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[00:00:00] Report to be seen on France
[00:00:02] 24,
[00:00:07] you are indeed on France 24, hello, welcome if you are
[00:00:09] joining us for the news of this Monday, October 12th. First, this
[00:00:13] new act of violence in a school establishment, with no apparent
[00:00:17] link to the student movement, a 14-year-old adolescent injured the principal
[00:00:20] and a teacher from his college in Aubagne near
[00:00:24] Marseille with a hunting rifle, before being subdued. The motive for his
[00:00:28] action is unknown.
[00:00:30] practice is what is called NATO seeks to deter Russia, any attack will be
[00:00:33] in vain on its main military chief, an American
[00:00:37] general, at a time when Donald Trump is showing new signs of
[00:00:40] rapprochement with the Kremlin at the expense of Ukraine. Saudi
[00:00:44] Arabia recognizes itself as being put to the test by the Houthi strikes, the
[00:00:47] rebels are multiplying deadly strikes against Riyadh International
[00:00:51] Airport, it will remain closed until the end of the week, while maritime
[00:00:55] access for Saudi ships is also still
[00:00:57] blocked. To follow in about two weeks. In 2 minutes, we will look at the economy and the presence of Chinese manufacturers at the
[00:01:01] Paris Motor Show here in
[00:01:04] Paris and on the European
[00:01:32] The government assures us that the incident is not linked to the student
[00:01:36] protest that is currently disrupting the country. A principal and a
[00:01:40] teacher were shot by a student. The incident occurred
[00:01:44] in a college in Aubagne near Marseille. The shooter is
[00:01:47] a 14-year-old adolescent, enrolled in this establishment. He
[00:01:50] suppliers, and on the other was disarmed and arrested. The young man and his
[00:01:54] parents are in police custody, says
[00:01:55] Serine Bay.
[00:01:59] Their reaction was immediate. The Ministers of the
[00:02:02] Interior and Education, highly solicited in the midst of the student
[00:02:06] protest movement, went to
[00:02:09] have been imported from Joseph Lacanal College in Aubagne to meet with the
[00:02:12] educational teams. This Monday morning, the establishment
[00:02:15] was affected by a rifle attack orchestrated by a 14-year-old
[00:02:19] student. The suspect notably injured the principal and a
[00:02:23] teacher. He was then subdued and
[00:02:27] disarmed by a teaching staff member. by a
[00:02:30] staff member of the establishment who showed enormous
[00:02:34] courage and great self-control to manage to
[00:02:37] in a moment because that's really the crux of subdue this young boy who, for that matter, allowed himself to be
[00:02:41] apprehended, we could say, with relative ease.
[00:02:45] It was the college's principal educational advisor who managed to
[00:02:48] disarm the adolescent. He was congratulated by Laurent Nounniez
[00:02:52] who specifies that the suspect's motive is still unknown. But I simply
[00:02:55] want to say that the prosecutor has opened for
[00:02:59] attempted assassination. Let it be said, it's attempted assassination
[00:03:02] outside the establishment.
[00:03:06] of Bordeaux and a specialist in The students and their parents were still stunned by the events. Since
[00:03:09] this morning at 9:50, we were waiting for them to leave school, so we are happy to
[00:03:13] see them. What matters most to us is that our children are
[00:03:16] protected. These things happen. The question of the
[00:03:20] protection of school establishments arises today, because the suspect was able
[00:03:23] to enter the college with a hunting rifle
[00:03:27] electrifying the institution of concealed in a guitar
[00:03:28] Zizou Bergs, who you see at the bottom of case. The president this way of producing of the departmental council of the
[00:03:31] Bouches-du-Rhône has pledged to make the security of colleges a
[00:03:35] priority. What does it mean to secure a college? It means turnstiles are put in front,
[00:03:39] fences are put around, and video protection
[00:03:42] is put inside. It's for more than a million euros per college, so we
[00:03:46] wish to have the approval of the board of directors. In Aubagne,
[00:03:49] a psychological support unit has been opened by the firefighters to help
[00:03:53] families and educational
[00:03:54] staff.
[00:03:57] It takes place every two years here in Paris. The 91st
[00:04:01] Paris Motor Show has opened its doors, featuring electric
[00:04:04] vehicles and artificial intelligence, which are now
[00:04:07] everywhere. A race to technology, which we will now discuss in the
[00:04:11] economy
[00:04:11] news.
[00:04:21] Hello Lormanin, hello Raphaël, a race to technology dominated
[00:04:25] today by China. Absolutely, 25 Chinese brands are
[00:04:29] present. That represents about a third of the
[00:04:32] exhibitors, it's even more than a third of the
[00:04:34] the Kremlin to the detriment of exhibitors, and it's especially 10% of sales today in
[00:04:37] Europe, that's a figure that has doubled in just one year,
[00:04:41] which is considerable and even more important because the automotive
[00:04:44] market is not doing very well worldwide, it's the case
[00:04:48] in Europe where European manufacturers have had to cut
[00:04:51] 100,000 jobs in 2025, but also the case
[00:04:54] in China where domestic market consumption has
[00:04:58] declined, it has declined for the first half of 2026 by
[00:05:01] 17.4
[00:05:04] so the %. Beijing therefore finds itself with surpluses that need
[00:05:06] to be sold, and the European Union is its favorite destination for
[00:05:10] this by the end of the year.
[00:05:12] 2026, a total of 800,000 Chinese hybrid cars will
[00:05:16] have been sent to Europe, compared to only 300,000 in
[00:05:19] 2025, which means a jump of more than 167
[00:05:23] % in one year. How does Europe react to this onslaught of
[00:05:27] Chinese manufacturers? Well, Europe is watching what is happening
[00:05:31] with a certain amount of concern today. Chinese hybrids represent
[00:05:34] a quarter of new registrations in Europe. If we look at plug-in hybrids,
[00:05:38] it's even one in three cars sold in Europe. So Brussels is necessarily
[00:05:42] concerned. Brussels wants to protect its automotive
[00:05:44] industry, which is therefore in bad shape, especially since it has not recovered
[00:05:48] its pre-Covid sales levels. An agreement between
[00:05:51] the European Union and China was announced on Friday, an agreement that will
[00:05:55] notably limit the export of Chinese hybrid
[00:05:58] vehicles to the European Union. They were
[00:06:00] flowing by hundreds of thousands, going from 300,000 to 800,000 in one year between last
[00:06:04] year and this year. From now on, China will only be able to export
[00:06:07] 35,000 per year to the European Union, with the
[00:06:11] possibility of an annual increase of 6%, knowing that this is a 4-year agreement. Will
[00:06:14] these protection measures be enough against Chinese power? Well, it's
[00:06:18] obviously difficult to say. In any case, what we see for now is that Beijing seems
[00:06:22] to be playing nice, at least on the surface. Chinese
[00:06:26] manufacturers have a certain number of partnerships with European
[00:06:29] manufacturers. For example, they use a certain number of European industrial
[00:06:33] capacities that exist but only operate at half capacity, again because
[00:06:37] the automotive industrial sector is not doing very
[00:06:40] well. For example, will produce one of its models
[00:06:44] on the Stellantis line in Rennes, France. Other manufacturers
[00:06:47] prefer to build their own factories,
[00:06:51] as is the case, for example, with BYD, which is setting up in Hungary. MG
[00:06:55] also announced for 2028 the opening of an ultra-automated
[00:06:58] site in A Coruña, Spain. It's a more
[00:07:02] expensive solution to build its own factories, but it allows Chinese
[00:07:05] manufacturers not to have to pay customs duties on
[00:07:09] imports, which is therefore interesting, despite everything.
[00:07:12] It is wary of this way of proceeding, it fears what are called screwdriver
[00:07:16] factories, meaning factories that would only assemble parts that
[00:07:21] abroad where they were manufactured, so an extremely limited added value for
[00:07:25] the European Union. So the work on this
[00:07:29] EU-China agreement is a first step, but France and Germany are still
[00:07:33] working on another agreement that stipulates that vehicles sold
[00:07:36] in the European Union must contain a significant proportion of
[00:07:40] added value produced in the European Union.
[00:07:42] That means, for example, batteries or European components, and
[00:07:46] we're going to talk about these batteries
[00:07:50] the matter. Thank you. So it's better to protect the
[00:07:53] European market, that's what Emmanuel Macron himself indicated today when he came to
[00:07:57] inaugurate this motor show. The head of state welcomed the agreement between the European Union and
[00:08:01] China limiting the import of Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid
[00:08:04] cars, which he says will better protect the European market from
[00:08:08] unfair competition. Yes, but what is the potential of
[00:08:11] Europeans today? We'll talk about that with you, Bernard Julien. Hello, you are a teacher
[00:08:15] and researcher in economics at the University
[00:08:18] the automotive industry.
[00:08:21] What we observe today is that one of the major challenges of this market is
[00:08:25] the ability to produce batteries, and especially large
[00:08:29] and long-lasting batteries.
[00:08:32] Yes, today there is a deficit that has been noted
[00:08:36] since we first imagined
[00:08:40] the European Union, and
[00:08:42] this deficit is widening rather than
[00:08:46] narrowing. That is to say, as we assemble
[00:08:49] more battery-powered vehicles, electric vehicles, in
[00:08:52] Europe, instead of seeing European
[00:08:56] battery manufacturers gain in importance,
[00:08:59] power, and market share, the opposite is
[00:09:03] happening, because the few champions on
[00:09:06] whom we had relied four or five
[00:09:10] years ago, well, not all of them survived.
[00:09:12] One of them, probably the main one, the one who was
[00:09:16] perceived as having the greatest potential, called Norsvolt, which
[00:09:20] was basically German-Swedish,
[00:09:22] went out of business and went bankrupt in 2024 without
[00:09:26] anyone coming to its rescue. And then
[00:09:30] there are actors in France, among others, who are suffering a lot
[00:09:33] and are struggling to take off, and there is still
[00:09:37] one of the manufacturers who supports them rather lukewarmly
[00:09:41] and, to be honest, is turning away from them because they
[00:09:44] take a long time to be competitive, they take a long time to produce batteries, and
[00:09:48] they are much more expensive than the Chinese, who are in overcapacity and
[00:09:52] can dump their materials. Yes, an example of this Achilles' heel. We learned
[00:09:56] that the manufacturer Stellantis, which we know here
[00:09:59] in France through brands like Peugeot, Fiat, or
[00:10:02] Citroën, will shut down its factories in Sochaux and Rennes due to
[00:10:06] its inability to supply its vehicles with batteries.
[00:10:09] This shows how much today,
[00:10:13] the French and even European automotive industry is
[00:10:16] dependent on this technology.
[00:10:20] It is dependent, we expected it to be so, it is true
[00:10:23] that it is probable that we underestimated the difficulty
[00:10:27] there would be in scaling up battery
[00:10:29] production. So that means we need to be more patient, that means we
[00:10:33] need to invest more money, that means we also need to accept, on
[00:10:37] the part of manufacturers, to pay more for these batteries, and that
[00:10:40] obviously manufacturers need to be somewhat twisted
[00:10:44] to make that happen, because otherwise,
[00:10:47] it is obviously infinitely tempting to go
[00:10:50] where batteries are available and
[00:10:54] inexpensive. So there is no salvation in
[00:10:58] a situation like this unless we are quite directive.
[00:11:01] I would tend to say, if you want an industry
[00:11:04] that needs to emerge to surpass an already
[00:11:08] existing industry, it can only succeed if it is protected,
[00:11:12] otherwise it will be stillborn, it will be stillborn,
[00:11:16] in a way, that's the risk today with the European battery
[00:11:19] industry. If we put it in direct competition with China,
[00:11:23] we are already certain that...
[00:11:25] it will be dead before it is born. You say that it's the role of public power, and
[00:11:29] not necessarily at the state level but at the European level, to support these
[00:11:33] projects and to create barriers to entry for the
[00:11:36] continent itself. Yes, well, we have to be a bit clever here because
[00:11:40] obviously if we create barriers to entry, we won't be able to manufacture
[00:11:43] electric cars, because today, the technological
[00:11:46] and battery production capacities in Europe are too limited.
[00:11:50] On the other hand, we must allow these actors to grow in
[00:11:53] power, and compel manufacturers to
[00:11:57] use them, even if in some cases
[00:12:00] there are agreements, technological
[00:12:03] and capital agreements with certain battery
[00:12:06] actors. These are options taken by various
[00:12:10] parties. In general, you have manufacturers who on the one
[00:12:13] hand use Chinese
[00:12:15] hand, for relatively limited volumes for now,
[00:12:19] they use European producers to allow them to
[00:12:22] take off. The raw material
[00:12:25] in Europe to produce these batteries ourselves, we are thinking
[00:12:28] in particular of the minerals that
[00:12:31] China today directly
[00:12:33] benefits from.
[00:12:36] has fallen far behind, so indeed, across the entire
[00:12:39] sector, we are failing. We are failing to produce cells,
[00:12:43] we are failing because China,
[00:12:46] even if it doesn't have cobalt, has managed to forge
[00:12:49] agreements, more or less getting its hands on cobalt. It's
[00:12:53] pretty much the same thing for part of the lithium we have, but
[00:12:57] which for now we don't extract or refine. So yes, the
[00:13:00] slope to climb is very steep. But either
[00:13:04] we do it and we remain masters of our
[00:13:07] automotive industry, or we don't do it, and in that case, we
[00:13:11] will assemble, as we mentioned earlier, the screwdriver factories,
[00:13:14] well, we will have factories that assemble
[00:13:17] components controlled by China, obviously, since the
[00:13:21] battery is still the core of vehicle performance.
[00:13:25] Electric, and well, the
[00:13:28] competition will be eventually
[00:13:30] between models that will
[00:13:34] all be "Made in China" or something like that. And
[00:13:37] so that, of course, is what we were promised we would avoid. We
[00:13:41] had in mind the
[00:13:44] precedent of solar panels. We
[00:13:47] wanted to develop
[00:13:50] energy, but we didn't manage to create
[00:13:53] an industry. This is even more serious because there is an existing
[00:13:57] industry whose autonomy must be saved
[00:14:01] by allowing it to rely on a battery
[00:14:04] industry that for now we must build from scratch,
[00:14:08] and that requires heavy investments, protection, and
[00:14:10] therefore policies
[00:14:14] that Brussels does not yet have in store for now.
[00:14:18] It's not in Brussels' playbook to engage in protectionist
[00:14:20] policies, nor is it in Brussels' playbook to engage in
[00:14:24] politics. Thank you Bernard Julien for being with us live
[00:14:28] on France 24.
[00:14:31] Any attack against a NATO member country will be rendered completely
[00:14:34] futile, a warning to Russia issued by the Supreme
[00:14:38] Commander of Alliance forces in Brussels this Monday. This
[00:14:41] American general, in doing so, contradicts Donald Trump, the President of
[00:14:44] the United States, who, after negotiating
[00:14:48] diesel supplies with Moscow, announced over the weekend an energy
[00:14:51] truce in the war in Ukraine, apparently
[00:14:55] without any guarantees from the Kremlin. A report by Floren
[00:14:57] Rodaau.
[00:15:01] His speech was highly anticipated.
[00:15:04] Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American
[00:15:08] General Alexus Grenkevic came to Warsaw to present his
[00:15:12] theory of victory, or how to defeat Russia in the event
[00:15:15] of an attack. And at a time when concerns are
[00:15:18] growing, between rising Russian threats and doubts about US
[00:15:22] support, the military chief.
[00:15:27] "I do not consider a conflict to be imminent or inevitable,
[00:15:31] it is not. We are helping to avoid conflict by
[00:15:34] clearly stating our defensive intentions and maintaining open
[00:15:37] lines of communication, but to prevent conflicts, one must also
[00:15:41] be ready to wage war. Those who want peace prepare
[00:15:44] for war, so the adage is known. The question now on
[00:15:48] the ground is whether the energy truce unilaterally announced
[00:15:51] this weekend by Donald Trump can one day be
[00:15:54] effective. Voladimir Zelenski has been calling for it for several months,
[00:15:58] if and only if the Kremlin does the same. Doubt remains,
[00:16:01] according to the Ukrainian president, it is increasingly evident given
[00:16:05] the Russian attacks in recent hours.
[00:16:37] the certainty that Russia will comply.
[00:16:41] It is extremely important because winter is expected to be
[00:16:43] harsh. Kayakalas also announced that
[00:16:47] the European Union has adopted new sanctions against nearly
[00:16:50] 1600 entities and individuals, all linked to
[00:16:54] the war waged by Russia in
[00:16:55] Ukraine.
[00:16:58] Riyadh International Airport will remain closed at least until the
[00:17:02] end of the week, after having been hit by missile and drone fire at least
[00:17:06] twice. There are 13 dead, Benjamin de
[00:17:09] Lorme. Passengers wait calmly
[00:17:13] before boarding, when suddenly,
[00:17:16] drone and missile
[00:17:18] attacks.
[00:17:20] Panic in the heart of Riyadh
[00:17:24] airport.
[00:17:26] Filmed on Saturday, these surveillance camera images have only just been
[00:17:30] released.
[00:17:32] Under attack for 48 hours, which has left 14
[00:17:36] dead and over 300 injured. In France, Saudi
[00:17:40] Arabia only authorizes the broadcast of very few images of the strikes and
[00:17:43] damage. In Riyadh, the government prefers to show the
[00:17:46] visit to the hospital of official officials, checking on the
[00:17:50] wounded. "It's good, you have everything you
[00:17:53] need." In addition to Riyadh
[00:17:56] airport, the strikes also targeted Dammam airport and
[00:17:59] sites of the hydrocarbon giant Aramco. The
[00:18:03] Houthi attacks, this Iran-allied rebellion that controls eastern
[00:18:07] Yemen, are unprecedented in over 10 years. This morning,
[00:18:11] Riyadh announced its intention to retaliate with force. "The events of
[00:18:14] recent weeks are serious, our response must be equally
[00:18:17] so."
[00:18:20] In the last three days, Saudi Arabia has carried out about thirty strikes on the
[00:18:24] territory controlled by the Houthis. Riyadh also announced
[00:18:27] that it intercepted a ballistic missile overnight from Yemen.
[00:18:31] And now we move on to sports
[00:18:35] news. With Cédric Ferrera.
[00:26:58] moment to continue to talk about the news.
[00:27:01] The news is... right now the fears caused by Donald Trump's
[00:27:05] statements, both regarding
[00:27:08] Saudi Arabia. Will America abandon all its
[00:27:12] allies? The answer in a moment with Marc Semo and Bruno
[00:27:15] Darous. We'll go
[00:27:16] further.
[00:27:25] Conflict, intelligence, defense, international
[00:27:28] trade, economic sanctions, customs duties, border taxes,
[00:27:31] technical warfare. Technological, return to protectionism, energy
[00:27:35] resources, globalization, blockade, American-Chinese
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[00:27:40] influence.
[00:27:43] Even the chaos of the world has a meaning. To find it,
[00:27:46] join me in "Aux Avant-Postes",
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[00:30:08] You are still watching the essential on France 24. We will go further now with Marc Semo,
[00:30:11] a contributor to the weekly Challenge and the newspaper Le Monde. Hello Marc, hello. And Bruno
[00:30:15] Darous, international columnist. He was
[00:30:19] a correspondent in London for RFI, international columnist at France
[00:30:22] 24. Hello Bruno, hello. On the agenda: NATO seeks to
[00:30:26] deter Russia. Any attack will be in vain on its main
[00:30:29] military chief, an American general. At a moment when Donald Trump
[00:30:33] shows new signs of rapprochement with
[00:30:36] Ukraine. Saudi Arabia admits being tested
[00:30:40] by the strikes. Yes. The rebels are multiplying deadly
[00:30:43] attacks against Riyadh International Airport. It will remain closed until the
[00:30:47] end of the week, while maritime access for Saudi ships is already
[00:30:50] blocked. It's immediately, we go
[00:30:52] further.