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00:00:00press conference jointly with the President of the French Republic
00:00:03Emmanuel Macron from the French territory
00:00:07of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon where the President of the Republic is on a
00:00:12discussion with the 3-day visit, he therefore met this Sunday with the
00:00:15Canadian Prime Minister in a context of
00:00:19covetousness from Donald Trump in the North Atlantic and we will immediately
00:00:23return to Saint-Pierre and Miquelon to listen to the Canadian Prime Minister who is speaking again in
00:00:27French. He shares the same
00:00:30conviction, the countries at the forefront of
00:00:34AI, of which France and
00:00:37Canada are a part, there are
00:00:40only four, France, Canada, China and the
00:00:43United States, at the forefront of AI.
00:00:47We must unite forces to ensure
00:00:50adequate supervision and
00:00:54ensure that AI is safe
00:00:57Sunday in the Africa and effective and under your leadership, Mr. President,
00:01:00within the framework of the coalition of volunteers for
00:01:03Ukraine and the efforts to
00:01:06establish a two-state solution in the
00:01:10Middle East, we are working hand in
00:01:13hand to tackle the most important geopolitical
00:01:17challenges in today's world.
00:01:20We have strong cultural and
00:01:23linguistic ties that unite us, and
00:01:27Canada is proud to host the... summit of La
00:01:30Francophonie in
00:01:33Kherson region, a southern region of 2028,
00:01:35our languages, our cultures and our businesses bring us closer,
00:01:38and today we will strengthen these ties.
00:01:44weeks after the triumph of
00:01:53So that was the Canadian Prime Minister Mark during
00:01:57a joint press conference with the President of the French Republic
00:02:00Emmanuel Macron, who is traveling for 3
00:02:03days in the French territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon in the North
00:02:06Atlantic. Emmanuel Macron, who
00:02:09undoubtedly launched a message to Donald Trump, I quote him,
00:02:13"Our two nations are independent and
00:02:16want to remain so. We defend strategic
00:02:19autonomy within the framework of a coalition of independents," he
00:02:23said, "which we both defend." Antoine
00:02:26Mariotti, this joint
00:02:30press conference how to say
00:02:33inaugurates the definitive rapprochement
00:02:37between France and Canada, Canada and the EU, we
00:02:40also saw this week Marc Carnet before the
00:02:44European Parliament with this status
00:02:47of associate member of the EU that was
00:02:49granted to him by Ursula von der Leyen, but
00:02:53of a coalition of the the rest of the press conference is undoubtedly addressed to
00:02:57Donald Trump. Yes, very clearly the message is quite clear. You spoke
00:03:00of the autonomy of sovereignty notably evoked by Emmanuel Macron,
00:03:04but from the beginning of his speech, the French president spoke of
00:03:08decision-making autonomy, respect for international law, well,
00:03:11well, free
00:03:13this surge of the AfD and fair trade, and decisions made on the
00:03:17basis of science, in other words, no
00:03:20manifestation of crazy decisions, once again, we can clearly see where
00:03:24Emmanuel Macron is looking and where his colleague
00:03:27Marc Carney is looking. So, very clearly, he has a desire for rapprochement, he has a
00:03:31desire to tell Donald Trump, you
00:03:33are not in agreement with the can make all the maps you want with AI
00:03:35were watching very closely was that of saying that Saint Pierre Miquelon and Canada are the United States, no, it's
00:03:38Canada, it's France, that's how it's been for centuries and it
00:03:42will remain so. He also has a desire from the French
00:03:45president to develop the territory of Saint-Pierre
00:03:49and Miquelon, which is quite isolated, obviously, which is about twenty kilometers from
00:03:53Canada but more than 4000 km from the mainland, to
00:03:56develop the territory where, in particular, the end of cod fishing, for example, this kind of thing
00:04:00has been very hard for the few thousand inhabitants
00:04:03of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the 5800 inhabitants to be
00:04:07extremely precise, and to develop jobs. And on that,
00:04:10Emmanuel Macron clearly extended a hand on submarine
00:04:14cables for fiber optics, on connections, on the space sector. He has a
00:04:17desire to develop the space sector in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. He also has
00:04:21a forum that has been announced, a forum for polar research, Canada, France. Not that it creates
00:04:25jobs, we'll see what that gives exactly, but in any case the first
00:04:28edition will be held. We don't have the date but in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, so a
00:04:32desire to dis-enclave, I want to say, a little
00:04:35Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, which we don't talk about much in mainland France, but which
00:04:39has an extremely strategic character due to its
00:04:42location, due to the territorial waters that go with it, according to
00:04:45Emmanuel Macron, who wants to, both exploit that and develop the
00:04:49territory for its inhabitants who are in an economic situation that is not always
00:04:53easy, and in particular, I'll finish there on the climate issue,
00:04:56since he was talking about the climate issue, he has
00:05:00climatic issues in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, so he has projects that cost, notably, 25
00:05:03million dollars to have to move some people who were too close to the seaside and who
00:05:07today have homes that are in danger and need to be relocated further
00:05:11into the center of the island. So... it's really one of the laboratories for this
00:05:15question because unfortunately climate
00:05:18refugees will be more and more numerous in the years to come, a
00:05:21rapprochement therefore between France and Canada and the EU and
00:05:24Canada which causes, we know, the
00:05:27dissatisfaction of Donald Trump, yes, well, it doesn't take much
00:05:30to displease Donald Trump but in this case this rapprochement as
00:05:34it is clearly a response to Donald Trump's attacks, well
00:05:38of course he's not taking it well, so he says well if it doesn't bother me I have no problem but if it's
00:05:42against us, beware, it's going to go badly, we're going to put tariffs everywhere,
00:05:46I remind you that the Supreme Court had said that it was not quite
00:05:48legal, Marc Carney very
00:05:52clearly appreciated this extended hand from von der Leyen, so the President of the European
00:05:55Commission, who will make him the first associate member of the European Union,
00:05:59concretely that doesn't mean that Canada becomes a member in the strict sense of the European Union
00:06:03but it could have a commissioner without having
00:06:06voting rights, it could have deputies without voting rights
00:06:10as well, in any case that's what was proposed, notably by Freddy
00:06:13Schmers, the German Chancellor we were talking about earlier for Ukraine, who
00:06:17wanted to make him the first associate member of the European
00:06:20Union, Ursula von der Leyen decided that it would be Canada at a time when
00:06:23it was necessary to unite forces finally under the diplomatic,
00:06:26political and economic
00:06:30onslaught of Donald Trump, the American president. Thank
00:06:33you very much Antoine for this debrief of the joint
00:06:37press conference between the Canadian Prime Minister Marc Carney and the
00:06:40President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron. From Saint-Pierre and
00:06:44Miquelon, also in the
00:06:47news this Sunday, of course, the
00:06:50regional elections
00:06:53in Germany. Two
00:06:57the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, the results of the regional elections
00:07:00in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
00:07:03confirm the strong surge of the far-right,
00:07:07which came in first in Mecklenburg, credited with 37
00:07:10to 38% of the votes, one point more than in 2021. The
00:07:14SPD would be around 36%. The CDU, for its part,
00:07:17is plummeting; it would be just above 5%.
00:07:20Another setback for the CDU in the capital Berlin, where it is the
00:07:24radical left party Die Linke
00:07:27that wins. Success also for the AfD, which
00:07:30would reach between 13 and 16% of the votes, compared to 9%
00:07:34in 2023. Chancellor Mert speaks of
00:07:37a catastrophe. We will join our correspondent in
00:07:40Berlin immediately.
00:07:44Good evening Caroline, these results have
00:07:47therefore been confirmed since
00:07:51these partial results that I gave a few
00:07:53moments ago.
00:07:57Yes, indeed, the Berlin City Hall that you see behind me will
00:08:01no longer be led by
00:08:04a CDU mayor, but certainly by the far
00:08:07left, Die Linke. The CDU remains
00:08:11with 20%, it's a less significant defeat than what was
00:08:15announced in the polls. The AfD
00:08:18also gained a lot of points with nearly 16%
00:08:21of the votes. However, in Mecklenburg,
00:08:26is confirmed. It was an extremely
00:08:29close head-to-head in recent days with
00:08:32the socialist candidate. It should be known that the socialists had governed the region
00:08:36since 1998, and there the far-right doubled
00:08:40its score to finally come in first place. And as you said
00:08:44as well, a score that we
00:08:47the CDU, the party of Friedrich Merz. Would it
00:08:51manage to cross the 5% threshold? For now, they are credited with
00:08:545.1% of the votes, so we still need to hear the
00:08:58definitive counts to know if they will be able to enter parliament or
00:09:01not. And the Chancellor, Friedrich Merz,
00:09:04Caroline, who spoke of a catastrophe. He says he takes
00:09:08his responsibilities and promises to continue his reforms. No resignation
00:09:11then.
00:09:15Yes, absolutely, he said, this score is a disaster
00:09:19for his party, it must be admitted, but he spoke a few
00:09:22minutes after the closing of the polling stations, first and foremost to
00:09:26put an end to the rumors that had been circulating in recent days,
00:09:30even weeks, in Germany, about a possible government reshuffle
00:09:33and a chancellor's resignation. He wanted
00:09:37to state, he insisted on affirming that he would indeed
00:09:41remain in his post as head of the CDU
00:09:44and as chancellor, and says he wants to take his responsibilities. Germany needs
00:09:48reforms, these are these
00:09:51reforms for which he asks a lot of firmness and
00:09:54patience, that's what will allow us to respond
00:09:57to current problems and current challenges and
00:10:01not the choice of extremes, so that's what
00:10:04he wanted to affirm he wanted first and foremost to put an end to
00:10:08rumors of his potential resignation.
00:10:12Thank you very much Caroline for these details from
00:10:15Berlin. Also in the news,
00:10:19Russia, the 3rd and last day of the parliamentary elections in the country,
00:10:22marked this Sunday by massive cyberattacks and a rain
00:10:26of Ukrainian drones. At least two people were killed, about
00:10:29twenty injured, according to Russian authorities. Whatever the case, the election
00:10:33has no stakes, the presidential party United Russia is
00:10:36assured of its victory in the absence of any opposition (Axel
00:10:39Simon).
00:10:42According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive,
00:10:46the Russian capital and its region were the target of several hundred Ukrainian
00:10:49drones, if most were intercepted and shot down,
00:10:52several escaped the Russian air defense and notably
00:10:56struck several floors of a residential building in the capital
00:10:59or this oil refinery, other
00:11:02devices fell in this residential district of Sofino in the Moscow
00:11:06region causing casualties and significant
00:11:08damage.
00:11:12I was leaving my building, I had taken about twenty steps from the entrance when
00:11:15the explosion occurred, the windows shattered, people started
00:11:19screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors had been
00:11:22blown in.
00:11:33The massive attack by Ukrainian drones comes in a context
00:11:36of intensifying fighting on both sides, a series of Russian
00:11:39strikes on more than 30 sites in the Kyiv region killed several people, including
00:11:43children, on Saturday and Sunday. This
00:11:46offensive also comes on the 3rd and last day of voting in Russia and
00:11:50has been denounced by Russian authorities as aiming to disrupt
00:11:54the conduct of the election. In the
00:11:58Ukraine controlled by Russia, a drone notably
00:12:01killed several people, including an employee of the electoral
00:12:03commission. More than four and a half years after the start of the full-scale
00:12:07invasion of Ukraine in 2022, these
00:12:10legislative elections aim to renew the Duma, the lower house of the Russian
00:12:13parliament. In a context of repression of all forms
00:12:16of opposition, they should unsurprisingly result in the victory
00:12:20of Vladimir Putin's party. And
00:12:23that's the main international news for this Sunday. Stay with
00:12:27us on France 24, next update on international news in about
00:12:30twenty minutes.
00:12:47Hello and welcome to Face to Face on France 24, our guest this
00:12:50week is Simone Ehivet Gbagbo, she is the president of the Capable Generations
00:12:54movement, she is the former first lady of Côte d'Ivoire, you
00:12:58are in Paris for the first time in many years, thank you very much for
00:13:01granting us this interview, thank you, thank you for having me
00:13:05so we will start with the news in Côte d'Ivoire, the
00:13:08Public Prosecutor announced this Wednesday, September 16, an arrest warrant
00:13:12against Habiba Touré, she is the spokesperson for the former president, your
00:13:16ex-husband, Laurent Gbagbo, she is accused
00:13:19of being involved in post-election violence in
00:13:232025, last year.
00:13:25The previous week, another close associate of Laurent Gbagbo, Justin Koné
00:13:29Katinan, had been arrested, placed under a committal order for
00:13:32similar charges, your reaction to
00:13:36that, but you know, uh, I
00:13:39am always very attentive to
00:13:42the
00:13:45democracy in the country,
00:13:48democracy is also the right
00:13:51for certain people to say what they think.
00:13:55Even if they
00:13:58power that governs the country
00:14:01and each time there are arrests of this
00:14:05kind, the atmosphere deteriorates
00:14:08and I regret it very much, I would have preferred that there would be no more arrests
00:14:12after the elections or
00:14:15during the elections, we had nearly 100
00:14:19500 people arrested who are still in prison
00:14:23these are political prisoners. Political
00:14:26uh
00:14:28we can blame them for whatever we want but these are political prisoners and
00:14:31when the elections were over I wished that
00:14:34the issue would be
00:14:38settled and that these prisoners would be
00:14:41released, they don't do it and then they keep
00:14:45arresting, it's a shame.
00:14:48So last year, we did an interview together shortly before the
00:14:51elections and you told me that I should call you Madame
00:14:55President, you only gathered 2.4%
00:14:58of the votes, then you did not have any deputies
00:15:01elected during the legislative elections, how do you
00:15:04explain this failure? Well,
00:15:08the first thing I could say is that when you go to
00:15:11elections, it's always to win, that's why I told you,
00:15:15I'm going to win, I can win, and you knew
00:15:19it wasn't possible, oh I knew it was going to be
00:15:22difficult, for a certain number of reasons.
00:15:25Uh, there were things that we had wished to see
00:15:29uh reformed before the
00:15:32elections, we did not get the reforms,
00:15:36even the electoral lists. We had contested the way the
00:15:39electoral lists were finalized, we did not
00:15:42also receive a response on this level,
00:15:46we had asked for a
00:15:49government, we did not get that either,
00:15:52and so things went on,
00:15:56we went to these elections because in
00:15:59principle we believe that there must be
00:16:02several candidates when there are
00:16:04elections.
00:16:07You don't regret having gone with such a score,
00:16:10oh no, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, the score, that's another thing,
00:16:14it's another thing, a disappointment anyway, of course it's a very big
00:16:18disappointment, especially since participating in a
00:16:21presidential election campaign is hard,
00:16:24even physically it's
00:16:28a score it is important that it
00:16:32strikes and it hurts.
00:16:35Now, I prefer not to debate
00:16:39too much about
00:16:42this score.
00:16:45Did Ivorians not turn out to vote?
00:16:48So you talked about the grievances
00:16:52you had against the government, the Independent Electoral
00:16:55Commission (CEI) was dissolved last May. For
00:16:59now we don't know what will replace it. You
00:17:02put a proposal on the table
00:17:05to avoid all controversies, all
00:17:08polemics, a kind of high electoral council that would be
00:17:12apolitical. Do you think that's the solution
00:17:15and especially that it's the solution that will be adopted by
00:17:19the executive? I can't say what
00:17:22the executive will do, I hear
00:17:26rumors, the rumors I hear are
00:17:29against the proposals I
00:17:32made, but I stand by my proposals, I believe that
00:17:35today if we want to have good
00:17:39elections with the confidence of the voters
00:17:42that the voters come out to
00:17:45vote, it is absolutely necessary that
00:17:48in the body that presides over the
00:17:52preparation of all elections in our country, there are no longer any
00:17:55representatives of political parties and that there are no longer
00:17:59any representatives of the
00:18:01government, these are the two things that are the
00:18:05basis of our exit. chance, but you think that's not the path
00:18:09that will be adopted uh we continue to
00:18:13fight and that's why I also
00:18:16visited other political parties so
00:18:20that they can agree on a proposal
00:18:23to make to the government. So precisely, before the
00:18:26presidential election of October last year, you were at the origin
00:18:31opposition, including with the PDCI, but well, it didn't
00:18:34work, notably because... the
00:18:38party of your ex-husband, the PPACI, did not join
00:18:41it. So now, on September 1st, you went
00:18:45to the headquarters of this PPACI,
00:18:48with other left-wing leaders, to
00:18:51talk, I imagine, about this subject and others, about the
00:18:54formation of a coalition. Do you really think that
00:18:58hope is there, that this coalition will
00:19:02really succeed when it failed last year? Well, you see, it did, it did
00:19:05a written, concrete
00:19:09proposal that can be examined by all. We
00:19:13sent this proposal to all parties,
00:19:16including the RHDP, the ruling party,
00:19:19the ruling party, and well, uh, now we are
00:19:23discussing, uh, a certain number of parties, we are
00:19:27discussing and we wished
00:19:30that the PPACI would join us in
00:19:33this discussion, that's why we went to meet the
00:19:36PPACI at its headquarters and discuss with its
00:19:40leaders, the president was not there, but he was
00:19:44represented by really
00:19:47high-ranking personalities
00:19:50of the PPACI party who
00:19:54received our proposal and who are
00:19:57discussing with us. We also visited the PDCI,
00:20:01who also received
00:20:04our proposal and who is also discussing with
00:20:07us. The DCI, which is the party
00:20:11led by Mr. Assalé Tiemoko, is also
00:20:14with us leading this discussion. We
00:20:17have several proposals on the
00:20:21table, there is ours which is the first, but there are
00:20:24two other proposals that are also on the table and
00:20:28that we are currently processing to have a common position,
00:20:31so you say Laurent Gbagbo was not present, have
00:20:35you not spoken to him about this
00:20:39rapprochement, do you no longer communicate since his
00:20:42return? We remember that those were rather humiliating images for
00:20:45you. Yes, well, because he rather dismissed you with that wave of the
00:20:49hand, exactly. The past remains the past.
00:20:52Today, I believe that we must move forward. Did you speak
00:20:56to him? That was my question about that. Uh, to
00:20:59him directly, no, but that's not necessary. We send
00:21:02a letter, we send the letter, and then the party replies.
00:21:06Uh, we sent the letter, we sent it with
00:21:10our text, and the party replied,
00:21:12"We are ready to listen to you, we
00:21:16want to hear you, we wish you, we propose that
00:21:20we meet on such a date," and so on, it happens. Uh, you are in France,
00:21:23notably to, I was going to say, mobilize your party a little. Is
00:21:27it because we also heard that there have been resignations here and there,
00:21:30do you feel that this is a difficult
00:21:34moment and that the survival of your party is at stake right
00:21:37now? No, absolutely not, absolutely not. Uh, when we
00:21:41finished the presidential elections, when we finished the
00:21:45legislative elections, we stopped
00:21:48to take stock of all this work,
00:21:52of all this activity, and we had already decided to
00:21:55restructure the party a little, and we
00:21:59were in the middle of restructuring the party when
00:22:02these resignations came about, but
00:22:06already for several years, comrades from
00:22:09France and Europe had suggested that I
00:22:12come and talk with them,
00:22:16share with them, and it is in this context that I am here. So
00:22:20we are going to officially
00:22:23install our leaders, we are going
00:22:27to invest them, we are going to discuss the work
00:22:30program a little, and that's it. Are
00:22:33you ready again to be a candidate in a future presidential
00:22:36election, or has what happened last time, which was hard as you said
00:22:40earlier, vaccinated you against that? You should never
00:22:44be vaccinated against something when what
00:22:47you are looking for is positive for the
00:22:51nation. What I wish is that the
00:22:54Ivorian nation be completely transformed. So you
00:22:58are not ruling out a new candidacy?
00:23:01We'll see, it's a bit early to talk about it, but we'll see. So
00:23:05you are in France, it's been since
00:23:08the events of 2010, 2011, you had
00:23:12not set foot in France since
00:23:152007 or 2008.
00:23:19Yes. It's, I imagine, a gesture for you because
00:23:22obviously there were those events, we remember, you
00:23:26said it on this microphone, on France 24, 6 years ago, you
00:23:30accused the French army of not not having
00:23:32protected you against attempted
00:23:35rapes during your arrest in
00:23:382011, I imagine that you maintain these statements,
00:23:42but that this visit still has a symbolic
00:23:44charge,
00:23:47uh what happened in 2011. At the time of
00:23:51my arrest, it was something very serious,
00:23:54uh, I was attacked, uh, I even
00:23:58had people who tried to even
00:24:02lay me down, to rape me and all,
00:24:05but the observation I made at the time, I had talked about it,
00:24:09is that the French army was there, and the French were
00:24:12there with cameras filming,
00:24:15they didn't lift a finger to help anyone
00:24:19among us, they were there in front of
00:24:22the French embassy, they were
00:24:26there, just the
00:24:29presidential residence, well, uh
00:24:32today, uh I come back first
00:24:36for my fellow activists with whom
00:24:40I will work, discuss, and
00:24:43then, well, I will still meet friends who have been in
00:24:47politics or who are in politics in France, I... I
00:24:50will meet them, uh, have you
00:24:54forgiven France? Oh
00:24:57yes, oh yes, you
00:25:01know, I wrote it in my book, uh, when
00:25:04I was in prison in Audien, I was led to
00:25:07forgive President Alassane
00:25:09Ouattara, so why would I forgive
00:25:12him and not forgive France?
00:25:15Simon, thank you very much
00:25:19for answering France 24's questions on the occasion of this
00:25:22symbolic trip, and thank you for watching this
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00:30:1024 for the rest of the news heart, here are the main headlines of this
00:30:13Sunday, a catastrophe, the words of the
00:30:16German Chancellor to describe the result of his party in the state
00:30:20of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the far-right party
00:30:23AFD is in the lead, credited with 37 to 38% of the
00:30:27votes, 20 points more than in 2021, the SPD
00:30:30would be around 36%, the... video where it drops to
00:30:34barely more than 5 %. Another
00:30:37setback in Berlin where it's the radical left party
00:30:41Die Linke that wins, also a success in Berlin for
00:30:44the AFD which would reach between 13 and 16 % of the votes compared to 9
00:30:48% in 2023. The Chancellor Merci says he takes his
00:30:51responsibilities and promises to continue the reforms
00:30:54undertaken. We will join our correspondent Caroline
00:30:58Duble in Berlin, then we will also talk about it with...