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00:00:09Paris direct continues on France 24, welcome to all. Here are
00:00:12the main headlines of today's news this Friday: Deadly shooting in
00:00:16Thailand, an adolescent armed with a pistol killed his two
00:00:20grandparents before going to his high school where he killed six
00:00:25and a relaunch of the be remembered, is a member of more people, about fifteen people were injured, the prime minister laments
00:00:27a terrible incident.
00:00:31Perhaps the birth of a new diplomatic and strategic bloc,
00:00:34Pakistan, Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just signed a mutual
00:00:38precedent since Turkey defense agreement, an impact between major Sunni powers against a backdrop of war
00:00:42against Shiite Iran. Mélina Uet will help us
00:00:45understand the stakes of this summit in
00:00:48Mecca. It's the beginning of a new era today in
00:00:52Colombia, Abelardo de la Espriella will be officially
00:00:55sworn in as president of the Republic of Colombia. Symbolically, the
00:00:59ceremony will take place in Cali, a stronghold
00:01:01There is another group called the of drug traffickers to whom the new head of state has declared war,
00:01:05Jean-Louis Martin, a specialist in Latin America, will be with us to
00:01:08explain what will happen on the very first day of this new presidential term.
00:01:26How to explain this deadly team in Thailand, why?
00:01:30An adolescent armed with a pistol killed eight people in
00:01:34total, his own grandparents first, then six people at
00:01:37his school near Bangkok, 15 people
00:01:41were also injured, the shooter killed himself and according to the
00:01:45Thai prime minister, he had clearly planned his
00:01:48attack, details with Axel Simon.
00:01:52Outside the school, crying teachers embraced, the
00:01:56staff and students of this school in the Bangkok suburb
00:02:00experienced a nightmare in broad daylight at school, a 14-year-old
00:02:03adolescent opened fire, killing several people and injuring about fifteen before
00:02:07committing suicide, some students and teachers managed
00:02:10to lock themselves in the classrooms, others tried to hide or
00:02:14flee,
00:02:17found refuge in the toilets, we thought it was over,
00:02:21then a teacher shouted run fast, the shooter went to another
00:02:24building and ran
00:02:26here, when I was...
00:02:32there it was total chaos, the students we took care of outside were injured in the back,
00:02:35chest and arm, we gave them
00:02:38I could write 10,000 words about FIFA's problems, but the solution is only in first aid, the shooter was still active at that
00:02:41moment. According to the police, the shooter is one
00:02:45of the school's students, he fired more than twenty bullets with a pistol
00:02:50a complete overhaul of FIFA's governance. belonging to his grandfather and was
00:02:51January there was a source close to found in possession of about thirty additional ammunition. The police
00:02:54specified that the shooter had killed his
00:02:57investors, Gianni Infantino has grandparents at their home before going to his school and opening
00:03:00fire, I am deeply pained, not
00:03:04only for the victims, but also to see that such an incident can
00:03:07occur in our country. This is the
00:03:10reason why the government has not authorized the extension of the right to own
00:03:13firearms, it is exactly for this
00:03:16reason.
00:03:19The political commitments of recent years to toughen legislation on
00:03:24too, is someone who comes from gun ownership have not prevented a multiplication of shootings.
00:03:27It is estimated that there are more than 10 million firearms in circulation in
00:03:30Thailand, or one for every seven inhabitants. This is the
00:03:34second deadly school shooting
00:03:37quite easily with people from in Thailand this year. In 2022, a former police officer had
00:03:40also killed 36 people in a daycare center in the north of the country,
00:03:43most of whom were
00:03:46has not delegated the management of children.
00:03:48big guest confronted with the burning topic of The pact was signed just
00:03:50current events in the 27 countries of a few minutes ago. Gathered
00:03:52of economics, in Mecca, representatives of Turkey, Pakistan and
00:03:54Saudi Arabia signed a
00:03:57four corners of the world, these players of defense agreement. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Prime Minister,
00:04:00Pakistani Shebaz Sharif and Saudi Crown Prince
00:04:05delegate the management of Mohammed Bin Salman signed the text in Mecca,
00:04:07an event likely to give birth
00:04:09you for being with us, here are the headlines to a new diplomatic and strategic bloc as the war
00:04:12between the United States and Iran reshuffles regional
00:04:15balances. Mélanie Huette, Mélina Huette
00:04:18pardon, you are an international columnist and senior reporter for
00:04:22France 24, you will help us see things more clearly, first
00:04:25what is in this text, Mélina? So according to the joint
00:04:29declaration of the three countries, it provides that any armed attack
00:04:32against one of them will be considered as an attack against the
00:04:36three, in fact it is a collective defense
00:04:38clause which, in its very wording,
00:04:42in fact, is like Article 5, for example, of the North Atlantic Treaty
00:04:46of NATO. In fact, the text extends to Turkey a pact that
00:04:50control of the had already been concluded almost a year ago, now it was in September 2025 between Riyadh and
00:04:54Islamabad and which already laid down this formula, so we can talk about a new alliance
00:04:58but in fact it is rather the...
00:05:00the enlargement, pardon, of a pre-existing alliance and then there is something
00:05:04interesting, it's a bit like Ankara's after-sales service which is almost as
00:05:07instructive as the agreement itself, a Turkish official quoted by
00:05:11Reuters specifies three things. The pact is purely
00:05:14defensive, so it does not target any particular actor and remains
00:05:18open to other countries in the region and above all what
00:05:21this official adds is that the agreement does not abrogate or
00:05:24replace any existing commitment, whether bilateral
00:05:28or multilateral. In fact, who is this
00:05:31clarification addressed to? Well, to Brussels and to Washington, why? Because Turkey, it must
00:05:37NATO and so one could question the compatibility of the
00:05:40two commitments. Imagine that... tomorrow NATO is at war
00:05:44against Pakistan, what does Turkey do in that case? Well,
00:05:47there is a
00:05:51joined NATO in 1952 and in 1955 the
00:05:54Baghdad Pact was signed which already
00:05:58linked Turkey to other countries including
00:06:01Pakistan. One more thing to remember: Pakistan
00:06:04is the only Muslim country to possess nuclear
00:06:07weapons. So Mélina, can we really
00:06:11talk about... the creation of a Sunni bloc which
00:06:14would therefore constitute a defense axis against
00:06:18Shiite Iran? Well, it is true that presented like that and with
00:06:22the forces present we would be tempted to say so but the map you are going to see on
00:06:25the screen shows precisely why this reading does not stand
00:06:29up to the test of facts. In fact, what you see here are
00:06:32two pieces of information, two superimposed pieces of information. The
00:06:35background color indicates the majority confession of the population,
00:06:39pay attention, the border indicates the alignment of the power in place. In fact, when...
00:06:42look at Syria for example, it is predominantly Sunni with a
00:06:45border on the Riyadh side, except that until December 2024, as you know, the same map would
00:06:49have shown it with this border, on the Tehran side since the
00:06:53country was governed by an Alawite minority, therefore Shiite.
00:06:57The population has not changed, the power has. It's the same for
00:07:00Bahrain. In fact, zoom in a little to show you, it presents the
00:07:03inverse configuration with a population that is predominantly Shiite, but a monarchy that
00:07:07is aligned with Riyadh. In fact, what unites the three countries
00:07:11that have signed this agreement in Mecca today can be seen
00:07:15elsewhere on this map, it's on the red dots that you see scattered everywhere. For
00:07:19example, Saudi Arabia finds itself caught
00:07:22in a vise on its two maritime fronts, on one side to
00:07:25the east, the Strait of Hormuz, as you know, locked down since the beginning of the
00:07:29American and Israeli
00:07:31war against Iran, to the west, descending
00:07:35towards Marib, there is the resumption of the Yemeni conflict with tools that
00:07:39target Saudi ships in the Red Sea and then we recall that the tools... well,
00:07:42they are proxies of Iran, hence this initiative in fact which was
00:07:46launched by Riyadh a week ago to secure
00:07:50precisely the Red Sea, Bab el-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden,
00:07:5314 countries have joined it, including Turkey
00:07:57and Pakistan, that is to say the two guests of the day, and then a small
00:08:00clue to finish, in
00:08:04the Saudi army who assured our AFP colleagues that Ankara
00:08:07would not join this alliance, 7 months later
00:08:10Turkey. is at the table, thank you
00:08:14Mélina Huette, international columnist, senior reporter on
00:08:17France, thank you for all these lines of
00:08:20thought. So a page turns in
00:08:24Colombia, today Cabellardo de la
00:08:27Espriella will officially assume the role of
00:08:31head of state, elected on June 21st, the millionaire
00:08:34ultra-right lawyer will be sworn in, for once, the
00:08:38ceremony will take place, not in Bogota, the capital.
00:08:44but in Cali, the country's third largest city and incidentally a stronghold of
00:08:47drug traffickers to whom the new president has declared war
00:08:50with the support of Washington, the explanations of Romain
00:08:53Michelot:
00:08:56patrols everywhere in Cali, the 3rd city of
00:08:59Colombia, it is here under high security that the
00:09:02inauguration of the new far-right president-elect Abelardo de la
00:09:06Espriella takes place. More than 1100 men and women have been
00:09:10deployed here with drones. Anti-drone
00:09:12system, armored vehicles and all the
00:09:16necessary equipment for this democratic event to take place
00:09:19peacefully. Ordinarily, this inauguration of the
00:09:23Colombian president takes place in the capital, Bogota, but not
00:09:26with Abelardo de la Espriella. The millionaire
00:09:29lawyer, new to politics, chose Cali where attacks
00:09:33claimed by guerrillas recently occurred, a symbol, because the
00:09:37new president promises a strong approach to fight against these armed
00:09:40groups and drug trafficking. Bombings against the camps of these
00:09:44organizations or even the creation of mega-prisons like in
00:09:47El Salvador, a program reiterated since his election last
00:09:51June and contrary to his left-wing predecessor Gustavo
00:09:54Petro who had tried to negotiate the disarmament of these armed
00:09:57groups. There will be no false peace process, the only peace
00:10:01possible is that imposed by arms. Any bandit who does not submit will
00:10:05be eliminated. I have foreseen this. For this,
00:10:08Colombia can count on the support of the United States and Israel, whose
00:10:12representatives will be present at the inauguration ceremony,
00:10:16but these very strong statements also worry a part of the
00:10:19population.
00:10:22According to these announcements, we can clearly see that he will be... a rather
00:10:26authoritarian leader,
00:10:28I just hope there will be no violence, new violence within the
00:10:32population,
00:10:34a challenge, because according to the Peace Foundation, in
00:10:372025, Colombia had nearly 25,000 armed people
00:10:41within illegal organizations.
00:10:45So what will happen on the very first day of this new presidential
00:10:49term? We will ask Jean-Louis
00:10:52Martin, economist and specialist in Latin
00:10:55America at Ifri, the French Institute of International Relations, hello and thank you for accepting
00:10:59France 24's invitation. First of all, do you agree
00:11:03that the choice of Cali
00:11:06for the inauguration ceremony is not an innocent
00:11:09choice?
00:11:12No, I think there can be two explanations.
00:11:16Albert is a provincial from the coast
00:11:19and that is a region that has given relatively few
00:11:23presidents to Colombia, so there is a kind of
00:11:25almost identity
00:11:28claim in having chosen
00:11:31to organize this inauguration in the
00:11:34provinces. Afterwards, there may also be a provocative side, which is
00:11:37that Cali is a city that, during the last
00:11:40elections, voted rather for his
00:11:44opponent, so it is also perhaps a kind of marking of the
00:11:47territory. Jean-Louis Martin, the Colombian authorities announced
00:11:51yesterday that they had found a bus loaded with explosives, which would have been
00:11:55prepared to target precisely the president-elect. Does this
00:11:59foreshadow a rather tense start to the
00:12:02term from a security
00:12:04point of view?
00:12:08probably because he
00:12:11is clear that the
00:12:15armed opposition
00:12:17forces in the
00:12:20countryside will not remain inactive,
00:12:24because he has directly threatened
00:12:27them and he has very
00:12:31concretely threatened to use a strong hand against
00:12:34them. They will react and their priority
00:12:38is to maintain territorial control because they need
00:12:41that for coca production, for transformation into
00:12:45cocaine and then in their spare time to do
00:12:49a bit of extortion from the local population, merchants, etc.
00:12:52So yes, he will oppose them.
00:12:55and they will probably react
00:12:58and certainly in part through
00:13:01attacks or attempted attacks like that. So we
00:13:05see in the images that accompany your words
00:13:09that Abelardo de la Espriella
00:13:12always appears behind armored glass, he is always accompanied by
00:13:16heavily armed guards with
00:13:20bulletproof shields.
00:13:24Can we say that he is a target today?
00:13:28Politics is a dangerous
00:13:30profession in Colombia. There have been several
00:13:33prominent leaders who have been assassinated, the
00:13:37last one was Miguel
00:13:39Uribe last year in 2025,
00:13:42who was at
00:13:44the time the main right-wing candidate
00:13:47for this year's presidential elections,
00:13:50so yes... he
00:13:54but like almost all Colombian politicians,
00:13:57he has a target on his back. Yes, Abelardo de la
00:14:01Espriella, who has received Donald Trump's support,
00:14:04intends to align himself with the American administration
00:14:08in the war on drugs. What
00:14:12is the risk for Colombians, this time not for him,
00:14:16of seeing an open war break out with drug
00:14:19traffickers?
00:14:21Well, it is quite likely that violence will increase in the short
00:14:25term because, as I told you, these armed groups, which are pure
00:14:29narcos now, that is to say that there is
00:14:32no longer anything political in this opposition, it
00:14:36was still possible to negotiate a political
00:14:39agreement around 2015-2016 and that is
00:14:42what Santos did at the time, which led to the Havana
00:14:45agreement with the FARC guerrilla,
00:14:49even though the FARC themselves had also deviated quite a bit in the production of...
00:14:53at that time it was still possible to talk politics with
00:14:56them, that's no longer the case at all, we're dealing with
00:14:59simple armed gangs who have territorial
00:15:03control in certain regions and it is
00:15:06likely that Deslaspira
00:15:09will concentrate his forces in
00:15:11these regions to regain
00:15:15territory, it's a bit contradictory with what
00:15:18he says elsewhere because if
00:15:21the armed groups are strong in certain regions, it's
00:15:25precisely because the state is rarely there, and he
00:15:28explains that he wants to both reconquer these
00:15:31territories but
00:15:34reduce the size of the state by 40 %, yet the Colombian state is
00:15:38not an omnipresent state, to say the least,
00:15:41meaning it is a large country with a complicated
00:15:44geography, but there are many regions of the country where the state is rather
00:15:48conspicuous by its absence, and therefore his desire to
00:15:52massively reduce, since his
00:15:55model is Miley in Argentina, to massively
00:15:58reduce public spending, is a bit
00:16:01contradictory with his idea of regaining control of the territory.
00:16:05So, the president-elect has given one
00:16:08month to the FARC rebels to lay down their arms. What you are saying is that he
00:16:12has little chance of winning the showdown that he himself
00:16:15initiated? No, not within a month,
00:16:18these people are not going to give in, so you mentioned the
00:16:22FARC rebels, indeed, the opponents, there
00:16:26are two, three main groups,
00:16:30there are FARC dissidents who refused the peace agreement in
00:16:332016 or who accepted it and then changed their minds.
00:16:39ELN which has a long tradition,
00:16:42but a very distant tradition, because as I said, there is nothing political left in their actions or their
00:16:46claims, they no longer make any political speeches. So
00:16:49this group is called the ELN, and it is a national
00:16:53liberation army, and then there is another group called the Gulf
00:16:56Clan, which also has no
00:17:00political agenda, but is a simple grouping
00:17:03of drug mafias. So,
00:17:07none of the three will give in so easily to simple
00:17:10threats, they will resist, there will be
00:17:13attacks and so I think that in the short term,
00:17:17the Colombian population will have a bad
00:17:19time. After that, I'm not saying that he's completely
00:17:23wrong because the
00:17:26objective, the discourse of total peace through
00:17:29negotiations by the outgoing president Gustavo Petro was
00:17:33also an illusion, meaning that there was really not much to negotiate with
00:17:37these people. Since the only thing that interests them, as I told you, is territorial
00:17:40control, which is something that a state will certainly
00:17:44not accept. Jean-Louis Martin, you
00:17:48mentioned the alignment of the
00:17:51Colombian president-elect with the Argentinian Javier
00:17:54Milei. The program he put forward
00:17:57foresees 40% savings and 7%
00:18:01annual growth. Do you believe that this
00:18:03is realistic?
00:18:05No, it is not realistic. That is the short answer. After
00:18:09that, he needs to do something about public
00:18:12finances. One of the problems in Colombia is not just
00:18:16the narcos, it's that public finances have seriously
00:18:19deteriorated during the Petro government,
00:18:22not at the beginning, it was quite well managed, but the
00:18:25last two or three years, the first year was
00:18:29fine and then it really went off track. He has a
00:18:31budget deficit that must be something like
00:18:34around 7% of GDP, he needs to do something very
00:18:38quickly and in fact he will govern
00:18:41with the traditional right, he has chosen as
00:18:44vice-president someone who was
00:18:47Minister of Finance under Ivan Duque, who was the
00:18:51conservative president before
00:18:54Petro and he has in his government
00:18:56several, for example his Minister of Finance
00:19:02the traditional right, it's something quite classic in Latin America,
00:19:06we see it in Brazil with
00:19:09Bolsonaro where in fact he governs
00:19:14the traditional right, the exception there is perhaps Milei
00:19:18who also governs with people from the traditional right, but to whom he
00:19:23the economy to this traditional right because he
00:19:27has his own ideas in terms
00:19:30like Bolsonaro, he has absolutely
00:19:33none, it's not at all his field of expertise,
00:19:37so he will
00:19:42the economy in large part, I think, to his
00:19:45vice-president and his Minister of Finance. So to
00:19:49continue in the same vein, to return to your question, pardon
00:19:52me, it's not realistic because it already has a weak
00:19:56state, so it certainly has savings to make,
00:20:00abuses of corruption to eliminate,
00:20:04I'm not sure he'll do much better than his predecessors on these plans. And
00:20:07yet he announces a reduction in social services, a decrease in
00:20:11public programs, should we conclude that the daily life of
00:20:14Colombians will significantly change in the
00:20:17future?
00:20:20He has efficiency gains to make, for example,
00:20:23in the health sector, he has
00:20:26other things that would require more investment and more people,
00:20:30such as in justice and police, we don't
00:20:34really see where
00:20:36he will find massive savings, in any
00:20:40case, 40 % of central government
00:20:43public spending less is a total
00:20:46illusion unless it's a trap because on the other
00:20:50hand, he also explains that he wants to delegate a certain number
00:20:53of functions to the Colombian
00:20:57departments since it is organized into departments in Colombia
00:21:01as well. But
00:21:03I don't know where these departments will
00:21:07get the resources. So he talks
00:21:10about accelerated growth, new resources,
00:21:15exploitation of natural resources, particularly
00:21:18oil. That won't go far simply for a
00:21:21physical reason, which is that Colombia has only
00:21:25a few mineral resources,
00:21:28it is quite well endowed with coal, but
00:21:32that is a little more complicated to sell, even if it is very
00:21:35good quality coal, Colombian coal, but oil
00:21:39will not work miracles. Thank you
00:21:42Jean-Louis Martin, thank you for answering France's questions, I remind you that you are
00:21:46an economist and specialist in Latin America at Ifri.
00:21:50We were talking about Argentina, the country was the scene of violent
00:21:54hours, look at these images, we are in Buenos Aires and
00:21:58the police intervened to disperse protesters who
00:22:01were marching in front of the Senate, tear gas
00:22:05and water cannons against Jettepierre, Argentinian
00:22:07media reported two injured in the police ranks, one injured on the
00:22:11protester side, it is a bill initiated by Javier Milei that set the
00:22:15powder on fire, it notably provides for the facilitation of land
00:22:18expulsions and is therefore part of the ultra-liberal logic
00:22:21driven by the head of state, the text is being examined by the
00:22:25Senate and it is also an opportunity for some to criticize the link between
00:22:28the Milei administration and Washington, as you can see, the American
00:22:32flag was
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00:24:29takeover in
00:25:02who passed oppressive laws against women and banned
00:25:06them from playing football, so they have a message to convey:
00:25:10I want to use this platform to defend the cause of
00:25:13women in Afghanistan who have been banned from studying for 5
00:25:17years. We want girls and...
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00:29:40In Europe, they lead, they decide, with
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00:30:03France
00:30:0324,
00:30:08Paris Live continues on France 24, thank
00:30:12of the news, this fatal shooting in Thailand, a
00:30:15teenager armed with a pistol killed his two grandparents before going
00:30:19to his high school, he still killed six people, about fifteen
00:30:23people were injured, the Prime Minister deplores a terrible
00:30:27incident, birth of a new diplomatic
00:30:30and strategic bloc, Pakistan...
00:30:32Turkey and Saudi Arabia have just signed a mutual
00:30:36defense agreement, a pact initialed in Mecca, a symbol between great
00:30:39Sunni powers against the backdrop of war against
00:30:41Shiite Iran.
00:30:44The beginning of a new today in Colombia Abelardo de la
00:30:48Espriéla is going to be officially invested
00:30:51as President of the Colombian Republic. Symbolically, the
00:30:54ceremony will take place in Calli, a stronghold of drug traffickers to whom the
00:30:58new head of state has...