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00:00:00in fear, a report to see on France
00:00:0224.
00:00:08Hello everyone, happy to have you back on France 24, here are the headlines that we will develop
00:00:11in this edition. Moscow and Kyiv continue to trade blows,
00:00:15last night was deadly on both sides, two
00:00:18people were killed in the Moscow region, on the outskirts of
00:00:22Kyiv, at least four deaths are reported, including three
00:00:24children.
00:00:26Voting once again in Germany this Sunday, elections
00:00:30in two states, that of Berlin and that of Mecklenburg-
00:00:34Western Pomerania, two high-risk polls for Chancellor Frederick
00:00:37Schmerz, more unpopular than ever, Caroline Dublei
00:00:41awaits us in the German
00:00:42capital.
00:00:45And then Washington says it fears a rapid escalation in the Middle East after the attack
00:00:49on Riyadh yesterday. Another missile was reportedly fired
00:00:52afterwards but intercepted and destroyed according to Saudi
00:00:56continue the rapprochement between France and Arabia. How will the kingdom respond, will
00:00:59it even respond? And how to explain this omnipotence of the tools? We
00:01:02will ask these questions to our guest, journalist and Yemen specialist,
00:01:06Quentin Muller.
00:01:20hundreds of Ukrainian drones launched on the Russian capital,
00:01:24Moscow and its region, a refinery and residential areas were
00:01:27hit last night, at least two people were killed in this massive attack
00:01:31carried out on the 3rd day of a legislative vote in Russia.
00:01:34In Ukraine, the night was also bloody yesterday,
00:01:38already started since five people were killed, including three children in the
00:01:41Kyiv region. Gulliver Crag's
00:01:44report.
00:01:47According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
00:01:51The Russian capital and its region were the target of several hundred Ukrainian
00:01:54drones. Although most were intercepted and shot down,
00:01:58several escaped the Russian anti-aircraft defense and notably
00:02:01hit several floors of a residential building in the capital
00:02:05justified the increase or this oil
00:02:06by the global rise in energy refinery. Other devices fell in this residential
00:02:09area of Sofino in the Moscow region, causing
00:02:13casualties and significant damage.
00:02:16I
00:02:19resigned to the increase in gasoline was coming out of my building, I had taken about twenty steps from the entrance when the explosion resounded, the windows
00:02:23shattered, people started screaming, I turned around, the
00:02:27entrance doors had been blown away, there were injured people.
00:02:30and probably even dead, but we can't be sure, the
00:02:34emergency services that arrived on the scene did not let us
00:02:36approach, this massive attack by Ukrainian drones
00:02:40comes in a context of intensifying fighting on both
00:02:43sides, a series of Russian strikes on more than 30 sites including the
00:02:47per day, a volume well below Kyiv region caused several deaths, including children, on Saturday and
00:02:50Sunday. This offensive also comes on the 3rd and
00:02:54last day of voting in Russia and has been denounced by the Russian
00:02:57authorities as aiming to disrupt the conduct of the election in the
00:03:01Kherson region, a region in southern Ukraine controlled by
00:03:04Russia, a drone notably killed
00:03:08away from problems and several people including an employee of the electoral commission. More than 4 and a half years after the start of
00:03:12the large-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, these
00:03:15legislative elections aim to renew the Duma, the lower house of the Russian
00:03:19parliament. In a context of repression of all forms
00:03:22of opposition, they should unsurprisingly result in the
00:03:25victory of Vladimir
00:03:28diesel. The Syrian Ministry of Putin's party. So, for the rest. Axel Simon
00:03:32transferred from Syria to Iraq during reminded us just now in his report that this massive Ukrainian drone attack
00:03:34on Russian territory was indeed carried out on the 3rd and last day of
00:03:39100,000 people driven onto the roads of voting in Russia, and it is no coincidence, as our correspondent Gulliver Krag in
00:03:43Kyiv told us a little earlier.
00:03:45It is certainly no coincidence either that Ukraine launched this large-scale attack
00:03:49on Russia on the last day of the elections,
00:03:53elections that Ukraine, like its
00:03:56allies in Western Europe, denounces
00:04:00as fraudulent, where there is no real
00:04:03opposition. Here, there was clearly a show of
00:04:06force by Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky has just
00:04:10enumerated the weapons that
00:04:12years, including documents from were used, it is not only drones but also
00:04:15new long-range rockets that Ukraine has
00:04:18developed. We now come to this high-risk poll
00:04:21for the German Chancellor,
00:04:23each region to bear witness to weakened by the breakthrough of the far-right in the state of Saxony-Anhalt,
00:04:27license to kill for law enforcement. that was two weeks ago. The conservative therefore approaches this Sunday's
00:04:30election with trepidation, while 4 million voters go to the polls in two
00:04:34states, first that of
00:04:36more clearly, the co-founder of Berlin, where the CDU, the Chancellor's party
00:04:39and the radical left are neck and neck, and then in Mecklenburg-Western
00:04:43Pomerania in the northeast, there is more of a duel between the
00:04:46SPD, the social democrats, and the AFD, the far-right party.
00:04:52Benjamin Netanyahu had been warned of So we now find Caroline Duble, our correspondent in Berlin. Hello Caroline, thank you for being with us,
00:04:55you are currently in front of a polling station, do we already have an
00:04:59idea, Caroline, of the turnout, of
00:05:02the enthusiasm that Germans might show for this election, today's
00:05:06one?
00:05:10Well, the polling station I'm in front of is located
00:05:12in the heart of Berlin, in Prenzlauerberg, and it's rather quiet here. I was told
00:05:16that many had already sent their ballots by
00:05:19mail, so before today's date, but
00:05:23the first figures have just come in, yes, there would be 4.5%
00:05:26turnout, more than in the last elections in
00:05:29Berlin in 2023, which means there's a lot of interest in
00:05:33these elections. Today, only 6% of
00:05:37Germans will vote, but as you said, the stakes are
00:05:40enormous and far exceed the communal or
00:05:44regional issues in Berlin. Here,
00:05:48the candidate of the Left, Eriff Eliff Heralp, is
00:05:51given the lead, but it's really neck and neck with the AFD, the far-right
00:05:54party, and the CDU, the conservative party.
00:05:58As for Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania, there again, it's
00:06:01the AFD that could have the most votes. That
00:06:04said, that would certainly not allow
00:06:08them to form the government, since they would need allies
00:06:12for a coalition, and all the other parties have said
00:06:15that they are absolutely reluctant to form a
00:06:19government with them. But
00:06:21since the elections two weeks ago, the stake is to see if this breakthrough
00:06:25of the AFD continues, as well as the debacle of the traditional parties.
00:06:29This is what really jeopardizes the position of Chancellor
00:06:32Friedrich Schmerz, who must follow this election very closely, which he approaches, as
00:06:36I said, with concern, with trepidation, we can say that, because even
00:06:40if it's a local vote, Caroline,
00:06:43the stakes are obviously high. and the Chancellor's popularity rating has
00:06:46never been so low, yes, absolutely,
00:06:50his unpopularity is historic, the debacle of
00:06:53his party is historic, and today, even in Mecklenburg-
00:06:56Western Pomerania, his CDU is at 6 or
00:07:007% of voting intentions. If it were
00:07:03not to exceed 5%, it would not be able to enter parliament, and that
00:07:07would be a historic defeat from which the Chancellor would have great difficulty recovering. So we
00:07:11already hear names circulating of potential replacements for the
00:07:14Chancellor. He has declared that he wants to finish his term and wants to carry
00:07:18out the reforms, but this election really
00:07:21serves as a test for his position. He also canceled his
00:07:25planned trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly to be
00:07:28here in Berlin today. He is convening a crisis meeting
00:07:31today at the end of the election. He had announced
00:07:35yesterday, as an emergency, measures to ease fuel prices
00:07:39at the pump, so to calm the concerns of voters, we see that...
00:07:42he is doing everything to try to avoid a debacle,
00:07:45but whatever happens, these elections
00:07:49could very likely have consequences for the
00:07:53government and for Friedrich Merz's position. Thank you very much, Caroline,
00:07:56thank you for all these explanations, we will obviously find you throughout the day to
00:08:00continue to follow these two elections in Germany.
00:08:03We now come to this trial in Iraq, the trial of
00:08:07six French people accused of terrorism. An investigation had
00:08:10established that these men had joined territories controlled by
00:08:13the Islamic State organization after first going to Turkey. A first
00:08:17hearing was held this morning, a next one is scheduled for October
00:08:215th. Marie-Charlotte Roupi's
00:08:23report.
00:08:26This morning was a preliminary hearing, the six French detainees
00:08:29were presented for the first time before an Iraqi judge
00:08:33after 7 years spent in Syrian prisons and 1 year in Iraqi
00:08:37prisons. All are part of the group of 47
00:08:40French detainees who were
00:08:44the summer of 2025. Dressed in yellow and with shaved heads,
00:08:48they appeared this morning in court to hear the charges against
00:08:52them: membership of the Islamic State organization
00:08:55and/or participation in terrorist activities endangering the
00:08:59security of the Iraqi state. Two of them
00:09:02refused to be represented by court-appointed lawyers
00:09:05because they preferred to request a postponement
00:09:09of the hearing and wait for their French lawyers. The other four
00:09:12accepted to be represented by court-appointed lawyers, accompanied by
00:09:16translators if necessary, and heard the charges against them. The
00:09:19judge presented them with the evidence that had been collected in recent
00:09:24the Islamic State organization in which
00:09:28their names would appear with their photos if they were
00:09:32registered in these documents as nurses, accountants, or
00:09:35fighters. The judge emphasized that whatever happens,
00:09:38they would fall under the Iraqi anti-terrorism law.
00:09:41The court will meet again on October
00:09:455th to hear their defense and deliver the
00:09:48judgment. The detainees face the death penalty or a
00:09:52sentence that could be commuted to life
00:09:53imprisonment. Faced with the multiple provocations
00:09:57of the American president and his desire to annex territory,
00:10:01Emmanuel Macron recalled a reality: the archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
00:10:05is French. For a few days, the head of state must also
00:10:08meet with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is also confronted
00:10:12with Donald Trump's brutality. The explanations of my colleague from France
00:10:16Télévisions.
00:10:19It's been 12 years since a presidential plane landed on the soil of
00:10:22Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Barely arrived, Emmanuel
00:10:26Macron had a point to make.
00:10:29It's obvious to us that this is French territory, and we
00:10:33are attached to it. There's no debate, there's no discussion. A direct
00:10:36response to Donald Trump. Two weeks ago, the American
00:10:40president published seven maps on his social network, all
00:10:44of North America under the banner of the United States, from Mexico to
00:10:47Greenland, including Saint-Pierre and
00:10:50Miquelon. Very happy to be among you, very
00:10:53happy, us too. reaffirmed French sovereignty over
00:10:57this small territory in North America, one of the main
00:11:00stakes of this visit. The head of state is particularly
00:11:04awaited by local fishermen who fear the imposition of customs
00:11:08duties.
00:11:10With Trump, because there will be taxes, so for its pyramid that is currently not
00:11:14affected, we don't know what kind of sauce we're going to be eaten with. This visit
00:11:17must also allow Emmanuel Macron to
00:11:21Europe with Canada. Prime
00:11:24Minister Marc Carney is expected
00:11:27on site this afternoon, a first
00:11:30in this archipelago located only 25 km from the
00:11:33Canadian coast,
00:11:36and then here in France, the fuel crisis that
00:11:39seems to be settling in for the long term. We're going to first look
00:11:43together at these new records for the price of diesel, it's over
00:11:46€2.40 per liter on average. The
00:11:50unleaded 98 exceeds €2.28, again
00:11:54this is an average established by our colleagues at AFP. And since the
00:11:56outbreak of this war in the Middle East, apart from the American-Israeli
00:12:00strikes, the price at the pump continues to rise, which has
00:12:03resulted here in France in actions and blocking operations of ports,
00:12:06notably we saw this week with the fishermen. This
00:12:10fuel crisis does not concern France or Europe
00:12:14only, we have also seen angry demonstrations organized in
00:12:17several provinces in Syria at the beginning of the week to protest precisely
00:12:21against the surge in these prices, Syrians who continue
00:12:25to complain about this drastic increase. The government in Damascus
00:12:31prices. See these reactions in the Syrian
00:12:34capital compiled by Axel
00:12:36Simon.
00:12:38In this Syrian capital gas station, customers seem
00:12:44prices decreed last week by the
00:12:47authorities.
00:12:50The rise in fuel prices is a global phenomenon, I mean that all countries have
00:12:54already increased fuel prices. Until now, the government has absorbed these
00:12:57increases since the beginning of the year, by bearing the cost of each increase in
00:13:01costs. Syria, once an oil producer
00:13:04and exporter, has been devastated by years of civil war. The country
00:13:08only produces about 100,000 barrels
00:13:12the daily domestic demand which fluctuates around 300,000
00:13:15barrels. The price of gasoline has increased, but
00:13:19customers still pay the same amount, they say the increase is
00:13:23temporary and that if the price of...
00:13:29At the beginning of the week, several demonstrations took place in the
00:13:32Syrian capital and in other provinces of the country against the drastic
00:13:36increase in fuel prices, the first since the Islamist
00:13:40coalition took power in late 2024, overthrowing Bashar
00:13:43al-Assad. A few days earlier, the government had announced an
00:13:47increase in prices of 25 to 40% for gasoline and
00:13:53Energy qualified this decision as temporary
00:13:56and justified it by the global rise in energy prices since the
00:14:00outbreak of the war against Iran. Added to this are the
00:14:03tensions around the Strait of Hormuz, locked by Tehran, and Bab
00:14:07el-Mandeb, which came under the control of the Houthis of
00:14:10Yemen.
00:14:13And then still in France, this mobilization planned this
00:14:17weekend against the adoption of a bill, a demonstration underway, as you
00:14:21can see in the image here in Paris, Place de la République, elected officials
00:14:25from the France Insoumise party are on site, we can see Mathilde
00:14:29Pano in the image. This text would allow law enforcement to claim self-defense
00:14:33whenever they use their weapons. The Minister of the Interior says
00:14:37he fears overflows during the demonstrations this
00:14:40Saturday and Sunday. He called on prefects to remain vigilant.
00:14:44Marjorie Lemur.
00:14:47Yesterday, they were a hundred to denounce what they call a
00:14:52A reference to the bill adopted in the National
00:14:56Assembly in July by 313 votes to
00:14:59199. The National Assembly adopted it. Until
00:15:03now, law enforcement could shoot in case of imminent danger during pursuits
00:15:07or refusal to comply. With this new text, they
00:15:10benefit from a presumption of self-defense, a
00:15:13necessary measure according to this police union. The current situation means that there is
00:15:17such colossal pressure on police officers
00:15:21that we have colleagues who don't even dare to shoot in situations
00:15:25where shooting is perfectly legitimate. So if the law is not
00:15:28capable of comforting the police officer in his action, yes, that
00:15:32handicaps the police officer, but it's also something that is
00:15:34detrimental to everyone. In any case, the police
00:15:38officer or gendarme will not be taken into custody, and the investigation may not be
00:15:42opened immediately, which this lawyer deplores. We
00:15:45know that in matters of police violence, the first 48
00:15:49hours are fundamental, why?
00:15:52Because all the evidence tends to disappear, quite
00:15:55simply because it is police officers who will investigate police
00:15:59officers, and therefore there is an effect of corporatism and
00:16:02protection among police officers. The bill
00:16:05is to be examined by the Senate
00:16:07in October.
00:16:10The situation in the Middle East now, the Americans say they fear a rapid
00:16:13escalation after the attack on Riyadh claimed yesterday by the
00:16:16Houthis. Another missile was then fired but intercepted this time and destroyed according to a
00:16:20spokesman for the coalition led by Saudi
00:16:23Arabia. We welcome Quentin
00:16:26Muller on France 24. Hello to you, thank you for being with us,
00:16:30you are an independent journalist specializing in the Arabian Peninsula, we also
00:16:34owe you this book that will be displayed.
00:16:37The island of Socotra, we will see it in the image, here is the tree
00:16:41and the storm that you
00:16:43recently published. Thank you for taking a few moments to answer our
00:16:47questions, Quentin Muller. First, on these attacks on the kingdom, a
00:16:51fuel tank near the airport was therefore hit yesterday. You have
00:16:54obviously seen these images. What is, from your point of view, the message sent by
00:16:58the Houthis? Is it a form of warning and
00:17:01calibrated strike, or is it a first step towards more
00:17:04massive and deadly attacks?
00:17:09So the Houthis are putting incredible pressure on
00:17:12Saudi Arabia. That had
00:17:16October 7th, forcing Riyadh to
00:17:18go back on peace agreements and on a
00:17:22negotiation that had been abandoned in 2022 between
00:17:25the two actors. What the Houthis want, what the Houthis are demanding,
00:17:29is 47 billion in
00:17:31damages and interest, I mean, for the damage
00:17:35caused by the bombing of Saudi Arabia
00:17:39within the framework of the coalition during the
00:17:42war in Yemen, which opposes
00:17:45Saudi Arabia and the internationally
00:17:48recognized government. So the Houthis are demanding this amount. The
00:17:52Saudis do not want to pay. And then secondly, we saw these
00:17:56bombings on the airport and also on ARAMCO,
00:17:59which, by the way, was not confirmed
00:18:03by the Houthis. But these bombings are primarily
00:18:07also in retaliation for the Saudi bombings
00:18:11on the Houthis after their military
00:18:14offensive on the west coast. When you say that the
00:18:17Houthis are demanding damages, so
00:18:21amounting to 47 billion dollars, isn't there
00:18:24another way to obtain this reparation
00:18:28beyond the strikes and the shows of force? Is there
00:18:31today, to speak frankly, no possible mediation
00:18:35imaginable between the two parties?
00:18:38Well no, because when I was in Yemen in June
00:18:41and July, the internationally recognized
00:18:44government supported by Saudi Arabia was preparing for battle
00:18:48and there was no longer any possibility of negotiation
00:18:51between the legitimate government, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis. We could
00:18:55clearly see that we were in a period of total rupture, and besides, I had
00:18:59discussed it with a diplomat who told me that they
00:19:03were trying, on their side, a European diplomat, to negotiate with the
00:19:06Houthis and the legitimate government to get back around
00:19:10a table to discuss the possibility of lasting
00:19:13peace, and we could clearly see that no one wanted that.
00:19:17So the Houthis also exist through war, meaning that they have created a
00:19:21proto-state
00:19:24for 10 years, and they do not redistribute to the population, and therefore
00:19:28to be in a perpetual state
00:19:31of war also prevents
00:19:34having to account to the population they
00:19:38administer. I remind you that more than 70% of the Yemeni population
00:19:42is administered by the Houthis. So by being in a
00:19:46perpetual state of conflict, by
00:19:48finding a scapegoat, the Houthis
00:19:52also do not have to account to the population, which is nevertheless greatly
00:19:56discontent. Does that mean, Quentin Muller, that the Houthis exist through war
00:20:00and are settling into this permanent state of war? That they have the
00:20:03means? How do you explain this feeling of omnipotence, and we
00:20:07just saw a map that was displayed, they are advancing, they are progressing towards
00:20:10the east of the country, they are even advancing, they are at the gates of
00:20:13Marib. What makes them want this war
00:20:17at all costs today? How can they advance and maintain themselves in this
00:20:21permanent state?
00:20:23So I remind you that the Houthis came to power via a violent
00:20:27military coup. Before that, it was 6 years of war in Saada with the legitimate
00:20:30government from 2004 to 2010. So they built themselves through
00:20:34war. Then militarily, they have been supported for
00:20:38years by Iran and Hezbollah, Hezbollah who sent
00:20:42fighters to fight 10 years ago against the legitimate government and Saudi
00:20:45Arabia. Iran which sends
00:20:49weapons and missile parts via East Africa, via
00:20:52Somalia, via Djibouti also
00:20:55for years. So they are supported
00:20:57militarily by these two groups, well, less Hezbollah today,
00:21:01as it is largely weakened. But the Houthis have
00:21:05the means to wage this perpetual war and drag the entire
00:21:09Yemeni population into these interminable
00:21:13wars that cannot be won, because I remind you, the Houthis
00:21:16wish and sometimes say they want to invade
00:21:20Saudi Arabia to manage the holy places.
00:21:24So the Houthis are in this perpetual desire
00:21:28for conflict, and what they are asking for is not really
00:21:32achievable. The Saudis, I don't believe that today they want to give 50
00:21:35billion to the Houthis and risk several years later
00:21:39finding themselves again with a war and having to pay again.
00:21:43So how can the Saudis
00:21:46react to these attacks? What room for maneuver do they have when we know that the
00:21:50Americans are not offering them their help? The Americans who have reiterated that they
00:21:54would stay out of this conflict.
00:21:57So there's a rumor that the Houthis have made a deal with the
00:22:00Americans and that behind the Saudis'
00:22:04backs. The Saudis are in a very difficult position, very
00:22:07difficult because today they are being attacked on their own
00:22:11territory. They do not, as you said, have the support of the Americans,
00:22:15so they do not want to go alone. It has been years since the
00:22:18Saudis are pushing back the deadline for a new
00:22:21confrontation with the Houthis and as long as they don't have the support of the
00:22:25international community, they will not re-engage
00:22:28militarily fully as was the case in 2015 and 2015 was a terrible
00:22:31disguised, there were a lot of bombings that created that
00:22:35tarnished the image of the kingdom that killed many civilians
00:22:38and in the end they did not win the war, so they will not
00:22:42go back to a total war and in the meantime this
00:22:45status quo benefits the Houthis because we can see that they are
00:22:49advancing militarily. They are arming themselves and they are advancing also because of the extreme division of
00:22:53government forces, not only their military forces because government
00:22:56forces also have the means, but they are very
00:22:58divided, so the Saudis have no choice but to
00:23:02suffer in the meantime, if I understand you
00:23:05correctly, yes, uh suffer because
00:23:08as you know, in the United States he has the midterm and the term, I
00:23:12think Donald Trump wants to get closer to his Maga base which is the most
00:23:15isolationist and he has for now detached himself a bit
00:23:19from. all these conflicts right and left that have given no results
00:23:23and which moreover have been terrible defeats
00:23:38these civilians, more than 11,000 people in Yemen have had to flee
00:23:42the fighting, some have been able to find refuge on the side of Djibouti, others have no
00:23:45alternative listen.
00:23:50We hope that God will put the country back on the right path, that normal life will return to us and that
00:23:54we can return home in safety and reassurance
00:23:58aggression, far from the difficulties we are currently experiencing.
00:24:13God willing, God will deliver us from this scourge without pain or
00:24:16suffering.
00:24:20That's it for these testimonies that testify to the humanitarian crisis that is developing
00:24:24in Yemen, I remind you of this figure, more than 100,000 displaced people,
00:24:29exile because of these deadly battles between the two
00:24:32camps in Yemen, civilians who cannot at this stage
00:24:36be taken care of due to lack of financial means
00:24:39also, that's what the
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00:30:14after the attacks of October 7, Israel is in an election
00:30:17campaign in a context where war and regional threats are more than
00:30:21ever relevant, this is also Benjamin Netanyahu's main argument
00:30:24to voters, but also to all his opponents who accuse
00:30:28the Prime Minister of trying to remain in power to avoid being held
00:30:32accountable. What is the reality of the danger, but also the political part
00:30:35in all this? To help us see
00:30:39the Atlantic Middle East Forum is with us David Calfa,
00:30:42co-director of the Middle East Observatory at the Jean
00:30:45Jaurès Foundation. But let's first return to the latest revelations,
00:30:49those from the Airetz newspaper. The Israeli daily claims that
00:30:54the imminence of an attack in preparation just a few days
00:30:57before October 7, 2023.
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