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00:00:04It's still around the world on France 24, the round of
00:00:07international news with first this new exchange of strikes between
00:00:11Ukraine and Russia, drones launched on Russian refineries
00:00:14against attacks on several Ukrainian cities, Kyiv hopes to convince
00:00:18its Western allies to deliver anti-missile defenses.
00:00:22Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the 3rd day of
00:00:26October 2007, the Ark of negotiations currently underway in Rome with the Lebanese authorities,
00:00:29clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli casualties, soldiers
00:00:32killed by an explosive
00:00:34the resumption of fighting with device. UEFA maintains its boycott of
00:00:37football competitions, including the World Cups, despite yesterday's apologies
00:00:40from Janny Infantino, the European body that demands
00:00:44guarantees from FIFA on the abandonment of its president's project
00:00:47to bring private investors into world football.
00:00:50foot.
00:01:02Ukraine and Russia have been exchanging blows in recent hours,
00:01:06TV rights and marketing rights for as Kyiv has again targeted Russian territory
00:01:10in depth, refineries up to
00:01:12is quite simply the control of 1300 km beyond the front line. Russian strikes have
00:01:15killed seven Ukrainians in the regions of Kharkiv, Sumy and
00:01:19the Black Sea. New illustration of the lack of interceptor
00:01:22missiles. Nicolas Chamantin.
00:01:26Guided bombs fell around 2 a.m. in Sumy.
00:01:30In this city in northeastern Ukraine, a Russian attack damaged residential
00:01:34areas and shops and surprised residents.
00:01:37It was as if aliens had arrived. The explosion was so
00:01:41powerful that everything was ejected from the apartment, barely had time to
00:01:45get out. Several people were injured in Sumy and
00:01:48several others killed in localities in the region. Authorities
00:01:52also report casualties in the Kharkiv region, a little further
00:01:56east. Russian strikes are in addition to those on Wednesday on... the
00:02:00Kyiv region as well as on Kramatorsk, 500
00:02:03children and their families who still lived in this eastern city, had to be
00:02:08some 2 years ago now, of evacuated due to the violence of the attacks. While the Ukrainian army manages to intercept most
00:02:12of the drones, it has great difficulty stopping the
00:02:15missiles, a weakening attributed by President
00:02:18Zelensky to delays in the delivery of interceptors compared to
00:02:222025.
00:02:26Ukraine has started to receive about three times fewer anti-ballistic missiles
00:02:30to defend our state, this situation is mainly linked to the
00:02:33war, or as it is now fair to say,
00:02:37to hostilities and wars in
00:02:39the Middle East,
00:02:43last week, Volodymyr Zelensky had again gone to
00:02:47Washington to convince
00:02:50businessmen who want to come and make Donald Trump to deliver Patriot systems, the only ones
00:02:52capable of intercepting the most powerful Russian missiles, a
00:02:55request refused by the American president because of the shortage
00:02:59of... triad in its stocks since the beginning of the war in
00:03:02the Middle East. At the same time, Kyiv continues its attacks in
00:03:06Russian territory. On Thursday, a fire broke out in this
00:03:09important refinery in the Yaroslavl region, about
00:03:13250 km northeast of Moscow. According to the
00:03:16local governor, all drones launched by Kyiv were
00:03:19intercepted, but fragments hit storage tanks
00:03:23and injured several
00:03:26on the south coast of people.
00:03:27also Africa and then part of Ukraine would like to be able to count on American
00:03:30missile interceptors, yes, but it seems that on the American
00:03:34side, we are facing shortages, at
00:03:37least that's what a number of sources in the
00:03:41press report, notably the Washington Post and CNN
00:03:44channel, Renault Gerard, hello, you are a senior reporter, international
00:03:48columnist at Le Figaro, thank you for being with us, Donald
00:03:51Trump long denied it and yet several sources cited by
00:03:55CNN claim that the stock of
00:03:58available missiles today
00:04:01the Brazilian president of in the United States represents barely a fifth of what it was before
00:04:04the beginning of this war in Iran, do you believe it?
00:04:08Listen, he has a
00:04:10very serious think tank called
00:04:14disrupt the entire the CSIS which calculated that before the
00:04:17war in Iran, the war called epic
00:04:20Fury, there were 2300
00:04:24American Patriots in stock, so
00:04:28highly effective interceptors.
00:04:30and that there would only be 800 and that
00:04:33therefore this is perhaps the reason why Donald
00:04:39UEFA's perseverance is Trump hesitates to deliver them to Ukraine today
00:04:41because he does not know if hostilities will not
00:04:44resume fully
00:04:48with Iran, we know that there are more or less secret negotiations
00:04:52camp without gas between the Americans and the Iranians at the moment, everything focuses
00:04:55on the Strait of Hormuz, how to
00:04:58authorize... the Iranians
00:05:02to police without authorizing them
00:05:04to levy tolls, that's the whole question of the
00:05:07current negotiation, but as
00:05:11it won't necessarily succeed,
00:05:14as the power in Iran is very divided, well Donald
00:05:18Trump wants to keep his missiles in case there
00:05:22is a generalized confrontation
00:05:26in the Persian Gulf, he needs his
00:05:29Patriots to protect obviously the American bases that
00:05:32are in the Persian Gulf up to
00:05:35Jordan, yes precisely besides, this makes the
00:05:39United States more wary of potential deliveries to Ukraine but
00:05:43also more wary of
00:05:46Iran. Is that what explains, according to you, the hesitations we are witnessing on the part of
00:05:50Donald Trump? Yes, Donald Trump
00:05:54acts on instinct, so he probes,
00:05:58he feels things out, he says to himself, well,
00:06:02maybe we'll have
00:06:04an agreement after all with the Iranians,
00:06:08I've threatened them several times, but at the last minute
00:06:11I withdraw. but my threats maybe make the Iranians think,
00:06:15at least some of the Iranians, those who are
00:06:18pragmatic, those who are ready to have an
00:06:21agreement and to respect an agreement with the Americans and
00:06:25regarding Ukraine,
00:06:28he thinks that
00:06:32this war is not his fault, not his responsibility,
00:06:36that he has nothing to do with it, he has said
00:06:40it several times and so it is not his
00:06:43priority today, he would obviously like to succeed in making
00:06:47a peace agreement, that is to say that the Russians accept the ceasefire he had
00:06:50proposed several months ago, which the Ukrainians had accepted but not the Russians, but it is not
00:06:54his military priority today, his
00:06:57military priority today is to
00:07:01keep the Strait of Hormuz
00:07:04open and intact because he promised all his
00:07:08Sunni allies in the Persian Gulf, all the petro
00:07:11monarchies. And he promised it in fact to the whole
00:07:14world, we must see that it is a very old principle of
00:07:18thalassocracies like England and today the
00:07:21United States to have the freedom of the seas, the freedom of
00:07:25the straits, it is a philosopher
00:07:27uh Dutch Grotius who was part of the first
00:07:31thalassocracy, Holland
00:07:34who studied, who
00:07:36found this idea of the freedom
00:07:40of the straits and that was completely then
00:07:44enshrined by England then by the United States
00:07:47of America who are obviously the first thalassocracy in the world
00:07:51today and it is in the law of the
00:07:54sea, it is enshrined in the internal law of the sea
00:07:58and it is something that the Americans want
00:08:01to preserve, the freedom of the straits
00:08:05and it is the stake of
00:08:08their confrontation, more political today than military with
00:08:11Iran. Today, the American
00:08:14missile shortages are being revealed, which seemed unthinkable
00:08:18just a few months ago, this makes the United States vulnerable
00:08:21because more predictable in the eyes of their adversaries,
00:08:25so more
00:08:29so it is obvious that
00:08:32the Americans have lost a large
00:08:35part of their deterrence power with
00:08:38this failed war against Iran, since they ultimately
00:08:42waged... waged a war, several wars even, there was the 12-day war in
00:08:46June 2025 against Iran, without visibly
00:08:50making the Iranian regime falter, he
00:08:53thought that the Iranian regime of the mullahs
00:08:57would fall like a ripe fruit, that's what
00:09:00the Israelis had told them, well, that was not the
00:09:04case, it is even perhaps, we can say today,
00:09:07strengthened and there are the Iranians who realized
00:09:11that they... possessed a new, I put in quotes,
00:09:15atomic weapon or weapon, I would say strategic, it is the
00:09:18control, it is the control of the Strait of Hormuz which,
00:09:22if it is closed, can indeed
00:09:26global economy, that is the instrument of
00:09:29blackmail of the Iranians and Trump
00:09:33obviously cannot accept
00:09:36it, he will never accept an
00:09:40Iranian nuclear program either, but that is not for tomorrow because the
00:09:43Iranian facilities have still been
00:09:46considerably damaged by the
00:09:50different bombing campaigns of the Americans and Israelis
00:09:52in 2025, in 2026 and even before
00:09:56in 2025. Thank you, Renaud Gérard, for being with
00:10:00us live on France
00:10:0224. Continuation and end of negotiations in Rome
00:10:06between Israelis and Lebanese, they aim to allow a gradual withdrawal of the Israeli
00:10:10army from southern Lebanon and... exchange for a disarmament of Hezbollah, but
00:10:14the Shiite movement refuses to lay down its arms and the Hebrew state continues
00:10:18to strike Lebanese territory. Two Israeli soldiers
00:10:21are dead, Romain Michelot.
00:10:25The sky of Lebanon, again crossed by Israeli
00:10:29flares, here in the south of the country, the army has resumed its
00:10:32bombing and clashes with Hezbollah.
00:10:34In response to a blatant
00:10:38violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah, the Israeli army began
00:10:42to carry out targeted strikes in southern Lebanon. At
00:10:45least one person has died on the Lebanese side. Two Israeli soldiers
00:10:49were killed in an explosion, a first in over a month.
00:10:53Sporadic, but recurring clashes. Despite a security agreement that came into
00:10:56force at the end of June. Israel occupies a so-called
00:11:00security zone in southern Lebanon about ten kilometers from the
00:11:04border, but residents of the towns and villages north of this
00:11:07zone can officially return home. In fact, this
00:11:11resumption of clashes and evacuation orders complicates this
00:11:15process according to the UN. This new order
00:11:18comes as displaced families have returned home in southern
00:11:21Lebanon in recent weeks. The situation
00:11:25remains fragile and residents remain uncertain,
00:11:28demolition operations, bombings and other military activities
00:11:32damage homes, agricultural land and civilian
00:11:35infrastructure. These clashes are taking place during
00:11:38negotiations held in Rome under the auspices of the United States. They
00:11:42concern the deployment of the Lebanese army in pilot zones
00:11:45evacuated by Israel, but they imply a disarmament of Hezbollah,
00:11:49refused for the moment by the Shiite group. Since the beginning of the
00:11:52war between Israel and Hezbollah, at least... 4,300 people in
00:11:56Lebanon and 38 Israeli soldiers have died according to
00:11:59authorities.
00:12:02The negotiations which, moreover, are well underway
00:12:05between Iran and the Sultanate of Oman for the
00:12:09reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, we will talk about it with you, Lormannin
00:12:12hello, and elsewhere also attacks the United States by
00:12:16stating that Donald Trump is an absolute obstacle, in any
00:12:19case Iran and Oman have indeed announced that they have agreed
00:12:23on a transit route to the Strait of Hormuz, but
00:12:26indeed, let's not get carried away because Tehran explains that
00:12:30this joint declaration with Muscat will be
00:12:33finalized subject to, I quote, that third parties do not hinder
00:12:37the process, meaning that Washington does not come and meddle.
00:12:41Let's remember that the Strait of Hormuz is between
00:12:44Iran and Oman notably and that a fifth of the world's
00:12:48gas and oil usually circulates there, that this strait has been blocked since the beginning of the
00:12:51bombings against Iran and that this has an impact on the entire
00:12:55global economy, today, the Tehran
00:12:59regime does not want ships to pass as
00:13:02before in the middle of the strait but rather along its coasts,
00:13:06the idea is also perhaps to impose service fees, a
00:13:09kind of toll for ships that pass and which could bring in enormous
00:13:12money to Iran which is under international sanctions,
00:13:15and all this could indeed
00:13:18be a source of additional
00:13:21dispute with Donald Trump after having already
00:13:25been the subject of a power struggle with Oman which had proposed an alternative passage closer
00:13:29to its coasts a few weeks ago, so it's difficult
00:13:33to know today if this agreement will succeed and to what extent, in any case,
00:13:36what is certain is that the markets are taking this new news with a lot of caution,
00:13:40no enthusiasm, even distrust, since oil
00:13:44has risen by about 2%, in parallel, it
00:13:48should be noted that
00:13:51the Arabian Peninsula is the Strait of Bab el-Mandeb under
00:13:55the control of Houthi Yemeni rebels allied with Tehran who
00:13:58are attacking Saudi tankers, this possibility, this
00:14:02alternative route that had been put in place to export part
00:14:06of the Gulf oil is also threatened, hence this
00:14:09rise again in North Sea Brent which is trading at a little over
00:14:1381 dollars today and American WTI, the Texas
00:14:17benchmark, is at almost 77 dollars and Donald Trump
00:14:21looks at oil prices with some concern because if...
00:14:25oil is too high, it indirectly influences the cost of living in the United States and therefore
00:14:29his popularity, indeed, that's perhaps why Donald Trump has been preaching
00:14:33less fire and brimstone in recent days, in any case
00:14:36the memorandum of understanding that had been put in place between the
00:14:40United States did not survive July, again oil prices were
00:14:43affected and that has an effect on the American population which depends
00:14:47heavily on cars and therefore fuel for daily commuting
00:14:51but also for their entire lives. If we look
00:14:55at prices in the United States, oil is usually extremely cheap, it
00:14:59has not stopped rising since February and the first
00:15:01bombings, the price of a gallon, it is usually around
00:15:053 dollars, it has risen to 4 dollars on average
00:15:08with even a peak in California where it is generally a little higher
00:15:12at rather 5.60 per gallon,
00:15:15this upward trend is very clearly linked
00:15:19to the bombings in February, we see that everything increased at that time,
00:15:23the price of gasoline therefore has an effect on travel, it also has an effect on the
00:15:27transport of goods, goods of all daily consumer
00:15:30goods, particularly on food and obviously
00:15:34that weighs on household budgets, especially the most modest.
00:15:38To these prices, we must add even more inflation which is increasing,
00:15:42inevitably reflecting all these price increases, and of course
00:15:45we must add the price of the war itself, the military cost, about 150 billion
00:15:49dollars since February, this is an estimate by the World Agency
00:15:53and according to its chief economist,
00:15:55economist Mark Zandi, it represents a cost of 1100
00:15:59additional dollars per American household, so it's considerable,
00:16:03households no longer have purchasing power, or at least see it decrease, so
00:16:07they save a little more, their savings rate has also continued to increase
00:16:11since February, in any case all
00:16:15this weighs on the cost of living, on the price of gasoline, but also
00:16:19ultimately on the popularity or rather unpopularity of Donald
00:16:22Trump which has never been so high and in parallel Donald Trump also
00:16:26has to manage internal opposition, 25 states
00:16:29are challenging the latest customs duties he put in place several
00:16:33days ago to officially fight against forced labor, yes these are...
00:16:37new surtaxes, it's the third time he has implemented customs surtaxes in the
00:16:41United States, this time they are in the order of 10 to 12.5%.
00:16:44This concerns some sixty states and the European Union
00:16:47who are accused either of resorting to forced
00:16:50labor or of not putting in place sufficient measures to fight
00:16:54against this scourge and so the United States has imposed, well
00:16:58Donald Trump has imposed these new measures, it was July 24th, except that 25
00:17:02American states, 23 Democrats but two Republicans
00:17:05are attacking this new measure, they believe that it is not really a question of
00:17:09legality and that otherwise Washington would have implemented
00:17:13alternatives or offered these states certain
00:17:16measures and then it should be known that this is not the first
00:17:19setback on customs duties concerning Donald Trump since in February the
00:17:23Supreme Court ruled that Donald Trump had exceeded his rights
00:17:27by imposing punitive customs tariffs on a great many
00:17:31trading partners and even ordered the reimbursement of some
00:17:34129 billion dollars collected in this way.
00:17:38100 billion have already been reimbursed, that represents a significant sum,
00:17:41above all it continues to empty the coffers of the American
00:17:44state, it does not increase his popularity
00:17:48nor the money that Donald Trump had promised the population.
00:17:51Thank you, this is what we could say about these discussions concerning a
00:17:55possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic. Gianni
00:17:59Infantino's apologies are clearly insufficient for
00:18:02UEFA, the European Football Confederation intends to
00:18:06maintain its boycott of international competitions including the World Cups
00:18:10after the project, since withdrawn, to open the latter to
00:18:13international investors by the head of FIFA, Jenny Infantino, who
00:18:17apologized, received the support of the organization yesterday,
00:18:21it was during an emergency meeting in Rabat, hello Xavier Barret,
00:18:25independent journalist, specialized in football, thank you for being with
00:18:28us, so the latest news, it's Conmebol who
00:18:32represents South America who in turn expresses its
00:18:35concern about what it calls repeated unilateral
00:18:39actions by FIFA, will Jenny Infantino be able to stay
00:18:43in his post despite this?
00:18:46Good evening, good evening everyone, yes, we are now facing, regarding the
00:18:50situation, a real uprising from almost all
00:18:53continental representatives and that's what's new. For a long time, FIFA
00:18:57relied on its stronghold which was
00:19:00South America,
00:19:04Asia, especially the Middle East to...
00:19:07world football and to be able to play the match against
00:19:10UEFA which remains the European Union which
00:19:13remains the stronghold of world football, the center of
00:19:17world football, and there not only UEFA
00:19:21which has risen against Jenny Infantino's way of governing
00:19:24for several days, several weeks now, but it
00:19:28is joined by a number of other continents and that is a truly
00:19:32new element, it must be remembered that notably South America
00:19:35was during the time of Joah...
00:19:39the international federation from
00:19:421970 to
00:19:451998, it was really the
00:19:48stronghold of FIFA and Sepp Blatter when he took over
00:19:52from João Havelange as president of FIFA also relied, of course, on
00:19:56this South American stronghold but also on African
00:19:59federations and those of the Middle East to
00:20:03face and defeat the European candidate Lennart
00:20:07Johansson, who was the candidate, the president of UEFA, so
00:20:10there is always this rivalry between the two, and here what explains
00:20:16that it feels that the position of the FIFA president is for the
00:20:20first time in over 40 years truly
00:20:24weakened, not only with regard to Europeans but with regard to
00:20:27most federations worldwide. Yes, so FIFA,
00:20:31despite Gianni Infantino's apologies, has nevertheless declared that it will no longer tolerate
00:20:34any attack on its integrity, its good
00:20:38governance and the regularity of its procedures, silence in the
00:20:41ranks, so we have just seen that these confederations do not really seem
00:20:45determined to fall in line, who will have the last
00:20:47word?
00:20:50This is the whole issue of what will happen in the coming months, who will win this
00:20:54new war of leaders between UEFA, which wants to
00:20:56ally with other confederations to co-govern
00:21:00the world of football, and FIFA, which relies
00:21:04directly on the presidents of federations worldwide, there are
00:21:07213 to try to assert its
00:21:11power, the issue is not only political power at the
00:21:15head of world football, it is first and foremost an economic issue, it
00:21:18must be known that... UEFA generates enormous
00:21:21amounts of money thanks to the Champions League, its very numerous
00:21:25sponsors and TV rights that are broadcast worldwide
00:21:28while FIFA plays its
00:21:31economic existence with the sale of TV
00:21:35rights and marketing of the World
00:21:38Cup every 4 years so on one side an organization,
00:21:42FIFA, which sells its TV rights very expensively but
00:21:46only every 4 years, hence Gianni Infantino's
00:21:49desire to try to make it happen every 2 years and on the other
00:21:52side, UEFA, which also sells its
00:21:56the Champions League very expensively, which happens every year, so the issue
00:22:02the world football economy and for that, well
00:22:05it's politics, all shots are allowed, it's just a matter
00:22:09of big money, Xavier Barret, or is there still some
00:22:12moral or ethical considerations when we see
00:22:15that among the private investors considered for this
00:22:19opening of 20% of commercial rights
00:22:22linked to the World Cups, well there is notably Donald Trump's son-in-law's
00:22:25brother, Joshua Kushner, with
00:22:29implies, is there really from these
00:22:32confederations today, UEFA,
00:22:35Conmebol, a rallying cry against profiteering,
00:22:38a deviation from FIFA's practices or ultimately are they
00:22:42all in the same boat today and do
00:22:45they all practice the same type of
00:22:48collusion?
00:22:51Well, you know, you don't need to go that far, you just look at what's happening in France
00:22:55with the creation,
00:22:58LFP Media, the marketing subsidiary of
00:23:02the LFP which was responsible for marketing the rights to French
00:23:05professional football and what happened in the end, there are no more
00:23:09TV rights for Ligue 1 and and in France, so we have
00:23:13witnessed a impoverishment of French football, even though there was a CVC
00:23:16investment fund that had come to take significant stakes in this
00:23:20newly created company, so investment funds when they
00:23:24come into sport, it's to make money back at some point,
00:23:27to earn money, but when they no longer earn money, they are no
00:23:31longer interested, uh most international
00:23:34institutions have more or less resisted these
00:23:40money in the organization of sport, FIFA under
00:23:43Giannini Infantino, we know, we saw it with the last World Cup which still
00:23:47generated 13 billion dollars in revenue
00:23:51for FIFA, so FIFA is open to all, as President
00:23:55Infantino says, to all opportunities, but
00:23:58clearly, this one goes too far because if you grant
00:24:02even 20% to private investors, they will
00:24:05come into football, not for the beauty of football but to recover their
00:24:09investment, to make money, so somewhere you are no longer in control
00:24:13of your organization, and that is what the different federation presidents
00:24:16and especially the confederation presidents.
00:24:20UEFA, you reminded us, Raphael, but also Conmebol and
00:24:24perhaps others tomorrow, absolutely do not want it, they want to
00:24:27remain the bosses of world football and
00:24:30organize it in one way or another, but without
00:24:34the pressure of investors who would already be in
00:24:38the organization. Thank you Xavier Barret for being with us to
00:24:41decipher what is happening behind the scenes of world football.
00:24:45Stay with us, next edition around the world, it's in 5 minutes on
00:24:49France 24.
00:24:56In 1946 Moldova.
00:25:20"There was a drought, no rain, and that's why there was a
00:25:23famine, it wasn't the drought that led us to the
00:25:27famine, but the Russians who took everything we had in the
00:25:30granary,
00:25:37one of the witnesses I spoke to described this area to me as a concentration
00:25:42chambers. 80 years later, a
00:25:46return ticket to the Great Famine of Moldova.
00:26:16France 24, daily economy,
00:26:19liberty, equality,
00:26:21news,
00:26:28Zoé scandal breaks out, the people who entrusted you with the children, do they know they...
00:26:32is in France, yes or no? No,
00:26:35a humanitarian couple claimed to offer a second chance to orphans
00:26:38from Darfur, children who for the most part resided in Chad with
00:26:42their families. They say: you have sold your children, but
00:26:46who sells their child? It's because they were promised an education that we accepted.
00:26:50accepté.
00:26:53It was a child theft, a real
00:26:56kidnapping.
00:26:58We heard a lot of stories, that we would be taken advantage of.
00:27:03maybe made to work in the factory, we were small, we didn't understand
00:27:07anything, 18 years later, meeting with these
00:27:10fake orphans, they told us that each child would receive
00:27:146000 euros in damages and interest, but for now, they haven't received
00:27:18anything,
00:27:20if the person recognizes their errors and asks for
00:27:23forgiveness, then you know they have
00:27:25evolved, but if that same person refuses
00:27:29to admit their faults, then...
00:27:32cannot forgive, return ticket, the Ark of
00:27:36Zoe scandal, to see on Franczon 4.
00:30:05News from around the world is live on France 24
00:30:08with first these apologies deemed insufficient, those of
00:30:11Janny Infantino after his aborted offer to open the commercial exploitation of the World
00:30:15Cups to private investors. The proposal is still not accepted by
00:30:19several confederations, especially that of Latin America which joins
00:30:23its voice to the criticisms expressed by UEFA.
00:30:26New exchange of strikes between Ukraine and Russia, drones dropped on Russian
00:30:29refineries against attacks on several Ukrainian cities. which makes
00:30:33it necessary to convince its Western allies to deliver anti-missile
00:30:36defenses. Israel, for its part, continues to strike Lebanon on the third
00:30:40day of negotiations, however, ongoing in Rome with the Lebanese authorities. The
00:30:43clashes with Hezbollah have left two Israeli victims, soldiers
00:30:47killed by an explosive device.
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