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00:00:13Good afternoon and welcome to the world now of France 24, I
00:00:17am Elena Lozano and everything you will see below is news,
00:00:20we begin, as a news item denominated Vladimir
00:00:24Zelensky announced an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and
00:00:28Russia announced by Donald. Trump, the Ukrainian president
00:00:31said he is awaiting details on the US proposal and that
00:00:35Kiev will accept it as long as Moscow also
00:00:38does. Riyadh International Airport
00:00:42is under attack for the second consecutive day. Yemen's Houthis claimed
00:00:45responsibility for the missile launch on
00:00:48Saturday against the air terminal in Saudi Arabia, in which
00:00:5212 people died. The clashes between the rebels and the
00:00:56government of Yemen continue to intensify.
00:01:00Pope Leo XIV will undergo surgery to
00:01:03remove a nodule lodged in a lung that, according to him,
00:01:07is in a very early stage. The news comes
00:01:11less than a month before his scheduled trip to Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay.
00:01:28We start with information.
00:01:32a complete evaluation of the damages and
00:01:37the energy fire between the two warring countries, the Ukrainian president
00:01:41said that for him it was news, what his
00:01:44American counterpart said and that he expects details on Washington's
00:01:48proposal, Trump's announcement comes a day after he
00:01:52said it is time for a change of
00:02:12"We resist, the problem is not our president, the problem is
00:02:15the president who provoked this war against us, let them replace
00:02:19him rather gently, not only is it
00:02:21an unfortunate statement,
00:02:25but a betrayal, it is a betrayal on the part of our
00:02:28ally, on Saturday. Donald Trump also criticized Kiev's attacks on
00:02:32Russian refineries, accusing them of
00:02:35fueling rising gasoline prices, this the day
00:02:38after reaching an agreement with Moscow for the purchase of
00:02:42Russian diesel, something that annoys the Ukrainian president who
00:02:45defended a principle of reciprocity to stop these
00:02:49types of attacks. The true cause of the war in Europe is
00:02:52Russia and only Russia, it is possible to stop attacks against energy
00:02:56infrastructure starting today, but Putin does not want to do so. Ukraine
00:03:00will be willing to stop attacking Russian oil refineries, if
00:03:03Russia stops attacking our energy infrastructure. Hours
00:03:07later, Donald Trump affirmed that Russia and Ukraine would have agreed to an energy
00:03:10ceasefire, but Zelensky replied that he had not been
00:03:14previously informed. But in recent months, reciprocal
00:03:18attacks against energy infrastructure have
00:03:21multiplied, attacks that also target civilian
00:03:25populations. On Saturday night, new Russian bombardments
00:03:28left dozens of...
00:03:34two in the city of Dnipro in the east of the country and hit industrial facilities in Bucha near Kiev. To analyze
00:03:38the issue, we previously spoke with the international analyst and
00:03:42president of the Institute for National and Global Security of Kiev,
00:03:45Mark Vouger, who doubts that
00:03:48trade routes that connected China with Donald Trump's announcement will be credible and respected on the ground. It
00:03:52seems to me that in this case Trump is
00:03:55presenting what he wants to
00:03:58make a. a real
00:04:00situation and
00:04:03as we always know
00:04:07reproach him for his support for the director of such announcements by
00:04:09Trump finally
00:04:13in a short, very short time they change
00:04:16and they produce
00:04:19nothing concrete and
00:04:22I'm well I'm worried that I'm
00:04:26sure that in this case it would be the
00:04:30same situation ah
00:04:32it did not speak of the king, it proposed a reform of It also seems to me that it is a scheme
00:04:35that the Russians and Trump have announced
00:04:39it is more or less a scheme to
00:04:43trap Zelensky because
00:04:46Putin and Russia have a very serious problem
00:04:50with Ukrainian strikes against oil companies because
00:04:54the backbone of Russia, of the Russian economy
00:04:57is oil as everyone knows. and that's
00:05:01what pays the expenses for this aggressive
00:05:04war against Ukraine, so for Putin, for the
00:05:07Kremlin it is super important to stop
00:05:10these attacks and they, the Russians and
00:05:14Putin, use Trump's
00:05:16desire to lower the prices
00:05:20of diesel, especially diesel, for
00:05:24Americans, so it is a vicious triangle, in my
00:05:27opinion, where
00:05:31both parties, Russia and the
00:05:35United States, unfortunately,
00:05:37put pressure on Zelensky and
00:05:41finally. they can put the
00:05:44blame on Ukraine and Zelensky
00:05:46personally. We continue in the Middle East, for the second consecutive
00:05:50day, Riyadh International Airport is under
00:05:53attack, according to the coalition led by Saudi
00:05:57Arabia with the help of the government of Yemen, a projectile hit the
00:06:00air terminal. Meanwhile, Yemen's Houthis claimed responsibility for the
00:06:04missile launch on Saturday against the airport of the Saudi
00:06:08Capital, in which
00:06:14ambulances in front of Riyadh airport and disoriented
00:06:17passengers, these are the scarce images coming from
00:06:21Saudi Arabia after the deadly attack that hit the
00:06:24capital's airport on Saturday. Witnesses describe
00:06:27scenes of chaos with dead and hundreds of
00:06:30injured. The General Authority of Civil Aviation has
00:06:34indicated that the attack has left several injured, whose condition is being
00:06:37evaluated. It has specified that airport operations have been
00:06:41temporarily suspended, pending
00:06:45the verification of the security of the
00:06:46facilities.
00:06:49All flights to Riyadh have been diverted or
00:06:52cancelled. Later, that same night, the authorities
00:06:56reported the fall of a projectile near another
00:06:59airport, that of Dammam, in the east of the
00:07:02country.
00:07:04These attacks are attributed to the Houthi rebels of Yemen, who
00:07:08oppose the Yemeni governmental forces
00:07:11supported by Saudi Arabia. And this Sunday, the Houthis
00:07:14launched new threats against the airspace
00:07:17of Saudi airports. In September, they began a
00:07:21lightning offensive, strengthening their control over the
00:07:24strategic strait of Bab el Mandeb. In recent days,
00:07:27attacks against Riyadh have intensified. The capital's
00:07:31airport has been the target of two attacks this week, leaving
00:07:35several people dead and injured. To fight the
00:07:38Houthis, Saudi Arabia has been trying for weeks to obtain
00:07:41military aid from its US ally, without
00:07:44success. These attacks occur shortly before an annual
00:07:48investment conference in the kingdom in October that attracts visitors
00:07:51from all over the world. Now
00:07:54let's go to the Asian continent: the government of Pakistan decreed a state
00:07:58of emergency in a northwestern province in which it took
00:08:02control and arrested its governor, according to the
00:08:05Pakistani Interior Ministry, the army was
00:08:08deployed to the area with the objective of protecting citizens
00:08:11and governmental facilities during a massive
00:08:15march towards the capital Islamabad, this was
00:08:18called by the opposition and could be redirected towards
00:08:21Peshawar, the capital of that region. They
00:08:24demand the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, sentenced
00:08:28to 14 years in prison for corruption
00:08:30cases.
00:08:33Second day of massive protests in India called by the Cockroach
00:08:37Party, the student movement demands the resignation
00:08:40of the president of the Electoral Commission. body which they accuse of having
00:08:44modified the electoral rolls and eliminated minorities, this
00:08:48Sunday their leaders were released on the condition of not disturbing the
00:08:52peace during the year, let's remember that they were arrested yesterday for
00:09:02country has ever seen. The
00:09:04first words of the founder of the Cockroach Party upon being
00:09:07released left no doubt. Now it is Prime
00:09:11Minister Naren Ramon. who channels the era of the
00:09:14protesters, the leaders of the party formed by young people
00:09:20the electoral commission and the repression of the
00:09:22demonstrations.
00:09:26The struggle that is being carried out against the electoral commission, the struggle that is being carried out
00:09:30against Ganesh Kumar has become a struggle against Narendra Modi and
00:09:33Amit Shah. Narendra Modi has made it clear that he
00:09:36will protect him at all
00:09:38costs.
00:09:42Leaders of the Cockroach Party were captured on Saturday
00:09:46after calling for massive demonstrations in New Delhi, demanding the
00:09:49resignation of the Director of the Electoral Commission, they denounce what
00:09:53they consider irregularities in the recent electoral
00:09:56census, which led to the elimination of millions of names
00:10:00from the lists with the aim of supposedly favoring the
00:10:04BJP, Modi's party in the elections, but
00:10:07the protesters encountered a significant police
00:10:10deployment, a confrontation
00:10:25The way they have detained our people, our students and have
00:10:28attacked democracy, we will not forgive them, we will be in the
00:10:32streets every hour, every minute and every second, we are afraid of their
00:10:36autocracy.
00:10:41The Cockroach Party called for continued demonstrations, in July
00:10:45it achieved the dismissal of the Minister of Education after massive
00:10:49protests. From the Vatican, Pope Leo
00:10:52XIV announced that he will undergo surgery to
00:10:56remove a nodule detected in a lung that, according to the Supreme
00:10:59Pontiff, was detected in a very early stage. The
00:11:03highest hierarch of the Catholic Church announced the news at the
00:11:06end of the Angelus prayer from the Holy See, and despite the
00:11:09intervention, the Pope is expected to begin his tour of Latin America
00:11:13on November 6 in a tour that will take him through Uruguay,
00:11:17Argentina and Peru, and that will extend until November
00:11:25I heard that the Pope is going to have surgery for a nodule in his lung in the hospital here in
00:11:28Italy and it is worrying news because we do not know what the
00:11:32real diagnosis is and I
00:11:36understood that he will do it after his trip to Argentina, I
00:11:40am Argentinian and we are waiting for him in November between the 8th and the
00:11:4311th in Buenos Aires and Cordoba,
00:11:46places where there are many faithful who are waiting for him and there is a whole
00:11:50organization to receive him, it is news, it is news that has surprised
00:11:53almost everyone since... No one was prepared, given that only a
00:11:57year has passed since his election as the new pope, we send him our best
00:12:01wishes. We continue in Mexico, Hurricane Simon
00:12:04could make landfall this Sunday on the coasts of the state of Jalisco in the
00:12:08west of the country, as a category three or
00:12:12four phenomenon. Meanwhile, in five states in the region, non-essential
00:12:15activities were suspended and preventive measures
00:12:18were activated. Residents of the nearby area are preparing for the
00:12:27The city of Acapulco suffers the first consequences of Hurricane Simon,
00:12:30here a landslide on this hill, a little further
00:12:34away, a house collapsed near a canal, the powerful hurricane
00:12:38is expected to travel along the coast of central western Mexico this
00:12:41Sunday. Its proximity has caused torrential
00:12:45rains and gusts of wind that reach 250
00:12:48km per hour in some places. Due to the
00:12:51rains that were generated, there were some places where... due to the
00:12:55saturation of water it generated the displacement of
00:12:58rocky material towards the communication routes, in shopping centers,
00:13:01service stations, banking institutions and in the
00:13:05neighborhoods with greater vulnerability due to the climatic
00:13:09effects, further north in Puerto Vallarta, the population is also
00:13:13preparing, the authorities have declared a state of maximum alert in
00:13:17several localities of the territory, here to
00:13:19protect their establishments, the merchants place sandbags at the
00:13:23entrance and block the doors.
00:13:25This coastal city is protected from hurricanes by the neighboring
00:13:29mountains, but many prefer to take their own
00:13:32precautions,
00:13:35right now we are preparing for the hurricane that is coming for Simon to
00:13:38be prepared so that there is no
00:13:41difficulty or anything for the
00:13:44restaurant, the sea, the
00:13:47waves, that's the main thing, because it
00:13:51overflows, if the big waves come in, it gets in. for
00:13:55here, well, just take it for what it is, well, in the end it's
00:13:59nature speaking, taking its space, so that's why the
00:14:02message is to be brief, peaceful,
00:14:06the Mexican Navy has already evacuated a hundred people from localities
00:14:09located along the west coast of the country, Simon is the latest
00:14:13hurricane recorded in the Pacific whose waters have
00:14:16warmed due to the El Niño climate phenomenon which has caused
00:14:20more powerful hurricanes.
00:14:23To say goodbye, images. the colorful Northern Lights,
00:14:26illuminating the sky in the Arctic Polar Circle in Finnish
00:14:29Lapland during Saturday night. The phenomenon was
00:14:33captured by a local photographer who stated that the
00:14:36spectacle was the most intense since a similar geomagnetic
00:14:39storm that was recorded in January 2026. In
00:14:43recent hours, Northern Lights were also sighted in Italy,
00:14:46Corsica and Ukraine, where the sky remained illuminated in green and
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00:15:58one of the most powerful and influential in Southeast Asia. We will delve
00:16:02into its enormous political weight, the strict respect for the royal figure, its
00:16:06notorious controversies and... extravagances.
00:16:09We will delve into the mysteries of a city submerged under the waters of Kyrgyzstan
00:16:13for eight centuries, an enigmatic enclave of the Silk
00:16:16Road, which today a team of scientists is trying to
00:16:19decipher.
00:16:21And South Korea is getting ready to put an end to a centuries-old culinary tradition in
00:16:252027, the historic national ban on the consumption and trade of
00:16:29dog meat
00:16:31will fully come into force.
00:16:33The Thai monarchy is one of the oldest and most deeply rooted in
00:16:37Asia, with origins dating back more than eight centuries. The royal
00:16:41house of Thailand, the famous Chakri dynasty, has ruled the country
00:16:45uninterruptedly since 1782.
00:16:48Currently, the throne is occupied by King Rama X, 74
00:16:51years old, who assumed it in 2016 after the death of his
00:16:54father and was formally crowned in
00:16:562019. Today, his wealth is estimated at more than 70 billion
00:17:01dollars. To talk about the norms that surround the
00:17:04Thai monarchy. its controversies and its extravagances, I welcome
00:17:08Fernando Pedrosa, professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires and
00:17:11director of the Group of Studies on Asia and Latin America. Fernando, thank you
00:17:15for accepting this invitation. Let's start by learning about the figure of
00:17:19Rama X, what is his real weight and his importance for Thai
00:17:23society. Well, Rama X is the
00:17:27current eh Rama 10, the current
00:17:30king, has occupied the throne since 2016, but to understand the
00:17:33importance of the monarchy we must look beyond his personal
00:17:37figure. In Thailand, the monarchy is a symbol of national
00:17:41identity, it is linked to Buddhism, the historical continuity of
00:17:44the country, eh, avoiding colonization, and
00:17:48furthermore, currently, especially it articulates a network of power with
00:17:51military, economic and
00:17:54bureaucratic ties. To talk about Rama X, we must
00:17:57talk about his father, the current king inherited, eh, the
00:18:01monarchy of,
00:18:03Ramano IX. Ramano IX was. 70 years in power and was
00:18:07very popular, he was seen almost as a demigod
00:18:11by many of his followers, however eh Rama
00:18:14X, the current king does not have that aspect, he is
00:18:18a person who has maintained a certain distance from the people,
00:18:22even spending long periods of his life living in
00:18:25Germany. The current king Rama X is considered one of the
00:18:28richest monarchs in the world, if not the richest. His fortune is largely
00:18:32due to the real estate sector, his properties, investments and luxury
00:18:36goods and perhaps at this point Fernando it can become
00:18:39inevitable to criticize or question what surrounds him, let's please talk about those
00:18:43norms that govern Thailand that are very particular but that
00:18:46are really very serious,
00:18:48well, eh the king eh the monarchy in Thailand is a
00:18:52constitutional monarchy theoretically but not of European
00:18:56styles, that we have to state very radically eh in
00:19:00in Thailand discussing the wealth or power of the king can have
00:19:04criminal consequences, it is estimated that he has a fortune between
00:19:0730 thousand to 70 billion dollars, he is the
00:19:11richest king of all the kings that exist in the world, article
00:19:14112 of the penal code, known as
00:19:17lèse-majesté law, punishes with between
00:19:203 and 15 years in prison for defaming, insulting,
00:19:24or threatening the king, the queen, the heir, or the
00:19:27regent, but the charges are cumulative, that
00:19:31is to say that the sentence can be 50,
00:19:3460, 70 years. if the offenses are
00:19:38added up and these
00:19:41comments do not have to be a crime because the interpretation is very
00:19:44broad, anyone who makes any criticism of the
00:19:48king can end up in prison, furthermore the
00:19:50constitution declares the monarch
00:19:53inviolable eh, he cannot be punished, he cannot be
00:19:56accused, he is an untouchable person within
00:19:59society, even a political party in 2024,
00:20:03move forward, proposed a reform of the law.
00:20:09the law and the party was eh unauthorized,
00:20:13even banned, it no longer exists.
00:20:16Fernando, let's talk about the line of succession in Thailand that this year was
00:20:19affected in June by the death of Princess Baja at 47
00:20:23years old, the obvious thing would be for her 21-year-old
00:20:26son to be the heir, but there are questions about it, tell
00:20:30us about it. Well, although the king took office
00:20:3410 years ago, this year marks the decade eh. he is an old
00:20:38king, he is already 74 years old, eh, Princess
00:20:41Wa, as they called the princess who recently
00:20:44died, was a possible candidate for the
00:20:48succession, let's think that due to the political, economic and
00:20:51social place the monarchy has, the
00:20:54predictability of a succession is needed, but it is not like a
00:20:57monarchy like, as I said, the European ones, in which the
00:21:00firstborn eh is the one who occupies the crown,
00:21:04first of all he married four times and has children except with the current one, with the
00:21:07three previous ones, the king has the right to designate who
00:21:11he wants to be the successor, he can
00:21:14say so, that is, he does not have to wait for it to be one son or
00:21:18another, if the kingdom says so, if the kingdom says so,
00:21:22well, in that case the royal council and the
00:21:25privy council propose a successor and the national assembly, the
00:21:29congress has to approve it, eh, it can be a woman, it can be a
00:21:32woman, eh even in these last eh months eh the
00:21:36royal couple went to France eh and took one
00:21:40of their daughters who is a fashion designer who is one of the people who
00:21:44seems more modern and who could be the
00:21:47successor, but one of the current crises of the Thai
00:21:50monarchy is that it has no designated successor. Fernando, what is the importance of the Thai
00:21:54monarchy in Asia compared to the others that
00:21:58exist? In the Asian world, each monarchy is
00:22:01a world, from those that are eh less powerful
00:22:05like the Cambodian one eh, the ones that were tremendously powerful
00:22:09and are no longer like the Japanese ones, the rotating ones like
00:22:12Malaysia. In the case of Thailand, I would say it is a very
00:22:16extraordinary case because it has. it has a lot of power, although it does
00:22:20not govern, the prime minister governs, the economic
00:22:23power, the political power has under
00:22:26its command troops of the army eh,
00:22:29and its power even reaches
00:22:32foreigners, in 2025, last
00:22:35year eh Paul Chambers, American academic, was
00:22:39arrested for criticizing the king, a
00:22:41very light criticism by the way, so I would say
00:22:45that he is a very powerful king eh who has.
00:22:48great businesses in
00:22:50Thailand and outside of Thailand and much power over the
00:22:54population, so it is a case I would say
00:22:56extraordinary in the sense of the great power he
00:23:00accumulates.
00:23:13information about the relationship between East and West during the Middle
00:23:16Ages and beyond. In 2024, a team of Russian
00:23:20and Kyrgyz archaeologists explore the remains of an ancient city now
00:23:23submerged in Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan, located in the heart of the
00:23:27ancient Silk Road. William Gasó with the
00:23:31details.
00:23:32Under
00:23:36the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul in Kyrgyzstan,
00:23:40fragments of pottery.
00:23:43The remains of an ancient medieval city now
00:23:46submerged, an Atlantis of Central Asia that probably
00:23:50disappeared due to a natural catastrophe in the 12th
00:23:54century. By exploring the lake, archaeologists try to
00:23:57understand the life of its inhabitants, sedentary
00:24:00populations in a country whose history has been reduced to
00:24:03nomadism.
00:24:07The skeletal remains that have been discovered will allow archaeologists to determine
00:24:11the age of the remains, as well as the diet of the populations that lived in
00:24:14this region. The pottery will allow for a more precise dating of the
00:24:18estimated period and understanding where. funded by
00:24:25the Russian
00:24:29Geographical Society. The submerged city is
00:24:32located on one of the ancient Silk Roads, a network of
00:24:38the Mediterranean. For this reason, the archaeologist believes that
00:24:42learning more about what happened there it is crucial to understand the
00:24:45historical relations between East
00:24:48and West.
00:24:51It is the common thread that unites the two largest civilizations in medieval
00:24:54history and, in reality, very little is known about
00:24:57it.
00:24:59Although researchers have known about the site since the 19th
00:25:02century, the expedition only started in 2024,
00:25:06an important boost for archaeology in this Central
00:25:10Asian country. South Korea is preparing to end a controversial
00:25:13industry with a national ban on the dog meat trade that will fully
00:25:17come into force in 2027. However, in the face of
00:25:20plummeting demand and the intervention of state funds to support farmers
00:25:24in their transition, what is the economic cost of this gradual elimination?
00:25:27Here are the details.
00:25:30In South Korea, dozens of dogs are preparing for a new life
00:25:34after being rescued from a dog meat farm as the industry
00:25:38completely closes down. South Korea approved a national
00:25:42ban on dog meat in 2024,
00:25:45setting a strict deadline for February 2027
00:25:48to completely eliminate this trade.
00:25:52Activists hope to send a strong message to end dog meat
00:25:55consumption once and for
00:25:57all.
00:26:00We hope that other Asian countries where
00:26:02dog and cat meat trade exists will really learn the lesson that
00:26:06South Korea has managed to eliminate a very important dog meat industry
00:26:09in about 3 years, which is impressive by any
00:26:13standard.
00:26:16In 2015, the dog meat market in South Korea
00:26:20was valued at about 1.5 billion US
00:26:23dollars with an annual consumption of approximately
00:26:272.5 million dogs. Today, demand
00:26:30has plummeted. Consumption fell by almost
00:26:3380% by 2024 due to a
00:26:37rapid shift in consumer preferences. To
00:26:40manage the gradual elimination of the almost 6, affected
00:26:43businesses, the South Korean government has allocated
00:26:47a sum equivalent to more than 73 million
00:26:50dollars. These economic incentives are designed to
00:26:53help farmers cease their operations and transition
00:26:57to other forms of
00:30:13Good afternoon and welcome to France 24's "The World Now." I
00:30:17am Elena Lozano and everything you will see next is news,
00:30:20we begin, as Voladimir Zelensky called the
00:30:24announcement of a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia
00:30:28announced by Donald Trump, the Ukrainian president
00:30:32said he expects details about the US proposal and that
00:30:35Kyiv will accept as long as Moscow does
00:30:38too. Riyadh International Airport
00:30:42is under attack for the second consecutive day. The Houthis
00:30:45of Yemen claimed responsibility for the missile launch carried
00:30:49out on Saturday against the air terminal in Saudi
00:30:52Arabia in which 12 people died. Clashes between the rebels
00:30:56and the Yemeni government continue to intensify.