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00:00:01Camaret, to be seen on France
00:00:0324.
00:00:07Hello everyone and thank you for being here on France 24, we will spend the next
00:00:11hours together on the front page of this edition, Kramatorsk under Russian
00:00:15bombs, on site, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have been ordered
00:00:18to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted more
00:00:22than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night.
00:00:26Already more than 1700 dead,
00:00:28the emergency, the Minister of the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of the
00:00:32World Health Organization was on site, he is now calling for
00:00:36intensifying the response, and then
00:00:39international criticism, he is supported internally in the eye of the
00:00:42storm, after several controversies, the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino
00:00:46wants to turn the page, he apologized yesterday for
00:00:49his mistakes,
00:00:52he said.
00:01:06Gianni Infantino at the head of the Kiev region on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, Kramatorsk therefore these last hours Russia
00:01:10continues to pound Ukraine which today no longer has the means to shoot down the
00:01:14missiles of its enemy. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president
00:01:18asked his allies yesterday for emergency aid. Warning,
00:01:21some images may be difficult to view. They are commented on by Alice
00:01:25Brog.
00:01:28After more than 20 hours of searching. Ukrainian rescuers
00:01:31extract a lifeless body from the rubble, a civilian killed
00:01:35in a Russian strike that occurred the day before on this building in
00:01:38Kramatorsk. Faced with the multiplication of Russian attacks, the
00:01:42authorities of this city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine
00:01:46ordered on Wednesday evening the evacuation of about 500
00:01:49children and their families who were still
00:01:51our history and valuing living in the city. In the
00:01:54it and Kiev region too, the attacks are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
00:01:58railway line, the railways...
00:02:01so I'm here. to really be next to
00:02:01geography or remoteness of the
00:02:22was still going on, I didn't dare to look around me, then there were explosions, structures collapsing and a lot of smoke,
00:02:26there's a station nearby. And
00:02:28then I saw people covered in blood
00:02:32running in the street. According to the Ukrainian Air Force,
00:02:36Russia fired 115 long-range drones and 28 missiles on the night of Tuesday to
00:02:40great anecdote, actually on the day of
00:02:41labor, the French state gave them Wednesday, but only 98 drones could be neutralized. Ukrainian
00:02:45anti-aircraft defenses failed to intercept any of the
00:02:48missiles. A weakening attributed by President Zelensky to
00:02:52delays in deliveries of missile interceptors compared to
00:02:58of the island's 2025. receive about three times fewer ballistic
00:03:02missiles to defend our state, this situation is
00:03:05mainly linked to the war,
00:03:08or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
00:03:12Middle East.
00:03:15Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky
00:03:19A large part of distribution, again went to
00:03:20import-export and Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
00:03:22missiles, the only ones capable of intercepting the most advanced
00:03:26Russian missiles, but according to the Financial Times, Trump refused
00:03:30this request due to the shortage of Patriots in US
00:03:33stocks since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:35Middle East.
00:03:38And I add that Russia, for its part, says it shot down 605 Ukrainian
00:03:42drones overnight, an announcement from the Ministry of
00:03:45Defense in Moscow.
00:03:48They were killed by an
00:03:51town hall, which is right next to explosive device. Two Israeli soldiers died in Lebanon. This is
00:03:53a first in 1 month. In the wake of this, the Israeli army
00:03:57carried out retaliatory strikes, killing one person. Details
00:04:01with Romain Michelot:
00:04:04the sky of Lebanon, once again crossed by Israeli
00:04:08flares. Here, in the south of the country, the army has resumed its
00:04:11bombardments and clashes with Hezbollah.
00:04:13Hesbollah.
00:04:17Congo. The head of the In response to a blatant violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah,
00:04:20the Israeli army began to carry out targeted strikes in southern
00:04:23Lebanon. At least one person died on the Lebanese side, two
00:04:27Israeli soldiers were killed in an
00:04:29storm after several controversies, the president of explosion. A first in more than a month, sporadic but
00:04:32recurrent clashes despite a security agreement that came into force
00:04:36at the end of June. Israel occupies a so-called security zone
00:04:39in southern Lebanon of about ten kilometers
00:04:42near the border, but the inhabitants of towns and villages north of
00:04:46this zone can officially return home. In fact,
00:04:50this resumption of clashes and evacuation orders complicates
00:04:54this process according to the UN. This new order
00:04:57comes as displaced families have returned home in southern
00:05:00Lebanon in recent
00:05:03wanted to take us to the north of weeks, the situation remains fragile and residents
00:05:05remain uncertain. Demolition operations, bombings
00:05:09and other military activities damage homes.
00:05:12agricultural and civilian infrastructure. These
00:05:15clashes are taking place in the midst of negotiations held in Rome
00:05:19under the aegis of the United States. They concern the deployment of the Lebanese
00:05:22army in pilot zones evacuated by Israel. But they
00:05:26involve the disarmament of Hezbollah, which the Shiite
00:05:29group has so far refused. Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hezbollah,
00:05:33at least 4300 people in Lebanon and 38 Israeli
00:05:36soldiers have died, according
00:05:38to the.
00:05:41In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola epidemic
00:05:44continues to escalate, with already over 1700 deaths there.
00:05:48On a visit to the country since yesterday, the head of the WHO calls for
00:05:52intensifying the response. According to him, frontline
00:05:56personnel must also be better protected. We take stock with Romain
00:05:58Michelot. Care operations and
00:06:02disinfection, here everything is real or almost, these
00:06:06doctors are still in training in this center near Nairobi in
00:06:09Kenya, 200 of them have already been prepared to face the Ebola
00:06:13epidemic.
00:06:16We organize this training for 3 days and give them contextual
00:06:20information on the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to
00:06:23protect themselves as health personnel before, during and after this
00:06:27epidemic.
00:06:30The objective is therefore for these health professionals to become
00:06:33operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
00:06:37are sent there, to the Democratic Republic of Congo,
00:06:40where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging. In mid-May, the
00:06:44first case was detected in Ituri province in the northeast of the
00:06:48country. Since then, contaminations have multiplied in
00:06:51four other provinces. Nearly 4000 cases have been confirmed
00:06:55and over 1800 people have died. The number of cases of this
00:06:58new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo strain, is already higher
00:07:02than during the last epidemic in the country between 2018 and
00:07:062020. The WHO, whose director went on site this
00:07:10Wednesday, calls to intensify the... medical
00:07:12response in the city of Bouna, capital of Ituri
00:07:16and epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and
00:07:20treatment center has just been built. We have over
00:07:23300 staff who will work in this center
00:07:27and we count on the community to
00:07:30be able to accelerate the process of identifying
00:07:33cases. At the same time, efforts to create an effective
00:07:37vaccine against this new variant continue. In late July,
00:07:41a British volunteer received the first dose of a vaccine
00:07:44developed at Oxford, others are in the testing phase elsewhere in the world, but
00:07:48none have yet been
00:07:49validated.
00:07:53Barely elected, he is already calling for rallies in Michigan where the progressive
00:07:57Abdul El Sayed wins the Democratic nomination.
00:08:01He is breaking with his party's line on Israel and he embodies the
00:08:04new face of the American left, elements of
00:08:07a portrait with Jules Boateau.
00:08:10He wants to embody the Democratic renewal, Abdul El
00:08:14Sayed, son of Egyptian immigrants, will represent
00:08:17the party in Michigan for a Senate seat after his victory in the
00:08:20primary.
00:08:22primaire.
00:08:25I want to express my gratitude for being able to participate in this beautiful
00:08:28democracy. My family immigrated from a place where there is no
00:08:32democracy, you simply cannot run, as the great Muhammad
00:08:36Ali would say, we shook the
00:08:38world.
00:08:42and especially the Democratic party with a disruptive political line
00:08:45against the centrist candidate Aillie
00:08:48Stevens, former advisor to Barack Obama, Abdul El Sayed
00:08:52campaigned against the influence of big donors and pro-Israel
00:08:56organizations in American politics.
00:08:59Supported by so-called progressive figures like Bernie
00:09:02Sanders or Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, he now wants
00:09:06to prove that a radical voice in the Democratic party can block
00:09:09the Republican MAGA Donald Trump.
00:09:12he seemed to be happy with this result, great news for the
00:09:16Republican party, the communist loser Elsayet who
00:09:19hates Jews and Israel won the Democratic primary,
00:09:23the crazy proposals of the democratic idiots will get even
00:09:26worse, but before facing Donald Trump's
00:09:29candidate, Abdul El Sayed will have to unite his own
00:09:33party. The end of the primary was marked by personal
00:09:36attacks and a frontal opposition on the question of support for
00:09:40Israel. After the announcement of his victory. the
00:09:43now Democratic candidate immediately called for
00:09:46unity.
00:09:49The heatwave situation here in France this morning, six departments
00:09:52in the southeast of the country and Corsica are still on orange alert
00:09:56with strong heat that has been affecting agricultural
00:10:00production for several weeks, which is now in great difficulty. Yesterday, the
00:10:04French government announced an emergency plan to help them. We
00:10:07will see this with Erwanne Droujak. Here we can clearly see
00:10:11that the soil is extremely dry. In this market gardener's farm,
00:10:14soils reduced to dust and completely dried
00:10:18out cauliflowers, unsellable, you see, normally the
00:10:21foliage in normal times, it should be greener.
00:10:25because of the drought, Richard could lose more than 60% of his
00:10:28cauliflower plants and it's not the only vegetable to suffer from the heat on his
00:10:32farm, his red onion production for example could be divided by
00:10:36two. If things do not
00:10:40improve in the coming
00:10:43weeks, it will be more than complicated. Like
00:10:46Richard, many farmers are directly suffering the consequences of the
00:10:50recent heatwaves. Faced with
00:10:53Agriculture announced a plan to support farmers
00:10:57in difficulty with several measures to help their cash flow, such as
00:11:00taking over social contributions, as well as
00:11:04simplification and derogation schemes, aid that
00:11:08will be allocated on a case-by-case basis according to needs. The prefects must
00:11:12also appoint drought references to establish a precise diagnosis
00:11:15and adapt this aid according to the territories. In France,
00:11:1998 departments are affected by drought,
00:11:2257 are placed in a crisis situation.
00:11:26This question now in the news, what future for
00:11:31FIFA, as you know, he is weakened by several
00:11:34controversies, yesterday the boss of world football apologized
00:11:38for his mistakes, he says, he can now count on the full support
00:11:42of his management, internal support while more and more
00:11:45federations are calling for his departure, explanation Alice
00:11:48Broga. Leaving the African headquarters of
00:11:51FIFA in Salé, Morocco, its president Johnny.
00:11:55hopes to turn the page on the controversies, under fire from
00:11:58critics for having unilaterally set up a project to sell part of FIFA's
00:12:01commercial rights, he leaves with the full support of his
00:12:05executive committee. This one however presented his
00:12:08apologies to the member countries for the errors
00:12:10committed.
00:12:12It was agreed that it was in no way the intention to exclude the FIFA
00:12:16council and the FIFA member associations from the process and that it
00:12:20should have been handled differently.
00:12:24Last week. Leaks in the press had revealed Janny
00:12:27Infantino's project to create a new entity responsible for organizing FIFA
00:12:31competitions and selling 20% of them to private
00:12:34investors. Faced with a strong outcry, the project was
00:12:38abandoned on Friday without silencing his detractors. Several
00:12:41football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
00:12:45have indicated that they have lost confidence in Jeanny Infantino. Criticism
00:12:49to which political voices
00:12:51are now added.
00:12:53FIFA has its own procedures to make this kind of decision, but for
00:12:57my part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened,
00:13:01but Gianni Infantino benefits from the support of several federations,
00:13:05especially in Africa and the Middle East, thanks to which he
00:13:08hopes to avoid the convocation of an extraordinary congress to replace
00:13:11him. He also hopes to be re-elected for a fourth
00:13:14term at the next March congress. His opponents, such as
00:13:17UEFA and the Confederation of North, Central and Caribbean
00:13:21football, have until November 10th
00:13:25to find another
00:13:26candidate.
00:13:30Football always, he was one of the attractions of the last World Cup,
00:13:33the Cape Verdean goalkeeper Vozinha arrived in
00:13:36Chile where he signed for the Colocolo club,
00:13:40an extraordinary presentation in line with his new
00:13:43popularity with his jersey arriving by
00:13:47paraglider on the pitch, we will leave you with these images, we will meet again in
00:13:5015 minutes for a new
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00:14:02that's really unfair I want to stay
00:14:05here, I wish to stay here and I can't
00:14:09actually, I'm forced to
00:14:11leave, to go to a country where I have never
00:14:15stayed lived,
00:14:18welcome to Martinique, one of the four French territories of the Antilles
00:14:22in the Caribbean Sea, the beaches...
00:14:25the turquoise water, the breathtaking landscapes, many would say it's
00:14:28paradise, but for those born here, the reality
00:14:32is different,
00:14:34because this paradise, thousands of Martinicans leave it every
00:14:38year without knowing when they will see it again, so we
00:14:42went to Martinique to see why this island is
00:14:45emptying and why those who leave have so much trouble
00:14:48coming back.
00:14:59So there you have it, and we really are a duo,
00:15:03we do a lot of things together, this is Emmanuel, she's 18 years old, she's
00:15:07studying law and lives with her mother Miriam, there you have it,
00:15:10she's a young woman, Emmanuel is very attached to her island, she
00:15:14was born and grew up in Martinique more than 7000 km from mainland
00:15:18France or "France tout court" as it's called
00:15:21here, you can feel that she's not yet ready to leave. mainland France
00:15:25so why? Well, actually
00:15:28I feel, I have all my family here almost, the family I'm closest to is
00:15:32in Martinique, for example, if I want to go see my grandmother, well
00:15:36I'll go see her. we talk, we laugh, we have
00:15:40good food from home, but as I explain to her at
00:15:43the same time, many young people have no choice, who also have these same
00:15:46values, this love for family, for
00:15:50well, but unfortunately they are forced to
00:15:52leave, I can do my bachelor's
00:15:56here, the master's, it depends on the specialization
00:15:59I choose for the master's, but if I choose one that happens
00:16:03here, I can, but at some point I'll have to go to
00:16:07law school and there isn't one in Martinique, I don't think there's
00:16:11one in Guadeloupe and you have to go to mainland France, I find it
00:16:14unfair not to be able to do
00:16:18everything here, did you put the salt in, yes mom, I did,
00:16:21injustice, it's a word that comes up often in the mouths of the Martinicans we
00:16:25met, especially when it comes to the cost of
00:16:28living. We have the other chanfore that comes from here, sometimes
00:16:32a pack of six bottles, we find it at
00:16:35€4.80. And for... it's water that's made in Martinique, so
00:16:39we go out on the crystalline that comes from there where we can
00:16:42find a pack of six bottles at €3
00:16:46and a detail that has its importance, very few Martinicans drink tap
00:16:50water, normally if it's made in Martinique, there's no
00:16:54importation and all that, it's in Martinique,
00:16:57why is our water more
00:17:00expensive, if we want to eat local, if we want to buy local
00:17:04fruits and vegetables, they will be more expensive than if... it comes
00:17:07from Spain, it comes from Mexico,
00:17:10actually we don't understand. Here in Martinique, everything costs
00:17:14more than in mainland France, and it's most noticeable on food
00:17:18products, prices are on average 40%
00:17:21higher, because most products are imported,
00:17:25not from neighboring islands or countries, no, most come from
00:17:28France or Europe, and on an island, everything that arrives
00:17:32depends on boats, delays and
00:17:34costs, but the high cost of living cannot be explained solely by the
00:17:39island, it is also explained by history and by the very
00:17:42structure of the Martinican economy, all the
00:17:45large companies in Martinique are often run by
00:17:49Békés, the Békés, these are the descendants of slave
00:17:52owners who arrived in the Antilles in the 17th
00:17:55century. For more than 200 years, the Martinican economy
00:17:59was based on plantations and slavery. Thousands
00:18:02of Africans were deported to work in the sugar cane plantations, a veritable
00:18:06colonial economy was then established until
00:18:101848 when slavery was abolished, to
00:18:13"compensate" the slave owners who found themselves without
00:18:19money and land, their fortune grew as
00:18:23they exploited these resources and all of this was passed down from generation to
00:18:26generation. Today, the Békés represent only 1%
00:18:30of the Martinican population, and yet
00:18:33they own 80%
00:18:36economy. These are the leaders of Martinique,
00:18:40the large groups of Martinique, the large groups of
00:18:43Biquier who will set the prices, that enriches
00:18:46them obviously, that enriches, that enriches, but all
00:18:50that money will not fall into the pockets of
00:18:52Martinique.
00:18:57agri-food is concentrated in the hands of a few
00:19:00actors, including the Bernar Rayott group,
00:19:03GBH. The company is accused of inflating
00:19:07prices by multiplying intermediaries between producers and
00:19:11distributors, in a classic supply chain in mainland France,
00:19:15there are generally three, in Martinique, there are up to
00:19:1814, and the more intermediaries there are, the
00:19:22more expensive it is, in short, all of this revolts the Martinicans who
00:19:26have repeatedly risen up against the high cost of living and against the
00:19:30Békés, the last time was in
00:19:322024,
00:19:37they say that they steal the riches of Martinique, it's
00:19:41really them at the head, they are the bosses and we work for
00:19:44them, sometimes there are Martinicans, they
00:19:47remember slavery, as if it had
00:19:51never changed, and what do you think about that?
00:19:55Well, I agree at the same time, our ancestors transmit
00:19:58values and memories to
00:20:01us and these memories and values teach
00:20:04us to really say nothing. Not
00:20:08necessarily to revolt, sometimes we don't even know
00:20:11why, why we do this, why we don't dare to say things,
00:20:15why we don't dare to say that no, it's unacceptable, I
00:20:19think that the movement against the high cost of living, that's where it hit
00:20:23hard, we said no, it's unacceptable, we can't accept
00:20:26that, we are at the same level as everyone, okay,
00:20:30Martinicans, we exist, I am
00:20:33so annoyed when I see people going up on no having fun and then
00:20:36there's not his.
00:20:39Oh, I admit it's frustrating because every time they do concerts in Paris, it's already difficult for those in the
00:20:43south, but for those in the islands to buy a plane ticket to go see
00:20:47the artist. The feeling of being treated
00:20:51differently in several aspects of daily life fuels the feeling
00:20:55of abandonment and injustice that Martinicans feel towards the French
00:20:58state. I believe that we are all French, normally we all have an identity
00:21:02card, so we should all have the same chances to succeed and to do the
00:21:06job we want. It's true that on an island, it's
00:21:09small, there are fewer job opportunities than in mainland France because there are fewer
00:21:13companies, that's for sure but it's sad
00:21:17anyway that we are always a little bit.
00:21:21Here in Martinique, one in four young people is neither employed nor in
00:21:24education, nor in training, due to lack of opportunities, and this figure is
00:21:28twice as high as in mainland France, so the brain
00:21:31drain is inevitable and you just have to look at Emmanuel and her
00:21:35friends, there are four of them and they all plan to
00:21:37leave. I don't know what I'm going to do really
00:21:41after my degree, I don't know if I'm staying, if I'm leaving, but I think
00:21:45I'm more likely to leave, but I'm sure of one thing, that I'm going to
00:21:48come back, why? because it's home, it's Martinique,
00:21:52it's our island, our friends are here, our families are here, our roots are
00:21:56here, it's history, it's we are linked to this
00:21:58territory,
00:22:01these moments will really miss me because it's
00:22:04really the essence of our home,
00:22:08small sunset, small breeze, we talk, we discuss,
00:22:12we laugh, about anything and everything, and these moments, these
00:22:15quality moments, I won't have them
00:22:17there.
00:22:2345% of overseas high school graduates go to mainland France for their
00:22:27studies, and others join them after obtaining their bachelor's degree
00:22:31here. This is the path that
00:22:34Maeli took, it's a quality of life after
00:22:37all, that we don't
00:22:40find passionate about history and heritage,
00:22:44she found herself in Anger then Montpellier to do her
00:22:47master's. I live here
00:22:51the beach and the sea, it's something not negligible
00:22:54what, and that compared to Angers? Oh
00:22:57dear,
00:22:59well yes, I miss it a lot already, I had to
00:23:03adapt to a new environment, to the
00:23:06cold, it's not easy, I really
00:23:09left all alone, I didn't know anyone there, and then I
00:23:13had to adapt to a new university rhythm which is
00:23:17not at all the same as in Martinique, quite... sure
00:23:20I felt
00:23:22I had the impression of being pushed aside and not fitting in
00:23:26actually, but anyway I have a
00:23:30the pre-entry I was in the amphitheater and then
00:23:32I saw a girl arrive, as soon as I saw her
00:23:36I knew she was an Antillean so I I said to myself, "Ah, someone like me
00:23:40who knows the same reality as me," and immediately we became
00:23:43friends, we never let go. performance,
00:23:47was essential for me during my years in France.
00:23:51But the difficulties don't stop with the climate or loneliness.
00:23:54Financially, being an overseas student is a struggle, if only
00:23:58to go home, even if the French state offers a free
00:24:02round trip per year, it's often too little for students who are attached to
00:24:06their families like Maélie, hello, how
00:24:09are you? If we want to go home, it's a
00:24:13luxury, yes, absolutely, it's, well, plane tickets
00:24:17are about 100 euros a ticket. In short,
00:24:20as a student, we're not going to allow ourselves to spend 100 euros on a
00:24:24ticket when we need to eat and pay rent.
00:24:26loyer
00:24:30After 4 years in mainland France, Maélie has the chance to go home and find
00:24:34work in Daarley, where she grew up.
00:24:38Well, I'm lucky enough to work at the
00:24:41the church, so I have that view every day
00:24:45and what more could I ask for?
00:24:48But her return here turns out to be more
00:24:50difficult than expected. It's true that we idealize coming back to our
00:24:53home country, when we come back, we have a bit of a disillusion, a little
00:24:57frustration, we often have the impression that the country has
00:25:00changed, but in reality, it's us who have changed since we are the ones who
00:25:04left. When I was there, I used to say, "Ah, I can't wait to come back to
00:25:07Martinique," but it's true that here sometimes I want to say, "I would have liked to be
00:25:11there." I even visualize my day if I were
00:25:14there. When I go shopping, I've gotten into the bad habit of
00:25:18comparing prices every time between there and here. In my
00:25:22ideal, maybe I would have liked to spend 6 months there and 6 months
00:25:25here. Even if the dilemma is complicated,
00:25:29Maeline doesn't think long and chooses to
00:25:31come back. By 2050, Martinique
00:25:34could become the oldest department in France, because the proportion of people
00:25:38under 25 on the island is only
00:25:40decreasing.
00:25:44So for Maélie, returning to her homeland is an opportunity to defend the
00:25:48culture and memory of her ancestors. I didn't want to go back anyway. She
00:25:53the island, to Saint-Pierre.
00:25:56On the morning of May 8, 1902, Mount Pelée erupted,
00:25:59causing the death of nearly 28 to 3000 inhabitants
00:26:03and destroying, we could
00:26:07say, a prosperous urban center, since it was really
00:26:10the "little Paris" of the Antilles. It was, we could
00:26:14say, the place to
00:26:17be. Ah,
00:26:19yeah. There were three levels in this
00:26:23theater.
00:26:25The particularity is that even slaves could attend
00:26:29the performances. So yes, but... they weren't next
00:26:33to them, so technically they were
00:26:36in the "paradise" section, so the "paradise" or the
00:26:40"chicken coop," which was the place where you could see the least of the
00:26:44finally.
00:26:47For me, Saint-Pierre has an important history, and it's also where
00:26:51the proclamation of the abolition of
00:26:54slavery took place on May 22. With a history
00:26:58as vibrant as that of Martinique, transmission is
00:27:01essential. Even if, in the end, the new generation
00:27:05prefers to transform the wounds of the past into strength to make their
00:27:08island grow, we are a people born in pain,
00:27:12in suffering, but we are still here, we are resilient, we fight every
00:27:16day, and that's why for me it's a source of pride, it's
00:27:18beautiful, actually, to think that our ancestors
00:27:22fought for us. There are so many things to do, to develop, in any case,
00:27:26here in Martinique, regarding our history, and for me it's
00:27:30important and... they are not there,
00:27:33you have to study there and come back to carry the culture here,
00:27:36that's what's important, yes, it's possible to come back, I know it's not
00:27:40easy, you have to find
00:27:44opportunities, you have to seize opportunities, but yes,
00:27:48yes, I encourage coming back
00:27:50and carrying
00:27:54it, preserving transmitting
00:27:58it too.
00:28:02Growing up here is therefore growing up between two worlds, between
00:28:05the attachment one feels for their island and the necessity of
00:28:09leaving it.
00:28:11Emmanuel is only 18, her future is not yet written, but like a whole
00:28:15generation, she will have to make a choice: to leave
00:28:19or to stay and live with what that choice implies.
00:29:54Hello everyone and thank you for being here on France 24, we will spend the next
00:29:58hours together. Headlining this edition: Kramatorsk under Russian
00:30:02bombs. On site, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have been ordered
00:30:06to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted more
00:30:10than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night. Already more than
00:30:131700 dead, the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in the
00:30:17Democratic Republic of the
00:30:20World Health Organization was on site, and he is now calling
00:30:23for an intensified response. And then,
00:30:26criticized internationally, he is supported internally. In the eye of the
00:30:32Infantino wants to turn the page. He
00:30:35apologized yesterday for, he said, his
00:30:38mistakes.
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