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00:00:00presented by Caroline de Camaret, to be seen on France
00:00:0324.
00:00:08You are still watching live on France 24 and you are right to follow the
00:00:11headline of this edition Kramatorsk under Russian bombs,
00:00:14on site, civilians living in the eastern part of the city have
00:00:19future, these are not projects of received orders to evacuate. For its part, Moscow says it intercepted
00:00:22more than 600 Ukrainian drones during the night. Already more than
00:00:261700 deaths, the Ebola epidemic continues to spread in the Republic.
00:00:30Democratic Republic of Congo, the head of the World Health Organization is on
00:00:35in the long term, through the revitalization of site, he calls for intensifying the response, and then
00:00:38criticized internationally, he is supported internally in
00:00:41the eye of the storm after several controversies, FIFA President Janin Fantino wants to turn the
00:00:45page, his management apologized
00:00:48yesterday for its
00:00:50mistakes.
00:01:04the Kyiv region on Tuesday to Wednesday, Kramatorsk, these
00:01:08last few hours, Russia continues to pound Ukraine, which today
00:01:12no longer has the means to shoot down the missiles fired by its enemy. President
00:01:15Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday again asked his allies for emergency
00:01:19aid. Attention, some
00:01:21the great forgotten of images may be difficult to view, they are commented by Alice
00:01:26Fresselines, it's in the heart of Broga. it's painting and After more than 20 hours of searching,
00:01:29Ukrainian rescuers extracted a lifeless body from the rubble,
00:01:32a civilian killed in a Russian strike that occurred the
00:01:35day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
00:01:39increase in Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
00:01:42region in eastern Ukraine ordered the evacuation of about 500
00:01:46children and their families who still
00:01:49lived in the city on Wednesday evening. In the Kyiv region too, the attacks
00:01:53are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this
00:01:57railway line, railway workers are evacuating one by one.
00:02:00and the
00:02:04I am Benoît de la Rousière, I am the director of
00:02:13the future. Creuse has France, we
00:03:00fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend our state, this
00:03:03taken from situation is mainly linked to the war,
00:03:07sell part of FIFA's commercial rights, or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
00:03:11Middle East.
00:03:14Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky again went to
00:03:17Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot missiles to him,
00:03:21the only ones capable of intercepting the most
00:03:24advanced Russian missiles, but according to the Financial Times, Trump
00:03:28refused this request due to... the shortage of Patriots in American
00:03:31stocks since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:34Middle East
00:03:37and I would add that for its part, Russia says it shot down
00:03:40605 Ukrainian drones overnight, announced by the Ministry of
00:03:43Defense in Moscow. As every
00:03:46year, it is a show of force in the face of the appetites of neighboring
00:03:50China in Taiwan, the army carried out new large-scale
00:03:53military exercises, a
00:03:56full-scale test as Beijing does not hide its desire to bring it
00:04:00back into its fold, explanation
00:04:01Lukiziela.
00:04:05In the streets of Taipei,
00:04:07So we find ourselves at the confluence of armored maneuvers, and on
00:04:09be at the right time, you need board, the president, with
00:04:12bulletproof vest and
00:04:13living in the eastern part helmet. This is an exercise to evacuate the Taiwanese
00:04:16head of state from his office to a secret base with his defense
00:04:20minister. For 10 days, the island lives to the rhythm of
00:04:24these military exercises named Hankuang. The aim of
00:04:27the operation is to verify the rapid
00:04:30reaction if China tried to paralyze command centers in particular,
00:04:34it is also a place that is the heart of but also logistics centers such as ports or even military
00:04:38industrial sites.
00:04:40Our forces train for combat in the face of the enemy threat, this shows
00:04:45since tapestries are made of our preparation, strengthens our operational capabilities, our defense and our high-level
00:04:49combat readiness. Our power will deter any enemy aggression,
00:04:53preserve national security and regional
00:04:55stability.
00:04:58this one. Patrick Chevalier is a member of A stability undermined by. China threatens to invade Taiwan,
00:05:02which it considers part of its
00:05:04and fights to preserve the forests of territory, to carry out what it calls
00:05:07reunification, Xi Jinping does not rule out using
00:05:10force. The deterrent opportunity offered by American support to
00:05:14the island is lessened by Donald
00:05:17Trump's unpredictability. After his visit to Beijing in May, the American
00:05:21president was conciliatory with the Chinese number 1.
00:05:25Taiwan is now waiting for validation by the American Congress
00:05:28of a 14 billion dollar arms sale. It is currently
00:05:32paused by the Trump
00:05:34administration.
00:05:37In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola epidemic
00:05:40continues to grow, already more than 1700
00:05:44deaths in the country, the head of the WHO
00:05:47calls for intensifying the response, according to him, it is also necessary
00:05:51to better protect frontline personnel, we will take stock with Romain
00:05:54Michelot. Disinfection
00:05:58and care operation. Here, everything is real or almost, these
00:06:02doctors are still in training. In this center near Nairobi in
00:06:05Kenya, 200 have already been prepared to face the Ebola
00:06:09epidemic.
00:06:12this training for 3 days and we 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. The objective is therefore for these
00:06:27healthcare professionals to become operational very quickly.
00:06:3140% of the doctors trained here are sent there,
00:06:35to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the 17th Ebola epidemic
00:06:38is raging. In mid-May, the first case was detected in the...
00:06:42Ituri province in the northeast of the country. Since then, infections
00:06:45have multiplied in four other provinces. Nearly
00:06:494000 cases have been confirmed and more than 1800 people have
00:06:52died. The number of cases of this new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo
00:06:56strain, is already higher than during the last epidemic
00:07:00in the country between 2018 and 2020. The WHO,
00:07:04whose director visited the site this Wednesday, calls for
00:07:07intensifying the medical response. In the city of
00:07:10Bouna, capital of Ituri
00:07:13epicenter of the epidemic, the largest Ebola detection and treatment center
00:07:16has just been built. We have more than 300
00:07:20staff who will work in this center and we
00:07:23count on the community to
00:07:26accelerate the process of identifying
00:07:29cases. At the same time, efforts to create an effective vaccine
00:07:33against this new variant continue. 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 has yet been
00:07:45validated.
00:07:49This question now, what future for Gianni Infantino at the
00:07:52head of FIFA, weakened, as you know, by several controversies,
00:07:56the boss of world football can now count on the full support
00:08:00of his board, internal support while more and more
00:08:03federations are calling for his departure, Alice
00:08:06Broga. On leaving the African headquarters of FIFA
00:08:09in Salé, Morocco, its president Infantino
00:08:13hopes to turn the page on controversies, under fire from
00:08:16critics for having unilaterally set up a project to
00:08:20he leaves with the full support of his executive
00:08:23committee. The latter, however, apologized to member
00:08:27countries for the mistakes made.
00:08:30It was agreed that it was not at all the intention to exclude the FIFA council and
00:08:34FIFA member associations from the process and that it
00:08:38should have been handled differently.
00:08:41Last week, leaks in the press revealed Gianni
00:08:45Infantino's plan to create a new entity responsible for organizing
00:08:49FIFA competitions and selling 20% of it to private
00:08:52investors. Faced with a backlash, the project was
00:08:56abandoned on Friday without silencing its detractors. Several
00:08:59football bodies, such as the powerful European federation UEFA,
00:09:03have indicated that they have lost confidence in Gianni Infantino, criticisms
00:09:06now joined by political voices.
00:09:08his own procedures to make this kind of
00:09:12decision, but for my
00:09:15part, I no longer trust Mr. Infantino after what happened.
00:09:19Gianni Infantino benefits from the
00:09:23support of several federations, particularly in Africa and the
00:09:25Middle East, thanks to which he hopes to avoid the convocation of an
00:09:29extraordinary congress to replace him. He also hopes
00:09:32to be re-elected for a fourth term at the congress next
00:09:35March. His opponents such as UEFA and the Confederation of
00:09:39North, Central American and Caribbean Football have until
00:09:43November 18 to find another
00:10:37So it's an association that takes in mostly abandoned Nordic dogs,
00:10:40it opened the association in 2019,
00:10:44clearly without European funds, it would never have seen the light of day, it
00:10:48financed the global project by almost 50%,
00:10:52i.e. almost 9500 €. So now we have
00:10:5636 dogs now, about
00:10:593000 people per year who come to enjoy the activities
00:11:02or as I explained where we go directly after into the
00:11:05structures.
00:11:09Hello everyone and thank you for joining us from all over Europe. Today we are in one of the
00:11:12most difficult French departments and
00:11:16which is losing its population, La Creuse and its 11,500 inhabitants and
00:11:19La Creuse is trying to develop with the support of European
00:11:23funds. to boost its growth
00:11:27but also its demographics, we will look at
00:11:30a few examples right away, let's go,
00:11:43is the department of La Creuse
00:11:46Europe?
00:11:49The whole challenge here for European funds is precisely
00:11:53to manage well... decline that has demographic origins but
00:11:56also economic origins, so we see that European
00:12:00funds there have little leverage
00:12:03with nevertheless some
00:12:07companies that manage to mobilize these European funds in a
00:12:11useful way and who also easily declare
00:12:14that if these European funds did not exist, they would probably
00:12:17have left the territory on the ground, few
00:12:20project leaders and those who knit their European files
00:12:24correctly make their nest egg of essential aid,
00:12:29the Fonty spinning mill, one of the last wool spinning mills still in activity in
00:12:34restarted in 2006 with six
00:12:37employees, today we are a good thirty and it is true
00:12:40that the ERDF Massif Central helped us a lot because we
00:12:44have an investment budget of about 4 million and the ERDF
00:12:48supports us up to almost 1 million, it's a project that is
00:12:51exceptional this extension project.
00:13:03banks follow because they know that there is
00:13:07co-financing, Europe, region,
00:13:11at war, European funds will help to transform this VSE,
00:13:15very small laundry company into an SME, multiplying
00:13:18jobs by two in the coming years.
00:13:22We exceptionally received an allocation from
00:13:25the ERDF with an advance of 30%, which allowed us to
00:13:28reserve our equipment, okay, the chamber of
00:13:32commerce and industry cites the company as an example, that is to say that
00:13:36there is a 3.7 million project in Creuse,
00:13:39there aren't that many projects of such magnitude,
00:13:42there are a lot of VSEs, very small companies, it's 98%
00:13:46of the geographical sector, it had to be helped
00:13:50to calibrate its
00:13:53project to move from a so-called artisanal structure to a
00:13:56real industrial project, which is not
00:14:00the case for many companies that have the
00:14:03obstacle, especially of complex files, for them
00:14:07Europe, the term they will use is red tape.
00:14:10Barely populated with 20 inhabitants per square kilometer compared to 125 in
00:14:14France, this department has difficulty in making itself heard at the regional level,
00:14:18and despite cohesion efforts in France, the gap between the
00:14:21richest and poorest regions is widening.
00:14:32the Creuse with another river, the Sedelle,
00:14:36in front of the ruins of Croissant which inspired the
00:14:39romantics, the authoress, George Sand, her lover Frédéric Chopin for what concerns music,
00:14:43and we find ourselves in the company of Pierre Vessex,
00:14:47hello, hello, with moreover many people who come
00:14:50today to visit this very beautiful fortress, it is the most
00:14:54visited place of... anyway with its 25 to 27 visitors, but
00:14:59the tourist destination valley, this
00:15:02emblematic site is an emblem for the department of Creuse as for the department of
00:15:06Indre and this with some help from the European
00:15:09Union, it needs crystallization
00:15:12work, we are on a historical monument, these are always
00:15:15somewhat substantial envelopes given the position of the place which often
00:15:19requires work that we will say is all brought by
00:15:22helicopter, these are projects that are between
00:15:2620 and 30% financed by the European Union, so is Creuse
00:15:29not falling into the famous development trap denounced by
00:15:33Brussels which consists, when projects are completed, of not
00:15:36developing. It's very sparsely populated and then
00:15:40with an income of 24,000
00:15:43€ per inhabitant per year, which is well below the national
00:15:46average of 41,000, a
00:15:49territory which certainly has some big companies, but in fact wanted and
00:15:53wanted to transform and capitalize on this history of
00:15:56painters, this history also linked to a landscape that is still
00:15:59very spectacular when we look at what is behind us and
00:16:03so it was about making this cultural and heritage notion a challenge
00:16:07for economic development, but also a challenge that will allow
00:16:12the department's image, to attract populations back to the territory, we need to
00:16:16find a sweet spot that allows residents to
00:16:19live year-round and have sufficiently interesting
00:16:23sources of income thanks to tourism, and we are going to see another
00:16:26example of this very cultural tourism
00:16:30as well.
00:16:44Yes, I took my paintbrush because it's a painting workshop today with you
00:16:48Pierre and we are also with Laurence Rouet who is the
00:16:51Vice-President of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region where Creuse is located,
00:16:55what exactly are we doing tell me what we are doing here
00:17:00exhibition, we are in the village of
00:17:03the Creuse valley in a territory called the Valley of the Painters and this territory.
00:17:07there it hosted Claude Monet so you have made the Monet
00:17:10Moulina space that's it with the help of Europe so that's it
00:17:14the global envelope of the project was around a little less than a million
00:17:18euros at European level it's 273,000 €
00:17:22ah well precisely Laurence we are going to visit with you a little because
00:17:25Creuse is a very small department in the large Aquitaine
00:17:29region, it's barely 12
00:17:32million cohesion funds over the period
00:17:352021-2027. in this large new Aquitaine envelope
00:17:39875 million euros, it's the
00:17:42smallest department and it's losing population
00:17:46and it's losing population, but it's not the only one, it has a demographic issue in general
00:17:50in Creuse, in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and in
00:17:53France, so Creuse still has 19% of its population
00:17:57below the poverty line, it's a land
00:18:00of livestock farming, it's a land with a historical
00:18:04industrial past that
00:18:06needs to be supported. For example, we invested
00:18:10in La Souterraine, we try to be reactive, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
00:18:14and with the help of European funds too when there are what we
00:18:18call industrial accidents, difficulty in bringing out projects, these are things that concern
00:18:22us a lot because France in general is a very bad
00:18:25student of cohesion policy which does not achieve its goal
00:18:28with however 18 billion over the 7-year exercise that we
00:18:32talked about for this country which does not achieve its goal of rebalancing the regions and
00:18:36departments, we are very much for cohesion policy, so perhaps
00:18:40we still need to simplify certain
00:18:43procedures, the fact that the regions, and we believe a lot in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in the
00:18:46fact that the regions, the more they are directly involved, the
00:18:50more they will have a hand and the better they will be positioned to precisely help
00:18:54local projects emerge, you are here in a territory which indeed
00:18:58has problems of attractiveness, questions of
00:19:01decline, one of the battles to be fought from this point of
00:19:04view to make projects emerge, but... there
00:19:07is an awareness on which all actors, whether it be
00:19:10the state, whether it be the region, whether it be the department, whether it be all the
00:19:13inter-municipalities and communes of Creuse, we have created a special plan for
00:19:17Creuse, we are in phase two precisely to make
00:19:21the mechanisms known, to ensure that in any case when there is a local
00:19:24initiative, when there is a project, an idea that can emerge, well, that we public
00:19:28promoters and public financiers are present from the outset to
00:19:31be able to break,
00:19:34simplify as much as possible in an environment that is
00:19:38not simple and with European funds we know that the subject is that first you have to be
00:19:42in the right strategy, you have to
00:19:46engineering, you need a lot of reporting, and then you also
00:19:50need a little cash because aid is only paid after
00:19:54long periods of administrative
00:19:57verification. Thank you Laurence for being with us, so regarding the
00:20:00companies that wanted to invest in Creuse, there was a
00:20:04famous biocine that wanted to develop. But there was
00:20:08a lot of reluctance from the timber industry and environmentalists, as
00:20:11Luke
00:20:13Brown reports right away.
00:20:19Under this fresh snow, this is what remains of 3 hectares of forest after
00:20:23clear-cutting. We are in a tree cemetery, when we see this type of
00:20:27subject that has been cut, we could have avoided cutting it, we can exploit
00:20:30wood while preserving subjects that harbor biodiversity like
00:20:36the Canopé association. Living forest, he documents these wood cutting operations
00:20:41the region. Its inhabitants are also activists, they oppose
00:20:45the arrival of a wood pellet factory near Guéret. They fear that
00:20:49the future installation of biocyle will
00:20:53generate two evils: the destruction of biodiversity, the natural habitat of
00:20:56frogs, and the overexploitation of the region's forests (145,000 tons of wood each
00:20:59year). Projects like that of biocyle are projects of the
00:21:03past, ultimately they are projects that will emit carbon, which will clear the
00:21:06carbon sink, these are not projects of the
00:21:09tomorrow. In their sights biocyd which cites its Auvergne
00:21:13factory as an example, it produces 85,000 tons of wood pellets per
00:21:16year. The French company has reduced its activity in Creuse to minimize the
00:21:20environmental consequences, it
00:21:22bought 2 hectares to create a resting area for the yellow-bellied toad,
00:21:26it moved the entire factory to destroy
00:21:30only a very small part of the wetland that we will compensate,
00:21:34there is no project that takes the environment more
00:21:36into account than our project even though we are in an
00:21:40industrial zone. Of the 25 million planned to finance this project,
00:21:441 million must be financed by European funds. For its CEO,
00:21:47biosil mainly uses wood residues from sawmills and non-compliant
00:21:51trees for carpentry, we are the
00:21:54solution for managing and
00:21:57maintaining the forest, timber is valued at
00:22:0010 to 20 times what wood used for energy is valued at, those who
00:22:04tell us that we take wood that can go into sawmills,
00:22:08these are false information. At war,
00:22:12this project is a political storm, the mayor reluctantly signed the
00:22:16building permit for the new site, but Creuse has lost 60% of its population
00:22:20in a century for biosil supporters, the 40 jobs must
00:22:23be protected, Creuse needs entrepreneurs,
00:22:27young people who decide to invest, to
00:22:30set up their own businesses and make sure they develop, we are very good in Creuse,
00:22:34but we don't want to be in the middle of an Indian reserve, there you go, the EU
00:22:38supports innovative solutions for the traditional timber industry, for three
00:22:41generations, Nodon Maté has been building wooden doors and windows, thanks to one million
00:22:45euros in subsidies, the company is turning to aluminum and PVC and
00:22:48is expanding with 15 new employees, it's a real boost
00:22:51for our development, but also for the local
00:22:54economy, by sustaining employment, local
00:22:58employment by allowing us to adapt to
00:23:03received 12 million euros in cohesion funds, the debate on their
00:23:06environmental impact is just beginning.
00:23:23the International City of Tapestry in Aubusson, it's a museum
00:23:27that brings together important collections, a know-how that dates back to the
00:23:3015th century, it's also a training place where we train
00:23:34tapestry weavers, these are people who weave tapestries and there is a
00:23:37contemporary creation policy with a grand tapestry policy
00:23:40like the Aubusson tapestry
00:23:44weaver and especially more contemporary
00:23:47the imagination of Hayao Miyazaki. We are in the
00:23:51process of weaving a tapestry
00:23:53the anime My Neighbor
00:23:55Totoro,
00:24:02Valérie Simonet, hello, hello, it is indeed Miyazaki's
00:24:05tapestry, we recognize Chihiro's journey
00:24:08and with quite massive support from the European
00:24:11Union, we have been talking since the creation and
00:24:14opening of this international city about more than 3
00:24:17million euros, and then for... certain projects
00:24:21substantial amounts of nearly 40,000 €. Absolutely,
00:24:25it's a real policy in which we are
00:24:28rooted. The example of the Miyazaki tapestry which is
00:24:32currently underway, today, four quite monumental
00:24:35tapestries have been made,
00:24:37benefited from about 50 % of funds
00:24:41from the ERDF to
00:24:45Behind this are workshops, manufacturers who are also maintained
00:24:48in the territory, other activities, I mentioned it with the arrival
00:24:52of tourists in our department, so for us,
00:24:55this truly responds to what these European policies
00:24:59are, which aim to reduce
00:25:02inequality between territories, and so territories like Creuse have
00:25:06fortunately benefited from it, it works well, by the way, for
00:25:10this international city that has developed a lot, yes,
00:25:14from a small museum that was there
00:25:17precisely to present the collections of departmental
00:25:21tapestries, the project from
00:25:242010 consisted of precisely
00:25:27opening and creating new spaces, and then there are also the
00:25:30other induced trades that are also related to agricultural development,
00:25:35wool, so there's the whole question of
00:25:38maintaining a sheep flock in a department like ours
00:25:42and finding a wool
00:25:45sector again, even in Brussels we see that inequalities are
00:25:49widening between departments.
00:25:52How do you explain it in the context of Creuse? What's missing from the equation? We know how complex it is to obtain
00:25:56these European funds, but you know that there is, in any case, in France
00:26:00today, a discourse that would want more
00:26:04simplification, that rebels against norms and
00:26:07constraints, but one can imagine that at the scale
00:26:11of Europe, it's a bit complicated to distribute
00:26:14billions like that without an evaluation of what it has
00:26:18brought and produced. In any case, we
00:26:21can, on institutions like ours,
00:26:24mobilize precisely living
00:26:27forces to precisely complete the
00:26:31files and bring them to fruition. "The reality may be completely different
00:26:35when we are dealing with projects that take place on a very small
00:26:38scale, and I advocate for collective action and to ensure
00:26:42that instead of having multiple entry points to
00:26:45support a project, there should be a single window. Thank you, Ms.
00:26:49Simonet, for being our guest. Thank you for following us through Creuse,
00:26:53a department that tries to highlight its
00:26:56assets, and you can find a program dedicated to Corsica,
00:27:00another region in difficulty," with
00:27:03a handicap, being insular, on our channels and our website.
00:27:25We will be better off, it is not the drought that led us to famine,
00:27:28but the Russians who took everything we had in the granary.
00:30:00to be seen on France 24.
00:30:06You are still watching Paris Direct on France 24, and you are right to. The
00:30:10headline of this edition is Kramatorsk under Russian
00:30:13bombs. On the ground, civilians
00:30:16have been ordered to evacuate. For its part, Moscow
00:30:19has already reported more than 1700 deaths from the epidemic.