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00:00:07Good evening everyone and welcome to France 24. Tonight's top story is Bellardo de la
00:00:11Espriela, the new president of Colombia. He has just
00:00:14taken the oath of office after his election on June 21.
00:00:18For his inauguration ceremony, he chose Cali, the third largest city in the
00:00:21country, and not Bogota, the capital. A very
00:00:25symbolic choice, as you will see. Spain
00:00:28is putting its threats into action. Travelers coming from Italy will be
00:00:32subjected to controls upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid had
00:00:35issued an ultimatum to Rome, which has been applying these same controls to
00:00:39Spanish citizens since the migration crisis in Ceuta.
00:00:43Technology at the service of firefighters in Turkey. Drones are helping to
00:00:47fight forest fires. They allow fires to be detected
00:00:50earlier, thus speeding up the intervention of
00:00:54emergency services.
00:00:55The inauguration ceremony for Abellardo de l'Esprit is currently
00:01:00State. From this village in northern
00:01:10taking place in Cali, Colombia. He has just taken the oath of office
00:01:13as the new president of the country. He was elected on the morning of June last year, and
00:01:17he chose Cali, the third largest city in the country, for his
00:01:21inauguration, and not Bogota. Cali is one of the strongholds
00:01:25of armed groups involved in drug
00:01:28trafficking, as Hugo Corten, a specialist in Colombia, explains to
00:01:32us. The symbolic scope of the choice
00:01:35is
00:01:38return. quite vast, since Abellardo de la Espiraria had campaigned
00:01:42on criticizing a lot of Bogota-centrism,
00:01:45so the fact that political power was concentrated in the capital
00:01:49Bogota. He wanted to govern in the regions. He also said
00:01:52he wanted to restore order in the regions. How does he
00:01:55plan to do it? He was quite clear, it was
00:01:59said in the segment you just showed, with the
00:02:02army by deploying
00:02:05soldiers everywhere. As you saw, it's also a
00:02:08way of showing his strength to go to Cali, where he had
00:02:12problems with armed groups, to go there with thousands of soldiers and be inaugurated
00:02:16there. What needs to be said about this is that he is an extreme
00:02:20right-wing figure who has surpassed an extreme right that already existed in Colombia,
00:02:23which was in the majority for 20 years, the one that is improperly called
00:02:27that of the Democratic Center. So, even if there are
00:02:31upheavals between these political formations, we can expect them to govern
00:02:34together. And in reality, the majority in Congress
00:02:38on which he will be able to rely is still relatively comfortable for
00:02:41him. So he should still have sufficient
00:02:45support. Also in the news, Spain is
00:02:48putting its threats into action.
00:02:50attention, and therefore Travelers from Italy will be subjected to controls
00:02:53upon their arrival on Spanish soil. Madrid had
00:02:57issued an ultimatum to Rome,
00:03:00cigarettes, chewing which has been applying these same controls to Spanish citizens
00:03:02since the migration crisis in
00:03:05the use of networks to Ceuta. The story about this standoff by Loik Chalavon.
00:03:09In front of this police station, dozens of unaccompanied minors are waiting
00:03:13their turn to be
00:03:16identified and placed in a reception center. These
00:03:20young adolescents have been living on the streets for several days, in very precarious
00:03:23conditions. They have eaten, washed themselves as best they could, and asked people for
00:03:26help. Some gave them 1 euro, others bread. That's how they get
00:03:31by day to day. The mayor of
00:03:35Ceuta indicates that more than 1100 unaccompanied minors are in
00:03:38the enclave. Spanish authorities state that they are doing everything
00:03:41possible to take care of these minors and manage the approximately 2000 migrants who are still
00:03:45in Ceuta, according to figures from the Spanish Interior
00:03:49lower and the boat will no longer be able to Ministry. On the diplomatic front, the power struggle continues
00:03:52between Spain and Italy. The Spanish
00:03:55Interior Ministry announced that border controls will begin Saturday at
00:03:59midnight for travelers from Italy, a measure that follows
00:04:03a statement published earlier in the day, in which the Spanish
00:04:07government threatened to apply retaliatory measures against Rome if Italy
00:04:11did not reverse its decision. On
00:04:14July 31, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced
00:04:17the suspension of free
00:04:21end the news: victory for Polish movement with Spain and the strengthening of controls at land borders. Italy has
00:04:24maintained these measures at least until August 15.
00:04:28The
00:04:30direction of Taiwan, which has just carried out important
00:04:32military exercises to test its
00:04:35capabilities in the face of a major conflict. The island is in the
00:04:38sights of China, which claims it. Suzanne Doroi,
00:04:41our correspondent on the spot.
00:04:45What you just heard is the Taiwanese army training for
00:05:00an invasion scenario by the Chinese army on this small island
00:05:04of Tidman. This Taiwanese territory is located only 10
00:05:07km from China. And here you can see on the banks,
00:05:11Taiwanese tanks practicing live
00:05:14firing. They will aim at targets that are there
00:05:18in the background, in the sea, as you can see.
00:05:21So Tim, like the rest of the country, is training. These are national
00:05:25military exercises. And Tinman
00:05:28particularly is exposed to China by its proximity. It
00:05:32had already been the subject of an attempted landing in
00:05:351900. 49. So
00:05:39today, would China be able to invade this small
00:05:43territory again? The strategic and military stakes are
00:05:47colossal. And finally, perhaps strategists
00:05:49estimate that invading the main island of
00:05:52Taiwan directly is perhaps much more relevant for
00:05:56China. 1 billion dollars,
00:05:59Meta, Facebook's parent company and Instagram, again
00:06:03sanctioned, this time for damages to minors attributed
00:06:06to these platforms. The group
00:06:09must limit their access to certain
00:06:13features. This decision has just been taken by the New Mexico
00:06:16Court of Justice, at the very moment when the group is targeted by
00:06:19other lawsuits in Europe and Australia.
00:06:23Nadji.
00:06:24The digital giant
00:06:28Meta, singled out by American justice for
00:06:32failures in protecting underage users of its
00:06:36platforms. The decision comes from a New
00:06:39Mexico judge, a first in the United
00:06:43States that could set a precedent.
00:06:47The court notes and concludes that just as harmful pollution generated by a
00:06:51factory can harm the collective right to reasonably clean air, the
00:06:55harmful effects of Meta's platforms on children are not limited to these
00:06:58platforms. They spread throughout the Internet and, perhaps most
00:07:02worryingly, to the real world. This is a blow for
00:07:05Mark Zuckerberg's company, which is being
00:07:08hit with a record fine of 942 million
00:07:11dollars. Meta is ordered to create a compensation fund
00:07:15of 567 million dollars to
00:07:19finance mental health and prevention programs for young
00:07:22people over 5 years. These platforms, Instagram and
00:07:26Facebook, will have to limit young people's access to certain
00:07:29features. Young people are particularly vulnerable to
00:07:33scrolling, likes, and all kinds of notifications.
00:07:36Meta, for its part, claims to be doing everything
00:07:39possible to protect adolescents and has announced it will
00:07:42appeal. According to this specialist, we are witnessing
00:07:46a change in logic. Very often, social networks have hidden behind
00:07:49their role as hosts, explaining that they
00:07:51were only there to host videos, that they were in no
00:07:55way responsible for the videos that were on their platform. These
00:07:59services are actually based on capturing
00:08:03it is they who must be held responsible for these services, since it is they
00:08:06who exploit the vulnerabilities and flaws in children's attention.
00:08:10Among the other measures to protect
00:08:13minors ordered by the court are a limitation on
00:08:1890 hours per month, and notifications blocked after
00:08:2110 p.m. and during classes.
00:08:25Technology at the service of firefighters, drones to fight
00:08:28forest fires. This is Turkey's new weapon. By detecting
00:08:32fires earlier, it allows rescue teams to
00:08:35intervene more quickly. Their report
00:08:38by our correspondent with Adria
00:08:42Rochakuutier. In this control tower, fires are mainly
00:08:45detected by the human
00:08:50eye, an essential surveillance job, because
00:08:54when it comes to forest fires, every minute
00:08:57counts. In the Mugla region, the dominant tree is the red
00:09:00pine, a species very vulnerable to fires. We are therefore in an
00:09:04area where the risk of fire is high. Turkey is now relying on its
00:09:08drone fleet, one of the most developed in the
00:09:10world, to strengthen
00:09:12the control of its forests. It allows
00:09:16fires to be detected at their first signs and to intervene more
00:09:19quickly. Mustapha Hulkudur has his
00:09:22eyes glued to the screens. In the center of the Mugla Forest
00:09:26Directorate, he constantly monitors images transmitted
00:09:29live by drones operated remotely from
00:09:33Ankara. Indispensable in our fight against
00:09:36fires. Look at the screen at the top left. Under the smoke, it is impossible to
00:09:38see the embers with the naked eye. But as
00:09:42soon as we switch to the thermal camera, what we call infrared,
00:09:45look, the image appears in a few moments. You can
00:09:49now see the lower part of the screen, the heat source is much better
00:09:53detected. Technology now makes it possible to
00:09:57save precious time, but
00:09:58on the ground, firefighters remain on the
00:10:03front line against the flames.
00:10:07Honestly, it's difficult. It's a demanding job. We remain ready to
00:10:10intervene at any time. As soon as an
00:10:13alert is given, we leave immediately with the teams. Six
00:10:16teams have been mobilized and are working tirelessly. The day after the
00:10:19fire, Hulkdur takes to the air to assess the
00:10:23damage. With increasingly hot summers, protecting these forests can
00:10:27sometimes seem like a never-ending task. But this time
00:10:30again, the threat has been contained.
00:10:33It's going to be very hot again in France these coming days, as in
00:10:36other European countries. In
00:10:38Austria, Croatia, and even
00:10:41Slovakia, temperature records have been broken, up to over
00:10:4541 degrees in some places.
00:10:49With drought and repeated heatwaves, the
00:10:52waters of the Danube are at a historically low level. But
00:10:58the river remains, despite everything, a thread of freshness for these
00:11:01Slovaks besieged by the oppressive
00:11:04heat in Bratislava. I notice that my body reacts
00:11:07differently. I am more irritable. I think it's because
00:11:11of the heat. What's changing is that during the day, I spend more time at home. I try not to go out. I can't go play sports during the day. It's very
00:11:13constraining.
00:11:18Slovakia and neighboring Austria recorded absolute
00:11:21temperature records this week, over 41
00:11:33degrees in some places. After a particularly
00:11:35hot and dry July,
00:11:38residents and shopkeepers fear a scorching August.
00:11:41While the drought has become widespread
00:11:45and the concrete shopping streets are shunned by
00:11:48tourists and the few passersby.
00:11:52We had a doctor's appointment, that's why we're out. Otherwise, with this weather, I would have stayed
00:11:56home with my child.
00:11:59They, in Croatia, chose
00:12:01to shelter in the middle of
00:12:04nature. In the Split region, where the thermometer reads
00:12:07over 35 degrees, these tourists are taking
00:12:10equestrian rides
00:12:13in the open sea. We escaped the walls surrounding
00:12:16Split. It's over 40 degrees with concrete under our feet. We're
00:12:20enjoying this moment in nature. Some forests, like this nature reserve in
00:12:24Serbia, are currently ravaged by fires,
00:12:27after several days of heatwave and
00:12:31drought. Indeed, these heatwave episodes have
00:12:35caused an exceptional drought this summer. You may have noticed that
00:12:38a quarter of the small and medium-sized waterways are dry. This has not
00:12:42happened in almost 15 years, enough to
00:12:45disrupt navigation. The story by
00:12:48Mathilde Gracia. A deserted lock and
00:12:51just a few centimeters of stagnant water. 20 km from Dijon,
00:12:55the Burgundy Canal is unrecognizable and impassable. A sad
00:12:59sight for this cyclist who has been cycling there for 15 years. It's the first time it's
00:13:02so desolate to see such a disaster. Since this
00:13:06summer, we no longer see boats, whereas before we
00:13:09often saw them. Due to the lack of water, three quarters of the Burgundy
00:13:12Canal are closed. Pleasure boats remain here at the
00:13:16port, like that of this retiree who wanted to sail across
00:13:19Europe. I would rather be
00:13:23sailing on canals, visiting
00:13:26cities, of course. The consequence of a
00:13:29historic drought that is hitting all of France this
00:13:33summer. Like here, the Loire at its lowest, not a single
00:13:37drop in some waterways, dusty riverbeds instead.
00:13:40The Rhine also suffers. Here in Cove, Germany,
00:13:44water levels are so low that barges navigate
00:13:46slowly, a passage that blocks all river transport to
00:13:49northern Europe with repercussions on the French
00:13:53side. The only way to navigate is to
00:13:57travel very light. In Alsace,
00:14:00here is the only cargo of this half-empty
00:14:04barge, heading to Antwerp, two
00:14:08mining shovels.
00:14:11If we load more, we will be much
00:14:14pass. We make calculations with the captains to see what the
00:14:17boat can take, what it is capable of loading, where to load it
00:14:21in the boat to balance the boat, and we necessarily
00:14:24reduce the flow. We can take fewer goods. With boats
00:14:27filled to less than 10% of their capacity, this port near
00:14:29Colmar is considering putting employees on partial
00:14:33unemployment, and the water level is not expected to rise
00:14:36anytime soon. No rain is forecast in the coming
00:14:40weeks. A word about the Women's Tour de France to
00:14:46cyclist Kasia Niewiadoma. She won today's
00:14:497th stage at the summit of Mont Ventoux. She also took
00:14:53the yellow jersey with a 15-second lead over Dutch
00:14:56Demi Vollering. There are now two stages left before the grand
00:15:00finale in Nice next Sunday.
00:15:04It was worth it. She just won the most beautiful. Stay with us, the news continues on France
00:15:0724. We will turn towards the
00:15:11mountains. We are going to a village called
00:15:15Shebad. It was controlled by the Islamic
00:15:18State, but it was liberated by the Puntland
00:15:21army. There are two ways to fly in a combat
00:15:28zone: either you fly very low, or high
00:15:30enough to avoid small-caliber
00:16:07fire. Because of the terrain, we cannot choose the first
00:16:11option, so we will gain
00:16:15altitude. If someone shoots
00:16:16at us, the bullets will lose their
00:16:20velocity before hitting the
00:16:21aircraft.
00:16:26This whole valley was controlled by the Islamic State. Here is the
00:16:29village. Welcome to
00:16:32Chebad. This was the new stronghold of the Islamic
00:16:38Somalia, the jihadists tried to expand the group's influence in the
00:16:41world and finance other
00:16:42factions on the
00:16:48continent. After the fall of ISIS in the Middle East in 2019, hundreds of
00:16:51foreign jihadists flocked here. They
00:16:53joined local fighters and captured a
00:17:00territory of 5000 km2 in the semi-autonomous
00:17:04region of Puntland.
00:17:07Somalia is a federation of several states,
00:17:11each with its own army and government.
00:17:14They were writing verses from the Quran, but I don't know much
00:17:17Arabic. No matter what he wrote
00:17:20here. We are Somalis, they want to mislead
00:17:24us. They have invented their own quotes.
00:17:26These are ideological
00:17:31usurpers, thieves who have killed people and created
00:17:35problems all over the
00:18:09world. And they have come here to hide and
00:18:12cause chaos in the
00:18:15world. You see, it's already damaged.
00:18:19We'll soon take it down.
00:18:22Today, Colonel Ali's troops will resupply the forward
00:18:25post. The front line is inaccessible
00:18:29by car. He doesn't need rest. Wherever
00:18:32you go, he will follow you. You don't need to refuel,
00:18:35no need for spare parts. He has everything he needs.
00:18:39You can even slaughter it, yeah, slaughter it and eat its meat wherever
00:18:59you are, but only if it's really
00:19:02necessary.
00:19:10Some are still hidden nearby.
00:19:12We must be on alert wherever we
00:19:17go. We clear the roads, whether they are paths or tracks for
00:19:21cars. These mountainous paths are riddled
00:19:25with explosive devices planted by terrorists.
00:19:28ISIS is difficult to locate
00:19:32and even harder to neutralize.
00:19:34So the army calls for help from American
00:19:51fighter jets and drones. They have carried out
00:19:55over a hundred strikes in Somalia in 2025.
00:19:59We'll unload the donkeys, we'll
00:20:03tie them up and carry the ammunition ourselves. The front is that
00:20:14way. After the night's
00:20:15bombardment, the soldiers will launch a new
00:20:19offensive.
00:20:33They are hiding. Every time one of them pops their head
00:20:36up, our army must attack from three different
00:20:39sides. Those in the
00:20:40caves, we will try to get
00:20:50them with artillery.
00:20:53Once we have hit
00:20:55them, we will move in
00:20:57with force. Be careful, when we capture the
00:21:00cave, we must not rush. The
00:21:02deminers must go first. There may be traps. They must defuse
00:21:06them. The ISIS fighters hidden by the
00:21:09terrain can appear at any moment.
00:21:12But we will not see them.
00:21:15For our safety, we are forbidden to approach the
00:21:18front.
00:21:20This was a position they used to defend Chebad, their so-called
00:21:24capital. Underground, the organization's leaders
00:21:28commanded the
00:21:31attacks. To kill people, they mainly make explosive
00:21:35devices. We're going to do some tests.
00:21:39They put this clay soil in
00:21:43cans to make bombs.
00:21:46They fill them halfway with
00:21:58it and the rest is explosives.
00:22:02We post photos of all the
00:22:04army's successes so that our people feel
00:22:07confident.
00:22:15This is a government priority.
00:22:18Hundreds of civilians have been executed. The
00:22:22survivors have fled.
00:22:25Few dare to
00:22:28There is a relative
00:22:36calm, that's what we tell our families.
00:22:40But the war continues, it's not over. Nothing
00:22:43works here.
00:22:44Under the yoke
00:22:47of the group, it was not welcome
00:22:51but
00:22:51the villagers had no
00:22:55choice.
00:23:08It is written that they are the Islamic State, but
00:23:11we have seen neither state nor
00:23:14Islam. This is the list of forbidden
00:23:18things: smoking
00:23:50khat. All the vices marked
00:23:54here, they did not find many people who practice them. The only ones who do that
00:23:58are them.
00:24:02In Somalia, the population is Muslim and already respects Sharia. This is
00:24:05how I make my living
00:24:07now. His daily life before exile, they took
00:24:11our village, they stole our homes, they made everyone
00:24:14flee, they stole our cattle, especially our
00:24:18goats, they did everything to us, we had many
00:24:21problems.
00:24:22All those who opposed
00:24:26them, they beheaded them.
00:24:40They did so many things against our
00:24:41culture, against our
00:24:56religion. This mafia has prospered thanks to money extorted from
00:24:59Bosasso, an essential port city for the local
00:25:03economy, located downstream from the mountains.
00:25:07The Islamic State operates
00:25:12clandestinely. It has conducted numerous attacks and caused
00:25:14dozens of casualties.
00:25:17Since the beginning of the offensive, the government has reduced ISIS's
00:25:40control, but the risk of attacks and kidnappings remains
00:25:42high.
00:25:45These armed men protect our team.
00:25:49As you can see, this store is
00:25:56closed. The owners closed because of the Islamic
00:25:59State, because they were asking them for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:26:05The owner realized that the amount requested was much larger than what he
00:26:08possessed inside the store.
00:26:11Look there, there
00:26:15is the symbol of this city's
00:26:16problems.
00:26:24Look at this padlock.
00:26:28The owners fled to save their lives.
00:26:30Abdulkadirmail
00:26:33is the only community leader who dares to publicly denounce the
00:26:36Islamic State.
00:26:38Explosive on this store, everyone
00:26:41was asleep at that time.
00:26:44He had attached it at this level to the door. The entire
00:26:47interior of the building
00:26:49collapsed. There was nothing
00:26:51left to recover.
00:26:55To avoid such a fate, many businesses ended
00:26:59up paying. According to local officials,
00:27:32the Islamic State has amassed a fortune of several million
00:27:35dollars. They tried everything and it didn't
00:27:39work, so they planted a bomb.
00:27:42This affects all types of businesses, from the
00:27:44smallest to the largest,
00:27:49even the small transporter who pushes his wheelbarrow. They found
00:27:53him. They told him, "We know where you
00:27:56work," and that worker was stolen.
00:27:59The role of the sharia is to help the community
00:28:32in its daily life, resolve
00:28:35disputes, give advice
00:28:39discreetly. He also tries to organize the
00:28:42resistance. In the mosque, we warn believers
00:28:45against the vices of ISIS.
00:28:48We tell them their program is to
00:29:15steal and kill.
00:29:18No religion promises that. The members of ISIS know
00:29:21nothing about
00:29:31religion. Some recruits were approached after
00:29:34praying.
00:29:38An ISIS defector hidden in Assot agreed to
00:29:41testify, but
00:29:43to remain discreet, he cannot be seen in our
00:29:47company. We spoke on the phone, his
00:29:51words are
00:29:53repeated. I'm hiding, I'm afraid
00:29:56they'll find me and kill me because
00:30:04I dared to leave.
00:30:07prié,
00:30:09un déserteur de l'état islamique caché dans assot a accepté de
00:30:12témoigner, mais pour rester discret, il ne peut
00:30:16être vu en notre compagnie, nous avons
00:30:19échangé au téléphone, ces propos sont
00:30:21répétés,
00:30:24je me cache, j'ai peur qu'il me retrouve et qu'il me tue parce que
00:30:28run away,
00:30:31I can't go home because... if the police find me, they'll
00:30:34arrest me,
00:30:39I arrived in Bossasso, after several days on the road, I came
00:30:42from Ethiopia,
00:30:46I was looking for work and apparently found it in this
00:30:48country,
00:30:51I went to a mosque every Friday and after
00:30:54several weeks a Yemeni came to see me to ask if I
00:30:58wanted to.