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00:00:00Report to be seen on France
00:00:0224,
00:00:07you are indeed on France 24, hello, welcome if you are
00:00:09joining us for the news of this Monday, October 12th. First, this
00:00:13new act of violence in a school establishment, with no apparent
00:00:17link to the student movement, a 14-year-old adolescent injured the principal
00:00:20and a teacher from his college in Aubagne near
00:00:24Marseille with a hunting rifle, before being subdued. The motive for his
00:00:28action is unknown.
00:00:30practice is what is called NATO seeks to deter Russia, any attack will be
00:00:33in vain on its main military chief, an American
00:00:37general, at a time when Donald Trump is showing new signs of
00:00:40rapprochement with the Kremlin at the expense of Ukraine. Saudi
00:00:44Arabia recognizes itself as being put to the test by the Houthi strikes, the
00:00:47rebels are multiplying deadly strikes against Riyadh International
00:00:51Airport, it will remain closed until the end of the week, while maritime
00:00:55access for Saudi ships is also still
00:00:57blocked. To follow in about two weeks. In 2 minutes, we will look at the economy and the presence of Chinese manufacturers at the
00:01:01Paris Motor Show here in
00:01:04Paris and on the European
00:01:32The government assures us that the incident is not linked to the student
00:01:36protest that is currently disrupting the country. A principal and a
00:01:40teacher were shot by a student. The incident occurred
00:01:44in a college in Aubagne near Marseille. The shooter is
00:01:47a 14-year-old adolescent, enrolled in this establishment. He
00:01:50suppliers, and on the other was disarmed and arrested. The young man and his
00:01:54parents are in police custody, says
00:01:55Serine Bay.
00:01:59Their reaction was immediate. The Ministers of the
00:02:02Interior and Education, highly solicited in the midst of the student
00:02:06protest movement, went to
00:02:09have been imported from Joseph Lacanal College in Aubagne to meet with the
00:02:12educational teams. This Monday morning, the establishment
00:02:15was affected by a rifle attack orchestrated by a 14-year-old
00:02:19student. The suspect notably injured the principal and a
00:02:23teacher. He was then subdued and
00:02:27disarmed by a teaching staff member. by a
00:02:30staff member of the establishment who showed enormous
00:02:34courage and great self-control to manage to
00:02:37in a moment because that's really the crux of subdue this young boy who, for that matter, allowed himself to be
00:02:41apprehended, we could say, with relative ease.
00:02:45It was the college's principal educational advisor who managed to
00:02:48disarm the adolescent. He was congratulated by Laurent Nounniez
00:02:52who specifies that the suspect's motive is still unknown. But I simply
00:02:55want to say that the prosecutor has opened for
00:02:59attempted assassination. Let it be said, it's attempted assassination
00:03:02outside the establishment.
00:03:06of Bordeaux and a specialist in The students and their parents were still stunned by the events. Since
00:03:09this morning at 9:50, we were waiting for them to leave school, so we are happy to
00:03:13see them. What matters most to us is that our children are
00:03:16protected. These things happen. The question of the
00:03:20protection of school establishments arises today, because the suspect was able
00:03:23to enter the college with a hunting rifle
00:03:27electrifying the institution of concealed in a guitar
00:03:28Zizou Bergs, who you see at the bottom of case. The president this way of producing of the departmental council of the
00:03:31Bouches-du-Rhône has pledged to make the security of colleges a
00:03:35priority. What does it mean to secure a college? It means turnstiles are put in front,
00:03:39fences are put around, and video protection
00:03:42is put inside. It's for more than a million euros per college, so we
00:03:46wish to have the approval of the board of directors. In Aubagne,
00:03:49a psychological support unit has been opened by the firefighters to help
00:03:53families and educational
00:03:54staff.
00:03:57It takes place every two years here in Paris. The 91st
00:04:01Paris Motor Show has opened its doors, featuring electric
00:04:04vehicles and artificial intelligence, which are now
00:04:07everywhere. A race to technology, which we will now discuss in the
00:04:11economy
00:04:11news.
00:04:21Hello Lormanin, hello Raphaël, a race to technology dominated
00:04:25today by China. Absolutely, 25 Chinese brands are
00:04:29present. That represents about a third of the
00:04:32exhibitors, it's even more than a third of the
00:04:34the Kremlin to the detriment of exhibitors, and it's especially 10% of sales today in
00:04:37Europe, that's a figure that has doubled in just one year,
00:04:41which is considerable and even more important because the automotive
00:04:44market is not doing very well worldwide, it's the case
00:04:48in Europe where European manufacturers have had to cut
00:04:51100,000 jobs in 2025, but also the case
00:04:54in China where domestic market consumption has
00:04:58declined, it has declined for the first half of 2026 by
00:05:0117.4
00:05:04so the %. Beijing therefore finds itself with surpluses that need
00:05:06to be sold, and the European Union is its favorite destination for
00:05:10this by the end of the year.
00:05:122026, a total of 800,000 Chinese hybrid cars will
00:05:16have been sent to Europe, compared to only 300,000 in
00:05:192025, which means a jump of more than 167
00:05:23% in one year. How does Europe react to this onslaught of
00:05:27Chinese manufacturers? Well, Europe is watching what is happening
00:05:31with a certain amount of concern today. Chinese hybrids represent
00:05:34a quarter of new registrations in Europe. If we look at plug-in hybrids,
00:05:38it's even one in three cars sold in Europe. So Brussels is necessarily
00:05:42concerned. Brussels wants to protect its automotive
00:05:44industry, which is therefore in bad shape, especially since it has not recovered
00:05:48its pre-Covid sales levels. An agreement between
00:05:51the European Union and China was announced on Friday, an agreement that will
00:05:55notably limit the export of Chinese hybrid
00:05:58vehicles to the European Union. They were
00:06:00flowing by hundreds of thousands, going from 300,000 to 800,000 in one year between last
00:06:04year and this year. From now on, China will only be able to export
00:06:0735,000 per year to the European Union, with the
00:06:11possibility of an annual increase of 6%, knowing that this is a 4-year agreement. Will
00:06:14these protection measures be enough against Chinese power? Well, it's
00:06:18obviously difficult to say. In any case, what we see for now is that Beijing seems
00:06:22to be playing nice, at least on the surface. Chinese
00:06:26manufacturers have a certain number of partnerships with European
00:06:29manufacturers. For example, they use a certain number of European industrial
00:06:33capacities that exist but only operate at half capacity, again because
00:06:37the automotive industrial sector is not doing very
00:06:40well. For example, will produce one of its models
00:06:44on the Stellantis line in Rennes, France. Other manufacturers
00:06:47prefer to build their own factories,
00:06:51as is the case, for example, with BYD, which is setting up in Hungary. MG
00:06:55also announced for 2028 the opening of an ultra-automated
00:06:58site in A Coruña, Spain. It's a more
00:07:02expensive solution to build its own factories, but it allows Chinese
00:07:05manufacturers not to have to pay customs duties on
00:07:09imports, which is therefore interesting, despite everything.
00:07:12It is wary of this way of proceeding, it fears what are called screwdriver
00:07:16factories, meaning factories that would only assemble parts that
00:07:21abroad where they were manufactured, so an extremely limited added value for
00:07:25the European Union. So the work on this
00:07:29EU-China agreement is a first step, but France and Germany are still
00:07:33working on another agreement that stipulates that vehicles sold
00:07:36in the European Union must contain a significant proportion of
00:07:40added value produced in the European Union.
00:07:42That means, for example, batteries or European components, and
00:07:46we're going to talk about these batteries
00:07:50the matter. Thank you. So it's better to protect the
00:07:53European market, that's what Emmanuel Macron himself indicated today when he came to
00:07:57inaugurate this motor show. The head of state welcomed the agreement between the European Union and
00:08:01China limiting the import of Chinese hybrid and plug-in hybrid
00:08:04cars, which he says will better protect the European market from
00:08:08unfair competition. Yes, but what is the potential of
00:08:11Europeans today? We'll talk about that with you, Bernard Julien. Hello, you are a teacher
00:08:15and researcher in economics at the University
00:08:18the automotive industry.
00:08:21What we observe today is that one of the major challenges of this market is
00:08:25the ability to produce batteries, and especially large
00:08:29and long-lasting batteries.
00:08:32Yes, today there is a deficit that has been noted
00:08:36since we first imagined
00:08:40the European Union, and
00:08:42this deficit is widening rather than
00:08:46narrowing. That is to say, as we assemble
00:08:49more battery-powered vehicles, electric vehicles, in
00:08:52Europe, instead of seeing European
00:08:56battery manufacturers gain in importance,
00:08:59power, and market share, the opposite is
00:09:03happening, because the few champions on
00:09:06whom we had relied four or five
00:09:10years ago, well, not all of them survived.
00:09:12One of them, probably the main one, the one who was
00:09:16perceived as having the greatest potential, called Norsvolt, which
00:09:20was basically German-Swedish,
00:09:22went out of business and went bankrupt in 2024 without
00:09:26anyone coming to its rescue. And then
00:09:30there are actors in France, among others, who are suffering a lot
00:09:33and are struggling to take off, and there is still
00:09:37one of the manufacturers who supports them rather lukewarmly
00:09:41and, to be honest, is turning away from them because they
00:09:44take a long time to be competitive, they take a long time to produce batteries, and
00:09:48they are much more expensive than the Chinese, who are in overcapacity and
00:09:52can dump their materials. Yes, an example of this Achilles' heel. We learned
00:09:56that the manufacturer Stellantis, which we know here
00:09:59in France through brands like Peugeot, Fiat, or
00:10:02Citroën, will shut down its factories in Sochaux and Rennes due to
00:10:06its inability to supply its vehicles with batteries.
00:10:09This shows how much today,
00:10:13the French and even European automotive industry is
00:10:16dependent on this technology.
00:10:20It is dependent, we expected it to be so, it is true
00:10:23that it is probable that we underestimated the difficulty
00:10:27there would be in scaling up battery
00:10:29production. So that means we need to be more patient, that means we
00:10:33need to invest more money, that means we also need to accept, on
00:10:37the part of manufacturers, to pay more for these batteries, and that
00:10:40obviously manufacturers need to be somewhat twisted
00:10:44to make that happen, because otherwise,
00:10:47it is obviously infinitely tempting to go
00:10:50where batteries are available and
00:10:54inexpensive. So there is no salvation in
00:10:58a situation like this unless we are quite directive.
00:11:01I would tend to say, if you want an industry
00:11:04that needs to emerge to surpass an already
00:11:08existing industry, it can only succeed if it is protected,
00:11:12otherwise it will be stillborn, it will be stillborn,
00:11:16in a way, that's the risk today with the European battery
00:11:19industry. If we put it in direct competition with China,
00:11:23we are already certain that...
00:11:25it will be dead before it is born. You say that it's the role of public power, and
00:11:29not necessarily at the state level but at the European level, to support these
00:11:33projects and to create barriers to entry for the
00:11:36continent itself. Yes, well, we have to be a bit clever here because
00:11:40obviously if we create barriers to entry, we won't be able to manufacture
00:11:43electric cars, because today, the technological
00:11:46and battery production capacities in Europe are too limited.
00:11:50On the other hand, we must allow these actors to grow in
00:11:53power, and compel manufacturers to
00:11:57use them, even if in some cases
00:12:00there are agreements, technological
00:12:03and capital agreements with certain battery
00:12:06actors. These are options taken by various
00:12:10parties. In general, you have manufacturers who on the one
00:12:13hand use Chinese
00:12:15hand, for relatively limited volumes for now,
00:12:19they use European producers to allow them to
00:12:22take off. The raw material
00:12:25in Europe to produce these batteries ourselves, we are thinking
00:12:28in particular of the minerals that
00:12:31China today directly
00:12:33benefits from.
00:12:36has fallen far behind, so indeed, across the entire
00:12:39sector, we are failing. We are failing to produce cells,
00:12:43we are failing because China,
00:12:46even if it doesn't have cobalt, has managed to forge
00:12:49agreements, more or less getting its hands on cobalt. It's
00:12:53pretty much the same thing for part of the lithium we have, but
00:12:57which for now we don't extract or refine. So yes, the
00:13:00slope to climb is very steep. But either
00:13:04we do it and we remain masters of our
00:13:07automotive industry, or we don't do it, and in that case, we
00:13:11will assemble, as we mentioned earlier, the screwdriver factories,
00:13:14well, we will have factories that assemble
00:13:17components controlled by China, obviously, since the
00:13:21battery is still the core of vehicle performance.
00:13:25Electric, and well, the
00:13:28competition will be eventually
00:13:30between models that will
00:13:34all be "Made in China" or something like that. And
00:13:37so that, of course, is what we were promised we would avoid. We
00:13:41had in mind the
00:13:44precedent of solar panels. We
00:13:47wanted to develop
00:13:50energy, but we didn't manage to create
00:13:53an industry. This is even more serious because there is an existing
00:13:57industry whose autonomy must be saved
00:14:01by allowing it to rely on a battery
00:14:04industry that for now we must build from scratch,
00:14:08and that requires heavy investments, protection, and
00:14:10therefore policies
00:14:14that Brussels does not yet have in store for now.
00:14:18It's not in Brussels' playbook to engage in protectionist
00:14:20policies, nor is it in Brussels' playbook to engage in
00:14:24politics. Thank you Bernard Julien for being with us live
00:14:28on France 24.
00:14:31Any attack against a NATO member country will be rendered completely
00:14:34futile, a warning to Russia issued by the Supreme
00:14:38Commander of Alliance forces in Brussels this Monday. This
00:14:41American general, in doing so, contradicts Donald Trump, the President of
00:14:44the United States, who, after negotiating
00:14:48diesel supplies with Moscow, announced over the weekend an energy
00:14:51truce in the war in Ukraine, apparently
00:14:55without any guarantees from the Kremlin. A report by Floren
00:14:57Rodaau.
00:15:01His speech was highly anticipated.
00:15:04Supreme Commander of NATO forces in Europe, American
00:15:08General Alexus Grenkevic came to Warsaw to present his
00:15:12theory of victory, or how to defeat Russia in the event
00:15:15of an attack. And at a time when concerns are
00:15:18growing, between rising Russian threats and doubts about US
00:15:22support, the military chief.
00:15:27"I do not consider a conflict to be imminent or inevitable,
00:15:31it is not. We are helping to avoid conflict by
00:15:34clearly stating our defensive intentions and maintaining open
00:15:37lines of communication, but to prevent conflicts, one must also
00:15:41be ready to wage war. Those who want peace prepare
00:15:44for war, so the adage is known. The question now on
00:15:48the ground is whether the energy truce unilaterally announced
00:15:51this weekend by Donald Trump can one day be
00:15:54effective. Voladimir Zelenski has been calling for it for several months,
00:15:58if and only if the Kremlin does the same. Doubt remains,
00:16:01according to the Ukrainian president, it is increasingly evident given
00:16:05the Russian attacks in recent hours.
00:16:37the certainty that Russia will comply.
00:16:41It is extremely important because winter is expected to be
00:16:43harsh. Kayakalas also announced that
00:16:47the European Union has adopted new sanctions against nearly
00:16:501600 entities and individuals, all linked to
00:16:54the war waged by Russia in
00:16:55Ukraine.
00:16:58Riyadh International Airport will remain closed at least until the
00:17:02end of the week, after having been hit by missile and drone fire at least
00:17:06twice. There are 13 dead, Benjamin de
00:17:09Lorme. Passengers wait calmly
00:17:13before boarding, when suddenly,
00:17:16drone and missile
00:17:18attacks.
00:17:20Panic in the heart of Riyadh
00:17:24airport.
00:17:26Filmed on Saturday, these surveillance camera images have only just been
00:17:30released.
00:17:32Under attack for 48 hours, which has left 14
00:17:36dead and over 300 injured. In France, Saudi
00:17:40Arabia only authorizes the broadcast of very few images of the strikes and
00:17:43damage. In Riyadh, the government prefers to show the
00:17:46visit to the hospital of official officials, checking on the
00:17:50wounded. "It's good, you have everything you
00:17:53need." In addition to Riyadh
00:17:56airport, the strikes also targeted Dammam airport and
00:17:59sites of the hydrocarbon giant Aramco. The
00:18:03Houthi attacks, this Iran-allied rebellion that controls eastern
00:18:07Yemen, are unprecedented in over 10 years. This morning,
00:18:11Riyadh announced its intention to retaliate with force. "The events of
00:18:14recent weeks are serious, our response must be equally
00:18:17so."
00:18:20In the last three days, Saudi Arabia has carried out about thirty strikes on the
00:18:24territory controlled by the Houthis. Riyadh also announced
00:18:27that it intercepted a ballistic missile overnight from Yemen.
00:18:31And now we move on to sports
00:18:35news. With Cédric Ferrera.
00:26:58moment to continue to talk about the news.
00:27:01The news is... right now the fears caused by Donald Trump's
00:27:05statements, both regarding
00:27:08Saudi Arabia. Will America abandon all its
00:27:12allies? The answer in a moment with Marc Semo and Bruno
00:27:15Darous. We'll go
00:27:16further.
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00:27:28trade, economic sanctions, customs duties, border taxes,
00:27:31technical warfare. Technological, return to protectionism, energy
00:27:35resources, globalization, blockade, American-Chinese
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00:30:08You are still watching the essential on France 24. We will go further now with Marc Semo,
00:30:11a contributor to the weekly Challenge and the newspaper Le Monde. Hello Marc, hello. And Bruno
00:30:15Darous, international columnist. He was
00:30:19a correspondent in London for RFI, international columnist at France
00:30:2224. Hello Bruno, hello. On the agenda: NATO seeks to
00:30:26deter Russia. Any attack will be in vain on its main
00:30:29military chief, an American general. At a moment when Donald Trump
00:30:33shows new signs of rapprochement with
00:30:36Ukraine. Saudi Arabia admits being tested
00:30:40by the strikes. Yes. The rebels are multiplying deadly
00:30:43attacks against Riyadh International Airport. It will remain closed until the
00:30:47end of the week, while maritime access for Saudi ships is already
00:30:50blocked. It's immediately, we go
00:30:52further.