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00:00:00News on France
00:00:02the European Parliament in Brussels and 24.
00:00:05It's 8:30 PM here in Paris, good evening everyone
00:00:08resigned to the increase in petrol and welcome if you're joining us for the rest of "At the Heart of the News". Here are the main
00:00:11headlines this Sunday: a catastrophe, the words of the
00:00:14German Chancellor to describe the results of his party in the state
00:00:18of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The far-right party
00:00:21AfD is in the lead,
00:00:23left, the AfD on the far credited with 37 to 38% of the votes, 20 points more than in
00:00:262021. The SPD would be around 36%. The
00:00:31several people including an employee of CDU, it plummets to barely above 5% at this
00:00:35stage. Another setback in Berlin is the
00:00:38radical left party Die Linke winning. Success
00:00:41also for the AfD in Berlin, which will reach between 13 and 16% of the
00:00:47talk about votes, compared to 9% in 2023. Chancellor Merz spoke immediately
00:00:50after these results. He said he takes his responsibilities and promised
00:00:54to continue his reforms, details in a moment
00:00:57from Caroline Duble in
00:00:59of belonging to the Islamic Berlin.
00:01:01Third and final day of legislative elections in Russia marked this Sunday by massive
00:01:05cyber attacks and
00:01:08French members of a shower of Ukrainian drones. At least two people were
00:01:10killed and about twenty injured according to Russian
00:01:14authorities. According to preliminary results that were
00:01:17released a short while ago, the United Russia party surprisingly
00:01:21comes out on top with approximately
00:01:23the global increase in energy
00:01:2458% of the votes, but this election is nevertheless a farce in the absence of any
00:01:28credible opposition.
00:01:30And then in Iraq, the trial of six French nationals accused
00:01:33of belonging to the Islamic State organization opened
00:01:36today. The defendants face the death penalty. They are among the
00:01:41the far-right reveled in it and 47 French members of the Islamic State organization transferred from prisons in
00:01:45northeastern Syria last year. We will join
00:01:48Marie-Charlotte Roupi in Baghdad to
00:01:51discuss this.
00:02:04two weeks after the AfD's triumph in Saxony-Anhalt, the
00:02:08results of this Sunday's regional elections in Berlin and in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
00:02:11confirm the very strong breakthrough of the
00:02:15far-right. It is in the lead in Mecklenburg, credited with
00:02:1937 to 38% of the votes, 20 points more than in
00:02:222021. The SPD would be around 36% in this
00:02:26state, the CDU is plummeting, it reaches...
00:02:305%. Another setback for the CDU this time in
00:02:34Berlin, where the radical left party Die Linke wins. Success
00:02:38also for the AfD in Berlin which would reach between 13 and 16%
00:02:41of the votes compared to 9% in 2023. Chancellor
00:02:45Merz spoke earlier, he spoke of
00:02:49catastrophe.
00:02:53dating from the period of We cannot sugarcoat the result in
00:02:55largest train maintenance workshop of Mecklenburg, it's a
00:02:57disaster.
00:03:00The CDU fought, but it ended up being crushed in
00:03:04the growing confrontation between the SPD and
00:03:06the AfD.
00:03:10In our capital here in
00:03:13very much Antoine for this analysis from "Au cœur de Berlin, our candidate Stephan Ewers took up the torch as head of the list in a
00:03:17very difficult situation.
00:03:21He threw himself body and soul into the election campaign, with total
00:03:24dedication, unwavering commitment, he
00:03:28led the CDU.
00:03:33And we're talking about these results in Germany again with Antoine Mariotti, good evening Antoine,
00:03:36good evening, uh, well,
00:03:39requires honesty, already what we can say is that the AfD definitely
00:03:40commitment, has the wind in its sails, not only in Berlin
00:03:41demanding standards, and but especially uh in
00:03:44this state of the former GDR like Saxony, Mecklenburg,
00:03:47West Pomerania with this very strong
00:03:50breakthrough, 37 to 38 %. It's beyond what the
00:03:54polls predicted, yes, it's absolutely colossal as a result, it shows that this
00:03:58victory in Saxony two weeks ago was not an exception, there's a
00:04:01deep-seated movement finally in Germany which is pushing this
00:04:05far-right and populist parties uh towards
00:04:08summits sometimes, so it's the radical left in Berlin, but here we're
00:04:12talking about a far-right, an extremely uninhibited far-right which has used
00:04:16absolutely
00:04:18uh members of unacceptable words that we cannot elaborate on here
00:04:21but but it's obviously a colossal
00:04:24success because two weeks ago it was already a surprise that had shaken up the
00:04:28political landscape in Germany. But far beyond, we haven't stopped talking about it in
00:04:32France, in Belgium, everywhere, because obviously these
00:04:35populist movements and especially the far right, well, they are pushing everywhere,
00:04:39they are pushing here in France with the National Rally which is stronger and
00:04:42more solid than ever and which is almost at the gates of the Elysée, they are pushing in the
00:04:46United Kingdom where Nigel Farage, well, similarly is soaring in
00:04:49the polls, whereas a few years ago he was considered finally
00:04:53as a pawn almost of the British
00:04:56political scene and it's a bit the same everywhere. Or
00:05:00almost the perfect counter-example is Hungary, which got rid of Viktor
00:05:04Orbán after years of
00:05:07populism, sometimes liberty-killing,
00:05:09which is rather seen as good news from... the European Commission,
00:05:15most countries, for example on support for Ukraine,
00:05:18it was Hungary that blocked the most.
00:05:21So the AfD, well, finally Germany is not an
00:05:25island despite its past, because it's even scarier when you see the far
00:05:29right in Germany, obviously, and
00:05:33well, it's not an island and the populist parties there too
00:05:36are pushing and we see that the AfD, which is a fairly recent party, very
00:05:40uninhibited, we're not at all in the dedicated mobilization version of Marine Le Pen and
00:05:44the National Rally, well, it works, it has the wind in its sails
00:05:48and even when in Berlin, they are not at all
00:05:51winners, well, they almost double their
00:05:54score compared to 2023, it's obviously
00:05:58extremely important as a figure. So Chancellor Friedrich
00:06:02Merz spoke immediately after the announcement of these
00:06:06partial results. He
00:06:09spoke of disaster, of catastrophe, however no... resignation
00:06:12announced. Some expected it since he said he was taking
00:06:16his responsibilities, which for some was the logical conclusion, but no, he
00:06:19stays the course and simply promises to continue, he says,
00:06:23his reforms. It's true that when we heard him say "I take my
00:06:26responsibilities, this failure, well, it's also mine," generally,
00:06:29the end of the sentence, as you said, is "I draw all the
00:06:33consequences and I resign," which a part of the
00:06:36opposition would like, an important part that some would also like
00:06:40within his own party, the CDU, which has been making things difficult for him
00:06:43for a few days and even weeks. But no, he said: I take my
00:06:47responsibility because I want to move the country forward, so I will continue the
00:06:51reforms and I will even accelerate these reforms, in other
00:06:54words, I will stay the course more or less to be able to move forward because
00:06:58I believe that these reforms are essential for the country and it's
00:07:01not because there's anger, there you go,
00:07:04and he believes that it's not because there's anger that is potentially
00:07:07temporary and expressed in the ballot box that we shouldn't go through with reforms that
00:07:11are necessary for the country. He might also be thinking, for
00:07:14example, of Gerhard Schröder, who was chancellor and made big reforms, who at one
00:07:18point was pushed out like any political
00:07:21figure, and who finally, a few years later, said, "Hey, Schröder's
00:07:25reforms weren't so bad after all," at least many people thought so in Germany
00:07:29and it allowed the country to move forward. So,
00:07:32whether he's right or not, everyone thinks what they want, obviously it's not for me to enter that debate, but that's kind of the
00:07:36position of Fredrik Schmerz, who had already said he would refuse to
00:07:40resign, and that is confirmed. Where it was a close call
00:07:43though, is that he loses Berlin, even though the mayor
00:07:47and governor are the same thing in Berlin, it's the same person,
00:07:50the mayor, we say, it was
00:07:53CDU, now it's the radical left, so it's a clear failure, but
00:07:57on the other hand, it wasn't completely collapsed, it's 20% for the CDU,
00:08:00on the other hand, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, so in the far northeast
00:08:03of the former GDR of Germany,
00:08:07well, there it was close to absolute disaster
00:08:10for the CDU, the Chancellor, because it barely misses 5%,
00:08:14and if you're below 5%, well, you're simply
00:08:18wiped out from local political life because you're no longer present, your party is no longer
00:08:21present in parliament, and there it's between 5.1 and 5.5%
00:08:25depending on the estimations from exit polls, so we'll see, but in any
00:08:29case, it's close to this humiliation,
00:08:33even if very clearly we are already in humiliation, it's not supreme humiliation, but it's a
00:08:36good humiliation, he himself says that the CDU was, I quote,
00:08:40crushed in this... region, so this state of Mecklenburg,
00:08:44Western Pomerania, a very clear debacle
00:08:48therefore for the CDU, a disaffection also more generally towards traditional
00:08:51parties, we can say, towards traditional parties, I was talking earlier about
00:08:55several European countries and Germany is no exception, there is a
00:08:59kind of "degagisme" as it's sometimes called, a
00:09:02desire for populist parties
00:09:05to say that finally nothing is going well and nothing will go
00:09:09well and and as in the population we see things that are not going well. that things
00:09:13are not evolving as we would like, that the prices of fuel, for example, are constantly soaring
00:09:16and that this directly affects our wallets, that the cost of living has not
00:09:20improved in recent years, well, there is a desire for novelty, for
00:09:23"degagisme", even if it means going towards the most extreme, whether left or
00:09:27right, and Fredrik, like many other German or
00:09:31European leaders, well, bears the brunt of it. That doesn't mean he's
00:09:35doing well and that his reforms are good or not good on taxation, pensions, health, but in any case
00:09:38he bears the brunt of it, he is
00:09:41extremely unpopular. He's only been in power for 16 months
00:09:45and he doesn't even have 16 % of favorable
00:09:48ratings in the polls, he's at 13% only,
00:09:5213% of Germans who are satisfied with his policies, that's still
00:09:55not much, that's 87 % dissatisfied and
00:09:58institutes have never recorded such a low rate for a
00:10:02sitting German chancellor, which is to say how complicated his situation is,
00:10:06it was before these elections, it is even
00:10:09more so tonight after these two local elections, you mentioned
00:10:12Antoine, the economic problems of the country, which obviously affect the entire
00:10:16German population, but in the
00:10:19states of the former GDR, which include Saxony and Pomerania,
00:10:23uh Mecklenburg,
00:10:25Western, there is also a feeling of downgrading that
00:10:29is added to this persistent 40 years after the
00:10:32reunification, a feeling of persistent disparity also
00:10:36between East and West? Yes, absolutely, there is still that feeling that has never been
00:10:39completely resolved, there is also a feeling for example, we see a clear
00:10:43difference, we talk about populist parties Die Linke on the radical
00:10:48right. Die Linke has more space and weight
00:10:52in a big city like Berlin than in a more rural region, like
00:10:56Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where it is also a region, for example, I
00:10:59was talking about fuel prices earlier, it is a region where people use their cars a lot, we
00:11:03are not with public transport in the center of Paris, Berlin or London, so
00:11:07we need cars enormously and the prices of fuel, while we are already
00:11:11in a region, as you say, quite downgraded
00:11:13and with more difficulties, well, it obviously affects
00:11:17the wallet even more and those who have managed to capitalize on this are
00:11:21the far-right who have been from a practical electoral point of view
00:11:25extremely effective in their campaign to try to
00:11:28convince a majority, an important part of the population, 37,
00:11:3238%, that's still colossal, and that they potentially
00:11:35could do things differently, that they hadn't been tried and that therefore they had to get rid of all these
00:11:39old parties that had finally led us all into a wall, so
00:11:43it's a difficulty for
00:11:47Fredrik Schmerz who tried urgently to come up with
00:11:50some emergency measures to lower fuel prices, that was
00:11:54obviously badly perceived because everyone said, "Well, he's losing
00:11:58control, so he's trying to throw a tiny baby life jacket
00:12:01to stay afloat." And besides,
00:12:06said, "You see, this is who governs us, it's a, it's
00:12:09nothing at all," while frankly there are more
00:12:13important measures to take, which we will also see if these
00:12:17countries, if these parties manage to govern, what they will do with them, but the far-right does not
00:12:20necessarily have free rein to govern either because they have to get
00:12:24majorities. The sanitary cordon that existed until now, Germans
00:12:28talk about a fire wall, that's the big question, now will it
00:12:31break? Yes, the fire wall on the German side, the
00:12:35cordon, the republican sanitary cordon
00:12:38in France, we have seen that on all sides, there were still
00:12:42cracks in these fire walls or sanitary cordons, call them
00:12:46what you want, it was the case for example in France
00:12:49with the right-wing Eric Ciotti who led the right-wing party and
00:12:53who reached out to Le Pen, who, you see, still
00:12:57faces resistance because his whole party then kicked him out, so he created another
00:13:00party, but he wasn't punished for it, he became mayor of the 5th
00:13:04largest city in France, Nice, since then, so you see, that's something that is also seen by countries
00:13:08like Germany, so obviously the AfD tries
00:13:11to play on that, to
00:13:14crack these republican resistances to
00:13:18be able to finally get the support of one or two parties, even if not very
00:13:22large, but which would allow it to achieve a majority in local parliaments and
00:13:25therefore to govern in these local parliaments, knowing that the local
00:13:29parliaments, so in the Länder, have significant weight, they are more
00:13:33important than regional councils in France, for example. Thank you
00:13:38l'info" dedicated therefore to the results of this double regional
00:13:42election in Germany, I remind you, marked therefore by
00:13:46a very strong breakthrough of the far-right AfD, not only in Berlin, but
00:13:49especially in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
00:13:53where the AfD even comes out on top, credited with 37 to 38
00:13:57% of the votes. A double election which also confirms the total
00:14:00debacle of the CDU which would barely reach
00:14:045% precisely in Mecklenburg, we will of course
00:14:07come back to this at length in a few
00:14:11minutes. In the meantime, we are heading to Russia,
00:14:14the 3rd and last day of the legislative elections marked
00:14:17today by massive cyberattacks and a shower of Ukrainian
00:14:21drones. At least two people were killed and about twenty
00:14:25injured according to Russian authorities, preliminary
00:14:28results were communicated a few minutes ago by the Russian
00:14:31electoral commission, the United Russia party, without any surprise, comes out on
00:14:35top with approximately 58% of the votes. It must be said that this
00:14:38election is just a farce in the absence of
00:14:41any opposition worthy of the
00:14:44name.
00:14:48According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
00:14:52The Russian capital and its region were the target of several hundred
00:14:55Ukrainian drones, if most were intercepted and shot down,
00:14:58several escaped Russian air defense and notably
00:15:02struck several floors of a residential building in the capital
00:15:05and this oil refinery, other
00:15:08devices fell in this residential district of Sofino in the Moscow
00:15:12region, causing casualties and significant
00:15:14damage.
00:15:18I was leaving my building, I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when
00:15:21the explosion occurred, the windows shattered, people started
00:15:25screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors had been
00:15:28blown away, there were injured, probably even
00:15:31dead, but we can't be sure, the rescue workers who arrived on
00:15:35the scene didn't let us get close.
00:15:38This massive Ukrainian drone attack comes in a context of
00:15:42intensified fighting on both sides. A series of Russian
00:15:45strikes on over 30 sites in the Kiev region caused several deaths, including
00:15:49children, on Saturday and Sunday. This
00:15:52offensive also comes on the 3rd and final day of voting in Russia and
00:15:56has been denounced by Russian authorities as aiming to disrupt the
00:16:00election process. In the Kherson region, a region in
00:16:03southern Ukraine controlled by Russia, a drone notably killed
00:16:09the electoral commission. More than
00:16:114 and a half years after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
00:16:142022, these legislative elections aim to renew the
00:16:17Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. In a context of
00:16:21repression of all forms of opposition, they should, without
00:16:24surprise, result in the victory of Vladimir
00:16:27Putin's party.
00:16:30In other international news, in Iraq, the trial of six
00:16:33French nationals accused
00:16:36State organization opened today. The defendants
00:16:40face the death penalty. These accused are among the 47
00:16:45ISIS transferred last year from prisons in northeastern Syria. We're
00:16:49going to join our correspondent in Baghdad, Marie-Charlotte
00:16:52Roopi. Good evening Marie-Charlotte,
00:16:56first appearance this morning of these French nationals suspected
00:16:59of links with the Islamic State organization. How did
00:17:03this first hearing unfold?
00:17:06Well, for this... first hearing, which was the first presentation
00:17:10of these six detainees before a judge after 7 years
00:17:13of imprisonment in Syria and 1 year in prison in
00:17:17Iraq, they came forward one after the other to the
00:17:20bar, in yellow prisoner's uniforms with their hair
00:17:23cut short and their features mostly drawn,
00:17:27uh, and before the judge they were presented with the accusations
00:17:30against them. As you said, they are suspected of being
00:17:34affiliated with the Islamic State organization,
00:17:37and suspected, uh, possibly for some, of participation in
00:17:41terrorist activities, uh, endangering
00:17:44Iraqi territory. Uh, they were
00:17:47able to choose whether to be
00:17:51represented by an Iraqi public defender. Two of them
00:17:54also requested an adjournment in order
00:17:58to await the presence of their French
00:18:01lawyers, but for those who accepted this Iraqi
00:18:04representation, they were presented with the evidence that
00:18:08was gathered during the investigations over the
00:18:11past few years, notably intelligence
00:18:15gathered and collected by the Iraqi intelligence services
00:18:19but also national and international security services,
00:18:21among which the judge notably
00:18:25cited the presence of administrative documents
00:18:30the Islamic State organization. What exactly do
00:18:33we know about these French people, Marie-Charlotte, and their
00:18:39background? Well, for those who were presented this morning, they are
00:18:43between twenty and forty, almost fifty
00:18:46years old for the oldest among them, they are
00:18:50all part of, as you said, these 47 detainees
00:18:54who were transferred from Syria to Iraq in
00:18:58the summer of 2025 and according to the information that was
00:19:02presented by the judge for the cases that were analyzed
00:19:06during the first hearing, well, they were arrested in
00:19:092018 by the Syrian Democratic Forces after some of
00:19:13them had joined Syria voluntarily
00:19:17around 2014,
00:19:20and after being convinced after watching,
00:19:23notably for some, propaganda videos, but
00:19:26there is a second scenario, notably for one
00:19:30of the people who was presented this morning, who was allegedly
00:19:33taken to Syria by his parents when he was
00:19:37still an adolescent. What can they expect
00:19:41now? Well, the judge gave
00:19:44them until October 5th to prepare
00:19:47their defense, but whether they were, as
00:19:51some information disseminated by the judge this morning
00:19:55the Islamic State as a nurse or accountant,
00:19:59well, uh according to Iraqi law, simple affiliation to
00:20:03the Islamic State organization, if proven,
00:20:06can lead to the death penalty,
00:20:09a penalty that could then be commuted to life imprisonment,
00:20:13but the French lawyers uh who
00:20:16represent some of these detainees continue to request
00:20:20their repatriation to France. Thank you very much Marie-Charlotte for all this information
00:20:24from Baghdad.
00:20:27In Syria, now, after the demonstrations
00:20:31that took place in several provinces of the country at the beginning of the week to
00:20:34protest against the increase in fuel prices in connection with, of course,
00:20:38the situation in the Middle East and notably the blocking of the Strait of
00:20:42Bab-el-Mandeb and the Strait of Hormuz, the
00:20:45Syrians are now continuing to express their dissatisfaction in the
00:20:48streets. Details in a moment.
00:20:53In this service station in the Syrian capital, customers seem
00:20:58prices decreed last week by the
00:21:01authorities.
00:21:04The rise in fuel prices is a global phenomenon, I mean that all countries have
00:21:08already increased fuel prices. Until now, the government has absorbed these
00:21:12increases since the beginning of the year by taking charge of each increase in
00:21:15costs. Syria, once a producer and
00:21:18exporter of oil, has been devastated by years of civil war. The country now
00:21:22produces only about 100,000 barrels per day, a volume well below the
00:21:26daily domestic demand which fluctuates around 300,000
00:21:29barrels. The price of petrol has increased, but customers
00:21:33still pay us the same amount, they say that the increase
00:21:37is temporary and that if the price of diesel goes down tomorrow, we will not lower our
00:21:41prices. At the beginning of the week, several
00:21:44demonstrations took place in the Syrian capital and in other
00:21:48provinces of the country against the drastic increase in fuel prices,
00:21:52the first since the Islamist coalition that overthrew Bashar
00:21:56al-Assad took power in late 2024. A few
00:21:59days earlier, the government had announced an increase in prices of
00:22:0325 to 40% for petrol and diesel.
00:22:06The Syrian Ministry of Energy described this decision as
00:22:10temporary and justified it by
00:22:13prices since the outbreak of the war against Iran. To this
00:22:17are added tensions around the straits of Hormuz towards
00:22:23under Houthi control.
00:22:24Yemen.
00:22:27Let's move on to something completely different now, it's the 43rd edition of the European Heritage
00:22:31Days. An average of 11 million French people participate
00:22:34every year, an opportunity to discover exceptional
00:22:38sites usually closed to the general public. A quick overview
00:22:41with our colleagues from France 2. It's a
00:22:44fortress that is almost never entered.
00:22:48Fort Boyard. They discover it for the first
00:22:51time with a sporty arrival, we can go, we attach ourselves to the
00:22:54carabiners, they are about fifty people drawn by lot
00:22:58to experience this unique adventure, a total
00:23:01immersion behind the scenes of the TV game show, with
00:23:05the discovery of the treasure room, a few years ago there were tigers, real tigers
00:23:09that came into the fort, and the famous
00:23:13return of the perfouras, we recognize all the places we see on
00:23:17TV but we see that it's different. Still, there are things that
00:23:21seem smaller, others bigger, we see a bit behind the scenes, I
00:23:24remember myself very, very small watching the shows at grandma's, I
00:23:28touch the bricks, I check if everything is well, if it's really
00:23:31life, if it's not a dream, always further, always
00:23:35higher,
00:23:37far from Fort Boyard, 700 km away, another forbidden
00:23:41place opens to the public, the
00:23:45the SNCF near Lille, a hundred train sets
00:23:48are renovated each year. Here everything seems
00:23:52disproportionate, what impresses me is the effect of size,
00:23:55of grandeur, because here we are underneath the train sets, we also sometimes have the chance
00:23:59to pass over them and in fact it doesn't give at all the same impression as when you take the
00:24:03train every day, playing with toy trains or
00:24:07putting yourself in the shoes of an airplane pilot, in Orléans, this
00:24:10air base also exceptionally opens its doors,
00:24:14an unprecedented visit right into the cockpit of military planes, the
00:24:18children, well, obviously a bit amazed.
00:24:21It's always nice to see that because I was in their place, well, it's been
00:24:2420 years now, so it's really nice to see that we can pass
00:24:28that on a bit, it feels strange because I often
00:24:30fly but a plane like that is
00:24:34impressive, thousands of sites are still open all over
00:24:38France until this evening for these heritage
00:24:40days.
00:24:43And that's the end of the news update, thank you all for your loyalty, international
00:24:46news returns in a few minutes on our channel. Have a very good evening all of you on France 24.
00:25:53There is a part of the history of this city that is disappearing
00:25:57due to demolitions and
00:26:00rehabilitations that do not quite respect what
00:26:04we call the conservation and enhancement plan. There is
00:26:07the enhancement plan, it is a kind of architectural regulation
00:26:11that allows, well, truly that
00:26:14the buildings are rehabilitated, that they comply
00:26:17with the
00:26:20old
00:26:22architecture, don't they?
00:26:39Our population, generally people don't want to talk about it, especially in
00:26:42Saint-Louis, it's really like a taboo subject. It's
00:26:46rare to see populations
00:26:49slavery in Saint-Louis. Well, I'm sure
00:26:52that many Saint-Louisians don't know about that slavery,
00:26:56that slavery,
00:27:01but the national heritage... by methodology
00:27:04has focused on
00:27:07slavery on Gore and on colonization on
00:27:10Saint-Louis, trying to show both sides, the
00:27:13bad side and the
00:27:16useful side, so that's why it was said that colonization is a
00:27:20necessary evil, so the colonial empire is also a necessary evil, so there is a
00:27:24very painful part that we don't even want to talk about, but still there is another
00:27:27part today that can be well
00:27:30valued.
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00:30:09Good evening everyone. In the news this Sunday, the far-right is once again
00:30:13leading a regional election in Germany. The AfD is predicted to win in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
00:30:17The German Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz acknowledges a
00:30:20disaster for his party, the CDU, which only comes in 3rd position. We
00:30:24will be live from Berlin in a moment. Analysis by
00:30:28Antoine Mariotti will also follow. Emmanuel Macron and the Prime Minister. Canadian
00:30:32Mark Carney in a one-on-one meeting in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. The two leaders say
00:30:36they want to strengthen ties between their two countries, two independent
00:30:39nations that intend to remain so, they specified, a clear message
00:30:43addressed to Donald Trump. Finally, the
00:30:46party of Vladimir Putin, United Russia, unsurprisingly wins the legislative
00:30:50elections, a vote disrupted by numerous drone
00:30:53attacks from Ukraine. Moscow promises in response
00:30:57to intensify its strikes against Kyiv.