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[00:00:00] In France, live on France
[00:00:02] 24.
[00:00:07] Hello everyone, happy to have you back in the night edition,
[00:00:10] here are the headlines of this
[00:00:13] manifestation of news. On the front page in Germany, he calls the regional
[00:00:16] in the fields of climate, elections a disaster, but he
[00:00:17] energy and promises to stay in office, more weakened than ever.
[00:00:22] We have instructed our space agencies and our defense ministries to Chancellor Fredric Schmerz acknowledges this historic setback for
[00:00:26] not in agreement with the including launch his party, the CDU, evicted for the first time from a regional parliament. We will see that the
[00:00:30] AfD continues its
[00:00:32] in front of the ascent, victory for the far-left in
[00:00:34] Berlin. Our
[00:00:37] first associate member of the countries are great independent nations that want to remain so in
[00:00:41] Charles, the brother of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mackarne
[00:00:44] display their unity in the face of tensions with
[00:00:47] Donald Trump's America. And then
[00:00:51] this unchallenged victory for Vladimir Putin's party in the
[00:00:54] legislative elections in Russia. United Russia
[00:00:58] would win with over 49%
[00:01:00] of the votes and can count on parties favorable to the Kremlin, a third
[00:01:04] day of voting disrupted, we will see, by a rain of drones and cyberattacks
[00:01:07] from Ukraine.
[00:01:22] It's an earthquake for the conservatives of the
[00:01:24] CDU. According to the latest estimates, the party of
[00:01:28] Chancellor Mertz only holds 4.9%
[00:01:32] in the elections of Mecklenburg-Western
[00:01:35] Pomerania, below the 5% threshold, he is
[00:01:39] therefore ousted from the regional parliament, the big
[00:01:41] winner of this election, 15 days after Saxony, is undoubtedly
[00:01:45] again the AfD which is in the lead with 38.3%,
[00:01:48] the far-right followed by the social democrats of the
[00:01:52] SPD, the CDU also risks
[00:01:55] losing the mayoralty of Berlin in the other election of the day,
[00:01:58] Friedrich Schmerz, you're going to hear him, he conceded a
[00:02:02] disaster. Jules
[00:02:04] because he somewhat brushed you off with that wave of the Boatou. Surrounded by his supporters,
[00:02:08] Leif Éric Holm here in the
[00:02:10] I believe that we must center of the image in a blue suit, can finally
[00:02:12] exult. The candidate of the far-right party AfD
[00:02:16] wins the regional elections of Mecklenburg-Western
[00:02:23] or World Cleanup Day, Pomerania. It's a great evening for the
[00:02:25] AfD. We gained 20 points compared to the last
[00:02:28] elections. "We have the mandate to govern
[00:02:32] here in Mecklenburg-Western
[00:02:34] Pomerania." To govern this region of northeastern
[00:02:38] Germany, if the AfD finds allies to reach
[00:02:41] a majority, because just behind are the social
[00:02:44] democrats of the SPD, far, very far from the
[00:02:48] CDU of Fredrit
[00:02:49] More than 4 and a half years after the beginning of Schmerz. At the announcement of the first results this Sunday
[00:02:52] evening, all eyes turned to the chancellery, although a
[00:02:56] departure of the German leader in case of a debacle had been considered. But
[00:03:00] exceptionally for a regional election, the chancellor
[00:03:03] preferred to cut short the rumors by speaking, first
[00:03:06] to acknowledge a historic defeat.
[00:03:10] We cannot sugarcoat the result obtained in Mecklenburg, it
[00:03:14] is a disaster, but the reforms must go forward, we
[00:03:18] take responsibility for these reforms,
[00:03:21] I personally take this responsibility, because I want
[00:03:25] to move our country forward. A chancellor
[00:03:28] more weakened than ever, but... who remains, while in
[00:03:31] the other election of the day in Berlin, the CDU was also beaten by
[00:03:35] the radical left of Die Linke who could snatch the mayoralty from it in case
[00:03:39] of an alliance with other left-wing parties. An
[00:03:42] election also marked by the good score of the AfD, which
[00:03:46] marks a good advance and its best historical result in the
[00:03:49] capital.
[00:03:52] Emmanuel Macron and Maccarni hand in hand in Saint-Pierre and
[00:03:56] Miquelon, an image and a message: our countries are...
[00:04:00] great independent nations that want to remain so, this is what Emmanuel
[00:04:03] Macron declared, this visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to this small
[00:04:07] French territory in the North Atlantic comes against a backdrop
[00:04:10] of tension with the United States. Donald
[00:04:13] Trump, as we know, recently published a map of the entire region,
[00:04:17] including Canada, covered with the American flag, the
[00:04:20] report signed by Jules
[00:04:21] Boiteau.
[00:04:25] It's an embrace that is intended to be highly
[00:04:27] symbolic. Emmanuel Macron welcomes Marc
[00:04:31] Carnet to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a first for a Canadian
[00:04:34] Prime Minister, the French archipelago in the North
[00:04:37] Atlantic, a key place in the new cooperation that the two
[00:04:41] countries want to seal, in a context of tension with
[00:04:44] Washington. This meeting comes a few weeks
[00:04:47] after these publications by Donald Trump where Canada,
[00:04:51] Greenland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon had passed under
[00:04:54] American flag. Yes, we believe
[00:04:56] together
[00:04:58] of an opposition coalition, that our countries are... independent nations that want to
[00:05:01] remain so, we both believe
[00:05:05] in democracy, the rule of law, respect for international
[00:05:08] law, respect for free and fair trade.
[00:05:14] the science on which our decisions are based
[00:05:17] and the strategic autonomy that we defend, in addition to its symbolic
[00:05:21] scope, new partnerships have also been announced
[00:05:25] between France and Canada
[00:05:30] space.
[00:05:34] develop and share common infrastructures,
[00:05:39] systems. The two leaders also discussed
[00:05:42] relations between Canada and the European Union, as Brussels has paved the
[00:05:46] way for Ottawa to become the
[00:05:49] EU. Getting closer to Europe,
[00:05:53] moving away from Donald Trump's United States, that is the message
[00:05:56] sent before the United Nations General Assembly this week in New
[00:06:00] York.
[00:06:02] Unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin's party wins the legislative
[00:06:06] elections in Russia. According to initial polls, United
[00:06:09] Russia obtains more than 49%.
[00:06:21] drone bombs, pardon me, 1600, of which
[00:06:23] 450 allegedly targeted Moscow, according to the mayor of the
[00:06:26] capital. The Kremlin announced that it would
[00:06:30] intensify its strikes in Ukraine. Jule Boateau, Axel
[00:06:33] Simon.
[00:06:35] According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian
[00:06:39] offensive. The Russian capital and its region were targeted
[00:06:42] by several hundred Ukrainian drones, and if most
[00:06:45] were intercepted, several escaped Russian
[00:06:49] air defenses and notably struck several floors of a residential
[00:06:52] building in the capital or this oil
[00:06:55] refinery, other devices fell in this residential
[00:06:59] area of Sofino in the Moscow region, causing casualties and significant
[00:07:02] damage.
[00:07:06] I was leaving my building, I had taken about twenty steps from the entrance when
[00:07:10] the explosion rang out, the windows flew. People started
[00:07:13] screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors had been
[00:07:16] blown off, there were injured, probably even one
[00:07:19] dead, but we can't be sure, the rescue workers who arrived at
[00:07:23] the scene didn't let us get close,
[00:07:27] this massive Ukrainian drone attack comes in a context
[00:07:30] of intensifying fighting on both sides, a series
[00:07:34] of Russian strikes on more than 36 targets caused several deaths on Saturday and
[00:07:37] Sunday, including children among the victims.
[00:07:41] This offensive also comes on the 3rd and last day of voting in Russia
[00:07:44] and has been denounced by the authorities as aiming to disrupt the
[00:07:48] course of the election in the Kherson
[00:07:51] region in southern Ukraine controlled by Russia, a
[00:07:55] drone notably killed several people including an employee of the electoral
[00:07:58] commission.
[00:08:02] the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, in a
[00:08:05] context of repression of all forms of opposition, Vladimir Putin's
[00:08:09] party was, unsurprisingly, announced
[00:08:12] 2 hours into the election on Sunday
[00:08:13] evening.
[00:08:18] And as you heard, a refinery
[00:08:20] was notably hit in Russia, which contributes to this
[00:08:24] already extremely tense geopolitical situation on the energy
[00:08:28] front with the war in the Middle East, the blocking of the
[00:08:31] three Dormous by Iran, of Bab el-Mandeb by the Houthi rebels
[00:08:34] of Yemen, anger is now rising across Europe, and notably in France,
[00:08:38] in the face of rising prices, gas continues
[00:08:42] to break records and could soon reach
[00:08:45] €2.60 per liter, see this report signed by Julien
[00:08:48] Cholin.
[00:08:50] Will we pay an average of a little over €2.60
[00:08:54] per liter of diesel in a month? The hypothesis is
[00:08:58] not outlandish and does not even surprise these
[00:09:01] motorists. I take it as an inevitability, I am
[00:09:05] obliged to drive, so there will have to be help
[00:09:09] from both sides, I don't know, but it can't continue
[00:09:12] like this, in any case, the tensions in the oil market,
[00:09:16] they are not about to stop, as evidenced by this
[00:09:19] plume of smoke that rose yesterday above the city of
[00:09:22] Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, targeted
[00:09:25] were the oil installations of the Saudi
[00:09:28] capital, an attack signed by the Houthi
[00:09:32] rebels supported by Iran who are gaining
[00:09:35] ground. Result after the blocking of the Strait
[00:09:38] of Hormuz, it is now another strategic passage that is
[00:09:41] threatened: the Strait of Bab
[00:09:44] el-Mandeb, enough to make oil prices rise even
[00:09:48] further, consequently at the pump, prices should continue to climb in the
[00:09:51] coming days, experts have worked, they predict
[00:09:54] €2.60 on average per liter of diesel in a month and
[00:09:58] about €2.30 for E10
[00:10:02] ethanol, these predictions are based
[00:10:04] on several parameters, obviously
[00:10:08] the evolution of oil prices, but also the euro-dollar exchange rate or...
[00:10:12] seasonality, however, obviously, there can be at any time geopolitical
[00:10:16] events, declarations by politicians of certain
[00:10:20] countries that can have a fairly rapid impact and therefore
[00:10:23] change our forecasts. Tomorrow the government meets in Matignon
[00:10:27] to approve an extension of aid schemes for professionals
[00:10:30] and individuals, it could, according to our information,
[00:10:33] widen the number of French people
[00:10:35] concerned.
[00:10:38] And now we come to this controversy which is making headlines in the
[00:10:41] United Kingdom, at stake, this memoir by Charles Spencer,
[00:10:45] 30 years after Diana's disappearance, a book that has
[00:10:48] not yet been released but has already caused a lot of fuss, the
[00:10:52] Princess's brother accused this Sunday King
[00:10:56] Charles II of wanting to discredit his story.
[00:10:59] Longueval.
[00:11:01] He Charles, the ex husband and
[00:11:06] Lady. Two men, one woman
[00:11:09] and a phrase that 30 years later, shakes the
[00:11:13] United Kingdom. It would have been uttered by the King, then Prince,
[00:11:17] to his brother-in-law during an argument
[00:11:20] just after Diana's death.
[00:11:23] He said: ...ironically quickly and after a
[00:11:27] stunned silence, I replied: "I can't believe you just said
[00:11:30] that." A conversation revealed in the memoirs of Diana's
[00:11:34] brother, a 400-page book intended, according to
[00:11:38] him, to restore the truth about his
[00:11:40] sister. It provoked the denial, as rapid
[00:11:43] as it was unusual, from Buckingham Palace.
[00:11:47] His Majesty is aware that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud
[00:11:51] reason, alter judgment and distort memories.
[00:11:55] The brother ironized, it's not every day that you wake up
[00:11:58] to find out that the king tried to make you out to be someone whose memories are not
[00:12:02] reliable, exchanges relayed by divided
[00:12:05] newspapers, monstrous titles this
[00:12:08] tabloid, why is he doing this to the king now
[00:12:11] asks another, among the British people,
[00:12:15] everyone takes a side, I
[00:12:18] think he's doing it just to sell his books, I don't believe what he
[00:12:20] says, King Charles treated
[00:12:24] Diana so badly. I think he could have said that, I believe his
[00:12:27] brother. Nearly 30 years after her death,
[00:12:30] Lady D continues to unleash passions. Even before the
[00:12:34] release of her brother's book, four copies were stolen from a
[00:12:38] truck in the Netherlands for reasons still unknown.
[00:12:41] This Sunday in France, there was a choice of
[00:12:44] heritage days
[00:12:48] well, we're going to focus on World Cleanup Day,
[00:12:52] heading to Marseille, Toulouse or Valenciennes. Many volunteers
[00:12:56] collected tons of waste, report signed by Noémie
[00:12:59] Dahon, that's perfect, at the end of this
[00:13:02] grabber, a first cigarette butt to track abandoned
[00:13:06] waste, in Valenciennes the collection is done as
[00:13:09] a family, and there's a lot to do, you understand
[00:13:13] now why you shouldn't throw it away, it's sad because it pollutes the
[00:13:17] planet a lot, 2 kg 400, a start
[00:13:20] because by the end of the day these volunteers had collected 400
[00:13:24] kg. Ah, I have one, yeah, there, I have
[00:13:28] another one further south in Toulouse, there too we're
[00:13:31] busy, 50 well-equipped volunteers walk
[00:13:34] the banks of the Garonne, the goal is to spot
[00:13:38] litter and fight against the pollution of the
[00:13:40] river. Very quickly, a
[00:13:43] piece of waste will release its
[00:13:47] chemical molecules and degrade in the water, like this tire
[00:13:50] fished out. Car parts are also found
[00:13:54] near... in this commercial area, I even found a magnificent
[00:13:57] hook, it has a drip, there's really everything,
[00:14:00] you don't necessarily expect it, these young girls woke
[00:14:04] up early to participate in this big cleanup, maybe it will make people
[00:14:08] realize that cigarette butts shouldn't be thrown on the ground, that for waste, there
[00:14:11] are still bins for it, cardboard, metal and
[00:14:15] plastic, we're going to separate everything, because among the waste
[00:14:17] found, some can be recycled,
[00:14:21] last year 400... 34 tons of litter were
[00:14:25] collected throughout France,
[00:14:28] that's
[00:14:31] all for this news, thank you for following us, the night edition returns in 15
[00:14:34] small minutes, see you later,
[00:14:52] hello and welcome to a one-on-one on France 24, our guest this week
[00:14:56] is Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, she is the president of the Capable Generations
[00:14:59] movement, she is the former first lady of Côte d'Ivoire, you
[00:15:03] are in Paris for the first time in many years, thank you very much for granting
[00:15:07] us this interview, thank you, thank you for
[00:15:10] having me, so we will start with the news in Côte d'Ivoire, the
[00:15:14] Public Prosecutor announced this Wednesday, September 16, an arrest
[00:15:17] warrant against Habiba Touré, she is the spokesperson for the former president, your
[00:15:21] ex-husband Laurent Gbagbo, she is
[00:15:24] accused of being involved in post-election violence in
[00:15:28] 2025, last year, the previous
[00:15:31] week, another associate of Laurent Gbagbo, Justin Koné Katinan,
[00:15:34] had been arrested, placed under a detention warrant.
[00:15:44] but you know, I am always very attentive
[00:15:48] to the
[00:15:51] democracy in the country, democracy is
[00:15:53] also the right
[00:15:56] for certain people to say what they think,
[00:16:00] even if they are
[00:16:04] power that governs the country and...
[00:16:08] every time there are arrests of this kind, the
[00:16:12] atmosphere deteriorates and I truly
[00:16:15] regret it, I would have preferred that there be no more arrests,
[00:16:19] after the elections or during the elections, we had
[00:16:22] nearly 1500 people
[00:16:25] arrested who are still in prison, these are
[00:16:28] political prisoners, these are political
[00:16:30] prisoners,
[00:16:33] you can accuse them of whatever you want, but these are political prisoners and I.
[00:16:37] when the elections were over, I
[00:16:40] wished that the issue would be
[00:16:43] settled and that these prisoners would be
[00:16:46] released, it's not being done and they keep
[00:16:50] arresting, it's a shame,
[00:16:53] so last year, we had an interview together shortly before the
[00:16:56] elections and you told me that I should call you Madame
[00:17:00] President, you only garnered 2.4%
[00:17:03] of the votes, then you had no elected deputies.
[00:17:07] in the legislative elections, how do you explain
[00:17:11] this failure? Well, the first thing I could
[00:17:15] say is that when you go to elections, it's always to
[00:17:18] win, that's why I told you, I will win,
[00:17:22] I can win, and you knew it wasn't
[00:17:24] possible, oh I knew it would be
[00:17:27] difficult for a number of reasons
[00:17:30] uh, there were things we had
[00:17:33] wanted to see uh
[00:17:36] reformed in... in the elections, we didn't get the
[00:17:39] reforms, uh, even the electoral lists, we had
[00:17:43] contested the way the electoral lists were drawn up,
[00:17:47] we also didn't uh receive any
[00:17:50] response at that level, we had asked for a discussion
[00:17:54] with the government, we didn't get that
[00:17:58] either, and so things went
[00:18:01] uh we went to these elections because in
[00:18:04] principle we consider that there should
[00:18:08] be several candidates when there are
[00:18:09] elections,
[00:18:12] you don't regret having gone anyway because such
[00:18:15] a score, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, the score, that's another
[00:18:19] thing, that's another thing, it's a disappointment anyway, of course, it's a
[00:18:23] very big disappointment, especially since
[00:18:26] participating in a presidential election campaign is tough,
[00:18:30] even physically, it's an ordeal, and so such
[00:18:33] a score, it's it's important that it's...
[00:18:37] it strikes and it wounds,
[00:18:40] now I preferred not to dwell too
[00:18:44] much on the on
[00:18:47] this score there,
[00:18:51] did the Ivorians not come out to vote,
[00:18:54] so you talked about the grievances
[00:18:57] you had against the government, the Independent Electoral
[00:19:00] Commission, the IEC, it was dissolved last May, for
[00:19:04] now we don't know what will replace it, uh you have...
[00:19:08] put a proposal on the table to avoid all
[00:19:12] controversies, all polemics, a kind of
[00:19:15] high electoral council that would be apolitical, do you
[00:19:18] think that is the solution and especially that it is the solution that will
[00:19:22] be adopted by the executive?
[00:19:26] I cannot say what the executive will
[00:19:29] do, I hear rumors uh the
[00:19:33] rumors I hear go against
[00:19:35] the proposals I made, but I stand by my
[00:19:39] proposals, I believe that today, if we want
[00:19:43] to have good elections with the confidence
[00:19:45] of the voters that the voters
[00:19:49] go out to vote, it is
[00:19:52] absolutely necessary that in the body
[00:19:55] that presides over the preparation of all elections in
[00:19:59] our country, there are no longer any representatives of political
[00:20:02] parties and that there are no longer any
[00:20:06] representatives of the government.
[00:20:08] These are the two things that are the basis of our
[00:20:12] demand, but do you think that is not the path that will be adopted
[00:20:16] uh we continue to fight and that's why
[00:20:20] I also visited other
[00:20:23] political parties so that we can agree
[00:20:27] on a proposal to make to the government, so
[00:20:30] just before the presidential election last
[00:20:33] October, you had been at the origin
[00:20:36] including with the PDCI, but it didn't
[00:20:40] work, notably because uh the party
[00:20:44] of your ex-husband, the PPACI, had not
[00:20:47] joined it, so on September 1st, you went
[00:20:51] to the headquarters of this PPACI with other left-wing
[00:20:54] leaders uh to discuss, I imagine, this subject and others about the formation
[00:20:58] of a coalition, do you really think that
[00:21:02] hope is there that this coalition will
[00:21:05] really succeed when it had failed last year, well, as you
[00:21:09] see, we made a concrete written
[00:21:12] proposal that can be examined by everyone, we
[00:21:16] sent this... proposal to all parties,
[00:21:20] including the RHDP, the ruling party, the ruling
[00:21:23] party, and well, uh, now we are
[00:21:26] discussing, uh, a certain number of parties, we are
[00:21:29] discussing, and we wished that the
[00:21:32] PPACI would join us in this
[00:21:35] discussion, that's why we went to meet the
[00:21:38] PPACI at its headquarters, and
[00:21:42] discuss with its leaders, President Gbagbo was
[00:21:45] not there, but uh, he had himself uh... uh represented
[00:21:49] by uh truly high-ranking
[00:21:52] personalities of the PPACI party
[00:21:56] who uh received our
[00:21:59] proposal who are discussing with us. We have
[00:22:02] also visited the PDCI,
[00:22:06] uh who also received our proposal and who
[00:22:09] is also discussing with us uh the
[00:22:13] DCI, which is the party led by Mr. Asalet
[00:22:16] Timoko, is also uh with us conducting these
[00:22:20] discussions, we are uh, we
[00:22:23] have several proposals on the table, there's ours which is the
[00:22:26] first, but there are uh two other
[00:22:29] proposals that are also on the table and that we are
[00:22:32] dealing with to have a position to have a common
[00:22:35] position, so you say Laurent Gbagbo was not present, did you
[00:22:39] talk to him about this rapprochement,
[00:22:43] do you no longer communicate since his return? We remember that it
[00:22:46] had been somewhat humiliating images for you,
[00:22:50] uh yes, well,
[00:22:54] hand, well, the past remains the past, uh today we
[00:23:00] move forward, did you talk to him, that was my question about
[00:23:03] uh to himself, no, but that's not
[00:23:06] necessary, we send a letter, we send the
[00:23:09] letter and then the party replies to us, uh we sent the
[00:23:12] letter with our
[00:23:15] text and the party replied to us, we
[00:23:19] are ready to listen to you, we want to hear you, we
[00:23:23] wish you, we propose that we meet on such a date and well there you
[00:23:27] go, it happens, uh you are in France notably to, I was going to say, mobilize your
[00:23:30] party a little, do you feel because we also heard that there
[00:23:34] have been resignations right and left, do you feel
[00:23:37] that this is a difficult moment and that the survival
[00:23:41] of your party is at stake at this moment, no, absolutely not,
[00:23:44] absolutely not, uh when we finished the presidential elections, when
[00:23:48] we finished uh the legislative elections, we
[00:23:52] uh stopped to make
[00:23:55] an assessment of all this work, all this activity
[00:23:59] and we had already decided to restructure the party a
[00:24:03] little and we were right in the
[00:24:06] restructuring of the party when these resignations came but
[00:24:09] already for several
[00:24:13] years the comrades from France and Europe
[00:24:17] had asked me to come and talk
[00:24:20] with them, share with them, and it is in this
[00:24:23] context that I am here, so we are going to
[00:24:27] officially install our
[00:24:30] leaders, we are going to invest them, we are going to
[00:24:33] discuss a little bit about the work program and then
[00:24:36] that's it, does that mean that you would be ready again
[00:24:40] to be a candidate for a future presidential election or what happened last
[00:24:43] time which was hard as you said earlier, vaccinated
[00:24:47] you against that, you should never be against
[00:24:50] something, when what you are
[00:24:53] looking for is the positive for the nation,
[00:24:57] what I want is that the Ivorian nation
[00:25:01] be completely transformed, so you do not exclude a new
[00:25:04] candidacy,
[00:25:06] we'll see, it's a bit early to talk about it, but we'll see, so
[00:25:10] you are in France, it's been since
[00:25:13] the events of 2010, 2011, you hadn't
[00:25:17] set foot in France? since
[00:25:21] 2007 or 2008
[00:25:24] there you go it's I imagine a gesture for you because
[00:25:28] obviously there were these events we remember you
[00:25:31] said it on this microphone of France 24 six years ago you
[00:25:35] accused the French army of not having
[00:25:38] protected you against attempts of
[00:25:41] rape during your arrest in
[00:25:43] 2011 I imagine that you maintain these statements but
[00:25:47] that this visit is still symbolic,
[00:25:50] symbolique,
[00:25:53] what happened in 2011 at the time
[00:25:56] of my arrest, it was something very
[00:25:58] serious, I was attacked.
[00:26:03] I even as I said there were some
[00:26:06] who even tried to make me lie down, to rape me and everything
[00:26:10] but the observation I made at the time, I talked about it,
[00:26:14] is that the French army was there and the French
[00:26:17] were there with cameras
[00:26:20] filming, they didn't lift a finger to help anyone
[00:26:24] among us, they were there
[00:26:27] in front of the French house, they
[00:26:31] were there just
[00:26:34] presidential residence, well
[00:26:38] today I come back first
[00:26:41] for my militant comrades with whom I come
[00:26:45] to work, discuss and
[00:26:49] then well, I will still meet friends who have done politics
[00:26:52] or who do politics in France, I will
[00:26:55] meet them, have you forgiven
[00:26:59] France? Oh yes.
[00:27:03] Oh yes, you know, I wrote it in my book
[00:27:06] when I was in Audiéné
[00:27:09] prison, I was led to
[00:27:12] forgive President Alassan
[00:27:14] Watara, so why would I forgive
[00:27:18] him, and then France, I won't
[00:27:20] forgive. Simon, thank you very much
[00:27:24] for answering the questions of France 24 on the occasion of
[00:27:28] this symbolic trip and thank you for watching this
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[00:30:07] Hello everyone, happy to have you back in the rest of the late edition,
[00:30:10] here are the headlines of this news: in
[00:30:13] Germany, he calls the regional elections a
[00:30:17] disaster, more fragile than
[00:30:19] ever, Chancellor Fredrich Schmerz acknowledges this
[00:30:22] historic setback for his party, the CDU, evicted
[00:30:26] for the first time from a regional parliament, but he
[00:30:30] intends to remain in office, we will see why. Our
[00:30:34] countries are two great independent nations that want to remain so
[00:30:37] in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister
[00:30:41] Mccarni display their unity in the face of
[00:30:44] tensions with Donald Trump's America. And
[00:30:47] then this victory without suspense for Vladimir Putin's party in the
[00:30:51] legislative elections, United Russia would win with more than
[00:30:55] 49% of the votes and can count on parties favorable to the
[00:30:58] Kremlin.