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00:00:00America, the event to experience on France
00:00:0324.
00:00:0710:30 PM in Paris, back to basics on France 24, we continue with
00:00:10international news, the
00:00:13deplorable declaration of war against communication line seems blurred between Kyiv and
00:00:16Washington. This Sunday, Donald Trump announced that an energy ceasefire had
00:00:19been concluded between Russia and Ukraine, except that Volodymyr Zelensky
00:00:23was not aware, said
00:00:24Anadji,
00:00:28Kumar, in the face of security it is from his social network truth.show that Donald Trump announced this
00:00:32Sunday: a bilateral energy ceasefire would have
00:00:36been accepted by Ukraine and Russia with
00:00:39immediate effect. The American president gave no
00:00:43details on the terms of this announced truce, but this statement
00:00:46comes after the criticism he made against Zelensky,
00:00:50reproaching Kyiv for its attacks against Russian refineries. These
00:00:54would consequently, according to Donald Trump, increase diesel prices in
00:00:58the United States. He also... stated that Ukraine should have
00:01:02a new president, enough to increase the pressure
00:01:05on Volodymyr Zelensky, who does not rule
00:01:08out elections under certain
00:01:10conditions. We are ready for a ceasefire, we
00:01:14are ready to take any step of de-escalation to spare the energy
00:01:18sector, a ceasefire on both sides, and tell Putin
00:01:22to grant us two months, 60 days of total ceasefire,
00:01:2560 days to organize elections. Of course,
00:01:28we will accept the... of our people, detention already
00:01:31very
00:01:35tense on Friday when the American president announced
00:01:38an agreement between the United States and Russia for the massive purchase of
00:01:42Russian diesel, accompanied by a loosening of sanctions against
00:01:45Moscow. With this agreement, Donald Trump
00:01:49prioritizes the midterm elections, for which his
00:01:52party is in difficulty, notably due to the increase in fuel
00:01:56prices. First, 300,000 tons of diesel
00:01:59on the American and global market, a very
00:02:02small quantity according to specialists, given American
00:02:05demand. Refineries are mostly disrupted by the blockade of the Strait
00:02:09of Hormuz and the war in
00:02:12the Middle East, initiated by the
00:02:14United States.
00:02:17In Saudi Arabia, two attacks in 2 days were carried out against Riyadh
00:02:20International Airport, the first killed at least 12 people on Saturday and dozens
00:02:24injured. The second also injured people today,
00:02:28strikes claimed by the... Houthi fighters from Yemen, Luc
00:02:31Lacroix. Saudi Arabia
00:02:35relentlessly targeted, principal target, Riyadh airport.
00:02:39It was notably hit by a strike
00:02:41yesterday, only a few images
00:02:45leaked from the Saudi authorities, reluctant to show they are affected,
00:02:49but a passenger recounts
00:02:51right, welcome to your Africa news the panic. I saw injured people, everyone was running. Yesterday's
00:02:55attack is the deadliest
00:02:58listen children it's no longer possible to talk about in Saudi Arabia are they on the verge of since 2015. 12 dead, including 8
00:03:01foreigners, so local television is forced to
00:03:05mention it, showing the Minister of Health alongside
00:03:08the survivors, hello, how
00:03:11are you, more than 300
00:03:14injured, among them a French woman, we do not yet know the
00:03:18severity of these injuries, today,
00:03:21this same airport was targeted once again, and there are new
00:03:25injuries, announced the
00:03:27Hurricane Simon, authorities. For several days, attacks have followed each other on the... airport but also on
00:03:31Saudi energy infrastructure, they are
00:03:34claimed by the Houthis of Yemen.
00:03:38We reiterate our warning to all international companies,
00:03:42experts, employees, and travelers worldwide, not
00:03:46to operate flights to Saudi airports, they are not
00:03:51We open this news report with this burning issue from safe. Sworn enemies of Saudi Arabia,
00:03:54the Houthis are supported by Iran and control this area to
00:03:57the west and especially the passage through
00:04:00the Red Sea, which is essential for Saudi oil,
00:04:04unacceptable for Saudi Arabia, which
00:04:08supports its strikes against the Houthis in
00:04:11Yemen.
00:04:14Until now, the United States, great allies of
00:04:17Saudi Arabia, have refused to get involved
00:04:20militarily, but among yesterday's victims, there is
00:04:23an American and last night Donald Trump described
00:04:27the attack against Riyadh airport as
00:04:30unacceptable.
00:04:32And like yesterday, Dammam International Airport, also in Saudi
00:04:36Arabia, was also targeted tonight. In India,
00:04:40now, the three leaders of the Qafar movement were released this Sunday,
00:04:44they had called for a large demonstration on Saturday against the revision
00:04:47of electoral lists, a mobilization suppressed by the
00:04:51police. Axel Simon:
00:04:54The fist raised in a sign of victory, the three leaders of the Qafar
00:04:58movement found their...
00:05:12arrested even before they disembarked from the plane, on the grounds that the
00:05:15demonstration they had called for on Saturday had not been
00:05:18authorized, which did not prevent many protesters from
00:05:22gathering and being arrested by the police who carried out
00:05:26more than 2,000 arrests on Saturday, and while
00:05:29the leaders of the movement called for continuing the protest
00:05:32on Sunday, the gathered protesters continue to demand the
00:05:36resignation of the chairman of the electoral commission, Guillanesh
00:05:41forces deployed in the streets of the capital who
00:05:44once again carried out numerous arrests,
00:05:47"this dictatorship will not work, the way our people and our
00:05:50students have been detained, these attacks against democracy, we are not going to
00:05:54stop there, we will be in the streets every hour, every minute and every
00:05:58second,"
00:06:00"we want to tell this government that students
00:06:03and young people will remain steadfast until Kumar
00:06:06resigns," for several weeks, the CJP, the
00:06:10Qafar People's Party, has been leading the protest jointly with the
00:06:13Indian Congress opposition party, they challenge the
00:06:17recent revision of electoral lists, officially
00:06:20aimed at removing duplicates and fraudsters, but this
00:06:23reform has resulted in the removal of 130 million registered
00:06:27voters, it is accused of favoring supporters of Prime Minister
00:06:30Narendra Modi's
00:06:33party.
00:06:36New striking images from Nepal, a new wave of
00:06:40mudslides swept through the mountains this Sunday.
00:07:18This sudden flood was caused by the rupture of a dam following a
00:07:22landslide, nothing resists, not
00:07:24even this metal
00:07:28bridge, it gives way to the force of the current, seen
00:07:32from another angle one can distinguish the extent of the
00:07:35catastrophe,
00:07:36the disaster
00:07:40occurred in northern Nepal, in the
00:07:43Gorka region.
00:07:46Some residents had time to take refuge on higher ground. Here it was our
00:07:50village, it was a small hamlet. Everyone
00:07:53was screaming, we took refuge in the mountains.
00:07:57Here, in the center of the image, other
00:07:59survivors. Very quickly, the army was
00:08:03deployed to rescue them. Helicopters fly over a devastated
00:08:07area, entire sections of cliffs
00:08:11have collapsed,
00:08:12we can clearly see here the trajectory of the mudflow,
00:08:16according to an initial assessment by the authorities,
00:08:20at least five people are missing.
00:08:24Mexico is preparing for the arrival of Cyclone
00:08:27Simon, which could make landfall in the central-west of the country.
00:08:30Details with Etanadji.
00:08:33The city of Acapulco
00:08:36is already suffering the first consequences of
00:08:40here a landslide on this hill, a little further
00:08:44on, a house has collapsed near a canal, the powerful
00:08:47hurricane is expected to hit the central-west coast of Mexico this
00:08:51Sunday, its arrival has caused torrential
00:08:55rains and wind gusts reaching 250
00:08:58km/h in some places.
00:09:01Due to heavy
00:09:03rains, saturated soil in some areas has led to
00:09:07landslides and rock debris flows on roads. The
00:09:11National Guard has deployed personnel in shopping centers,
00:09:14gas stations, and the neighborhoods most vulnerable to the consequences of the
00:09:18bad weather,
00:09:21further north in Puerto Vallarta, the population is also
00:09:25preparing, the authorities have declared a maximum alert in
00:09:28several localities in this state.
00:09:31Here, to protect their establishments, traders have
00:09:35placed sandbags at the entrance and barricaded the doors. This
00:09:39coastal city is protected from hurricanes by the neighboring mountains.
00:09:53No problem for our restaurant, what we fear are the big waves, because the water comes
00:09:55up to here, if that happens, there's no point in
00:09:59crying or lamenting, you just have to accept things,
00:10:03deep down, it's nature expressing itself, the Mexican
00:10:06navy has already evacuated a hundred people from localities
00:10:10located along the west coast of the country.
00:10:13Simon is the latest hurricane in the Pacific whose waters have
00:10:17warmed due to the El Niño climate
00:10:20phenomenon, which causes more powerful
00:10:22hurricanes.
00:10:25Pope Leo XV will undergo surgery in the coming days, he made the
00:10:29announcement himself at the end of the Angelus prayer in St. Peter's Square,
00:10:32the intervention aims to remove a localized nodule in the
00:10:35lung, detected at a very early stage, he specifies,
00:10:39this intervention should not compromise his planned trip to Peru
00:10:43in early
00:10:43November.
00:10:48Stay with us, the main news continues in a moment with the Africa news report with Fatima
00:10:51Tawan and we'll be back right after.
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00:11:17shaken,
00:11:20influence, meaning, to find it,
00:11:23join me in, "At the Outposts"
00:11:27"At the Outposts" presented by Ali Laidi on France
00:11:3024.
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00:12:16In India, the curse of the dowry still weighs on
00:12:19women, money, jewelry, cars, to marry
00:12:23their daughters, parents must...
00:12:51We also try to make families understand that this practice is bad.
00:12:56Things are changing slowly but
00:12:58surely.
00:13:01Reporter to see on France
00:13:0424.
00:13:13You are on France 24 and you are
00:13:16report tonight, Ethiopia and Eritrea
00:13:21confrontation? Addis Ababa's troops are advancing in the...
00:13:25Tigray region towards Eritrean troops, Asmara for its part, asks
00:13:28the UN to condemn, I quote, the
00:13:31declaration of war formulated according to it by
00:13:33Ethiopia.
00:13:35We will also talk about the riots in South Africa, successive waves of
00:13:39anti-migrant violence, the army has been deployed in
00:13:43Durban, the city most affected by this
00:13:45violence.
00:13:48From revolts against colonial order to African independences, a
00:13:52century of struggle, violence and wounded memories, why does this history
00:13:55continue to divide France up to the political
00:13:59debate as the 2027 presidential election approaches? This
00:14:02is our focus tonight with historian Pascal
00:14:05Blanchard who is publishing a new book dedicated to
00:14:09decolonizations.
00:14:16the Horn of Africa where tension is rising between Ethiopia and Eritrea,
00:14:19the Ethiopian army continues its offensive in Tigray where Eritrean
00:14:23troops have... entered in recent days, the two countries
00:14:26accuse each other of aggression, Asmara
00:14:29also denounces a declaration of war and seizes the United Nations, Nicolas
00:14:33Chamontin.
00:14:36Amid applause, Ethiopian armed forces vehicles
00:14:40enter Digratte. This Tigray city was controlled in recent
00:14:44days by the army of neighboring Eritrea, but behind these scenes of
00:14:47joy, a population at its wits'
00:14:49end.
00:14:52Children and the elderly are hungry, the sick...
00:14:55because medical treatments are lacking.
00:14:59We therefore implore the competent authorities to help us
00:15:02immediately.
00:15:06Hostilities recently resumed between the Addis Ababa army
00:15:09and the Tigray People's Liberation Front or TPLF.
00:15:13In late September, the rebels of this northern Ethiopian state launched
00:15:17a major offensive against the central government,
00:15:20taking control of several localities in the region. Addis
00:15:24Ababa accuses Eritrea of supporting the TPLF, this
00:15:28week, several thousand Eritrean soldiers are said to have been deployed in the
00:15:31region without official confirmation from Asmara, an
00:15:35act of aggression for Ethiopia which has... carried out strikes against its neighbor's
00:15:39troops in the name of legitimate defense, Eritrea, for its part,
00:15:42appeals to the United Nations. Eritrea asks the UN Security
00:15:45Council to strongly condemn Ethiopia's
00:15:50Eritrea and to take against it the necessary deterrent
00:15:54measures, in accordance with Chapter 7 of the United
00:15:57Nations Charter. This escalation raises fears of a new
00:16:00war between the two neighbors who had already clashed between
00:16:041998 and 2000. From 2020 to
00:16:062022, in recent days, Prime Minister Abiy
00:16:10Ahmed's executive claims to have regained control of most of the
00:16:14cities conquered by the rebels, including Mekele, the capital of
00:16:17Tigray, a sign of a gradual return of federal
00:16:21authority, flights resumed Sunday at the city's airport after
00:16:24weeks of interruption, on board the first plane were
00:16:28representatives of the central government.
00:16:30And we stay in the region with this new migratory drama off the coast of
00:16:34Djibouti. At least 139 migrants, including 15 children,
00:16:37perished in the shipwreck of a boat carrying
00:16:40305 people to Yemen, 84 others are still
00:16:44missing according to the International Organization
00:16:47for Migration. These migrants hoped to reach the Gulf countries at
00:16:51the risk of their lives by taking one of the most dangerous
00:16:54migratory routes in the world.
00:16:57Looted shops,
00:17:00burned vehicles, the Constitutional Court attacked. South Africa is still
00:17:03in shock from this latest wave of violence. Riots are due to the reopening
00:17:07of asylum applications following the Constitutional Court's
00:17:11decision, the procedure has been suspended but will resume in the
00:17:15coming months, the army has been deployed in Durban, the city most
00:17:18affected by this violence. Caroline Dumé, our correspondent, tells
00:17:22us more. South Africans are still in shock from the latest wave of
00:17:25violence, about fifteen people have been arrested, some will be
00:17:29charged with attempted murder. This morning,
00:17:33the government stated in a press
00:17:37conference that asylum applications will
00:17:40continue in a few months but that refugee centers will
00:17:43be placed at the borders to avoid city
00:17:47centers, specifying that South Africa had no other choice but to
00:17:50respect international treaties, the government
00:17:54which deplores the disinformation that
00:17:57circulates because registering an asylum seeker is
00:18:01not regularizing an undocumented
00:18:04person. For this specialist, the constitution, social
00:18:08networks ignited the powder.
00:18:10We saw
00:18:14posts on social media saying that these migrants were going to be legalized,
00:18:18that they would be able to vote in the next elections, that they would
00:18:21immediately have access to social subsidies and
00:18:24so on. None of that is true but it's that kind of message we saw on
00:18:28social media that exacerbated the anger and fueled the wave of
00:18:31protest we saw.
00:18:35The army has been
00:18:38deployed in KwaZulu-Natal province because the
00:18:42situation remains fragile, the protesters
00:18:45plan to go on Tuesday to protest in front of the Constitutional
00:18:48Court, it remains to be seen if they will be
00:18:51authorized. This Sunday in Libreville, those who
00:18:55report the news decided for once to make it, the Gabonese
00:18:58media marched to break the silence around female
00:19:02cancers that too often kill in general indifference, an unprecedented
00:19:06mobilization followed by... a fundraising for the capital's cancer
00:19:09center, our correspondent Ismael Obiangze followed
00:19:13them. It is indeed an unprecedented
00:19:16day in the fight against female cancers in Gabon, today,
00:19:20those who usually hold the microphone, marched in support of
00:19:24those who suffer in silence. The message is clear, our voices
00:19:27against female cancers, this mobilization
00:19:31was not just a simple symbol. Upon arrival, a fundraiser
00:19:34was organized for the Libreville cancer
00:19:38center, when all Gabonese
00:19:41media and even international ones speak with one
00:19:45voice, you will see that causes that until now dragged their feet
00:19:48will make real progress towards much more efficient
00:19:52care than the media, it's the 4th estate, so we say
00:19:55why not join doctors, join
00:19:59families, stand by all those who are affected by
00:20:03cancer today, because today it's about screening, it's about
00:20:06getting in good health for tomorrow, when you don't get
00:20:10screened for women and then you find out you have terminal cancer,
00:20:13it's generally not good for the family and for everyone, the
00:20:17march also allowed people to know that
00:20:20we strongly support cancer
00:20:24patients. For Gabonese media, it's no
00:20:27longer just about reporting tragedies but about helping to
00:20:31prevent them, the real victory will not be measured in
00:20:34kilometers covered or in... collected, it will be measured
00:20:37in lives saved thanks to early
00:20:40detection, because breaking the silence is already starting to
00:20:44heal.
00:20:47We move on to our focus for this Sunday evening and we are interested
00:20:50in a century of decolonization, from the first revolts against the colonial
00:20:54order to African independences and today's memorial
00:20:57battles. To talk about this, we received historian Pascal Blanchard who
00:21:01is publishing with Sandrine Lemer and Nicolas Bancell "Decolonization
00:21:051925/2026, Paths to Independence to
00:21:09Memory Conflicts" and we asked him why this past
00:21:12continues to weigh on relations between France and Africa but also on the
00:21:15French political debate, here is his answer, you can imagine
00:21:19when... a French right-wing politician says, "I think that colonization is a
00:21:23crime against humanity." When Emmanuel Macron said it, he was not yet president, campaigning, he claimed
00:21:27to be right-wing and left-wing, so for 50% of
00:21:30himself it was a way of appealing to left-wing voters. A candidate who calls himself right-wing, like Édouard
00:21:34Philippe, cannot be one. One of the codes of being a right-wing candidate is to say
00:21:38somewhere that colonization wasn't that bad.
00:21:42Stop calling it a crime, but there were abuses. The system is
00:21:45good, there were deviations. Crimes are only deviations, they are not inherent to
00:21:49the system. So the system is salvageable, the approach was generous, the
00:21:52civilizing mission, the grandeur of France, I would even say the
00:21:55glory of France, this empire on which the sun never sets,
00:21:59okay, and suddenly he can't say afterwards, it's a crime, no,
00:22:03he says, some may have committed crimes, but it was not the intrinsic
00:22:06will. On the left today, the discourse is just as caricatural with an anti-colonialist
00:22:10vision, as if the left had no colonial history. All this remains a marker,
00:22:13why? Because in France, it is still one of the politically taboo subjects where
00:22:17history has not won over politics, it is still... emotion that dominates
00:22:21reason, the archives, we know them, the documents we know them, history is
00:22:24written, and when you discuss with these right-wing politicians off-camera, not on TV,
00:22:28they acknowledge, they know very well, except that they continue to fabricate a
00:22:31myth among voters, they are trapped by their own narrative that has
00:22:35dominated reality, they live in an anti-repentance mythology that
00:22:39Nicolas Sarkozy put forward, remember in 2007 in an extremely
00:22:43powerful way with his Toulon speech where he said no to
00:22:46repentance, we must be proud of what our elders did and in fact we... still
00:22:50come back to this debate, remember the laws of 2005 where there were deputies,
00:22:54senators in this country who voted a law telling historians to write positively about
00:22:57colonization, we got caught in our memory and in fact France is treading water
00:23:01and besides the Africans explained it to us very well when they told us the French, you
00:23:04always talk, you always preach and you do nothing, goodbye, we are living
00:23:08the second decolonization right now, France is leaving
00:23:11everywhere in Africa because it has not been up to the challenges
00:23:15not of history here but of memory, of
00:23:18memory, what we are reproached for. We French, are not having looked at our history in the face
00:23:22like others, like the Germans, like the English, like the
00:23:25Dutch, like the Danes, we French are treading water, we preach to
00:23:29everyone, we say yes yes yes, and in the end what do we do, have we built the colonial history
00:23:32museum, no not yet in France, do we look at our history in
00:23:35the face, that, I think we first expect political
00:23:38courage, which is not always easy, one might have imagined that Emmanuel Macron
00:23:41would have done it, he didn't, secondly perhaps people who understand today that a
00:23:45new generation is knocking at the door and saying
00:23:48imperial history like that yes. history in the face and then perhaps also that we understand that for our diplomatic
00:23:52relations, for our relationship with the world, it's a mistake, a strategic
00:23:56mistake, diplomatic and political.
00:23:59So, that's an excerpt from the focus that you can follow entirely on our social networks and on our
00:24:03website, here is the book you absolutely must get,
00:24:06perfect for Christmas, "Decolonization," the new Pascal Blanchard, and
00:24:10we'll leave you with these images of the Carthage Musical
00:24:14Days, a music festival that concluded yesterday in Tunis after a
00:24:18week of concerts, it's its 11th edition and has the
00:24:21particularity of showcasing young Tunisian artists like this singer
00:24:25Molka Hauge who combines pop, rock and Tunisian music, she
00:24:29marked this edition on her stage with her presence and her
00:24:32powerful voice, the festival attracts a young and sold-out audience,
00:24:35a breath of fresh air in the capital while the country, as you know, is experiencing an
00:24:39economic and political crisis that is worsening with a
00:24:42tightening around freedoms, this is the end of this
00:24:46newscast, thank you!
00:24:49please,
00:24:57good evening and welcome to
00:25:09politics, every week Roseline Fèvre
00:25:11receives editorialists and analyzes with them the major
00:25:15political themes that are currently in the news, you have noticed that there is a real
00:25:18revolution, it is actually the French model that is at stake,
00:25:22politics, your show to watch on France 24, the doors
00:25:38open, it's still incredible,
00:25:42it's something crazy, it
00:25:46resonates within us. made in another
00:25:52world, every day, culture makes
00:25:56noise on France 24.
00:25:59the Guinean artist.
00:29:02In India, the curse of the
00:29:15dowry still weighs on women. Money,
00:29:18jewelry, car. To marry their daughters, parents must
00:29:21comply with the demands of the in-laws. From the start, the groom and his
00:29:25family set their conditions. You will have to do this, you will have to give
00:29:29that. While the... without a dowry, the marriage can turn into
00:29:35a drama, and when these demands are not met, women
00:29:38often say they are victims of physical violence,
00:29:42harassment, violence, sometimes death, to change
00:29:45things, some refuse the established order. We
00:29:49also try to make families understand that this practice is
00:29:52bad, things are changing, slowly, but
00:29:55surely.
00:29:57Reporter, to see. on
00:30:00France 24,
00:30:02you are watching the essential on France 24,
00:30:07good evening everyone, in the headlines this Sunday evening, the victory of Raphael
00:30:11Glucksmann in France in the first round of the left-wing primary, he won
00:30:14with 66% of the votes, he wants to be the candidate who can
00:30:18defeat the extreme right.
00:30:21Riyadh International Airport again targeted by an attack, there were
00:30:24several injured earlier in the day, and the Houthis of Yemen had
00:30:28claimed the strike which killed at least 12 people. Saturday
00:30:31and then an energy ceasefire concluded between Russia and Ukraine,
00:30:35according to Donald Trump, at least, the American president assures that Kyiv and Moscow will no
00:30:39longer target their respective energy infrastructures.
00:30:42Volodymyr Zelensky, for his part, announced that he was not aware.
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