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00:00:00France 24, freedom, equality,
00:00:07elements so humility, news, this is the essential weekend on France 24,
00:00:09criticism within his party and good evening everyone, in the news this Sunday, the far right again at the top
00:00:13of a regional election in Germany, the AFD is predicted to win in Mecklenburg
00:00:17Western Pomerania, German Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz acknowledges a
00:00:20disaster for his party, the CDU, which only comes in 3rd position,
00:00:24we will be live from Berlin in a moment, a debrief to follow
00:00:28also from Antoine Maryouti.
00:00:30Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Marc Carny in a one-on-one
00:00:34in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, the two leaders say they want to strengthen ties between their two
00:00:38countries, two independent nations that intend to remain so,
00:00:41they specified, a clear message addressed to Donald
00:00:44Trump. Finally, the party of Vladimir Putin, United Russia
00:00:49from Brazilian striker wins the legislative elections without surprise, an election
00:00:51disrupted by numerous drone attacks from Ukraine,
00:00:55Moscow promises in response to intensify its strikes against
00:00:59Kyiv.
00:01:02In sports news, a
00:01:15Richard Verlie, would the government be setting the country on fire,
00:01:19it wants to make 54 billion euros in cuts in the 2027
00:01:22budget, anger is already starting to
00:01:25rise.
00:01:40We therefore begin with the results of two regional elections in Germany,
00:01:44two weeks after the victory of the far right in Saxony-Anhalt, Life Day
00:01:47is again predicted to be ahead in Mecklenburg
00:01:51region, a southern Western Pomerania. It is also making strong progress in Berlin, a bitter
00:01:56killed several people including an employee of failure for the CDU of Chancellor Friedrich Schmerz who speaks of a catastrophe, we will...
00:02:25Our response to this situation must
00:02:27Hokusono, you see her in the center of be to prepare the future of our country. to
00:02:30achieve this, we need change,
00:02:34change requires effort, but reforms must move
00:02:37forward.
00:02:40Indeed, we are in a difficult situation, but we
00:02:44take responsibility,
00:02:48freedom in the middle of I personally take this
00:02:49aggression, far from responsibility because I want to see our country
00:02:52move forward,
00:02:55and we are with Caroline Duble, good evening, you are our correspondent in
00:02:58Berlin, we will return in a moment to this speech by Friedrich Schmerz, but
00:03:02first a word about the AFD which continues its
00:03:05ascent tonight.
00:03:10Yes, absolutely, the AFD wins the election in the state of
00:03:14Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania.
00:03:18It was a close race until the last day with the
00:03:20SPD, the outgoing Minister President Manuel Lagesich
00:03:24was extremely popular and seemed to have caught up in recent
00:03:27days, but it wasn't enough, she remains two points behind the
00:03:31AFD candidate who wins
00:03:3537.9% of the votes, it's a huge
00:03:38score, 20% more than in the last elections for the
00:03:42AFD in this region, for the head
00:03:46of the party, it's clearly a mandate to form a
00:03:50government, that said, it won't be
00:03:53think outside of Europe but of easy because they will have to find other
00:03:55the European Union but on the parties with which to form a coalition to achieve an absolute majority and be
00:03:59able to form a
00:04:02now they have foils, there are government, but whatever happens, it's a big defeat for the
00:04:06It's 9:30 PM in Paris and it's time for SPD and for the CDU which is around 5%, we will have to wait for the final
00:04:09count to know if Friedrich Schmerz's party will be able to enter this regional
00:04:13parliament or not, in any case it's the worst result in
00:04:17the history of the CDU in a regional election. So the reaction of German Chancellor
00:04:20Friedrich Schmerz is awaited, who speaks of a disaster for the
00:04:24CDU and promises to continue reforms, not a
00:04:28word about a possible mission despite speculation on this
00:04:31subject?
00:04:35Yes, indeed, names were already circulating in recent
00:04:38days in Germany about a possible replacement for
00:04:42Fredrik Schmerz, but he affirmed, he put an end
00:04:45to the rumors and wanted to reaffirm that he was taking
00:04:49his responsibilities, that he remained chancellor, that he remained head of the
00:04:52Christian Democratic party and that he wanted to
00:04:56pursue his reforms, he asks Germans to be patient.
00:05:00to be firm, it's going to be a difficult
00:05:02period, it must be said that he is under enormous political pressure
00:05:06which has increased enormously since the results of the elections in
00:05:09Saxony-Anhalt 2 weeks ago, he is still
00:05:12unpopular, but despite everything, for now, he wants to stay in
00:05:16place, we will see if this will silence the
00:05:22the SPD coalition. Thank you very much
00:05:25Caroline, live from Berlin, to go further
00:05:28and to talk about these elections again, we immediately find Antoine
00:05:32Mariotti for the
00:05:32debrief.
00:05:38Good evening Antoine, good evening Marion, there is a party that we haven't
00:05:41talked about yet. and that is the radical left Linke in
00:05:44Berlin which came out on top in the election
00:05:47ahead of the
00:05:50AFD, who is this Elif Heralp who won this
00:05:54election, well she is the big winner on the Berlin side because it's true that the AFD
00:05:57finally I want to say finally the big winner of the moment because it had this
00:06:01victory two weeks ago in Saxanhalt, it has this resounding victory
00:06:05today in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania with 37,
00:06:0838% of the votes, more than 20% more than...
00:06:12their previous scores in the last elections and then in
00:06:16Berlin, they are still present, they almost double their scores, they were at 9% in
00:06:192023, they are between 13 and a half and 16% tonight, it will
00:06:23be refined in the coming hours, but in Berlin,
00:06:27those who clearly win are the Linke, it's the radical
00:06:30left who oust, so to speak, the
00:06:34SPD from power because it was the SPD that was in
00:06:37power, but for all that, as has just been said, they will have to find
00:06:41alliances to govern because they are not at 50, 55%
00:06:45of the votes, they are between 24.5 and
00:06:4826% of the votes, we are still far from a majority, so nothing is
00:06:52won yet, but symbolically they are ahead,
00:06:55so they have the momentum against the outgoing
00:06:58president who, as Caroline Duble just said, was very popular, had
00:07:02managed to catch up a bit recently, but the outgoing president
00:07:06is from the SPD, social democrats, they are in this
00:07:09coalition with Fred Schmers so they also pay a little bit for the
00:07:13breakage because there is this removalism a
00:07:16little bit wanted whether it's in big cities like Berlin with the radical
00:07:20left or whether it's in more rural areas
00:07:23like in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania with
00:07:26the far right and notably the AFD, is what is happening
00:07:30in Germany right now Antoine typical
00:07:33of what is also happening in Europe with, well, this rise
00:07:37of both the far right and the radical left, populisms,
00:07:40so yes, the extremes. but radicals of all stripes are
00:07:44rising a little bit everywhere, it has calmed down, the counter-
00:07:47example is Hungary of Viktor Orban who has somewhat moved away from this extreme
00:07:51and sometimes liberticidal populism that he had
00:07:53embodied for a number of years, a great many years
00:07:57even, but for all that not everything is simple, we can see that
00:08:00Germany is not an island isolated or
00:08:04an exception with the only ones to have radical
00:08:08parties, so of course when we talk about the far right in Germany it always scares us, it
00:08:11echoes. uh history so that's why it had such an impact during this
00:08:15regional victory in Saxant two weeks ago that now we can see that
00:08:19this dynamic continues with very significant scores in
00:08:23Berlin but especially uh so as I said in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
00:08:27but when we look at other countries look at France today the National Rally
00:08:30is at the gates of the Élysée at the gates of power
00:08:33then almost nothing to do with the AFD I say almost beware it
00:08:37remains the far right in both cases uh but for example on the side of the National Rally
00:08:41played the card of de-demonization for years and years, for about fifteen
00:08:45years and the arrival of Marine Le Pen at the head of the party while
00:08:48the German AFD is completely uninhibited and is
00:08:52absolutely not afraid to say racist things very openly and
00:08:55to and to assume them so these are different ways of doing
00:08:59things but it doesn't change the fact that these are populist and far-right parties
00:09:02that are rising notably we can
00:09:07European continent let's say which is the United Kingdom with Nigel
00:09:11Farage for example who is... a bit in the doldrums some time ago with the consequences of Brexit
00:09:15who today has important polls in voting
00:09:18intentions, so there are many countries like that, Italy is
00:09:22led by Georgia Meloni for several years, she
00:09:26even broke the record of longevity at the head of the
00:09:30Italian council, so we can see that it is a populist groundswell,
00:09:33mainly right-wing but also radical left that is pushing a little bit
00:09:37everywhere in Europe, but not only we can think obviously of the United States.
00:09:40and Donald Trump, thank you very much Antoine for this
00:09:44debrief, this image now of Emmanuel Macron in
00:09:47the company of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, it's happening on
00:09:50the French archipelago of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon located off the coast of
00:09:54Canada, the two men say they want to strengthen ties between their two
00:09:57countries, particularly on issues of security and energy. We listen to Emmanuel
00:10:01Macron. Several rapprochements, but what we have above all
00:10:05decided is that together we will, in close
00:10:08liaison with the community. and
00:10:11its elected officials, ask our two governments
00:10:15to work
00:10:17towards a deep rapprochement between our two countries
00:10:20in terms of fishing, in terms of...
00:10:23of security and common missions
00:10:26in terms of energy, in all areas
00:10:29where we can find an agenda that
00:10:32is positive for Canada
00:10:35and for France, that is relevant for Saint-Pierre
00:10:38and Miquelon and for your
00:10:39country.
00:10:43In Russia, Vladimir Putin's party, United Russia, is
00:10:46unsurprisingly declared the winner of the legislative elections held this weekend
00:10:50in the country, an election marked by numerous Ukrainian drone attacks,
00:10:54as well as by cyberattacks, Axel
00:10:57Simon.
00:11:00According to the mayor of Moscow, it is an unprecedented Ukrainian offensive.
00:11:03The Russian capital and its region have been the target of several hundred Ukrainian
00:11:07drones. While most have been intercepted and shot down,
00:11:11several escaped Russian anti-aircraft defense and notably
00:11:14struck several floors of a residential building in the capital
00:11:17or this oil refinery. Other
00:11:20devices fell in this residential area of Sofino in the Moscow
00:11:24region, causing casualties and significant
00:11:26damage.
00:11:30I was leaving my building, I had walked about twenty steps from the entrance when
00:11:34the explosion occurred, the windows shattered, people started
00:11:37screaming, I turned around, the entrance doors were
00:11:40blown off, there were injured, probably even
00:11:43dead, but we can't be sure, the rescue workers who arrived
00:11:47on the scene did not let us approach, this
00:11:51massive Ukrainian drone attack comes in a context of
00:11:53fighting on both sides, a series
00:11:57of Russian strikes on more than 30 sites in the Kyiv region caused several deaths
00:12:01including children on Saturday and Sunday. This
00:12:04offensive also comes on the 3rd and last day of voting in Russia
00:12:07and has been denounced by Russian authorities as aiming to
00:12:11disrupt the conduct of the election. In the Kherson
00:12:16Ukrainian region controlled by Russia, a drone notably
00:12:21the electoral commission. More than 4
00:12:23and a half years after the start of... large-scale invasion of Ukraine in
00:12:262022, these legislative elections aim to renew the
00:12:30Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. In a context of
00:12:33repression of all forms of opposition, they should, without
00:12:36surprise, result in the victory of Vladimir
00:12:39Putin's party.
00:12:42To the war in the Middle East now and the Houthis of Yemen who report
00:12:4528 Saudi strikes carried out against areas they control in Yemen.
00:12:49They come the day after the attack that the Houthis themselves carried out against
00:12:53Riyadh. And civilians... are caught in the fighting, listen to these
00:12:56testimonies from displaced people, they are among the more than 11,000
00:13:00Yemenis who have been forced to flee the
00:13:02war.
00:13:06we hope that God will put the country back on track, that normal life will return to us and that we will be able to return home safely and
00:13:10reassured, protected from problems and
00:13:14the difficulties we are currently experiencing.
00:13:17we are exhausted by the planes bombing
00:13:20us day and night and...
00:13:24have not had a moment's respite, but what can we
00:13:27do, if God wills, God will deliver us from this
00:13:31scourge without pain or
00:13:32suffering,
00:13:36the war that is also weighing down the world economy, the oil barrel price
00:13:40at the opening will once again be closely watched next night, its
00:13:44impact on fuel prices could be felt very quickly. Julien
00:13:48Cholin, will we pay on average a little
00:13:52more than €2.60 per liter of diesel? In about
00:13:55a month, the hypothesis is not far-fetched
00:13:59and does not even surprise these
00:14:01motorists,
00:14:03I take it as a fatality, I am forced to drive,
00:14:06so there will have to be aid from both sides, I don't know,
00:14:10but it can't continue like this. In any case, tensions
00:14:14in the oil market are not going to
00:14:16stop, as evidenced by this plume of smoke that rose yesterday
00:14:20above the city of Riyadh in Saudi
00:14:23Arabia, it was...
00:14:25the oil facilities of the Saudi capital, an
00:14:29attack claimed by the Houthi rebels supported by
00:14:32Iran, which is gaining ground. As a result,
00:14:36after the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, it is now
00:14:39another strategic passage that is threatened, the Strait of Bab-el-
00:14:43Mandeb. This will make the price of oil rise
00:14:47even further, consequences at the pump, prices
00:14:50should continue to climb in the coming days, experts have
00:14:54worked on it. They predict an average of €2.60 per
00:14:57liter of diesel in one month and approximately €2.30 for
00:15:01E10 ethanol. These
00:15:04forecasts are based on several parameters, obviously
00:15:07the evolution of oil prices, but also the euro-dollar exchange rate or
00:15:11seasonality. However, obviously there can be at any time
00:15:15geopolitical events, declarations by politicians from certain
00:15:19countries that can have a fairly rapid impact and thus
00:15:22change our forecasts tomorrow the governor... will
00:15:25meet at Matignon to formalize an extension of the aid schemes
00:15:28for professionals and individuals, it could, according to our
00:15:32information, broaden the number of French people
00:15:34concerned.
00:15:36And now, let's move on to sports news with Cédric
00:27:03moment we will talk politics with our guest Richard
00:27:06Verlit.
00:27:12RFI and France 24 present all of French
00:27:15political life in Mardi Politique. Facing Rosine
00:27:19Fèvre and Frédéric Rivière, a personality answers live to
00:27:23questions. Mardi Politique, your rendezvous with
00:27:26French political news to listen on RFI and to watch
00:27:30on France 24.
00:27:45Zar électrique, an Rfi talent group.
00:27:59Discover Musica Mama, the clip from the Franco-Moroccan trio.
00:30:09the political
00:30:09essential,
00:30:14the political essential tonight, it's with Richard Verlit, good evening, good evening,
00:30:18editorialist and journalist for the Swiss online media Blick, on the
00:30:22program this issue, international affairs that invite themselves into the daily lives of
00:30:25the French and into the presidential campaign, Russia, war in the
00:30:29Middle East and soaring fuel prices, Emmanuel Macron. on
00:30:32Friday gathered in a serious atmosphere the main candidates for his succession,
00:30:36he will also be on television Thursday at 8 PM on our colleagues at TFN
00:30:40and France 2. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu is
00:30:44confronted with the budget headache for 2027, 54 billion
00:30:47euros of efforts to plan for and rising anger, is a new social
00:30:51and political crisis still avoidable. Finally, can the lineup for the
00:30:55second round of the presidential election still evolve? Polls still predict
00:30:58a duel between...