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00:00:08and we are still around the world on France 24, welcome, it's 5 PM,
00:00:11here are the headlines: NATO in battle order, the supreme commander of
00:00:15the alliance spoke, he assures that the organization will ensure
00:00:19that any attack against its members is totally futile,
00:00:22declaration while Trump deals with Putin and demands elections in
00:00:25Ukraine, the cold in Aubagne near Marseille, a
00:00:2914-year-old middle school student opened fire in his
00:00:32police, according school, he fired three times before injuring two people and being
00:00:34arrested, he is not known to the police services, the investigation is ongoing, Emmanuel
00:00:38Macron praises the composure of the teaching staff who prevented the
00:00:42worst, she is the star of the
00:00:45security conditions within the 2026 World Motor Show, the electric 2CV is presented by Stellantis, a resurrection
00:00:49on which the group is counting heavily to compete against the omnipresent Chinese at the
00:00:52show, we will find Ludovic Defouco there, hello
00:00:56Ludovic.
00:01:08France has been targeted by a cyberattack, hundreds of
00:01:11U supermarkets, Intermarché, Leclerc have been affected, they claim
00:01:15that hackers remotely triggered forced defrosting
00:01:19of refrigerators, as a result, all fresh and frozen products had to be
00:01:23Minister of the Interior and the Minister of thrown away, another attack unclaimed at a time when all kinds of
00:01:26sabotage are multiplying and Moscow is
00:01:30diamond trade. the industry's being pointed at. This Monday, the head of the NATO armed forces spoke, an opportunity to flex the alliance's
00:01:34muscles against Russia, which was never named in the speech
00:01:37excerpt.
00:01:40We have no project, no intention, no ambition
00:01:44other than the protection of our
00:01:48organized the Peace people. No one should confuse our defensive
00:01:51posture with weakness.
00:01:54However, if anyone were reckless enough to attack us, we would fight and
00:01:58prevent them from achieving their objectives.
00:02:04I want to clarify one essential point,
00:02:07are conquering I do not believe that a conflict is imminent or inevitable,
00:02:11that's all for this speech focused on the response to the Russians, while Trump signed
00:02:14a deal with Putin on fuels, oil
00:02:18prices are at their highest, Brent crude is trading at over $106
00:02:24inhabitants this Monday, a nervousness on the markets that can be explained by the situation in the Middle East and especially in
00:02:27Saudi Arabia with 14 deaths, the Kingdom rarely experienced such a
00:02:31deadly weekend, targeted by the Houthi rebels, Riyadh admits to being
00:02:35put to the test. Benjamin de Lombre, passengers
00:02:38waiting calmly before boarding when
00:02:41suddenly,
00:02:43drone and missile attacks,
00:02:45missiles,
00:02:48panic at the heart of Riyadh
00:02:51airport,
00:02:53filmed on Saturday, these surveillance camera images have only
00:02:57just been made public.
00:03:00Under attack for
00:03:03figure from other wholesalers in 48 hours, which left 14 dead and over 300 injured in a French, Saudi
00:03:07Arabia only authorizes the broadcast of very rare images, of the strikes and the
00:03:10damage. In Riyadh, the authorities prefer to show the
00:03:13visit of official officials to the hospital, taking
00:03:17news of the injured. It's good, do you have everything you
00:03:20a bit of progress in terms of need.
00:03:22In addition to Riyadh airport, the strikes also targeted Dammam
00:03:26and sites of the hydrocarbon giant Aramco.
00:03:30The Houthi attacks, this rebellion allied with Iran that controls
00:03:34eastern Yemen, are unprecedented in over 10 years, this
00:03:37morning announced its intention to retaliate with force.
00:03:54Riyadh also announced that it intercepted a ballistic missile last night
00:03:58from Yemen.
00:04:01violent civil wars West These are the Houthis of Yemen who are supported by the Iranians, the Iranian
00:04:04regime is accused by London this Monday, two weeks ago, remember,
00:04:08an incident described as major took place near a military
00:04:12order, the supreme commander of base in the United Kingdom, according to the British Prime Minister, the act was
00:04:16almost certainly, he says, directed by the Revolutionary
00:04:19Guards, the base in question is used by the Americans in the
00:04:23context of the conflict with
00:04:26capital, that's all for the main Iran. In France, Aubagne middle school students are in shock after a shooting inside Joseph
00:04:30Lacanale school, early this morning, a 14-year-old middle school student shot the school
00:04:34principal and a teacher, both were
00:04:38injured, the teenager was arrested. Anaïse
00:04:41Sanke:
00:04:43anxious looks in front of La Canal middle school in
00:04:46Aubagne, dozens of parents wait to pick up their
00:04:50children, the atmosphere is tense because this morning a
00:04:53student entered the establishment armed with a
00:04:56shotgun, he opened fire on the middle school principal
00:05:00as well as on a teacher, the events took place shortly
00:05:04before 10 AM, this mother
00:05:06government on the importance of tries to reassure her daughter who is still in the
00:05:09building,
00:05:11okay? So don't be afraid, she didn't see, she saw, she called
00:05:15me, she told me there's a lot of blood in the hallway, she was
00:05:19frantic, and my daughter, she saw the blood, she started screaming,
00:05:22running, voilà, the police arrived, they evacuated the first students who were
00:05:26in front, the 53-year-old principal and the 37-year-old
00:05:29teacher were taken care of by the emergency services, injured in the
00:05:32legs and lower back, their lives are not
00:05:36in danger, the 14-year-old boy, a 9th-grade student, unknown
00:05:39to the services of... was arrested by the
00:05:44to our information, he was armed with a 12-gauge
00:05:48shotgun and allegedly fired several times,
00:05:52in front of the school, angry parents questioned this morning the
00:05:57establishment,
00:05:59how, how is it that the guy got in so easily, I can't
00:06:03understand sir, a 9th-grade student entered the
00:06:06establishment with a firearm for reasons that are totally unknown to us, it's an
00:06:10act that is not related. uh to the current
00:06:13litian movement, he fires twice
00:06:16hitting the principal and a teacher who are
00:06:20obviously in the hospital but hit in a
00:06:22way I would say non-lethal. A psychological
00:06:26unit has been set up to support the students, an
00:06:30investigation has also been opened for attempted assassination, the
00:06:35National Education are expected on site
00:06:38today.
00:06:41Still in France, the temple of the car of tomorrow is open, it's the
00:06:44start of the Paris Motor Show here in Paris, the last one for Emmanuel Macron
00:06:48who wandered around this morning meeting manufacturers, the French, the
00:06:52Europeans who are competing with a very tough Chinese competition,
00:06:56Ludovic de Fouko, we find you once again, more than a third of the
00:06:59exhibitors are Chinese, it's a show of
00:07:01force,
00:07:04oh yes, we can say that, and then the impression given by the Chinese
00:07:08stands, really gleaming, is that of a desire to take
00:07:11power over... the European flagships, the impression
00:07:14of seeing Chinese brands that
00:07:19Europe, quite simply, there are about twenty
00:07:23Chinese manufacturers present at this motor show, there were less than ten
00:07:26at previous editions, and they don't come to
00:07:30present low-cost models, now we're really
00:07:33on luxury ranges, premium ranges, for example, there's
00:07:36Zeeker, which is present, so that's the high-end
00:07:40brand of Geely, Geely, you know it's the... the owner of Volvo for
00:07:43example, so Zeeker is 800,000 vehicles delivered since 2021, and
00:07:47then there's what you see behind me that's Denza and that's the high-end
00:07:51brand of BYD, and BYD that we're starting to know
00:07:55or recognize on our roads, and there you see for example this
00:07:59huge Bao 5 behind me, gold
00:08:02color, it's discreet and dazzling, and we're talking about
00:08:06vehicles at 100,000, 110,000 euros, so we're really encroaching
00:08:09on the territory of Mercedes,
00:08:12BMW, Porsche, and precisely, that's where the
00:08:15contrast is striking, BMW,
00:08:18Mini and Porsche simply didn't come to this
00:08:21motor show, it's true that Mercedes is
00:08:25present, even if the sales of the German manufacturer continue to decline, there's
00:08:29a resurgence and
00:08:32electric, is it the fact of electrifying
00:08:35standard vehicles of the German
00:08:39brand like the famous obviously iconic A-class, well, isn't it better than
00:08:42wanting to absolutely do something new, that's it, it's perhaps a hypothesis, a lead to explore to try
00:08:46to compete, but what we really observe is that the German brands, of course, they have
00:08:50lost market share in China where the Chinese manufacturers now it's obvious,
00:08:54reign supreme and the Chinese manufacturers come to attack the European
00:08:57flagships on their own soil, thank you very much Ludovic, you are
00:09:01sitting in the 2CV or not yet,
00:09:05no, I haven't had the chance to do it yet but I intend to later when I have a little
00:09:09time, but okay, thank you very much Ludovic.
00:09:13And see you later, oh
00:09:15yes, I intend to, thank you very much Ludovic, we remain in France
00:09:19with what is left of the Enfants Rouges market
00:09:23located in the heart of Paris, it was ravaged by flames
00:09:26last night, all the stalls were burned, the fire was brought under control at
00:09:30dawn, there are no victims and the loss is immense, it was considered the
00:09:34oldest covered food market in the French
00:09:39news, more info right away on France 24.
00:09:55And right away, a return ticket 25 years after the start of the Kimberly process to
00:09:59end the blood diamond trade, watch.
00:10:16'I never heard of the term of blood diamonds before, blood diamonds may
00:10:20once have been an alien concept to the supermodel Naami Camble, it certainly
00:10:24is
00:10:36in the Democratic Republic of Congo or even in Côte d'Ivoire, diamonds were used as a
00:10:39bargaining chip for purchasing weapons during civil
00:10:42wars. They were called blood
00:10:45diamonds, they were at the heart of the civil war that
00:10:49devastated Sierra Leone during the 1990s.
00:10:53The battle for control of the diamond mines was bloody
00:10:56and had an impact on local populations and generated a parallel
00:11:00economy supported by large international firms, an
00:11:04illegal trade that probably brought in up to 125
00:11:07million dollars per year and financed the fighting, and it's
00:11:11thanks to Hollywood that the general public truly became aware
00:11:14of the scandal, thanks to the film Blood Diamonds with
00:11:18Leonardo DiCaprio released in 2006, an
00:11:21exposure that forced the world diamond industry, which was
00:11:25singled out, to change its rules to try to restore its
00:11:28image. 25 years ago, the Kimberly
00:11:32process began, negotiations through which the major producing countries and
00:11:35international diamond groups set up an origin control system for
00:11:39stones to prevent history from repeating itself. A quarter of a century
00:11:43later, the industry claims to have changed, speaks of
00:11:46ethical trade, of local community development, but in the
00:11:50district of Kono, the epicenter of the former blood
00:11:55promises are still far from being fully realized, a return
00:11:58ticket to Sierra Leone on the trail of blood diamonds, this is a report by
00:12:02Sarah Asako and Simon Martin.
00:12:19Father, we entrust Sierra Leone to you, God, I pray
00:12:23that you will raise our nation. that you will bless our nation, let us pray
00:12:27for more opportunities in this country, more businesses and
00:12:30employment opportunities, for those who are jobless, in the name of
00:12:34Jesus Christ. These sermons are recognizable among
00:12:37thousands, yet, it is not them that made the
00:12:40pastor Emmanuel Momot famous.
00:12:4210 years ago, the man of faith, a
00:12:46artisanal miner, discovered on his
00:12:49mine a stone that would change his life and travel
00:12:53the world. "a pastor working in the minds of
00:12:57eastern Sierra Leon has 706
00:13:00diamond. Still, it's one of the top 20 l. a stone that the
00:13:04pastor named,
00:13:07peace diamond or peace
00:13:11diamond, as if to defy the history of his
00:13:13country.
00:13:16The peace diamond, a glimmer of hope in our society, so
00:13:20I told myself that if I sold it to a local buyer, it would not benefit
00:13:23the nation. I decided to give it to the
00:13:26government,
00:13:34the pastor has since left the diamond world, but he has not
00:13:37forgotten his home region, goodbye everyone,
00:13:41monde,
00:13:44the Kono district several hundred kilometers to the
00:13:48east, the diamond heartland of the
00:13:50country.
00:13:53The Kono district is a region
00:13:55where diamonds have been found for over a
00:13:57century.
00:14:01Kono was once considered the granary of Sierra
00:14:04Leone, and yet, it is there that one
00:14:08finds the poorest and least
00:14:11educated populations.
00:14:14A paradox born precisely because of the Kono
00:14:17diamonds.
00:14:19In 1991, the country ignited, it was the
00:14:23beginning of one of the most
00:14:26Africa had known. Control of Kono and its diamonds
00:14:30became an absolute priority for the rebels who poured into the
00:14:34region. Here is a typical example of one of the
00:14:38common pits in the Kono district called the Wild
00:14:41Well. Then began one of the darkest
00:14:45pages in Sierra Leonean history and a
00:14:48sadly famous
00:14:50trade.
00:14:53The diamonds were sent.
00:15:25majority of its inhabitants were forced into exile, like Pastor
00:15:28Momo, they were looking for young
00:15:32people to enroll them in their ranks, so I was
00:15:36scared because I... didn't want to join them and then
00:15:40also, I didn't want to
00:15:41die,
00:15:45today, the man of faith participates in rewriting the history
00:15:49of his region, 15 % of the sale of his fabulous
00:15:53stone went to the Koriardou community, where it was
00:15:57discovered, enough to transform the small village
00:16:00kilometers from the first paved
00:16:02road, here we are in
00:16:06Koriardou.
00:16:11over 250 children are currently schooled here, they
00:16:15come from different
00:16:16communities,
00:16:19the pastor founded the Peace Diamond
00:16:22initiative and with it this brand new
00:16:25school. hello everyone,
00:16:29so today is the first day of your exams, that's right,
00:16:32I'm so proud, through the Peace Diamond, we see concretely what it
00:16:36produces.
00:17:08a campus born of the pastor's will, but
00:17:12maintained by the diamond industry that seeks to
00:17:15restore its image. The
00:17:18school's funding is provided by a foundation of the Rapaport
00:17:21Group, the very one that Diamond
00:17:25auction. Their intervention was
00:17:29decisive, they managed to bring in qualified teachers
00:17:32as well as a qualified director who managed to convince the
00:17:35community.
00:17:38the family business plans an extension to build a
00:17:42high school and also funds a health center that welcomes
00:17:45thousands of patients per year,
00:17:48enough to make Koriardou more than a beautiful
00:17:51story. the village is today the showcase
00:17:55of an industry that claims to be metamorphosed,
00:17:58fair and virtuous, a
00:18:00turning point of which the peace diamond is the founding
00:18:03symbol, as Martine Rapaport, patriarch
00:18:08of this family, one of the most influential in the
00:18:11sector, already said, it shows the way to a
00:18:15different future, people will buy diamonds for their huge
00:18:18social impact, that's their value,
00:18:21that's it, via
00:18:25the Empower Africa foundation, the family regularly
00:18:28organizes field visits for diamantaires from all over
00:18:31the world and promotes this
00:18:34narrative.
00:18:40participants will meet mining communities and reflect on how
00:18:43to contribute to sustainable economic
00:18:47development.
00:18:49A few dozen kilometers away, however, the miners of the
00:18:53region tell a completely different story. Starting
00:18:56with the employees of Koidu Limited, the largest industrial
00:19:00mine in the country, founded by the group of an Israeli
00:19:03billionaire.
00:19:07A huge abyss. extracted $100 million worth of stone every
00:19:10year. Hello Mr. Rogers, hello
00:19:13everyone. So, if I understand correctly, you are all former workers of what was the
00:19:17most prestigious company in
00:19:18Sierra Leone.
00:19:22At the end of 2024, the workers launched strikes to
00:19:25obtain a salary increase. Overnight, the company suspended
00:19:29its activities and
00:19:33laid off almost all of its 100 employees.
00:19:37Today. in court, he tells of untenable working
00:19:40conditions to activist Ibrahim
00:19:42Bokari.
00:19:45on the ground, I cut five fingers, I told them, but
00:19:49they didn't support me and fired me.
00:19:53For those who worked underground, they ate, relieved themselves in the same
00:19:56place.
00:20:00We were never given potable
00:20:01water.
00:20:05The unions estimate that... should pay its
00:20:09employees over 32 million euros in unpaid
00:20:12wages. Through its lawyers, the company
00:20:15denounces unfounded and malicious accusations,
00:20:19based on falsified documents to extort
00:20:22money from the company, a
00:20:25defense that does not convince the activist. This is not the
00:20:29first time that something like this has happened in the mining sector in
00:20:32Sierra Leone. We could describe these investors as
00:20:35polluters because they have infested. land and contaminate
00:20:38our population with diseases, it's a form of corporate
00:20:42banditry and if industrial
00:20:46exploitations are regularly criticized for their practices.
00:20:50artisanal miners don't necessarily fare
00:20:52better, hello everyone, how
00:20:56are you?
00:20:58regularly, Ibrahim goes to meet them directly
00:21:02at the digging sites, far from slogans, these
00:21:06workers remain, still and always, the big losers in the diamond
00:21:09chain. wow,
00:21:13okay,
00:21:15they just found this one, but it's really tiny, so they
00:21:19say it's only worth 5 or 10
00:21:21leones,
00:21:24a few tens of cents of euros at most, a derisory
00:21:27price for a diamond, even a very small
00:21:29one. They have no digital tools
00:21:33to determine the value of a stone, so they
00:21:37themselves don't really know how much it's worth. This is
00:21:40what keeps people in a cycle of poverty, even when you
00:21:44find a diamond, you don't have access to the right market to
00:21:47sell it.
00:21:50a harassing job that pays little and sometimes exposes
00:21:54miners to repression from authorities, as evidenced by
00:21:57police raids on unlicensed sites that are proliferating in the
00:22:01region. Fatmata discovered it the hard
00:22:04way.
00:22:07One day, I went there and a soldier caught me and started
00:22:10hitting me, the soldiers hit us even with sticks, all because
00:22:14of this sand, because they said we shouldn't take
00:22:16it.
00:22:20like me, she's already looking to leave this industry that barely
00:22:24allows her to survive,
00:22:27these diamonds, we find them, but we suffer from them, and the more
00:22:31we suffer, the more we lose, while they
00:22:35profit from them, this is not a good life for
00:22:38us,
00:22:41a sector that no longer finances conflict, but keeps its
00:22:45small hands in extreme precariousness, even
00:22:48if at the end of the chain... the profits are very
00:22:51real, this one has some
00:22:54impurities,
00:22:58the district is made up of chiefdoms that abound in
00:23:01diamonds, and these lands could still be exploited for
00:23:04over 300 years, we
00:23:06invite all miners and interested investors to come
00:23:10and join
00:23:11us,
00:23:15the district wholesale association is the lock
00:23:19that chains up. local market, the heart of their
00:23:22power, setting the purchase price of stones for the Kono
00:23:25miners and their resale price to
00:23:28exporters. When someone comes to my office, I have my
00:23:32loupe, I look at it in detail in the light to see if the diamond is
00:23:35perfect, it has the clarity of the diamond, its
00:23:38shape and its carat weight, all that makes its
00:23:41price.
00:23:46We won't have more details, but off
00:23:49camera. We get a ballpark
00:23:53the city, a one-carat diamond, bought for a few
00:23:57tens of euros from the miner, can be sold for between
00:24:002,000 and 20,000 euros in Western
00:24:03jewelry stores.
00:24:07Hello, hello everyone, hello
00:24:09chief,
00:24:11so today, this meeting aims to review the progress of the work within
00:24:15the community.
00:24:17Tell us, how do you feel about it?
00:24:23Faced with this injustice, several communities in the district
00:24:27are trying to escape this cycle supported by
00:24:30NGOs. For 3 years, the village of
00:24:33Yigbed has started to refill these diamond
00:24:36wells. Here, we have worked the mine for over 30
00:24:40years, we have gained no benefit. Today we are turning
00:24:44again to agriculture.
00:24:46This 14-hectare field is thus gradually transforming into a rice paddy.
00:25:50but good to this country, that's
00:25:52why I insisted to the
00:25:56education, if we want to transform the
00:25:59country, we must build schools.
00:26:03and make these children the true diamonds of our
00:26:06time,
00:26:10the promise of Sierra Leone's diamonds still seems far
00:26:14from being realized, despite the 250 million
00:26:17dollars worth of stones extracted each year from its soil, the
00:26:21country remains among the poorest on the
00:26:24planet.
00:30:09welcome, it's 5 p.m., here are the headlines, NATO in battle
00:30:15the alliance spoke, he assures that the organization ensures
00:30:19that any attack against its members is totally vain,
00:30:22declaration while Trump deals with Putin and calls for elections in
00:30:25Ukraine, the cold in Aubagne near Marseille, a
00:30:2914-year-old high school student opened fire in his school, he shot three times before
00:30:33injuring two people and being arrested, he is not known to the police
00:30:36services, the investigation is underway, Emmanuel Macron praises the
00:30:39composure of the teaching staff who prevented the worst, she is the star of the
00:30:432026 Paris Motor Show, the electric
00:30:47Stellantis, a resurrection on which the group is counting a lot to
00:30:50peser face au chinois omniprésents au salon, on retrouvera sur place
00:30:54Ludovic dofouco, bonjour
00:30:55Ludovic.