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[00:00:10] reaffirmed the positions of
[00:00:32] Thank you for choosing France 24 to keep you informed about the world, Pope
[00:00:36] Leo XIV is therefore preparing to leave Paris, he must
[00:00:40] fly to Lourdes, the Sovereign Pontiff presided over a solemn mass
[00:00:44] this afternoon in Place de la Concorde here in the capital. At least 700,000 people
[00:00:47] took part, according to figures released by the
[00:00:51] Vatican.
[00:01:00] course. He has kept the
[00:01:05] I told you a moment ago, 60,000 people had been
[00:01:07] announced, there were finally 700,000
[00:01:11] according to Vatican figures gathered on the Champs
[00:01:14] Élysées this afternoon on the Champs-Élysées and far
[00:01:17] beyond for this mass presided over by Pope
[00:01:20] Leo XIV, the time has come for the Sovereign Pontiff to
[00:01:24] conclude this 2-day stopover in Paris before
[00:01:27] flying to Lourdes, Marie Chuster was on
[00:01:31] the Champs-Élysées all afternoon, I suggest you
[00:01:34] listen: the Champs-Élysées were this Saturday packed
[00:01:38] with people to follow this exceptional mass in the heart of the capital celebrated by
[00:01:42] Leo XIV in person and it was precisely to see him in his Popemobile
[00:01:46] are they a complement or a competitor to that Catholic faithful had gathered in front of the barriers from the
[00:01:49] early hours of the morning, at his passing, the fervor was at
[00:01:53] its peak, parents held out their babies to try to obtain the
[00:01:57] blessing of the Holy Father, young people jostled to
[00:02:00] immortalize the moment with their mobile phones, we even saw
[00:02:04] priests climb over the barriers to also have a chance
[00:02:08] to meet the Pope's gaze. Upon his arrival at Place de la
[00:02:11] Concorde, the commotion
[00:02:14] mosaicist, he is an artist of gradually gave way to silence to listen to the Pope's
[00:02:16] homily, some had tears in their eyes, others told us they had been
[00:02:22] there of comforted by the Pope's words and felt less alone today, this papal celebration is also a historic
[00:02:26] moment because it made it possible to gauge the Catholic fervor.
[00:02:30] France and then Florence Gaillard
[00:02:34] was at Place de la Concorde, Florence, this square where this
[00:02:38] nature than solemn outdoor mass was held is gradually
[00:02:41] emptying, perhaps an opportunity to make a
[00:02:45] first assessment of this Parisian stopover of Pope
[00:02:48] Leo XIV here in the capital before continuing his journey in France
[00:02:51] obviously,
[00:02:54] absolutely, the Pope followed the schedule that
[00:02:58] even anger was planned, which was extremely busy in Paris, which
[00:03:02] began with an official day with the Élysée, with
[00:03:05] UNESCO, with Notre-Dame and then it
[00:03:09] ended with the Stade de France with young people aged 17 to 35
[00:03:12] years, and today it was a little more moving day, perhaps a little more
[00:03:16] spiritual, a little more heart to heart, excuse me
[00:03:19] the expression, he went to meet vulnerable
[00:03:23] people at the Bakita house, people with disabilities,
[00:03:26] migrants, former people
[00:03:30] true everywhere in all societies, in in in prostitution, then
[00:03:33] he went to the Catholic Institute of Paris where he met catechumens,
[00:03:36] alcohol, mixed with neophytes, seminarians, all these people who
[00:03:40] are in a way the future of the Church, and then finally
[00:03:43] he walked along this avenue of the Champs-Élysées where he
[00:03:47] took the time to greet the crowd, to bless
[00:03:50] children, to shake hands, to obviously
[00:03:53] then go up on the stage to celebrate this
[00:03:57] mass with a crowd of
[00:04:00] 600,000 to 1 million people,
[00:04:03] 95 and we are still waiting for the count, but it should be quite a large
[00:04:06] number, and he gave a speech, a rather short
[00:04:10] homily, but where he was direct in
[00:04:13] his remarks, that is to say, he asked Catholics and those
[00:04:17] the time of the who were watching, those who were listening to know what their priorities were,
[00:04:21] are they material possessions, are they entertainment,
[00:04:25] are they things that leave emptiness or discomfort
[00:04:28] inside or are they
[00:04:31] important things, spiritual things, things that
[00:04:34] take us further, things that satisfy us and
[00:04:38] nourish us and quench our thirst in the long term
[00:04:41] for something higher and greater.
[00:04:44] The Sovereign Pontiff, Florence, who indeed was at
[00:04:48] times in his role as head of the Catholic
[00:04:51] Church, and also as a politician in his capacity as
[00:04:54] head of the Vatican, he went from one register to
[00:04:58] sexual violence within the another, in that which concerned religious questions, he was firm,
[00:05:02] as you just said, reminding us of the positions of
[00:05:05] the Church, even though he was invited by
[00:05:09] the mosaics adorning the facade of the President of the Republic, we remember in particular what he said, for example, concerning
[00:05:12] end of life, since we remember that a law has been in force since last
[00:05:16] August here in France, or surrogacy, these are
[00:05:19] questions that raise questions, but he
[00:05:23] the Church without
[00:05:24] concession.
[00:05:27] Absolutely. So we're not going to say there
[00:05:30] was tension between the Pope and the President of the Republic, because everything went very well at
[00:05:34] the Élysée. Nevertheless, the President of the Republic would
[00:05:37] have liked an official lunch with the Pope, he would
[00:05:40] have liked an official dinner with the Pope. He would have liked a beautiful
[00:05:44] visit to Notre-Dame de Paris with him and the re-baptizers
[00:05:48] of Notre-Dame. He didn't get all that, especially since the
[00:05:52] theme of the Pope's trip was for the world and life,
[00:05:55] and obviously, the law on end of life that has just
[00:05:59] been voted by parliament in France poses a problem for
[00:06:02] the Catholic Church, just like abortion which has
[00:06:05] been constitutionalized in a way by the President of the Republic,
[00:06:09] so the Pope has kept his
[00:06:13] course of Catholic doctrine in the face of a country that is
[00:06:16] increasingly secularizing and de-Christianizing. Thank you
[00:06:20] very much, Florence Gaillard live from Place de la Concorde for France
[00:06:23] 24, Constance Colona Cesari,
[00:06:27] journalist and Vatican specialist always by our side, I present you again for those
[00:06:30] who have just joined us, what Florence
[00:06:33] said a moment ago, this position
[00:06:37] of the Sovereign Pontiff firm when necessary, reminding
[00:06:41] us of the positions of the
[00:06:46] Church firmly but without aggressiveness, in any
[00:06:49] case the Republic knows what the Church thinks,
[00:06:52] the Church knows what the Republic does, we talk
[00:06:56] to each other, I would say, as adults,
[00:06:58] and things are clear, there were, well,
[00:07:01] perhaps still some barbs, because when he
[00:07:05] compares end of life,
[00:07:08] a text like that, even if he didn't mention the problem of the law,
[00:07:11] he spoke only of principles, but we must not compromise
[00:07:14] life, the sale of organs,
[00:07:17] donation,
[00:07:20] surrogacy, that's not all,
[00:07:22] it's not quite the same,
[00:07:26] so we can clearly see that the Pope
[00:07:29] has ultimately
[00:07:32] criminalized, I would say, by this way
[00:07:36] of encompassing these three themes
[00:07:39] which for us French people are quite different in nature,
[00:07:43] because for end of life it also responds to a demand in society
[00:07:47] anyway, it's of a different
[00:07:50] the sale, the organ donation, yes, but the sale
[00:07:53] of organs is very badly viewed,
[00:07:57] he put all these questions on the same level, so there,
[00:08:01] and I also read in his speech at the Élysée perhaps
[00:08:04] a notion that didn't go all the
[00:08:07] way but to say that a good Christian might
[00:08:11] refuse to apply this
[00:08:14] kind of thing, so there we are also opening up
[00:08:17] freedom for certain doctors to refuse,
[00:08:21] conscientious objectors to invoke a conscientious objection exactly
[00:08:25] and that obviously these are much heavier
[00:08:28] themes than these are the lines of the speeches but for
[00:08:32] now we have remained quite general anyway, important
[00:08:36] things have been said well would he have
[00:08:39] been able to go all the way by saying this is what the church says but this is also what the laws
[00:08:43] of the country in which you find yourself say so
[00:08:45] first the laws of this country that must be obeyed oh but in any
[00:08:49] case he did not at all encourage that,
[00:08:53] we can say that if we read carefully last night I made
[00:08:56] this speech at the Élysée perhaps but it's not how it
[00:09:00] was said he has no reproach addressed to the
[00:09:03] government he did not try to convince to ask
[00:09:07] France to go back on these texts when
[00:09:11] we know that François, in his tête-à-têtes with
[00:09:14] Emmanuel Macron, had tried to convince him, notably
[00:09:18] a priori in Marseille, at the Pharo
[00:09:21] Palace, when, he had
[00:09:24] come to Marseille and not to France, as we remember he had
[00:09:27] said and where he had met Emmanuel Macron in any event, he had
[00:09:31] firm, important messages reminding
[00:09:34] everyone of their positions after
[00:09:37] all, and we will now project ourselves towards the next
[00:09:41] stage of this pontifical journey here in France, Pope
[00:09:44] Leo XIV is expected this evening in Lourdes,
[00:09:48] a sanctuary city, where pilgrimages are also held, it is in
[00:09:52] Lourdes that he will meet victims of sexual
[00:09:55] violence within the Church, he will meet only
[00:09:58] seven, while we will recall a figure, 33,000
[00:10:02] people at least according to their report published in October
[00:10:05] 2021, 33,000 people who have been victims of
[00:10:11] Church and its institutions. What do these victims expect from this meeting
[00:10:14] in Lourdes, I suggest you watch this report and then we will talk about it just
[00:10:17] after,
[00:10:21] the Rosary Basilica in Lourdes were hidden
[00:10:25] for the visit of Pope Leo XIV, they are
[00:10:28] the work of the artist and Jesuit priest Marco
[00:10:30] Rupnik, accused of sexual assault and psychological
[00:10:34] manipulation by several of his former collaborators,
[00:10:37] including nuns. The Vatican reportedly exerted no
[00:10:41] pressure to conceal them, according to the Bishop of Tarbes and Lourdes,
[00:10:44] who invoked a symbolic decision out of respect for
[00:10:47] pilgrims.
[00:10:50] It's important because my clients' accounts revealed that they themselves
[00:10:54] experienced abuses at the time the artwork itself was being
[00:10:57] created. During his visit to Lourdes scheduled
[00:11:01] for Sunday, the Sovereign Pontiff will meet seven
[00:11:04] victims of sexual abuse within the French
[00:11:07] clergy. More than words and condemnations, many
[00:11:11] victims now expect actions from Pope Leo XIV
[00:11:15] who recently described sexual abuse committed in the church as an open
[00:11:18] wound, and we obviously hope
[00:11:22] that this meeting will be
[00:11:26] not just in terms of emotion, but in
[00:11:29] terms of taking a stand and that he
[00:11:32] will display absolute shame towards all these
[00:11:36] priests who committed the unspeakable. In
[00:11:39] 2021, a report from an independent commission
[00:11:42] estimated at 33,000 the
[00:11:45] number of children who had suffered sexual violence within the Catholic Church in
[00:11:48] France, abuses that were seven decades old. The
[00:11:52] restorative bodies created by the bishops after
[00:11:56] the publication of this report, as well as victims' collectives,
[00:12:00] already evoke a missed opportunity, they would have preferred
[00:12:03] a full day of collective exchanges. Catholic authorities have put in place protection
[00:12:07] measures and financial compensation, but victims
[00:12:11] continue to demand accountability and more
[00:12:14] prevention.
[00:12:17] So an important moment awaits Pope Leo XIV in Lourdes,
[00:12:21] he has this meeting, as we said, with these seven victims of sexual violence, he
[00:12:25] also has all this embarrassment surrounding the mosaics on the facade of the
[00:12:28] basilica, another bad sign, I would say, but why doesn't the
[00:12:31] Vatican go faster in its reforms, why is there a fault
[00:12:35] of Pope Francis, this
[00:12:39] the Church, he is a Jesuit, Rupnik, Father Rupnik,
[00:12:43] and if there had not been the decision
[00:12:47] the Bishop of Lourdes and
[00:12:50] well the mosaics of this person
[00:12:54] who abused, we know that,
[00:12:57] women would continue to appear so
[00:13:00] what a disastrous signal, what a fault so
[00:13:04] there is always a slowness, we see that the Vatican,
[00:13:07] it is running behind, it is not going fast enough and
[00:13:11] it is unfortunate but it is always the case and it does not mean that the Church is not
[00:13:15] progressing but that it is progressing at a pace that is not that of society
[00:13:18] and that always creates unsatisfied expectations, frustrations,
[00:13:23] on the part of these victims, on the part of these victims' collectives
[00:13:27] and on the part of society as a whole, can we explain it, is there
[00:13:31] a disconnection between the Church and this reality and these sufferings
[00:13:34] that are cried out today, or is there rather a
[00:13:38] will not to see, it's simply not to see, I think the problem
[00:13:41] is that it takes, well,
[00:13:44] generations to pass, it may still take, well, yes, a
[00:13:48] generation because there are people who understand in the Church, there are
[00:13:51] people who do not understand, but it's
[00:13:55] outside the Church, I don't want to diminish the Church's fault at all, but in
[00:13:59] fact we understand well, there are scandals of pedophilia, of complaints in
[00:14:02] our society, you see the recent tragedies of complaints that are
[00:14:06] not recorded, of reports that are not made that
[00:14:10] lead to child murders, so we see
[00:14:13] that there is a slowness in all structures and it's worse for
[00:14:16] the Church because canon law in its form is a law
[00:14:20] that there is no civil society in the Church so what does canon law
[00:14:24] do, it protects itself, it protects its institution, you see
[00:14:28] the notion of civil victim, that does not exist for
[00:14:31] the Church, these are concepts that apply to societies, to
[00:14:35] civil justice, not religious, so
[00:14:38] it takes more time elsewhere, and I would say it has
[00:14:42] West, and then tomorrow Africa,
[00:14:46] Asia, we will hear about it unfortunately for a very
[00:14:49] long time, I'm afraid, in any case the Sovereign Pontiff will be
[00:14:52] reminded of this question at the time of this journey to Lourdes,
[00:14:56] towards which we are now looking forward before closing this news, I would just like to show
[00:15:00] you this image from Lima, Peru,
[00:15:03] we remind you that the Sovereign Pontiff also has the nationality of this country, this man whom
[00:15:07] you see at work is an artist who dedicates a giant
[00:15:10] statue to Leo XIV, Raphael Gutierrez is his name, he is a sculptor and
[00:15:14] he is still at work, he is working on the details of the portrait of the bust of the
[00:15:18] Sovereign Pontiff which is almost finished, so at a time when all eyes are on
[00:15:21] France, these images come to us from Peru. We
[00:15:25] leave it at that and he will go to Peru soon, he will go
[00:15:28] to discover this statue, thank you very much,
[00:15:31] Constance Colona Cesari, thank you, this is the end of this edition, thank you for
[00:15:35] watching.
[00:16:58] This morning a customer came, this machine had a list price of 70 million and
[00:17:01] 800. As I'm recording this video, it's been about 6
[00:17:05] hours since this machine was sold.
[00:17:37] or by train or by truck.
[00:17:40] All these steps add a strange and unusual
[00:17:44] cost. A few months ago, I had to lay off all 12
[00:17:47] of my employees. My prices are, without exaggeration,
[00:17:51] increasing hour by hour.
[00:18:03] My retirement salary is not enough for the first week of the
[00:18:06] month. And I'm the one.
[00:18:33] This is not life with all this killing
[00:18:36] and massacres, we.
[00:19:37] Tonight it's capoeira and
[00:19:41] uses
[00:19:44] sport, dance and art to
[00:19:47] supervise, educate and transform youth,
[00:19:50] jeunesse,
[00:19:57] we open the door for all people who
[00:20:00] want to participate in activities, even children
[00:20:04] who are part of the be no problem for us.
[00:20:08] Because we work for violence reduction
[00:20:10] community,
[00:20:12] social.
[00:20:50] Social capoeira is like a sport
[00:20:53] to develop school, discipline and
[00:20:57] self-confidence and also to stimulate creativity,
[00:21:01] imagination and self-expression, we work
[00:21:04] to help vulnerable
[00:21:07] people, and we also work on social
[00:21:11] equality, respect and we
[00:21:14] empower women, girls because there are
[00:21:17] many women and girls who are... victims of
[00:21:20] gender-based violence sexual aggression,
[00:21:24] sexual harassment, we work a lot against that, Saint Anthony,
[00:22:24] Did you know that transport accounts for 16% of carbon emissions worldwide,
[00:22:28] that road transport is responsible for three
[00:22:32] quarters of this pollution,
[00:22:34] and that the number of individual cars has doubled in Europe since the 1970s?
[00:22:38] Hello and welcome to Plan B,
[00:22:42] the economy otherwise. Greenhouse gas emissions, fine
[00:22:46] particles, noise pollution, for now 2.6%.
[00:22:50] Vehicles that pollute the planet are electric or rechargeable
[00:22:53] hybrids. The decarbonization of road transport is just
[00:22:56] beginning. As an alternative to electric,
[00:22:59] biofuels remain a hope, especially since
[00:23:02] you can equip your car with a box to run on
[00:23:05] gasoline or beet. A sugar
[00:23:08] factory but not only, some of the surrounding crops
[00:23:12] end up in the tank of our cars. This group manufactures
[00:23:15] industrial alcohols for perfumery, pharmacy and
[00:23:19] fuels. Our raw material has arrived, the first step will
[00:23:23] be fermentation, so here in front of us, there are two
[00:23:26] fermentation lines, one line for the fermentation of beet
[00:23:29] juice and one line for the fermentation of all wheat
[00:23:33] substrates. The distillery is built a few
[00:23:36] kilometers from the sugar factory, the wheat arrives directly through
[00:23:40] a pipe from a neighboring farmer's silos. We will remove all
[00:23:43] the outer wall which is called the bran and we will grind
[00:23:47] the almond to recover the starch that we will ferment. and thus obtain
[00:23:51] alcohol. To obtain biofuel, it is necessary to obtain an
[00:23:54] almost pure alcohol, 99.7%.
[00:23:57] Wheat or beet wine is therefore distilled and then strongly
[00:24:01] dehydrated, otherwise it will damage the engines.
[00:24:05] This is where we will analyze the finished product, because the main characteristic of biofuel
[00:24:08] is to check its water content, especially the absence of water in
[00:24:12] biofuel to really guarantee the quality of the finished product that can be used
[00:24:16] in a combustion engine. Final product at the pump, E10 fuels.
[00:24:20] and E85, they contain at least 10 and
[00:24:23] up to 85% vegetable
[00:24:26] classic gasoline, they can power hybrid vehicles but
[00:24:30] not only, it looks like
[00:24:34] this, very simple,
[00:24:37] you plug it in, hop, there you
[00:24:41] go, finished, this small box between 700 and 1000
[00:24:44] € also allows you to power gasoline engines manufactured
[00:24:48] from the year 2000. You can put 98, you can put
[00:24:53] ethanol, it will manage the flow of
[00:24:57] injectors, either it will send more
[00:25:00] fuel, or less. Concretely,
[00:25:03] the motorist can fill up at any service
[00:25:06] station, the box manages the mixture in the tank,
[00:25:10] for it to work, it is necessary to inject more biofuel than
[00:25:13] gasoline. The big difference is in fact the
[00:25:16] difference in energy value between
[00:25:19] E85. super ethanol and
[00:25:21] SP95 98 gasoline, there is
[00:25:25] an energy difference of 28%. The box will
[00:25:29] therefore make the real-time adjustment to always inject the right mix
[00:25:32] of fuel. The result, according to
[00:25:35] them, is greenhouse gases reduced by half compared
[00:25:39] to fossil fuels, a subject of debate and a more
[00:25:43] immediate impact on pollution than switching to electric, no need
[00:25:47] to create a new ecosystem with charging
[00:25:50] stations, a new infrastructure for
[00:25:53] cars, you can go to the gas pump,
[00:25:56] the ecosystem already exists, and yet only
[00:25:59] 35,000 boxes have been sold by the company.
[00:26:07] is done online by individuals, the rest is bought by professionals like the VTC driver's
[00:26:11] house with 300 equipped vehicles.
[00:26:14] On average, a VTC driver travels 5000 km per month,
[00:26:18] so for 5000 km per month, that's a saving of 300 € per month. The
[00:26:22] ethanol box allows us to retain the driver, meaning that a customer who has
[00:26:25] tasted ethanol will no longer return the
[00:26:28] vehicle. In France, bioethanol is taxed 5 times less than traditional gasoline.
[00:26:33] Biofuels are also encouraged in Brazil and the United States,
[00:26:37] an undeniable advantage, they are impervious to oil
[00:26:40] shocks.
[00:26:46] The NGO Transport and Environment has calculated that biofuels can
[00:26:49] be more polluting than hydrocarbons. Well, that depends
[00:26:53] on the conditions under which they are made. You have to know that
[00:26:56] when we are going to use agricultural crops to make
[00:26:59] biofuels, the question to ask is, if there are
[00:27:03] fewer agricultural crops for food, are we going to
[00:27:07] clear other lands to make other
[00:27:10] agricultural productions, and when you remove all this
[00:27:13] biodiversity, well, you will have CO2 emissions and you will
[00:27:17] store much less CO2, and so in this case, biofuels
[00:27:20] are not necessarily with a positive environmental
[00:27:23] impact, unless they are second-generation
[00:27:26] biofuels, precisely, there are second-generation biofuels that will not
[00:27:30] compete with food uses. So these second-generation
[00:27:33] biofuels will use either agricultural production
[00:27:37] residues, or urban waste
[00:27:40] residues such as used cooking oils, which we
[00:27:44] will transform into biofuels. Biofuels,
[00:27:49] electric? In the energy transition, we will rarely have
[00:27:52] a miracle solution, not to say never, in the medium term, in
[00:27:55] France, in Europe, for the individual car,
[00:27:59] the solution is a priori rather the electric car, the carbon
[00:28:03] footprint will be much better and biofuels have other possible
[00:28:07] applications, namely aviation and probably maritime
[00:28:10] transport. This is the end of this broadcast, find all our Plan B
[00:28:14] on the France 24 website, X, Facebook or on my LinkedIn
[00:28:17] and Instagram pages. See you next week!
[00:30:06] good morning everyone, thank you for being with us on France 24, at the top
[00:30:10] of this news, 700,000 people were gathered earlier
[00:30:14] in Place de la Concorde for the Pope's XXL mass, Leo
[00:30:18] 14 is now on its way to Lourdes for a prayer in the
[00:30:21] Grotto of Apparitions which will take place in the evening, but
[00:30:25] before that, the highlights of this day with Marie Chuster, she will be live
[00:30:29] with us, she is live with us from the Place de la... Concorde
[00:30:32] will tell us about this day and then we are also with
[00:30:36] Constance Colonna Césari, specialized journalist
[00:30:40] from the Vatican, hello to you, thank you for being with us.
[00:30:44] Refusal, Donald Trump rejects the Iranian offer to
[00:30:47] reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 7 days, it was at the UN General Assembly
[00:30:51] this week that Tehran made the proposal. The American
[00:30:54] president believes that the Iranian regime is losing the
[00:30:58] game, we will come back to that.