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00:00:01greatly, but Carlos
00:00:07Paris direct, continued and concluded on France 24. At the top of this
00:00:10edition, Kramatorsk under Russian bombs. On site, civilians
00:00:14living in the eastern part of the city have been ordered to evacuate. For its
00:00:18part, Moscow says it intercepted more than 600 Ukrainian drones during
00:00:22the night. Already more than 2800 dead. The Ebola epidemic continues
00:00:26to spread in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head
00:00:29of... the World Health Organization is on site, he calls for
00:00:33intensifying the health response. And then
00:00:36criticism internationally, he is now supported internally.
00:00:40In the eye of the storm, after several controversies, FIFA President Gianni
00:00:43Infantino wants to turn the page. His management apologized yesterday for
00:00:47its mistakes. The analysis will be later on the set with
00:00:50Benoît.
00:01:04the Kyiv region on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Kramatorsk
00:01:08has, in these last hours, Russia continues to shell Ukraine, which today
00:01:11concretely no longer has the means to shoot down its enemy's
00:01:15missiles. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, has again asked his
00:01:18Western allies for urgent aid. Alice Broga comments on these
00:01:22images. After more than 20 hours of
00:01:26searching, Ukrainian rescuers extract
00:01:29a lifeless body from the rubble, a civilian killed in a Russian strike
00:01:33that occurred the day before on this building in Kramatorsk. Faced with the
00:01:37multiplication of Russian attacks, the authorities of this city in the Donetsk
00:01:40region in eastern Ukraine ordered on Wednesday evening
00:01:43the evacuation of about 500 children and their families who still
00:01:47lived in the city. In the Kyiv region too, attacks
00:01:52happened to him, are increasingly numerous and deadly. Along this railway line, railway workers
00:01:56evacuate one by one the bodies of eight victims killed.
00:02:30According to the Ukrainian air force, Russia fired 115 long-range
00:02:34drones and 28 missiles on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday,
00:02:38but only 98 drones could be neutralized. Ukrainian
00:02:42anti-aircraft defenses failed to intercept any
00:02:45missile. A weakening attributed by President Zelensky
00:02:49to delays in missile interceptor deliveries compared to
00:02:522025.
00:02:58Ukraine has started to receive about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles to defend. our state, this situation is
00:03:02mainly due to the war,
00:03:05or as it is now fair to say, to hostilities and wars in the
00:03:09Middle East.
00:03:12Last week, Volodymyr Zelensky again traveled to
00:03:15Washington to convince Donald Trump to deliver Patriot
00:03:19missiles, the only ones capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian
00:03:22missiles. But according to the Financial Times, Trump
00:03:26refused this request due to the shortage of Patriots in the
00:03:29American stocks themselves since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:32Middle East.
00:03:35As every year, it is a show of force against the
00:03:38appetites of neighboring China. In Taiwan, the army conducted
00:03:41new large-scale military exercises, full-scale
00:03:45tests, while Beijing has not hidden for several years its
00:03:48desire to bring the island back into its fold. Explanation
00:03:51Lukiziela.
00:03:55In the streets of Taipei, armored maneuvers and on
00:03:58board the... president with bulletproof vest and
00:04:02helmet. It's an exercise to evacuate the Taiwanese
00:04:06head of state from his office to a secret base with his minister of
00:04:10defense. For 10 days, the island lives to
00:04:13the rhythm of these military exercises named Hankuang. The goal of
00:04:17does man's insatiable desire the operation: to check the speed of reaction if China
00:04:21tried to paralyze particularly command centers, but also
00:04:25logistics like ports or even military industrial
00:04:28sites.
00:04:30Our forces train for combat against the enemy threat, this shows
00:04:34our preparation, strengthens our operational capabilities, our
00:04:37defense and our high-level combat readiness. Our power
00:04:41will deter any enemy aggression, preserve national security and regional
00:04:45stability.
00:04:47A stability undermined by Beijing. China threatens
00:04:51to invade Taiwan, which it considers as part of its
00:04:54territory. To carry out what he calls reunification, Xi
00:04:56Jinping does not exclude
00:05:00force. The deterrence offered by American
00:05:03support to the island is weakened by Donald Trump's
00:05:07them, Infantino is no longer the man unpredictability. After his visit to Beijing in May, the American
00:05:11president showed himself conciliatory with the Chinese
00:05:13leader. Taiwan is now awaiting validation by the American
00:05:17Congress of an arms sale of 14 billion dollars.
00:05:21It is currently on hold by the Trump
00:05:24administration.
00:05:26In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Ebola epidemic continues to
00:05:30grow. There are already more than 1800 deaths on site. On
00:05:33a visit since yesterday in the country, the head of the WHO,
00:05:37the World Health Organization, calls for intensifying the
00:05:40response. According to him, it is also necessary to better protect frontline
00:05:44personnel, workers often left to their own devices, as
00:05:47Noémi Roche explains.
00:05:51Every day, the same ritual. Wiza Bandelé
00:05:54puts on his suit and disinfection equipment, before
00:05:58tackling a house whose occupants died of the Ebola
00:06:01virus. Essential gestures to
00:06:05hope to curb the spread of the virus, which continues to
00:06:09affect the country. Yet, since the beginning of his
00:06:12mission in mid-May, Wiza has still not been paid,
00:06:16in July, he joined
00:06:19other health workers to
00:06:21strike.
00:06:23We went on strike because we realized that we were working in dangerous
00:06:27conditions and that we were giving a lot of ourselves. We are in
00:06:31risky situations. It can happen that a
00:06:34patient vomits blood, we then have to
00:06:36clean up.
00:06:40In July, the Congolese Minister of Health acknowledged payment
00:06:43delays attributed to organizational problems, assuring that they
00:06:47would be resolved. Since then, some of his colleagues have indeed
00:06:50been paid, but only in part according to Wiza. He claims
00:06:54he has still received nothing and yet continues to work 7
00:06:58days a week, despite the risks he is
00:07:01exposed to. I could contract this
00:07:04virus, and then contaminate my family and my
00:07:08neighbors. So I realize that because of me, many
00:07:11people could
00:07:12die.
00:07:16Despite the fear, Wiza refuses to leave his post for
00:07:19now, guided by the sense of duty, a mission
00:07:22all the more crucial as this epidemic has now surpassed that of
00:07:262018 in terms of cases, according to Congolese
00:07:29authorities, more than 8370 cases have
00:07:32been confirmed, including 1751 deaths
00:07:35since the beginning of the epidemic in May. Also in
00:07:39the news this Thursday is this question: what future... for Gianni
00:07:43Infantino at the head of FIFA, weakened, as you know, by several
00:07:47controversies, which we have talked about a lot on our air. The head of world
00:07:50football can now count on the full support of his leadership, internal
00:07:54support that is more than welcome for him, while more and more federations are demanding
00:07:58his departure. Hello Benoît, hello Florent, at FIFA we want to forget
00:08:01the turmoil of recent months, move along, there's nothing to see, that's the message, absolutely as if
00:08:05nothing had happened. Florent, a simple communiqué, no statement
00:08:09at the end of this crisis meeting organized
00:08:12in Morocco around Gianni Infantino and an admission of guilt that we will remember from
00:08:16the 211 member countries for, I quote, the
00:08:20errors made concerning his now abandoned project to sell part of the commercial
00:08:23rights of the World Cup, the management of this project should have been different, the
00:08:27communiqué which also reminds us that the high-ranking officials of the institution have
00:08:30reaffirmed their full support for Infantino and
00:08:33warns that everyone must now fall into
00:08:36line, FIFA will no longer tolerate any attacks on its integrity, its good governance and
00:08:40the regularity of its procedures. all necessary measures will be
00:08:44taken to protect its reputation, you understand, this is a thinly
00:08:48veiled threat to all those who
00:08:51opposed the project last
00:08:54week, absolutely, fall into line, starting with
00:08:57Arsène Wenger, current director of world football development within the institution, the
00:09:01secretary general of FIFA Matthias Grafstreum or
00:09:05Kevin Lamour, the number 3 of FIFA, FIFA which is trying to
00:09:08turn the page on what constitutes the biggest crisis since Gianni
00:09:12Infantino took office in 2016. A fault confessed,
00:09:15a fault half forgiven, that's what the saying goes, that's not so sure, but the fire
00:09:19is not out, Benoît, no, Infantino who has put his finger on something that is escaping him,
00:09:23has he already gone too far, he whose re-election
00:09:26seemed almost certain, he still has two months
00:09:29if he is the only declared candidate, this project to sell part of the World
00:09:33Cup rights really did not go down well with several confederations,
00:09:36UEFA, CONCACAF, the Asian confederation while waiting for
00:09:40the position of the African football
00:09:43confederation, which meets today and which could therefore
00:09:47position itself, we know that it is rather a favorable position for
00:09:51Gianni Infantino from the side of the CAF. Infantino's detractors who
00:09:54have swallowed, we know, a few bitter pills in recent years, he has
00:09:58had the new formula of the Club World Cup in a
00:10:01packed schedule, his closeness to Donald
00:10:05Trump, the American president, then these
00:10:08cooling breaks, ultimately disguised advertising spaces
00:10:12during the World Cup and voices are now being raised, the Canadian and British prime
00:10:16ministers, for
00:10:20for the job, he must leave, this is what the Portuguese football
00:10:23legend wrote yesterday in an op-ed in the Daily Mail. We
00:10:27understand, Gianni Infantino is more than weakened today, but he is far
00:10:31from gone. So the first thing is, he is the only declared candidate
00:10:34for this election which will take place next
00:10:38March at a congress, the FIFA congress organized in
00:10:42Rabat, Morocco. Infantino would be using rather questionable
00:10:45methods to retain his post. Prince Ali bin al Hussein, president of the
00:10:49Jordanian Football Federation, even accused him of blackmail this
00:10:53week on X, I quote, for months FIFA refused to help us with certain
00:10:56issues until I was told orally during the World Cup that if I supported
00:11:00Infantino, it would greatly help our
00:11:03federation. The 2030 World Cup, as you know, co-organized by Spain,
00:11:07Portugal and Morocco, where the final will be played, that is not yet
00:11:10decided. Infantino reportedly offered
00:11:14a deal to the Royal Moroccan Federation, according to our
00:11:17colleagues at The Times, "You will host the final in exchange, you will
00:11:21support me in the election next March," information denied since by
00:11:25FIFA. His detractors will have to actively find a worthy
00:11:28opponent, the deadline for submitting candidacies, Florence, is
00:11:32November 18th. The name of the Canadian Victor Montagliani,
00:11:36president of CONCACAF, and that of the president of the Asian Football
00:11:39Confederation, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al-Khalifa, are
00:11:43being mentioned, a personality who should in any case be able to attract both
00:11:46the most modest federations, we know, very
00:11:50dependent on FIFA payments, and then the
00:11:53most prosperous associations of historical football passion, there are 211
00:11:57members within FIFA, each association has one
00:12:01vote for the election, Curaçao, the Comoros, it's exactly the same as
00:12:05France and Germany, a simple majority is
00:12:09required during the vote for the FIFA president, and a
00:12:12priori, we are not at the end of the matter, you will obviously come back to this set to talk about it, if I
00:12:16say Vozinha Beno, well, that obviously refers to one of the stars
00:12:20of this World Cup, yes, the Cape Verdean goalkeeper who arrived
00:12:23yesterday in Chile.
00:12:46the pitch of the Monumental stadium in Santiago
00:12:48to the delight of the 2000 fans
00:12:50present. It's great, everyone is watching us, it's a good thing.
00:12:58for the club, it's difficult to bring a player like him to Colo, especially with
00:13:02the impact he had during the World Cup and all these new fans, so it's very important
00:13:06from a marketing point of view.
00:13:09During Cape Verde's first World Cup match against Spain in
00:13:12June, he made seven decisive saves and allowed
00:13:16his team to draw 0-0 despite
00:13:1963 places difference between the two teams in the FIFA
00:13:22rankings. These masterful saves.
00:13:55This is for me the best moment of my career in
00:13:57club.
00:14:01This year, Colo Colo Club, the most successful in Chile, will not play the Copa
00:14:05Libertadores, the equivalent of the Champions League in Latin
00:14:08America, but with its new goalkeeper, the team hopes to
00:14:11at least shine in the Chilean
00:14:48The tension is palpable in this command post of a Ukrainian
00:14:51unit.
00:14:56These soldiers watch live on their screens Russian drones attacking their troops in
00:15:00Kupiansk, tens of kilometers
00:15:02away.
00:15:11This team must protect its soldiers on the ground.
00:15:25Okay, I know you're copying me, stay in the sector
00:15:28where you are, don't move, okay, we'll inform you when the cucumbers pass a bit,
00:15:31the battalion's deputy commander almost
00:15:35died in Kupiansk himself. He was saved by two Brazilians while
00:15:39leading his unit into combat last
00:15:41December,
00:15:43an operation carried out mostly by Latin Americans and which marked a
00:15:47major turning point by stopping the Russian advance after a year in which Ukraine
00:15:51had lost ground.
00:15:55Kupiansk was not under enemy control so it was not a counter-offensive, it was
00:15:59an operation to infiltrate the city, we had to find them and kick them out, we
00:16:02pushed them back and prevented them from consolidating their
00:16:05advances.
00:16:14It was the fifth time I worked with Latinos and each time they did
00:16:17a very good job, today they fight in place of those who fled
00:16:21mobilization, who paid bribes who fled Ukraine
00:16:25or who have not yet been recruited,
00:16:28their contribution is enormous to replenish our
00:16:31ranks.
00:16:34The first Latinos to enlist in Ukraine came on their own.
00:17:04a lot of people, if only we were given the means.
00:17:07we only need
00:17:08resources,
00:17:16from Colombia to Ukraine, the largest contingent of Latin Americans fighting for Ukraine comes from
00:17:19Colombia, the country has a significant and well-trained
00:17:23army from years of civil war and US support,
00:17:27but here soldiers' salaries are low. Having
00:17:30served for 8 years, Dario is now preparing to leave for
00:17:34Ukraine.
00:18:07from Medellín is waiting for his departure with other men who came from elsewhere in Colombia. We
00:18:11are committed by vocation, moreover, it is a noble cause to go and fight under
00:18:15a flag that is not ours, but that of a people who are attacked. It's a
00:18:19bit like my neighbor breaking into my
00:18:21house.
00:18:23A feeling shared by many men here, but not everyone. What they
00:18:26mostly know is that in Ukraine, they
00:18:30will earn a much better salary than in Colombia.
00:18:34Here, when you leave the army, the best you can hope for
00:18:37is a job as a security guard, a security guard, yes, or a
00:18:41bodyguard, and if you don't stay in the army until retirement, then you don't even
00:18:45get a pension, anyway, it's not enough to survive, you have to
00:18:49keep working, fight for your survival and that of your
00:18:52family.
00:18:55At the airport, a representative of the Ukrainian army gives them their passports and
00:18:58boarding passes,
00:19:01wishing to remain anonymous, he assures us that these men have been warned of the enormous
00:19:05risk they are running. Dairo thinks of his
00:19:08daughter,
00:19:11if anything happened to me, I want my brother to give my daughter a monthly
00:19:14pension until she is of legal age, but I'm not going there thinking
00:19:17I'm going to die, no, God
00:19:19will decide.
00:19:23There is no official count of Colombians,
00:19:26it could be a few
00:19:28hundred. He's a
00:19:32miracle survivor.
00:19:36Strongly attached to Ukraine.
00:20:26killed my father in 2002 and I had to leave my home in the plains when
00:20:30I was 15 because they wanted to recruit me. I always knew that
00:20:34communist countries supported the guerrillas, Russia,
00:20:36Cuba, Venezuela, so I identify with Ukraine because of
00:20:40that too.
00:20:43Upon his return from Ukraine, armed groups once again tried to
00:20:46recruit him. His experience with combat drones interested them
00:20:51refused.
00:20:54If you tell any armed group that you served in Ukraine, you become
00:20:57interesting. If someone wants to join a gang here or in
00:21:01Mexico, they can go to Ukraine and study drones. Yesterday I was talking to
00:21:05a friend, one of his comrades with whom he fought in Zaporizhzhia,
00:21:08is now fighting alongside the guerrillas in the department of
00:21:11Cauca.
00:21:17In 2016, a peace agreement led to the disarmament of the...
00:21:51Sandra's brother, Neider, wanted to lift his family out of poverty, and he
00:21:55also dreamed of becoming a soldier.
00:21:58So in January 2024, he decided to leave for
00:22:00Ukraine.
00:22:055 months later he was
00:22:06killed.
00:22:13I can't stay
00:22:14there.
00:22:25"I rarely come here, I don't like it, I don't like to think he's
00:22:29there,"
00:22:33as soon as I saw the + 380 dial code for Ukraine appear,
00:22:37I knew something had
00:22:42she said, alas, and I immediately threw the phone, I
00:22:46collapsed.
00:23:20And if I have to die doing what I love, so be it,
00:23:24we must respect that.
00:23:44The bank said there was no bank account in my brother's name, I was counting on this
00:23:47money to pay for my return ticket.
00:23:51Finally, a priest paid for her ticket. Sandra returned to
00:23:54Colombia on New Year's Eve, without her brother's pay, but with
00:23:58the promise of 300,000 € in compensation from the Ukrainian
00:24:00state.
00:24:04All these are the documents I brought back from Ukraine,
00:24:08translations, powers of attorney,
00:24:11everything is there. We provide the
00:24:15documents, open bank accounts in
00:24:17Ukraine and wait for the money
00:24:20to arrive. But for now, there are only
00:24:23139 hryvnias, that's the money I
00:24:27deposited. I imagined growing old in my son's
00:24:29arms.
00:24:35I thought he would take care of me when I am
00:24:37old.
00:24:40If the money doesn't arrive soon, Anna and her daughter could lose this
00:24:44house they mortgaged to pay for her trip to
00:24:47Kyiv.
00:24:59This situation is not systematic, for some
00:25:02the pay arrives on time, for others not.
00:25:06These men asked to be demobilized after several grueling
00:25:08months. Cachorro was wounded during a grenade
00:25:12attack.
00:25:14It perforated 1 cm from my spinal column, touching my internal
00:25:17organs and I also have shrapnel in my
00:25:20back, they didn't pay me for this mission, only
00:25:23compensation for my serious injuries, then
00:25:26in December, I asked why I hadn't received my combat
00:25:29bonuses, they replied that I hadn't participated in a front-line
00:25:33operation, I told them that we were in a village under constant
00:25:37attack and that we were only there because in the village we were
00:25:41in before, our house had been
00:25:42bombed.
00:25:45Finally, Cachorro decided to
00:25:47stay.
00:26:02Dairo and two of his Colombian comrades are taking their first steps in the Ukrainian snow.
00:26:26All the Ukrainians we spoke to seem to be very
00:26:28grateful.
00:27:05home, reunite with our families, yes, see our families and do all the crazy things we've always dreamed of
00:27:09doing. As we finished this
00:27:12report, these men were waiting to be deployed in the Kharkiv
00:27:15region, probably in
00:27:17Kupiansk.
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00:30:12Hello and welcome to Frontlines, the show that seeks to make
00:30:15sense of the chaos of the world. How far
00:30:20to harm his neighbor go? Well,
00:30:24as far as the manufacture of autonomous weapons,
00:30:27robots that will kill without human intervention. To discuss this,
00:30:31I welcome Russia Rochegonde, researcher,
00:30:35director of the Geopolitical Technologies Center at Ifri,
00:30:39the French Institute of International Relations, and author
00:30:42of a book that has just been published by Presses
00:30:45Universitaires de France, titled "War in the Age of Artificial
00:30:48Intelligence." Also with me is Anne-Sophie
00:30:51Sancian coordinatrice France of the
00:30:54Stop Killer Robots campaign, who participated
00:30:57in the...