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00:00:06Welcome to this new news report, we are in the heart of the night edition,
00:00:10here are the headlines. The President of Colombia
00:00:13officially inaugurated Bellardo de la esprit and took
00:00:17an oath. The millionaire lawyer is an admirer of Donald Trump, Javier
00:00:20Miley or Naïb Boukelé, this new figure of
00:00:24has suffered attacks in recent months from the far-right promises to build prisons, bomb
00:00:27drug traffickers and reduce services.
00:00:32Tensions are still high between Spain and Italy after the Ceuta
00:00:36crisis and Rome's reaction, which implemented passenger controls for those coming
00:00:40from the Iberian peninsula. Madrid, in turn, is imposing
00:00:43controls on travelers coming
00:00:48capturing attention, from Italy. And then Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign
00:00:52a mutual defense pact. Any armed attack
00:00:55against one of these countries will be considered
00:00:57United States has with countries in an attack against all, a warning to... Iran, but also to the
00:01:01United States. The rise in tension in the region has accelerated the project.
00:01:20a NATO member, is also seeking to The far-right has therefore taken the reins wave, almost the entire of power in Colombia. The new
00:01:22president took office in Cali, in the heart of a city marked by
00:01:26attacks claimed by armed groups. This is a symbol for...
00:01:30the one who openly threatens the peace process started by his
00:01:33predecessor. So what is his program, what are his
00:01:36allies? Listen to the analysis of Colombia specialist Hugo
00:01:39Corten, he is a PhD student in political science at the Free University of
00:01:43Brussels:
00:01:45he is a far-right figure who has surpassed a far-right that
00:01:49already existed in Colombia, which had been in the majority for 20 years, the one that
00:01:52is somewhat improperly called that of the Democratic Center,
00:01:56so of the Democratic Center, and even if there are
00:01:59tensions in... between these political formations, we can expect them to govern
00:02:02together, and in reality, the majority in Congress
00:02:06on which he will be able to rely is still relatively comfortable for
00:02:09him, so he should still have sufficient
00:02:13support. He is a Donald Trump voter since he has
00:02:16citizenship and he said he voted for Donald Trump. What will
00:02:20change will be a bit of a step backward. You may know that Colombia
00:02:24has often been the entry
00:02:27carried out with live ammunition on a beach on point for the United States into
00:02:30undoubtedly become that again. Perhaps there will still be
00:02:33American bases that will be rebuilt or American
00:02:36soldiers who will be redeployed to Colombian territory, from which, why
00:02:40not, other military operations like those we saw in Venezuela could be carried out.
00:02:44This is a scenario that is entirely possible, even
00:02:47probable. Spain is implementing controls on
00:02:50travelers from Italy. These measures concern flights and
00:02:54boats. Madrid's decision was taken in response to similar measures
00:02:57decreed by Italy after the influx of migrants.
00:03:03convent, escaped from
00:03:30It is estimated that more than 1,100 unaccompanied minors are in Ceuta.
00:03:33Local authorities are doing everything possible to care for these minors and
00:03:37manage the few migrants who are still in
00:03:40the enclave, according to figures from the Spanish Ministry of
00:03:42Interior. On the diplomatic front, the dispute continues
00:03:46between Spain and Italy. Madrid threatens to apply retaliatory
00:03:49measures against Rome if Italy does not reverse its decision to suspend
00:03:53free movement with Spain before Sunday. On
00:03:56July 31st, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced
00:04:00the strengthening of land border controls. We
00:04:04call on the Italian government to review its position, to
00:04:07end the controls and to treat Spaniards like other European
00:04:11citizens. If it does not do so before the end of the day on
00:04:14Sunday, August 9th, Spain will be forced to adopt
00:04:18proportional measures to protect the interests and dignity of its
00:04:22citizens. Italy says it does not want to yield to any
00:04:26ultimatum. In a statement, the Italian government
00:04:29indicates. It maintains the suspension of the Schengen agreement with Spain
00:04:33at least until August 15th.
00:04:36Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have sealed a defense
00:04:39pact. The agreement aims to strengthen military deterrence in a
00:04:43context of renewed regional tension. Explanations by Alice
00:04:46Brogar.
00:04:49To seal their alliance, they chose Lamec. Side by
00:04:53side, the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and
00:04:56Pakistan attend Friday prayers at the Grand Mosque.
00:05:00Three regional Sunni powers that share maritime
00:05:04or land borders with Shiite Iran, perceived as a
00:05:07threat. So Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin
00:05:10Salman, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Pakistani
00:05:14Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif signed a defense
00:05:17pact on Friday. The agreement aims to strengthen collective
00:05:21deterrence against any act of aggression and stipulates that any
00:05:24armed attack against one of the three states will be considered an attack
00:05:27against all. A mechanism whose solidity could
00:05:31be tested very quickly by Saudi Arabia. The kingdom
00:05:36Iran and its proxies, such as the Houthis in Yemen, who have recently
00:05:40increased their strikes against targets. Saudi Arabia, Riyadh,
00:05:44Ankara and Islamabad, who have been involved in recent weeks to try to
00:05:48resolve the conflict between the United States and Iran, are also
00:05:51seeking to diversify their defense in the face of an American
00:05:54partner deemed increasingly
00:05:56unreliable.
00:05:59The other factor is distrust of American security guarantees.
00:06:02Let's be clear, this is not an alternative to the
00:06:06security relationship that the
00:06:10the region, but a complement. Indeed, while the
00:06:13United States remains indispensable for many regional
00:06:16actors, they are also perceived as unreliable and
00:06:19unpredictable. While Saudi Arabia and Pakistan
00:06:23are already linked by a defense agreement, the inclusion of Turkey
00:06:26in this new pact was hastened by the war in the
00:06:29Middle East. Turkey,
00:06:33gain influence and attract Saudi
00:06:36investments. Another night of bombing in
00:06:39Ukraine, the first assessment reports at least three deaths, including a child,
00:06:43in the capital. About ten explosions were recorded,
00:06:47and fires are ongoing in at least two districts of Kyiv.
00:06:51Authorities had earlier issued a ballistic missile alert and urged
00:06:55residents to go to shelters. Meanwhile,
00:06:58Volodymyr Zelensky is in Serbia, for the first time since
00:07:01he came to power. It must be said that Belgrade has never
00:07:05aligned itself with European sanctions against Moscow. The visit, initially scheduled
00:07:09for one day, is to continue this Saturday. It will
00:07:12notably involve security, and for Serbia,
00:07:15this visit is a way to send a signal to the Baltic countries, who are reluctant to join
00:07:19the EU due to its relations with Russia,
00:07:23but also to reassure European states who are concerned about the decline of
00:07:26democracy in the
00:07:27country.
00:07:31Taiwan has been conducting military exercises since Wednesday to simulate a
00:07:34Chinese invasion, exercises that take place every year and that were
00:07:40Kinmen Island, only kilometers from the shores of
00:07:43China. Our correspondent Suzanne Duroi was there.
00:07:47place.
00:07:56What you just heard is the Taiwanese army training
00:07:59for a scenario of an invasion by the Chinese
00:08:02army on this small island of Kinmen. This Taiwanese
00:08:05territory is located only 6 km from China, and here you
00:08:09can see on the shores Taiwanese tanks
00:08:13exercising live fire. They will aim at
00:08:16targets that are there in the background, in the sea, as you
00:08:20can see. So Kinmen, like the rest of the country,
00:08:23is training, these are national military exercises,
00:08:27and Kinmen in particular is exposed to
00:08:31China due to its proximity. It had already been the target
00:08:34of an attempted landing in 1949. So
00:08:38today, would China be capable of invading this small territory again?
00:08:42The strategic and military stakes are
00:08:44colossal, and finally, perhaps strategists
00:08:48estimate that invading the main island of
00:08:51Taiwan directly is perhaps much more relevant for
00:08:54China. This warning now,
00:08:57the EU is asking social networks to act against
00:09:00disinformation. Meta and TikTok have been called upon to better
00:09:04preserve the digital space. It must be said that a
00:09:07wave of rumors amplified on social networks would have largely
00:09:10contributed to the rush of 60,000 to 1200 people to Ceuta.
00:09:14The European Commissioner for Technology is asking them to
00:09:17strengthen their cooperation with
00:09:20fact-checkers. Meta has also been ordered to pay a record
00:09:24fine in New Mexico, nearly a billion dollars for the
00:09:27damage to the mental health of young people. The court orders the
00:09:31group to take measures to protect users. The story by
00:09:34Anaj.
00:09:38The digital giant Meta, singled out by American
00:09:42justice for failures in protecting
00:09:46minor users of its platforms,
00:09:50the decision comes from a New Mexico judge, a
00:09:53first in the United States that could set a precedent. The
00:09:57court finds and concludes that just as harmful pollution generated by a
00:10:00factory can infringe on collective rights to reasonably clean air,
00:10:04the harmful effects of Meta's platforms on children are not limited to these
00:10:08platforms. They spread across the entire internet and perhaps, more
00:10:12worryingly, into the real world. This is a slap in the face for
00:10:16Mark Zuckerberg's company, which has been fined a record
00:10:20942 million dollars. Meta
00:10:23is ordered to create a fund of... a reparations fund of 567
00:10:27million dollars intended to finance over 5 years mental
00:10:30health and prevention programs for
00:10:33young people. These platforms, Instagram and Facebook, will have to
00:10:37limit young people's access to certain features. Young people are
00:10:41particularly vulnerable to scrolling, likes and
00:10:45notifications of all kinds. Meta,
00:10:47for its part, says it does everything it can to protect
00:10:50adolescents and has announced it will appeal. For this
00:10:54specialist, we are seeing a change in logic
00:10:57today. Very often, social networks have hidden behind
00:11:00their role as hosts, explaining that they
00:11:03were only there to host videos and that they were in no way
00:11:07responsible for the videos that were on their platform. These
00:11:10services are indeed based on
00:11:13and therefore it is they who must be held
00:11:16responsible for these services, since it is they who exploit the vulnerabilities and
00:11:20flaws in the attention of children. Among the other
00:11:24protection measures for minors ordered by the courts,
00:11:27a limit on social network use to 90 hours per
00:11:30month and blocked notifications after
00:11:3310 p.m. and during classes.
00:11:36cours.
00:11:38France will once again suffocate, forecasters
00:11:41are announcing a new heat
00:11:44country is concerned with peaks expected in the southwest and in the
00:11:48Rhône Valley. 12 departments are on orange alert
00:11:51this Saturday. Heat waves are succeeding each other at an
00:11:55unprecedented rate in France, but also beyond. In Turkey,
00:11:59firefighters are using drones to identify fire starts. The
00:12:03report by our correspondent Jena Lebrass with Adria Rochat
00:12:07Cutier.
00:12:11In this control tower, fires are mainly detected
00:12:15by the human eye, an essential
00:12:18surveillance task, because when it comes to forest
00:12:21fires, every minute counts. In the Mugla
00:12:25region, the dominant tree is the red pine, a species very vulnerable to fires. We
00:12:29are therefore in an area where the risk of fire is
00:12:31high.
00:12:33Turkey is now relying on its drone fleet, one of the most developed
00:12:37in the world, to strengthen the control of its forests. It
00:12:41allows detecting fires from their first signs and intervening
00:12:44more quickly. Mustafa Hulkudur has his
00:12:48eyes glued to the screens. In the center of the Moula Forest Directorate,
00:12:52he constantly monitors.
00:13:04The drone has become an indispensable tool in our fight against fires. Look at the screen in the upper left. Under the smoke, it is impossible to
00:13:06see the embers with the naked eye, but as soon as we switch to the thermal camera, which we call
00:13:10infrared, look, the image appears in a few moments. You now see
00:13:14the lower part of the screen, the heat source is much better
00:13:18detected,
00:13:19The technology
00:13:24now allows us to save precious time, but
00:13:28on the ground, firefighters remain on the front line against the
00:13:31flames.
00:13:34Honestly, it's difficult, it's a demanding job, we remain ready to
00:13:37intervene at any time, as soon as an alert is given, we leave
00:13:40immediately with the teams, six teams have been mobilized and are working
00:13:44tirelessly. The day after this fire, Ulkudur
00:13:47takes a look from above to assess the damage. With
00:13:51increasingly hot summers, protecting these forests can
00:13:54sometimes... seem like an endless task, but this time
00:13:57again, the threat has been
00:14:43for your loyalty. We'll be back in a little over 15
00:14:46minutes.
00:15:03Hello everyone and welcome to Ractuelle. Myanmar
00:15:07has decided to ban sanitary
00:15:10protection on its territory, a decision by the army to
00:15:13fight against the rebels opposed to the military
00:15:17junta. We'll talk about it in a moment with my guest Henriette
00:15:20Cerrak. And then the nuns are
00:15:24rebelling. Three retired nuns broke out to leave their
00:15:28nursing home and return to their beloved
00:15:30convent.
00:15:34The ruling junta in Myanmar has decided to ban
00:15:38sanitary napkins. What the military accuses them of is
00:15:42serving as makeshift bandages for rebels and therefore
00:15:45being undesirable in the country. The
00:15:48military power returned after a coup in
00:15:512021, so it decided to ban menstrual
00:15:54protection. Since then, 15 million women have been
00:15:57left without solutions each month. To talk about
00:16:01it, I have the pleasure of welcoming Henriette Cerrac
00:16:04from Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, you are on a mission, hello Henriette. You are
00:16:08a menstrual health consultant and you founded Pankalai in
00:16:11Myanmar, an organization that produces safe sanitary
00:16:14napkins but was forced to close a few
00:16:18years ago. Henriette, when the
00:16:21junta issues this ban on sanitary
00:16:24protection in its territory, is it really convinced by what it claims, that
00:16:28the pads are used to treat rebel injuries, or is it
00:16:32a pretext, in your
00:16:33opinion?
00:16:37I think it's a pretext, I think no one takes this excuse seriously,
00:16:41it's completely fanciful, we can't
00:16:43imagine that a sanitary napkin could seriously
00:16:47serve as a compress in a
00:16:50wartime context. What is much more probable in fact is
00:16:54that in this phase of the civil war - it's a very long civil war, but it's true that since
00:16:58the coup in 2021 it has intensified
00:17:01and characteristic of this new phase of the civil
00:17:05war is that women have joined the ranks of the
00:17:08resistance in large numbers, and so what seems much more probable is that
00:17:12the military junta had this idea in fact to
00:17:15limit the ability of these
00:17:18resistors to participate in the
00:17:20war. But in fact, that affects all women, resisting women
00:17:24are a fraction of Burmese women, and
00:17:28in fact, this ban impacts
00:17:31all Burmese women and girls. This means that their ability to
00:17:33move around, go to school, and go to work will be significantly
00:17:38affected, it will exclude them socially,
00:17:41for a week a month for those of
00:17:45childbearing age, it will also create
00:17:49a lot of shame and stigmatization. Periods are actually
00:17:53a very stigmatized subject in the
00:17:56context of Burmese culture,
00:17:59and so preventing them from
00:18:02managing their menstruation properly will
00:18:06in fact place an even greater burden, greater
00:18:09shame on these women. Concretely, that
00:18:13means that there are no more sanitary protection products entering Burmese
00:18:16territory, that means there is a shortage, are there still
00:18:19alternatives for these women who have their periods every
00:18:22month? In fact, what we don't know
00:18:26very well is the scale of this ban,
00:18:30uh, a priori, it's
00:18:33in certain regions where the resistance is particularly strong, for
00:18:37example, the Mandalay region, the Sagaing region,
00:18:41uh, we don't know, in fact, it's very difficult to get
00:18:45reliable data on this subject at the moment,
00:18:48uh, but so
00:18:51at least in several regions of Myanmar, that's the case.
00:18:55Uh, what we can imagine again, is that, well, in fact, what we
00:18:59even know with certainty, is that
00:19:03a whole black market is developing with
00:19:06the price of... packets of menstrual pads
00:19:09that are increasing in a
00:19:12crazy way, uh, there will also be
00:19:16lower quality pads that will enter the Burmese market
00:19:20via the black market, but the most
00:19:23probable thing is that women will go back to what their mothers
00:19:26and grandmothers did, that is, they will use old
00:19:30longyis. The longyi is the traditional Burmese skirt that is
00:19:34worn by the vast majority of Burmese women. They will use
00:19:37these old fabrics,
00:19:41roll them up or fix them in a
00:19:44homemade way to absorb their
00:19:47blood. What are the health risks when
00:19:50these are makeshift sanitary protection products like the ones you just
00:19:54described, rather than those that can be used, thrown away, and
00:19:57bought again?
00:20:01It's well documented, very well documented around the world,
00:20:04that girls and
00:20:07women who use makeshift
00:20:10systems are twice as exposed to
00:20:13urinary tract infections and reproductive
00:20:17tract infections, which themselves can cause
00:20:21more serious infections, sometimes life-threatening,
00:20:24and which are also linked to a high
00:20:28risk of infertility. You
00:20:31mentioned earlier the taboo that it represents to talk about periods,
00:20:35to have periods in Myanmar, but... it's quite widespread in the
00:20:38world and especially in Asia, I'm thinking for example of Nepal where women
00:20:42have to isolate themselves for a week during their periods in a hut so as not
00:20:45to pollute the rest of the village. Why, in your opinion,
00:20:49uh... such a fear of menstruation and why in this
00:20:52region of the world in
00:20:53particular?
00:20:57The taboo of periods is almost universal.
00:21:00It's true that in the traditions, in the Hindu traditions,
00:21:03and therefore in certain regions of Nepal to which you
00:21:07refer, it's true that this idea of menstrual blood being
00:21:11polluting and of the menstruating woman being
00:21:13polluting, that's very strong in the Hindu
00:21:17tradition, but in fact what's very interesting is to realize
00:21:21that most cultures, most religions have their
00:21:24version of this taboo, of this stigmatization around
00:21:28menstruation. It's, well, it's something
00:21:32that's almost universal. Myanmar is a predominantly
00:21:35Buddhist country.
00:21:38They have their version of this stigmatization too, it's
00:21:42justified slightly differently, there are nuances, but
00:21:46but it's something we find in fact in most cultures, particularly
00:21:50traditional ones. Do you think there are solutions to counter this ban
00:21:54in Myanmar? Will this ban, this
00:21:57banning of sanitary protection, hold?
00:22:01We need to talk about it, I'm very happy to see that the media
00:22:05are taking up this story, which is
00:22:08truly shocking. We absolutely must talk about it, we
00:22:12must support organizations on the ground in
00:22:15Myanmar. I what makes me happy on the other hand
00:22:19is that... it's an opportunity in fact to talk about what's happening, to talk about the civil
00:22:23war in Myanmar, about the military dictatorship in which the Burmese
00:22:26people have been living for 5 years, and in particular about the condition
00:22:30of women in this context. Women are truly the first
00:22:33victims of this civil war, of this junta
00:22:37which is extremely cruel, obscurantist and misogynistic. It's
00:22:40a metaphor in fact for the
00:22:44lack of access to menstrual products which in fact
00:22:47affects a very large proportion
00:22:51of women and girls in the world. We estimate that 500 million girls and women in the
00:22:55world do not have access to sanitary napkins, to menstrual
00:22:58products, every month. And it's not
00:23:02only a problem in countries of the global south. In
00:23:05France, in rich countries, so to
00:23:08speak, we also see problems, that is, there are 2 million,
00:23:12there is an estimate of around 2 million women in
00:23:15France who do not manage every month to
00:23:19meet their needs in terms of menstrual products. There is really a huge
00:23:22amount of work that we can all do to fight against this taboo, this
00:23:26stigmatization, to enable women to be
00:23:29in better health. Beyond the ban,
00:23:33indeed, the issue of menstrual poverty is very important. Thank you
00:23:36very much, Henriette Serak, for this insight into the situation in
00:23:39Myanmar.
00:23:42What a woman wants, God wants, says the saying, and that seems to be true if we are to
00:23:46believe the adventure of these retirees. not like the others, three nuns.
00:23:50Austrian women who did not want to leave their
00:23:53the nursing home where they had been placed against their will, a
00:23:56preposterous scenario, this is a report by Lyonel
00:23:59Feyerstein.
00:24:02The Austrian media affectionately call them the rebel nuns, Sister Rita,
00:24:0682, Sister
00:24:09Regina, 86, and Sister Bernadette, 88
00:24:13years old. Their story is worthy of a
00:24:17movie.
00:24:20A few months ago, they escaped from their retirement home to
00:24:23return to their beloved convent at the foot of the
00:24:27Alps.
00:24:33I am so happy to be back home, at the convent, in this chapel
00:24:36where all three of us took our vows. You can imagine,
00:24:40for me, it was in 1967.
00:24:44Two years ago, their superior, Provost Marcus Grassel, forcibly
00:24:47transferred them to this nursing home.
00:24:50According to him, the three sisters can no longer continue to live alone in their
00:24:53convent, but the nuns are depressed,
00:24:57they are sad, they don't want to stay. Last
00:25:00September, they decided to escape. Like my
00:25:04two sisters, I prepared myself, I put a few things in a small
00:25:07satchel.
00:25:09Helped by former students they had in class at the convent, they rushed
00:25:13into a waiting car. The three rebellious sisters made their
00:25:17escape. We had called a locksmith to
00:25:21break the padlocks and open the doors of our convent and we succeeded,
00:25:25it was like in a detective
00:25:27movie,
00:25:31their escape was a success, but their return was more
00:25:34bitter. During their 18 months of absence, their personal
00:25:37belongings had been removed, even this stairlift which has since been
00:25:41replaced.
00:25:43We had to climb like this, using the railing and our arms,
00:25:47imagine, there are eight floors.
00:25:51Their hierarchy is furious but dares not do anything more, the story of their
00:25:55great escape has in the meantime moved all of Austria,
00:25:58now they are followed by thousands of people on social networks, they...
00:26:02even published a book titled "Not with
00:26:05us." We can say that we fought against an
00:26:08injustice, because yes, what the church inflicted on us was
00:26:11unjust. When we say "not with us," that
00:26:15means that our superiors deceived us and that we did not
00:26:18accept it. Today, the villagers
00:26:21who mobilized for the return of the nuns and continue to
00:26:25help them, are delighted.
00:26:28When I have a problem, their door is always open.
00:26:33They taught me one important thing, in life, you have to
00:26:36fight. At the end of April, they went to the
00:26:39Vatican to make their story known. Pope Leo
00:26:43XIV guaranteed them that they could now stay in their
00:26:46convent. They find it amusing, their faith and their
00:26:49tenacity have moved mountains. And this
00:26:53is already the end of this edition. Thank you for watching us. See you
00:26:57very soon on France
00:26:5724.
00:30:07You are watching France 24, we begin this new edition of the night news with
00:30:10the headlines: the President of Colombia was
00:30:14officially sworn in at Bellardo de la Esprilla,
00:30:17the millionaire lawyer is an admirer of Donald Trump,
00:30:21Javier Miley or Naïb Michelé, this
00:30:24new figure of the far right promises to build giant
00:30:28prisons, bomb drug traffickers and reduce
00:30:31state services.
00:30:35The conflict continues between Spain and Italy after the crisis
00:30:38in Ceuta and Rome's reaction which implemented passenger controls
00:30:42from the Iberian peninsula, Madrid
00:30:45in turn imposes controls on travelers coming
00:30:48from Italy.
00:30:50And then Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey sign a
00:30:54mutual defense pact. Any armed attack against one of these countries
00:30:57will be considered.