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00:00:07Hello everyone, thank you for joining us on France 24 for the main news
00:00:11which continues now with a new broadcast. Leading the news
00:00:14this Friday, will the specter of sectarian violence
00:00:18re-emerge in Syria? An attack with a car
00:00:21bomb in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus left two
00:00:25dead and more than a dozen injured this Thursday, a new
00:00:29option, so we will gain deadly attack in the Syrian capital within
00:00:32a few months. As you will see, we will also talk about a man in
00:00:35turmoil in the news, Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful
00:00:38head of FIFA is more vulnerable than ever,
00:00:42UEFA maintains its boycott of
00:00:45world football organization competitions
00:00:48after the aborted project of FIFA opening
00:00:51à des investisseurs extérieurs voulu par Jani
00:00:54Infantino, and then we will
00:00:58édition confronté à une crise énergétique.
00:01:00and economic crisis caused by the American oil blockade. The
00:01:04population of the island tries to
00:01:08many rhymes with survival, as you will see.
00:01:25Is Syria once again heading towards
00:01:28in order after a bomb exploded
00:01:32in a vehicle this Thursday near Damascus, leaving two
00:01:35dead and 13 injured. An attack therefore occurred in
00:01:39Jaramana, a town with a Druze and
00:01:42Christian majority located in the suburbs of the Syrian capital and
00:01:46already the scene of sectarian violence in
00:01:49spring 2025. Alice
00:01:51Broga
00:01:54at the scene of the tragedy in Jaramana, in the suburbs of Damascus, chaos
00:01:57reigns before the arrival of emergency services. This public
00:02:00transport minibus has just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
00:02:04the explosion. The residents are in
00:02:07shock.
00:02:10We went out and saw the minibus, it was making a deafening noise, it was
00:02:14damaged, two women fled the explosion and a fragment headed towards our
00:02:17shop, a shell fragment flew in my direction and hit the
00:02:20window. The explosion was caused by a
00:02:24bomb inside the vehicle, according to state
00:02:27television. Several people died and a dozen injured
00:02:31were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the driver of the
00:02:35minibus.
00:02:37Killing innocent people who did nothing wrong just to sow chaos in the country
00:02:41in Syria, it's a purely sadistic act. This
00:02:45explosion hits a predominantly Druze and Christian city, two
00:02:48communities that feel threatened under the new Syrian regime led by
00:02:52former jihadist Ahmad al-Shar. Last year,
00:02:55sectarian violence between armed groups linked to the regime and Druze fighters
00:02:59resulted in more than 100 deaths in Jaramana and the surrounding areas,
00:03:02according to the London-based OSD NGO, and several
00:03:06attacks or planned attacks have targeted
00:03:09months.
00:03:13The new Syrian regime is struggling to assert its
00:03:17territory, where sleeper cells of the
00:03:20Islamic State jihadist organization are still present.
00:03:23In Damascus, several deadly attacks have occurred in recent months, including
00:03:27une attaque à la bombe ayant fait un mort et 30. blessé lors de la
00:03:31French President Emmanuel Macron's visit in
00:03:33July.
00:03:38In the Middle East, the consequences of the conflict between
00:03:40Iran and the United States are multiplying and spreading. In
00:03:44Yemen, Houthi rebels have
00:03:47attaque contre les forces gouvernementales depuis des années,
00:03:50resulting in 58 deaths and targets also hit in
00:03:54central government. This is also
00:03:58the resumption of a conflict after a ceasefire concluded painfully
00:04:02in 2022. After
00:04:05several attacks in the Red Sea against
00:04:08the Houthis are striking this time on land, a
00:04:12increased support from Saudi Arabia
00:04:15forces for several
00:04:18semaines.
00:04:24This operation killed and
00:04:27mercenaries, and destroyed and burned a large number.
00:04:35as well as destroying a large number
00:04:39targeted
00:04:40camps.
00:04:44According to an anonymous military source, Houthi drones and missiles hit
00:04:48several military camps in the province of Marib in the center of the
00:04:50country and Adhramaut near the border with Saudi
00:04:54toll since 2022 between the
00:04:58two sides. The Yemeni government announced that it would retaliate at the appropriate
00:05:02Since 2014, a proxy war has
00:05:05lieu au Yémen entre les rebelles outier alliés de l'Iran, et le gouvernement
00:05:09government supported by Riyadh and Washington. In
00:05:122022, a fragile truce came into
00:05:16last month when the Houthis
00:05:19Sanaa, violating Saudi
00:05:23airspace. The Houthis then announced a naval blockade of
00:05:26Saudi ports and began to
00:05:30oil tankers.
00:05:32We warn the Saudi enemy against any reckless action
00:05:36people. They will have to
00:05:39assumer les conséquences de toute escalade.
00:05:44According to a senior Saudi official, several intelligence services claim that Iraqi
00:05:48militias are preparing
00:05:52coordination with Yemeni Houthis and under the direction of the Iranian
00:05:55Saudi Arabia indicates that it
00:05:58will take the necessary measures to respond to any
00:06:00aggression.
00:06:03Still in the Middle East, in the occupied West Bank,
00:06:06new violence by Israeli
00:06:09It affected a village in the south of the
00:06:13Palestinian territory, resulting in destroyed and burned
00:06:16homes, and residents also
00:06:20injured. These are endemic
00:06:23Palestinian territory, and they have been
00:06:26the attacks of October
00:06:287th.
00:06:30Now, these images come to us from Argentina,
00:06:33tense demonstrations between
00:06:37opponents and law enforcement in front of the Argentine
00:06:40Senate in Buenos Aires.
00:06:43These protesters gathered to denounce a private
00:06:46property reform law desired by President
00:06:50Javier Milei, a text that, among other things, aims to facilitate
00:06:54les procédures d'expulsion au canayer qui rend plus difficile
00:06:57l'expropriation par l'état d'un bien privé.
00:07:01Listen to this
00:07:01protester.
00:07:06What they're doing is extremely serious, not only do they want to sell to
00:07:10the notary, which unfortunately has been happening for a long time, but they're trying
00:07:14d'aller plus loin avec cette loi, c'est terrible et nous ne pouvons pas laisser passer
00:07:17happen.
00:07:21Now to the United States, Donald Trump is once again tightening his
00:07:25immigration policy. The American President has signed a
00:07:28decree intended to prevent, according to him, birth tourism,
00:07:32a practice where some women give birth in the
00:07:35United States so that their
00:07:39citizenship. This is a new attempt by the American President
00:07:42to challenge birthright citizenship.
00:07:44Listen to him.
00:07:48The Supreme Court made a very regrettable decision regarding
00:07:51birthright citizenship. The vote was
00:07:55regrettable. So we are going to make
00:07:58adjustments because it is very unfair. This rule was
00:08:01established for another reason, it was just after the Civil War, it was for the
00:08:05children of slaves. But today, what is happening is that
00:08:08wealthy people are doing business
00:08:13It should not work like that, it is a shame, they buy their access to
00:08:16citoyenneté.
00:08:22As you know, Donald Trump has also made Cuba a target of
00:08:26his administration. The American president
00:08:30island, causing months of
00:08:33power outages and a serious
00:08:37Cubans manage to cope
00:08:40with this daily life? A report from Havana by France
00:08:4424. Watch. I braid my
00:08:48child's hair.
00:08:52How?
00:08:56The family is a teacher, like many Cubans,
00:08:59working to live decently.
00:09:02To propose
00:09:06life. I will not lose the strength to keep
00:09:10fighting. Times are tougher than ever on the communist
00:09:14island.
00:09:16There is no more tourism, everything is empty, no
00:09:19customers, no one left to braid hair.
00:09:23Look at this empty hotel, not a single guest checking out. It
00:09:27hurts. In January, Washington tightened its energy
00:09:30blockade, followed by new sanctions against companies
00:09:34operating in Cuba. Since then, the terraces of Havana have
00:09:37emptied of their customers. The fall in
00:09:40tourism, one of the main
00:10:12Cuba every day, these are trials again and again, and it's us, the
00:10:16Cubans on the street who pay for them.
00:10:20Without electricity, without enough foreign currency, all
00:10:23institutions, like the bank, are running
00:10:26slowly. I'm waiting to get my
00:10:29salary. People are angry, they're shouting. I don't
00:10:33even have money to buy food.
00:10:36Several days of waiting at the bank to get a salary or a
00:10:39pension. Tempers are flaring, Cubans are
00:10:43tired.
00:10:45Civil servants like Tania, the teacher who braids hair in the
00:10:49center, earn a ridiculously
00:10:51low income.
00:10:53I earn 6 dollars a month, and that's really not
00:10:57enough. I have to buy everything, clothes, shoes, and
00:11:00if I think about shoes for the children, I can forget
00:11:04food. The lack of electricity aggravates already precarious living
00:11:07conditions. Only one hour of electricity per day, often
00:11:11less. There's nothing inside. If there were something, it would already be
00:11:15rotten. With all these hours without
00:11:18always for the day. Despite a recent opening, Cuba
00:11:22seems frozen in time. The inhabitants resell.
00:11:36$7 a bag of chicken, more than my
00:11:37salary. Suddenly a woman
00:11:41intervenes, "You need authorization to do
00:11:45that." The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution are still
00:11:48there, but they are less active, worn out by the crisis.
00:11:52Tania, for her part, has nothing to reproach herself for.
00:11:57"I love my island, I am a revolutionary, and even if I have nothing
00:12:00to eat, I love our commander Fidel
00:12:02Castro."
00:12:06When he died, between political pressure and economic collapse, Cubans
00:12:10survive day to day, without seeing the end of the
00:12:14road.
00:12:17This question now, how much longer can the
00:12:21head of FIFA remain in office? He seems more
00:12:24vulnerable than ever after his desire, remember,
00:12:28to open FIFA to foreign investors,
00:12:31now abandoned in the face of the outcry. UEFA
00:12:34nevertheless maintains its boycott of the World Cups. According to the European football
00:12:38body, trust is no longer there. Nicolas
00:12:41Chamontin.
00:12:43The apologies from FIFA's management are not enough. UEFA
00:12:47confirms that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect.
00:12:51The member federations of UEFA have been very clear about the conditions
00:12:55linked to their non-participation in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
00:12:59met. In addition to the abandonment of FIFA's commercial
00:13:02company project decided on Friday, the European football
00:13:05body demands assurances
00:13:09light of day. UEFA reaffirms that it has lost confidence in
00:13:13Gianni Infantino. On Wednesday evening, the head of world
00:13:16football received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for a
00:13:20crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
00:13:23apologized after the controversy over opening
00:13:27project that leaked to the press without
00:13:30football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
00:13:34South American Football Confederation Conmebol, despite being considered close
00:13:37denounced the President's
00:13:41methods. The Conmebol council unanimously expressed
00:13:43its concern over repeated unilateral
00:13:47répétées, adoptées sans recourir au dialogue ni au mécanisme
00:13:50institutionnel prévu pour le traitement de ce type de
00:13:53situation. Apparently immovable a few
00:13:56weeks ago, Gianni Infantino
00:13:59ever. The man who has led FIFA for a decade still
00:14:03toujours être réélu en mars prochain grâce au soutien de
00:14:06many federations in Africa and the
00:14:09Middle East.
00:14:11That's the end of our edition. Thank you for watching and stay with us on
00:14:15France 24, of
00:14:16course.
00:15:34After the coast, we will turn towards the
00:15:37mountains.
00:15:40We are going to a village called Shebad.
00:15:44It was controlled by the Islamic
00:15:45State,
00:15:48but it was liberated by the Puntland
00:15:50army.
00:15:54There are two ways to fly in a combat zone: either you fly very
00:15:58low, or high enough
00:16:01fire. Due to the terrain, we cannot choose the first
00:16:06altitude. If someone shoots at us, the bullets will lose their
00:16:09velocity before hitting the
00:16:11aircraft.
00:16:16This entire valley was controlled by the Islamic State. There's the
00:16:20village. Welcome to
00:16:22Shebad.
00:16:29This was the new stronghold of the Islamic State.
00:16:32From this village in northern Somalia, the jihadists
00:16:35sought to expand the group's influence worldwide and finance the
00:16:39other factions on the continent.
00:16:42After the fall of ISIS in the Middle East in 2019, hundreds of
00:16:46foreign jihadists flocked here. They joined
00:16:49local fighters and captured a territory of 5000
00:16:52km2 in the semi-autonomous region of
00:16:54Puntland.
00:17:00Somalia is a federation of several states. Each has
00:17:04its own army and government.
00:17:07The one in Puntland remained inactive against ISIS for a long
00:17:10time,
00:17:13but following the group's significant
00:17:172024 and deployed this elite unit. The
00:17:20PMPF were initially formed to fight
00:17:23United Arab
00:17:26Emirates.
00:17:31This is one of the signs on which they wrote their
00:17:33lies.
00:17:37They wrote verses from the Quran, but my Arabic is not
00:17:40good. No matter what is written
00:17:44here, we are Somalis, they want to mislead
00:17:48us. They invented their
00:17:51citations, they are usurpers
00:17:54of ideology, thieves who have killed people and created
00:17:58problems all over the world, and they have
00:18:00come here to hide and to cause chaos in the
00:18:03world. You see? It's already
00:18:07damaged. We'll take it down soon.
00:18:27Today, Colonel Ali's troops will resupply an advanced
00:18:30post.
00:18:39The front line is inaccessible by
00:18:41car. The camel has many
00:18:44advantages. It doesn't need to rest. Wherever you go, it
00:18:48will follow you. You don't need to refuel, no spare
00:18:52parts needed. It has everything it
00:18:53needs.
00:18:56Okay, you can even beat it, yeah, beat it and
00:18:59eat its meat, wherever you are, but only if really
00:19:03necessary.
00:19:20Some are still hidden in the vicinity, we must be on alert wherever
00:19:23we go. We clear the roads, whether it's footpaths or tracks for
00:19:27cars.
00:19:32These mountainous paths are riddled with explosive devices planted by
00:19:35terrorists.
00:19:42ISIS is difficult to
00:19:43locate,
00:19:47and even more difficult to neutralize.
00:20:01So the army is calling for help from American fighter jets and
00:20:04drones. They have carried out more than
00:20:08strikes in Somalia in
00:20:092025.
00:20:18This is where we unload the donkeys, we will tie them up and transport the ammunition
00:20:21ourselves, the front is over
00:20:23there.
00:20:26After the night's bombings, the soldiers will launch a new
00:20:29offensive.
00:20:31They hide, every time one of them shows their
00:20:34head, our army must attack from three
00:20:37different sides. Those who are in the caves, we will try to get
00:20:40them with artillery.
00:20:44Once we've hit them, we go in
00:20:46with force.
00:20:49Be careful, when we capture the cave, we must not rush. The deminers must
00:20:53go first. There can be traps, they must disarm
00:20:56them.
00:21:00ISIS fighters, hidden by the terrain, can emerge at any
00:21:04moment, but we won't see
00:21:07them.
00:21:12For our safety, we are forbidden to approach the
00:21:15front.
00:21:26This is a position they used to defend Bad, their so-called capital.
00:21:49They put this
00:22:20fled,
00:22:24few dare to return.
00:22:36There is a relative calm, that's what we tell our
00:22:39families.
00:22:43But the war continues, it's not over. There's
00:22:46nothing working here. No hospitals, no
00:22:50schools. Why would people come
00:22:52back here?
00:22:55The few civilians like me who are here, don't have children with
00:22:58them. I followed the army to try to
00:23:00work.
00:23:03As a mother, I worry about my children. They are elsewhere and I am
00:23:07here. You can feel my
00:23:10pain.
00:23:16Mulki Salar spent several months under the yoke of ISIS.
00:23:21The group was not welcome,
00:23:25but the villagers had no
00:23:26choice.
00:23:30It says they are the Islamic State, but
00:23:34we have seen neither state nor
00:23:36Islam. This is the list of forbidden
00:23:39things: smoking cigarettes, chewing
00:23:43qat. All the vices marked here, they haven't
00:23:46found many people who practice them.
00:23:50Those who do this, it's
00:23:51them.
00:23:54In Somalia, the population is Muslim and already respects
00:23:57Sharia.
00:24:01Little by little, the villagers realize that this so-called state is a
00:24:04mafia.
00:24:06I serve tea to the soldiers, that's how I earn my living
00:24:09now.
00:24:14Traumatized by ISIS men, she struggles
00:24:18to tell her daily life before.
00:24:24"They took our village, they stole our homes, they made everyone
00:24:28flee, they stole our livestock, our goats,
00:24:32above all, they did everything to us, we had a lot of
00:24:35problems.
00:24:40All those who opposed them, they
00:24:43decapitated them.
00:24:46They did so many things against our culture, against our religion."
00:25:08This mafia prospered thanks to money extorted from
00:25:11Bossaso,
00:25:14a port city essential to the local economy, located downstream of the
00:25:17mountains.
00:25:24The Islamic State operates clandestinely, it has
00:25:27conducted numerous attacks and caused
00:25:30casualties.
00:25:33Since the beginning of the offensive, the government has reduced ISIS's
00:25:37influence, but the risk of attacks and kidnappings remains
00:25:40high.
00:25:43These armed men protect our
00:25:45team.
00:25:52As you can see, this shop is closed. The owners closed
00:25:56because of the Islamic State, as they were demanding hundreds of thousands of
00:26:00dollars from them. They realized that the amount requested was much
00:26:04larger than what they had inside the
00:26:06store.
00:26:09Look there, that's the symbol of this city's
00:26:13problems. Look how rusty this padlock
00:26:15is. The owners fled to save their
00:26:19lives.
00:26:23Abdulkadir Ismail is the only community
00:26:27leader who dares to publicly denounce the Islamic
00:26:29State.
00:26:32It was in this neighborhood that ISIS caused the most problems.
00:26:36They destroyed homes and the goods inside
00:26:39them. They killed many people in the big
00:26:43market.
00:26:46Oh, that one was totally
00:26:47destroyed.
00:26:50They were forced to rebuild everything from scratch.
00:26:53Here they came during the
00:26:56night. They
00:27:00placed an explosive device on this shop. Everyone was sleeping at that hour.
00:27:03They had attached it at this level to the
00:27:07door. The entire interior of the building
00:27:10collapsed. There was nothing left to
00:27:12recover.
00:27:18To avoid such a fate, many businesses ended up
00:27:21paying. According to local officials,
00:27:25the Islamic State has amassed a fortune of several million
00:27:28dollars.
00:27:32Some guy calls you and says, "I'm from ISIS, I'm the
00:27:36head of tax
00:27:37collection."
00:27:41And he explains what he expects from you.
00:27:45For example, he says, "You must pay us 2000 dollars a year for your
00:27:48protection."
00:27:52Then he sends you threatening messages, "We're going to
00:27:55kill you, we're going to burn your shop, you and your
00:27:58family will suffer." When they've tried everything and
00:28:02it doesn't work, they plant a bomb.
00:28:06This affects all types of businesses, from the
00:28:09smallest to the largest. Even the small transporter who pushes his
00:28:13wheelbarrow, they would find him, they would
00:28:15tell him, "We know where you work," and that worker was robbed.
00:28:43The role of the Sheikh is to help the community in their daily lives,
00:28:47resolve disputes, provide advice.
00:29:06In the mosque, believers are warned against the vices of
00:29:09ISIS.
00:29:12They are told, their program is to steal and
00:29:15kill. No religion promises
00:29:19that.
00:29:22ISIS members know nothing about
00:29:24religion.
00:30:02to stop me.
00:30:08I arrived in Bossaso after several days of travel, I was coming
00:30:11from Ethiopia.
00:30:14I was looking for work and apparently you could find it in this
00:30:17country.
00:30:20I went to a mosque every Friday and after
00:30:23several weeks a Yemeni came to see me to ask if I
00:30:27wanted to join an organization to defend a strong
00:30:30This man entrusted
00:30:34packages to me to take to different neighborhoods, I was not allowed to
00:30:38open them, but I knew what was inside, it was
00:30:40weapons. Then one day I was told that I had to leave
00:30:43Bossaso, that I was going to go to the mountains, and that's when
00:30:47I really understood who I was dealing with, this man was from the Islamic
00:30:50State.
00:30:55There were many foreigners, there were Syrians, Turks.