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[00:00:08] struggles, the defense of 7:30 AM here in Paris, welcome to France 24, headlining this Monday, Volodimir
[00:00:11] Zelensky who denounces a Russian strike against a Ukrainian
[00:00:14] power plant this Sunday. This strike comes despite Donald Trump's announcement, which surprised
[00:00:18] everyone this weekend: an energy ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow.
[00:00:22] The statement surprised the Ukrainian president, while the United States has just concluded an
[00:00:26] agreement on the purchase of Russian diesel. What is Kyiv's reaction?
[00:00:30] We'll see that in a moment with our correspondent Guilliver Crag, right after this
[00:00:33] Guilliver. Yemen's Houthis struck Saudi Arabia all weekend,
[00:00:37] and the latest drones and missiles fell overnight on the airports of
[00:00:41] Riyadh and Damam. The toll is at least one dead and 11 injured, adding
[00:00:45] to the 13 dead and 309 injured from Saturday. Donald Trump
[00:00:48] does not rule out supporting the Saudis against the Houthis. We will
[00:00:52] analyze all of this in a moment with Antoine Mariotti, and then
[00:00:55] Raphaël Glucksmann largely won the Social-Democrat left primary.
[00:01:00] The MEP was designated as a candidate from the
[00:01:02] Despite his efforts, several sections of first round with 66 % of the votes, far ahead of his
[00:01:05] opponents. With the leader of Place Publique, the PS will thus
[00:01:09] not have a candidate from its ranks to represent it in the presidential election in the first
[00:01:12] round on April 18th.
[00:01:26] To start this edition, this question: what is the strategy of the states towards
[00:01:30] Ukraine and Russia? Today, the Supreme Commander of NATO forces in
[00:01:34] Europe will speak in Poland. You can
[00:01:37] follow him on our channel. He is American, he must issue a warning to Moscow
[00:01:40] before his European partners. The problem is that on his side, Donald
[00:01:44] Trump seems to catch everyone off guard by announcing on his social
[00:01:47] network an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and
[00:01:51] Russia. Surprised, Volodymyr Zelensky says he is ready to
[00:01:54] accept it if Russia does the same. We're heading to
[00:01:57] Kyiv this morning, our correspondent Gulliver. Prague, good morning Gulliver,
[00:02:01] this announcement by Donald Trump really created a surprise in Ukraine,
[00:02:05] Gulliver,
[00:02:08] yes, surprise and confusion, except that it's a bit of a
[00:02:12] repeat of what happened on September 14th when Donald Trump
[00:02:16] local authorities, it is one also announced on his social network
[00:02:18] Truth Social a ceasefire on energy targets between
[00:02:21] Ukraine and Russia, and we quickly understood that in reality it was
[00:02:25] nothing. Apparently, the American president is trying to do
[00:02:29] the same thing, forcing his hand using a tactic that has
[00:02:32] already failed in the
[00:02:34] driving and non-compliance with the road past, but according to the American media Axios, which quotes an
[00:02:38] unnamed White House official, and I only saw this information
[00:02:41] in that media, but still, this
[00:02:44] official reportedly said that this ceasefire this time
[00:02:47] would only concern for now
[00:02:51] refineries, so Ukraine should stop bombing Russian
[00:02:54] refineries, and Russia could, if it wants, not
[00:02:58] bomb the only refinery that exists in Ukraine, the only major
[00:03:01] refinery anyway, which is in Kremenchuk and which has already
[00:03:04] been bombed, clearly it's an asymmetric
[00:03:08] ceasefire, Ukraine does not have a large
[00:03:11] refining industry, Ukraine imports oil,
[00:03:15] diesel and
[00:03:18] gasoline, it's Russia whose economy
[00:03:22] largely depends on this industry and which suffers from Ukrainian
[00:03:26] strikes, and Ukraine suffers from
[00:03:29] strikes on power plants, perhaps
[00:03:33] Ukraine could retaliate by starting to systematically
[00:03:36] strike power plants in Russia, but that's more something
[00:03:40] that affects civilians, and Ukraine tries to stick to
[00:03:43] strikes that seek to damage
[00:03:46] the economy and the war effort without having such a direct
[00:03:50] impact on civilians, with some exceptions nonetheless. In any
[00:03:54] case, it seems that this is a ceasefire that
[00:03:56] vote that does not hide the dissensions of
[00:03:57] modernization of Saudi has not at all been elaborated with discussions, not even intermediate ones by the Americans
[00:04:00] between the two parties, no details have been elaborated, the Ukrainians
[00:04:03] say they are absolutely ready to accept a ceasefire,
[00:04:07] if it has details, if it has terms, and if the Russians agree to stop
[00:04:12] Let's focus now. We're heading to striking their power plants and their electrical grid too. For now, that's not the case. Well, Gulliver understood well,
[00:04:16] for the President of the United States, the sinews of
[00:04:19] a philosopher highly committed to human war are diesel, and his agenda is obviously the
[00:04:21] mid-term elections, and he's adding pressure on Kyiv.
[00:04:25] According to the Financial Times, the Trump administration would be threatening Ukraine with stopping
[00:04:29] its arms deliveries if the country continues its deep strikes on Russian
[00:04:33] territory.
[00:04:36] This concerns the PURRL system
[00:04:40] (Priority Ukraine Requirements List) through
[00:04:43] which allied countries of Ukraine, NATO members,
[00:04:45] buy American weapons for
[00:04:48] Ukraine. Apparently, according to the Financial Times, White House
[00:04:52] officials would have sought to convince European
[00:04:55] countries to put pressure on Volodymyr Zelensky to stop
[00:04:59] targeting refineries in Russia, and otherwise
[00:05:02] they would stop that. They also might have stopped
[00:05:06] sharing their intelligence data, but Ukraine depends much
[00:05:10] less on American weapons at the moment and depends much less on American intelligence too, because
[00:05:14] France and the United Kingdom provide very important
[00:05:17] intelligence for targeting in Russia in
[00:05:20] Kyiv. I think we can also remember
[00:05:24] that the diesel in this agreement with Russia is really
[00:05:27] very, very, very little compared to American consumption.
[00:05:31] It's hard to believe that it's really about Donald Trump trying
[00:05:34] to lower prices. It's perhaps about giving
[00:05:37] his electorate the impression that he's doing something and that
[00:05:41] everything is the fault of the EU and not the fault of his war in Iran,
[00:05:45] so he has this pressure for Ukraine to stop targeting
[00:05:48] refineries in Russia, even if all analysts
[00:05:52] understand that even if Ukraine completely stopped striking
[00:05:55] refineries in Russia, it would not have a
[00:05:58] great impact on diesel prices at the
[00:06:01] pump in the United States. Gulliver Crag from Kyiv for France 24, thank
[00:06:05] you very much Gulliver. Another consequence of the war waged by Donald Trump against
[00:06:09] Iran, this new series of Houthi strikes on Saudi
[00:06:12] Arabia. Overnight, the Shiite fighters from Yemen claimed responsibility for the ballistic
[00:06:16] missile, cruise missile, and drone attacks on the
[00:06:19] Saudis. The Saudi Civil Aviation Authority currently reports one dead
[00:06:23] and 11 injured in this new attack, which adds to the 13
[00:06:27] dead and 309 injured from the weekend. You see these impressive images
[00:06:31] from surveillance video at Riyadh airport, which was severely hit. It is
[00:06:35] still closed until the end of the day, at least. We'll decipher this with
[00:06:39] Antoine Mariotti this morning. Hello Antoine, hello Damien. Saudi Arabia is in
[00:06:43] a very delicate situation for a few weeks now, and it's not getting
[00:06:46] any better. Yes, we see it in the images, it's obviously more and more
[00:06:50] problematic. These are attacks of unprecedented scale since 2014,
[00:06:53] that is, since the beginning of the clashes between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis.
[00:06:57] We must remember that Saudi Arabia went to Yemen to wage war against the Houthis
[00:07:01] and failed to defeat this rebellion, which
[00:07:04] is now much more than a rebellion. They have controlled the capital for years,
[00:07:08] Sana'a. They control the part of the territory with the most population
[00:07:12] of Yemen. It's a parallel government that is even far
[00:07:15] superior to the one that is officially recognized,
[00:07:19] notably by Saudi Arabia and by the international
[00:07:22] community. We can clearly see that they have a capacity, the Houthis, whom
[00:07:26] we still call the Yemeni rebellion, that the country is very
[00:07:30] poor, so we have the impression that they have three slingshots with them,
[00:07:33] but they manage to strike Saudi soil, Saudi territory,
[00:07:37] and target, target several times Riyadh airport,
[00:07:40] the main gateway into the country, so of course all of this is
[00:07:44] extremely problematic. They also manage to target very deliberately
[00:07:48] several, uh, storage facilities, notably from Aramco, the
[00:07:52] large Saudi hydrocarbon company
[00:07:55] which is a bit, if you will, the portfolio of Saudi
[00:07:59] Arabia, so that's extremely complicated. They
[00:08:01] manage to disrupt all of that by saying again,
[00:08:05] reaffirming, by the way, that taking a plane in Saudi Arabia is not safe, that you should not go
[00:08:09] to the airports of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, because
[00:08:13] obviously they are Muslims who do not want to target these two
[00:08:16] cities, but in any case it's problematic and we see that on the Saudi side,
[00:08:20] well, we are still particularly embarrassed and there is an absolute Saudi
[00:08:24] will not to show too much. These images that we
[00:08:28] see are still the first time we see them. It's been a week since
[00:08:31] Riyadh airport has been struck several
[00:08:34] times. We didn't see these images before. They are starting to
[00:08:38] filter out and they are terrible, we can clearly see that they are terrible. It's
[00:08:42] an admission of weakness that is also terrible for Saudi Arabia, which cannot
[00:08:45] defend itself against this Yemeni rebellion, which cannot
[00:08:48] defend the main gateway into the country, which is
[00:08:51] the capital's airport, Riyadh. We are also at the
[00:08:55] beginning of the high season of the pilgrimage for millions of
[00:08:58] Muslims. We
[00:08:59] see it in the videos recently.
[00:09:03] So, of course, all of this is very problematic.
[00:09:06] Mohammed bin Salman's Vision 2030, the great
[00:09:09] Arabia, well, that also takes a hit because he's looking for
[00:09:13] stability, he's trying to convince investors, to develop
[00:09:17] tourism, and then boom, we see with these images that it's
[00:09:21] extremely problematic and it's been a week that we've been seeing small images of smoke
[00:09:25] or other things, so it's complicated. Riyadh, we see, has much
[00:09:29] more to lose than the Houthis, even if it's far from a walk in the
[00:09:32] park for the Houthis and we talk about what's happening in Riyadh but there are also ongoing battles on
[00:09:36] Yemeni soil with, according to the Houthis, 124 Saudi
[00:09:40] airstrikes this weekend against their
[00:09:43] positions and the Americans, historical allies of Saudi Arabia, there have
[00:09:46] been statements by Donald Trump, intentions, but not much
[00:09:50] more for now. Be wary of Donald Trump's statements, I'm not
[00:09:53] telling you anything new, because they go one day in one direction and 2 minutes later in
[00:09:57] the other. He said that these strikes, that these attacks
[00:10:00] against Saudi Arabia were not acceptable, that he was going to
[00:10:03] speak with MBS Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown
[00:10:06] Prince and de facto leader of the
[00:10:10] country, but we must also remember that he refused
[00:10:13] to intervene last month, Donald Trump, when the Saudis called
[00:10:16] the Americans for help, saying "Beware, the Houthis have
[00:10:19] decided, since the conflicts had resumed between the
[00:10:22] two since July, that they were taking a new turn, that if you want, when you
[00:10:26] have Saudi Arabia on one side, you have the Strait of Hormuz to export hydrocarbons, and
[00:10:30] we know what has been happening for months, and on the other side you have the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb,
[00:10:34] and the Houthis had headed towards
[00:10:37] Bab-el-Mandeb to retake the positions of the official
[00:10:40] government to be able to block the second export
[00:10:43] route for the Saudis and thus financially
[00:10:46] drain them and deal them a blow. It's a three-cushion billiards shot with the
[00:10:49] Iranians, the Houthis being allies of the Iranians,
[00:10:53] but the Americans had refused to help them, so the Houthis managed to take control of the
[00:10:57] coastline. They lost a part of the territory
[00:11:00] a week ago, but finally the strait is
[00:11:03] still not secure, and we can clearly see anyway that the Americans
[00:11:07] cannot protect their allies in the region since February, who have been struck many
[00:11:11] times by the Iranians in retaliation for the American-Israeli
[00:11:14] strikes, so the credibility of the United States on
[00:11:17] that issue has taken a real hit. They can intervene
[00:11:21] symbolically or occasionally, but the problem is that if you don't
[00:11:24] have a very concrete effect afterwards that really stops the Houthis,
[00:11:28] then it will once again be a hard blow to American
[00:11:31] credibility and it will be an almost useless blow, so it's a risky
[00:11:34] gamble to embark on that path, especially since we see
[00:11:38] that neither of the two parties, neither Saudi Arabia and the official
[00:11:42] Yemeni forces, nor the Houthis on the other side, have the
[00:11:45] capacity to make the other surrender quickly. So it can
[00:11:48] last. I remind you once again that the Saudis had been in Yemen for years, they never managed to
[00:11:52] overcome the Houthis, so it's not
[00:11:56] a few strikes, even if they are strong at the moment and important,
[00:11:59] that will overcome the Houthis. Thank
[00:12:03] you very much, Antoine. Despite this catastrophic situation on the ground, they prefer
[00:12:07] to go to Yemen rather than stay in their war-torn country. At
[00:12:10] least 139 migrants died in the shipwreck of an overloaded boat over
[00:12:14] the weekend off Djibouti. 84 people are
[00:12:18] still missing. They are mainly Ethiopian migrants who fled the
[00:12:22] war in the Tigray region. Alice Broga. The
[00:12:25] sea has washed up a dozen bodies on this beach in
[00:12:29] Djibouti, north of Obock. The day before, a
[00:12:31] boat carrying 305 migrants capsized off the coast
[00:12:35] as they were heading towards Yemen to the east. According to
[00:12:41] of the deadliest shipwrecks ever recorded. Approximately
[00:12:44] 82 people survived and dozens are still missing.
[00:12:48] Aboard were women, men, and also
[00:12:51] children. So the IOM is working with local
[00:12:55] authorities, particularly the prefecture of Obock, which coordinates
[00:12:58] operations on site. The first survivors encountered were taken
[00:13:02] care of by the... despite the war raging in Yemen, many
[00:13:06] migrants tried to reach this
[00:13:09] continue their journey to the rich Gulf countries. According
[00:13:12] to the International Organization for Migration, the majority
[00:13:16] were from Ethiopia. One of the survivors stated that he came from the
[00:13:20] Tigray region in the north of the country where fighting resumed last
[00:13:23] month between government forces and rebel groups.
[00:13:27] Since the beginning of the year, 178,000 people have
[00:13:30] arrived in Djibouti from Ethiopia, fleeing difficult
[00:13:33] living conditions. The IOM calls for strengthening their
[00:13:36] protection. We can no longer tolerate these
[00:13:40] deaths. Safe and legal pathways save
[00:13:43] lives. I call on governments and donors to
[00:13:46] act before another shipwreck occurs.
[00:13:50] This migratory route, one of the most dangerous in the world, is also used
[00:13:54] in the other direction. More than 3,700 people fleeing
[00:13:57] Yemen embarked for Djibouti until last
[00:14:00] week. In France, the first round of the presidential election is
[00:14:04] soon, on April 18th. Raphaël Glucksmann will be the candidate of the Social-Democratic
[00:14:07] Left, of the alliance between the Socialist Party and
[00:14:11] his formation Place Publique. The MEP largely won the
[00:14:14] primary organized this weekend. 66% of the votes, ahead of Olivier
[00:14:18] Faure's 14. A clear
[00:14:21] the French left, while the far-right is
[00:14:25] winning in all polls. Glucksmann
[00:14:28] recalled it in his latest statements,
[00:14:30] Alexandre.
[00:14:33] He enters his first presidential race. Raphaël
[00:14:37] Glucksmann, a journalist by training, 46 years old,
[00:14:40] and the son of André Glucksmann,
[00:14:44] rights, who was active in the Communist Party before
[00:14:48] becoming a fervent critic and being classified as a
[00:14:50] neoconservative. Raphaël Glucksmann, for his part, entered the
[00:14:54] international political scene in
[00:14:58] 2009 by becoming an advisor to the liberal Georgian President
[00:15:00] Mikheil Saakashvili, a position he held until
[00:15:03] 2013. After a first political experience in
[00:15:07] France, there also on the right with the Liberal Alternative
[00:15:10] party, Raphaël Glucksmann shifted to the left and in
[00:15:14] 2019, he was elected MEP in the European elections
[00:15:17] with the Place Publique movement which he co-founded 1 year
[00:15:21] earlier. Re-elected in 2024, he became one of the leading figures.
[00:15:37] rights and humanist principles that underpin European
[00:15:40] integration, it's time to stand
[00:15:43] up, these
[00:15:46] Ukraine, of the Uyghurs, or the
[00:15:49] fight against Russian interference, but his social
[00:15:52] democratic and reformist line earns him criticism across the left,
[00:15:56] notably from Jean-Luc Mélenchon with whom he
[00:15:59] refuses any alliance, there will be no
[00:16:02] agreement with the France Insoumise, but there will be an agreement with the democratic
[00:16:05] left, with the republican left.
[00:16:08] And we will win the presidential elections, I am absolutely
[00:16:11] convinced of it. Raphael Glucksmann wants to be the candidate for the
[00:16:15] break with what he calls Jean-Luc Mélenchon's hegemony over
[00:16:18] the French left and calls for the union of forces to fight against
[00:16:22] what he calls his eternal enemy, the far
[00:16:26] right. A major fire in central
[00:16:29] Paris last night and a smell of burning throughout the
[00:16:33] capital. The Marché des Enfants Rouges has
[00:16:36] gone up in smoke. According to the mayor of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
[00:16:40] arrondissements, the place has therefore been ravaged by the
[00:16:43] flames in recent hours. Few details for now, but you see,
[00:16:47] a large deployment of firefighters from
[00:16:51] Paris. We will update you in our morning editions as soon as we know
[00:16:54] more. Let's go to Nepal for now, with
[00:16:58] equally impressive images. Search for missing people began
[00:17:02] with sunrise earlier today in accessible regions. This Sunday, central
[00:17:06] Nepal was again hit by torrential rains, floods, and mudslides.
[00:17:10] At least five people are missing after this
[00:17:13] sudden river flood you see here, a spectacular flood just 6 weeks
[00:17:17] after floods that killed more than 1,400 people and left
[00:17:20] 5,000 missing. Here's the report with Thomas
[00:17:23] Kuni. A giant
[00:17:27] wave,
[00:17:30] unstoppable,
[00:17:32] a torrent of mud pours into this valley and carries everything
[00:17:36] in its path. In a few seconds, villages
[00:17:40] engulfed before helpless
[00:17:42] residents.
[00:17:52] This sudden flood was caused by a dam breaking
[00:17:55] due to a landslide. Nothing
[00:17:59] resisted,
[00:18:02] not even this metal bridge. It gave way
[00:18:05] to the force of the current.
[00:18:08] Viewed from another angle, we can see the extent of the
[00:18:10] disaster.
[00:18:14] The disaster occurred in northern
[00:18:18] Nepal in the Gorkha
[00:18:20] region. Residents had time to take
[00:18:23] refuge higher up. Here, this was our
[00:18:26] village.
[00:18:29] Everyone was screaming, we took refuge in the
[00:18:31] mountains.
[00:18:34] Here in the center of the image, other survivors.
[00:18:38] Very quickly, the army was deployed to rescue them. Helicopters
[00:18:41] fly over a devastated area. Entire
[00:18:45] sections of cliffs have
[00:18:47] collapsed. We can clearly distinguish here
[00:18:51] the trajectory of the mudslide. According to an initial assessment
[00:18:54] by the authorities, at least 5
[00:18:57] people are reported missing.
[00:19:01] 7:49 AM here in Paris, an update on our top stories. Volodymyr
[00:19:04] Zelensky denounces a Russian strike against a Ukrainian
[00:19:08] power plant this Sunday, a strike despite Donald Trump's announcement which surprised everyone over the
[00:19:12] weekend, an energy ceasefire between Kyiv and Moscow. The
[00:19:16] statement notably surprised the Ukrainian president while the United States itself has just
[00:19:19] concluded an agreement on the purchase of Russian diesel. The
[00:19:23] Houthis of Yemen struck Saudi Arabia all weekend. The latest drones
[00:19:27] and missiles fell in the last hours overnight on the airports of Riyadh
[00:19:31] and Damam. The toll from these latest strikes is at least one dead and
[00:19:35] 11 injured. This adds to 13 deaths and
[00:19:38] 309 injuries from Saturday. Donald Trump does not rule out
[00:19:42] supporting the Saudis against
[00:19:43] the Houthis.
[00:19:50] India, a country that has the second largest road network in the world, stretching
[00:19:53] over 6 million kilometers. Behind
[00:19:57] these figures, there are also tragedies. India records one of the highest road
[00:20:01] mortality rates in the world, with one death every 3 minutes, and danger
[00:20:05] comes from everywhere. Drunk drivers, speeding, poorly maintained
[00:20:08] roads. Many drivers simply ignore the highway code.
[00:20:11] Beyond the human cost, these accidents cost the country
[00:20:15] 3% of its GDP each year. Focus by
[00:20:19] Alvarez, Navodita Kumari, and
[00:20:21] Suelkan.
[00:20:30] In India, the curse of the dowry still weighs heavily on
[00:20:33] women: money, jewelry, a car for their
[00:20:37] daughters to marry. Parents must comply with the demands of the in-laws.
[00:20:40] From the outset, the husband and his family set their conditions. You must
[00:20:44] do this, you must give that, while the
[00:20:47] thriving marriage market continues. Without a dowry, the
[00:20:50] marriage can turn into a tragedy, and when these demands are not
[00:20:53] met, women often report being victims of physical
[00:20:57] violence, harassment, violence, sometimes
[00:21:00] death. To change things, some refuse the established
[00:21:04] order. We are also trying to make families understand
[00:21:08] that this practice is wrong. Things are changing slowly
[00:21:11] but
[00:21:13] surely.
[00:21:16] Reporter, to see on France 24.
[00:21:30] It's the densest urban network in the country.
[00:21:34] 32,000 km of roads used by 15 million
[00:21:37] vehicles, in Delhi, traffic never stops.
[00:21:41] Cars, trucks, motorcycles, rickshaws,
[00:21:44] buses, and bicycles must coexist
[00:21:47] in the midst of chaos. This traffic
[00:21:51] represents a challenge for the police officers in charge of
[00:21:53] traffic.
[00:21:57] Some drivers violate the road code. They should have stopped
[00:22:01] there, but they continued to drive until here, so they are blocking
[00:22:04] traffic coming from the other direction, and I have to deal with these infractions. It takes
[00:22:08] time to fine everyone while continuing to regulate
[00:22:11] traffic.
[00:22:14] The Indian capital holds a sad record, with 5,000
[00:22:17] accidents and nearly 1,500 deaths on average per
[00:22:21] year. Delhi's roads are among the most deadly in the country. We
[00:22:25] are going to drive through Delhi for 2 hours to discover what truly
[00:22:29] endangers people's lives.
[00:22:32] Quickly, we observe that the most basic rules are not
[00:22:35] respected. Motorists change lanes without
[00:22:38] using their turn signals. The sidewalks, supposed to be reserved for
[00:22:42] pedestrians, are used by two-wheelers. Many motorcyclists
[00:22:45] ride without helmets, often with multiple people on the same vehicle. Not
[00:22:49] to mention
[00:23:21] deaths often linked to reckless
[00:23:24] the road, even the simplest measures, like seatbelts,
[00:23:28] are often ignored. It was only
[00:23:31] in 2022 that the Indian government made it mandatory to wear
[00:23:34] a seatbelt in the back after a billionaire died in a
[00:23:37] collision because he wasn't
[00:23:39] buckled up.
[00:23:44] In 2023, two-wheeler riders accounted for
[00:23:47] half of the 17,000 people killed. and on
[00:23:50] Indian roads, the lack of helmet use or the use
[00:23:54] of cheap helmets sold for a few euros and not compliant is
[00:23:58] regularly pointed out. in
[00:24:00] Mumbai, Karan Desai is a road safety instructor,
[00:24:04] he warns new motorcyclists against these poor-quality
[00:24:07] equipments. there are different types of helmets
[00:24:11] on the Indian market,
[00:24:14] look at this low-end helmet, when a car runs over it, it breaks
[00:24:18] completely, however, a good quality helmet, as you can
[00:24:22] see, absorbs the weight of the car.
[00:24:25] Karan primarily addresses young people. For him, their lack
[00:24:29] of driving experience makes them the most vulnerable group to
[00:24:31] accidents. Most road deaths, most
[00:24:35] accidents concern 18-35 year olds, so if we
[00:24:38] target them and they retain what we teach them during this training, it will clearly
[00:24:41] help them once on the road to feel safer and it will also
[00:24:45] protect other users.
[00:24:47] The idea is really to transmit
[00:24:50] a culture of safety from the start, prevention campaigns
[00:24:53] may be multiplying, another scourge
[00:24:57] continues to claim lives on Indian roads, very often,
[00:25:00] the intervention of emergency services is too late.
[00:25:03] Swarnendubos lost his best friend in a road drama in
[00:25:06] 2023. Piuche, 30 years old,
[00:25:10] was riding a motorcycle when another driver hit him from
[00:25:13] behind. Seriously injured in the head, he remained on the ground for
[00:25:17] 30 minutes without anyone coming to his aid.
[00:25:20] the ambulance never
[00:25:22] arrived,
[00:25:25] no one stopped to help him,
[00:25:28] a few moments for my friend, not even 5
[00:25:30] minutes,
[00:25:37] we really need to show more
[00:25:38] empati
[00:25:43] in recent years, the Indian government has made road
[00:25:46] safety,
[00:25:48] particularly in its infrastructures, the
[00:25:52] highway network has grown from 9,000 to 140,000
[00:25:55] km, but several projects quickly showed
[00:25:59] construction defects, turning some roads into
[00:26:02] death traps, this is what Chaitanya
[00:26:05] Patil found, this 29-year-old engineer has made it his
[00:26:09] mission to identify the multiple obstacles that can endanger
[00:26:12] the lives of
[00:26:13] motorists,
[00:26:18] there you see this barrier was hit by a vehicle and there are no
[00:26:22] reflective elements left, so
[00:26:25] if it stays on the ground, other drivers risk not seeing the
[00:26:27] detour, that's why when I come across them during my
[00:26:30] travels.
[00:27:05] the expressway have still not been repaired. This is one of the
[00:27:08] places I reported during my walk, they did do some work here,
[00:27:12] but this section was not renovated. If a motorist
[00:27:16] arrives at high speed on this road, imagine the accident that this will cause. The
[00:27:20] vehicle will fall into this gap, this situation must stop, that's why I keep
[00:27:23] appealing to the authorities, they must intervene and repair this, it's their
[00:27:27] duty. The government has set itself the goal of
[00:27:30] halving the number of deaths on the roads by 2030,
[00:27:34] by relying on artificial intelligence, but without detailing
[00:27:38] concrete measures, a colossal challenge, on
[00:27:41] average, one person dies every 3 minutes on Indian
[00:27:44] roads,
[00:27:48] we are the family, it's getting worse in urban areas with
[00:27:51] Juliette on rfi,
[00:27:54] yeah, to go 5 km, how long does it take you, it
[00:27:58] takes me 21 minutes, 21 minutes, and you, not a second,
[00:28:01] 21 minutes. 21 minutes 40 ok and
[00:28:04] you, well 2 and a
[00:28:06] half days
[00:28:10] we're still there if you start
[00:28:11] now
[00:28:14] but that's it I told you that's it, you're going to start again, you're going to start again, that's it, that's
[00:28:17] it
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