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[00:00:00] jingle and jingle, a report to watch on France
[00:00:15] obviously, the continuation of the visit to France of Pope
[00:00:19] Zinedine Zidane as coach of the French Francis. Several notable events this Saturday. In the morning,
[00:00:22] the head of the Catholic Church will visit a reception center
[00:00:26] dedicated to migrants in precarious situations. A little later,
[00:00:29] a giant mass will be held in Place de la Concorde, with 600,000 people
[00:00:33] expected. In the evening, he
[00:00:35] These new Catholics are changing the face of will fly to Lourdes. On
[00:00:38] renewing it from within. the first day of this historic visit, Pope Francis held a series of meetings and
[00:00:41] events, both religious, popular, and political. At
[00:00:45] UNESCO and at the Elysée, he warned against the dangers of AI, the
[00:00:48] scourge of war, surrogacy, or even end-of-life issues. He
[00:00:52] positioned himself as a defender of
[00:00:55] secularism, but not the kind that excludes religion from the public sphere. Full report
[00:00:59] in a moment. Also in the news, Donald Trump rejects
[00:01:03] Iran's offer to reopen the Strait
[00:01:06] of Hormuz and cease hostilities, according to the Wall
[00:01:10] Street Journal, citing Trump. The American president would even
[00:01:14] of the American naval blockade of be ready to resume bombing after the midterm
[00:01:17] elections. That's for the main
[00:01:20] problem, and that was the beginning of headlines. Coming up also, Zinedine
[00:01:23] Zidane's debut as coach of the French national football team, a
[00:01:27] 1-0 victory against Turkey in the Nations League. Victory on a goal by
[00:01:31] Kylian Mbappé, who was forced to leave the game due to injury and
[00:01:34] leave the national team gathering
[00:01:52] Some 60,000 people are expected this Saturday in Place de la
[00:01:55] Concorde in Paris for this giant mass celebrated by Pope
[00:01:59] Francis. On the second of the four days of his visit to
[00:02:02] France, the Pope's visit should lead to a vast
[00:02:06] Washington, Xi Jinping discussed popular demonstration. Kick-off at 3 p.m. for an
[00:02:09] event set to make history. Before this mass, the Pope will
[00:02:12] visit this morning around 9 a.m. the Bakita house,
[00:02:15] an institution dedicated to welcoming migrants
[00:02:19] in precarious situations. An opportunity for him to reaffirm his
[00:02:23] commitment to a subject close
[00:02:26] to his heart. Yesterday, the first day of Pope Francis's visit
[00:02:29] lived up to all expectations, so to speak. Political, popular, and religious
[00:02:33] meetings followed one after another in an atmosphere
[00:02:37] of fervor, whether at the Elysée, UNESCO, or the Stade de
[00:02:40] France. He launched a number of appeals on war, end-of-life,
[00:02:44] secularism, and AI. Report on this
[00:02:47] day with
[00:02:48] Lukiziela.
[00:02:51] An apostolic, historic, and
[00:02:54] political visit. Pope Francis's first steps in France are on
[00:02:58] the red carpet, from the
[00:03:01] airport to the courtyard of the Elysée where the
[00:03:04] Pope delivered an offensive speech in
[00:03:07] French. I sometimes observe with
[00:03:09] concern current drifts in societies
[00:03:13] that risk diverting science and
[00:03:17] technology into lucrative enterprises
[00:03:20] favoring genetic manipulation,
[00:03:23] surrogacy, organ trafficking,
[00:03:26] and assisted death.
[00:03:31] A jab two months after the adoption of the law on assisted dying in
[00:03:35] France. The sovereign pontiff also attacked those who
[00:03:38] distort the principle of secularism and
[00:03:41] warned against the dangers of artificial
[00:03:43] intelligence. The many communication channels risk
[00:03:47] multiplying false information and
[00:03:51] giving more importance to meaningless words, thus
[00:03:55] preventing dialogue rather than strengthening it. Artificial
[00:03:58] intelligence amplifies
[00:04:01] this problem. Such systems
[00:04:03] can use data, yes, but they cannot
[00:04:07] answer questions about the meaning of human
[00:04:10] life. As Pope Francis boarded his Popemobile,
[00:04:14] Parisians gathered to catch a glimpse of him
[00:04:18] during his walk through fervent streets. A very young
[00:04:21] crowd, there were schools that passed by, families all around, there were older
[00:04:27] mass. After the elevation of people, there were disabled people, in fact it's very very popular, very family-oriented. People come to see a
[00:04:30] Pope who is for some a religious leader, for
[00:04:33] others someone who inspires them, who gives them, who gives
[00:04:37] them warmth in their hearts. After vespers at Notre Dame, the Pope
[00:04:41] ended his day at the Stade de France with an evening vigil
[00:04:44] in front of 8,000 young people gathered like for a
[00:04:48] rockstar. Of course, all the teams of
[00:04:51] France 24, all our editorial staff, whatever their medium,
[00:04:55] videos, photos, illustrations, remain mobilized to continue to make you
[00:04:59] experience this... visit of Pope Francis. Special
[00:05:02] edition starting at 9 a.m. with our journalists in the street
[00:05:06] on set and our guests and
[00:05:09] consultants.
[00:05:13] According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump
[00:05:17] open the Strait of Hormuz for 7 days and cease
[00:05:21] hostilities. The newspaper also believes that the US
[00:05:24] President was preparing to resume bombings
[00:05:27] after the midterm elections. No official confirmation from the
[00:05:31] White House. Alice Broga details the Iranian proposal as
[00:05:35] it was formulated before the newspaper's revelations.
[00:05:39] To resolve.
[00:05:55] The Iranian Foreign Minister announced that he had submitted a plan to Washington via Qatar to
[00:05:58] open the Strait of Hormuz in one
[00:06:00] week.
[00:06:03] If the necessary conditions are met, the strait could be
[00:06:06] reopened and normal maritime navigation restored within this 7-day
[00:06:10] period.
[00:06:15] It notably demands the end of hostilities in the Middle East, including in
[00:06:19] Lebanon, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the lifting of sanctions
[00:06:23] on Iranian oil, and the end
[00:06:26] Iran. These conditions were already included in the memorandum
[00:06:30] of understanding signed in June between Iran and the United States, which had
[00:06:33] failed. For its part, the White House indicated that positive
[00:06:37] discussions were taking place with mediators. Donald
[00:06:41] Trump claims not to be in a hurry to reach an agreement, but the
[00:06:44] surge in fuel prices caused by the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz
[00:06:48] is affecting his popularity with Americans just weeks
[00:06:52] before the midterm elections, a deadline on which Iranian authorities
[00:06:56] are playing. If the American government wants an
[00:06:59] agreement in accordance with international law? Very
[00:07:02] well. If not, whether it's before or after their elections,
[00:07:06] what difference does it make to us?
[00:07:10] The Iranian president also boasts of having the
[00:07:13] support of the Chinese president. During a state visit to
[00:07:19] the war in Iran with Donald Trump. China, which imports massive amounts of
[00:07:22] Iranian oil, is also fully suffering the consequences of the
[00:07:26] closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:07:29] Also in international news, the escalation between Houthi
[00:07:33] fighters in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.
[00:07:36] Despite daily Saudi bombings, the Houthis are multiplying
[00:07:40] their attacks and are now targeting Riyadh. Two drones targeting
[00:07:43] the Saudi capital were intercepted, according to the coalition
[00:07:46] led by Saudi Arabia against the Houthis this Saturday. Saudi
[00:07:49] appeals to Donald Trump for military support have so far
[00:07:53] remained dead
[00:07:56] letters.
[00:07:58] Russia is not preparing for any combat of any kind with
[00:08:02] Europe. Vladimir Putin once again refutes
[00:08:05] accusations, particularly French ones, according to which Moscow
[00:08:09] is preparing to attack the European Union. He affirmed, however, that
[00:08:12] he will, I quote, think carefully before resuming
[00:08:15] talks with Ukraine. The Russian president expressed this on the
[00:08:19] sidelines of a forum on culture in
[00:08:21] Saint Petersburg.
[00:08:24] What government for Morocco after the legislative
[00:08:28] elections won by the outgoing coalition? A victory
[00:08:32] marked, however, by a massive abstention,
[00:08:35] only 38% participation.
[00:08:38] Consultations are underway. The king's decision to appoint a new governmental
[00:08:42] team is highly anticipated, says Émilie
[00:08:45] Boil.
[00:08:48] In Morocco, the vote count is over. The outgoing
[00:08:51] coalition wins the legislative elections
[00:08:54] overwhelmingly.
[00:08:58] The provisional results gave the following results: the Authenticity
[00:09:01] and Modernity party wins 97
[00:09:04] seats. The National Rally of Independents, 66
[00:09:08] seats, the Istiqlal party, 65
[00:09:11] seats, and the Justice and Development party, 54
[00:09:15] seats.
[00:09:18] Without an absolute majority, the Authenticity and Modernity party
[00:09:21] will have to form a coalition. Fatima al Mansouri,
[00:09:25] national coordinator of the party, stated that they would only begin alliance
[00:09:29] negotiations once the king had appointed a head of
[00:09:32] government.
[00:09:35] This question was not addressed. As a
[00:09:38] political party, we are waiting for the results and we will only
[00:09:41] turn to alliances once our king has
[00:09:45] appointed the head of the next government, male or
[00:09:48] female. A notable fact is that the Justice
[00:09:51] and Development Party, an Islamist opposition party, quadrupled its
[00:09:55] number of seats by winning 54 compared to 13
[00:09:58] previously. The party had campaigned notably on the fight against
[00:10:02] corruption, highlighting in its program purchasing power and youth
[00:10:06] employment. We hope that they will create employment opportunities for young
[00:10:10] people so that everyone can find work instead of...
[00:10:15] We ask them to do what they say, to manage things well,
[00:10:19] so that the country's affairs run smoothly, especially in terms of
[00:10:22] health, education, and employment. Youth
[00:10:25] employment was one of the main issues of these elections, which were held
[00:10:29] less than 2 months after the migratory crisis in Ceuta. Despite the efforts of the
[00:10:33] parties, the participation rate was only 38%, one of the lowest
[00:10:37] rates recorded in 20 years.
[00:10:40] A word on sports with the debut of
[00:10:44] national football team, a 1-0 victory against Turkey in the
[00:10:47] Nations League, a victory on a goal by Kylian Mbappé, who was forced
[00:10:51] to leave the game due to injury and leave the national team gathering
[00:10:55] as a precaution. Report on the match with Jules
[00:13:55] 50 years old and still young and valiant,
[00:13:59] U2, the legendary Irish rock band is 50
[00:14:02] years old, and what better way to celebrate this anniversary than to return to the places where
[00:14:06] they started. U2 thus found themselves in the high school where the band
[00:14:09] formed in Dublin, a surprise concert in the school
[00:14:12] but also in other areas of the city. For the occasion, the band also
[00:14:16] unveiled their new single from their
[00:14:19] 50th anniversary album.
[00:15:00] You're on Line Weekend, it's time to catch up with the teams of 7
[00:15:03] in France. On the occasion of the Pope's visit, we focused on a
[00:15:07] phenomenon in full expansion: the explosion in the
[00:15:11] number of baptisms of adolescents and adults. Watch.
[00:15:32] A trend no one saw coming.
[00:15:36] For several years, the number of baptisms has been exploding among young
[00:15:39] people in France. Arnaud, I baptize you in the name of the
[00:15:43] Father. When I arrived 8 years ago, we did 10
[00:15:46] baptisms a year, and we are preparing to welcome 45 or 50
[00:15:50] baptisms for next Easter.
[00:15:54] A phenomenon explained by a difficult current context,
[00:15:56] but not only that. Yes, I can say that I had a
[00:16:00] personal encounter with
[00:16:02] Jesus.
[00:16:05] What does the Catholic Church have to say about the meaning of life? That was really my
[00:16:08] approach.
[00:16:13] the church and
[00:16:27] Johanne and Matthieu have been friends for 4 years. They
[00:16:31] met on the benches of the university in Paris, not far from
[00:16:35] this climbing wall. It's an indoor sport. And there's a lot
[00:16:38] of implicit communication especially through the rope,
[00:16:42] and, yeah, you have to trust each other, yeah, it's cool. A
[00:16:46] complicity based on a common desire for
[00:16:48] performance.
[00:16:52] Come on, come on.
[00:16:55] But for Johanne, physical exertion is no longer enough
[00:16:59] and soon he begins a quest for spirituality. I grew
[00:17:03] up not at all in a religious environment, on the contrary, we talked very little about God, when we
[00:17:07] talked about God it was more to say that everyone should do
[00:17:10] as they wanted and that I shouldn't be forced into anything. My mother
[00:17:13] is agnostic and my father, on the other hand, is profoundly
[00:17:17] atheist and rather anticlerical.
[00:17:21] Yet at his grandmother's funeral, Johanne heard
[00:17:24] the Ave Maria, a Catholic hymn that deeply
[00:17:27] moved him. I was asking myself questions about what the meaning of
[00:17:30] life really was, and well, I knew that religions in general
[00:17:34] could potentially answer that, or at least offer an answer. And I
[00:17:38] knew that Matthieu, my best friend, was Catholic, so I told
[00:17:41] him, listen Matthieu, if you ever go to
[00:17:44] mass, I'd be willing to go with you to
[00:17:47] see.
[00:17:50] A curiosity shared by many young people
[00:17:52] currently. While the church deplores the decline in religious
[00:17:56] practice in France, the number of adult baptisms has tripled in 10
[00:18:00] years, more than 21,000 in
[00:18:02] 2026.
[00:18:06] The pandemic, the... in Ukraine, the acceleration of
[00:18:09] climate change mean that the future seems
[00:18:13] bleaker than modernity, which seemed to offer solutions to the problems of human
[00:18:17] life, sometimes appears as a threat, and that
[00:18:20] religion in general, spirituality,
[00:18:23] is regaining credibility among young
[00:18:25] generations.
[00:18:32] Generally, when young people come to church and
[00:18:35] knock on the door, they have already made a journey. So for
[00:18:38] some, it has been a question since their childhood, they were not baptized because their parents were not
[00:18:41] believers, not practitioners. There is a journey, for some it's a very
[00:18:45] recent experience, it can be a sudden discovery
[00:18:48] of God in a church, a reading of the Bible that has transformed their
[00:18:52] lives.
[00:18:54] And then there's a moment when they are invited to come to what
[00:18:58] we call here the youth mass, a mass that brings together nearly 100 young people, and they
[00:19:01] experience that they are not the only ones asking the question.
[00:19:05] Here, I think about 20 % of our congregation are people who
[00:19:09] are not baptized or who are
[00:19:11] returning.
[00:19:15] Among these new Catholics, Malik, a lawyer
[00:19:18] of Senegalese origin and Muslim
[00:19:20] culture. When he arrived in Paris for his
[00:19:24] studies, Malik felt a huge void,
[00:19:28] so he immersed himself in
[00:19:29] the
[00:19:33] Bible. For more than 10 years, I happened to go to churches several
[00:19:36] times. Because I wanted to see paintings, because I like
[00:19:39] architecture, but as soon as I felt a mass
[00:19:42] starting, I would run away because I didn't feel
[00:19:46] at home, because I would tell myself, "Well, the Catholics will gather
[00:19:50] among themselves, and I don't belong to that world, so I have to
[00:19:53] leave."
[00:19:57] In 2021, a friend invited me to her wedding mass, I found myself for
[00:20:01] the first time in a
[00:20:04] the host, I understood that God had always been there for me.
[00:20:08] It's this phrase that still makes me
[00:20:11] live today, it's Jacob who says that, when he wakes up one
[00:20:14] morning, he says: God was there and I didn't know
[00:20:17] it. It's this phrase that worked on
[00:20:20] me. I understood that God had always been there, who had led
[00:20:24] me and that I was discovering him at that moment. For
[00:20:27] this new generation, religion is no longer a taboo,
[00:20:31] nor an obligation.
[00:20:34] Religion ceases to be a heritage that is received at
[00:20:38] birth and automatically transmitted
[00:20:41] from one generation to another to become more of a free choice. So compared
[00:20:45] to the typical profile of Catholicism, these
[00:20:48] newly baptized bring... university, they come from more
[00:20:53] immigration, they diversify the image of Catholicism and break
[00:20:56] the stereotypes associated
[00:20:58] with it.
[00:21:02] Among the baptismal candidates,
[00:21:05] Morgane. She is 27 years old and is preparing to become
[00:21:08] an English teacher.
[00:21:12] I grew up in a housing project in the 94 in a
[00:21:15] single-parent family raised by my mother with an
[00:21:19] older sister who... who is disabled and who went to a care home, my mother was
[00:21:23] a police officer, she came from Madagascar when she was 19, she was
[00:21:27] Protestant, but we never really were practicing as
[00:21:30] a family, we didn't go to mass, we didn't go to church, I didn't really
[00:21:34] understand what it was when I was a child.
[00:21:38] After the death of her mother, then her
[00:21:40] godfather, Morgane felt the need to go to church and
[00:21:44] looked online.
[00:21:48] Near her home, she found... Satan de la Butocaille, where she was
[00:21:51] welcomed by a priest, but she still
[00:21:54] hesitated.
[00:21:58] I feel like I couldn't explain why, it was September
[00:22:01] 2025, no, I have to go back to church, I went, I
[00:22:04] found Father Henri, I asked him if I could still join the
[00:22:07] catechumenate, he told me no the adventure,
[00:22:11] you know. The Pope in Rome, the
[00:22:14] catechumenate is the teaching that leads to baptism,
[00:22:18] it lasts on average 2 years. At the time, it was much more important, how
[00:22:22] are the gospels of the day chosen because it's fixed since it's written in the Bible,
[00:22:26] how was it chosen? To clarify the question, it's about the
[00:22:29] choice of liturgical texts that we hear at mass. There are
[00:22:33] Sunday masses and weekday masses, the four
[00:22:37] gospels, the birth of the catechumenate. There's a free exchange at the beginning where we can ask
[00:22:40] questions and it's a very informal exchange with the priest
[00:22:44] and then there's a short teaching on the death of Jesus on the
[00:22:48] cross or who is... the Virgin Mary,
[00:22:51] and then we read the Bible together just among
[00:22:55] catechumens and then there's a small prayer at the
[00:22:57] end. of the Holy Spirit.
[00:23:00] Amen.
[00:23:17] context. New era, new method
[00:23:20] of communication. The Church must now reckon with
[00:23:24] influencers.
[00:23:26] The Catholic Church has very little sway over these
[00:23:29] influencers who will mix beauty
[00:23:33] tips, Jesus glow, Lent
[00:23:36] routines, and theological elements. So the
[00:23:39] very horizontal logic of social networks, from that
[00:23:43] point of view, weakens the vertical dimension of
[00:23:46] Catholicism. The best known is Brother Paul Adrien.
[00:23:59] We find Sister Albertine who started on social networks in 2021 with the support of her
[00:24:03] community. Let's be present at this moment and then
[00:24:07] let's pray for the Pope, let's pray for France.
[00:24:10] Amen. To serve young people, you have to
[00:24:14] understand their world, what they watch for hours a day,
[00:24:18] and so it started like that, making small videos. Very simple, they are really short
[00:24:21] videos, very simple to answer quite basic questions that they told
[00:24:25] me, but very quickly the messages multiplied and the requests
[00:24:28] went further. She says she is not Catholic but she appreciates the content. There isn't a
[00:24:32] week when there isn't someone who shares, who
[00:24:35] opens their heart in a true quest for God. I
[00:24:39] very regularly give a phone number or a contact
[00:24:43] of a parish, of proposals that will be able to go
[00:24:46] from virtual to... because we are the religion of
[00:24:51] the incarnation, we are a religion that cannot be lived
[00:24:55] completely behind a
[00:24:56] screen.
[00:25:00] it was an influencer who guided Malik to the Trinity Church and
[00:25:04] its priest,
[00:25:07] a meeting that changed his life and that of his Muslim
[00:25:10] mother. At the beginning of my Catechumenate,
[00:25:14] when, well, the brothers and sisters in the parish, because we are
[00:25:17] many, asked me... uh
[00:25:21] how it would go with my mother, when I would tell her, I
[00:25:24] always answered a little almost annoyed, a little offhand, it will go very
[00:25:28] well, my mother lived all her life
[00:25:32] in France, she has very good Catholic friends, so
[00:25:36] I didn't prepare anything and then one Sunday,
[00:25:39] well, uh I told her that I was going to ask for baptism and
[00:25:43] that, by the way, I had to leave the Sunday lunch
[00:25:46] because I had to go to evening mass.
[00:25:51] And it was that that created a chill, a very big
[00:25:54] chill between us,
[00:25:57] uh, we almost didn't talk for almost a year, but indeed it
[00:26:01] wasn't, it wasn't... easy,
[00:26:03] yeah,
[00:26:06] more and more, it's friends who bring to
[00:26:08] religion, like Matthieu who followed Johanne's whole journey
[00:26:12] until he became her godfather.
[00:26:15] Johanne, I baptize you in the name of the
[00:26:18] Father and of the Son
[00:26:22] and of the Holy Spirit.
[00:26:24] Amen.
[00:26:27] I was proud to be able to support you in this preparation and
[00:26:30] now, uh that I am your godfather. Uh that you are
[00:26:33] baptized, but I think you agree, it's really also an
[00:26:37] additional pillar to our relationship, I, it's what I said,
[00:26:40] it's a bit like a marriage of friendship you know, it's, it's
[00:26:43] really, well, now we are linked by something that transcends us too, so
[00:26:47] it's, it's, it's, it's special anyway as a bond
[00:26:49] too bonds, that's what many young people
[00:26:53] seek in the church.
[00:26:56] At her baptism, Morgan will be supported by her friends from the
[00:26:59] choir, but also by her older sister. "I grew up feeling
[00:27:03] different, especially in relation to my sister, going to
[00:27:07] church allowed me to realize that I had the right to be
[00:27:11] there unconditionally, that I
[00:27:14] am, I am part of the world and that I have the right
[00:27:17] to be among people in society, where I am, just like the
[00:27:21] others,
[00:27:24] these new recruits shake up the church, it
[00:27:28] forces it to get into motion and to
[00:27:30] open up to the world.
[00:27:33] My God, I adore you.
[00:27:52] Leo XIV, papal visit to France, to
[00:27:55] watch on France
[00:27:56] 24.
[00:30:15] continuation of the visit to France of Leo XIV, several significant
[00:30:19] meetings this Saturday morning, the head of the Catholic Church will
[00:30:23] visit a reception center dedicated to migrants in precarious situations,
[00:30:27] a little later, a giant mass, Place de la
[00:30:29] Concorde, 60,000 people are expected... in the
[00:30:33] evening, he will fly to Lourdes. On the first day of this
[00:30:37] historic trip, Leo XIV held a series of meetings and
[00:30:40] events, both religious, popular and political, at
[00:30:43] UNESCO or at the Élysée, he warned against the dangers of AI, the
[00:30:47] scourge of war, surrogacy or end-of-life care, he
[00:30:51] presented himself as a defender of secularism, but not the one that
[00:30:54] excludes religion from the public space, report in a moment,
[00:30:58] here is also a