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00:00:06Midnight in Paris, end of the essential on France 24, the
00:00:10Yemeni government threatens reprisals after attacks on Yemeni soldiers,
00:00:14there were 58 deaths, the rebels denounce the increased support
00:00:17of Saudi Arabia to government forces,
00:00:20two dead and 14 injured near
00:00:23Damascus, a bomb exploded in a bus in a town near the
00:00:27Syrian capital. Demonstration of caregivers, Democratic
00:00:31Republic of Congo, on the front line against Ebola, they are demanding payment
00:00:35of their salaries, even as the virus progresses at an alarming
00:00:38rate, a suspected case was spotted
00:00:41behind these promises, inequalities on a boat heading to Kinshasa.
00:00:52situation became even more complicated
00:00:57At least 58 dead in the ranks of Yemeni forces from drone
00:01:01and missile attacks claimed by the Houthis, the rebels denounce
00:01:05an increase in Yemeni troops supported by Saudi Arabia, the
00:01:08Yemeni government threatens retaliation. Louis
00:01:11Chalavant.
00:01:14After several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi tankers, the
00:01:18Houthis this time strike on solid ground. A direct
00:01:21response according to them, to the increased support from Saudi Arabia
00:01:25to Yemeni government forces for several
00:01:27weeks.
00:01:32This operation allowed us to kill and wound many Saudi mercenaries,
00:01:36to destroy and burn a large number of camps and
00:01:39them greatly, but Carlos weapons depots of the Saudi enemy in the east of the
00:01:41country,
00:01:44as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed
00:01:48in the targeted
00:01:48camps.
00:01:53According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck
00:01:56several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the country
00:02:00and that of Hadhramaut near the border with Saudi Arabia. This is the
00:02:04deadliest toll since 2022 between the two camps. The
00:02:07Yemeni government announced that it would retaliate at the opportune
00:02:11time and place. Since 2014, a proxy war has been taking
00:02:14place in Yemen between the Houthi rebels allied with Iran and the Yemeni
00:02:18government supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
00:02:212022, a fragile truce came into effect, but it
00:02:24collapsed last month when the Houthis welcomed an Iranian plane
00:02:28to Sana'a, violating the Saudi blockade of Yemeni
00:02:31airspace. The Houthis then announced a naval blockade of
00:02:35Saudi ports and began targeting the kingdom's
00:02:38oil tankers.
00:02:41We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
00:02:44against our country and our people. They will have to bear the
00:02:48consequences of any
00:02:50escalation. According to a senior
00:02:54Saudi official. Several intelligence services claim that Iraqi militias
00:02:57are preparing attacks on Saudi territory in coordination with Yemeni
00:03:01Houthis and under the direction of the Iranian Revolutionary
00:03:04Guards. Saudi Arabia indicates that it will take the necessary
00:03:08measures to respond to any aggression.
00:03:11An initial assessment reports two dead and 14 injured. A bomb
00:03:15exploded in Jaramana, southeast of Damascus, the Syrian
00:03:18capital. The device was placed in a public transport minibus. France
00:03:2224 correspondent Dana
00:03:24Ukraine appear, I knew Alboze. According to our latest report
00:03:27from the Syrian Ministry of
00:03:30Health, two people have died and 14 others have been injured
00:03:33in an explosion that occurred this
00:03:36simply want to take advantage of next day, I dried my evening in Jaramana, in the southeastern suburbs of
00:03:39Damascus. The explosion occurred in the middle of Jaramana's main
00:03:43thoroughfare, a very busy road. It targeted a small
00:03:46passenger shuttle which was completely
00:03:50destroyed according to our information. The injured were
00:03:53evacuated to two hospitals in Damascus and
00:03:56Jaramana, and according to a local
00:03:59in the Aude, the fire started in source, most of the injuries are minor, but this
00:04:01information remains preliminary and the toll could
00:04:04worsen. Authorities have established a security
00:04:07perimeter around the area and there was
00:04:11concern among the residents of Jaramana. Jaramana is
00:04:15only a few kilometers southeast of Damascus. The city
00:04:18also houses a large Druze population,
00:04:22but also residents from different communities.
00:04:26At this stage, no party has officially claimed
00:04:30this attack. The authorities have not commented on the exact nature
00:04:33of this explosion, but of course this
00:04:36incident comes as Syria has experienced several explosions in
00:04:40Damascus and in its surroundings in recent
00:04:44months and even in recent weeks. I remind you
00:04:48from the Ukrainian that in early July during the visit of French President Emmanuel
00:04:51Macron, two explosions occurred in Damascus. In
00:04:55these different cases, explosive devices had been
00:04:58mentioned and this new explosion comes
00:05:01in a context, I can say, of security challenges for the
00:05:05new Syrian authorities, Syrian authorities who must notably
00:05:09face the persistence of attacks and security incidents targeting
00:05:12urban areas.
00:05:14This new offensive by Donald Trump
00:05:17against birthright citizenship in the United States, this decree he just signed to
00:05:21prevent birth tourism, understanding this possibility for
00:05:24foreigners to give birth in the United States so that their children obtain American
00:05:28citizenship. At the beginning of July, the Supreme Court had annulled one of his
00:05:32decrees, but this time the occupant of the White House is
00:05:35confident.
00:05:36The Supreme Court made a very
00:05:40regrettable decision regarding birthright citizenship, the vote
00:05:44was close but the decision is very regrettable, so we are going
00:05:48to make adjustments because it's very unfair, this rule was
00:05:51established for another reason, it was just after the Civil War, it was for the
00:05:55children of slaves, but today what's happening is that
00:05:59wealthy people are doing business around this birthright citizenship,
00:06:02it shouldn't work like that, it's a shame, they
00:06:05buy their access to citizenship.
00:06:08With
00:06:153973 confirmed cases,
00:06:17including 1801 deaths, the 17th Ebola
00:06:21epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest
00:06:24the country has ever known. A suspected case has just been reported on a
00:06:28boat heading for Kinshasa, the capital. The
00:06:31spread of the virus worries Romain
00:06:33Michelot. Care and disinfection
00:06:37operations, here, everything is real or almost, these
00:06:41doctors are still in training in this center near
00:06:44Nairobi, Kenya, they are 200 to have already been prepared
00:06:47to face the Ebola epidemic.
00:06:51We organize this training for 3 days and give them contextual
00:06:55information on the epidemic, how to manage Ebola patients, how to
00:06:58protect themselves as healthcare personnel before, during and after this
00:07:02epidemic.
00:07:05The objective is therefore for these health professionals to become
00:07:08operational very quickly. 40% of the doctors trained here
00:07:12are sent there, to the Democratic Republic
00:07:15of Congo, where the 17th Ebola epidemic is raging.
00:07:18In mid-May, the first case was detected in Ituri province in
00:07:22the northeast of the country. Since then, contaminations have
00:07:25multiplied in four other provinces. Nearly 4,000 cases have
00:07:29been confirmed and more than 1,800 people have
00:07:31died. The number of cases of this new Ebola variant, the Bundibugyo
00:07:35strain, is already higher than during the last epidemic in the
00:07:39country between 2018 and 2020. The WHO,
00:07:43whose director visited the site this Wednesday, calls for
00:07:46intensifying the medical response in the city of
00:07:49Bunia, capital of Ituri and epicenter of the epidemic,
00:07:53the largest Ebola detection and treatment center has just been built.
00:07:56We have more than 300 staff who will
00:08:00work in this center and we count on
00:08:04the community to accelerate
00:08:07the process of identifying cases. At the same time, the
00:08:10work to create an
00:08:15effective vaccine against this new variant continues. At the end of July, a British volunteer received the first dose of a
00:08:19vaccine developed in Oxford, others are in the testing phase elsewhere
00:08:22in the world, but none have yet been
00:08:24validated.
00:08:28The fire is contained in the Aude in the south of France, a road accident caused a
00:08:32fire in the Corbières massif, the same massif where last
00:08:35year flames devoured 11,000 hectares of vegetation.
00:08:38Alexandre,
00:08:41the flames are spreading at a phenomenal speed,
00:08:45pushed by the Tramontane wind at 30 km/h,
00:08:48the fire devours the vegetation,
00:08:52facing the blaze, 250 firefighters deployed along
00:08:56this limestone massif,
00:08:59reinforced quickly by 10 aerial means, including two
00:09:02Dash 8s, four Canadairs and a water bomber
00:09:06helicopter,
00:09:11the commune of Serré, it is heading towards
00:09:15Saint-André de Roquelong and threatens homes.
00:09:191200 people are now confined in these two
00:09:21communes, including a man we reached by phone and
00:09:25who filmed these images. The fire is a few hundred
00:09:29meters from his home. So how do we apprehend the night? I think it's going to be a
00:09:32sleepless night and we're going to pack all our things just in case. So for
00:09:36now, we don't really know what's going to
00:09:39happen. The worry in this village of
00:09:42500 inhabitants, all watching the progression of the
00:09:45flames, I was called by the
00:09:48family and they told me that Roquelong was burning and
00:09:52since I'm from the village, I rushed home from work and
00:09:56worried, well, Roquelong, the landscape near the
00:09:59village, a few minutes ago, these
00:10:03images reached us of scorched landscapes and it's
00:10:06always heartbreaking because obviously nature
00:10:09going up in smoke is always... quite
00:10:13traumatic. A vehicle that caught fire after a
00:10:16road accident is believed to be the cause of this fire. The vineyards
00:10:20in the path of the fire could act as a firebreak
00:10:24tonight. The fire is now contained, the
00:10:28prefecture of Aude announced in its latest situation report, also
00:10:31stating that tonight a hundred firefighters will remain
00:10:35mobilized to carry out surveillance and dousing
00:10:38of hot spots. Your late night editions will be on from
00:10:421am with Fainzi, right after that, the major reportage magazine from the
00:10:45newsroom, reporting on these Colombians who have decided
00:10:49to join the Ukrainian front. Have a great night and a great weekend
00:10:53everyone.
00:11:14The tension is palpable in this command post of a Ukrainian
00:11:16unit.
00:11:22These soldiers see Russian drones live on their screens.
00:11:59The deputy battalion commander himself almost died at Kupyansk. He
00:12:03was saved by two Brazilians while leading his unit into combat last
00:12:07December.
00:12:09An operation led mainly by Latin Americans and which marked a
00:12:13major turning point by stopping the Russian advance after a year
00:12:17where Ukraine had lost
00:12:17ground.
00:12:22It was not under enemy control so it was not a counter-offensive.
00:13:25that it was possible to bring many people back,
00:13:27if only we were given the means,
00:13:30we only need resources.
00:13:34The largest contingent of Latin Americans
00:13:41fighting for Ukraine comes from Colombia. The country
00:13:45has a substantial and well-trained army due to years of civil war and
00:13:49US support, but here soldiers' salaries are
00:13:52low.
00:13:56having served for 8 years, Daero is now preparing his departure for
00:13:59Ukraine.
00:14:02The brigade pays for our plane tickets, for our meals and for our
00:14:05accommodation here in Bogota. It takes care of all the administrative
00:14:09travel formalities. When I heard about it, I seized
00:14:13this opportunity, it's what
00:14:14I was waiting for.
00:14:17For a month of February in Ukraine, Daero does not seem sufficiently
00:14:20equipped. They told me not to bring too many things. I was
00:14:24very cold. I served in
00:14:25Israel.
00:14:31In this hotel, Daero, originally from Medellin, awaits his departure with other
00:14:35men, who came from elsewhere in Colombia. We commit out of vocation, moreover,
00:14:39it is a noble cause to fight under a flag that is not ours, but that of a
00:14:42people who are attacked, it's a bit like if my neighbor had broken into
00:14:46my house.
00:14:49A feeling shared by many men here, but not
00:14:52everyone. What they know above all is that in Ukraine,
00:14:55they will earn a much better salary than in Colombia.
00:14:59Here, when you leave the army, the best you can hope for is a job as a security
00:15:03guard. As a security guard, yes, or a bodyguard,
00:15:07and if you don't stay in the army until retirement, then you don't even
00:15:10get a pension. Anyway, it's not enough to survive,
00:15:14you have to keep working, fight for your survival and that of your
00:15:17family.
00:15:20At the airport, a representative of the Ukrainian army distributes their passports
00:15:24and their identity cards.
00:15:37things, I want my brother to give my daughter a monthly pension until she is
00:15:41of age, but I'm not going there thinking I'm going to die, no, God will
00:15:44decide.
00:15:48There is no official count of Colombians killed in Ukraine,
00:15:52it could be a few hundred. Carlos
00:15:55Gonzalez was able to return home, he is a
00:15:57miracle survivor.
00:16:01Strongly attached to Ukraine, Carlos was able to renovate his house thanks to the money
00:16:05earned in combat.
00:16:09but he bears indelible scars on his body. In May
00:16:132024, near Kherson, he survived a chemical weapon attack,
00:16:16which killed two other Colombians from his unit. This is how
00:16:20they found
00:16:21me.
00:16:25I told the workers, stop work on the house, I'm going to
00:16:28Ukraine.
00:16:31But Carlos convinced me not to go, saying it was too
00:16:34dangerous and that I wouldn't have been allowed into the military hospital in...
00:17:08Upon his return from Ukraine, armed groups once again tried to recruit
00:17:12him, his experience with combat drones interested
00:17:17refused.
00:17:20If you tell any armed group that you have served in Ukraine, you become
00:17:23interesting, if someone wants to join a gang here or in
00:17:26Mexico, they can go to Ukraine and study drones. Yesterday I was talking to
00:17:30a friend, one of his comrades with whom he had fought in Zaporizhia,
00:17:34is now fighting alongside the guerrillas in the department of Cauca.
00:18:08My mother raised us alone, she
00:18:10had to work as a cleaning lady to support us.
00:18:13Sandra's brother, Neider, wanted
00:18:16to lift his family out of poverty, and he also dreamed of becoming
00:18:20a soldier. So in January 2024, he
00:18:23decided to go to Ukraine.
00:18:265 months later he was
00:18:31killed.
00:18:32I can't stay here,
00:18:39I rarely come here, I don't like
00:18:50it, I don't like to think he's there,
00:18:54as soon as I saw the +380
00:18:59dialing code for
00:19:02something had happened to him.
00:19:04then the officer said:
00:19:07alas, and I immediately threw the phone, I
00:19:10collapsed, the
00:19:14tears and contacted the embassy, they asked for my authorization for
00:19:18cremation, it happened quickly, 45 days
00:19:21later, my brother's ashes were in Bogota,
00:19:24he wanted to have this experience, he was happy to have this
00:19:28experience, he said: this is another
00:19:31level sister, this is crazy here, he
00:19:35said: everyone has to die someday, so whether it's
00:19:38in Colombia or here, one
00:19:41day I will die,
00:19:43and if I have to die doing what I love, so
00:19:47be it, you have to respect that.
00:19:50If Neider's ashes were repatriated
00:19:53without incident, the money he earned in Ukraine is taking time to
00:19:57arrive. Sandra went all the way to Kiev to
00:20:00claim her inheritance, she had to stay there for several
00:20:04months. happened, the bank said there was no
00:20:07bank account in my brother's name, I was counting on this
00:20:11money to pay for my return ticket.
00:20:14Finally, a priest paid for her
00:20:16ticket. Sandra returned to Colombia on New Year's Eve,
00:20:19without her brother's salary, but with the promise of 300,000 euros in compensation
00:20:25state.
00:20:26All these are the documents I brought
00:20:30from Ukraine, translations, powers of attorney, everything is
00:20:33here. "We provide the documents, we open bank accounts in Ukraine and
00:20:38wait for the money to arrive.
00:20:41But for now, there are only 139 hryvnias, that's
00:20:45the money I deposited there.
00:20:49I imagined growing old in my son's
00:20:52arms, I thought he would take care of me when I
00:20:55was old.
00:21:00If the money doesn't arrive soon, Anna and her daughter could lose this
00:21:02house they mortgaged to
00:21:06pay for her brother's trip to Kiev.
00:21:09seriously, then in December, I asked why I
00:21:12hadn't received my combat
00:21:50bonuses, they replied that I hadn't participated in an operation
00:21:53on the front line, I told them that we were in a village under
00:21:56constant attack and that we were only there because in the village we
00:22:00were in before, our house had been bombed,
00:22:04finally Katchoro decided to stay.
00:22:08Even 20, 50, 100
00:22:10hryvnias is a big help.
00:22:12All the Ukrainians we spoke
00:22:16to seem very grateful to us.
00:22:50During their layover in Istanbul, a member of their group defected,
00:22:54someone had bought him a ticket to
00:22:57Barcelona. We told him: "Brother, it's your
00:23:00life, you're an adult, it's your decision." But he could
00:23:03have been more honest. Whoever
00:23:06bought him his ticket from Istanbul could have bought him a ticket from Bogota, and
00:23:10Ukraine would not have wasted its money. It's a great experience really,
00:23:14may we come out of it alive and go home, find our
00:23:17families,
00:23:24yes, see our families and do all the crazy things we've always dreamed
00:23:27of doing, as we were finishing this
00:23:31report, these men were waiting to be deployed to the Karkiv
00:23:34region, probably to
00:23:37Kupyansk. at the White House and the capture of Nicolas
00:23:40Maduro in Venezuela, everything seems to have accelerated,
00:23:43the Cuban economy is on the verge of
00:24:20collapse and Washington is increasing pressure against the Cuban
00:24:23regime, so does Donald Trump
00:24:26an already weakened power, why now and how far are the
00:24:30United States willing to go? We decipher all
00:24:34that. by the United States, President
00:24:37Trump offers a new path between the United States and a new
00:24:40Cuba, something has to happen because
00:24:50we can't go on living like this, but we're not starving to death.
00:24:53To understand why Cuba is currently experiencing the worst crisis in its
00:24:57recent history, we need to go back in time. In
00:25:161898, the United States intervened in the Spanish-American
00:25:19War and took control of Cuba until its independence in
00:25:221902. For decades, Washington considered the island
00:25:25part of its sphere of influence, but everything changed in
00:25:291959. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara overthrew
00:25:32the regime of Fulgencio Batista, which was supported by the
00:25:36Americans. In the midst of the Cold War, Cuba joined the
00:25:40communist camp, a revolution that deeply worried
00:25:43Washington. Let's remember that the island is only 145 km from its
00:25:47coasts, in the heart of the Caribbean and on strategic
00:25:50maritime routes.
00:25:54tradition and perception, if you will, of Cuba as being close to the United States, the first was
00:25:57the politics, the threat
00:26:02of Castro then established a communist
00:26:06single-party regime with a centralized
00:26:10economy of society,
00:26:14a model that promised equal access to health, education,
00:26:18food, and so on.
00:26:22that wasn't even true in the 70s and the 80s, meaning in the 70s and the 80s, if you were
00:26:24part of the high political
00:26:26elite, you know, if you were part of the Castro dynasty, but beyond that, if you were
00:26:32part of the the the high lead of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of the Armed
00:26:36Forces, the Council of State, the Communist
00:26:39Party,
00:26:43widened between a large part of the population and a minority
00:26:46that managed to circumvent the
00:26:48system through parallel markets and
00:26:51diaspora support. The
00:26:55when the United States imposed an economic embargo against the island
00:26:58in 1961, which is still in effect today. This
00:27:02embargo basically prohibited US firms from doing
00:27:05business with the Cuban government, that
00:27:09includes investments.
00:27:12For a long time, however, Cuba held on thanks to aid from the USSR and
00:27:16Venezuela. From 1999, Venezuelan
00:27:18President Hugo
00:27:23Chavez. of its own oil and its own energy needs
00:27:26through solar parks and other means, but
00:27:3060%, but after the fall of the USSR, Cuba
00:27:42went through a severe economic crisis, often compared to that of
00:27:46today. 30 years later,
00:27:47Donald Trump's return to the
00:27:52White House marked a new hardening. Washington
00:27:55multiplied sanctions, further isolating the Cuban regime and
00:27:58seeking to cut off its last economic support. And you surely
00:28:01remember these images from January 2026, Venezuelan
00:28:05President Nicolas Maduro was captured during an American
00:28:09operation. Oil deliveries to Cuba
00:28:12abruptly stopped, apart from Russian aid that arrived in March
00:28:162026, the island received almost no more fuel.
00:28:32Already weakened, the Cuban economy collapsed. The American
00:28:36embargo contributed to it, but it doesn't explain everything, the
00:28:39Castroist economic model is largely
00:28:52to blame. Strong centralization, dependence on
00:28:56imports and reforms postponed for too long lead to a stalemate.
00:28:59of medicine and essential goods now paralyze the country,
00:29:02power outages plunge Cubans into darkness for hours,
00:29:06hospitals operate at a snail's pace,
00:29:18waste accumulates in the streets and purchasing power has
00:29:22collapsed. Today, a simple meal can
00:29:25cost the equivalent of a monthly salary, those who can still
00:29:29afford it turn to the black market to find products that have become
00:29:32unobtainable in state stores.
00:29:35Faced with this crisis, Havana is trying nonetheless to regain
00:29:39control. The government announced at the end of June
00:29:422026 a vast plan of
00:29:48176 economic reforms, opening to private banks,
00:29:51possibility for private investors to enter the capital of
00:29:55certain public companies and progressive end of several
00:29:58state monopolies. The government assures that this is a sovereign
00:30:02decision, but for many observers, these announcements
00:30:06are primarily aimed at convincing Washington to ease the
00:30:09pressure. These measures are rather
00:30:13a guarantee addressed
00:30:16to
00:30:19Cesh mesures, c'est plutôt une garantie
00:30:21especially in the United States so
00:30:25that the latter disarm, among other things, but it's also a guarantee, well, it's for the
00:30:29regime, a way to ensure its stability and... to
00:30:32ensure that it stays in place during this
00:30:35transition that will ultimately be controlled. The United Nations estimates that Cuba
00:30:39is now on the brink of a humanitarian crisis. The island is
00:30:43more fragile than it has been in decades, even Donald
00:30:47Trump acknowledges this.
00:30:50And yet, it is precisely at this moment that the president decides to put
00:30:54the island back at the center of his priorities, but then
00:30:57why?
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