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00:00:04Good morning everyone, and thank you for joining us
00:00:06then the president of on France 24. On the front page, you're in the right place because here's a
00:00:10new broadcast with our main headlines: will the specter of sectarian
00:00:15the ambulance's electrical violence resurface in Syria? A car bomb attack
00:00:19in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus leaves two
00:00:22dead and more than a dozen injured this
00:00:25Thursday, a new deadly attack in the Syrian capital in
00:00:28the space of... a few months. On the front page, we'll also discuss
00:00:32the explosive situation in occupied
00:00:35West Bank, a new episode of violence by Israeli settlers
00:00:39in a Palestinian settlement, resulting in numerous
00:00:42injuries and burned houses. This
00:00:46violence also causes outrage
00:00:49in Israel among part of the population, as you will see. And then
00:00:53we'll also talk about a man in turmoil,
00:00:55starting to come out there and I mentioned Gianni Infantino, the all-powerful head of FIFA
00:01:00think that... if we talk about and more... fragile than ever.
00:01:01money, about UEFA is maintaining its boycott of the world football organization's competitions
00:01:04after FIFA's aborted plan to open up to
00:01:08external investors. We'll discuss it
00:01:11with our guest at the end of our broadcast.
00:01:27to attract money, Is Syria once again heading towards instability and violence?
00:01:31The concern is certainly present after the explosion of a bomb in a
00:01:34vehicle this Thursday near
00:01:37tournament, the equivalent of Damascus, with a toll of two dead and 13 injured. An attack
00:01:39that occurred in Jaramana, a predominantly
00:01:43Druze and Christian town located in the suburb of the capital and
00:01:46already the scene of sectarian violence, it was in the spring of
00:01:502025. Alice Broga,
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 transport
00:02:00minibus has just been destroyed by a bomb, its roof blown off by
00:02:04the explosion. Residents are in
00:02:08entries. Don't you think that beyond shock. We came out and saw the minibus,
00:02:13work to be done on water it made a deafening noise, it was damaged. Two women fled
00:02:15the explosion and a fragment headed towards our store. A shrapnel flew in my
00:02:19direction and hit the window.
00:02:22The explosion was caused by a bomb located inside the
00:02:26vehicle, according to state television. Several people
00:02:29are... dead and a dozen injured
00:02:32between water were transported to the hospital in Damascus, including the minibus
00:02:35driver.
00:02:37Killing innocent people who have done nothing wrong simply to sow chaos in the country.
00:02:41In Syria, it is a purely sadistic act. This
00:02:44explosion strikes 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-Shara. Last year, sectarian
00:02:55violence between armed groups linked to the regime and Druze fighters
00:02:59resulted in... more than 100 deaths in Jaramana and its surroundings
00:03:02according to the London-based
00:03:05present in this region of OSD NGO, and several attacks or planned attacks have targeted
00:03:08Christian places of worship in recent
00:03:09months.
00:03:13The new Syrian government is struggling to assert its authority and ensure
00:03:17security throughout the territory, where dormant
00:03:20cells of the jihadist organization Islamic State are still
00:03:23present. In Damascus, several deadly attacks have occurred in recent
00:03:27months, including a bomb attack that left one dead and 30 injured
00:03:30during the visit of French President Emmanuel Macron in
00:03:33July.
00:03:38Still in the Middle East, in occupied West Bank, these new acts of violence
00:03:42by Israeli settlers have affected a village in the
00:03:46south of the Palestinian territory, as you can see in
00:03:49these images, resulting in destroyed houses and
00:03:53injured residents. Endemic violence also in the
00:03:57Palestinian territory, particularly increasing since the attacks of
00:04:01was... vice-president of the October 7th. And
00:04:04this violence is not new, as I told you, in occupied
00:04:08he has already lost the support of West Bank. And as with every episode of violence,
00:04:10Israel locks down the territory.
00:04:12a new newspaper right away, in the news This was the case in Nablus after the death of two Israeli settlers and four
00:04:16Palestinians at the end of July. For ambulances, it's a daily
00:04:19headache. Our
00:04:21correspondent Claire Duhamel was able to ride with an ambulance driver who
00:04:25regularly transports pregnant women to the hospital.
00:04:29Here's her report.
00:04:33heading to the On this road, on July 27, a six-month pregnant Palestinian woman
00:04:37has a miscarriage. Then she is stopped at
00:04:40the checkpoint while bleeding
00:04:43I'm coming back to the situation in profusely. Bachar Moramar is the ambulance driver who was transporting the young
00:04:46woman. When we arrived, it was
00:04:49closed, where the ambulances are here. The
00:04:53soldiers are in this watchtower
00:04:55above.
00:05:00the tower, after a long time, then when we entered here, they held us for
00:05:03half an hour. We entered here, this barrier was closed, they kept us for
00:05:07half an hour stuck between these two
00:05:09that were taken, especially you mentioned the barriers, the fetus was dead, it came out in the amniotic sac.
00:05:13The woman also had a hemorrhage and lost consciousness. Very quickly, we started
00:05:16to take care of her, but the army forced us to turn off the ambulance engine.
00:05:20We stopped the ambulance, all the equipment stopped. He
00:05:24has equipment here that works thanks to
00:05:27supply. The medical devices stopped, no more
00:05:31monitors, no more oxygen, nothing.
00:05:35This is where the woman who lost her baby and wishes to remain
00:05:38anonymous lives. 5 days after her miscarriage, she is still recovering
00:05:42with difficulty. Sabrine is the midwife who delivered her at
00:05:46home, and it was she who then saved her life in
00:05:49the ambulance. She recounts her interaction with a soldier at
00:05:52the checkpoint.
00:05:57I told the soldier we had to go to the mother so she wouldn't die. He didn't listen to me,
00:06:00he raised his weapon at me, told me to go back to the ambulance. So I was scared, I went
00:06:04back, I did everything to keep the patient awake, and after half
00:06:08an hour, they opened the barrier for us, and we were finally able to reach the hospital, thanks to
00:06:11God. But unfortunately, she had lost a lot of
00:06:14blood.
00:06:18Arriving at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, the young woman is taken care
00:06:21of by Dr. Rashaal for 24
00:06:24hours. For 3 years we have suffered throughout the West
00:06:28Bank from the problem of checkpoints and barriers. Of course, this has
00:06:32impacted the ability of women and more generally of patients to
00:06:35access hospitals, and it also affects the arrival of medical
00:06:39teams.
00:06:47We contacted the Israeli army, which states that the
00:06:49ambulance personnel had not carried out the required prior
00:06:52coordination before arriving at the checkpoint.
00:06:56The army says it has no intention of delaying medical care and
00:07:00medical
00:07:01evacuations.
00:07:06In Thailand now, what exactly happened
00:07:09in Bangkok just a few hours ago? A
00:07:12shooting took place, as you can see in these images, in
00:07:16a high school in the Thai capital. The provisional
00:07:19toll, according to the police, is seven dead
00:07:23and 15 injured. The shooter
00:07:26is believed to be a teenager, he is deceased, it is not yet known if he was
00:07:30shot by the police. Among the
00:07:34deceased, there are notably
00:07:37three high school teachers and at
00:07:40least three students. We will of course come back to this in more detail in our
00:07:44next editions.
00:07:48Heading to Colombia now, where Abelardo de la Espriella
00:07:51will take an oath. The new far-right Colombian
00:07:54president will be inaugurated this Friday,
00:07:57determined to fight drug trafficking and an ally of
00:08:01President Trump. The millionaire lawyer will therefore take
00:08:04an oath in Cali, as you can see in these images, the country's third
00:08:08largest city, an unusual choice justified by
00:08:11his desire to fight against the guerrillas and drug
00:08:14trafficking, which are very
00:08:18Colombia.
00:08:22News from France now, with the consequences of the
00:08:25heatwaves that are being felt with record
00:08:28droughts as well, and the winegrowers of
00:08:32Bordeaux have therefore had to start harvesting
00:08:35at the beginning of August, which is unprecedented. It concerns only a part
00:08:38of the harvests concerning the Crémant, a
00:08:41drought that also forces us to change
00:08:45what we cultivate, notably sorghum originating from Africa grows near the Essonne and
00:08:48lentils or chickpeas, notably in
00:08:52Alsace. Their common point is that these crops need little
00:08:55water. Manon Martel, Romain Gentil and
00:08:58Luquex.
00:09:00Few farmers have such a green field after
00:09:04successive heatwaves. This producer cultivates
00:09:08sorghum, a cereal from Africa that is very resistant to
00:09:11drought. it has leaves that are
00:09:15still very green, that are not yet suffering from the
00:09:19heat and lack of water, so
00:09:22here is a plant that is entirely interesting
00:09:25for tomorrow's food and to respond to climatic
00:09:29challenges. He hasn't had to irrigate these 4 hectares since
00:09:32the last rains at the end of June. Sorghum develops a fairly
00:09:36sophisticated and deep root
00:09:39system, which means it will capture the water it needs in the
00:09:43depths. Crops that require little water, on which more and more
00:09:46farmers are relying in the face of climate change, like
00:09:50pistachio. The sector is in full growth in
00:09:54Provence. Elsewhere, it's almonds, or
00:09:57even pomegranates,
00:10:00varieties very present in the south of France, but all
00:10:03regions are adapting to drought. In
00:10:06Alsace, an unprecedented production is appearing,
00:10:09chickpeas. Cedric Steinley is one of the
00:10:13first to bet on the legume which requires
00:10:16almost no irrigation. He saw
00:10:18that something really had to be done because it was really very interesting for the
00:10:22consumer. To have these products directly
00:10:26in a local production, that was really where we had
00:10:29to develop the subject. Across the
00:10:32country, the area dedicated to chickpeas has tripled in 10
00:10:35years. New crops that could become
00:10:38widespread in the years to come.
00:10:41And we will continue to discuss
00:10:44this agriculture that must face climate change, particularly
00:10:47in the wine sector with our guest,
00:10:51Simon Lebert, hello. Hello,
00:10:56thank you for taking a few minutes to answer our questions this morning on France 24.
00:10:59You are a member of the wine commission of the
00:11:03Confédération paysanne, which is a farmers' union, of course,
00:11:06here in France. I just mentioned it before your intervention.
00:11:10So, the harvest has started in Bordeaux. Of course, it concerns a
00:11:14small part of the vineyard. It's for the Crémant, for those
00:11:17who specialize in it, but in any case, this trend of early
00:11:21harvests is unprecedented.
00:11:25It's a classic
00:11:28evolution of recent years. That means that I started 7 years ago, and
00:11:32for 7 years we have been moving the harvest date forward year after year
00:11:35from August 25th to August 20th to August 15th. And in the
00:11:39same way, I'm starting this weekend, August 9th. So we're getting
00:11:43used to adapting and starting earlier and earlier, indeed. And what
00:11:47adaptations, more broadly, do you, as a
00:11:50winegrower, make? We just saw other farmers with other
00:11:53crops who are adapting. Faced with drought, in particular,
00:11:56how can winegrowers and vines adapt in the face of
00:12:00climate change, and in particular to these repeated heatwaves and these
00:12:04droughts?
00:12:07So there's work to be done on the grape variety, on the technical
00:12:10side, on the plant side. So we're going to have a
00:12:14process of finding rootstocks and grape varieties that will adapt
00:12:18to the coming decades. There's work to be done on
00:12:22grassing and work to be done on the quantity of... that we produce each
00:12:25year, because the more the plant is said to be laden with
00:12:29grapes, the more it will suffer in case of heatwaves. So there will necessarily be something to do
00:12:33at the level of yields, and of course there is
00:12:38use. Irrigation, as you mentioned for Bordeaux, is
00:12:42a real issue for viticulture in the coming
00:12:45decades. And when we talk about irrigation, we are obviously
00:12:48talking about the quantity of grapes and therefore wine produced. It's true that we
00:12:52at the Confédération paysanne ask for a real reflection
00:12:57use in viticulture and the volumes produced
00:13:01thanks to the use of this water, because as you probably know, we
00:13:04are also experiencing a major crisis in the viticulture sector in France
00:13:08with overproduction issues. So we
00:13:11really ask for a global strategy
00:13:13on how to how to what are the
00:13:17means and how viticulture will adapt to this constraint of
00:13:20global warming, but also with a concern for quality and
00:13:23balance in the sector. You remind us, there is a crisis in the
00:13:27wine industry, particularly in Bordeaux, there have been many vine pull-ups precisely because of
00:13:31this overproduction. You said a change in the production
00:13:34model is needed, one that is less water-intensive. You talked about
00:13:38grape varieties, so the types of vines that should be used. Should we, for example,
00:13:42use vines that are grape varieties used in southern
00:13:45Europe, I am thinking in particular of Italy or Spain, or move
00:13:48crops further north if it is
00:13:51possible?
00:13:54There is a lot of research being carried out, we are supported by
00:13:58interprofessional organizations that regularly offer us tastings, indeed, of
00:14:01grape varieties from Italy, grape varieties from Spain.
00:14:05We ourselves in the Mediterranean region are starting to return to grape varieties, which is
00:14:09ironic, varieties that were uprooted in the 80s and 90s,
00:14:12like Carignan, Cinsault, Bourboulenc,
00:14:16things that were no longer in fashion and are coming back because we
00:14:20consider them to be more resilient and more adapted to extreme
00:14:23summer temperatures. So there is really a lot of
00:14:27work to be done. The problem, of course, is that with a perennial
00:14:30plant like the vine, it takes a long time, and it takes several years, even decades,
00:14:34before something is truly established, something of
00:14:37quality. So for us winemakers and winegrowers, from
00:14:41the moment we are talking about a structural
00:14:45crisis, but also a daily one, we don't necessarily have the means
00:14:49to wait for these times and these moments that will come in
00:14:53several years. So at that point, we adapt
00:14:55our practices in the field with early sales to
00:14:58have a product that is also adapted to the current market. We were
00:15:02also talking about a change in the production model, particularly,
00:15:08Bordeaux, where it's a production
00:15:11of wine that also uses a lot of pesticides. Is that
00:15:15also something that might need to be questioned in the future, this
00:15:19productivist model of the
00:15:20vine?
00:15:23Well, you're speaking to... that means we've been fighting for 40 years
00:15:27to have much healthier and much more respectful
00:15:30models
00:15:32in a less globalized, less competitive, less
00:15:36global model. You should know that, once again, as we often
00:15:39say, these farmers, these peasants, these
00:15:43winegrowers, they don't treat for pleasure and they don't do intensive
00:15:46farming for pleasure. They do it because we have confronted them with something
00:15:50globalized, ultra-competitive, very violent. And
00:15:53today, we ask for a much more local, much more
00:15:57intelligent, much more resilient vision with a
00:16:01strategy that values local production, which is
00:16:04there to remunerate farmers above all, and to get out of this model
00:16:08courage. So today, we don't necessarily have a political
00:16:12strategy that aligns with our vision,
00:16:15unfortunately, but still, it's
00:16:17working. We were talking about grape varieties, today there is research on
00:16:21new varieties of cross-breeding that notably
00:16:24require less phytosanitary
00:16:28protection with resistant varieties
00:16:31of a new generation. We are thinking in particular of Floreal and
00:16:34Voltis which are starting to make a breakthrough on wine
00:16:37labels. There is a whole approach to limit the use of inputs, let's
00:16:41say, whether they are protection products or whether they are
00:16:45fertilizers, etc. But once again, it doesn't happen overnight,
00:16:48and for that, we need time, we need resources. We really need,
00:16:52for us at the Confédération paysanne,
00:16:55public authorities to be able to
00:16:59absorb this adaptation and this
00:17:03transition towards more resilient models. That will be the final word. Thank you very much, Simon,
00:17:06for taking a few minutes to answer our questions this morning, winegrower and
00:17:10member of the wine commission of the Confédération paysanne. Thank you again.
00:17:13This question, now, how long can Gianni
00:17:17Infantino remain in office? The head of FIFA
00:17:21has never seemed so weakened after his desire
00:17:24to open FIFA to foreign investors, now abandoned.
00:17:28UEFA maintains its boycott of the World Cups. According to the
00:17:32European football body, trust is simply no longer there. Nicolas
00:17:36Chamontin.
00:17:39The FIFA management's apologies do nothing. UEFA
00:17:43assures that the boycott of the World Cups is still in effect. The
00:17:46member federations of UEFA have been very clear about the conditions related to
00:17:50their non-participation in FIFA competitions. These conditions have not been
00:17:54met. In addition to the abandonment of FIFA's commercial
00:17:57company project, decided on Friday, the European
00:18:01football body demands assurances that such an idea will never see the
00:18:04light of day again. UEFA reaffirms having lost confidence
00:18:08in Gianni Infantino. Wednesday evening, the head of world
00:18:11football received the full support of his management, gathered in Morocco for
00:18:15a crisis meeting. In a statement, FIFA
00:18:19apologized after the controversy over opening up to
00:18:22private investors, a project that leaked in the press without
00:18:26football stakeholders being informed. This Thursday, the
00:18:29South American Confederation Conmebol, although considered close
00:18:33to Infantino, also denounced the president's
00:18:36methods. The Conmebol Council unanimously
00:18:39expresses its concern over repeated unilateral
00:18:42actions, adopted without resorting to dialogue or the institutional
00:18:46mechanisms provided for dealing with this type of
00:18:48situation. Apparently irremovable a few
00:18:52weeks ago, Gianni Infantino seems more fragile than
00:18:55ever. The man who has led FIFA for a decade still
00:18:59hopes to be re-elected next March thanks to the support of
00:19:02many federations in Africa and the
00:19:04Middle East.
00:19:07So that's the news. We're going to continue to discuss the situation of
00:19:11FIFA and Gianni Infantino with our guest, vouutibia,
00:19:14hello. Hello, thank you for taking a few minutes to join us this morning on the
00:19:18front page. You are a sports journalist, you know the world of football
00:19:21well. We're going to talk about it with you. We just saw it in the short segment that
00:19:25just preceded you, summarizing the situation. The question
00:19:29everyone is asking themselves now after this crisis is: can
00:19:32Gianni Infantino still remain in office? I think
00:19:36so. Because when we see how things
00:19:40are going now,
00:19:45UEFA, which means 55
00:19:48seats of support. Well, more and more, we see, just now it was the
00:19:52Conmebol. We see how many states or
00:19:56member associations there are in it, but this is before
00:19:59elections. So if we talk about preparation before the elections,
00:20:02we see by the support or lack thereof that he has or doesn't
00:20:06have. So recently, I think it was two days ago, there was the CAF,
00:20:10it's the African Football Federation, which
00:20:13expressed their support for Gianni Infantino. That has almost the
00:20:16same weight as UEFA, so we're talking about 54 member
00:20:20associations, and that's good for Gianni Infantino to have the
00:20:23support, but what we see is that internally there
00:20:27is a difference of entry. So if there
00:20:30is the CAF that sets
00:20:33the entry for the continuation of
00:20:36Gianni Infantino. in the presidential
00:20:39seat, I think that starts
00:20:41to show that there are stakes
00:20:45that are much deeper than what we see openly
00:20:49or what we see in the decisions that are explicitly made.
00:20:52UEFA, we understand why they can have the
00:20:55stance or the position they have taken there to
00:20:58boycott the World Cup. They can do that, they have the Champions
00:21:02League, they have enough money, they have enough, well,
00:21:06development. Compared to development, they are strong
00:21:10enough as a federation to make decisions like that and also
00:21:13to really say that if the president does not change this
00:21:17decision to advance the FIFA Forward and...
00:21:20hm and this privatization of 20 % which has never happened
00:21:24during the 120 years or more of
00:21:28FIFA. And that means in terms of value, UEFA really
00:21:32took a position of we will protect
00:21:35football but we will protect a style of football. Because the
00:21:39support of CAF for Gianni Infantino, I understand
00:21:42why. Because here is a president who advances the
00:21:45development of African football, and if he has
00:21:49someone. in the seat, let's say for example, he will have Laura
00:21:53McAllister and the two of them escape me
00:21:57there, Welsh, she's Welsh,
00:22:00that's it, she's Welsh. She supports women's football
00:22:04and she supports European football.
00:22:07And that means for the CAF president Patrice
00:22:11Motsepe or other federations in the
00:22:13CAF, we will move away from
00:22:17developing African football. If we
00:22:20talk now, there's the women's CAF, the women's AFCON,
00:22:23meaning the
00:22:27the Euros, but in Africa, for women, we don't see anything in the
00:22:30news. That's the whole story of FIFA, that's the whole story of what's happening with Gianni
00:22:34Infantino. So that means we see where the entry points
00:22:38are to advance the game of football, and it's not in
00:22:40favor of Africa. So that's why Mexico,
00:22:44Africa is starting to support it because it's really
00:22:47beyond that we can have support for... for money, for
00:22:51investment, for access, to have a seat at the
00:22:55level that can advance the
00:22:58Gianni Infantino's policy of development towards the
00:23:01African continent, which is a necessity for football, we hear
00:23:05Well, he also has a problem with his person, with the decisions he
00:23:09made, especially during the last World Cup,
00:23:12the controversies followed one another, he had the price of tickets notably, he had the
00:23:16controversy about this Somalian referee who couldn't go to the United States.
00:23:20and FIFA said absolutely nothing to the American authorities, he had this
00:23:23proximity displayed sometimes sickening, it must be said, with Donald
00:23:27Trump and especially this red card for
00:23:31Balogun in a totally surreal way,
00:23:35it's starting to be a lot for Janny Infantino at one point, don't you think
00:23:38so? I'm 100% in agreement because even if he advances
00:23:42African football entrances as I said earlier, what's a shame for
00:23:46him is that he tries to have too many entrances and when... when you do
00:23:50that, you lose a bit of confidence because who are you, that's what
00:23:53they said, the conon bol, it's that he's someone who
00:23:57works autonomously and outside of the federation,
00:24:01and that's not a president of a federation, it's someone who
00:24:05really as an individual, he has his own
00:24:08entrances, are these entrances related to money or
00:24:12to influence,
00:24:14we don't know, but really I find it
00:24:18extremely unfortunate what happened... happened but I think he has other
00:24:21issues that we are not aware of because here we see
00:24:25Carlos Cordero who resigned on July 31st
00:24:29it was his his number 3
00:24:33his number 2 yes it's his number 3 and it was his senior
00:24:36advisor but when we look at what
00:24:40Cordero did, his stake, his
00:24:43palmares, he was a Goldman
00:24:47Sachs American banker, he
00:24:51football association in the United States, so that means
00:24:54when he joined, when he was elected
00:24:58by Jean Infantino in 2021, it was for a strategic
00:25:02role 2021, the 2026
00:25:05World Cup, it's about 5 years to
00:25:09build entrances, to create
00:25:12links, bridges and all that with the United States, so there
00:25:16the big question mark is whether he was
00:25:20aware and now that it was rejected by UEFA,
00:25:24he decides to resign to show
00:25:27that Janny Infantino's plan didn't work
00:25:31and there you go, I'm going to drop everything now because
00:25:35more and more other things will come out when Jeani
00:25:39Fantino loses influence or support from certain
00:25:42federations, it's going very badly in the United States for Donald Trump and
00:25:46it's going especially badly after the World Cup, so politically,
00:25:50it's not very good what Diane Infantino is doing to align with the United States because
00:25:54it's starting to really bring out things and decisions
00:25:59referee who was not allowed to enter. who will also referee
00:26:03the European Supercup, thank you we're starting to ask ourselves questions because
00:26:09UEFA, Alexander Ceferin, he publicly
00:26:12expresses his support for
00:26:16the referee and protects him by offering him a
00:26:19position to be a referee for a tournament that
00:26:23is coming up, the Super Cup if I'm not mistaken, yeah, the European Supercup which is next
00:26:27week, August 12th, there you go, and then it's boycotting
00:26:31FIFA, so UEFA. they have their own things that are
00:26:34happening there and I think he has the
00:26:37soft power hot power that is
00:26:41at stake there, so he has decisions that were made
00:26:44which mean more than what we see, political
00:26:48stakes beyond the person of Janny Infantino, power
00:26:52struggles between UEFA and FIFA, you think so? Absolutely, several names are
00:26:58Laura Mackalesta who is advancing women's football and I
00:27:04investment, Tian Infantino, he wanted
00:27:07to take the direction of the United States by privatization
00:27:11of the World Cup, that was a bad
00:27:14decision, but if we look at women's football, he has
00:27:18Michel King who is very influential, time is quickly
00:27:21running out, yes, so if before the
00:27:24elections, Laura Mecalista's name starts to come out
00:27:29investment for football and women's football. I think that if
00:27:33she has ties with people like Michel Kang and
00:27:37other investors, it could really fall for her on her
00:27:40side, but really he has several entries, he has several
00:27:44names that will come out there, so maybe we will
00:27:47wait to see if Jean Infantino will stay and then we
00:27:51can start having discussions, then wait and see as they say, so thank
00:27:55you very much Bia for answering our questions, you know your subject well,
00:27:59it's very pleasant to discuss with you, thank you again.
00:30:07Hello everyone and thank you for joining us on France 24, you're joining us in
00:30:11the headline, that's an excellent idea, here's
00:30:15this Friday, at least 8 dead, that's the toll
00:30:18of a shooting that occurred notably in a high school in
00:30:21Thailand, a teenager opened fire
00:30:25in an establishment in Bangkok, three students and
00:30:28three teachers were killed,
00:30:31the teenager, died, he had killed his grandparents before
00:30:36establishment, also in the headline, will the specter of sectarian violence
00:30:39re-emerge in Syria, a car bomb attack
00:30:43in a Christian and Druze suburb of Damascus leaves two dead and
00:30:47more than a dozen injured, it was this Thursday, a new deadly attack
00:30:51in the Syrian capital in the space of a few
00:30:54months, and then we will also talk in the headline about a man in turmoil, Jani
00:30:58Infantino, the all-powerful...
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