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00:00:00News,
00:00:06good evening everyone and welcome if you are joining us on France 24, tonight's
00:00:10top story is this new escalation in Yemen, the Houthis
00:00:13claim responsibility for the attack that killed at least 58 people among the governmental
00:00:16forces supported by Riyadh. It is the deadliest
00:00:19attack since the 2022 truce. In
00:00:22Syria, a bomb on a bus near Damascus killed two people tonight, the attack occurred
00:00:26in Jaramana, a city with a Russian majority. No
00:00:30claim of responsibility has been made so far. Also
00:00:33in the news, an exceptional report filmed in
00:00:36Havana, Cuba, close to the inhabitants, between the
00:00:40energy crisis and the collapse of the economy, their daily life is punctuated by hardship.
00:00:51authorizations and the fight against
00:00:56In Aude, the fire started from At least 58 soldiers killed in
00:00:58Yemen, the Houthis claim responsibility for the attacks against the Yemeni
00:01:03This is the end of this Africa news bulletin. Thank you for governmental forces supported by Saudi Arabia. This is the deadliest toll since the 2022
00:01:06ceasefire. The day before, the Houthis had attacked a second
00:01:10oil tanker in the Red Sea. The latest details from
00:01:12Loïc Salavon:
00:01:16After several attacks in the Red Sea against Saudi oil tankers, the
00:01:19Houthis are striking this time on dry land, a direct
00:01:23response according to them to Saudi Arabia's increased support for
00:01:26Yemeni governmental forces for several weeks.
00:01:34This operation allowed us to kill and injure many Saudi
00:01:37mercenaries, to destroy and burn a large number of camps and
00:01:40weapons depots of the Saudi enemy in the east of
00:01:43the country,
00:01:46as well as to destroy a large number of military vehicles stationed in the
00:01:50camps.
00:01:54According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles struck several
00:01:58military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the country and
00:02:02Hadramawt near the border with Saudi Arabia. This
00:02:06is the deadliest toll since 2022 between the two sides.
00:02:09Since 2014, a proxy war has been taking place in Yemen between the Houthi rebels
00:02:13allied with Iran and the Yemeni government supported by Riyadh and
00:02:16Washington. In 2022, a fragile truce came
00:02:20into effect, but it broke down last month when the Houthis
00:02:24welcomed an Iranian plane in Sanaa, violating the Saudi
00:02:27stranglehold on Yemeni airspace. The
00:02:30Houthis then announced a naval blockade of Saudi ports and
00:02:34began targeting the kingdom's
00:02:36oil tankers.
00:02:39We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
00:02:43against our country and our people. It will have to bear the
00:02:47consequences of any escalation.
00:02:51Saudi Arabia has not yet reacted to this new
00:02:54attack. The Yemeni government, recognized by the international
00:02:57community, has announced that it will retaliate at the right
00:03:01time and place. And we have just learned that another Houthi attack
00:03:04has just been perpetrated on Saudi soil in the Najran
00:03:08region, close to the border with Yemen. 11 civilians were
00:03:12injured. In Syria, a bomb on a bus near
00:03:15Damascus killed two people in the
00:03:17the former Beninese head of state evening. The attack occurred in
00:03:19has fled. Since then, businesses Jaramana, a city with a majority of Russians and which had already been last
00:03:23year the scene of violent clashes. The details from Dana
00:03:26Alboz, our correspondent in Damascus.
00:03:30According to our latest report released by the Syrian Ministry of
00:03:33Health, two people have died and 14 others have been
00:03:37injured in an explosion that occurred this evening in Jaramana in the
00:03:41southeastern suburb of Damascus. The explosion occurred in
00:03:45the middle of Jaramana's main artery, a very busy
00:03:48road. It targeted a small passenger shuttle
00:03:52which was completely destroyed according to
00:03:55our information. The injured were evacuated to
00:03:58two hospitals in Adham and Jaramana, and according to a
00:04:02local source, most of the injuries are minor, but
00:04:05this information remains preliminary and the death toll
00:04:08could increase. The authorities have established a
00:04:11security perimeter around the area and there is
00:04:15concern among the inhabitants of Jaramana. Jaramana is
00:04:19located only a few kilometers southeast of Damascus, the city
00:04:23also harbors a large Russian population,
00:04:28WHO chief to the Democratic Republic but also inhabitants from different communities.
00:04:30At this stage, no party has officially
00:04:33claimed responsibility for this attack, nor have the authorities
00:04:36crisis and the collapse of the communicated the exact nature of this
00:04:39explosion, but of course, this incident comes as Syria has
00:04:42experienced several explosions in Damascus, and in
00:04:46its surroundings, in recent months and even recent
00:04:50weeks. I recall that at the beginning of July, during the visit of French
00:04:54President Emmanuel Macron, two explosions occurred
00:04:58in Damascus, in these different...
00:05:00explosive devices had been mentioned, and this
00:05:04new explosion occurs
00:05:06requests for the creation of online in a context, I can say, of security challenges for the new
00:05:09Syrian authorities, Syrian authorities who must...
00:05:12notably face the persistence of attacks and
00:05:15security incidents targeting urban
00:05:19areas. Also in the news is this new
00:05:22fire affecting the Corbières massif in France. It broke out
00:05:26in the commune of Montseré in the afternoon. The rapid
00:05:29intervention of 250 firefighters assisted by four Canadairs allowed
00:05:32it to be contained this evening. We take stock with Alexandre
00:05:35Halet.
00:05:38The flames are spreading at a scorching pace.
00:05:42propelled by the Tramontana at 30 km/h,
00:05:45the fire devours the vegetation.
00:05:49Facing the blaze, 250 firefighters deployed
00:05:53along this limestone massif.
00:05:56In reinforcement quickly, 10 aerial means including two
00:05:59Dash, four Canadairs and one water bombing
00:06:03helicopter.
00:06:08the commune of Montseré, it is heading towards Saint-André-de-
00:06:12Clongue and threatens the houses.
00:06:161200 people are now confined in these two
00:06:18communes, including a man we reached by phone
00:06:22and who is filming these images. The fire is a few hundred
00:06:26meters from his home. So how will the night be? I think it's going to be
00:06:29a sleepless night and we're going to prepare all our belongings just in case. So
00:06:33for now, well, we don't really know what it's going to
00:06:36do. The concern in this village of
00:06:391500 inhabitants. Everyone is watching the progression
00:06:42of the flames. I was called by the
00:06:45family and they told me that the rock was burning and
00:06:49well, being from the village, I rushed back from work and
00:06:53worried, well, the rock stretches along the landscape near the
00:06:56village. These images reach us from the first
00:07:00burnt landscapes, and it's always heartbreaking because
00:07:02obviously nature going up in smoke is
00:07:06always quite traumatic. A
00:07:09vehicle that caught fire after a road accident... is said to be the cause of this
00:07:13fire. The vines in the path of the fire
00:07:17could act as a firebreak.
00:07:20He may have reversed course, but the pressure on Gianni Infantino is not
00:07:24subsiding. Despite the apologies, part of the FIFA
00:07:27board, UEFA is maintaining its boycott of the World Cups. For its part, Conmebol,
00:07:31which manages South American football, is
00:07:34disassociating itself from the methods of the FIFA president. We take stock with Nicolas
00:07:38Chamontin.
00:07:41The apologies from the FIFA leadership are doing nothing. UEFA
00:07:45assures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect. The
00:07:49member federations of UEFA have been very clear about the conditions related
00:07:53to their non-participation in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
00:07:56met. In addition to the abandonment of FIFA's commercial
00:08:00company project decided on Friday, the European football
00:08:03body is demanding assurances that such an idea will never see the
00:08:07light of day. UEFA reaffirms having lost confidence
00:08:10in Gianni Infantino. On Wednesday evening, the head of world football
00:08:14received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for a
00:08:18crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
00:08:21apologized after the controversy over the opening to
00:08:24private investors, a project that leaked to the press without
00:08:28the football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
00:08:32South American confederation Conmebol, although reputed to be close
00:08:35to Infantino, in turn denounced the president's
00:08:38methods. The Conmebol council unanimously expresses
00:08:42its... concern over repeated unilateral actions,
00:08:45adopted without resorting to dialogue or the institutional mechanism provided
00:08:49for the handling of this type of situation.
00:08:52Seemingly unmovable a few weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems
00:08:56more fragile than ever. The man who has led
00:08:59FIFA for a decade still hopes to be re-elected next
00:09:02March, thanks to the support of many federations in Africa and the
00:09:06Middle East. And now this exceptional
00:09:10report, filmed in Havana, Cuba, where the daily
00:09:13life of the population is a real ordeal, the
00:09:17energy crisis is compounded by an unprecedented economic collapse,
00:09:20while Washington multiplies sanctions between
00:09:23American pressure and internal crisis, Cubans try to
00:09:27hold on day after
00:09:28day.
00:09:32I'm braiding my child's hair, you don't want cheap braids? How are you,
00:09:35family?
00:09:37Tania is a teacher, like
00:09:40many... There's no more tourism, everything is
00:10:01empty, no clients, no one left to
00:10:04style. Look at this empty hotel, not a single client
00:10:08coming out, it hurts. In January, Washington tightened its energy
00:10:11blockade, followed by new sanctions against companies operating
00:10:15in Cuba. Since then, the terraces of Havana have emptied of
00:10:19their clients. The fall in tourism, one of the main
00:10:22sources of income for the country, affects the entire
00:10:26economy. The country
00:10:29is unrecognizable and the hotel does
00:10:32not earn enough money to be able
00:10:35to pay the artists.
00:10:37It is the entire island that is
00:10:41asphyxiated. In the markets, local products are not
00:10:44lacking, but due to a lack of gasoline, the cost of their transport increases,
00:10:47prices climb due to already chronic
00:10:51inflation. tempers flare, the
00:11:25Cubans are tired.
00:11:28Civil servants like Tania, the teacher who braids hair in the
00:11:32center, earn a paltry income.
00:11:36I earn 6 dollars a month, and that's
00:11:38really not enough, I have to buy everything, clothes, shoes,
00:11:42and if I think about shoes for the children, I can forget about
00:11:45food. The absence of electricity aggravates
00:11:49already precarious living conditions, only one
00:11:52hour of... electricity per day, often
00:11:56less. There's nothing in it, if there was anything it would have
00:11:59already rotted. With all these hours without electricity, what we buy is day
00:12:03to day. Despite a recent opening, Cuba
00:12:07seems frozen in time. The inhabitants sell what they
00:12:10can, and in the private shops now authorized, basic
00:12:14products are a luxury. This is a
00:12:17butcher shop where people do their shopping, a private butcher shop. 7
00:12:21dollars for a bag of chicken, more than my salary.
00:12:25Suddenly, a woman intervenes, you need
00:12:28authorization to be able to do that. The committees for
00:12:31the defense of the revolution are still there, but they are less active,
00:12:35worn out by the crisis. Tania, for her part, has nothing to
00:12:38reproach herself for.
00:12:42I love my island, I am a revolutionary, and even if I have nothing
00:12:45to eat, I love our commander Fidel Castro. When he
00:12:48died, I cried.
00:12:52Between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans survive
00:12:56day by day, without seeing the end of the
00:12:59road.
00:13:01And we end this newscast with a very particular record: at almost 100 years old,
00:13:05British woman Betsy Bromedj is not afraid of anything. Justine Wail
00:13:09met her. Completely
00:13:12relaxed, this British woman set a new world
00:13:16record, that of the oldest woman to wingwalk
00:13:20standing on the wings of a plane. At
00:13:2397 years old, here is Betty.
00:13:25Speed peaks at 240 km/h, a strong
00:13:29heart and a certain thirst for adrenaline.
00:13:33When you get old, you can't go here, you can't do that, you can't
00:13:36drive. I don't see very well and it frustrates me a bit, so I
00:13:40want to do things I'm still
00:13:41capable of. Stunningly
00:13:45courageous, Betty Bromage is no stranger to such feats.
00:13:494 years ago she was already the record holder. This
00:13:52new achievement today impressed
00:13:55her audience. She's doing wonderfully, I'm so proud
00:13:58of her, it's incredible. I mean, she's visually impaired, almost
00:14:01blind, and she's doing all this at her age.
00:14:05It's just amazing, isn't it? And when any excuse seems good enough
00:14:08to take on challenges, here she is
00:14:11celebrating her 90th birthday with a dizzying zip-line descent
00:14:15in Wales. This week, it was something else
00:14:18that pushed her to outdo herself, a gesture that was
00:14:21close to her heart: to express her gratitude to the caregivers at the hospital who
00:14:25accompanied her during her stroke. The funds raised will be
00:14:28donated to them. Continuous information on France 24,
00:14:32stay with us, we'll be back in a few minutes.
00:14:36Good evening everyone, welcome to France 24, we'll be
00:14:43together for about ten minutes for the Africa news, we'll start with the
00:14:47headlines of this edition. We'll first discuss the visit of the
00:14:53of Congo, he says he wants to intensify the response against
00:14:56Ebola and better protect health personnel, while in the country many
00:15:00doctors say they have not received a salary in recent
00:15:04months. Textile factories may have
00:15:07to close in South Africa, many positions are vacant
00:15:11since the departure of migrants at the end of June, driven by
00:15:14anti-foreigner demonstrations, since then it has been difficult to find
00:15:18labor.
00:15:20And then we'll go to Rwanda where cinema
00:15:22has gained popularity in recent months since the Golden Camera obtained in
00:15:26Cannes by the feature film Benimana, Rwandans are
00:15:29rushing to cinemas and open-air
00:15:33festivals.
00:15:33We need to intensify the response
00:15:38against Ebola, this is what the head of the World Health Organization declared
00:15:42earlier. He has been visiting the Democratic Republic
00:15:46of Congo since yesterday. Since May 15, more than 3900
00:15:49cases have been registered in the country, among which 1801
00:15:53deaths. Earlier, a suspected case was reported on a boat heading
00:15:56to Kinshasa. The man died with symptoms
00:16:00corresponding to those of the Ebola virus. We will listen to the Director-
00:16:04General of the WHO. I think one of
00:16:11the particularities of this epidemic lies
00:16:13in its unprecedented speed,
00:16:17it is spreading really, really
00:16:19very quickly,
00:16:21and I'm not going to hide what I feel, I am
00:16:25deeply very concerned by the situation
00:16:29on the ground.
00:16:31Of course, the epidemic, but as our report says,
00:16:355 other provinces are already affected.
00:16:38The head of the WHO also calls
00:16:44for better protection of health personnel and
00:16:47precisely, on the front line, doctors and nurses denounce
00:16:50their working conditions. They say they have not been paid
00:16:54since the beginning of the crisis despite a strike in July. The story by
00:16:57Noémie Roche:
00:16:59Every day, the same
00:17:03ritual, Wiza Bandelé puts on his suit and
00:17:06his disinfection
00:17:08equipment before tackling a house whose
00:17:11occupants died of the Ebola virus, essential
00:17:15actions to hope to slow the spread of the
00:17:19virus that continues to strike the country.
00:17:22However, since the beginning of his mission in mid-May, Wiza has
00:17:26still not received any salary. In
00:17:29July, he joined other health workers to go on
00:17:32strike. We went on strike because we
00:17:36observed dangerous conditions and that we
00:17:39were giving a lot of ourselves. We operate in risky situations, it can happen
00:17:43that a patient vomits blood, we then have to
00:17:47clean up.
00:17:47In July, the Congolese Minister of
00:17:51Health acknowledged payment delays attributed to organizational
00:17:55problems, assuring that they would be resolved.
00:17:58Since then, some of his colleagues have indeed been paid, but only partially
00:18:02according to Wiza. He claims to have still received nothing.
00:18:05And yet he continues to work 7
00:18:08days a week despite the risks to which he is
00:18:11exposed. I could contract this virus, and subsequently,
00:18:15contaminate my family and my neighbors. I
00:18:19therefore realize that because of me, many people could
00:18:23die.
00:18:24Despite the fear, Wiza refuses
00:18:27to leave his post for now, guided by a sense
00:18:30of duty. A mission all the more crucial as this epidemic has
00:18:34now surpassed 2018 in terms of cases,
00:18:38according to Congolese authorities, more than 8370 cases have
00:18:42been confirmed, including 1751 deaths
00:18:45since the beginning of the epidemic in May.
00:18:492 months after leaving power, Patrice Talon returns to the forefront,
00:18:55was elected president of the Senate, a 5-year term
00:18:58that makes him today the third most important figure in the country
00:19:02after the president and the vice-president of the Republic.
00:19:05Is this a sign that Senegal
00:19:10is recovering? In any case, the World Bank has decided to grant it
00:19:13financing of 340 billion CFA francs. The
00:19:17country was almost blacklisted by international partners since
00:19:21the crisis with the International Monetary Fund over the hidden
00:19:24debt story. Details from our correspondent in Dakar
00:19:28Elimandao. This overall financing of
00:19:32340 billion CFA francs is intended for
00:19:35several sectors such as agriculture, energy
00:19:38and transport. This announcement was made during an
00:19:42audience granted by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye to
00:19:46the Vice-President of the World Bank Ousmane Diagana. The
00:19:49World Bank has above all decided on direct budgetary
00:19:52support to the State of Senegal, budgetary
00:19:55support that is welcome in a difficult economic context. Senegal
00:19:59which has been experiencing several months of crisis and
00:20:02tension over its public finances linked notably
00:20:06to debt service that the country has decided to honor as
00:20:10best it can. This announcement of new World Bank financing
00:20:13is a positive signal according to government officials,
00:20:17a positive signal towards more favorable economic
00:20:19tomorrows. Senegal is aiming notably for an agreement with the International
00:20:23Monetary Fund on a new program to revive its
00:20:26credibility on the international market and attract more
00:20:30new investors.
00:20:32A decision that is causing a lot of talk in Chad, that of the High
00:20:36Authority for Media and
00:20:39Audiovisual which suspends until further notice, the examination of
00:20:44newspapers. The regulator states that it wants to better regulate this
00:20:47rapidly expanding sector and thus combat disinformation.
00:20:51Listen to our correspondent in N'Djamena, Ghislaine
00:20:54Annatarum. It's a decision that challenges
00:20:58media stakeholders. The High Authority for Media and Audiovisual
00:21:02is freezing the examination of applications for the creation of new online
00:21:05newspapers. The measure is part of the regulator's strategic plan
00:21:092026-2028, with the ambition of cleaning up the
00:21:12sector and better responding to the informational abuses
00:21:16observed on digital platforms. While the
00:21:20Association of Online Media of Chad (AMOT) understands the need for better
00:21:24regulation, it believes that this objective must
00:21:28remain compatible with freedom of the press and the
00:21:32pluralism of information.
00:21:35The organization questions notably the link established
00:21:38between the suspension of new misinformation. It's a fine
00:21:42line between freedom of expression, the differences of various
00:21:46sources of information, did we need, for example, to
00:21:50suspend the creation of new
00:21:53sites, new information sites or new online media
00:21:56to combat
00:22:00the proliferation of fake pages on the
00:22:04internet? I don't think so. Now the decision belongs to the HAMAMA and that's why I'm
00:22:06telling you that it's this somewhat unhealthy
00:22:09link that bothers us at the question level. We suspend and then we
00:22:12say there's a proliferation of
00:22:16Facebook pages or other pages, but Facebook pages are
00:22:20not media. The HAMAMA
00:22:23nevertheless stated that it remains open to dialogue and declares
00:22:26itself willing to accompany the HAMAMA in the search
00:22:29for a consensual regulatory framework. For its part,
00:22:33the regulatory authority insists on the provisional
00:22:36nature of this suspension. It announces the upcoming
00:22:40opening of consultations with stakeholders in the sector in
00:22:43order to define a new governance model for online
00:22:46media. Several factories shut down in South
00:22:50Africa, a situation caused by the departure of many
00:22:53migrants after weeks of anti-foreigner
00:22:56demonstrations. Some positions are vacant, this is the case
00:23:00in Newcastle in the northwest of the country. More details with Laurent
00:23:03Berstecher. For weeks, this South African
00:23:06textile factory has been operating at a reduced
00:23:10pace.
00:23:14Here, entire rows of sewing machines are left abandoned
00:23:18since the departure of foreign workers. Most
00:23:22have fled the country following anti-migrant demonstrations,
00:23:25and the factory director is now struggling to replace
00:23:29them. We cannot immediately
00:23:31replace this expertise with local workers, it takes
00:23:33time and we were not
00:23:36prepared. Since March, South Africa has been
00:23:39shaken by violent demonstrations and attacks
00:23:42against migrants. The organizers
00:23:45of these gatherings accuse foreign workers of stealing jobs
00:23:48from native South Africans and see them as the cause of the country's
00:23:52economic difficulties. These violences recently forced more than
00:23:5516,000 foreign nationals to leave South
00:23:59Africa. In Newcastle, a textile
00:24:03industry hub located in the KwaZulu Natal province,
00:24:06approximately 15% of the workforce
00:24:09have been struggling to convince skilled workers to join this
00:24:13demanding sector.
00:24:17I think young South Africans prefer to look for more
00:24:21comfortable jobs. They want to be nurses or cashiers because
00:24:24the textile industry is very tough. You sit on this
00:24:28bench for about 9 hours a day, this
00:24:31l'industrie du textile est très rude. Vous êtes assis sur ce
00:24:35is not an
00:24:38easy job.
00:24:41For others, these jobs are simply not paid
00:24:44enough. Here, workers are often paid per item
00:24:48produced and earn less than the South African
00:24:51minimum wage.
00:24:54We're now going to talk about cinema. We're taking you to Rwanda, Kigali,
00:24:58where the sector is in full swing. Many dark
00:25:01rooms have been renovated, open-air festivals have been organized
00:25:05in recent weeks, and this is partly due to the
00:25:08success in Cannes of a Rwandan feature film, Ben Imana, which
00:25:11won the Camera d'Or. Watch this report from Kigali by Aurore
00:25:15Baylou.
00:25:18In the streets of Nyamirambo, the...
00:25:25film in Rwanda, due to a lack of a real industry, cinema has long
00:25:28been invented by the sole force of its directors. There is something
00:25:31specific for filmmakers
00:25:34here. I don't know if it's because
00:25:38it's a small country or a small city, but it has a sense
00:25:41of community. We had common problems,
00:25:45so we helped each other
00:25:49and the...
00:26:02had to pay in activity and the heart of a film club. We
00:26:06believe that films are not just there to entertain; they also have depth,
00:26:10they transmit many things, and today, in an era where we are constantly bombarded with
00:26:13content and people spend their time scrolling through images on their
00:26:17phones, we don't want what we offer to be reduced to "let's watch
00:26:20a few images." There's a real selection behind our programming. Further on,
00:26:24on the esplanade of Imbuga City Walk, a giant screen hosts the
00:26:28open-air screenings of the Kigalicine Junction festival, which is celebrating
00:26:32its 4th
00:27:05watching. Stay with us on France
00:27:0724.
00:27:16Every year, Thailand organizes a unique event in the world: the
00:27:19terrible military service lottery.
00:28:03Reporter, an award-winning program on five
00:28:06continents to watch on France 24.
00:30:04Good evening everyone and welcome if you are joining us on France 24. Tonight's
00:30:08top story: this new escalation in Yemen. The Houthi
00:30:11claim responsibility for the attack that killed at least 58 people among the governmental
00:30:14forces supported by Riyadh. It is the deadliest
00:30:17attack since the 2022 truce. In
00:30:20Syria, a bomb in a bus near Damascus killed two people tonight. The attack
00:30:24occurred in Jaramana, a city with a Russian majority. No
00:30:28claim of responsibility has been made for the moment. Also
00:30:31in this news bulletin, an exceptional report filmed in
00:30:34Havana, Cuba, close to the inhabitants, between the energy
00:30:39economy, their daily lives, to kill the evidence.
00:30:53At least 58 soldiers killed in Yemen. The Houthi claim
00:30:57attacks against government forces.