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00:00:00to see on France
00:00:0124.
00:00:06Back to the essentials on France 24, while UEFA maintains the
00:00:10boycott of the World Cup despite the abandonment of Jen
00:00:13Infantino's project to open FIFA to private investors, the African
00:00:17confederation unanimously reaffirmed its support for the president of
00:00:20the institution this evening.
00:00:22The Yemeni government is threatening retaliatory tools after the attacks carried out against
00:00:26Yemeni soldiers, there were
00:00:29In Aude, the fire started from 58 dead, the rebels. denounce the increased support of Saudi Arabia for government
00:00:32forces.
00:00:35Two dead near Damascus. A bomb exploded in a bus in a town near the Syrian
00:00:39capital, report to follow from Dana Alboze.
00:00:57The crisis at FIFA is endless, no matter the excuses. presented by
00:01:00the body after the project, since abandoned, by Johnny
00:01:03Infantino to open up to private entities, UEFA
00:01:07is still boycotting the World Cups. Nicolas
00:01:11released by the Syrian Ministry of Chamontin. The FIFA management's apologies
00:01:14do nothing, UEFA assures that the boycott of the World
00:01:17Cups is still in effect. The UEFA member federations
00:01:21were very clear about the conditions related to their non-participation in FIFA
00:01:25competitions. These conditions have not been met. In addition to the abandonment
00:01:29of the... commercial company project of FIFA decided on Friday,
00:01:33the European football body demands assurances that such
00:01:36an idea will never see the light of day, UEFA reaffirms having
00:01:40lost confidence in Jen Infantino. Wednesday
00:01:43evening, the head of world football received the full support of his management,
00:01:47ground images, researchers from gathered in Morocco for a crisis meeting. In a
00:01:50press release, FIFA apologized after the
00:01:54controversy over opening up to private investors, a
00:01:57project that leaked to the press without the football stakeholders being
00:02:00informed. This Thursday, the South American confederation
00:02:04Conmebol, although reputed to be close to Infantino, has in turn
00:02:07denounced the president's methods. The Conmebol
00:02:11council unanimously expresses its concern about
00:02:14repeated unilateral actions, adopted without resorting
00:02:17to dialogue or the institutional mechanism provided for the handling
00:02:21of this type of situation.
00:02:23Apparently, immovable a few weeks ago, Jeannin Fantino
00:02:26seems more vulnerable than ever, the one who leads. FIFA
00:02:30for a decade still hopes to be re-elected next
00:02:33March thanks to the support of many federations in Africa and the
00:02:37Middle East
00:02:41that concentrates the major part of and precisely, without surprise, at the end of the executive committee it held, the African Football Confederation
00:02:45reiterated unanimously its support for
00:02:50today 76% of Johnny Infantino. So this decision by UEFA, whatever happens, to boycott
00:02:52the World Cups could have
00:02:55natural gas that is emitted during serious consequences, as explained by Nicolasmartov and the Asofoot
00:02:58journalists.
00:03:00We are in pure capitalism, in fact, on one side you have Infantino's financial logic
00:03:04of always more money no matter the cost, and on the other side you have UEFA which is on a marketing
00:03:07logic, marketing, we will protect the product, give it value,
00:03:11protect what it represents in order to continue little by
00:03:14little to generate profits. UEFA knows perfectly
00:03:18how to do this with, for example, the Champions League, but the
00:03:21essential fact is that he doesn't even need to call for a boycott from other
00:03:25confederations. If UEFA doesn't go to the World Cup, no one will
00:03:29want
00:03:36use it in industries, in to go. That's why he's backing down, as
00:03:40he felt obliged to, just as he had to back down
00:03:43at one point on the idea of a World Cup every 2 years because
00:03:46named Hankuang. The goal of UEFA was opposed. He has an economic heart, he is in some way a victim
00:03:49of a boomerang effect of his purely
00:03:51much reduced impact because it uses economic logic. Money is currently in Europe, and the other
00:03:55confederations will never go against
00:03:57that they are not clean due to that. At least 58 dead in the ranks of
00:04:00Yemeni forces, drone and missile attacks claimed by the Houthis, the
00:04:04rebels denounce a strengthening of Yemeni troops supported by Saudi
00:04:08Arabia, the government of Yemen is threatening
00:04:11retaliation, Lohic
00:04:15its support for the president of Chalavon, after several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi tankers, the
00:04:19Houthis are striking this time on solid ground, a direct
00:04:22response according to them to the increased support from Saudi Arabia to
00:04:27significant, our editorial staff identified Yemeni governmental forces for several weeks.
00:04:33This operation allowed us to kill and wound many Saudi mercenaries,
00:04:37to destroy and burn a large number of camps and weapons depots of
00:04:41the Saudi enemy in the east of the
00:04:42country,
00:04:45as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed in the
00:04:49camps.
00:04:54According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck
00:04:57several military camps in the province of Marib, in the center of the
00:05:00country, and that of Hadramout near the border with
00:05:03Saudi Arabia. This is the deadliest toll since
00:05:072022 between the two camps. Since 2014, a proxy war
00:05:11has taken place in Yemen between the rebels.
00:05:42cautious towards our country and our people, he will have to
00:05:46bear the consequences of any
00:05:48escalation.
00:05:50Saudi Arabia has not yet reacted to this new
00:05:53attack. The Yemeni government, recognized by the international
00:05:57community, announced that it would retaliate at the right time and
00:06:01place.
00:06:03An initial report indicates two dead and 13 injured, a bomb exploded
00:06:07in Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, the Syrian
00:06:10capital. We find Dana Alboze, France
00:06:1424 correspondent, good evening Dana, what is the latest information you
00:06:18have? According to our latest report
00:06:24Health, two people died and 14 others were
00:06:27injured in an explosion this evening in Jaramana in
00:06:31the southeastern suburb of Damascus. The explosion occurred in
00:06:35the middle of Jaramana's main artery, it is a very
00:06:39busy road, it targeted a small passenger shuttle.
00:06:42which was completely destroyed according to our
00:06:45information. The injured were evacuated to two
00:06:49hospitals, in Damascus and Jaramana, and according to a
00:06:52local source, most of the injuries would be light, but
00:06:55this information remains preliminary and the toll could
00:06:58worsen. The authorities have established a
00:07:02security perimeter around the area and there was concern
00:07:05among the inhabitants of Jaramana, Jaramana is
00:07:09only a few kilometers southeast of. the city
00:07:13uh also has a significant
00:07:15Druze population but also inhabitants from different
00:07:19communities. At this stage, no party has
00:07:22officially claimed this attack, nor have the authorities
00:07:26communicated on the exact nature of this explosion,
00:07:30but of course this incident occurs while Syria has experienced
00:07:33several explosions in Damascus and uh in its
00:07:37surroundings in recent months and even recent
00:07:40weeks, I remind you that at the beginning of... July, during the visit of French
00:07:44President Emmanuel Macron, two explosions occurred
00:07:48in Damascus. In these different cases, explosive devices
00:07:52had been mentioned, and this new explosion
00:07:55occurs in a context, I can say, of security
00:07:58challenges for the new Syrian authorities,
00:08:01Syrian authorities who must notably face the persistence of attacks
00:08:05and security incidents targeting urban areas. Dannel
00:08:08boss from Damascus for France 24.
00:08:12Thank you. It's a ritual since 1984.
00:08:16Taiwan has started its annual military exercises. They are expected to last 10
00:08:19days. The island, which increased its defense spending under pressure from the
00:08:23United States, is conducting large-scale maneuvers in preparation for
00:08:26a possible Chinese invasion. China does not hide its
00:08:29ambition to acquire what it considers to be one of its provinces. Louquissi is
00:08:33there.
00:08:36In the streets of Taipei, armored maneuvers and on board,
00:08:40the president.
00:08:43with bulletproof vests and helmets, it's an exercise
00:08:46to evacuate the Taiwanese head of state from his office to a
00:08:49secret base with his minister of defense. For
00:08:5310 days, the island lives to the rhythm of these military exercises
00:08:59the operation is to verify the speed of reaction if China
00:09:02tried to paralyze command centers, but also
00:09:06logistics such as ports or military industrial
00:09:09sites.
00:09:11Our forces are. trained for combat against the enemy threat, this shows
00:09:15our preparation, strengthens our operational capabilities, our
00:09:19defense and our high-level combat readiness, our power
00:09:22will deter any enemy aggression, preserve national security and
00:09:26regional stability,
00:09:29a stability undermined by Beijing, China threatens
00:09:32to invade Taiwan, which it considers to be part of its
00:09:35territory, to carry out what it calls
00:09:38reunification, Sijin Ping does not rule out using force.
00:09:43"the deterrence offered by American support to the island is diminished by
00:09:47Donald Trump's unpredictability. After his visit to
00:09:51Beijing in May, the American president showed conciliation
00:09:54with the Chinese number 1. Taiwan is now
00:09:57awaiting validation by the American Congress of an arms sale of
00:10:0114 billion dollars, it is currently on hold by the
00:10:04Trump administration.
00:10:08The fire is contained, the situation is favorable in the Aude prefecture
00:10:12in the south of France, a road accident caused a fire in the Corbières
00:10:16massif, the same massif where last year the flames devoured
00:10:1911,000 hectares of vegetation.
00:10:21Alexandre.
00:10:25The flames spread at a lightning speed, pushed
00:10:28by the Tramontane at 30 km/h,
00:10:32the fire devours the vegetation.
00:10:35Facing the blaze, 250 firefighters deployed
00:10:39along this limestone massif,
00:10:42quickly reinforced by 10 aerial means, including two
00:10:45Dash, four Canadairs and a water bomber
00:10:49helicopter.
00:10:54the...
00:11:25population of 1500 inhabitants, all watching the progression of the
00:11:28flames, I was called by the
00:11:31family who told me that La Roque Longue was burning and
00:11:35well, being from the village, I rushed home from work and
00:11:39worried, there it is, La Roque Longue, the landscape near the
00:11:42village, a few minutes ago these
00:11:46images reached us of the first burnt landscapes, but it's
00:11:49always heartbreaking because obviously nature going
00:11:53up in smoke is always...
00:11:56completely traumatic, a vehicle that caught fire following a
00:11:59road accident is believed to be the cause of this fire, the vines
00:12:03in the path of the fire could act as a barrier
00:12:07this evening,
00:12:09this is the straw that could break the camel's back, the city of Annecy wants to limit the
00:12:13number of boats rented by private companies, but the announcement
00:12:16is not well received by tourism professionals (theolar
00:12:19roche)
00:12:22on Lake Annecy more and more boats and it has become
00:12:25overcrowded with a parade of customers on the pontoons who come to
00:12:29enjoy these small boats rented by private companies, be
00:12:32careful to turn off your engine when you go swimming and there is always one person who stays in
00:12:36the boat. At the end of July, the town hall issued a decree, now
00:12:40prohibiting the rental of boats from public pontoons, a big
00:12:43disappointment for this professional. It's a bit
00:12:46complicated because we, for the season, we had
00:12:49what we could call an administrative loophole that allowed
00:12:53us to rent like that, and now in the middle of... even though we had to make
00:12:56investments because we had the right to do that, it has somewhat, somewhat cut
00:13:00the grass under our feet without dialogue. In one year,
00:13:03these private boat rentals have almost doubled according to the town hall, there
00:13:07are other places for professionals, but this one has
00:13:11trouble hiding his bitterness, we set up a
00:13:13company, they are amortized, salaries finally come in
00:13:17from it, and now he wants to take away our work, according to the town hall,
00:13:20this commercial activity hinders the circulation of bicycles and
00:13:23pedestrians. It occupies the launching ramps used by sailing
00:13:27clubs and threatens wildlife and flora, this decree, it comes
00:13:31to put a stop to practices that are not regulated, it comes to put a
00:13:34stop to the passive use of these pontoons on which one
00:13:38can stay, one could stay indefinitely parked. For now, the
00:13:41town hall is focusing on prevention, as soon
00:13:44as the prohibition signs are installed in a few days, offenders
00:13:48will face a 150 euro
00:13:50fine.
00:13:52We'll meet again in about fifteen minutes.
00:14:08Did you know that transportation is the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases
00:14:11in the world, that electric cars pollute up to
00:14:15three times less than their thermal cousins over their entire
00:14:19lifespan, but
00:14:22the extraction and refining of minerals present in their
00:14:25batteries? Hello and welcome to Plan B.
00:14:29The economy otherwise. The electric car is booming, China
00:14:33is the world champion, all categories, for the purchase of
00:14:36vehicles, the production of batteries and the refining of
00:14:39rare metals. Behind, Europe plays the green
00:14:42card of equipment repair, starting with
00:14:46batteries, for example, Revolte, a unique
00:14:49i-garage in France.
00:14:53To make it last rather than replace. This is Jeremy's motto,
00:14:57co-founder of this unique garage in France, already more than
00:15:003000 cars repaired on the odometer, electric or
00:15:04plug-in hybrid. When a battery starts to fail, so it's out of warranty,
00:15:07uh, it's true that there are several options, it's to go to the manufacturer who will
00:15:11offer a complete battery replacement and by coming to us we will be able to repair
00:15:14just the part, whether it's an electronic failure or a cell failure
00:15:18in that battery, both. First difficulty for the e-mechanics:
00:15:22opening the battery, some, like on this Tesla Model
00:15:26S, are glued instead of being welded, cheaper to
00:15:28manufacture, but less repairable. Another
00:15:31difficulty, access to spare parts. For some
00:15:35batteries, some manufacturers consider it to be the smallest part, meaning. that there are no parts available
00:15:38in the battery pack so they can't even supply them, we use used parts
00:15:42inside and we recondition them when needed or else
00:15:46sometimes we even have to reprogram them to be able to reuse them in other batteries.
00:15:50Be inventive and competitive, with
00:15:52experience, this e-garage has developed in-house procedures,
00:15:56resulting in controlled labor times and bills up to
00:16:0010 times lower than those of dealerships. Clients
00:16:03flock, Thierry traveled 220 km.
00:16:06following... a breakdown, we took it to the Hyundai
00:16:09dealership who gave us an appointment after 3
00:16:13weeks to tell us that the engine was
00:16:16dead, first bad news, second bad news that it would cost 1300 euros for
00:16:19repairs because we were replacing the whole block and not repairing anything,
00:16:22so we came here because well, here they will try to repair it and we
00:16:26were quoted a much more reasonable price of 2000 €.
00:16:30To cope with demand, e-garage has already opened two
00:16:33branches near Paris and Rennes, with development focusing on
00:16:37sharing skills through the creation of the Revolte
00:16:40academy, a school open to professionals. The first few months were
00:16:44only for our own mechanics, and then after 6 months
00:16:47we had requests from external mechanics who told us: I want to
00:16:51participate in your training, I want to train
00:16:55alongside you. 300 professionals have already passed through this workshop, candidates
00:16:58have a choice of 20 modules, starting with
00:17:01de-energizing a vehicle, a sine qua non condition for working
00:17:05on it. Well, good luck. Thank you, and yes, be
00:17:09careful, Simon is already a mechanic but
00:17:11not for electric cars, the mechanic's job is no longer
00:17:15what it used to be, you really have to forget what people learned even 20 years
00:17:19ago, it's not the same thing anymore and now it's true that if you're not a computer scientist,
00:17:23there's no point in doing mechanics. Simon's objective is to join the
00:17:27Revolte network via the connected garage subscription,
00:17:30an online toolbox costing 175 to 300
00:17:34€ per month to be armed against the most common
00:17:37breakdowns, if I am able to do it, I intervene, if I have
00:17:40doubts or if it requires
00:17:44additional diagnosis, we discuss with Revolte, if the vehicle needs to be brought
00:17:47here, we organize it and then ensure that the client
00:17:50leaves with their vehicle running, for complex breakdowns,
00:17:54Revolte keeps control but shares the profit on the rest, which does not
00:17:58harm its turnover, nearly 11 million electric
00:18:01or plug-in hybrid vehicles are expected to circulate in France by
00:18:042030.
00:18:13Knowing how to repair batteries is important, it is the battery
00:18:18the environmental impact of electric cars, to produce it, you need
00:18:22a lot of minerals, cobalt, lithium, manganese,
00:18:27the world's battery production capacity is concentrated in China, making
00:18:31the battery last longer reduces its environmental impact, it means producing
00:18:35less and keeping all these metals as much as possible
00:18:39in the circuit without necessarily going through recycling. Will we move towards more
00:18:43repairable batteries? Chinese batteries and Chinese
00:18:45cars are produced with a desire to reduce
00:18:49production costs. Today there are more and more practices
00:18:53that make batteries irreparable or less
00:18:57repairable and so we will be tempted to replace the entire
00:19:01battery, which costs extremely much since it is 30 to
00:19:0540% of the value of a new electric car,
00:19:08ultimately we almost end up with cars that could become disposable
00:19:12cars, we will change the car because in fact changing the battery is not profitable,
00:19:16electric is cleaner than thermal, its production
00:19:19is more polluting than the production of a thermal car,
00:19:23on the other hand when it drives so in its usage phase, it has a
00:19:29electricity, so it obviously depends on the source of
00:19:32electrical energy, in France it has a rather decarbonized energy, so
00:19:36from a uh... carbon emission and climate
00:19:39change point of view, it's an eminently
00:19:42positive change. Before we leave, a quick practical guide to make
00:19:45your electric car last: never let your battery drop below
00:19:4920%. If you charge it to full, drive immediately, it's
00:19:53recommended, ease off on fast charges, they wear out the
00:19:56cells, also go easy on the road, ideal speed 110
00:20:00km/h and if possible, do not park your car in the sun,
00:20:03especially while charging. End of this broadcast, all our episodes...
00:20:07on the France 24 website, Facebook and on my LinkedIn and
00:20:11Instagram pages, take care,
00:20:30several videos like this one were shot at the end of January and beginning of
00:20:34February in southern Syria.
00:20:37Syrian farmers claim that Israeli planes like
00:20:40this one sprayed herbicides on their
00:20:44crops. These planes were all seen above the buffer
00:20:48zone that separates Syria. and the Golan Heights, which
00:20:52is occupied by Israel. This buffer zone is supposed to be
00:20:55demilitarized, but since the fall of Bashar al-Assad at the end of
00:20:592024, the Israeli army, and even
00:21:02beyond, military bases.
00:21:152026.
00:21:18That's what I want.
00:22:20others believe that Israel is trying to extend its control over
00:22:24cross-border areas,
00:22:26on the Syrian side, satellite images show affected areas,
00:22:29for example near the village of
00:22:32Kodena. By combining satellite images and
00:22:37the NGO Paxford Piece were able to assess the affected area in
00:22:41Syria.
00:22:44And compare this with the day before, the week before there was
00:22:48sprayed and with the week after it was. spread and we could follow this
00:22:51line of affected vegetation for
00:22:55roughly 55 kilometers from the south to the
00:22:58north in the golon heights, rough estimate is between 6 and
00:23:0210 square kilometers of area was sprayed with herbicides
00:23:05which is roughly twice the size of central park in
00:23:09New York to compare it with. what Israel effectively has been doing is creating a
00:23:13dead zone on the borders with Syria and Leononon, allegedly for security
00:23:16reasons.
00:23:21Here is Venezuela seen by satellite at night. In
00:23:25the northwest, the bright spots correspond to several large cities including
00:23:29the capital, Caracas, but to the east, this
00:23:32large luminous patch shows something else.
00:23:35This is the light emitted by gas flaring in the state
00:23:39of Monagas. Flaring is the act of burning
00:23:45oil extraction, but without valuing it.
00:23:49This gas is therefore. wasted and this represents a loss of revenue
00:23:53for Venezuela, in addition to being a harmful practice for
00:23:56the environment and health. This situation is explained
00:23:59notably by a lack of investment in equipment, according to a former
00:24:03PDVSA official, the Venezuelan state oil
00:24:05company.
00:24:14They need some equipment to take it, to
00:24:17store it, clean it, separate it. from the gases,
00:24:21etc. if you can collect it well, you can
00:24:26homes, you also use it to inject it
00:24:30into oil wells because that increases the pressure of the well,
00:24:33after we left the company in 2003 the
00:24:37company began to technically decline, they didn't
00:24:41invest in collecting the gas, in
00:24:43fact if you can't process it you have to burn it, the
00:24:47problem is that now there is very little information about Petróleos de
00:24:50Venezuela, it could be that 50% is being
00:24:53burned, that's an estimate I'm making, and if the gas
00:24:57has to be burned, it's because otherwise there's a risk of
00:25:00explosion. If we consider the total volume of gas burned,
00:25:03Venezuela is the 5th largest country in terms of flaring, but it is the
00:25:07second largest in the world in terms of volume of gas flared per barrel of oil
00:25:10extracted. In the Venezuelan state of Monagas, where
00:25:14flaring is particularly
00:25:17more than 40 flares in 2025. like
00:25:20this one,
00:25:23our observer Vitarin, the capital of this state, El
00:25:26Mechurrio is characteristic, it's a
00:25:30torch, imagine the sound of a 2-meter
00:25:34diameter
00:25:35burner,
00:25:39in the day what you see are just the flames,
00:25:42but at night there is a yellow glow in the sky and those are the
00:25:46flares that are 30 km from here, what you are seeing from afar is
00:26:02lifting a certain number of sanctions, this could allow the modernization of the
00:26:06sector and a reduction in flaring. In
00:26:092024, flaring worldwide would have generated 389
00:26:13million tons of CO2 equivalent, beyond the climatic impact, the
00:26:17health of the inhabitants may be affected, there is among other things an increased
00:26:21risk of respiratory
00:26:22pathology.
00:26:26If you have witnessed a situation, if you have
00:26:29images, do not hesitate to send them to us, especially on our
00:26:33whatsapp number, all our contacts are on the screen, see
00:26:35you soon.
00:26:39Every year, Thailand organizes a unique event in the world, the
00:26:43terrible lottery of military service, young men
00:26:46who draw a red card are automatically incorporated for 2
00:26:50years,
00:26:56between disappointment and relief, this ritual masks a real
00:26:59social injustice.
00:30:03Back to the essential on France 24, while UEFA maintains
00:30:07the boycott of the World Cup, despite the failure of Gianni
00:30:11Infantino's project to open FIFA to private investors, the African
00:30:14confederation unanimously reaffirmed
00:30:18the body tonight.
00:30:20The Yemeni government threatens tools of retaliation after attacks against
00:30:24Yemeni soldiers. There were 58 dead. The rebels
00:30:27denounce Saudi Arabia's increased support for government
00:30:30forces.
00:30:33Two dead near Damascus, a bomb exploded in a bus in a city near the
00:30:37Syrian capital, a report to follow from Dana Alboz.
00:30:54The crisis at FIFA is not over, whatever apologies the body
00:30:58presented after the...