FRANCE24 — broadcast 20260920 223000 UTC 432 transcript segments Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API (Chirp) + Gemini 2.5 Flash Non-Thinking Data courtesy of The GDELT Project (https://www.gdeltproject.org/), from the Internet Archive TV News Archive. Machine transcription. Treat it as a searchable index of what was broadcast, not a verbatim quotation record. [00:00:07] Good evening everyone, you are watching the main news on France 24. The far-right is [00:00:11] once again leading a regional election in Germany. The AfD is projected to win in [00:00:15] Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. German Chancellor [00:00:18] Friedrich Schmerz, for his part, acknowledges a disaster for his party, the [00:00:21] CDU, which failed to enter the regional parliament. [00:00:25] Another election in Russia, where Vladimir Putin's United Russia party wins [00:00:28] the legislative elections without surprise. A vote, however, disrupted by numerous [00:00:32] drone attacks from Ukraine. Moscow promises [00:00:35] to intensify its strikes against Kyiv in [00:00:38] response. Finally, Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister [00:00:41] Marc Carney in a tête-à-tête in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The two leaders say [00:00:45] they want to strengthen ties between their two countries, two [00:00:48] independent nations that wish to remain so, they specified, a clear message [00:00:52] addressed to Donald [00:00:53] Trump. [00:01:08] Two weeks after the far-right's victory in Sax Hanhalt, the AfD is once again [00:01:11] projected to lead in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. [00:01:14] It is also making strong progress in Berlin, a [00:01:18] crushing defeat for the CDU of Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz, who [00:01:22] calls it a catastrophe for his party. Jule [00:01:25] Boêteau surrounded by... [00:01:29] We gained 20 points compared to the [00:01:49] last elections, [00:01:52] than 4 and a half years after the start of we have the mandate to govern here in Mecklenburg-Western [00:01:55] Pomerania. [00:01:57] This region in northeastern Germany, [00:02:00] if the AfD finds allies to reach a majority, [00:02:03] because just behind them are the Social Democrats of the [00:02:07] SPD, far, very far from the [00:02:09] CDU of Fredric Schmerz. Upon the announcement of the [00:02:12] first results this Sunday evening, all eyes turned [00:02:15] to the Chancellery, as a departure of the German leader in case of a debacle [00:02:19] had been considered. But, exceptionally for a regional [00:02:23] election, the Chancellor preferred to cut short the rumors by [00:02:26] speaking. We cannot sugarcoat the result [00:02:33] obtained in Mecklenburg, it is a disaster, but [00:02:37] reforms must go forward, we take responsibility for these [00:02:41] reforms, I personally take this [00:02:44] responsibility, because I want to move our [00:02:48] country forward, a Chancellor more fragile than ever, but [00:02:51] who remains in power, while in the other election of the day in Berlin, [00:02:54] the CDU was also beaten by the radical left-wing Die Linke, [00:02:58] who could take the mayoralty from him in case of an alliance with other left-wing [00:03:02] parties, an election also marked by [00:03:05] the good score of the AfD, which marks a good step forward and [00:03:09] its best historical result in the capital. [00:03:12] And a sign of the CDU's [00:03:15] debacle, Friedrich Schmerz's party failed to enter the [00:03:19] Mecklenburg parliament. It did not manage [00:03:23] to reach the elimination threshold of 5%. [00:03:25] Emmanuel Macron received the Canadian [00:03:29] Prime Minister Mark Carney this Sunday. The meeting took place on the French archipelago of [00:03:33] Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, located off the coast of Canada, and the two men say [00:03:38] situations, indeed, when reading they want to strengthen ties between their two countries, particularly on issues of security and energy. Jules [00:03:42] Boateau: [00:03:45] This is an embrace that is highly [00:03:48] symbolic. Emmanuel Macron welcomes Marc Carney to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, [00:03:51] a first for a Canadian [00:03:55] Prime Minister. The French archipelago in the North [00:03:58] Atlantic, a place in the new cooperation that the two [00:04:02] countries want to seal, in a context of tension with [00:04:05] Washington. This meeting comes a few weeks after [00:04:08] seven publications by Donald Trump, where Canada, [00:04:12] Greenland and [00:04:14] D's brother. Two Saint-Pierre and Miquelon were passed under American flag. Yes, we believe [00:04:17] together that our countries are two great [00:04:20] independent nations that wish to [00:04:23] remain so. We believe in democracy, [00:04:27] the rule of law, respect for international law, [00:04:31] respect for free and fair trade, [00:04:34] science on which our decisions [00:04:38] are based, and the strategic autonomy that we defend. In addition to its [00:04:42] symbolic scope, new partnerships have also been announced [00:04:47] postpartum between France and Canada in the fields of climate, [00:04:49] energy, and space. [00:04:53] We have tasked our defense agents with developing and sharing [00:04:57] common infrastructures, including systems of the [00:05:01] The two leaders also discussed relations between Canada and the European Union [00:05:05] as Brussels opened the way for Ottawa to become the [00:05:09] first associate member of the EU. This report. [00:05:12] Europe, moving away from Donald Trump's United States, [00:05:16] such is the message sent before the United Nations General [00:05:19] Assembly this week in New [00:05:20] York. [00:05:23] In Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, is, without surprise, announced [00:05:27] winner of the legislative elections that took place this weekend, a vote marked [00:05:31] by numerous Ukrainian drone attacks and cyberattacks. [00:05:35] Jules Boateau. According to [00:05:38] the mayor of Moscow, this is an unprecedented Ukrainian [00:05:41] offensive. The Russian capital and its region were targeted by [00:05:44] several hundred Ukrainian drones. And if most were [00:05:47] intercepted, several escaped Russian air [00:05:51] defenses and notably struck several floors of a residential [00:05:54] building in the capital or this [00:05:57] oil refinery. Other devices fell in this residential [00:06:01] area of Sofino in the Moscow region, causing casualties and significant [00:06:05] damage. [00:06:08] I was coming out of my building, I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when the... [00:06:43] This offensive also comes on the third and final day of voting in Russia [00:06:46] and has been denounced by the authorities as aiming to disrupt the [00:06:50] conduct of the election. In the Kherson region, in [00:06:54] southern Ukraine, controlled by Russia, a drone notably [00:06:57] killed several people, including an employee of the electoral [00:07:00] commission. More [00:07:04] the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in a context [00:07:07] of repression of all forms of opposition, Vladimir Putin's [00:07:11] party was, without surprise, announced the winner [00:07:14] of the election on Sunday [00:07:15] evening. [00:07:19] This Sunday, September 20th, was World Cleanup Day. For several [00:07:23] years now in France, hundreds of thousands of people have participated, resulting in [00:07:26] hundreds of tons of waste collected. [00:07:30] A report from Marseille, Toulouse, and Valenciennes with Noémie [00:07:33] Dahon. Perfect! At the end of [00:07:36] this gripper, a first cigarette butt. To track down abandoned [00:07:40] waste in Valenciennes, the [00:07:42] collection is done with family. Oh dear, there's a lot to [00:07:46] do. You see, you understand now why you shouldn't litter. It's sad because [00:07:50] it pollutes the planet a lot. 2,400, a [00:07:53] start, because by the end of the day these volunteers will have collected [00:07:57] 400 kg. [00:08:00] Ah, I have one. Yes, I have another one further south in [00:08:03] Toulouse. There, too, we're active. 50 [00:08:06] volunteers, well-equipped, survey the banks of the Garonne. [00:08:10] To spot litter and fight [00:08:13] against river pollution. [00:08:16] Very quickly, a piece of waste will [00:08:19] release its chemical molecules and degrade in [00:08:22] the water, like this tire [00:08:26] fished out. Car parts are also found [00:08:30] near Marseille on this commercial area. I even found a magnificent [00:08:33] olive tree, the perfusion. There's really everything [00:08:36] you wouldn't necessarily expect. These young girls got [00:08:40] up early to participate in this great [00:08:42] cleanup. Maybe it will make people realize that cigarette butts shouldn't be thrown [00:08:46] on the ground, that there are bins for cardboard, metal, and [00:08:48] plastic. We're going to separate everything, because [00:08:52] among the waste found, some can be [00:08:56] recycled. Last year, 434 tons of [00:09:00] litter were collected throughout [00:09:03] France. [00:09:04] This is a book that has not yet been released, and yet [00:09:07] it is already making a lot of noise in the United Kingdom. Charles, [00:09:10] Diana's brother, is publishing his memoirs. Some excerpts [00:09:14] have already appeared in the press. Ody Longuevalle and Benjamin De Lombre [00:09:18] tell us more. [00:09:21] There's Charles, the ex-husband, and [00:09:24] Charles, Lady [00:09:27] men, one woman, and one sentence that, 30 [00:09:30] years later, shakes the United Kingdom. It was [00:09:34] reportedly uttered by the King, then Prince, to his [00:09:38] brother-in-law during an argument just after the... He said, "We'll forget her soon [00:09:45] enough," and after a stunned silence, I replied, "I [00:09:48] can't believe you just said that." A [00:09:52] conversation revealed in the memoirs of Diana's brother, a 400-page [00:09:55] book intended, according to him, to restore the [00:09:59] truth about his sister. It provoked [00:10:01] a denial as rapid as it was unusual from Buckingham [00:10:05] Palace. "His Majesty is aware that the pain [00:10:08] of fraternal grief can obscure reason, alter judgment, [00:10:12] and distort memories." And the brother scoffed, "It's not [00:10:16] every day you wake up to find that the King has tried to make you out to be someone [00:10:20] whose memories are not reliable." Exchanges [00:10:23] reported by the divided newspapers. [00:10:27] "Monstrous," titles this tabloid. "Why [00:10:30] is he doing this to the King now?" wonders another. Among the British [00:10:33] people, everyone has their side. "I [00:10:37] think he's just doing it to sell his book. I don't believe what he [00:10:40] says." "King Charles treated [00:10:44] Diana so badly. I think he could say that. I believe his [00:10:47] brother." Nearly 30 years after her death, Lady D continues to [00:10:51] stir up passions. Even before the release of her brother's [00:10:55] book, four copies were stolen from a truck in [00:10:58] the Netherlands for reasons still unknown. [00:11:01] And that's the end of this news. Thank you for your [00:11:04] attention. The information continues on France 24. I wish you all [00:11:08] a great week. Hello everyone and welcome to [00:11:27] Actuel. Today we're looking at postpartum psychosis, or [00:11:30] puerperal psychosis, a serious psychiatric illness that occurs [00:11:33] in rare cases after the birth of a child. Puerperal psychosis [00:11:37] was recently brought to public attention with the [00:11:40] highly publicized trial in the United States of Lince [00:11:43] Clancy, a mother accused of killing her three [00:11:47] children and then attempting to commit suicide. We'll talk about this in a [00:11:50] moment with my guest, Dr. Cécile Corfdir. But [00:11:53] first, let's look at the details of this story with [00:11:57] Nicolas Chamantin. [00:12:00] After 6 weeks of deliberation, the judge's sentence [00:12:04] falls. Members of the jury, at this stage, I will [00:12:06] declare that the jury is deadlocked and I [00:12:09] will declare a mistrial. A woman listens impassively [00:12:13] to the magistrate. This is Lince Clancy, 36, [00:12:17] the accused in this trial that inflames [00:12:21] the United States. This nurse faced life in [00:12:24] prison for the strangulation murder of her three [00:12:28] children, aged 5, 3, and 8 months, facts [00:12:30] she does not deny, but for which she pleads not guilty, citing postpartum [00:12:34] psychosis. Of the 12 jury members, 11 were in [00:12:38] favor of her acquittal on the grounds of her criminal [00:12:42] irresponsibility, but unanimity is [00:12:44] necessary. I want to thank these [00:12:47] jurors, all but one. [00:12:50] There were 11 to one in favor of an [00:12:54] acquittal, and only one individual decided that there was reasonable [00:12:57] doubt and refused to apply the law. [00:13:01] Lince Clancy has been in a [00:13:04] wheelchair since she attempted suicide shortly after the triple [00:13:07] infanticide. Outside the courthouse, women offer their [00:13:10] support to the accused. [00:13:13] We wanted Linze, her legal team, and the public to know that [00:13:17] regardless of what happened in that house in January 2023, we support her. [00:13:21] She asked for help and didn't get it. I truly hope that the judicial system [00:13:26] will acknowledge the difficulties that women face during their pregnancy [00:13:29] and after childbirth. January 2023 and the [00:13:49] cruel and premeditated murder of three [00:13:52] innocents. A new trial could be organized [00:13:55] later with a new jury. For now, the [00:13:58] prosecutor has not announced her decision. [00:14:01] And we go further on this issue with [00:14:03] you, Dr. Cécile Corfdir. Hello, you are a [00:14:07] psychiatrist in perinatality, head of the parent-baby hospitalization [00:14:11] unit at the GHU Paris Psychiatry and Neuroscience. Thank [00:14:14] you very much for being with us for this question. I would first like [00:14:17] us to clarify postpartum psychosis, does it have a link [00:14:21] with postpartum depression? Uh, [00:14:25] that's a very good question. No, these are two [00:14:28] distinct clinical [00:14:31] entities. Uh, postpartum [00:14:34] depression is much more frequent than postpartum [00:14:37] psychosis and occurs much more [00:14:40] insidiously uh, often in the first [00:14:43] three months after childbirth. Uh, whereas [00:14:46] postpartum psychosis, which is much rarer, affects one to two women [00:14:50] per thousand births. [00:14:52] Uh, it will arrive much earlier, often within [00:14:55] the first two weeks after the birth of their child, and in a [00:14:58] much more noisy way, often with an [00:15:01] inaugural insomnia, uh, then confusion, [00:15:05] disorientation, agitation, really a break with [00:15:08] the previous state, which is really very different from [00:15:12] depression, uh, [00:15:14] and sometimes the occurrence of psychotic symptoms. And yet we [00:15:18] never hear about it, or at least I never heard about this [00:15:21] postpartum psychosis before the Lince Clancy case. How is that? I think [00:15:25] there are still very taboo subjects concerning [00:15:28] perinatality, especially those that are also linked [00:15:32] to the image we have of women and even [00:15:35] more of mothers. I think it's already [00:15:38] very important that postpartum depression is talked about much more than before, but indeed [00:15:42] puerperal psychosis is much rarer too, because one case out of 100 [00:15:46] is not the same thing as 15 to 20%. So, [00:15:48] yes, however, the consequences can also be [00:15:52] very serious, with indeed suicides or [00:15:55] infanticides, even if these are still rare cases. Fortunately, [00:15:58] these are very rare cases. In any case, we hear about it [00:16:02] today with this extremely media-covered trial in the United States, but it happens [00:16:05] indeed more often than in this extreme case. I [00:16:09] propose that we listen to the story of Meganne Cliffel. She also suffered [00:16:12] from puerperal psychosis or postpartum psychosis. A few months [00:16:16] after the birth of her second child, she began to have [00:16:20] delusional episodes. She is now recovered, but she [00:16:24] lived through very difficult times, which she recounted to Annette Jong. [00:16:28] I suggest we listen to [00:16:30] her. [00:16:34] I got on the subway and suddenly I saw everyone looking at [00:16:38] me, my brain raced and I thought: they're [00:16:41] watching you. And then the next second, when they looked [00:16:45] at their phones and I saw them with their headphones, I thought: [00:16:48] my god, they're not just watching you, they're [00:16:51] spying on you. From that moment on, around [00:16:54] 5:30 p.m. on a Friday evening, and until Saturday morning around [00:16:57] 10 a.m., I found myself plunged into a completely [00:17:00] delusional scenario where the whole city was trying to attack me and [00:17:04] my babies, and I was convinced that my husband [00:17:08] was in on it. During all that time, I kept everything [00:17:11] I thought I knew to myself, trying to find a way to get us out [00:17:14] alive, and for most of that time, my husband [00:17:18] had no idea what was happening, that I was lost in this delusional [00:17:21] scenario. It wasn't until the next morning, when I got into a fight, when I [00:17:25] started hitting him and trying to grab our children to save them, and [00:17:28] then, conversely, I tried to get on the roof of the building to [00:17:32] jump, that he understood that I was sick. He called [00:17:35] 911, and the police took me away. [00:17:42] What Meganne Cliffel describes there, these characteristics with her paranoid [00:17:45] delusions, this [00:17:46] violence, [00:17:49] uh, not necessarily, in the majority of puerperal [00:17:53] psychoses, there are not necessarily [00:17:55] delusional elements. [00:17:58] Uh, but it can happen, and often when it happens, it [00:18:01] uh, it often concerns the baby, and that's what can be [00:18:05] also, uh, dangerous. That is to say, it can be a questioning [00:18:09] of whether it is her own baby or thinking that people want to kidnap her [00:18:13] baby, etc. Uh, but there are [00:18:16] not necessarily any violent acts in postpartum psychosis. I think we need to [00:18:20] be very careful about what we say on this subject. [00:18:24] Uh, postpartum psychosis does not equal [00:18:27] violence or infanticide, far from [00:18:30] it, and fortunately. But it can indeed happen that there are [00:18:34] psychotic symptoms, so delusional ideas, often [00:18:37] indeed uh, [00:18:40] paranoid, and sometimes hallucinations, and [00:18:43] in this case, indeed, there is [00:18:46] a, well, in puerperal psychosis, it's true that there is often a break [00:18:50] with, uh, with reality, an [00:18:53] absence of awareness of these disorders. That's also how it differs a lot from [00:18:57] postpartum depression, which does not have these same characteristics. Do [00:19:01] we know today what triggers uh, the onset of postpartum [00:19:03] psychosis? Are there any antecedents, warning [00:19:07] signs during pregnancy, before pregnancy, anything that should [00:19:10] raise an alarm? Well, in certain [00:19:16] the patient's psychiatric history, personal and family, [00:19:19] indeed, we can say that there were evocative elements, [00:19:22] but in the majority of cases, it is an event that occurs [00:19:26] suddenly without being able to really anticipate it. Indeed, the risk [00:19:30] factors are still having uh, [00:19:33] personally or at the family level, [00:19:36] a history of bipolar disorder or postpartum psychosis. [00:19:40] A woman who is bipolar and has already presented with postpartum [00:19:44] psychosis has a very significant risk of having [00:19:48] another episode of postpartum psychosis. [00:19:51] Uh, [00:19:53] well, one of the factors that should also alert a new mother is insomnia without [00:19:57] fatigue. Uh, a [00:20:00] woman who could no longer rest even though her baby is sleeping, etc., and who [00:20:03] would be quite agitated. That's something [00:20:07] we really need to worry about to know if there isn't postpartum psychosis that is developing. [00:20:10] Is it hormones linked to birth that trigger it, or is it [00:20:14] an underlying psychiatric illness? Well, it's [00:20:18] both, I'd say. That is, indeed, the risk factors, uh, there are genetic [00:20:22] risk factors, so [00:20:25] uh, as I said just now, [00:20:28] uh, a history of postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. But [00:20:32] it's true that the postpartum period is a period of great [00:20:36] psychological vulnerability [00:20:38] uh, in women, [00:20:42] and indeed, the more [00:20:45] there is a much more significant biological component in postpartum psychosis than [00:20:49] in postpartum depression. You work in a hospital, you [00:20:53] are the head of a parent-child unit, [00:20:56] uh, so that means you welcome couples [00:20:59] mother and child or father and mother and [00:21:03] child. How does it work, uh, how do you choose the cases? Is it always [00:21:06] postpartum psychosis? No, it's not always postpartum psychosis, already because [00:21:10] uh, during postpartum psychosis, it is important [00:21:14] to have an emergency hospitalization. Uh, [00:21:18] however, in our unit, there is not much space, there are five [00:21:21] beds for parents and five beds for [00:21:23] babies. [00:21:26] So indeed, sometimes there is no space, and sometimes [00:21:29] the maternal state also requires hospitalization in adult [00:21:33] psychiatry, while waiting to then be able to have space [00:21:36] in a mother-baby unit and be able to reunite the mother-baby [00:21:40] dyad at that time. How long do hospitalizations last? On [00:21:44] average 3 and a half months, but that means you [00:21:48] have extremely few people you can... [00:21:50] Exactly. How is it that there are so few resources dedicated to this disease, which is nevertheless extremely [00:21:54] serious? Well, it remains a rare [00:21:58] disease, uh, because, for example, for postpartum depression, [00:22:02] many women are treated on an outpatient basis and do not [00:22:05] need to be hospitalized, and in that case, indeed, [00:22:09] it's only the most severe cases of postpartum depression that end up [00:22:12] in a hospitalization unit. But there are treatments, we [00:22:16] can recover. Postpartum psychosis, well, that's very important, indeed you are right to [00:22:20] uh, postpartum psychosis has a good [00:22:23] prognosis, meaning that there are treatments that are quite adapted, on which we have a lot [00:22:27] of experience, and people regain their previous functioning [00:22:30] ultimately in, well, in a short [00:22:34] time. So we remember in any case that it can be cured. Thank [00:22:37] you very much, Dr. Cécile Corfdir, for coming to talk to us about this [00:22:41] postpartum psychosis, also called puerperal [00:22:44] psychosis. I also refer you to this [00:22:47] book "Madonnes et Mères," a comic by Mathilde [00:22:51] Ramadier, Moran Mazars, and Lord Vestoland [00:22:55] on the difficulties sometimes encountered by these mothers and the [00:22:58] reality of these women who work, so, in perinatal psychiatry [00:23:02] like you. Thank you very much for coming to talk to us about all this. Thank you for [00:23:06] watching. 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