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00:00:07Welcome if you are joining us on France 24, news from
00:00:10around the world this Thursday, first this new exchange of strikes between Ukraine and Russia,
00:00:14drones launched at Russian refineries against attacks on
00:00:19Grafstrom, or Kevin Lamour, FIFA's number 3, several Ukrainian cities, Kyiv hopes to convince its Western allies to deliver anti-missile
00:00:22defenses, we will report in a moment with Melina Huet.
00:00:26Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the third day of negotiations
00:00:30currently underway in Rome with the Lebanese authorities, clashes with Hezbollah
00:00:34have left two Israeli victims, soldiers killed by an
00:00:37explosive device, and then under criticism and calls for
00:00:41his resignation, Gianni Infantino receives the support of FIFA, the president of the
00:00:45international football federation, apologized yesterday during an emergency meeting
00:00:49in Rabat for his aborted proposal to open the World Cup to
00:00:53private investors.
00:00:58hit, the military governor of
00:01:05Ukraine and Russia have been striking each other in recent hours, as
00:01:09Kyiv again targeted Russian territory in depth,
00:01:12refineries up to 1300 km beyond the front line, Russian
00:01:16strikes have killed seven Ukrainians in the regions
00:01:20of Kharkiv, Sumy and the Black Sea. New
00:01:23illustration of the lack of interceptor missiles on the Ukrainian
00:01:26side, be careful, some images that follow may be...
00:01:30particularly harrowing. Alice Broga.
00:01:33After more than 20 hours of searching, Ukrainian rescuers
00:01:37extracted a lifeless body from the rubble. A civilian killed
00:01:41in a Russian strike that occurred the day before on this building in
00:01:44Kramatorsk. Faced with the multiplication of Russian attacks, the
00:01:47authorities of this city in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine
00:01:52that's enough, there is ordered on Wednesday evening the evacuation of about 500
00:01:54children and their families who still lived in the city. In the
00:01:58Kyiv region too. The attacks are increasingly numerous and
00:02:02deadly, along this
00:02:04X, "For months, FIFA refused railway line, railway workers evacuate one by one the bodies of 8
00:02:07victims, killed after a strike on a busy station 30
00:02:11km from the capital, a local resident describes a night
00:02:15of horror,
00:02:19the noise was deafening, and as the air raid alert was still
00:02:22on, I dared not look around
00:02:24me,
00:02:27then there were explosions, structures collapsed and a lot of
00:02:31are authorized to temporarily leave smoke,
00:02:34there's a war nearby and then, I saw people covered in blood
00:02:37running in the street, according to the Ukrainian army, Russia
00:02:41fired 115 long-range drones and 28 missiles on the night of Tuesday to
00:02:45Wednesday, but only 98 drones could
00:02:49be neutralized, Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses failed to
00:02:53intercept any missiles, a weakening attributed by President
00:02:56Zelensky to delays in the delivery of
00:03:30intercepting the most powerful Russian missiles, but according to the
00:03:33Financial Times, Trump refused this request due to
00:03:38be back in fifteen minutes for more the shortage of Patriots in the US's own stocks since the beginning of the war in the
00:03:41Middle East.
00:03:44And to talk about it with us, Melina Huet, senior reporter at France 24. Hello Melina, you
00:03:48have been to Ukraine many times to cover the conflict, especially
00:03:51for France 24, despite the apparent warming between Donald Trump and
00:03:55Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president's requests to obtain
00:03:58more of these defense systems currently remain
00:04:01unheeded, yes absolutely, in fact the tone has changed Rafael but the commitment remains
00:04:05fluctuating, already we must remember that on July 8 at the NATO summit
00:04:09in Ankara, Donald Trump had indeed announced to Volodymyr
00:04:12Zelensky a license to manufacture Patriots, but immediately afterwards he
00:04:15said that industrialists had not even been warned, so to show a little bit the
00:04:19level of preparation of this announcement, 3 weeks later at Camp David, he
00:04:23declared that Washington had granted nothing, in fact according to him, it is
00:04:27a technology that is difficult to transfer, he says. because a country
00:04:30that receives it may one day turn against you, again that also shows
00:04:34the level of trust of Washington towards Kyiv, on the
00:04:37ground, it must be known that the Russian advantage has decreased but
00:04:42to envisage a future outside without disappearing, the Russian army is attacking more, it is progressing
00:04:45less but it is still progressing, notably in the Donetsk region in the
00:04:48east, what has changed in fact is above all Donald
00:04:52Trump's annoyance, because he is facing a Kremlin that does not
00:04:56seem to want to move, that does not seem to want to...
00:05:00sign peace agreements whatever
00:05:02also reminds that the senior officials of they may be, while Zelensky has shown evidence of maintained, without ever
00:05:06it being reciprocated from the other side. You mention the
00:05:10eastern front and at the same time the authorities have called for the evacuation of
00:05:13Kramatorsk near this front line, you have been able to speak,
00:05:17to talk with Ukrainians on the ground, yes absolutely, so you should know that Kramatorsk
00:05:21is a city that is not that far from the front line, not only since 2022 but
00:05:25since 2014, in fact you see it there on this
00:05:28map, Kramatorsk has gradually moved closer to the
00:05:32contact line, today we are only about twenty kilometers away, Druzhkivka
00:05:36which is just below it, which is a city where we journalists were based
00:05:40for a very long time, for several years. Today we hardly go there
00:05:43anymore because there are drones everywhere, there are nets everywhere, there are only soldiers left, it is
00:05:47today 16 km from the front line of Russian
00:05:51soldiers, in fact Kramatorsk yesterday for example just
00:05:54yesterday was targeted in one day 31 times not
00:05:58only by FPV drones but also by glide bombs and glide bombs are very
00:06:02difficult to intercept, even almost impossible for Ukrainians, these
00:06:05are essentially residential buildings like what you see behind me that are
00:06:11the region therefore... ordered the evacuation of 525 children each
00:06:15with his or her legal representatives, what you need to know is that Kramatorsk had several
00:06:19evacuation notices since 2022, what has
00:06:22changed in 4 and a half years is the need to do it more and more,
00:06:26the fact that the city has gradually emptied, that the front line has
00:06:29moved closer, indeed you were saying, this morning I spoke with
00:06:33residents of Kramatorsk, notably a young couple with Nikita and
00:06:36his wife, 27 years old, who have always lived in
00:06:39Kramatorsk, in fact they were first evacuated in 2020. Two, they went to Lviv,
00:06:43they stayed there for only 6 months and then they came back and in
00:06:462024 because they thought that perhaps it would improve, they even started a business,
00:06:50they opened a restaurant, a pizzeria and today he told
00:06:53me, well this morning he told me today is the last day we
00:06:57open, we are going to pack up, it's been more than 4 years but that's it, we are
00:07:01leaving, they are going to Irpin, they say
00:07:04an aggravation of the situation and then the fact that the city is simply depopulating
00:07:07thank you Melina Ued for the situation in
00:07:11Ukraine. Continued and end of negotiations in Rome between
00:07:15Israelis and Lebanese, they aim to allow a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli
00:07:19army from southern Lebanon in exchange for a disarmament of
00:07:22Hezbollah, but the Shiite movement refuses to lay down its arms and
00:07:26the Hebrew state continues to strike Lebanese territory, two Israeli
00:07:29soldiers have died, Romain
00:07:31Michelot.
00:07:33The sky of Lebanon, again crossed by Israeli
00:07:37flares. Here in the south of the country, the army has resumed its
00:07:41bombings and the
00:07:45In response to a flagrant violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah,
00:07:49the Israeli army began to carry out targeted strikes in southern
00:07:52Lebanon. At least one person died on the Lebanese side, two
00:07:56Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion, a first in more than a
00:08:00month. Sporadic but recurring clashes despite
00:08:03a security agreement that came into force at the end of June. Israel
00:08:07occupies a so-called security zone in southern Lebanon
00:08:10of about ten kilometers near the border, but the
00:08:14residents of the towns and villages north of this zone can officially return
00:08:17home, in fact, this resumption of clashes and
00:08:21evacuation orders complicates this process according
00:08:24to the UN. This new order comes as displaced families have
00:08:28returned home in southern Lebanon in recent
00:08:31weeks. The situation remains fragile and residents
00:08:35remain uncertain. Demolition operations,
00:08:38bombings and other military activities damage homes and agricultural land.
00:08:44These clashes are taking place in the midst of negotiations held in Rome
00:08:48under the auspices of the United States, they focus on the deployment of the Lebanese
00:08:52army in pilot zones evacuated by Israel, but
00:08:55they imply a disarmament of Hezbollah, refused for the moment by the
00:08:59Shiite group. Since the beginning of the war between Israel and Hezbollah,
00:09:02at least 4300 people in Lebanon and 38 Israeli
00:09:06soldiers have died according to the
00:09:07authorities.
00:09:10And among the many dead in Lebanon, the...
00:09:12journalist Amal Khalil killed last April in Israeli army
00:09:16strikes, she had taken refuge in a building then targeted
00:09:20by Israel. A deliberate attack, estimate several NGOs today,
00:09:23Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Lebanese
00:09:27organization Legal Agenda, they accuse Israel of war
00:09:31crimes.
00:09:33Gianni Infantino saves his job as head of FIFA, at least for
00:09:37now. The president of the International Football Federation apologized yesterday to the 2008.
00:09:4111 member federations after his controversial project to open the World Cups to
00:09:44private investors,
00:09:47Benochek absolutely, there's nothing to see,
00:09:50a simple communiqué, no statement
00:09:54at the end of this crisis meeting which was therefore
00:09:57held yesterday in Morocco around Gianni Infantino and
00:10:01a mea culpa to the 211 member countries
00:10:04for, and I quote, "the errors made concerning the now abandoned project to sell
00:10:08part of the commercial rights of the World Cup, the management of this project should
00:10:11have been different," the communiqué
00:10:15the body have reaffirmed their full
00:10:18support, renewed their confidence in Infantino and warns that henceforth everyone
00:10:21must toe the line, FIFA will no longer tolerate any
00:10:25attack on its integrity, its good governance and the regularity of its procedures, all necessary
00:10:29measures will be taken to protect its reputation, a barely veiled
00:10:33threat towards all those who dared to speak out against this
00:10:36project last week, we are obviously thinking of Arsene Wenger, we are thinking of
00:10:40the Secretary General of the body, Matthias
00:10:44FIFA is trying to turn the page
00:10:47on what constitutes the most important crisis since Johnny Infantino took office in 2016,
00:10:51a fault confessed is half forgiven as they say.
00:10:55It's not so sure, yeah, the project was abandoned since, as you say, Benochek, and yet
00:10:58that didn't calm Infantino's detractors who put his finger on something that escapes
00:11:02him, has he already gone too far, he whose re-election next March for a fourth
00:11:06term seemed almost certain, he still has 2 weeks, he
00:11:10is the only declared candidate for this election, this
00:11:13project to sell part of the World Cup rights really didn't go down well with several
00:11:17confederations, we talked a lot about UEFA, CONCACAF, the Asian confederation
00:11:20while waiting for a position, a stance
00:11:23from the African football confederation, but we know that this
00:11:27CAF could be more favorable to the president of FIFA, Infantino's
00:11:30detractors who have swallowed a few bitter pills in recent years, there was the
00:11:34creation of this brand new version of the Club World Cup in an already
00:11:38overloaded calendar, his proximity, we
00:11:41saw him a lot, Gianni Infantino alongside the American president
00:11:45Donald Trump, that makes some people grind their teeth, we know that on the side
00:11:48of the confederations, disguised advertising breaks as refreshment
00:11:52breaks and voices are now rising. There were the opposition
00:11:56statements from the British and Canadian prime ministers,
00:11:59for them, Infantino is no longer the man for the situation and he must leave, that's what
00:12:03the Portuguese football legend Luis Figo wrote in a column yesterday in the
00:12:06Daily Mail, and yes Infantino criticized,
00:12:09contested but not yet replaced, no, so the first
00:12:13thing is that he is the only declared candidate for the moment,
00:12:16Infantino who would use very questionable methods to keep
00:12:20his post, Prince Ali bin al Hussein, he is the president of the Jordanian
00:12:23Football Federation. He even accused him of blackmail this week on
00:12:29to help us on certain issues until I was told orally during the World
00:12:33Cup that if I supported Infantino, it would greatly
00:12:36help our federation." The 2030
00:12:39World Cup, you know, is co-hosted by Spain, Portugal and Morocco, where
00:12:43the final will be played, that has not yet been decided, but according to our colleagues from the
00:12:46Times, Infantino allegedly proposed a deal to the Royal Moroccan
00:12:50Federation, "You will host the final on condition that you
00:12:54support me during the election," information denied since by
00:12:57FIFA, his detractors will have to find him a serious
00:13:01opponent and that will not be easy, time is running out, the deadline for
00:13:05submitting candidacies is November 18, two names are circulating, that of the
00:13:09Canadian Victor Montagliani, he is the president of CONCACAF
00:13:11and the name of the president of the Asian
00:13:15confederation, Sheikh Salman bin Ibrahim al
00:13:18Khalifa, so two names that are mentioned for perhaps
00:13:22succeeding Gianni Infantino, in any case it will be necessary to find a personality
00:13:25capable of attracting the most modest federations, we know they are very
00:13:29dependent on FIFA's payments for their day-to-day
00:13:32operations and then the most prosperous associations, the historical strongholds of
00:13:36football, there are 211 members
00:13:40of this FIFA, each member association has one vote for the election,
00:13:43meaning that the federation of Curacao or the Comoros has
00:13:47exactly the same weight as the French or German federation,
00:13:50the election is decided by a simple
00:13:54majority, the die is cast now, so a
00:13:57thank you Benochek, that's it for football and FIFA, we'll
00:14:03news, it will obviously still be around the world on France 24.
00:14:49with accents of collective therapy,
00:14:52we are in Ivry-sur-Seine, you are in no quarter.
00:14:55uh information guys need each of you to make a really first
00:14:59degree film guys it's a team film me if I tell my
00:15:01friend I want to see a little he'll laugh you
00:15:05act tough but you're scared really he'll laugh a
00:15:09little why do you want to see a little souff you're scared there'll be no one left to say your
00:15:13name ok quiet on set guys please
00:15:16sometimes you have to speak actually and action my name is
00:15:20Timera so first name Youssouf I'm an actor and right now we're
00:15:24doing a community project, the principle is to link
00:15:27cinema, mental health. At the youth center in the
00:15:31Montmousseau district, when I count two, you make your
00:15:34animal sounds, it's the ritual every Wednesday. And what
00:15:37sound does a kangaroo make, you figure it out, the cinema workshops started
00:15:41a year ago, led by Youssouf, a former resident of the
00:15:44neighborhood.
00:15:48cat, wolf or raptor, the rope is meant to be immediately
00:15:51liberating.
00:15:56total surprise, no
00:15:59looking, we don't care, they're here, they're doing
00:16:02things, you're incoherent, but for me it's
00:16:05coherent.
00:16:09Another objective, to create cohesion between the inhabitants of two
00:16:13cities, Ivry and
00:16:14Astismons,
00:16:18well it feels good, it feels really good, then you're
00:16:20tired,
00:16:23for example, of shouting, we don't shout every day, so the fact that we shout at that
00:16:27moment, we do something that we're not used to doing
00:16:30and that allows us to be more at ease afterwards, well I can't
00:16:34express my emotions and so through theater I can.
00:16:39"They see me as someone strong,
00:16:42stable, the big brother, the pillar you can
00:16:46count on,
00:16:48but sometimes I want to let
00:16:51go of everything, to scream, to
00:16:53cry, but I can't,
00:16:56I'm afraid they won't understand me, about
00:16:5915 years ago, I took theater classes to work on my
00:17:02diction, and I had real frustrations because I couldn't string
00:17:06two sentences together without people understanding me because I spoke too fast,
00:17:10come on, hello, come on, let's go, hello, come on, hello, come on,
00:17:13hello, it blocked me in many things, even in my a blockage
00:17:17also
00:17:18emotional,
00:17:21for teenagers, it's very complicated to sit down and listen to a speech
00:17:25about mental health, in daily contact with young people, Bilel embarked on
00:17:29Youssouf's adventure, eyes closed, this type of tool is top notch for
00:17:32talking to young people about it and raising their awareness of it, taking something they like,
00:17:36mixing it with something. that they need and mayonnaise it's
00:17:40bound to take off so I couldn't channel my
00:17:44emotions and my energies and thanks to this
00:17:47course it allowed me to know how to play a
00:17:50role and even play it well and here I thank you too because it allowed me to
00:17:54learn about myself and learn about you
00:17:56too
00:17:59it's a remedy for many things whether it's oral expression
00:18:02to be able to play with sincere emotions and we work on sincerity yeah
00:18:06what's good with Youssouf is he's cruel, he's cruel, if he has to say things,
00:18:09he says them, if he doesn't have to, he doesn't say them, he thinks it's easy to know how to
00:18:13laugh sincerely, they can't laugh sincerely, and
00:18:17when I had to cry, oh well that's even worse, I saw friends of mine
00:18:20if I had done theater I would have said and
00:18:24food for everyone, it's not just football, it's not just rap, it's not just weed, it's everything in
00:18:28life, professional actor, Youssouf acts in many
00:18:31films and series.
00:18:33congratulations, the best grade in the
00:18:38class,
00:18:39with Cinémarne, he is directing in
00:18:422025 "Under Influence", a short film about the excesses of a young influencer.
00:18:46This morning, the collective's
00:19:08cameras are back in action in the setting of the city's health center
00:19:11for the filming of "Return to
00:19:15the Light". Volunteers, the actors were cast
00:19:17by Youssouf's team. I'm playing the psychologist.
00:19:21Tell Eddie he's leaving early and I'm not happy at all because I feel Eddie is still a little
00:19:25fragile. I'm still fragile.
00:19:28A student of the workshops, Nino Bonet plays Eddie, a teenager in psychological
00:19:32distress. I'm going back to school. I'm happy,
00:19:35I'm seeing my friends again, but after a while I'm going to do something very
00:19:39nasty, because my mother is dead, okay, quiet
00:19:42on set and action, how do you feel
00:19:46now better, do
00:19:49you think you'll be able to go back to school, keep up with the
00:19:52pace and see the others, yes I
00:19:55think so, the short film we'd like to take it to the best festivals we
00:19:58can and I'd also like to use it as an educational tool for young people and
00:20:02I'd like it to be young people who present it, makeup
00:20:05In the Seto Inland Sea
00:21:06of Japan, Nagashima Island had everything
00:21:08to be a small paradise,
00:21:11the government finally built a
00:21:13hell for thousands of patients like Shinji,
00:21:17when he... boarded this port in
00:21:211948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
00:21:25years old,
00:21:28when I arrived here without knowing anything, I was
00:21:32rather relaxed at first, but once
00:21:34I arrived, everyone told me that I would not be able to go back
00:21:38home.
00:21:41Shinji had contracted leprosy a year earlier when his family sent him
00:21:44here. He then knew nothing about this disease which was about to
00:21:48deform his face and body by attacking his
00:21:51nerves. Once disembarked, suspected
00:21:54patients were locked up for a week in this building to be
00:21:57examined.
00:22:01At the time, we first proceeded with disinfection
00:22:04here, because sometimes they arrived with lice,
00:22:07pusches or skin diseases.
00:22:11So there was no one really happy, everyone was
00:22:14crying. Even the nurses wore rubber
00:22:18boots.
00:22:38a confinement policy applied throughout Japan thanks to a law of
00:22:411931, the same year Nagashima Island welcomed its first
00:22:45patients, their belongings were confiscated for fear
00:22:49that they too were contaminated.
00:22:53Here you can see what are called internal circulation tickets, a special
00:22:56currency whose use was authorized only on the
00:22:59island. The main objective was to prevent
00:23:02escapes. So, even if someone managed to escape from here,
00:23:06without ordinary money, they could neither take the train, nor
00:23:08eat.
00:23:1117 years later, real money is introduced, because from
00:23:151948, a new treatment allows leprosy patients to be
00:23:18cured and some patients
00:23:21the island, a fleeting joy, because for these
00:23:25disfigured people, reunions with their loved ones
00:23:28turned into drama.
00:23:30When a leper was detected in a house, all members of their family
00:23:34were discriminated against,
00:23:37it then became very difficult to accept their
00:23:40return.
00:23:42Rejected by their families, cured lepers were also compelled by
00:23:46law to remain living on the island,
00:23:49so they... their own society,
00:23:53built roads or
00:23:55even schools for child
00:23:57patients, they created their own
00:24:00jobs, Shinji became
00:24:03a farmer,
00:24:05this is a photo from when I played baseball, there are no fields today, but we often
00:24:09played games. Shinji is now 91
00:24:12years old, 77 of which have been spent
00:24:14here. He has known solitude,
00:24:18but also laughter and...
00:24:21His wife, now deceased, was also a patient,
00:24:25like thousands of lepers, they were forced into
00:24:28sterilization. In 2024, this abusive
00:24:32practice was deemed unconstitutional by the Japanese
00:24:35Supreme Court, condemning the state to pay up to €8,000
00:24:39in compensation per victim. It's
00:24:41difficult to say, but I felt like I was no longer
00:24:45truly a man. Without
00:24:47children, Shinji cannot even count
00:24:50on his nephews or nieces, his family never fully believed in his
00:24:53recovery, as evidenced by the last call with his
00:24:57mother to go see her at the hospital,
00:25:01she asked me if my face was back to normal, were my hands
00:25:04healed, I repeated to her that what I had were sequelae,
00:25:08she said no, finally there's no need to come, it must
00:25:12not be known,
00:25:16in 1996, nearly 50 years after the appearance of the first
00:25:20treatments and long legal battles, Japan authorized
00:25:23finally all the lepers to leave the sanatorium of the
00:25:25country, a belated victory, Shinji is then
00:25:2961 years old, impossible
00:25:32the island.
00:25:35Nagashima still belongs to the state and only former patients and a few
00:25:38officials are allowed there.
00:25:41Here, the needs of former lepers are taken care of by the government,
00:25:44a new hospital has even been built. It has more
00:25:48doctors than patients.
00:26:02His disease is no longer contagious, but it is
00:26:05above all the after-effects that doctors
00:26:07monitor.
00:26:09You just have to be careful with weakened nerves, which make the
00:26:13dishes more susceptible to infection.
00:26:16Apart from that, we can say that it has become today, an almost
00:26:19ordinary disease.
00:26:24In total, more than half of the 5000 patients died
00:26:28on this prison island.
00:26:31For many, the... are linked to old age or other diseases rather
00:26:35than leprosy, they are no more than 66 like
00:26:38Shinji, to have resolved to end
00:26:42their days
00:26:42here.
00:26:48In 1946, Moldova was devastated by famine.
00:26:51In the public space, people did not talk about
00:26:54famine, the word was absolutely
00:26:56forbidden.
00:27:01The houses were full of dead people.
00:27:32like a concentration camp without a gas
00:27:34chamber 80 years later, tickets
00:27:38back to the great famine of Moldova.
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00:30:0724, the news around the world this Thursday, first this new exchange of
00:30:10strikes between Ukraine and Russia, drones dropped on
00:30:14Russian refineries against attacks on several Ukrainian cities,
00:30:17Kiev hopes to convince its Western allies to deliver anti-missile
00:30:21defenses. We will take stock in a moment with Milina
00:30:24Uet. Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the third
00:30:28day of negotiations, however, in Rome with the Lebanese authorities,
00:30:32confrontations with Hezbollah have claimed two victims on the Israeli side, soldiers
00:30:35killed by an explosive device, and then
00:30:38assailed by criticism and calls for his resignation, Gianni Infantino receives the
00:30:42support of FIFA, the president of the International Football Federation
00:30:45apologized yesterday at an emergency meeting in Rabat for his aborted
00:30:49proposal to open the World Cup to private
00:30:51investors.