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00:00:08On the front page, here are the headlines of this edition: evacuation ordered
00:00:11in Kramatorsk, hundreds of Ukrainian families are facing
00:00:16is sounding the alarm, the head of the are forced to flee the city due to attacks by the Russian
00:00:18army, more than 500 children are expected to leave their homes and after
00:00:22Moscow's bloody offensive yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky is calling on his
00:00:26allies for emergency aid. The ever faster spread of...
00:00:30in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 3973 cases have
00:00:34been detected, so the head of the World Health
00:00:37Organization on a visit to Kinshasa Alert, he
00:00:40calls for intensifying the response, then FIFA's apologies
00:00:43after trying to privatize the World Cup,
00:00:47the world football body is showing contrition while supporting
00:00:51its very contested boss, Janny
00:00:53Infantino.
00:01:08In Ukraine, three people were killed in Russian shelling around
00:01:11the city of Balaklia located in the northeast of the
00:01:15country, in the northeast of the country, so Russian attacks
00:01:18are intensifying, and in Kramatorsk, an evacuation
00:01:22order has been issued for families, 525
00:01:25children will have to leave their homes, a difficult but
00:01:29necessary decision according to the governor of the
00:01:32region. Kramatorsk is one of the last cities
00:01:36controlled by Ukraine in the
00:01:38everywhere in the world and at any time of Donetsk province and is subject to particularly
00:01:41violent attacks by Russian forces. The correspondence of Emmanuel
00:01:44Chaz. These last days, there has been a lot of talk about Russian
00:01:48bombardments, especially on the capital, but less talk about this city of
00:01:52Kramatorsk, one of the last strongholds of the Donetsk
00:01:55region, a city which, just like the satellite city of
00:01:59Slovyansk, is in fact within reach of Russian
00:02:02artillery, within reach of Russian drones, within reach of gliding
00:02:06bombs, these guided aerial bombs which are not very
00:02:09expensive, relatively speaking compared to missiles to
00:02:13produce for Russia, however, they are
00:02:17devastating. To give you an idea, yesterday the city of Kramatorsk was
00:02:20attacked more than 31 times with
00:02:23various bombs like the one I just mentioned, so this mandatory
00:02:27evacuation order for children, more than 500
00:02:31children, from certain villages near Kramatorsk as well as from several
00:02:34districts of Kramatorsk, a city that once had
00:02:37allowed to temporarily leave up to 200,000 inhabitants and now has only about
00:02:4145,000 to 50,000 at present. This order comes
00:02:44as the city has already emptied of many of its inhabitants,
00:02:48but there are still families. One might wonder why
00:02:52these families are still there. Often, they do not have the financial
00:02:55means to leave. Often, they have relatives they need to
00:02:58take care of. Often, they are also part
00:03:01of families of civil servants, so firefighters, families of
00:03:05police officers, also families of soldiers who are there, so many
00:03:09reasons why we will still find hundreds
00:03:13of children who are trapped
00:03:16ultimately in this city which a few years ago
00:03:20was not affected by bombs, but which since
00:03:232022 has really experienced a
00:03:26significant decline. So today we can...
00:03:30go to Kramatorsk without hearing these bombardments, it is necessary to
00:03:34constantly scan the sky since the inhabitants
00:03:38are at the mercy of FPV drones, in addition to being at the
00:03:40mercy of other bombs, so a city where it has become very
00:03:44dangerous to be a civilian. And meanwhile,
00:03:47Emmanuel, on the front of Ukrainian domestic politics,
00:03:51Volodymyr Zelensky is struggling to quell the crisis amidst accusations of
00:03:55corruption against some
00:03:56officials.
00:04:00Yes, exactly, a crisis that was ultimately
00:04:03provoked by his cabinet reshuffle a few weeks
00:04:07ago, a sudden reshuffle that saw the departure of the very popular Minister of
00:04:11Defense Mykhailo Fedorov. The population did not
00:04:14understand why this minister was virtually dismissed, as he
00:04:17was considered very effective and was also
00:04:21trying to tackle corruption within his own
00:04:24ministry. The latest scandal
00:04:27to date is the resignation a few days ago. The ambassador to
00:04:31the United States, Yevgeniya Stefanishyna, had caused a lot of talk. She was
00:04:35indicted in a corruption case,
00:04:38and Volodymyr Zelensky also appointed
00:04:41his former defense minister Rustem Umerov,
00:04:45whom he had then appointed
00:04:48to imagine a future outside secretary of the National Defense and Security Council. He appointed him
00:04:51head of foreign intelligence, another
00:04:55decision that is causing a lot of talk here because Rustem is
00:04:58cited as a witness in the Mindish case, this
00:05:01corruption case that broke out last
00:05:04autumn. Consequently, the Ukrainian population
00:05:08continues its rallies across the
00:05:11country, if... the first demand of the people is the
00:05:15return of Mykhailo Fedorov, it is also, it is also
00:05:18a way to show Volodymyr Zelensky that
00:05:22many here are unhappy with his way of managing this
00:05:25government. He
00:05:29World Health Organization, visiting yesterday in the Democratic
00:05:32Republic of Congo, calls for intensifying the response because the Ebola
00:05:36epidemic is spreading faster than previous ones.
00:05:393973 cases are confirmed,
00:05:42including 1801 deaths. For now, there is no vaccine
00:05:46or treatment for this variant of the epidemic. So neighboring
00:05:49countries are organizing to train their caregivers and help
00:05:53the DRC. Details from Romain Michelot.
00:05:56Disinfection care operation. Here,
00:06:00everything is real or almost, these doctors are still in training.
00:06:04In this center near Nairobi, Kenya, 200 have already
00:06:07been prepared to face the Ebola
00:06:09epidemic.
00:06:12this training for 3 days and give them contextual information about
00:06:16the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to protect themselves as
00:06:20healthcare personnel before, during and after this
00:06:23epidemic.
00:06:26The goal is therefore for these healthcare professionals to become
00:06:29operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
00:06:33are sent there, to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:06:36where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging. In mid-May, the
00:06:40first case was detected in the... Ituri province in the northeast of the
00:06:44country. Since then, contaminations have multiplied in
00:06:47four other provinces. Nearly 4,000 cases have been confirmed
00:06:51and more than 1,800 people have died. The number of cases of this
00:06:54new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo strain, is already higher
00:06:58than during the last epidemic in the country between 2018 and
00:07:022020. The WHO, whose director visited the site this
00:07:05Wednesday, calls for intensifying the medical
00:07:08response. In the city of Bunia, capital of Ituri
00:07:12and... epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and
00:07:16treatment center has just been built. We have
00:07:19more than 300 staff who will work in this center,
00:07:23and we are counting on the community to
00:07:26be able to accelerate the process of identifying
00:07:29cases. At the same time, efforts to create an effective
00:07:33vaccine against this new variant are continuing. At the end of July,
00:07:37a British volunteer received the first dose of a vaccine developed at
00:07:40Oxford, others are... in testing phase elsewhere in the world, but
00:07:44none have yet been
00:07:45validated.
00:07:49two Israeli reservist soldiers were killed yesterday in
00:07:53fighting in southern Lebanon where Israel is fighting Hezbollah
00:07:57backed by Iran. The two Israeli soldiers are
00:08:00the first deaths of the country in southern
00:08:04Lebanon since last June
00:08:0628.
00:08:10the Houthi rebels of Yemen, supported by Iran, declared
00:08:13that they had attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea
00:08:17and in the Gulf of Aden as part of the blockade they announced
00:08:21against the Saudi fleet. These are the
00:08:248th and 9th ships targeted since the announcement of the blockade
00:08:28at the end of July against the Riyadh fleet, according
00:08:32to the rebel
00:08:33statement.
00:08:36For its part, Iran indicated yesterday that it had reached an agreement
00:08:40with Oman on a new transit route for ships in the Strait
00:08:43of Hormuz, of which they are both riparian states and which is at the heart of tensions
00:08:47with the United States. The two countries are working on a joint
00:08:51declaration, provided that third parties do not hinder
00:08:55the process. Marion Meyer.
00:08:58In the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran is playing the master and
00:09:01tightening its control over its strategic waters. According
00:09:05to Iranian diplomacy, an agreement concluded with Oman
00:09:09would allow the opening of a new viable maritime route for this.
00:09:13for 2 to 4 months. The
00:09:15geographical coordinates of the planned route by both parties have
00:09:19been approved. Relations between the two countries had
00:09:22become tense last June after the failure of the agreement between
00:09:26Washington and Tehran on the reopening of the Strait.
00:09:29Iran refused a return to the pre-war situation and
00:09:32only allowed one shipping corridor along its coasts,
00:09:36here in red. Oman then opened an alternative
00:09:39route further south in its territorial waters,
00:09:43an initiative that had provoked Tehran's anger. While the new
00:09:46route negotiated this time between the two countries is not yet known,
00:09:50the draft agreement would give Tehran control over ship
00:09:53entries into the Gulf, a strategic advantage against
00:09:57Washington, which for its part asserts that the opening of the Strait is
00:10:00imminent. It could happen tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, a lot of
00:10:04progress has been made. Iran wants a deal, it doesn't want to be
00:10:08hit. Tehran still denies any negotiation with
00:10:11Washington and assures that the discussions held with Oman do
00:10:15not guarantee at this stage the safety of traffic in the Strait of
00:10:19Hormuz.
00:10:21Also in the news in France, the episode of high
00:10:25heat is now moving. The departments of Drôme and Isère have been
00:10:28downgraded to yellow vigilance for heatwaves, but Météo France
00:10:32still maintains six departments in the southeast and
00:10:35Corsica at orange alert level at least
00:10:38until Friday, until tomorrow, indicate the forecasters.
00:10:42And
00:10:44since the beginning of summer, millions of poultry have died,
00:10:48suffocated by the heat. The meadows are burnt, cows
00:10:52produce less milk. The French government... therefore
00:10:55responded yesterday to the alert launched by the agricultural world. It
00:10:59announced an aid plan to, I quote, "leave no
00:11:02farmer behind." Details with Erwan
00:11:05Druyak. Here we can clearly see that the soil is extremely
00:11:09dry, in this market gardener's farm, soils reduced to
00:11:13dust and completely dried out cauliflowers,
00:11:15unsellable, you see normally the foliage in
00:11:19normal weather should be greener. Due to the
00:11:22drought, Richard could lose more than 60% of his cauliflower
00:11:26plants, and it's not the only vegetable suffering from the heat on his
00:11:30farm. His red onion production, for example, could be halved,
00:11:33if things don't
00:11:37improve in the coming weeks, then it will
00:11:40be more than complicated. Like Richard, many
00:11:43farmers are directly suffering the consequences of the last heat
00:11:47waves. Faced with the urgency, the Minister of Agriculture announced a
00:11:50plan to support struggling farmers, with
00:11:54several measures to support their cash flow, such as
00:11:58covering social security contributions, as well as
00:12:01simplification and derogation measures, aid that
00:12:05will be allocated on a case-by-case basis according to needs. The prefects must
00:12:09also designate drought references to establish a precise
00:12:12diagnosis and adapt this aid according to the territories. In
00:12:15France, 98 departments are affected by drought,
00:12:1857 are in a crisis
00:12:21situation.
00:12:24To sports after. in the FIFA Gate continues and perhaps ends
00:12:28after abandoning its highly controversial project to open
00:12:31the body to private investors. The management of the
00:12:34International Football Federation held a crisis meeting
00:12:38yesterday. At its conclusion, it admitted errors and offered
00:12:41apologies, but nevertheless confirmed its full support for
00:12:45its president Jenny Infantino. Details with Alice
00:12:48Broga. On leaving the African headquarters of
00:12:51FIFA in Salé, Morocco, its president Johnny Infantino
00:12:55hopes to turn the page on controversies, under fire for
00:12:58having single-handedly set up a project to sell part of FIFA's
00:13:01commercial rights, he leaves with the full support of his
00:13:05executive committee. The latter, however, apologized to
00:13:08member countries for the errors
00:13:10committed.
00:13:12It was agreed that there was no intention of excluding the FIFA Council and
00:13:16FIFA member associations from the process and that it
00:13:20should have been handled differently.
00:13:23Last week, leaks to the press revealed Gianni
00:13:27Infantino's plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
00:13:31FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
00:13:34investors. Faced with a wave of opposition, the project was
00:13:38abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
00:13:41football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
00:13:45have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni
00:13:47Infantino. Now political
00:13:50voices.
00:13:55procedure to make this kind of decision, but for my
00:13:57part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened.
00:14:01happened. But Gianni Infantino benefits from the
00:14:04support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the
00:14:07Middle East, through which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an
00:14:11extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes
00:14:14to be re-elected for a fourth term at the next March
00:14:17congress. His opponents, like UEFA and the Confederation of
00:14:21North, Central and Caribbean Football have until the 18th.
00:14:25to find another
00:14:26candidate,
00:14:29still on the football planet, this beautiful image of the triumphant
00:14:33welcome received by the Cape Verdean goalkeeper Vosina in
00:14:36Chile, the footballer discovered his new jersey, number
00:14:4029, delivered by paragliding in the Monumental stadium in
00:14:44Santiago, the atmosphere had the air of World
00:14:47Cup victories, so happy the supporters were,
00:14:50and then everything
00:14:54has an end, that's also the case for our editor-in-chief, it's the
00:14:57end of an era for Baptiste Falavos, after 10
00:15:01years at the helm of the morning show, he is leaving for China where he
00:15:04will cover the news as a correspondent, the entire morning
00:15:07show team salutes and thanks this news enthusiast, Margot,
00:15:11Hélène, Hugo, Damien and Christophe whispered that they
00:15:15were impatiently awaiting his morning debriefs on the
00:15:19bridge from 2 a.m. onwards, now Baptiste, you will
00:15:22have 6 to... 7 hours ahead of us,
00:15:25we hope you won't find us too far behind, good
00:15:29luck to you,
00:15:33and that's the end of this edition, stay with us on France 24.
00:15:59In the inland sea of Japan,
00:16:02Nagashima Island had everything to be a little
00:16:05paradise.
00:16:07The government finally built a hell for thousands of sick people like
00:16:11Shinji, when he landed in this port in
00:16:141948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
00:16:18years old.
00:16:21when I arrived here without knowing anything, I was
00:16:25rather relaxed at first, but once
00:16:28I arrived, everyone told me that I wouldn't be able to go home
00:16:32anymore.
00:16:34Shinji had contracted leprosy a year earlier when his family sent
00:16:38him here. He then knew nothing of this disease that was about to
00:16:41deform his face and body by attacking his
00:16:44nerves. Once disembarked, suspected patients
00:16:48were locked up for a week in this building to be
00:16:51examined.
00:16:54At the time, disinfection was carried out
00:16:58here first, because they sometimes arrived with lice,
00:17:01pus or skin diseases,
00:17:05so no one was really happy. Everyone
00:17:08cried, even the nurses wore rubber
00:17:12boots and masks made of several layers of
00:17:15protection.
00:17:22Like him, 5000 children and adults were forcibly removed
00:17:25from their families and sent to this
00:17:29sanatorium.
00:17:31A confinement policy applied throughout Japan thanks to a 1931
00:17:35law, the same year Nagashima Island welcomed its
00:17:38first patients, their belongings were confiscated for
00:17:42fear that they too were contaminated.
00:17:46Here you can see what are called internal circulation tickets, a
00:17:50special currency whose use was only authorized on the
00:17:53island. The main objective was the prevention of
00:17:56escapes, so even if someone managed to escape from here
00:17:59without ordinary money, they could neither take the train nor
00:18:02eat.
00:18:0417 years later, real money was introduced, because from
00:18:081948, a new treatment allowed lepers to be
00:18:11cured and some patients were
00:18:15the island, a fleeting joy, because for these
00:18:19disfigured people, reunions with their loved ones
00:18:21became a drama.
00:18:24When a leper was detected in a house, all members of their family
00:18:28were discriminated against, it then became very difficult
00:18:30to accept their return afterwards.
00:18:33Rejected by their families, the cured lepers were also forced by law
00:18:37to remain living on the island.
00:18:40So they built their own
00:18:44society, built
00:18:47roads or even schools for child
00:18:50patients.
00:18:53They created their own jobs, Shinji became
00:18:56a farmer,
00:18:58this is a photo from when I played baseball, there's no field anymore, but we used to play
00:19:02games often. Shinji is now 91
00:19:06years old, 70 of which were spent here, he
00:19:10knew loneliness, but also laughter and
00:19:13love. His wife, now deceased, was also
00:19:17a patient. Like thousands of lepers, they
00:19:20were forced into sterilization.
00:19:24In 2024, this abusive practice was ruled
00:19:26unconstitutional by the Japanese Supreme Court, condemning the state to
00:19:30pay up to €8,000 in compensation per
00:19:33victim. It's hard to say, but I felt
00:19:41like I was no longer really a man. Without children, Shinji cannot even count on his nephews or nieces. His
00:19:45family never fully believed in his recovery,
00:19:49as evidenced by the last call with his mother to visit her at
00:19:52the hospital,
00:19:55she asked me if my face had returned to normal, if my hands had
00:19:58healed. I told her that what I had were sequelae.
00:20:02She said no, finally it's no use coming,
00:20:06it shouldn't be known.
00:20:09In 1996, almost 50 years after the appearance of the first
00:20:13treatments and long legal battles, Japan finally
00:20:16authorized all lepers to leave the country's sanatoriums.
00:20:19A late victory, Shinji was then
00:20:2261 years old, it was impossible
00:20:26the island.
00:20:28Nagashima still belongs to the state and only former patients and a few
00:20:32civil servants are allowed there. Here
00:20:34the needs of former lepers are taken care of by the government. A new
00:20:38hospital has even been built, it has more doctors than
00:20:42patients.
00:20:46Shinji goes there several times a week.
00:20:56His disease is no longer contagious, but it is
00:20:58above all the sequelae that doctors
00:21:00monitor.
00:21:03You just have to be careful of weakened nerves which make the
00:21:06wounds more susceptible to infection.
00:21:10Apart from that, we can say that it has become almost an ordinary
00:21:13disease today.
00:21:18In total, more than half of the... 5000 patients died
00:21:22on this prison island. For
00:21:24many, the deaths are related to old age or other diseases
00:21:28rather than leprosy. Only 66 like
00:21:32Shinji have decided to end their days here.
00:23:12Let's go!
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00:29:11Join us in the four corners of Europe, in France, the worst
00:29:14student of the European club when it comes to transforming European
00:29:18subsidies into growth, and we will
00:29:21note this in two regions particularly in difficulty, Corsica
00:29:25due to its insularity with its
00:29:2736,000 inhabitants who nevertheless have many projects
00:29:31in terms of... research on Clementines, sea urchins and many
00:29:35other sectors, and
00:29:37here in Creuse, a rural French department that is
00:29:40depopulating, European manna is highly anticipated to revive
00:29:44growth and employment, it is particularly directed
00:29:48towards the timber industry or tourism and
00:29:52culture with here the valley of painters or the
00:29:55very beautiful Aubusson tapestry
00:29:58in the four corners of Europe presented by Caroline de
00:30:01Camaret. on France
00:30:0324
00:30:07Hello everyone and thank you for being here on France 24, we will spend the next
00:30:11hours together. On the front page of this edition, Kramatorsk under Russian
00:30:15bombs. On the spot, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have been
00:30:18ordered to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted more
00:30:22than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night, already
00:30:26more than 1700 dead, the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in
00:30:29the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head
00:30:32of the World Health Organization was on site, he is now calling for
00:30:36an intensified response, and then
00:30:39FIFA president Gianni Infantino, criticized internationally and supported
00:30:42internally, in the eye of the storm after several controversies,
00:30:46wants to turn the page. He apologized yesterday for,
00:30:49he says, his
00:30:50mistakes.