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00:00:07Good evening, welcome and thank you for joining us on France 24 and France Info.
00:00:11Here are the headlines of your news: an
00:00:14attack on Riyadh airport this Saturday evening left at least 12
00:00:18dead. It is the biggest attack in a Gulf country since the beginning of the war in Iran. It is
00:00:21attributed to Houthi rebels from Yemen. There were American
00:00:25victims. Donald Trump said he would quickly decide on an American
00:00:28response. Ukraine must have a
00:00:32new president. Donald Trump calls for replacing Volodymyr Zelensky. The
00:00:35Europeans say they remain in solidarity with Ukraine, especially after the agreement between
00:00:39Russia and the US on
00:00:41member states and NATO Russian diesel deliveries. The explanations in this news. Then
00:00:45finally, you will hear the first words of Sofian after his return to Earth.
00:00:49The astronaut arrived in Germany and his first steps
00:00:52were not the easiest,
00:00:54you'll see.
00:01:08And so at least 12 dead in Saudi Arabia and more than 300 injured in an attack on
00:01:12Riyadh airport according to figures from Saudi civil aviation.
00:01:16The attack is attributed to these pro-Iranian rebels. Saudi Arabia speaks of a
00:01:19projectile falling near another international airport, that of
00:01:23Dammam, and confirms the interception of ballistic
00:01:26missiles in the evening. In any case, it is the deadliest attack in a Gulf country
00:01:30since the beginning of the war in Iran, a serious
00:01:32Uganda to Kenya, escalation according to the UN. The toll is 12 dead, 8
00:01:35Americans, including one, 8 foreigners,
00:01:39including Americans, sorry. Donald Trump reacted to this, saying it was an
00:01:42unacceptable attack. The details with Alice
00:01:45Brogar.
00:01:47In front of Riyadh airport, a line of ambulances and
00:01:50disoriented passengers, these are the rare images reaching us for
00:01:56Niya spent a large part of now from Saudi Arabia, after the deadly strike that targeted the capital's airport on Saturday around
00:02:003 PM. Witnesses describe scenes of chaos with hundreds of
00:02:03injured and dozens of ambulances called in urgently.
00:02:07The General Authority of Civil Aviation indicated that the attack caused several
00:02:11injuries whose condition is being evaluated. It specified that airport
00:02:14operations were temporarily suspended pending a
00:02:18full assessment of the damage and verification of the safety of the
00:02:21facilities in coordination with the competent authorities. All
00:02:25flights to Riyadh were diverted or cancelled. Later
00:02:29in the evening, the authorities reported the fall of a projectile near
00:02:33another airport, that of Dammam in the east of the
00:02:36kingdom. These attacks, which have not been claimed, are
00:02:39attributed to Houthi rebels from Yemen who oppose Yemeni
00:02:43government forces supported by Saudi Arabia and who launched
00:02:47to see if it is possible to a lightning offensive in September, reinforcing their grip on
00:02:50the strategic Strait of Bab el-Mandeb. In recent
00:02:53days, the scale and frequency of attacks targeting Riyadh has
00:02:56increased. The city's airport has already been targeted twice this
00:03:00year. Several people have been killed and injured. To counter the Houthis,
00:03:04the Saudi kingdom has been seeking military aid from its
00:03:07American ally for weeks, without success. Donald Trump remained
00:03:10vague on the subject on Saturday in front of
00:03:13journalists. Have you decided to join the Saudi
00:03:16strikes? It's possible, we will see. In what timeframe
00:03:19? We just learned of the attack, we will make a decision and act very
00:03:24to see if it is possible to broadly explain space quickly. These strikes on Riyadh occur shortly
00:03:26before the holding in October in the kingdom of a large annual
00:03:30investment conference that attracts visitors from all over the
00:03:33world. And in the Strait of Hormuz, a tanker was hit by
00:03:37a projectile, which caused a fire on board according to the British
00:03:41twice our weight again, it's the end of Navy monitoring center. The crew was able to be secured,
00:03:44but no information on potential environmental
00:03:47damage. And then it was a furious Donald Trump who
00:03:51attacked Volodymyr Zelensky this Saturday, stating that it is time for
00:03:54Ukraine to have a new president to end the conflict with
00:03:58Russia. Let's first listen to Donald Trump and...
00:04:01very... broadly to explain space listen, then we'll look at the reactions.
00:04:03Zelensky could have resolved this conflict many times, and he
00:04:07chose not to do so. You know what I
00:04:11suggest? I suggest that Ukrainians find a new leader
00:04:15who can conclude agreements. Zelensky could have concluded
00:04:18again twice our weight, it's the end of many and he did not do so.
00:04:21Europeans reacted strongly to this new jab from the American president,
00:04:24but also to the US-Russia agreement announced on Friday, which consists of
00:04:28diesel deliveries on world markets to lower prices,
00:04:32despite Western sanctions against
00:04:36for their part declare solidarity with Moscow. Emmanuel Macron and Andy Burnham reaffirmed their support for Kyiv, Léo
00:04:39but always her sense of Péchar.
00:04:42After Donald Trump's remarks about his
00:04:44Where I come from, the tradition of Ukrainian counterpart, reactions of support for Volodymyr Zelensky were
00:04:48swift. British Prime Minister Andy Burnham,
00:04:51Ukraine's main supporter, expressed
00:04:54About ten kilometers from there, very close to his full
00:04:55bill mainly falls on the bride's solidarity. A call for a change of Ukrainian president was
00:04:58also very poorly received in Ukraine,
00:05:00particularly by the opposition and pro-European party,
00:05:05Earth is no Holos. As head of an opposition party, I have only one answer to that. We act
00:05:09in accordance with the Ukrainian constitution, and this decision
00:05:12does not belong to any other leader, only the Ukrainian people
00:05:15decide who they will elect and when. Volodymyr
00:05:19Zelensky can also be assured of the support of the European Union, which
00:05:23continues to stand united behind him. The 27 have also severely
00:05:27criticized the controversial agreement on Russian diesel between the
00:05:30United States and Russia, a delivery of 300,000 tons of diesel
00:05:34starting in October on American territory and on the world
00:05:37market. For the head of European diplomacy,
00:05:40Kyriakos, this agreement provides Moscow with more revenue to
00:05:43finance the war. Russian strikes have killed more than 80 Ukrainian
00:05:47civilians in 2 days. In addition, it has intensified its hybrid
00:05:50attacks against Europe, both EU
00:05:54allies. There is no question of easing pressure on Russia at this time, and Europe
00:05:58will not do so. The European Union promises to strengthen its
00:06:02sanctions against Moscow. On Monday, it will add 1600
00:06:05names to the blacklist of individuals and entities targeted by these
00:06:09measures. And then in the Middle East, no... elections in
00:06:13the State of Palestine for a year, that's an announcement from Mahmoud Abbas while
00:06:16speculations were rife concerning this new postponement. Legislative elections
00:06:20were supposed to be held at the end of November, but due to, I quote, obstacles
00:06:23erected by Israel, they are postponed to September 2027 for
00:06:27a double legislative and presidential election. Israel
00:06:30disputes its responsibility, arguing that the Palestinian president has not organized
00:06:34national elections for 20 years. The holding of
00:06:37elections is part of the reforms requested by the international
00:06:41community from Palestine. In the meantime, millions of
00:06:44Gazans are still suffering from hunger despite sporadic aid, and there
00:06:48will be severe long-term consequences from this malnutrition, humanitarian
00:06:52organizations warn,
00:06:53Ettanadji.
00:06:56In front of this community kitchen,
00:06:59the wait can last several hours to hope to leave with
00:07:03a ration of bread or rice.
00:07:08the morning, this Gazan mother of eight children who live in makeshift
00:07:13shelters, her husband is seriously injured in the legs since
00:07:16an Israeli bombing.
00:07:19One of Niya's children suffered
00:07:23from malnutrition during the last famine.
00:07:26Since then, the situation has barely improved, and these
00:07:29rations will be the only meal of the day for this
00:07:32family.
00:07:36I suffer from asthma, but I go to the community kitchen to bring
00:07:39food and feed the children.
00:07:53In August 2025, the United Nations had declared a state
00:07:57of famine in the Palestinian enclave. With
00:08:00the ceasefire coming into effect two months later, the humanitarian
00:08:03situation was supposed to improve, but the food
00:08:07emergency persists. According to the
00:08:09WFP, approximately 140,000 people are in a situation of food
00:08:13insecurity, 200,000 Gazans on the verge of
00:08:17famine. There is an increase in conditions affecting
00:08:21the immune system. These problems, non-existent before the war, are more
00:08:24frequent. Cognitive development is also
00:08:27affected. Because children do not receive sufficient quantities of
00:08:31vitamins and minerals. Doctors
00:08:34state that repeated episodes of acute malnutrition in these
00:08:37children can cause cognitive and physical
00:08:40damage for the rest of their lives. In
00:08:44climate news, in the southern United States, Isaias has caused at least
00:08:48four deaths. It was the first hurricane of the season, since
00:08:51downgraded to a tropical storm. It hit the coasts of the Gulf of
00:08:55Mexico, particularly in Alabama and Florida. Tropical rains are
00:08:58expected and a rise in water levels is still to be feared, and hundreds of thousands
00:09:02of users are also without
00:09:03electricity.
00:09:07She's back from space, Sophie, back on European soil,
00:09:11it was her first public appearance since her
00:09:14splashdown Thursday off the coast of
00:09:18Astronaut Centre in Cologne, and her speech was
00:09:21punctuated by tears of joy, a lot of emotion to recount this
00:09:25journey. Returning to Earth, she explained, is not always easy to
00:09:27experience. Watch. Standing, but still
00:09:31wobbly, Sophie Adno set foot on European
00:09:34soil, supported by doctors. She did not lose her
00:09:37smile, applauded by her loved ones and colleagues, she spoke,
00:09:41la parole,
00:09:45her eyes filled with tears, sorry for the emotion, a lot
00:09:48of emotion,
00:09:52humor.
00:09:55It's funny to have tears flowing downwards, I wasn't used to that for 8
00:09:59months.
00:10:01Not used to motion sickness and seasickness either, which gripped
00:10:05her in the first seconds on Thursday upon her
00:10:08return. Being propelled from
00:10:12space was a piece of cake for me, but coming back to
00:10:17piece of cake. At 400 km from
00:10:21Earth, Sophie Adno says she gained perspective on
00:10:25the tensions shaking the planet.
00:10:28I looked for borders, I looked for
00:10:31divisions, I saw none. From her
00:10:35space odyssey, the 44-year-old Frenchwoman keeps
00:10:38images she describes as sublime. I will
00:10:41remember all my life this absolutely incredible
00:10:44aurora that I shared the video of on
00:10:47social media. It was a dance, a dance of this
00:10:51green flow across the entire planet. You go through all the
00:10:55emotions, sometimes it's an intense
00:10:57euphoria, of all this
00:11:00beauty, and sometimes it just
00:11:03hits you in the gut. During these 8 months in
00:11:07weightlessness, she admits not always feeling in her
00:11:10place, especially during the fires in Gironde that affected
00:11:13her family. The really difficult moments are when something
00:11:17happens to your loved ones and you are far away, and there's a moment
00:11:21when a thought crosses your mind: what am I doing here?
00:11:25Contemplating the five continents from above reinforced her conviction:
00:11:29the urgency is to preserve
00:11:33the effects of climate change, but we see them, it's impressive, the
00:11:37lakes that are dried up, the Aral Sea that is
00:11:39shrinking. Sophie Adno will now re-acclimatize to
00:11:43Earth, 3 weeks of intensive rehabilitation
00:11:47to rebuild her muscles, await her.
00:11:50Listening to Sophie Anneau talk about her life in space with weightlessness, it requires
00:11:54a lot of training. For example, by performing
00:11:57parabolic flights that simulate 0G. This is what our
00:12:01reporter Sylvain Rousseau did, who went to the CNES center
00:12:04in Bordeaux, where the laboratory plane is located. Watch his
00:12:07report. I am in Bordeaux and I am preparing to board this plane, an
00:12:11Airbus A310 modified by Novespace. It is no
00:12:15longer so much an airplane but a laboratory whose
00:12:18purpose is to conduct scientific experiments in
00:12:21weightlessness.
00:12:26A parabolic flight, as its name indicates, the plane makes parabolas. It first
00:12:29climbs at a 40° angle, everything feels extremely heavy, and
00:12:32when "injection" sounds, well, that's it, we are in weightlessness. This
00:12:36is when the experiments can begin. Experiments that,
00:12:39for some, are also intended to be tested later in the space
00:12:43station. This is the first test phase. "Injection" means we inject
00:12:46the plane onto this portion of orbital arc which allows us to
00:12:50find ourselves in weightlessness, and it is a principle of parabolic
00:12:53flight that allows these experiments to be placed in a situation
00:12:57impossible to recreate, which is very useful for scientists because it
00:13:00allows phenomena that are masked by gravity to be
00:13:03revealed. This plasma will be used to heal
00:13:06wounds. The final idea of testing it in 0g is precisely
00:13:12use it for astronauts. That would allow taking less
00:13:15cream and just having gas and electricity. 31
00:13:19parabolas of 22 seconds, everything will float, and that's why everything is
00:13:22fixed to the ground, why the computers, why all the equipment is protected. There are also
00:13:26experiments that have a real concrete application on Earth. We are thinking, of course,
00:13:30notably of medicine and biology. We deal with medical
00:13:33emergencies in situations of weightlessness.
00:13:36The goal is, if there is respiratory distress, to avoid orotracheal intubation, which
00:13:40is quite invasive and already quite technical on Earth. We, on the other hand, are working on
00:13:43the capabilities of the inner ear. A malfunction when gravity is modified can very
00:13:49sickness, the sickness we know in astronauts, and by extension,
00:13:52if we could manage to explain it and treat it, we could also
00:13:56quite easily transmit that to terrestrial transport
00:13:58sickness.
00:14:00And pull out already 22 seconds of weightlessness, we weigh
00:14:06the parabola, and back to Earth, that's how this
00:14:10newscast ends, thank you for watching it, stay on our channel, another
00:14:14news edition will be back in 15
00:14:16minutes.
00:14:28Welcome to your magazine. Great emotion this week in Israel on
00:14:31the occasion of the commemorations of the Hamas massacres of October 7,
00:14:342023. Nearly 1200 people were
00:14:37murdered that day. Tributes were paid to the victims,
00:14:40notably at the Nova festival site at
00:14:43the gates of the Palestinian enclave of Gaza. See this report by Stéphane
00:14:47Hamar.
00:14:50A car cemetery as far as the eye can see, this is one of the
00:14:54most visited October 7 memorial sites. In most of
00:14:58these burned or bullet-riddled vehicles were Israeli
00:15:01civilians.
00:15:04We come from Costa Rica and we are here to see what
00:15:07happened. It's incredible, you see
00:15:10thousands of cars, how many lives have been
00:15:12destroyed? It's incredible, very, very
00:15:15sad.
00:15:19the border with Gaza, the site of the Nova festival,
00:15:23with photos of each of the 364 victims of
00:15:26Hamas. There too, tourists from all over the world
00:15:29come to pay their respects, like Tali and Ronen, who came from Melbourne in
00:15:33Australia.
00:15:37will never understand the fear and panic these children
00:15:40felt.
00:15:43There is so much hatred against Jews. Nothing we do is
00:15:46right, we are always attacked, it's always our fault, but none of this is our
00:15:50fault.
00:15:54This place has become almost like Yad Vashem, because what
00:15:57happened here on October 7th is the biggest catastrophe since the Shoah. It's
00:16:01important to see what happened so it never happens
00:16:04again.
00:16:08A city attacked on October 7th, we can see Gaza
00:16:11devastated. Groups of tourists or students march here to
00:16:15witness the radicality of the Israeli
00:16:17response. What they did to us is
00:16:21unforgivable. We must retaliate in such a way that they know they must never
00:16:25do something like that to us again.
00:16:28Three years after the massacres, the day of October 7th more than ever unites
00:16:32Israel and Jews of the
00:16:33diaspora.
00:16:37now for the African continent, a race against time is underway in Kenya
00:16:40after the death of a patient from Ebola. This is the first time that
00:16:44Nairobi has recorded a positive case. Authorities are trying to identify
00:16:47people in contact with this patient. He arrived in the country
00:16:51by plane from Uganda, after a transit through
00:16:54the Democratic Republic of Congo. Details from Bastien Renault, in
00:16:58Nairobi. There are now 100 contact cases that have been
00:17:02identified in Kenya. Among them, passengers on the flight that transported
00:17:06this man from
00:17:09Nairobi airport staff, family members of patient zero, as
00:17:13he is now called here, who transported him to Nairobi hospital,
00:17:16or even staff from this
00:17:19hospital. And among the 100 contact cases, 66 are
00:17:22now in quarantine. So to find all these
00:17:26contact cases and take them to quarantine centers, the government is notably
00:17:30calling on the Kenyan Red Cross. I was able to meet one of its
00:17:33officials.
00:17:35We believe that the governor's decision to find these people to quarantine
00:17:39them and monitor them in a closed environment is a
00:17:43good decision. It is a race against time that Kenya must
00:17:47win, and for that we are seeking advice from other countries, including
00:17:51France, which repatriated an infected doctor. Thanks to these measures
00:17:54that we are putting in place, we are ensuring that the virus will not
00:17:58spread elsewhere in the
00:17:59country.
00:18:02So quarantining all contact cases is not necessarily what is
00:18:05recommended by the WHO. Here it is rather a political
00:18:08option chosen by the government to reassure the population, and I can tell you that it
00:18:12does not please the medical staff at all, especially the
00:18:15doctors who treated this patient zero. After it was
00:18:19established that he was sick with Ebola, they all wore
00:18:22protective equipment, they were not exposed to the virus, and
00:18:26yet they are in a quarantine center. They published a
00:18:29communiqué, an open letter to the government, saying that it is not
00:18:33normal for them to be interned, that they pose no risk. In addition to
00:18:36that, they are interned in the same places as the patient's
00:18:40relatives who had extremely close contact with him and who
00:18:44present a much higher risk of contamination. So these doctors say,
00:18:48"There is no reason for us to be in a quarantine center" and "You are putting us
00:18:51at risk." They openly criticize the government's
00:18:54policy.
00:18:57It's a tradition that India cannot shake off: the payment of dowry,
00:19:00despite being banned since 1961. This practice
00:19:04remains deeply entrenched in many social circles. In a country
00:19:08where half of marriages are arranged by parents, families go
00:19:11into debt to finance the ceremony and meet the demands of the in-laws.
00:19:15Watch this report by Kansa Juned and Gabrielle
00:19:19Gona.
00:19:22That evening, in the state of Bihar in India, the party was in full
00:19:26swing.
00:19:28Music, dancing and over 500 guests, the
00:19:32groom's procession had just
00:19:33arrived.
00:19:37Backstage, final touches for Shivani, 30, who is
00:19:41preparing to make her
00:19:42entrance.
00:19:46I'm a little nervous, but also very
00:19:48excited. In India, for many
00:19:52families, a daughter's wedding is prepared from childhood,
00:19:55sometimes even before her
00:19:57birth.
00:20:00At home, they always talked about the day of my
00:20:02wedding.
00:20:05My parents put money aside little by little.
00:20:09This is something all parents do. They start
00:20:12buying jewelry, things for the future home, and
00:20:16other gifts for the groom's family.
00:20:21dowry is still very
00:20:22present.
00:20:25In the country, the wedding industry is worth 112 billion
00:20:29euros a year, but the family.
00:20:32mariée.
00:20:38For his daughter's union, Shivani's father spent over
00:20:42€25,000. He even organized the ceremony in the groom's
00:20:45home state to satisfy the in-laws.
00:20:50The wishes of the groom's family clearly take priority. Whatever they
00:20:53want, it's up to the bride's family to provide it. From the start, the
00:20:57groom and his family set their conditions: you will do this, you
00:21:00will give that, and if you refuse, the marriage will not
00:21:03take place. The groom's family simply enjoys the celebration and states
00:21:07their demands, which you are supposed
00:21:09to meet. For many Indian families,
00:21:13a daughter's marriage is a major issue. The dowry is
00:21:16seen as compensation for the bride's care by her
00:21:20husband's
00:21:21family.
00:21:25But when the family cannot afford to pay, the dream can
00:21:29quickly turn into a
00:21:30nightmare.
00:21:33When my sister was sitting in front of the altar, she was so
00:21:36happy. Only one month after his sister's wedding,
00:21:40Amit learned of her death. The police concluded it was a suicide, but for
00:21:43him, it was the psychological harassment from her in-laws
00:21:47that pushed her to end her life. Her husband
00:21:50and her husband's sister kept putting her
00:21:53down, about anything
00:21:56and everything. They would tell her: "You joined our
00:22:00family, but you brought nothing with you. You
00:22:04use our things."
00:22:07They demanded €17,000 and a
00:22:09car. My sister was a very strong
00:22:12woman. After the death of our father, she took responsibility
00:22:16for our family.
00:22:20And months after her wedding,
00:22:23they even went so far as to insult our deceased
00:22:25father. The pressure and
00:22:28suffering became unbearable for
00:22:31her. In 2024, more than
00:22:355000 women died in India in cases related to dowry. Banned since
00:22:371961, the practice
00:22:41remains deeply entrenched across the
00:22:44country.
00:22:47That's it for this excerpt. You can find the full report
00:22:50on our website: the phenomenon of weightlessness,
00:22:53something entirely different, an experience attempted by our teams this week here
00:22:57in France, in Bordeaux, at CNES, as the French
00:23:00space agency launches its study program. Sylvain Rousseau was able to
00:23:03board a special plane, performing parabolic flights.
00:23:07Take a look. I'm in
00:23:11Bordeaux and I'm preparing to board this plane, an Airbus A310
00:23:15modified by Novespace. It's no longer really a plane, but
00:23:19of a... laboratory whose purpose is to conduct
00:23:22scientific experiments
00:23:23in weightlessness.
00:23:28A parabolic flight, as its name indicates, the plane performs parabolas, it first climbs at an
00:23:32angle of 40°, everything weighs extremely heavy and when "injection"
00:23:35sounds, well, that's it, we are in weightlessness. It is at that moment
00:23:39that the experiments can begin, experiments which for some
00:23:43are also intended to be tested later in the space station, this is the first phase of
00:23:46testing, "injection" means that we inject the plane into this... orbital arc
00:23:50portion which allows us to find ourselves in weightlessness,
00:23:54and it is a principle of parabolic flight that allows these experiments
00:23:57to be placed in a situation impossible to recreate, which is very
00:24:01useful for scientists as it allows to reveal phenomena that are
00:24:04masked by gravity. This
00:24:07plasma will be used to heal wounds. The final idea of
00:24:10testing it in 0G is precisely
00:24:14use it for astronauts. It would allow to carry
00:24:17less cream and just have gas and... electricity. 31
00:24:21parabolas of 22 seconds, everything will float and that's why everything is
00:24:24fixed to the ground, that computers, that all the equipment is protected. There are also
00:24:28experiments that have a real concrete application on Earth. We are naturally
00:24:32thinking notably of medicine and biology, we deal with medical
00:24:35emergencies in weightlessness conditions. The
00:24:38goal is, if there's respiratory distress, to avoid orotracheal intubation, which
00:24:42is quite invasive and already quite technical on Earth. We are working
00:24:45on the capabilities of the inner ear, a malfunction when gravity is modified to be
00:24:51sickness, the sickness that we know among astronauts and by
00:24:54extension, if we could manage to explain it and treat it, we
00:24:57could also quite easily transmit this to terrestrial transport sickness.
00:25:00terrestre,
00:25:02And pull out, already 22 seconds of weightlessness, we weigh
00:25:08the parabola,
00:25:11and that's it for this week's report, thank you for watching.
00:25:13suivi.
00:25:21My name is Matthieu Mabin, I am your correspondent in
00:25:24Washington, all across the country, the midterm campaign is in
00:25:28full swing, at stake, prognosis, what will the
00:25:31political America of this second half of Donald
00:25:35Trump's term be made of? Find me every day to talk about it in the
00:25:3910:30 PM edition as well as on France 24's networks,
00:25:42on our networks, see you soon, the midterm
00:25:45elections to follow on France 24 and our social
00:25:48media.
00:28:09still weighs on women, money,
00:28:11jewelry, car, to marry their daughters, parents must comply
00:28:15with the demands of the in-laws. From the start, the groom and his
00:28:19family set their conditions, you will have to do this, you will have to give
00:28:22that. While the marriage market in India is
00:28:25booming, without a dowry, the marriage can turn into
00:28:28tragedy. And when these demands are not met, women say...
00:30:07Hello and welcome, thank you for following us on France 24 and France Info, here are the
00:30:11headlines of this news:
00:30:14an attack on Riyadh airport this Saturday evening killed at least 12 people, an attack
00:30:18attributed to the Houthi rebels from Yemen, there are Americans among
00:30:21the victims, Donald Trump said he would quickly decide on an
00:30:24American response,
00:30:27and Ukraine, which must have a new president, this is also the
00:30:30reaction of... Donald Trump who therefore calls for replacing
00:30:34Volodymyr Zelensky, Europeans
00:30:38Ukraine, notably after the agreement between Russia and America on deliveries
00:30:42of Russian Diesel, then
00:30:44finally you will hear the first words of Sophie Anno after her
00:30:48return to Earth, the French astronaut arrived in Germany, her first steps
00:30:52were not the easiest, you
00:30:54will see.
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