00:04:42] Fredrik Schmerz, but he affirmed, he put an end
[00:04:45] to the rumors and wanted to reaffirm that he was taking
[00:04:49] his responsibilities, that he remained chancellor, that he remained head of the
[00:04:52] Christian Democratic party and that he wanted to
[00:04:56] pursue his reforms, he asks Germans to be patient.
[00:05:00] to be firm, it's going to be a difficult
[00:05:02] period, it must be said that he is under enormous political pressure
[00:05:06] which has increased enormously since the results of the elections in
[00:05:09] Saxony-Anhalt 2 weeks ago, he is still
[00:05:12] unpopular, but despite everything, for now, he wants to stay in
[00:05:16] place, we will see if this will silence the
[00:05:22] the SPD coalition. Thank you very much
[00:05:25] Caroline, live from Berlin, to go further
[00:05:28] and to talk about these elections again, we immediately find Antoine
[00:05:32] Mariotti for the
[00:05:32] debrief.
[00:05:38] Good evening Antoine, good evening Marion, there is a party that we haven't
[00:05:41] talked about yet. and that is the radical left Linke in
[00:05:44] Berlin which came out on top in the election
[00:05:47] ahead of the
[00:05:50] AFD, who is this Elif Heralp who won this
[00:05:54] election, well she is the big winner on the Berlin side because it's true that the AFD
[00:05:57] finally I want to say finally the big winner of the moment because it had this
[00:06:01] victory two weeks ago in Saxanhalt, it has this resounding victory
[00:06:05] today in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania with 37,
[00:06:08] 38% of the votes, more than 20% more than...
[00:06:12] their previous scores in the last elections and then in
[00:06:16] Berlin, they are still present, they almost double their scores, they were at 9% in
[00:06:19] 2023, they are between 13 and a half and 16% tonight, it will
[00:06:23] be refined in the coming hours, but in Berlin,
[00:06:27] those who clearly win are the Linke, it's the radical
[00:06:30] left who oust, so to speak, the
[00:06:34] SPD from power because it was the SPD that was in
[00:06:37] power, but for all that, as has just been said, they will have to find
[00:06:41] alliances to govern because they are not at 50, 55%
[00:06:45] of the votes, they are between 24.5 and
[00:06:48] 26% of the votes, we are still far from a majority, so nothing is
[00:06:52] won yet, but symbolically they are ahead,
[00:06:55] so they have the momentum against the outgoing
[00:06:58] president who, as Caroline Duble just said, was very popular, had
[00:07:02] managed to catch up a bit recently, but the outgoing president
[00:07:06] is from the SPD, social democrats, they are in this
[00:07:09] coalition with Fred Schmers so they also pay a little bit for the
[00:07:13] breakage because there is this removalism a
[00:07:16] little bit wanted whether it's in big cities like Berlin with the radical
[00:07:20] left or whether it's in more rural areas
[00:07:23] like in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania with
[00:07:26] the far right and notably the AFD, is what is happening
[00:07:30] in Germany right now Antoine typical
[00:07:33] of what is also happening in Europe with, well, this rise
[00:07:37] of both the far right and the radical left, populisms,
[00:07:40] so yes, the extremes. but radicals of all stripes are
[00:07:44] rising a little bit everywhere, it has calmed down, the counter-
[00:07:47] example is Hungary of Viktor Orban who has somewhat moved away from this extreme
[00:07:51] and sometimes liberticidal populism that he had
[00:07:53] embodied for a number of years, a great many years
[00:07:57] even, but for all that not everything is simple, we can see that
[00:08:00] Germany is not an island isolated or
[00:08:04] an exception with the only ones to have radical
[00:08:08] parties, so of course when we talk about the far right in Germany it always scares us, it
[00:08:11] echoes. uh history so that's why it had such an impact during this
[00:08:15] regional victory in Saxant two weeks ago that now we can see that
[00:08:19] this dynamic continues with very significant scores in
[00:08:23] Berlin but especially uh so as I said in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
[00:08:27] but when we look at other countries look at France today the National Rally
[00:08:30] is at the gates of the Élysée at the gates of power
[00:08:33] then almost nothing to do with the AFD I say almost beware it
[00:08:37] remains the far right in both cases uh but for example on the side of the National Rally
[00:08:41] played the card of de-demonization for years and years, for about fifteen
[00:08:45] years and the arrival of Marine Le Pen at the head of the party while
[00:08:48] the German AFD is completely uninhibited and is
[00:08:52] absolutely not afraid to say racist things very openly and
[00:08:55] to and to assume them so these are different ways of doing
[00:08:59] things but it doesn't change the fact that these are populist and far-right parties
[00:09:02] that are rising notably we can
[00:09:07] European continent let's say which is the United Kingdom with Nigel
[00:09:11] Farage for example who is... a bit in the doldrums some time ago with the consequences of Brexit
[00:09:15] who today has important polls in voting
[00:09:18] intentions, so there are many countries like that, Italy is
[00:09:22] led by Georgia Meloni for several years, she
[00:09:26] even broke the record of longevity at the head of the
[00:09:30] Italian council, so we can see that it is a populist groundswell,
[00:09:33] mainly right-wing but also radical left that is pushing a little bit
[00:09:37] everywhere in Europe, but not only we can think obviously of the United States.
[00:09:40] and Donald Trump, thank you very much Antoine for this
[00:09:44] debrief, this image now of Emmanuel Macron in
[00:09:47] the company of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, it's happening on
[00:09:50] the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon located off the coast of
[00:09:54] Canada, the two men say they want to strengthen ties between their two
[00:09:57] countries, particularly on issues of security and energy. We listen to Emmanuel
[00:10:01] Macron. Several rapprochements, but what we have above all
[00:10:05] decided is that together we will, in close
[00:10:08] liaison with the community. and
[00:10:11] its elected officials, ask our two governments
[00:10:15] to work
[00:10:17] towards a deep rapprochement between our two countries
[00:10:20] in terms of fishing, in terms of...
[00:10:23] of security and common missions
[00:10:26] in terms of energy, in all areas
[00:10:29] where we can find an agenda that
[00:10:32] is positive for Canada
[00:10:35] and for France, that is relevant for Saint-Pierre
[00:10:38] and Miquelon and for your
[00:10:39] country.
[00:10:43] In Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, is
[00:10:46] unsurprisingly declared the winner of the legislative elections held this weekend
[00:10:50] in the country, an election marked by numerous Ukrainian drone attacks,
[00:10:54] as well as by cyberattacks, Axel
[00:10:57] Simon.
[00:11:00] According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
[00:11:03] The Russian capital and its region have been the target of several hundred Ukrainian
[00:11:07] drones. While most have been intercepted and shot down,
[00:11:11] several escaped Russian anti-aircraft defense and notably
[00:11:14] struck several floors of a residential building in the capital
[00:11:17] or this oil refinery. Other
[00:11:20] devices fell in this residential area of Sofino in the Moscow
[00:11:24] region, causing casualties and significant
[00:11:26] damage.
[00:11:30] I was leaving my building, I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when
[00:11:34] the explosion occurred, the windows shattered, people started
[00:11:37] screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors were
[00:11:40] blown off, there were injured, probably even
[00:11:43] dead, but we can't be sure, the rescue workers who arrived
[00:11:47] on the scene did not let us approach, this
[00:11:51] massive Ukrainian drone attack comes in a context of
[00:11:53] fighting on both sides, a series
[00:11:57] of Russian strikes on more than 30 sites in the Kyiv region caused several deaths
[00:12:01] including children on Saturday and Sunday. This
[00:12:04] offensive also comes on the 3rd and last day of voting in Russia
[00:12:07] and has been denounced by Russian authorities as aiming to
[00:12:11] disrupt the conduct of the election. In the Kherson
[00:12:16] Ukrainian region controlled by Russia, a drone notably
[00:12:21] the electoral commission. More than 4
[00:12:23] and a half years after the start of... large-scale invasion of Ukraine in
[00:12:26] 2022, these legislative elections aim to renew the
[00:12:30] Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. In a context of
[00:12:33] repression of all forms of opposition, they should, without
[00:12:36] surprise, result in the victory of Vladimir
[00:12:39] Putin's party.
[00:12:42] To the war in the Middle East now and the Houthis of Yemen who report
[00:12:45] 28 Saudi strikes carried out against areas they control in Yemen.
[00:12:49] They come the day after the attack that the Houthis themselves carried out against
[00:12:53] Riyadh. And civilians... are caught in the fighting, listen to these
[00:12:56] testimonies from displaced people, they are among the more than 11,000
[00:13:00] Yemenis who have been forced to flee the
[00:13:02] war.
[00:13:06] we hope that God will put the country back on track, that normal life will return to us and that we will be able to return home safely and
[00:13:10] reassured, protected from problems and
[00:13:14] the difficulties we are currently experiencing.
[00:13:17] we are exhausted by the planes bombing
[00:13:20] us day and night and...
[00:13:24] have not had a moment's respite, but what can we
[00:13:27] do, if God wills, God will deliver us from this
[00:13:31] scourge without pain or
[00:13:32] suffering,
[00:13:36] the war that is also weighing down the world economy, the oil barrel price
[00:13:40] at the opening will once again be closely watched next night, its
[00:13:44] impact on fuel prices could be felt very quickly. Julien
[00:13:48] Cholin, will we pay on average a little
[00:13:52] more than €2.60 per liter of diesel? In about
[00:13:55] a month, the hypothesis is not far-fetched
[00:13:59] and does not even surprise these
[00:14:01] motorists,
[00:14:03] I take it as a fatality, I am forced to drive,
[00:14:06] so there will have to be aid from both sides, I don't know,
[00:14:10] but it can't continue like this. In any case, tensions
[00:14:14] in the oil market are not going to
[00:14:16] stop, as evidenced by this plume of smoke that rose yesterday
[00:14:20] above the city of Riyadh in Saudi
[00:14:23] Arabia, it was...
[00:14:25] the oil facilities of the Saudi capital, an
[00:14:29] attack claimed by the Houthi rebels supported by
[00:14:32] Iran, which is gaining ground. As a result,
[00:14:36] after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it is now
[00:14:39] another strategic passage that is threatened, the Strait of Bab-el-
[00:14:43] Mandeb. This will make the price of oil rise
[00:14:47] even further, consequences at the pump, prices
[00:14:50] should continue to climb in the coming days, experts have
[00:14:54] worked on it. They predict an average of €2.60 per
[00:14:57] liter of diesel in one month and approximately €2.30 for
[00:15:01] E10 ethanol. These
[00:15:04] forecasts are based on several parameters, obviously
[00:15:07] the evolution of oil prices, but also the euro-dollar exchange rate or
[00:15:11] seasonality. However, obviously there can be at any time
[00:15:15] geopolitical events, declarations by politicians from certain
[00:15:19] countries that can have a fairly rapid impact and thus
[00:15:22] change our forecasts tomorrow the governor... will
[00:15:25] meet at Matignon to formalize an extension of the aid schemes
[00:15:28] for professionals and individuals, it could, according to our
[00:15:32] information, broaden the number of French people
[00:15:34] concerned.
[00:15:36] And now, let's move on to sports news with Cédric
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[00:30:09] the political
[00:30:09] essential,
[00:30:14] the political essential tonight, it's with Richard Verlit, good evening, good evening,
[00:30:18] editorialist and journalist for the Swiss online media Blick, on the
[00:30:22] program this issue, international affairs that invite themselves into the daily lives of
[00:30:25] the French and into the presidential campaign, Russia, war in the
[00:30:29] Middle East and soaring fuel prices, Emmanuel Macron. on
[00:30:32] Friday gathered in a serious atmosphere the main candidates for his succession,
[00:30:36] he will also be on television Thursday at 8 PM on our colleagues at TFN
[00:30:40] and France 2. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is
[00:30:44] confronted with the budget headache for 2027, 54 billion
[00:30:47] euros of efforts to plan for and rising anger, is a new social
[00:30:51] and political crisis still avoidable. Finally, can the lineup for the
[00:30:55] second round of the presidential election still evolve? Polls still predict
[00:30:58] a duel between...