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00:00:07Thank you for choosing France 24 for your been forced into exile. In this context information. Moscow and Kyiv are still
00:00:10trading blows. The last night was deadly on both
00:00:14sides. Two people were killed in the Moscow region, on the outskirts of
00:00:19curbing the development of Kyiv. There are at least four dead, including three
00:00:21children.
00:00:23Germany is voting again this Sunday in legislative elections in two
00:00:26Länder: Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
00:00:30These elections are risky for Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who is more
00:00:34unpopular than ever. This will be the subject of Antoine
00:00:37Mariotti's analysis in a moment.
00:00:41And then, concerning the Middle East, Washington says it fears a rapid escalation after the Houthi
00:00:45attack on Riyadh yesterday. A fuel depot was hit. Another
00:00:48missile was then reportedly fired but intercepted and destroyed, according to Saudi
00:00:52Arabia.
00:01:06Hundreds of Ukrainian drones were launched on the Russian capital and its region
00:01:10last night. A refinery and residential areas were hit. Two
00:01:15Jefferson was a volunteer assistant to people were killed in this massive attack led by Ukraine on the third day of a legislative
00:01:19vote still
00:01:21leave. The community of underway in Russia. In
00:01:23them: membership of the Islamic Ukraine, the night was also deadly. Five people were
00:01:25killed, including three children. Axel
00:01:27Simon.
00:01:30According to the mayor of Moscow, this is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
00:01:34The Russian capital and its region were the target of several hundred Ukrainian
00:01:37drones. While most were intercepted and shot down,
00:01:41several escaped Russian anti-aircraft defense and notably
00:01:44hit several floors of a residential building in the capital
00:01:47and this oil refinery. Other
00:01:51devices fell in this residential area of Sofino in the Moscow
00:01:54region, causing casualties and significant
00:01:57damage.
00:02:00I was leaving my building. I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when
00:02:04the explosion sounded. The windows shattered. People started
00:02:08screaming. I turned around. The entrance doors had
00:02:10blown out. There were injured people, probably even a
00:02:14fatality, but we can't be sure. The emergency services arrived on
00:02:17site and didn't let us get close. This
00:02:21massive attack by Ukrainian drones comes in a context
00:02:24of intensifying fighting on both sides. A series of Russian
00:02:28strikes on more than 30 sites, including
00:02:31Kyiv, killed several people, including children, on Saturday and Sunday. This
00:02:34offensive also comes on the third and last day of voting in Russia and
00:02:38has been denounced by the Russian authorities as aiming to disrupt the
00:02:42conduct of the election. In the Kherson region, a southern
00:02:46Ukrainian region controlled by
00:02:48taken by immigration police to Russia, a drone notably killed several people, including an employee of the electoral
00:02:52commission. More than 4 and a half years after the start of
00:02:55the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, these
00:02:58legislative elections aim to elect the Duma, the lower house of the Russian
00:03:02parliament, in a context of repression of all forms
00:03:05of opposition. They should, without surprise, result in the victory
00:03:09of Vladimir Putin's party. Now
00:03:12let's turn to these risky elections in Germany, risky for the German Chancellor first,
00:03:15weakened by the rise of the far-right in Saxony two
00:03:19weeks ago. So, we are voting today in two Länder:
00:03:23Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
00:03:25detention by ICE, the federal immigration where there is a duel between the Social Democrats and
00:03:28the far-right, and then in the Berlin region, the
00:03:32CDU of the Chancellor and the radical left are neck and
00:03:35neck. Elif Heralp is the lead candidate for this party, Die Linke.
00:03:39Here's her portrait with Leo
00:03:41hours a day with no way to Péchar. She presents herself as the antidote to
00:03:45the AfD. At 45 years old, Elif Heralp has every
00:03:49chance of becoming the first woman of immigrant origin to win a
00:03:53regional election and conquer
00:03:55Your program with the French abroad fund, the mayor's office of Berlin. We will show that a left-wing policy for
00:03:59citizens, a solidarity and justice-guaranteeing policy, can
00:04:02be successful, and I hope that this will radiate across Germany and
00:04:06the entire world, that people will regain hope that we can oppose something
00:04:10to the right, namely our solidarity, our diversity,
00:04:13and our fight for equal rights and financial
00:04:16accessibility. The daughter of Turkish parents who fled their country after
00:04:20the 1980 military coup, this
00:04:23lawyer is often compared to Zoran Mamdani, the democratic mayor of New
00:04:27York. Like him, the radical candidate places the
00:04:30issue of housing at the heart of her campaign, while Berlin housing
00:04:34prices have exploded over the last 15 years.
00:04:38Among her flagship proposals: rent caps and, above all, the
00:04:41nationalization of 220,000 housing
00:04:44units belonging to large
00:04:45police. real estate investors. The measure worries banks, but it is
00:04:49supported by Berliners who voted in favor of it in
00:04:53a referendum in 2021.
00:04:57This is precisely what we are trying to achieve in Berlin.
00:05:12A victory that would also be a slap in the face for the conservatives of the
00:05:15CDU. Poor results could further weaken
00:05:19the position of Chancellor Fred Richmerz, who is already in great
00:05:22difficulty. And Antoine Maryouti is with
00:05:26us for his analysis. Thank you for being here, Antoine. First,
00:05:29good morning to you. We're going to stop first in Berlin, on this
00:05:33state that is also voting today. The radical left, led by
00:05:37this party, Die Linke, is leading the race. How do we explain this lead
00:05:40for this party? It reminds us a little bit of France, when we
00:05:44see the most radical left and the most radical right constantly rising
00:05:48in the polls to the detriment of parties that
00:05:52are left or right but more within what we regularly
00:05:55call the republican arc. It's a bit the same
00:05:58thing. In Berlin, it's not the far-right, unlike what we saw two
00:06:02weeks ago in a regional election elsewhere in Germany, obviously. Here you
00:06:05have the CDU, so the party of Friedrich Merz, which
00:06:09remains strong, which remains with about 20%
00:06:12of the vote intentions, but neck and neck with the
00:06:16radical left. And that's obviously complicated for them. It's the CDU
00:06:20that currently holds this region, which is also
00:06:24the city, so you are both the governor and the mayor of Berlin when
00:06:27you win this election. So losing it would obviously be a significant
00:06:31setback for Friedrich Merz, the Chancellor.
00:06:34But it's not the AfD that is far behind. We are at about
00:06:389.1% of voting intentions for the far-right
00:06:42for now. So it's a different
00:06:45scenario. We could say that the CDU is not completely
00:06:49out of the picture in this area, but that it is clearly in difficulty, and
00:06:53we see that, in fact, this radical left, led by
00:06:56Die Linke and this candidate whom we see behind me, whose portrait we just drew,
00:07:00is gaining momentum and could win for the first time
00:07:03in the German capital. And the German Chancellor, whose
00:07:07name you just mentioned, must surely be holding his breath. Friedrich Merz
00:07:11is as unpopular as ever, with 98% unfavorable
00:07:14opinions in a very recent
00:07:17poll. How can he
00:07:20get out of this? Yes, he is in an extremely
00:07:24uncomfortable situation. The Infravest institute credits
00:07:27him with only 13% of Germans who still say
00:07:30they are satisfied with his political actions after barely 16
00:07:34months in power. It's not as if it's been 15 years and there's a huge weariness.
00:07:3713% is extremely low, and it's even the lowest rate ever
00:07:41recorded by this institute for a sitting chancellor in
00:07:45Germany. So obviously, if he loses in Berlin, as we
00:07:49just mentioned, it's a possibility. If
00:07:52he has another election today, which is in
00:07:55Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and there, not
00:07:58only does he have no chance of his party winning, but he has a chance of not even
00:08:02being in the state parliament, because you have to reach 5% of voting intentions
00:08:06to be able to, well, of votes, not intentions, 5% of votes to be able to enter this
00:08:10local parliament. He is currently credited with 6%,
00:08:13sometimes 7 at most, so we are still within a margin of error, and if it's below
00:08:175%, well, for the first time, the CDU would not be represented. That would be a
00:08:21historic setback for the German Chancellor, and it would weaken
00:08:24him even further. Obviously, then it would become quite
00:08:28unbearable. Friedrich Merz admitted this week that he was living through a
00:08:31"really not easy" moment, I want to tell him, "no kidding,"
00:08:34we can clearly see that's the case. However, he rules out resigning. He
00:08:38is trying to regain control. He has announced measures,
00:08:42notably on fuel prices, which are soaring and which in eastern Germany,
00:08:45Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, I managed to say it twice without making a mistake,
00:08:49well, it plays a big role. It's a rural region where people use cars a lot.
00:08:53He swore that he would continue to implement
00:08:56the reforms for which he was elected, reforms that he is sometimes
00:08:59criticized for, which are sometimes contested, on pensions,
00:09:03taxation, healthcare, with people telling him, "but ultimately, you don't have the political
00:09:06weight to carry out all these reforms so quickly, so
00:09:10far?" And at the same time,
00:09:12well, he was elected on this reform program.
00:09:16Will he hold on tonight? That will obviously
00:09:20depend a lot on these two regional elections. And then other
00:09:23figures from his party are also always in ambush, and do not hesitate to leak
00:09:27certain names of potential replacements. Even if, in a word, he still
00:09:30obtained, he has eight Länder that are held by the CDU, so his
00:09:34party, and the eight minister-presidents of these Länder
00:09:38wrote a joint letter to reaffirm their support, without
00:09:41really convincing anyone. They had been invited two weeks ago after the
00:09:44defeat against the far-right. Only one had come to Berlin. We will see what
00:09:48happens tonight. Thank you very much, Antoine. We will meet again in the next news program
00:09:52to come back to this, to come back to the issues of this vote that we are following closely. We
00:09:56now turn to the situation in the Middle East. The Americans say they fear a rapid
00:10:00escalation after the attack on Riyadh yesterday, claimed
00:10:03by the Houthis. Another missile was then reportedly fired but it was
00:10:07intercepted, this time, and destroyed, according to a spokesperson for the
00:10:09coalition led by Saudi Arabia in
00:10:13Yemen. Meanwhile, the Houthi rebels are continuing their advance. It
00:10:16is rapid, but this advance, these deadly clashes they
00:10:20are waging against government forces, have killed
00:10:24hundreds of people. And according to the United Nations, more than
00:10:2711,000 people have
00:10:29of escalation, the American president cut short his
00:10:33stay at the presidential residence in Camp David, where he was supposed to spend the entire
00:10:37weekend. He returned to the White House on Saturday. And while
00:10:41voices are rising to call for
00:10:44artificial intelligence, Donald Trump warns that he
00:10:47will not allow it. He will not accept any obstacle. He even wants to set
00:10:51up a dedicated force, without specifying the mission
00:10:55that will be entrusted to it.
00:10:58Also in the news this Sunday is this trial in Iraq, the trial
00:11:02of six French citizens accused of terrorism. An investigation established that these suspects had
00:11:06joined territories controlled by the Islamic State organization after
00:11:09first traveling to Turkey. A first hearing was held this
00:11:13morning, and the next one is scheduled for October 5th.
00:11:16Here's the report from Marie-Charlotte
00:11:18Roupi.
00:11:21Preliminary hearing, the six French detainees were presented
00:11:25for the first time before an Iraqi judge, after 7 years spent in Syrian
00:11:28prisons and 1 year in Iraqi prisons.
00:11:32All are part of the group of 47 French detainees who were
00:11:35transferred from Syria to Iraq during the summer of
00:11:392025. Dressed in yellow and with shaved hair, they
00:11:42appeared this morning in court to hear the charges against
00:11:48State organization and/or participation in terrorist
00:11:51activities endangering the security of the Iraqi state.
00:11:55Two of them refused to be represented by court-appointed lawyers
00:11:59because they preferred to request a postponement of the hearing
00:12:03and wait for their French lawyers. The other four
00:12:06agreed to be represented by court-appointed lawyers, accompanied by
00:12:09translators if necessary, and heard the charges against them.
00:12:13The judge presented them with the evidence collected over the past few
00:12:17years, including documents from the Islamic State
00:12:20organization in which their names would appear with their
00:12:24photos if they were registered in these documents as
00:12:27nurses, accountants or combatants. The judge clearly
00:12:30stated that whatever happened, they would fall under
00:12:33Iraqi anti-terrorism law. The court will
00:12:37reconvene on October 5th to hear their defense
00:12:40and render judgment. The detainees face
00:12:43the death penalty or a sentence that could be commuted to life imprisonment.
00:12:47And here in France, the fuel
00:12:50crisis, note this new record
00:12:54for the price of gas. It is more than €2.40 per liter on
00:12:57average. SP 98 gasoline has exceeded
00:13:00€2 since the outbreak of the war in the Middle East by US-Israeli
00:13:04strikes. Pump prices continue to rise, which also translates
00:13:08into actions and operations to unblock ports, notably, as we saw
00:13:11this week with the fishermen. The president held
00:13:14a press conference this Friday to try to defuse this crisis, but he
00:13:18nevertheless warns and prepares minds: this
00:13:21sequence will last.
00:13:25Stay with us for the rest of "Around the World".
00:13:40Since Donald Trump's return to the White House, immigration has once again become the
00:13:44absolute priority of his administration. More than
00:13:46400,000 people have been placed in
00:13:50police. Detention centers have never been
00:13:54so full. Nearly 6,000 migrants are currently
00:13:57imprisoned there, a historic record. Our teams
00:14:01have investigated. This return ticket is signed by Pierry Claurent and Valérie de Ferre for
00:14:05France 24.
00:14:20health insurance and retirement, the CFE, the
00:14:23social security for expatriates.
00:14:53I've been there once, in the last seven or eight
00:14:56months, and each time it's extremely
00:15:00difficult.
00:15:03Every Friday, Diane, a pastor in San Antonio, drives
00:15:06an hour to visit families arrested by ICE, the immigration
00:15:10Direction Dilley, a small
00:15:13town in south Texas where
00:15:17one of only two centers equipped to accommodate children is
00:15:20located. We can see it
00:15:22from here. There,
00:15:27the flag, that's the entrance. All these roofs you see are part of the
00:15:29complex. There's a guard right at
00:15:32the entrance.
00:15:36If the agents think you're doing something suspicious or filming, I'll
00:15:39be immediately denied access to the
00:15:41center.
00:15:44We leave Diane to go through security
00:15:46alone.
00:15:48ICE systematically denies access to
00:15:50journalists.
00:15:53Dilley can accommodate up to 2400 people, making it the largest family
00:15:56detention center in the country. From
00:15:59inside, there are only these official
00:16:01images, a virtual tour of
00:16:04Locovid, dormitories and classrooms.
00:16:08Outside, we find
00:16:10Diane, who was able to talk to three
00:16:14families during her 2-hour
00:16:15visit.
00:16:19The first person I spoke to had been arrested 10 days earlier and
00:16:22transferred here. She was completely
00:16:26distraught. She told me she was thinking of giving up and
00:16:29going back. Her 9-year-old daughter barely
00:16:33eats anymore. She cried throughout the
00:16:36visit. No child should be placed in
00:16:40detention. This center has no reason to exist.
00:16:43It only serves to make families suffer and traumatize children.
00:16:47Since the beginning of Donald Trump's second term, more than 6,200
00:16:51children have been placed in detention by ICE.
00:16:55No, tonight experts say ICE is intensifying operations across the
00:16:59country. New video shows what appears to be ice agents
00:17:02arresting a man inside an Oregon home depot. One and four
00:17:05ice arrests happened.
00:17:41They approached with their vehicles, they got out, surrounded
00:17:44us, and that's when they started asking if my name was
00:17:48Josene. I told them no. They checked
00:17:50everything and said "Okay, you're not who we're
00:17:53looking for, but you still committed a crime and you have to come with
00:17:56us."
00:17:59The children were crying, so I decided not to prolong things and not to
00:18:02make the situation even more tense. I said, "Okay, children,
00:18:06we're going with them."
00:18:14The policy of incarcerating migrants. This Venezuelan family suffered it
00:18:18directly. To avoid being arrested, Victor took
00:18:21refuge at home. His partner and two children were first
00:18:26their San Antonio
00:18:28offices.
00:18:30Once there, they constantly asked me to call my
00:18:33husband, so he would come to the offices, so I wouldn't be separated from the
00:18:37children. Because they threatened to take them to a juvenile detention center.
00:18:40These hours in their offices were
00:18:44very difficult emotionally, because I didn't know what was going to
00:18:47happen. To avoid being incarcerated in turn,
00:18:51Victor refused. After 12 hours, in the middle of the
00:18:54night, his family was transferred to Dilley.
00:18:58It's a center that is adapted for young children. They have
00:19:02some recreational activities to make the days go by
00:19:05faster.
00:19:07For us adults, the days were very long, and since I slept poorly,
00:19:11the nights were
00:19:12endless.
00:19:16There was a light on 24
00:19:19turn it off. There were rounds all night, so sleeping was
00:19:22difficult, and the food was very
00:19:25bad.
00:19:27With the help of their lawyer, the mobilization is organized around
00:19:31entered the United States legally. The parents have work permits, the
00:19:34children are...
00:20:09Seeing them go through such an ordeal without being able to do anything, as a
00:20:13father, it broke me,
00:20:15it destroyed me.
00:20:20One might think that they are primarily targeting people with a criminal
00:20:24past, since it is on this promise that Donald Trump is campaigning
00:20:28and that it is the message hammered home by his administration, but that is absolutely not
00:20:31what is happening. Children and families who are sent to Dilley are building their lives
00:20:35in the United States.
00:20:38They are imprisoned as if they were criminals. It is a
00:20:41trauma for them, for the parents, for everyone. Of
00:20:45about 400,000 people detained by ICE in a year and a half, fewer than
00:20:4940% had a criminal record.
00:21:00It's time for mass for Pastor Diane. She founded this
00:21:04congregation almost 4 years ago with one goal: to offer
00:21:08migrants a community and a church designed for
00:21:10them.
00:21:15that are still in detention, Father, bring your
00:21:18justice. Speak to the hearts of the
00:21:21judges, open the doors, Father, tear down the walls so
00:21:25that we can live together in peace,
00:21:28amen, and amen.
00:21:31Currently, every Sunday, about forty people come to church, about
00:21:35fifty with the children. Before, there were many
00:21:39more of us. About a quarter of the families in our community have
00:21:43had a loved one arrested, then
00:21:45deported.
00:21:47Very often, these families end up leaving the region. This
00:21:51policy is destroying the very fabric of our
00:21:53community. Jaline is the wife of
00:21:57Jefferson. Her husband was arrested by ICE last November
00:22:006th during a traffic stop.
00:22:05the pastor. He was always the first to arrive and the last to
00:22:11La Roca del Refugio is like my family. It is an immense help for
00:22:14me and for my daughters. Without this community, I don't know what
00:22:18my life would be like today. Jefferson
00:22:44is detained 2 hours drive from San Antonio. Despite the risks,
00:22:47he agreed to testify with his face uncovered. The family from
00:22:51Venezuela entered the United States in 2024, seeking asylum.
00:22:55I had never been separated from my
00:22:58daughters. My daughters had never been
00:23:01separated from their father for so long. They suffer a lot, just like I suffer
00:23:05from being separated from them without knowing what they will do with us
00:23:07here.
00:23:10For 8 months, he has lived in this center called Don
00:23:13Hutto. To achieve their deportation goals, the
00:23:16authorities push detainees to leave the territory in exchange for a sum of
00:23:20money.
00:23:23Right now, we are told that whoever signs receives $2,600.
00:23:26I don't want to accept their money. What I want
00:23:30is to be given a chance in this country where I am trying to build a future for my
00:23:33daughters so they can study without
00:23:36leaving.
00:23:39Asserting one's rights, even if it means enduring difficult living
00:23:42conditions, a room of a few square meters shared
00:23:46with another detainee, and inadequate care.
00:23:52The people who died in detention centers died because they were not treated
00:23:56quickly. Sometimes we hear on the news that we have the
00:24:00best medical care, but that's false. I saw with my own
00:24:03eyes one day a 50-year-old man have a heart attack and it took them
00:24:07about 20 minutes to arrive to get him out of his
00:24:09cell. We all started shouting and making
00:24:13noise for them to come, and it was only after a long time that they came to get
00:24:17him.
00:24:22According to Human Rights Watch, in a year and a half, at least 54 people have
00:24:26died in ICE prisons, including about ten by suicide. The mortality
00:24:29rate has more than doubled compared to previous years. The
00:24:33majority of detention centers are not directly managed by the Department of
00:24:37Homeland Security, but outsourced to companies like Core
00:24:40Civics.
00:24:43This journalist wanted to obtain a copy of the contract governing the Dilley
00:24:47center. In its response, the legal department
00:24:50of CoreCivic refused but attached a document to the email
00:24:54by mistake. This is the contract between the Department of
00:24:58Homeland Security and the city of Dilley, which then serves as an intermediary for the
00:25:02contract concluded with Core Civic. In this new
00:25:05version, the monthly amount increases from 12.6 to
00:25:0813.1 million dollars. This is the amount that
00:25:10the company receives each month simply to maintain the center's
00:25:14capacity to accommodate up to 2400 people. The contract provides for a
00:25:18fixed amount, regardless of the actual
00:25:21number of detainees. In exchange, CoreCivic undertakes to provide a minimum of
00:25:25services, food, education, health, but the company
00:25:28respects its obligations, impossible to
00:25:30verify. One thing is certain, the revenues of civic bodies
00:25:34linked to Ice have been multiplied by 2 in 1
00:25:37year. These companies have every interest in reducing their
00:25:41costs as much as possible since it is up to them to finance the daily operation of these
00:25:45centers with this monthly
00:25:46envelope.
00:25:50So if Cors Civique receives 13.1 million dollars per month, but manages
00:25:54to operate the center by spending only 2
00:25:56million, all the rest constitutes a profit for
00:25:59the company. The Trump administration plans
00:26:02to further expand its network of ICE detention centers with
00:26:0645 billion dollars allocated by
00:26:082029.
00:26:14for families like Jefferson's and Djalin's, the separation makes
00:26:18daily life difficult. To continue to
00:26:20pay the rent and send some money to Jefferson,
00:26:24Jalin now holds two
00:26:25jobs.
00:26:29I go out every day with fear in my stomach, because my daughters
00:26:32are at home and I have to leave at 5am.
00:26:36About 15 days ago, where I was, there was a raid with
00:26:40about 15 ICE cars surrounding the area, but
00:26:44thankfully they didn't enter, but they took
00:26:47a lot of people and I was very scared because I told myself if they catch me here,
00:26:51my daughters are alone at
00:26:52home,
00:26:56it's hard for them when I leave, and since their
00:26:59dad is no longer there, when I come home they say "Oh mom, you're here"? we were scared, we
00:27:03prayed, she also suffers
00:27:05a lot.
00:27:11Jefferson was finally released a few days after our
00:27:14interview. The family still hopes to build a better
00:27:17future on this land of immigration, which has become a land
00:27:21of expulsion.
00:27:26Your program with the French abroad, health insurance and retirement, the CFE, the
00:27:29social security of.
00:30:07Thank you for choosing France 24 for your news, Moscow and Kiev are
00:30:10still trading blows, the last night was deadly on both sides,
00:30:14two people were killed in the Moscow region, on the outskirts of
00:30:18Kiev, there are at least four dead including three
00:30:20children.
00:30:22Germany votes again this Sunday, legislative elections in two
00:30:26states, Berlin and Mecklenburg, Western
00:30:30Pomerania, two risky ballots for the chances.
00:30:34more unpopular than ever, this will be the subject of Antoine
00:30:37Mariotti's analysis in a moment.
00:30:40And then regarding the Middle East, Washington says it fears a rapid escalation after
00:30:44the attack on Riyadh yesterday, a fuel depot was
00:30:47hit, another missile was reportedly then fired but intercepted and
00:30:51destroyed according to Saudi
00:30:52Arabia.