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00:00:08Hello everyone, Thursday, August 6, 6 AM, Paris
00:00:11time. Glad to be back with you for the headlines. Here are the main
00:00:16to the Financial Times, news stories. In Germany, an
00:00:18Trump refused this request anti-terrorist investigation after the discovery yesterday of an explosive drone at Lepsich airport.
00:00:22Berlin denounces a new dimension of threat, with suspicions
00:00:25pointing towards Russia. Evacuation ordered
00:00:29in Kramatorsk. Hundreds of families are forced to
00:00:32flee the city, which is under attack by the Russian army. More
00:00:36than 500 children are expected to leave their homes. And after
00:00:40Moscow's bloody offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky
00:00:43is calling on his allies for emergency aid. Then, the FIFA
00:00:46apologies. After trying to privatize the World Cup, the world
00:00:50football body shows contrition, while still supporting its
00:00:53"The Fabric of Existence," highly contested boss, Gianni
00:00:55is the name of the first major Infantino.
00:00:57Berlin
00:01:07of history and the fragility
00:01:11is on high alert after the discovery of a drone laden with explosives
00:01:15at Lepsich airport. An anti-terrorist investigation has been opened.
00:01:20beautiful title, "The Fabric Yesterday, the device was defused on the tarmac and a disaster
00:01:22was narrowly avoided. A second object hit a plane,
00:01:26causing minor damage. The Russian lead is being considered, and Berlin
00:01:30denounces a new dimension of threat. Mario Meyer
00:01:34reports. A robot
00:01:37deminer inspects the tarmac of Lepsich airport in the middle
00:01:41of the night. An explosive-laden drone has just been spotted
00:01:45just a few meters from these Antonov Airlines planes, a Ukrainian
00:01:49freight company. Shortly after, a DHL
00:01:52aircraft collides in mid-air with a flying object. The plane
00:01:57patients were allowed to temporarily had just been diverted following the
00:02:07is false and bears the signature
00:02:31Why is this incident so worrying? Lepsich airport is a key
00:02:35logistics hub for NATO. It allows the transport of material
00:02:38and civilians to Ukraine, which Berlin has actively supported
00:02:42since the beginning of the Russian invasion. According
00:02:46to the Ukrainian ambassador in Germany, the responsibility
00:02:49for this incident undoubtedly lies with Moscow. Berlin
00:02:53mentions the possible involvement of foreign powers. An anti-terrorist
00:02:56investigation has been opened.
00:03:01Meanwhile, in Ukraine, in
00:03:05for this variant of the Kramatorsk, hundreds of families are being asked to evacuate following the intensification of Russian
00:03:08attacks in this large city in the Donetsk region.
00:03:11525 children will have to leave everything, according
00:03:15to the authorities. And President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling
00:03:19for emergency aid from his
00:03:21of Aden, as part of the blockade allies, because Ukraine no longer has the means to shoot down Russian missiles. Alice Broga
00:03:25reports.
00:03:27After more than 20 hours of searching, Ukrainian rescuers
00:03:31pull a lifeless body from the rubble. A civilian killed
00:03:35in a Russian strike that occurred the day before on this building
00:03:38in Kramatorsk. Faced with the increase in Russian attacks,
00:03:41the authorities of this city in the Donetsk region in eastern
00:03:45Ukraine ordered Wednesday evening the evacuation of approximately
00:03:48500 children and their families who were still living in the city.
00:03:52In the Kiev region too, attacks are becoming more and
00:03:56more numerous and deadly. Along this railway line, railway workers
00:04:07to envisage a future outside
00:04:30does man's insatiable desire I saw people covered in blood running in the street.
00:04:33According to the Ukrainian army, Russia fired 115 long-range
00:04:37drones and 28 missiles overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday,
00:04:41but only 98 drones could be neutralized. Ukrainian
00:04:45anti-aircraft defenses failed to intercept any missiles.
00:04:49This weakening is attributed by President Zelensky to delays
00:04:52in the delivery of missile interceptors compared
00:04:55to 2025.
00:05:00about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend our
00:05:03state. This situation is mainly linked to the
00:05:05war, or as it is now fair to say,
00:05:09to hostilities and wars in the Middle East.
00:05:15Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky went to Washington again
00:05:18to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot missiles
00:05:22to him, the only ones capable of intercepting the most powerful
00:05:25Russian missiles. But according
00:05:30due to the shortage of Patriots in American stocks since
00:05:34the beginning of the war in the Middle East.
00:05:37The war waged by Russia is also being fought on the Internet. In
00:05:41France, suspicions of Moscow's interference hang over the presidential
00:05:45pre-campaign. Raphaël Glucksmann, a potential candidate, claims
00:05:48to be the target of an operation attributed to a pro-Russian
00:05:51network. The same goes for former Prime Minister Gabriel
00:05:54Attal, and a few weeks ago, Edouard Philippe also
00:05:58declared himself a victim. Explanations from our colleagues
00:06:01at France 2. Is this a foretaste of the
00:06:05presidential campaign? Disinformation operations target declared
00:06:08candidates, Edouard Philippe and Gabriel Attal, or potentially
00:06:14the leader of Place Publique. A website and a video created
00:06:18with artificial intelligence implicate his partner Léa Salamé,
00:06:21presenter of the 8 PM news on France
00:06:242. She is accused of having tried to bribe
00:06:27the media in exchange for the publication of articles aimed
00:06:31at giving a positive image of her husband. Everything
00:06:35is false, fabricated from scratch. The site
00:06:38and the video use the codes of a real online media,
00:06:41Blast. According to the government, the manipulation
00:06:44is orchestrated by the Russian secret services. Raphael
00:06:47Glucksmann has long denounced this interference.
00:06:50The goal for the Russians is to create
00:06:53chaos in our country and to achieve the electoral
00:06:57victory of pro-Russian political forces.
00:07:00On July 21, the Horizon candidate
00:07:04Edouard Philippe was also targeted. This video
00:07:07falsely claims that he would be suffering
00:07:11from a disease.
00:07:13recently received a diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia.
00:07:16Again, everything
00:07:20of Russia. The candidate's entourage fears other manipulations
00:07:23during the campaign. A country
00:07:27like Russia that will want to weaken all those who,
00:07:30rightly so, consider that Vladimir Putin is an aggressor
00:07:34who has violated international law. So yes, we should expect
00:07:37something violent. Russia is accused by several candidates
00:07:41of wanting to influence the vote of voters in France.
00:07:45Better punishing interference is the objective of the Elysée
00:07:48and Matignon. A bill will be examined in the Senate
00:07:52next September.
00:07:55This cry of alarm now from the head of the World
00:07:59Health Organization yesterday visiting the Democratic Republic
00:08:02of Congo. He calls for stepping up the response because the Ebola
00:08:06epidemic is spreading faster than previous ones. 3,874
00:08:09cases are confirmed, including 1,751 deaths.
00:08:12As a reminder, for now, there is no vaccine or treatment
00:08:17epidemic.
00:08:22In the Middle East, the Houthi rebels of Yemen, supported by
00:08:26Iran, declare that they have attacked two Saudi oil tankers
00:08:30in the Red Sea and the Gulf
00:08:34they announced against the Saudi fleet. These are the 8th
00:08:37and 9th vessels targeted since the announcement of the blockade
00:08:41at the end of July against the Riyadh fleet, according to the
00:08:44figures communicated by the rebels. For its part, Iran indicated
00:08:48yesterday that it had found an agreement with Oman on a new transit
00:08:52route for ships in the Strait of Hormuz, of which they are
00:08:55both riparian and which is at the heart of tensions with the
00:08:59United States. The two countries are therefore working on a joint
00:09:03declaration, provided that the third parties do not also
00:09:07hinder the process. Mario Meyer
00:09:10In the Strait of Hormuz,
00:09:12Iran positions itself as the master of the game and tightens
00:09:16its control over its strategic areas. According
00:09:19to Iranian diplomacy, an agreement concluded with Oman
00:09:23would allow the opening of a new maritime route, viable according
00:09:26to it, for 2 to 4 months. The geographical coordinates of the
00:09:29route envisaged by the two parties have been approved. Relations
00:09:33between the two countries deteriorated last June
00:09:36after the failure of the agreement between Washington and Tehran
00:09:40on the reopening of the Strait. Oman
00:09:43refused a return to the pre-war situation and only authorized
00:09:46one navigation corridor along its coasts, shown here in red.
00:09:50Oman then opened an alternative route further south
00:09:53in its territorial waters, an initiative that had provoked
00:09:57Tehran's anger. While the new route negotiated this time between
00:10:01the two countries is not yet known, the draft agreement
00:10:04would give Tehran control over the entry of ships into
00:10:08the Gulf. A strategic advantage against Washington,
00:10:11which for its part affirms that the opening of the Strait is
00:10:15imminent. "It could happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. A lot
00:10:19of progress has been made. Iran wants an agreement, it doesn't
00:10:22want to be hit." Tehran always rejects any negotiation
00:10:26with Oman and assures that the discussions held
00:10:29with Oman do not at this stage guarantee the security of traffic
00:10:31in the Strait.
00:10:35In the United States, the far-left candidate wins the Democratic primary
00:10:38in Michigan. Abdullah El Sayed, supported by Bernie Sanders,
00:10:42emerges victorious from his duel against Aley Stevens, who
00:10:46advocated a more centrist line. So, is there a revolution
00:10:50within the Democratic Party? Jules Boateau reports.
00:10:53He wants to embody the Democratic renewal. Abdul El
00:10:57Sayed, son of Egyptian immigrants, will represent
00:11:00the party in Michigan for a Senate seat after his primary victory.
00:11:04I want
00:11:06to express my gratitude for being able to participate
00:11:10in this beautiful democracy. My family immigrated from a
00:11:14place where there is no democracy. You simply cannot run.
00:11:17As the great Muhammad Ali would say, we shook
00:11:19the world.
00:11:22Shake the world, but especially the Democratic
00:11:26Party with a political line of rupture
00:11:28against the centrist candidate Aillie Stevens,
00:11:31former advisor to Barack Obama. Abdul El Sayed campaigned
00:11:35against the influence of big donors and pro-Israel organizations
00:11:39in American politics. Supported by so-called
00:11:42progressive figures like Bernie Sanders or Alexandria
00:11:45Ocasio-Cortez, he now wants to prove that a radical voice
00:11:49in the Democratic Party can block the MAGA Republicans.
00:11:53Donald Trump himself seemed to rejoice at this result.
00:11:57Great news for the Republican Party. The communist
00:11:59loser Elsayet, who hates Jews and Israel, won the Democratic
00:12:03primary. The crazy proposals of the Democratic idiots
00:12:06will only get worse. But before facing Donald Trump's
00:12:09candidate, Abdul El Sayed will have to unite his
00:12:13own party. The end of the primary was marked
00:12:16by personal attacks and a frontal opposition on the
00:12:19question of support for Israel. After the announcement
00:12:23of his victory, the now Democratic candidate immediately
00:12:26called for unity.
00:12:28The FIFA
00:12:31Gate sequel is perhaps over. After abandoning
00:12:34its highly controversial plan to open the body to private
00:12:37investors, the International Football Federation's
00:12:40leadership held a crisis meeting yesterday. At its
00:12:44conclusion, it acknowledged mistakes and offered its
00:12:47apologies, but nevertheless confirmed its full support
00:12:51for its president, Gianni Infantino. Alice Broga reports.
00:12:55Leaving the FIFA African headquarters in Salé, Morocco,
00:12:58its president Johnny Infantino hopes to turn the page on
00:13:01controversies. Under fire for having single-handedly put
00:13:05together a project to sell part of FIFA's commercial
00:13:08rights, he leaves with the full support of his executive committee.
00:13:12However, the latter apologized to member countries for the errors
00:13:15made.
00:13:18It was agreed that it was never the intention to exclude
00:13:21the FIFA Council and the FIFA member associations from the process,
00:13:25and that it should have been handled differently.
00:13:29Last week, press leaks revealed Gianni Infantino's
00:13:33project to create a new entity responsible for organizing
00:13:36FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
00:13:40investors. Faced with the outcry, the project was abandoned
00:13:43on Friday, but this did not silence his detractors. Several
00:13:47football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
00:13:50indicated that they had lost confidence in Gianni Infantino.
00:13:54These criticisms are now joined by political
00:13:56voices.
00:13:59FIFA has its own procedures for making this kind of decision,
00:14:03but for my part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after
00:14:06what happened. Gianni Infantino benefits
00:14:10from the support of several federations, particularly in Africa and
00:14:13the Middle East, thanks to which he hopes to avoid the calling
00:14:16of an extraordinary congress to replace him. He also
00:14:20hopes to be re-elected for a fourth term at the next
00:14:23March congress. His opponents, such as UEFA and the Confederation
00:14:26of North, Central and Caribbean Football, have until November
00:14:3018 to find
00:14:31another candidate.
00:14:34And before we leave, we stay
00:15:24to be a little paradise.
00:15:27The government finally built a hell for thousands of sick
00:15:31people like Shinji. When he arrived in this port
00:15:34in 1948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
00:15:38years old.
00:15:42Since I arrived here without knowing anything, I was
00:15:45rather relaxed at first, but once I arrived,
00:15:48everyone told me that I could no longer go home.
00:15:52Shinji
00:15:54had contracted leprosy a year earlier when his family sent
00:15:58him here. He knew nothing about this disease that was
00:16:01about to disfigure his face and body by attacking his
00:16:04nerves. Once disembarked, the suspected
00:16:08patients are locked up for a week in this building
00:16:11to be examined.
00:16:14At the time, they first proceeded to disinfect
00:16:17here because sometimes they arrived with lice, pus
00:16:21or skin diseases. So
00:16:24there was no one really happy, everyone
00:16:28was crying. Even the nurses wore rubber
00:16:31boots and masks made of several layers
00:16:35of protection.
00:16:52a containment policy applied throughout Japan thanks to a 1931
00:16:55law. The same year, Nagashima Island welcomed
00:16:58its first patients. Their belongings were confiscated
00:17:02for fear that they too would be contaminated.
00:17:06Here you can see what we call internal circulation
00:17:10tickets, a special currency whose use was only allowed
00:17:12on the island. The main objective was to prevent
00:17:15escapes, so even if someone managed to escape from
00:17:19here without ordinary money, he could neither take the train
00:17:22nor eat.
00:17:2417 years later, real currency was introduced because
00:17:28from 1948, a new treatment allowed
00:17:31lepers to be cured and some
00:17:35leave the island. A fleeting joy, because for these broken
00:17:39faces, reunions with their loved ones turned
00:17:41into drama.
00:17:44When a leper was detected in a house, all members of his
00:17:47family were discriminated against. It then
00:17:50became very difficult afterwards to accept his
00:17:53return.
00:17:55Rejected by their families, cured lepers are also forced
00:17:59by law to remain living on the island.
00:18:02So they build their own society,
00:18:06build roads
00:18:08or even schools for child
00:18:10patients. They create their own
00:18:14jobs. Shinji becomes a
00:18:16farmer. This is a photo from when I played
00:18:19baseball. There are no fields today, but we often played
00:18:22games. Shinji is now 91 years old,
00:18:2677 of which he has spent here. He has known
00:18:30loneliness, but also laughter and love. His
00:18:33wife, now deceased, was also a patient. Like
00:18:36thousands of lepers, they were forced into sterilization.
00:18:40In 2024, this abusive practice
00:18:43was ruled unconstitutional by the Japanese Supreme
00:18:46Court, ordering the state to pay up to €8,000
00:18:50in compensation per victim. It's
00:18:53difficult to say, but I had the impression
00:18:57of no longer being a man. Without children,
00:19:00Shinji cannot even count on his nephews or nieces.
00:19:04His family never fully believed in his recovery.
00:19:08This is evidenced by the last call with his mother to visit
00:19:11her in the hospital.
00:19:14She asked me, "Has your face returned to normal?
00:19:17Have your hands healed?" I repeated to her that what I
00:19:21had was sequelae. She said, "No, finally, there's no need
00:19:25to come, no one should know."
00:19:28In 1996, almost 50 years after the appearance
00:19:32of the first treatments and long legal battles, Japan finally
00:19:36authorized all lepers to leave the country's sanatoriums. A late
00:19:40victory. Shinji was then 61 years old. It was impossible
00:19:45the island.
00:19:47Nagashima still belongs to the state and only former patients
00:19:51and a few civil servants are allowed there.
00:19:53Here, the needs of former lepers are taken care of by the
00:19:56government. A new hospital has even been
00:19:58built. It has more doctors than
00:20:01patients.
00:20:05Shinji goes there several times a
00:20:37More than half of the 5,000 patients died on this prison island. For
00:20:41many, the deaths are linked to old age or other diseases
00:20:45rather than leprosy. They are only 66
00:20:49like Shinji who have resigned themselves
00:20:53to ending their days here.
00:30:24Hello and welcome to Avant Post, the show that seeks
00:30:28meaning in the chaos of the world. How far
00:30:32to harm his neighbor go? Well,
00:30:36as far as the manufacture of autonomous weapons,
00:30:39robots that will kill without human intervention.
00:30:43To talk about this, I receive Lorde Roussi Rochegonde,
00:30:47researcher, director of the Geopolitics of Technology
00:30:50Center at Ifri, the French Institute of International
00:30:53Relations, and author of a book that has just
00:30:56been published by the press.