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[00:00:07] 10:30 p.m. in Paris, back to basics, we continue with [00:00:10] the news this Sunday in Yemen, the Houthis reported [00:00:13] 28 Saudi strikes against areas they control, they [00:00:17] intervene the day after the attack they themselves carried out against Riyadh, [00:00:21] civilians are caught in the trap of fighting, listen to these testimonies from [00:00:24] displaced people in Yemen, they are part of the 11,000 people [00:00:28] who were forced to... the [00:00:30] war, [00:00:38] we hope that God will put the country back on the right track, that normal life will return to us and [00:00:42] that we will be able to return home in safety, reassured [00:00:46] from problems and aggression, far from the difficulties we are [00:00:49] currently experiencing. [00:00:53] We are exhausted by the planes bombing us day and [00:00:56] night, and we have not had a moment of respite. [00:01:00] what can we do, if God wills, God will deliver us [00:01:03] from this scourge without pain or [00:01:05] suffering. [00:01:09] The war which also weighs on the global economy, repercussions [00:01:12] notably on the price of fuels in Syria, in Damascus, [00:01:16] inhabitants oscillate between anger and resignation. Axel [00:01:19] Simon. In this service station in the [00:01:23] Syrian capital, customers seem resigned to the increase in [00:01:27] gasoline prices decreed last week by [00:01:30] the authorities, [00:01:33] the rise in fuel prices is a global phenomenon, I mean that all countries have [00:01:37] already increased fuel prices, until now the government has absorbed these [00:01:41] increases since the beginning of the year by taking charge of each increase in [00:01:44] prices. Syria, formerly a producer and [00:01:47] exporter of oil, has been devastated by years of civil war, the country now [00:01:51] produces only about 100,000 barrels per day, a volume well below [00:01:55] domestic daily demand which fluctuates around 300,000 [00:01:59] barrels. The price of gasoline has increased, but [00:02:02] customers still pay us the same amount, they say the increase is [00:02:06] temporary and that if the price of diesel goes down tomorrow, we will not lower our [00:02:10] prices. At the beginning of the week, several [00:02:13] demonstrations took place in the Syrian capital and in other [00:02:17] provinces of the country, against the drastic increase in fuel [00:02:20] prices, the first since the Islamist coalition took power at the end of 2024, [00:02:24] which overthrew Bashar [00:02:27] al-Assad. A few days earlier, the government had announced [00:02:30] an increase in prices of 25 to 40% for gasoline and [00:02:34] diesel. The Syrian Ministry of Energy qualified [00:02:38] this decision as temporary and justified it by the global increase [00:02:42] in energy prices since the outbreak of the war against [00:02:44] Iran. To this are added the tensions around the [00:02:48] Strait of Hormuz locked by Tehran and [00:02:50] Bab el-Mandeb passed under the control of the Houthis of [00:02:53] Yemen. [00:02:57] In France, more than 10,000 people marched this Sunday in several cities across the country [00:03:00] against the proposed law on the presumption of legitimate [00:03:04] use of weapons by law enforcement agencies, it was voted in [00:03:07] July by deputies and must now be examined by the Senate, [00:03:11] no to the license to kill, could be read on the banners, protesters [00:03:15] fear that police violence will increase with this [00:03:18] law, those who are in favor believe that it [00:03:22] will allow law enforcement to no longer be systematically suspected [00:03:25] or placed in police custody after a [00:03:27] shot. [00:03:31] In France, the European Heritage Days [00:03:33] mainly extract are coming to an end tonight, for 2 days, you have been able to [00:03:36] push open the doors of museums, monuments, but also places [00:03:40] usually closed to the public, secret or forbidden places that our [00:03:44] colleagues from France 2 invite you to discover, it's a report [00:03:47] by Julie Poirier, Antoine Calvez and Lola Bodin [00:03:50] Adriaco. It's a fortress that we almost [00:03:53] never enter. Fort Boyard, these lucky ones discover [00:03:57] it for the first time. With a sporty arrival, we can go, [00:04:01] we attach ourselves to the carabiners, [00:04:04] there are about fifty of them drawn by lot to live this unique [00:04:07] adventure, a [00:04:10] people talk about total immersion behind the scenes of the TV game, [00:04:12] with the discovery of the treasure room, a few years ago there were real tigers [00:04:16] that came [00:04:19] history, who are these into the fort and the famous return of Father [00:04:21] Fouras, we [00:04:24] Stay with us, right after this, the Africa news program presented by Fatima Tawan and recognize all the places we see on TV, but we see [00:04:26] that it's different anyway, some things seem smaller, others bigger. [00:04:34] seeing myself again very, very small watching the shows at grandma's, I touch the bricks, I check if everything is [00:04:37] fine, if it's really life, if it's not, if it's not a [00:04:40] dream, always higher, [00:04:43] always higher, far from Fort Boyard, [00:04:47] 700 km away, another forbidden place open to the public, the largest [00:04:51] train maintenance workshop of the SNCF, near Lille, [00:04:55] a hundred train sets are renovated each year, here everything [00:04:59] seems... to measure what impresses me [00:05:01] is the effect of size, of grandeur because here we are [00:05:05] underneath the train sets, we also have the chance sometimes to pass over and in fact [00:05:09] it doesn't give at all the same impression as when we take the train daily. [00:05:13] Play with toy trains or put yourself in the shoes of a pilot [00:05:16] of an airplane, in Orleans, this air base also exceptionally [00:05:20] opens its doors, an unprecedented visit into the [00:05:24] cockpit of military aircraft, the children are obviously a little amazed [00:05:27] sitting in front, it's always nice to see that because I was in their place [00:05:30] 20 years ago so it's really [00:05:33] nice to see that we can transmit that, it feels [00:05:36] strange because I often take planes but a plane like [00:05:40] that is impressive. Thousands of [00:05:43] sites are still open all over France until tonight for these [00:05:47] Heritage Days and this Sunday, September [00:05:51] 20, is also World Cleanup Day, for several years now in France, [00:05:55] hundreds of thousands of people have participated, the result [00:05:58] is hundreds of tons of waste [00:06:02] collected, a report from Marseille, Toulouse and Valenciennes with Noémie [00:06:06] Dam. There, perfect, at the end of this [00:06:09] grabber, a first cigarette butt. [00:06:12] Abandoned waste, in Valenciennes, the collection is done as [00:06:16] a family, oh dear, and there's a lot to do, you see, you understand [00:06:20] now why you shouldn't throw away, it's sad because it pollutes the [00:06:23] planet a lot, 2,400, a start [00:06:26] since by the end of the day these volunteers had collected 400 [00:06:30] kg, ah I have one, yes, I have another one [00:06:34] further south in Toulouse, there too we are [00:06:37] active, 50 well-equipped volunteers survey [00:06:41] the banks of the Garonne. Objective: identify [00:06:44] litter and fight against river [00:06:46] pollution. Very quickly, a [00:06:50] waste will release its [00:06:53] chemical molecules and degrade in the water. Like this tire [00:06:56] salvaged, car parts, we also discover [00:07:00] them near Marseille in this commercial area. I even found a magnificent [00:07:04] olive tree. It has an IV, it really has everything, [00:07:08] you don't necessarily expect it. These young girls got up early to [00:07:11] participate in this great cleanup, maybe it will make people realize that [00:07:15] cigarette butts shouldn't be thrown on the ground, that there are bins for waste, that [00:07:19] cardboard, metal and [00:07:23] plastic, we will separate everything, because among the waste [00:07:26] found, some can be recycled. Last [00:07:29] year, 434 tons of waste were [00:07:33] collected all over [00:07:35] France, [00:07:37] it's a book that hasn't come out yet and yet it's already making a lot of noise in the [00:07:41] United Kingdom. Charles Spencer, Princess [00:07:44] Diana's brother, is publishing his memoirs, some excerpts have already appeared [00:07:48] in the press. Odyle Longuevalle and Benjamin de Lombre tell [00:07:52] us more. There's Charles, the ex- [00:07:55] husband, and Charles, Diana's [00:07:59] brother, two men, one woman [00:08:02] and a phrase that 30 years later shakes [00:08:06] the United Kingdom. It would have been pronounced by the king [00:08:09] prince at the time to his brother-in-law during an argument [00:08:13] just after Diana's death, [00:08:16] he said: we will forget her quickly enough, and after a [00:08:20] stunned silence, I replied, I can't believe you just said [00:08:23] that. A conversation revealed in Diana's [00:08:27] brother's memoirs, a 400-page book intended, according [00:08:31] to him, to restore the truth about his [00:08:33] sister. It provoked the denial as quick [00:08:36] as it was unusual from Buckingham Palace. [00:08:40] His Majesty is aware that the pain of brotherly sorrow can obscure [00:08:44] reason, alter judgment and distort memories, and the brother [00:08:48] ironized, it's not every day that you wake up to find that [00:08:52] the king has tried to make you out to be someone whose memories are not [00:08:55] reliable, exchanges relayed by the divided [00:08:58] newspapers, monstrous headline this [00:09:01] tabloid, why is he doing this to the king now [00:09:04] wonders another, among the British people, [00:09:08] each to their own side, I think he's doing it just to sell [00:09:12] books, I don't believe what he says, [00:09:15] King Charles mistreated Diana so much, I think he could say [00:09:19] that, I believe her brother, nearly [00:09:21] 30 years after her death Lady continues to unleash [00:09:25] passions, even before the release of her brother's book, [00:09:28] four copies were stolen from a truck in the [00:09:31] Netherlands for unknown [00:09:33] reasons. [00:11:25] Welcome to your Africa news program, top story this evening, the families [00:11:29] of the 37 gold miners who died in detention in central [00:11:32] Nigeria are demanding explanations and justice, the [00:11:36] government has appointed an independent commission to conduct [00:11:39] the investigation. We will talk about the start of the [00:11:42] school year in Ivory Coast and the heavy cost of [00:11:46] schooling children, a report from our correspondents with parents who are [00:11:49] organizing themselves and have to spend astronomical sums [00:11:52] to buy school supplies, books and other [00:11:56] uniforms and our focus this Sunday evening [00:12:00] is on Morocco, 3 days before the legislative elections, nearly 400 [00:12:03] deputies to elect, new rules to moralize political [00:12:07] life and promote women and young people, but behind the ballot, a [00:12:11] crucial question, what confidence do Moroccans still [00:12:14] place in their political representatives, [00:12:16] an analysis with political scientist Nadia Ashimie [00:12:19] Alawi. [00:12:23] We open this news report by going to central Nigeria, to [00:12:27] Mina, where women, families are demanding [00:12:30] explanations and justice after the death of 37 [00:12:34] alleged illegal miners while they were detained by the country's civil [00:12:38] defense corps, the government has demanded and appointed [00:12:41] an independent commission of 10 members to conduct [00:12:45] the investigation. Nina Masson. [00:12:49] In Mina, central Nigeria, the streets have [00:12:51] returned to calm after several days of violent demonstrations. [00:12:56] Last Thursday in this locality, 37 young men were found dead in [00:12:59] detention, their families are now demanding [00:13:03] justice. The government is supposed to give us [00:13:06] justice, if the government does not take decisive measures, we will continue the [00:13:10] protest. [00:13:12] The 37 alleged gold miners, suspected of illegal gold [00:13:16] extraction, had been arrested by the Nigerian civil defense, a [00:13:20] paramilitary group that supports the police to ensure [00:13:23] security and protect sensitive infrastructure, [00:13:25] survivors say they were crammed [00:13:29] into overcrowded and poorly ventilated cells. The Nigerian [00:13:33] president ordered a thorough investigation. We want [00:13:37] the investigation to determine who gave the orders that led to these deaths. We [00:13:40] have suffered a serious prejudice, we have been denied justice. The [00:13:44] governor decreed 3 days of mourning and postponed the start of the [00:13:47] electoral campaign. The state of Niger, which is twice the [00:13:51] size of Belgium, is rich in mineral resources and attracts [00:13:55] artisanal miners who [00:13:58] gold. [00:14:01] It's back to school in Ivory Coast and with it a sometimes heavy [00:14:04] bill for families, books, supplies, uniforms to [00:14:08] school children, parents sometimes have to spend [00:14:12] several tens of thousands of CFA francs, so everyone [00:14:15] organizes themselves as best they can, the report by Makamara, Damien Kofi and [00:14:18] Caroline Mu. [00:14:21] Every school year, this single mother preferred the opportunity, she... [00:14:25] went to second-hand bookstores and passed her textbooks from one child to [00:14:28] another, but with the change of editions, the old books [00:14:32] no longer correspond to the new curriculum, which forces her to [00:14:36] buy new ones, you have a little one who is in 4th grade, the other one is [00:14:40] in 3rd grade, the one who is in 3rd grade, he has a 4th grade book [00:14:43] here, you can't give it to the other one, you are [00:14:47] forced to buy a new 4th grade book again, even though the old ones are [00:14:50] there and the child can use them, we are told we can't anymore, at that moment it [00:14:54] tires us out a lot. Some parents find other solutions, [00:14:57] HR manager by day, Francis becomes a private hire [00:15:00] driver in the evening and on weekends for a daily salary supplement [00:15:03] of 25,000 CFA francs. It's back to [00:15:07] school to be able to educate the children, [00:15:10] the supplies and all that, that's [00:15:13] why I became a private hire driver to earn a second income, we [00:15:17] can't count on one income so with this one that comes as a [00:15:20] supplement, the children can be educated peacefully when [00:15:24] the expenses become too heavy, we ask for social assistance. This is [00:15:28] the case of Tia Ami, mother of three children who turned to her town hall for [00:15:32] her son. She met the director [00:15:36] of socio-cultural services to request support for [00:15:39] her son who has just obtained his BPC, the establishment where he was [00:15:43] assigned and the fees are really high for [00:15:47] the parent of students that I am. The town hall of Treichville indicates that it has implemented [00:15:51] support schemes for some [00:15:53] families. We have almost 4000 children who [00:15:57] are assisted. In terms of school kits, we have almost [00:16:00] 5000 children who are assisted. We try to help parents so that parents can [00:16:04] be less stressed so that the children themselves [00:16:07] work towards excellence in the face of criticism on social media, the state has promised [00:16:11] the standardization of school books, but also a [00:16:15] manual scholarship, a pre-rental formula to relieve [00:16:18] families. The legislative elections that [00:16:22] are coming up in Morocco, Moroccans are called to [00:16:25] the polls this Wednesday, September 23, to renew the [00:16:28] 395 seats of the House of [00:16:32] Representatives, a scrutiny organized with new rules, more [00:16:36] control of candidates and financing but also measures in favor of [00:16:40] women and young people, an analysis we [00:16:42] have with Nadia, political scientist Nadia [00:16:46] Ashimi Alawi, professor of political science affiliated with the International [00:16:49] University of Rabat, this was the subject of our focus this [00:16:53] Sunday evening, let's listen to an excerpt. What [00:16:56] is happening, in fact, is the first place uh at [00:17:00] the end of the vote with three large, three [00:17:03] major parties that have already been in government and as I told [00:17:07] you. uh the Islamists whom we had who at the [00:17:10] last legislative elections in the last [00:17:14] legislative elections had been ousted by [00:17:18] the ballot box, had suffered a significant [00:17:21] defeat and who today or in any [00:17:24] case it's perhaps the question but I wouldn't talk about not fear much [00:17:28] more about you know the elections in Morocco they have been [00:17:31] institutionalized, let's say, in the landscape, it's no longer [00:17:34] in itself the stakes, what is perhaps scary is the voter [00:17:38] turnout, the crisis of confidence in political parties, [00:17:41] it is old in Morocco, it is [00:17:44] since the turn of the [00:17:47] 2000s, the first major legislative elections that we had [00:17:51] in the new reign in 2002, already the question was [00:17:54] raised about the crisis of confidence in political parties, [00:17:58] political parties that could not renew themselves, 20 years later it is the same [00:18:02] thing, it is worse uh it's not... [00:18:05] in Morocco, you see how much everywhere you mentioned in the news [00:18:09] about the defiance we have towards political parties uh but [00:18:13] indeed there is a [00:18:16] significant defiance towards a [00:18:20] political class which at the same time [00:18:24] struggles to expand its ranks, which struggles to open its [00:18:27] partisan structures but which also not [00:18:31] only struggles to renew itself but also ultimately is given [00:18:35] little scope, I was mentioning earlier about the [00:18:39] meaning of elections which are to take power, you know the big [00:18:42] political issues, the big, the big [00:18:46] public policies are almost already on [00:18:50] track, so this defiance [00:18:53] added to the fact that the stake uh and that the [00:18:56] question about the [00:18:59] meaning or the real weight contributes to [00:19:03] fueling a kind of disinterest [00:19:06] and we end up in Guinea-Bissau and women [00:19:09] also took part in the struggle for independence, yet their [00:19:13] stories remain largely unknown in her new book, journalist [00:19:16] and writer Richie Shirok traces the journeys of [00:19:20] these women involved in the liberation struggle against Portugal in the [00:19:24] 60s and 70s, a work of memory to bring these [00:19:27] combatants back to the heart of the national narrative as Guinea-Bissau [00:19:31] prepares to celebrate this September 24 the 53rd anniversary of the [00:19:34] proclamation of its independence. Sarah Sako spoke [00:19:38] with her. Ricky Schryock, hello. In The [00:19:41] Moon will not burn us, you immerse us in the war of independence waged by Guinea- [00:19:45] Bissau and Cape Verde against Portugal between [00:19:49] 1963 and 74, alongside actors or rather actresses [00:19:53] completely unknown to [00:19:56] women and what was their role? This [00:19:59] book largely tells the story of the women who played a decisive role in the [00:20:03] victory of the 11-year war of independence waged by Guinea- [00:20:07] Bissau and Cape Verde. Why did they [00:20:09] play a decisive role? Because they built hospitals and schools and [00:20:13] provided education and health care, thus contributing to [00:20:16] building a society, which was very important for the victory in the war [00:20:20] of independence in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. The book follows more [00:20:24] particularly one woman, Johanna Gomis, who is only 14 years old when she [00:20:27] joins the struggle and fights not only for national liberation but also [00:20:31] for her own liberation. The book therefore tells the story of these women and the role [00:20:35] they played in the creation of a state, [00:20:37] but also the personal impact that this struggle had on them. And [00:20:41] how did you find the trace of these disappeared [00:20:45] characters? That's an excellent question, I found [00:20:47] them quite naturally while I was doing other [00:20:51] reports in Guinea-Bissau, it's simply a group of extraordinary women [00:20:55] who are still very active, some of them are still in the [00:20:58] country. It was during my reports carried out for more than a decade [00:21:02] in Guinea-Bissau, and each encounter led me to another. [00:21:05] Guinea-Bissau [00:21:07] is often reduced to its number of coups, [00:21:11] to drug trafficking and you choose to tell its story differently [00:21:15] through its own ideals. What remains of [00:21:17] it today? I think that... first of all, the main ideal that [00:21:21] remains is this idea that even if they were outsiders during the war of [00:21:25] liberation, that they were outnumbered and had [00:21:29] fewer resources, they chose to fight for their freedom, and [00:21:32] I think that this form of tenacity is still largely part of the lives of many [00:21:36] people, and that is what makes the country still alive and dynamic. Many [00:21:40] people have a certain respect for natural resources and the land, which [00:21:44] occupies an important place in the book, but which was also at the heart of the [00:21:47] struggle, and this is also something that... remains very present [00:21:50] today among the ideals in Guinea- Bissau and then women, [00:21:54] the book talks about strong women, and there are many strong women in [00:21:57] Guinea-Bissau, so I think that this is also one of the ideals that [00:22:01] remains. You write that the history of these women is [00:22:04] rich in lessons well beyond the [00:22:07] country, what has it taught you? I think that [00:22:09] this is one of the greatest lessons I have [00:22:13] learned, and one of the things I hope that readers will take away from the book, is that the [00:22:17] power of creation is stronger than the power of destruction. During [00:22:20] the war, these women contributed to the victory by creating, by building [00:22:24] hospitals, by building schools, by taking care of others [00:22:27] and their compatriots and by showing them that they could have a better life outside [00:22:31] of colonial power, and they did not necessarily do so by killing their [00:22:35] enemies, but by meeting the needs of their own people, I think it is always [00:22:39] good to remember that power is not necessarily measured by what one can do to one's [00:22:43] enemy, but by how one can help the people one wants to help, [00:22:46] that's it, I think that's it, that's how [00:22:49] we close this news report, thank you to all those who followed us all over the world [00:22:53] and this evening in particular from Bissau to Rabat passing through [00:22:57] Mina, stay with us because the news continues on France 24, thank you. [00:24:04] "It has a part of the history of this city that is [00:24:07] disappearing due to demolitions and rehabilitation [00:24:11] all limits that do not respect what we [00:24:15] call the conservation and enhancement plan, it has the [00:24:18] enhancement plan". It is a source of architectural regulations that [00:24:22] really allows that [00:24:26] the buildings are rehabilitated and conform [00:24:29] to the old architecture, don't you think? [00:24:50] The population generally doesn't want to talk about it, especially in [00:24:53] Saint-Louis, it's really a taboo subject. It's [00:24:57] rare to see [00:25:00] slavery in Saint-Louis. Well, I'm sure [00:25:03] that many Senegalese people don't know about slavery, [00:25:07] slavery, [00:25:12] but the national heritage through methodology [00:25:14] has focused [00:25:17] on slavery on Gorée and... on colonization in [00:25:21] Saint-Louis by trying to show both sides, the bad [00:25:24] side and the [00:25:27] useful side, so that's why it was said that colonization is a necessary [00:25:31] evil, so colonial heritage is also a necessary evil, so it has a [00:25:34] very painful part, we don't even want to talk about it, but it still has [00:25:38] another part today that can be well [00:25:41] valued. [00:26:02] nobody knows about where we're gonna [00:26:04] go, [00:26:07] I don't have anybody here. I've never been to [00:26:10] camera, [00:26:14] we're doing the worst of the worst, always first, [00:26:30] I think that the plan of... [00:26:40] This is illegal, a judge said this is illegal, and this is continuing on. [00:26:44] Ice is very opaque about its intentions to remove [00:26:48] people to third countries. I think that it's fair to say [00:26:51] that everybody is running a little scared of the [00:26:54] US. [00:27:07] If you are told "overseas territory", of course, [00:27:10] like everyone, it evokes breathtaking landscapes, [00:27:14] magnificent nature, unleashed [00:27:17] elements or the richness of cultural [00:27:20] heritage, beyond the postcards and clichés, [00:27:24] Outre-mer Hebdo makes you discover the concrete [00:27:27] reality on the ground, the local actors who are moving the [00:27:31] lines, the economic and political news [00:27:34] as well as the social and environmental issues. [00:27:38] Outre-mer Hebdo presented by Sophie Vingadasalom and Kessie [00:27:42] Wishoptay to be seen on France 24. [00:30:06] You are watching "L'Essentiel" on France 4, good evening everyone, the far [00:30:10] right once again leading a regional election in Germany, the AFD is given [00:30:13] as the winner in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the west, German Chancellor [00:30:17] Friedrich Schmerz acknowledges a disaster for his party, the [00:30:20] CDU, which failed to enter parliament. [00:30:24] Another election in Russia where Vladimir Putin's party "United Russia" [00:30:28] surprisingly won the legislative elections, an election however disrupted by numerous attacks [00:30:32] by drones from Ukraine, Moscow promises in response to intensify [00:30:36] its strikes against Kyiv. Finally, how far will [00:30:39] the price of fuel go between the war in Iran and the one in Yemen, supplies [00:30:42] are severely disrupted, a new [00:30:45] surge in prices is to be feared.