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00:00:00private bank, possibility for private investors to enter the
00:00:03capital of certain public companies and the progressive
00:00:06end of several state monopolies. The government
00:00:10assures that this is a sovereign decision, but for many
00:00:13observers, these announcements are mainly aimed at convincing
00:00:17Washington to ease the pressure, these
00:00:20measures are rather a guarantee addressed
00:00:23notably to the United States so that the latter loosen the grip, among
00:00:27other things, but it is also a guarantee, finally it is for the regime a way to ensure its
00:00:31stability and to ensure that
00:00:34it remains in place in this transition that will ultimately be
00:00:37controlled. The United Nations estimates that Cuba is now on the brink of
00:00:41disfigured people, the reunions humanitarian crisis, the island is more fragile than it has been for
00:00:45decades, even Donald Trump
00:00:47admits it.
00:00:50And yet, it is precisely at this moment that the president decides to put
00:00:54the island back at the center of his priorities, but why
00:00:57then?
00:01:03Trump's interests are first and foremost a strategy of hemispheric
00:01:06power, reactivating this Monroe Doctrine,
00:01:10regaining control, but this on the scale of all of Latin America, by supporting rather far-right
00:01:14governments, and Cuba remains a bit of a thorn in the side, the
00:01:18communist regime is just a stone's throw away. The first reason is therefore above all
00:01:21ideological, historically speaking, the objective of
00:01:25successive American administrations was above all to ensure
00:01:28the political support of Cuba.
00:02:15Ark scandal breaks out,
00:02:30First, the midterm elections are approaching in the United States, an important
00:02:33electoral deadline for Donald Trump whose popularity has
00:02:37plummeted in the polls in recent months, he had promised peace,
00:02:40but the conflict sparked with Iran has made him increasingly
00:02:43unpopular. Then, the United States today has nearly
00:02:472.5 million people of Cuban origin, a
00:02:52Nagashima still belongs to the very large part of whom live in Florida. Since the 1959
00:02:55revolution, more than 2 million Cubans have left the island, making
00:02:59this diaspora one of the most influential in the country, a significant part of
00:03:046pm in the heart of this community remains very opposed to the Havana regime and weighs heavily
00:03:07in Florida politics, a decisive state in the
00:03:10American presidential election. This
00:03:13community is embodied within the Trump administration by Secretary of State Marco
00:03:17Rubio. Marco Rubio
00:03:19editions to go around the represents an entire community in Florida
00:03:23of Cuban exiles who are very opposed to the normalization of
00:03:27the Cuban economy, from tourism relations with the regime. Born in Florida to Cuban parents, "exiled
00:03:30before the revolution, Marco Rubio grew up in Miami, in the heart of the
00:03:34Cuban-American community, and he built a large part of his
00:03:37political career on the Cuban issue.
00:03:43the emergence of a continent with
00:03:51If Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both advocate a hard line, their
00:03:54motivations are not quite the same. Rubio has
00:03:58long sought to provoke the fall of the communist regime, but Donald
00:04:02Trump mainly sees Cuba as a strategic issue for American
00:04:06interests and his interests far exceed
00:04:09politics.
00:04:14On the other hand, there is also the real estate magnate, whom we
00:04:17can think of in the person of Donald Trump, who had
00:04:21also, in an absolutely cynical way, marketed a Riviera
00:04:24in Gaza, a Trump Riviera in Gaza. Well, my Cuba is
00:04:27historically the Riviera of the United States.
00:04:31Before the revolution, Americans came to spend their holidays, invest in
00:04:35hotels, casinos or real estate. Donald Trump
00:04:38collapse, their daily life is himself already stated in
00:04:401999.
00:04:47But beyond the tourist destination, the island occupies a strategic position in
00:04:50the heart of the Caribbean, near the maritime routes connecting the Gulf of
00:04:54Mexico, the US coast and the Panama
00:04:57Canal, major crossing points for trade, but also for
00:05:01drug trafficking and other illegal activities.
00:05:04Ideology, domestic politics, economic and
00:05:07strategic interests, as we have seen, Donald Trump's motivations are
00:05:11multiple. The real question now is how far
00:05:14is he willing to
00:05:15go?
00:05:22First, there is the most extreme scenario, that of a
00:05:25military intervention. For several months, Donald Trump
00:05:29has been making numerous statements about his desire to take
00:05:33Cuba.
00:05:36statements that fuel speculation about a possible American
00:05:40intervention, what we can see is a... an
00:05:42activation of a military
00:05:46deployment around Cuba, in reality, Donald Trump
00:05:49has already deployed, so he already has a military deployment in the Caribbean since last
00:05:53summer, it's a bit like what preceded the capture
00:05:56of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, his kidnapping even
00:06:00under the guise of fighting drug trafficking in the Caribbean
00:06:03region. According to the BBC, five surveillance
00:06:06planes and three American drones have been regularly flying over the
00:06:09Cuban area since May 11. Militarily.
00:06:12The balance of power is largely in favor of the United States, despite
00:06:16the recent acquisition of several hundred drones, the Cuban army
00:06:19composed of about 50,000 soldiers, would absolutely
00:06:23not be able to stand up to the world's leading military power in a conventional
00:06:26war. Yet, the Cuban regime
00:06:29assures that it is ready to
00:06:31resist.
00:06:37To raise the disposition for the defense of our people in the interest of the war of
00:06:41all the people which is ours.
00:07:12a scenario comparable to that of Venezuela. After the capture
00:07:16of Nicolas Maduro, some imagine an operation targeting
00:07:19Raúl Castro, Fidel Castro's brother, still wanted by the
00:07:23United States, or the current president Miguel Díaz Canel.
00:07:42cares about Miguel Díaz Canel on the island or elsewhere, you know, he's a
00:07:46puppet um, and and he's he's not had any kind of
00:07:50strong presence in policy making, but there is a
00:07:53third, much more discreet option, on May
00:07:5614, 2026, for the first time, a director of the CIA,
00:08:00the American intelligence agency, visited
00:08:03Cuba, officially no negotiations were announced,
00:08:07yet discussions are well underway between Washington and
00:08:10Havana, because... we have known for months now that there are
00:08:14indeed negotiations between Washington and
00:08:17Havana.
00:08:25But then, with whom is the United States really talking? Part of the
00:08:28answer could be found on the side of Gaesa, the powerful Cuban military
00:08:32conglomerate, born in the 90s. A true state within a
00:08:35state, it controls a very large part of the strategic sectors of
00:08:40to infrastructure,
00:08:42the exact interlocutors
00:08:44remain unknown, but one thing is certain, Washington continues to
00:08:48maintain pressure, in the United States we are
00:08:52ready to open a new chapter in the relationship between our
00:08:54people and our countries, and
00:08:57currently the only thing standing in the
00:09:01way of a better future are those who
00:09:04control their country. In reality, everything
00:09:07indicates that the Trump administration is now prioritizing another
00:09:11strategy, rather than direct intervention, Washington seems
00:09:14to be relying on a gradual tightening of sanctions to deprive the
00:09:17regime of its resources and exacerbate the crisis.
00:09:21It's a mess.
00:09:29Right now, it seems that Donald Trump launched a
00:09:32policy of trying to deny Cuban
00:09:35resources, Cuban government resources, increasing sanctions
00:09:39including on individuals and companies, all with the idea of force.
00:10:25than ever alone in the face of US
00:10:28predation, as sanctions tighten and the crisis
00:10:31worsens, Washington seems to be relying on another
00:10:34strategy, pushing the Cuban regime to its limits
00:10:38until it hopes it will collapse on its own. It remains to
00:10:41be seen whether, as it has done repeatedly for more than
00:10:4560 years, the Cuban government will once again manage to
00:10:48survive.
00:11:23Yeah, you have to have the mental strength for it.
00:11:31to make the youth of the neighborhood speak out, to confront them with their emotions, their
00:11:34fears, that was Youssouf Timera's challenge, a film actor, it is through
00:11:38the 7th art that he gently led dozens of young people to
00:11:41question themselves and open up. Nearly a year later, they released "Return
00:11:44to the Light," a short film in their image, with accents of collective
00:11:48therapy. We are in Ivry-sur- Seine, you are in no neighborhood,
00:11:50uh, information guys, needs each of you to make a
00:11:54film. really first degree guys, it's done as a team in film, if tomorrow I tell
00:11:58my friend I'm going to see a shrink he'll
00:12:00he'll laugh you act tough but you're
00:12:04really scared he'll laugh why are you scared that no one will
00:12:07say your name okay
00:12:09silence on set guys please sometimes you have to talk actually and
00:12:13action my name is Timera so the first name Youssouf
00:12:17right I'm an actor and right now we're doing an inter-municipal project the principle is
00:12:20to link cinema and mental health.
00:12:24At the youth center in the Montmousseau neighborhood, when I tell
00:12:27you to make your animal noises, it's the ritual
00:12:30every Wednesday, what sound does a kangaroo make, you figure it out, the
00:12:34Cinémarne workshops started a year ago, led by Youssouf,
00:12:38a former resident of the neighborhood,
00:12:41feline, wolf or
00:12:44raptor, the session is meant to be liberating, a total
00:12:48surprise.
00:12:53no looking, we don't care, there they
00:12:56are, they're doing things that are
00:12:59incoherent, but for me it's coherent, another objective, to create
00:13:03cohesion between the residents of two
00:13:06cities, Ivry and Atissements,
00:13:09well it feels good, it feels really
00:13:11good,
00:13:15after, for example, shouting, we don't shout
00:13:17every day, so the fact that we shout at that
00:13:20moment... we do something that
00:13:23we're not used to doing and it allows us to be more at ease after
00:13:27outside, well I can't express my emotions and so through
00:13:31theater I manage
00:13:33to be seen as someone strong,
00:13:37stable, the big brother, the pillar you can
00:13:40count on,
00:13:42but sometimes
00:13:45I want to let go of everything, to
00:13:48scream, to cry, but I
00:13:50can't. I can't.
00:13:52I was about 15 years old when I took theater classes
00:13:56to work on my addiction and I had dreams, frustrations because
00:13:59I couldn't string two sentences together without people
00:14:03understanding me because I spoke too fast. Come on, hello, come on, let's
00:14:06go, let's go, hello, come on, hello. It blocked me in a lot of things, even
00:14:10in my an emotional block
00:14:14too.
00:14:14For
00:14:18teenagers, it's very difficult to sit down and listen to a speech
00:14:22on mental health in daily contact with young people. He embarked on
00:14:25Youssouf's adventure with his eyes closed. This kind of tool is the best way
00:14:29to talk to young people and raise their awareness about it. Take something they like,
00:14:33mix it with something they need and the mayonnaise
00:14:36is bound to take. I couldn't
00:14:39channel my emotions and my
00:14:42energies and thanks to this course, it allowed me
00:14:45to learn how to play a role, even play it well and
00:14:49I also thank you because it allowed me to learn about myself and learn
00:14:53about you too.
00:14:55It's a remedy for many things, whether it's oral expression, being able to
00:14:59play with sincere emotions because we work on sincerity, yeah, what's
00:15:03good about Youssouf is that he's cruel, he's cruel, if he has to say things, he says
00:15:07them, if not, he doesn't say them, he thinks it's simple to know how to laugh
00:15:10sincerely, they can't laugh sincerely, and when
00:15:14I have to cry, oh well, that's even worse, I've seen my friends,
00:15:17if I had done theater, I would have, yo, and
00:15:21food for everyone, it's not just football, it's not just rap, it's not just sheet, there's everything in
00:15:25life. Professional actor Youssouf acts in
00:15:27many films and series.
00:15:30Congratulations, the best grade in
00:15:35the class. With Cinémarne, he directed
00:15:39"Under Influence" in 2025, a short film about the excesses of a young
00:15:42influencer.
00:15:44Do you want to see who's the boss?
00:15:50This morning, the collective's
00:16:04cameras were in the background of the city's health
00:16:08center for the filming of "Return to the Light".
00:16:11Volunteers, the actors were cast by Youssouf's team. I'm going to see
00:16:14Edy's psychologist. The psychiatrist tells Eddie that he will be released earlier and I am
00:16:18not happy at all because I feel that Eddie is still a little more fragile, I am still
00:16:21fragile, a student of the workshops, Nino Bonet
00:16:25plays Eddie, a teenager in psychological distress,
00:16:28I'm going back to school, I'm happy, I'm seeing my friends again, but after a
00:16:32while, I have to do something. very lively because my mother is dead.
00:16:35Okay, silence on set and action. How do you
00:16:39feel here? Better.
00:16:43Do you
00:16:45think you'll be able to go back to school, keep up
00:16:48with the pace and see the others? Yes, I
00:16:51think so. What we would like is to take it to the best festivals
00:16:55we can and I would also like to use it as an educational tool for young people and
00:16:59I would like it to be young people who present it from makeup
00:17:02to directing actors. Aren't you happy to take it? You're happy with your
00:17:06son, but you don't really know how to get him back. On set, everything
00:17:10is an opportunity to
00:17:12talk, Mr. Internet with Dad, but wasn't the solution rather to talk to his
00:17:16son? I was 23 when I lost my mother, you see, but I had a lot of people, my
00:17:20brothers, my sisters, my father, surrounded, you know, I don't see the
00:17:23dream of saying, "Yeah, you come to my class, you'll be an actor." Come to be
00:17:27fulfilled already, the most important thing is that they have
00:17:30fun, that's all.
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00:19:15In the Seto Inland Sea of Japan,
00:19:18Nagashima Island had everything to be a little
00:19:21paradise.
00:19:23The government finally built a hell for thousands of patients like
00:19:27Shinji. When he landed in this port in
00:19:301948, escorted by a doctor, he was only 14
00:19:34years old.
00:19:38Since I arrived here without knowing anything, I was rather
00:19:41relaxed at first, but once I arrived, everyone told
00:19:44me that I would not be able to go home again.
00:19:48Shinji had contracted leprosy a
00:19:51year before his family sent him here. He then knew
00:19:54nothing about this disease that was about to deform his face and body
00:19:57by attacking his nerves. Once
00:20:00landed, suspected patients were locked up for a week in this
00:20:04building to be examined.
00:20:07At the time, we
00:20:10first proceeded to a disinfection here, because
00:20:13sometimes they arrived with lice, fleas or
00:20:16skin diseases, so there was no one really
00:20:19happy, everyone was crying, even the
00:20:23nurses wore rubber boots and
00:20:26masks made of several layers of protection.
00:20:29Like him, 5,000 children and
00:20:31adults were forcibly removed
00:20:34from their families and
00:20:38sent to this sanatorium, a
00:20:41confinement policy applied in... 17 years later, the real currency was
00:20:45introduced because from
00:20:481948, a new
00:21:20treatment allowed lepers to be cured and some patients were
00:21:24allowed to temporarily leave the island, a short-lived
00:21:28joy, because for these
00:21:31with their loved ones turned into a tragedy.
00:21:35When a leper was detected in a house, all members of his family
00:21:38were subjected to
00:21:40discrimination, it then became very difficult afterwards to
00:21:44accept his role. Rejected by their families, the cured
00:21:47lepers were also compelled by law to remain living on
00:21:52the island, so they built their own
00:21:55society, built
00:21:59roads or even
00:22:02schools for child patients, they created their own jobs,
00:22:06Shinji became
00:22:09a farmer, this is a photo from the time when I used to play
00:22:12baseball, there are no more fields today, but we often played matches.
00:22:16Shinji is now 91 years old, 77 of which
00:22:20he has spent here. He has known loneliness,
00:22:24but also laughter and love. His
00:22:28wife, now deceased, was also a patient. Like
00:22:31thousands of lepers, they were forced into
00:22:35sterilization. In 2024, this abusive
00:22:38practice was deemed unconstitutional by the Japanese
00:22:41Supreme Court, condemning the state to pay up to €8,000
00:22:45in compensation per victim. "It's difficult to say, but
00:22:48I felt like I was no longer
00:22:51truly a man, without children,
00:22:55Shinji can't even count on his nephews or nieces, his family
00:22:58never fully believed in his recovery, as evidenced by the last
00:23:02call with his mother to go see her in the
00:23:05hospital, she asked me, "Has your face returned
00:23:08to normal? Have your hands
00:23:11healed?" I repeated to her that what I had were sequelae,
00:23:14she said no, finally, "there's no need to
00:23:18come, it shouldn't be known."
00:23:22In 1996, nearly 50 years after the appearance of the first
00:23:26treatments and long legal battles, Japan finally
00:23:29authorized all lepers to leave the country's
00:23:33sanatoriums. A late victory, Shinji was then
00:23:3561 years old, it was impossible to envision a future outside
00:23:39the island.
00:23:42state and only former patients and a few
00:23:44civil servants are allowed there.
00:23:48Here, the needs of former lepers are
00:23:50taken care of by the government, a new
00:23:53hospital has even been built, it has more
00:23:56doctors than patients.
00:23:58Shinji goes there several times a
00:24:02week.
00:24:04But above all, doctors
00:24:14monitor the after-effects. You just have
00:24:16to be careful with the
00:24:19weakened nerves that make the dishes more susceptible to
00:24:23infection. Apart from that, we can say that it has become
00:24:26almost an ordinary disease today.
00:24:29In total, more than half of the
00:24:345,000 patients died on this prison
00:24:38island. For many, the deaths are related
00:24:40to old age or other diseases rather than leprosy. There are only
00:24:4466 left like Shinji
00:24:48to finish their days here.
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00:28:47we would have been taken to be exploited, maybe
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00:30:10escalation in Yemen, the Houthi rebels claim responsibility for the attack that left at least
00:30:1358 dead among the government forces supported by
00:30:16Riyadh, it is the deadliest attack since the 2022
00:30:19truce. In Syria, a bomb in a bus near Damascus
00:30:22kills two tonight, the attack occurred in Jaramana, a mainly
00:30:26Russian village, no claim has been made for the
00:30:30moment. Also in the news, an exceptional
00:30:33report filmed in Havana, Cuba, closer to the
00:30:36inhabitants between energy crisis and economic
00:30:41punctuated by trials. At least 58 soldiers killed in
00:30:56Yemen, the Houthi.