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00:00:00Enok and Alexandre Poussard to be seen on France
00:00:0324.
00:00:07You are on France 24, here are the news headlines:
00:00:11ordered evacuation in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are
00:00:15forced to flee the city under attack from the Russian army,
00:00:19more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after Moscow's bloody
00:00:22offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky demands
00:00:26the head of the health organization, visiting Kinshasa, to alert.
00:00:30calls for intensified response,
00:00:33false and bears the signature of then FIFA's apologies, after having tried to privatize the World Cup,
00:00:36the global football body, makes an act of contrition while
00:00:40supporting its very controversial boss Gianni Infantino. To
00:00:43discuss this, Romain Molina, investigative journalist,
00:00:47football specialist and our guest.
00:01:00interference. This is the objective of
00:01:03In Ukraine, six people died last night during
00:01:07Russian strikes on
00:01:09He launches the alert: the head of the regions of Kharkiv and Sumy in the east of the country
00:01:13according to the authorities. For its part, Russia
00:01:17to her that what I had were sequelae. She announces having shot down during the night 605 Ukrainian drones
00:01:21over about twenty of these regions and the
00:01:25annexed Crimean peninsula. The war is raging and in Kramatorsk,
00:01:28Ukraine, hundreds of
00:01:32families are called to evacuate following the intensification of
00:01:34Russian attacks on the
00:01:38region. 525 children will
00:01:41to envision a future outside have to leave their homes and President Volodymyr
00:01:45Zelensky is appealing for more aid from his
00:01:48allies. Alice
00:01:50Brogar's story. After more than 20 hours of
00:01:54searching, Ukrainian rescuers extract a lifeless
00:01:57body from the rubble. A civilian. is in a Russian strike
00:02:01that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
00:02:04multiplication of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
00:02:08region in eastern Ukraine, ordered on Wednesday evening
00:02:11the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who still
00:02:15lived in the city. In the Kiev region too, attacks
00:02:19are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
00:02:23railway line, railway workers are evacuating one by one the bodies of
00:02:26eight victims, killed after a strike on a busy station.
00:03:00Russia fired 115 long-range drones and 28 missiles overnight
00:03:04from Tuesday to Wednesday, but only 98 drones could be
00:03:08neutralized. Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses failed to
00:03:12intercept any missiles, a weakening attributed by President
00:03:15Zelensky to delays in missile interceptor deliveries
00:03:19compared to
00:03:202025.
00:03:23Ukraine has started to receive about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to
00:03:27defend our state. This situation. mainly linked to the
00:03:30war, or as it is now fair to say,
00:03:34to hostilities and wars in the
00:03:37Middle East.
00:03:40Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky had again traveled to
00:03:43Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
00:03:47missiles, the only ones capable
00:03:49Libertadores, the equivalent of of intercepting the most efficient Russian missiles. But according to the
00:03:52Financial Times, Trump refused this request due to the
00:03:56shortage of Patriots in US stocks since the start
00:03:59of... the war in the Middle East.
00:04:03The war led by Russia is also being fought on the Internet. In
00:04:07France, suspicions of Moscow's interference hang over the presidential
00:04:10pre-campaign. Raphael Glucksmann, a potential candidate, claims to be the
00:04:14target of an operation attributed to a pro-Russian network. The same goes for
00:04:18former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal. And just a few
00:04:23been detected, so the head of plot as quickly as possible to avoid weeks ago, Édouard Philippe also declared himself a victim. Explanations from our colleagues from France
00:04:262.
00:04:29Is this a foretaste of? the presidential campaign,
00:04:32disinformation operations target declared candidates, Édouard Philippe and
00:04:36Gabriel Attal, or potential ones like Raphael Glucksmann, leader of
00:04:40Place Publique. A website and a
00:04:43allowed to temporarily leave video made with artificial intelligence accuse his partner
00:04:46and Salamé, presenter of the 8 p.m. news on France
00:04:492. She is accused of having tried to bribe
00:04:53the media in exchange for the publication of articles aimed
00:04:56at giving a positive image of her husband. Everything is
00:05:00false, fabricated from scratch. The website and video
00:05:03reproduce the codes of a real online media
00:05:06blast. According to the government, the manipulation is
00:05:11a third of the controlled by the Russian secret services. Raphael Glucksmann has long
00:05:15denounced this interference. The
00:05:17goal for the Russians is to create chaos in our
00:05:21country and lead to the electoral victory of
00:05:25pro-Russian political forces. On July 21, the Horizon
00:05:29candidate Édouard Philippe was also targeted.
00:05:32This video falsely claims that he suffers
00:05:36from a disease. Édouard Philippo recently received a
00:05:39diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia. Again, everything is
00:05:45Russia. The candidate's entourage fears other
00:05:49manipulations during the campaign. A country
00:05:52like Russia will want to weaken all those who rightly
00:05:56consider that Vladimir Putin is an
00:05:59aggressor who has violated international law, so yes, we must expect
00:06:03something violent. Russia accused by several
00:06:06candidates of wanting to influence the vote of electors in
00:06:10France, to better punish
00:06:13the Élysée and Matignon. A bill will be examined in the
00:06:16Senate next September.
00:06:22the World Health Organization, visiting the Democratic
00:06:25Republic of Congo yesterday, calls to intensify the response because
00:06:29Ebola is spreading faster than previous outbreaks.
00:06:323973
00:06:34cases are confirmed, including 1800 deaths. For now, there is
00:06:38no vaccine nor treatment for it.
00:06:49care and disinfection operations. Here,
00:06:53everything is real or almost, these doctors are still in training,
00:06:57in this center near Nairobi in Kenya, 200 of them have already
00:07:00been prepared to face the Ebola
00:07:02epidemic.
00:07:04We organize this training for 3 days and give them contextual
00:07:08information about the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to
00:07:12protect themselves as health personnel before, during and after this
00:07:16epidemic.
00:07:19The objective, then, is for these health professionals to become
00:07:22operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
00:07:25are sent there, to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:07:29where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging. In mid-May, the
00:07:33first case was detected in the Ituri province in the northeast of the
00:07:36country. Since then, contaminations have multiplied in
00:07:40four other provinces, nearly 4000 cases have been confirmed and more than
00:07:441800 people have died. The number of cases of this new variant
00:07:48of Ebola, the Bundibugyo strain, is already higher
00:07:51than during the last epidemic in the country between 2018 and
00:07:552020. The WHO, whose director visited the site this
00:07:58Wednesday, calls for an intensified medical
00:08:01response. In the city of Bunia, capital of Ituri
00:08:05and epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and
00:08:08treatment center has just been built. We have uh...
00:08:12more than 300 personnel who will work in this
00:08:16center and we count on the community to
00:08:19accelerate the process of case
00:08:22identification. At the same time, efforts to create an effective
00:08:26vaccine against this new variant continue. At the end of July,
00:08:30a British volunteer received the first dose of a vaccine developed at
00:08:33Oxford. Others are in the testing phase elsewhere in the world, but
00:08:37none have yet been
00:08:38validated.
00:08:41And now, as every day, it's time for the eco-news with you,
00:08:45Christophe Denset. Hello, Christophe, hello, so we're going to talk about
00:08:48game consoles, prices are soaring and not just a few
00:08:52euros, Christophe. Yes, Sony was
00:08:55the first to strike, increasing the price of its
00:08:58PlayStation 5 as early as May, and not by €10,
00:09:02but by €100. The PS5 went from €550
00:09:05to €650 for one of its models, which is almost
00:09:0920% more. Microsoft
00:09:13did even better with its Xbox Series X and Series
00:09:16S with up to €200 increases in Europe
00:09:20since August 1st with up to uh
00:09:23that is, up to 50% more depending on the
00:09:27models. Nintendo, which had resisted this increase, finally
00:09:30gave in and should adjust its price by about thirty
00:09:34euros from September for its Switch 2. In other
00:09:37words, the three big manufacturers are
00:09:40increasing their prices and uh other manufacturers that I haven't mentioned here are doing
00:09:44exactly the same thing. So Christophe, normally with time, an electronic
00:09:48product costs less. Why is it the opposite
00:09:51because consoles are in the middle of a global battle
00:09:55for an essential component, which is electronic
00:09:58memory. The cause almost comes down to three
00:10:01letters: RAM. RAM for random access
00:10:05memory, working memory. These are these small memory chips that cost
00:10:09more and more. According to trend force, the price of some of these
00:10:13chips increased uh and almost doubled between the
00:10:16first and second quarters of this year. As a result, memory
00:10:20accounts for between a quarter and
00:10:24cost of manufacturing consoles, and so manufacturers can no longer
00:10:27play with their margins and they say they are forced to pass this
00:10:31increase on to the consumer. So why such an increase
00:10:35for these memory chips? Well, I would say there are two main reasons.
00:10:38First, the market is extremely concentrated. There are
00:10:42three companies that manufacture
00:10:44the vast majority of these RAMs in the
00:10:48world. Two are South Korean,
00:10:51Samsung and SK Hynix, and there's Micron, which is
00:10:55American. Of course, we are seeing
00:10:59new competitors emerging, for example in China, but for
00:11:02now, they don't yet equip the main consoles at the same time. And that's the
00:11:06second reason, well, artificial intelligence is also starting
00:11:10to consume these same chips in gigantic quantities, and all the
00:11:13industry giants, Open AI, Anthropic, Google,
00:11:17Meta, and Amazon, are buying these chips
00:11:20like crazy. Uh, then well, it's just the simple law
00:11:24of supply and demand, too much demand, not
00:11:28enough supply, that creates chip shortages, prices soar, and the
00:11:32crisis already has a name, it has been dubbed the
00:11:35RAMageddon for RAM and Armageddon,
00:11:39a biblical name that can be frightening because it is, you know, the
00:11:43name, the place of the battle between good and evil. But
00:11:46how are players reacting, Christophe? Well, on social media,
00:11:49we are seeing more and more players expressing themselves. Uh
00:11:53on specialized forums, reactions are
00:11:57often very, very critical. Many players talk
00:12:00about consoles becoming overpriced. They
00:12:04prefer to postpone their purchase or hope for year-end promotions. The
00:12:07problem is that according to analysts, prices are not likely to
00:12:11drop, as they do not see a lull before
00:12:142027 or even 2028, time for a number
00:12:18of new manufacturers to arrive. And if this
00:12:21memory tension continues, then consoles may only be the first
00:12:25victims. Uh, behind them are smartphones, computers, and even
00:12:28electric cars, which also use
00:12:32similar components, these chips. So this battle,
00:12:35this RAMageddon, this RAMageddon, it's not over,
00:12:39it's far from over. Thank you,
00:12:42Christophe. And now, we're going to take a look at the fires in
00:12:46France. 12 days after the start of the blaze, it's time
00:12:50for an assessment for the owners of the devastated
00:12:53forests. Thousands of hectares
00:12:55of blackened pine, leaving hundreds of forest operators in great
00:12:58distress with one question: what to do with all this
00:13:02burnt wood? A report by our colleagues from France
00:13:042.
00:13:06The destruction as far as the eye can see, entire
00:13:10rows of scorched maritime pine. In
00:13:13Gironde, the tens of thousands of hectares of burnt forest seem totally
00:13:17lost. This forester returns to his
00:13:2040-hectare plot for the first time, distraught. They
00:13:23didn't live long. It's so sad, so desolate,
00:13:27it's abominable. Under the blackened
00:13:30bark, he wonders what he can still save,
00:13:34but
00:13:38I realize that the bark has been burned a lot. I
00:13:41think there are places where it will not be burned through
00:13:45but very, very, very affected. If
00:13:48by chance it remained in good condition, the tree can still yield timber
00:13:52for construction or parquet, which brings in money. But
00:13:56is it even possible to market it? The sector is not
00:13:59dimensioned to exploit so much wood in so little
00:14:02time and then it will degrade,
00:14:05dry out, fungi can set in, insects
00:14:09too. Four to five million tons
00:14:12of more or less damaged wood must be removed, a
00:14:15project that will take at least two years according to
00:14:18professionals. Another well-preserved source this
00:14:22time is wood from firebreaks. These
00:14:25are trees cut down by hand over hundreds of meters to
00:14:29block the advance of the flames, left by the roadside. This
00:14:33forestry cooperative must take care of it, remember to remove the wood as quickly
00:14:37as possible, there's still a bit left to put
00:14:39there. In the middle of summer, this director had to call in reinforcements.
00:14:42What we call skidding is to remove the wood from the
00:14:47leaving fuel on the plot, put it here by the roadside, and
00:14:51then now we actually come to take this wood and bring it to the
00:14:55platform, a storage platform that can hold up to
00:14:5820,000 tons of wood. Once weighed, the logs are
00:15:02deposited here until they are sold to local
00:15:05companies. So here we have wood that can, for the largest
00:15:09diameters, be used for the manufacture of pallets
00:15:13for logistics, and then there is also much smaller
00:15:17wood that will be destined for the paper industry or
00:15:21cardboard manufacturing. With so much wood to clear in such
00:15:24a short time, foresters fear a collapse
00:15:27in prices that would prolong the crisis.
00:15:31Sport now, FIFA Gate continues and perhaps ends after
00:15:35abandoning its highly controversial project. To open
00:15:38the body to private investors, the management of the
00:15:41International Football Federation held a crisis meeting
00:15:44yesterday. At its conclusion, it acknowledged errors and presented
00:15:48apologies, but nevertheless confirmed its support for
00:15:51President Gianni Infantino. Alice Broga.
00:15:55Leaving FIFA's African headquarters in Salé, Morocco,
00:15:59its president Gianni Infantino hopes to turn the page on
00:16:02controversies. Under fire for having single-handedly set up a project
00:16:05to sell part of FIFA's commercial rights, he
00:16:09leaves with the full support of his executive committee.
00:16:12However, the latter apologized to member countries for the errors
00:16:16committed.
00:16:18It was agreed that there was no intention of excluding the FIFA Council and FIFA
00:16:22member associations from the process, and that this
00:16:26should have been handled differently.
00:16:29Last week, leaks in the press revealed Gianni Infantino's
00:16:33plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
00:16:36FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
00:16:40investors. Faced with a storm of protest, the project was
00:16:43abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
00:16:47football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
00:16:51have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, criticisms
00:16:54which are now joined by political voices.
00:16:56FIFA has its own procedures for
00:16:59making this kind of decision, but for
00:17:03my part, I no longer have confidence in Mr. Infantino after what happened.
00:17:07But Gianni Infantino benefits from the
00:17:10support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the
00:17:13Middle East, through which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an
00:17:17extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes
00:17:20to be re-elected for a fourth term at the next March
00:17:23congress. His opponents, such as UEFA and the Confederation of
00:17:27North, Central, and Caribbean Football, have until November
00:17:3018 to find another
00:19:37will disappear for a few moments. The solar eclipse will be visible in
00:19:41France and Spain, an exceptional but dangerous
00:19:44spectacle to observe with the naked eye. So how are the special
00:19:48glasses for observing them made? A report by our colleagues from
00:19:52France 2.
00:19:55Night in broad daylight, as in 1999
00:19:59with this twilight atmosphere when the sun
00:20:02plays hide-and-seek with the moon, but to admire this eclipse, you still need
00:20:06to be well equipped? With adapted glasses, you shouldn't look at the sun
00:20:10for too long anyway, so if you don't have the right glasses, you can really damage your
00:20:13eyes. In recent weeks, this Alsatian
00:20:16manufacturer has been multiplying deliveries of protective
00:20:19glasses, hundreds of thousands of pairs specially
00:20:23designed to observe this phenomenon as rare as
00:20:26spectacular. The moon passes between the Earth and
00:20:29the sun, preventing its light from reaching our
00:20:33planet, a spectacle to observe with opaque
00:20:37glasses. It's a filter that reflects the
00:20:40harmful rays of the sun outside and inside the filter is black,
00:20:43it's a filter that reproduces
00:20:47the orange image of the sun. These
00:20:50protective glasses meet precise standards and come with a
00:20:53certificate of conformity. At this optician's, fifty
00:20:57pairs have already been sold at €3 per unit.
00:21:00It's now or never because apparently there won't
00:21:04be another one as complete for a while and
00:21:08maybe it will be the last of our lives. In
00:21:111999 in France during the last total eclipse,
00:21:15some people improvised by making their own glasses, which should be avoided because
00:21:18even part of the sun's light can pass through the eye and burn the
00:21:22retina in a few seconds, a painless burn
00:21:26with sometimes irreversible consequences.
00:21:29The sun's light ray will burn these fundamental
00:21:32cells, a black spot that is engraved a little bit in front of
00:21:36us, and well, this black spot doesn't go away, and so when we look at
00:21:40people, we no longer see their faces, we no longer see the center, we can no longer
00:21:43read. It is in Bayonne that the darkness will be the
00:21:47most intense, almost total. The spectacle
00:21:50will be visible throughout France, but one week before the big night, the
00:21:54Directorate General of Health is concerned about possible shortages
00:21:57of glasses to observe
00:29:57You are on France 24, here are the headlines,
00:30:01evacuation ordered. in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are
00:30:05forced to flee the city under attack by the Russian army,
00:30:09more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after Moscow's
00:30:12bloody offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on his allies
00:30:16for urgent help. The increasingly rapid spread
00:30:19of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:30:223973 cases have
00:30:26the World Health Organization, visiting Kinshasa, warns, he
00:30:30calls for intensifying the response then. FIFA's
00:30:33apologies, after attempting to privatize the World Cup,
00:30:36the world football body makes an act of contrition while
00:30:40supporting its highly contested boss, Gianni Infantino, to
00:30:44talk about it, Romain Molina, investigative journalist, football
00:30:48specialist, is our guest.