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00:00:00It's hard to imagine the extent of
00:00:02the,
00:00:08hello everyone, good to see you again on France 24, welcome to this live broadcast that
00:00:12is starting, here we go for 3 hours of non-stop news, so
00:00:16living, the demands of here are the main headlines to start with, a series
00:00:19of new bomb threats on at least 12
00:00:22airliners this morning, today the announcements of false
00:00:26alerts are multiplying, just like those of diverted planes, but
00:00:29what's going on in the European sky since Tuesday, we're going to try
00:00:33with Sylvin Rosso to get a clearer picture to explain this situation that
00:00:37tends to repeat itself, hello Sylvain, I'll see you in a bit, the other
00:00:40big headline is our black day, this black day dreaded here in France, we call
00:00:44it the convergence of struggles launched by the unions, employees,
00:00:48civil servants, yellow vests, retirees are called to join the
00:00:51250 demonstrations planned across the territory,
00:00:54obviously young people remain at the heart of this movement, we're going to
00:00:58take the pulse from Auberville. in this edition in front of the Corbusier high school where the situation was
00:01:02tense, it seems a little calmer
00:01:05again we will find Pauline Godard there and then
00:01:09the Americans still waiting for the results in Alaska and Mississippi, it doesn't matter for
00:01:13the Democrats, the victory is already clear, so clear
00:01:17that many Republicans are asking Donald Trump today to change his political
00:01:20strategy. The ambitious Juds began to
00:01:24distance himself, judging the war in Iran responsible. We will
00:01:27focus on the high expectations caused by such a result,
00:01:31particularly in Ukraine, that will be with you, Anne Corpe, hello Anne, hello,
00:01:482 days after a wave of false alerts on board commercial flights, the
00:01:51situation is repeating itself again today in the European sky, an airliner
00:01:55A320, first let's take the Dublin-Rome route was
00:01:59initially diverted to the Evreux air base,
00:02:02the aircraft has since landed very
00:02:05quickly, two new aircraft, then three, then seven suffered the same fate,
00:02:09as I speak to you, there are now 12 aircraft that have had to
00:02:13change their route and land in an emergency due to bomb
00:02:17alerts, it's a situation
00:02:19that is repeating itself and evolving very quickly, Sylvain
00:02:23Rousseau, hello, we are together to try to get a clearer
00:02:27picture, I was saying a situation that is quite similar
00:02:30to what happened yesterday and the day before yesterday, yes, except that you're talking about
00:02:3412 diverted planes, they weren't all diverted, some were able to
00:02:38return to the airport where they were
00:02:41scheduled to go,
00:02:43meaning the sign of but it's just that between yesterday and the day before yesterday there were a little less
00:02:46than ten and today with 12 we're almost multiplying by 2. So what
00:02:50is sure, what we know because we actually know quite little, is that it mainly concerns
00:02:54European international connections. Yesterday and the day before yesterday it was mainly
00:02:58the United Kingdom and Ireland. Today, even if there was this flight from
00:03:02Dublin, it's primarily Italy that would be affected by
00:03:05look at this, the Ukrainian president who the
00:03:08threats, where a plane that had been the subject
00:03:11of a threat was able to land. What we know
00:03:15for now is that no bomb has been detected in any
00:03:19of these planes, even if, of course, those that are concerned today are still being
00:03:22inspected, like the one in Evreux, you mentioned it.
00:03:26For the European and national authorities, it is still too early to establish a
00:03:30link between all these threats, there is no
00:03:33claim, no identified perpetrator, no proven
00:03:36evidence for now of terrorism or involvement of a
00:03:40hostile state. The first investigations in the United Kingdom seem to
00:03:43point towards malicious hoaxes. Is it
00:03:46one person, a group of coordinated people, or
00:03:49is it several people who are taking advantage of the announcement
00:03:53effect, meaning an opportunism effect triggered by a
00:03:57first alert that makes a lot of noise
00:04:00and then we think that it's actually a good way to cause chaos. What is certain is that the risk is
00:04:04obviously taken very seriously, all security measures will be
00:04:07taken every time precisely because the risk with the multiplication of these
00:04:10alerts is to think that they are false and that we ultimately don't take a real
00:04:14bomb seriously. Thank you very much, Sylvain, we'll find him a little
00:04:18later, it's true that the question we ask ourselves quite spontaneously is who is behind all this and
00:04:21why does such a phenomenon keep repeating itself, we'll see that with you
00:04:25then in the rest of this edition, we're
00:04:29stopping now. on this movement against the high
00:04:32cost of living, it's
00:04:34of artists, a lot of places where there was back on the streets today, employees and civil servants are called to go
00:04:37on strike this Thursday, November 5th, for wages at the call of the inter-union, but
00:04:40also of high school and student organizations, active
00:04:44and retired French people are called to join one of the
00:04:47250 gatherings planned across the country, the objective is to bring
00:04:51together anger to put the government under pressure, the details
00:04:54and demands to start with Gal
00:04:57Fonseca.
00:05:00From the public,
00:05:01from the private,
00:05:04there should be more than 50,000 demonstrating throughout
00:05:08France today, a strike day that comes after three
00:05:11consecutive Saturdays of mobilization and against a backdrop
00:05:15of high school anger that has been expressed for several weeks
00:05:18now, so we are calling on all high school students to block their establishments in the morning and
00:05:22join the demonstrations in the afternoon, the young people will rally to the
00:05:25workers to denounce the cost of
00:05:28the inter-union calling for this social movement are clear: a
00:05:32revaluation of salaries, pensions and aid,
00:05:36more tax justice, better fight against global
00:05:40warming and the revision of the budget project. 2027 which
00:05:43provides for the freezing of social benefits and a decrease in funds
00:05:47allocated to public services, but for the route of their procession, the
00:05:51unions are still opposed to the authorities, the prefects can
00:05:54prohibit them or modify them. In Paris, for
00:05:57example, strikers will not be able to march from Bastille to
00:06:00Concorde, but will have to settle for a route from Place de la
00:06:03République to Nation, at the risk of being arrested by the
00:06:07police. What surprises us is that the police prefecture
00:06:11justifies its refusal of our Bastille-Concorde route on the
00:06:14security context and imposes an alternative route
00:06:18that it refused us 15 days ago for security reasons. The
00:06:22Ministry of the Interior, for its part, is deploying the same security measures
00:06:25as during the last demonstrations, including elite units. We
00:06:29are mobilizing again 70,000 police and gendarmes throughout the national
00:06:32territory. We are extremely vigilant because it is out of the
00:06:36question to relive in any way whatsoever, even slightly, what we went
00:06:40through on October 17th. The government fears the arrival of black
00:06:44blocs, wild processions, and looting or damage to
00:06:47businesses. Last Saturday, 7,709
00:06:50people were arrested without major incidents across the country.
00:06:54territoire.
00:06:57And as I told you, in today's processions, employees, yellow vests, unions
00:07:00and, of course, young people. Let's
00:07:04not forget, this movement started with high school students in mid-September and since the start of the school year, they have
00:07:08resumed blocking their establishments. We're going to find Pauline Godard immediately, who is our correspondent.
00:07:15Hello Pauline, blockades, we imagine before going
00:07:18to demonstrate later, we were with you a
00:07:21little earlier on France 24, you told us about tensions, it
00:07:25seems that the situation has returned to calm
00:07:27since then,
00:07:30yes, listen, the situation had returned to calm a
00:07:34few minutes ago and it has become tense again, so it is
00:07:37extremely volatile because in fact there are
00:07:41police officers in plain clothes to arrest a young person and from that
00:07:45moment on, all the young people who were in front of the
00:07:49high school started protesting against this arrest, we
00:07:52saw one of the plainclothes police officers hitting
00:07:56the crowd of these young people who were protesting against
00:08:00this arrest, then we saw other police officers arrive as reinforcements, at that
00:08:03moment, tear gas was again fired to
00:08:07try to disperse these
00:08:10young high school students a little earlier when... we arrived around
00:08:147:15 in the morning and there was this blockade
00:08:17organized in front of this high school, there was even music, a small
00:08:21breakfast organized and the high school students explained
00:08:25to us that they considered that they
00:08:28were not being heard enough and still not heard by
00:08:31the government and that is why they believe that today they must
00:08:35continue to demonstrate and not give
00:08:38up, they told us, they explained to us that the government
00:08:42was only giving them crumbs and that therefore all of that was insufficient, there are
00:08:46also many teachers who are on strike in this
00:08:49Corbusier high school, I was able to speak with them as well, notably with
00:08:53Ocean and Jean-Baptiste, who first told us that they were proud, proud of their students,
00:08:56proud of these high school students who are fighting for their rights and to
00:09:00be able to study in better conditions, they also tell us that they
00:09:04ultimately have the same demands as the high school students
00:09:07because they believe that they lack resources, that they
00:09:11have had enough, that education is being cut year by
00:09:15year and I saw these teachers at one
00:09:17point form a human chain in
00:09:21fact to protect these high school students
00:09:24when the police arrived, I saw
00:09:28these police officers who tried to disperse the
00:09:31demonstration since they were blocking the street
00:09:35and some of these teachers were hit with batons,
00:09:38there was even a student who was injured in the head.
00:09:42The firefighters intervened and evacuated him because he
00:09:46had an injury that we were able to see for
00:09:49ourselves and it is true that these students, these teachers and
00:09:53even parents of students are also there and tell us that they
00:09:57come every day to support the high school students but also
00:10:00to protect them and then normally later
00:10:04at 12:30 there will be a gathering in front of Aubervilliers town
00:10:07hall, this gathering where
00:10:10normally several unions
00:10:12all trades combined but also high school
00:10:16and student unions and students from several
00:10:19high schools are expected at this gathering in front of Aubervilliers
00:10:23town hall and they have...
00:10:25the objective afterwards is to go to Paris, Place de la République
00:10:29to participate in this large demonstration that is planned this
00:10:32afternoon at the call of the inter-union but also at the call of the
00:10:36yellow vests, they want to continue to be there to demonstrate
00:10:39again and as I told you the situation has been on
00:10:43many occasions this morning several times tense in front of this Corbusier
00:10:47high school but right now the situation has calmed
00:10:50down again, there you go, with some students as we see behind you who
00:10:54are... quietly, thank you very much Pauline, these two figures have just been
00:10:57communicated by the ministry, 16% of teachers on strike as
00:11:01I speak to you, 33% of higher education
00:11:05establishments disrupted according to the ministry, a large-scale
00:11:09mobilization that should gather, according to a territorial intelligence note, between
00:11:1350,000 and 700,000 people in the processions today, not counting the
00:11:16demonstrations in Ile-de-France that we will continue to cover this afternoon for the march in
00:11:20Paris, the administrative court finally validated the alternative
00:11:23route that was proposed, the one between
00:11:27Place de la République and Nation, we will obviously be on
00:11:30site. Under pressure from the street, which is
00:11:34always demanding more resources. The executive also finds
00:11:37itself under pressure from elected officials. After about ten days of disjointed
00:11:41debate, deputies yesterday unanimously rejected the revenue part of the
00:11:44state budget bill for 2027.
00:11:47458 deputies from all groups, including those supporting the
00:11:50government, united against the text, which was nevertheless
00:11:53profoundly reformed. Result: back to square
00:11:56one. The Senate will have to consider the bill in its turn from
00:12:00November 20, but in its initial
00:12:02version. Let's head to the United States
00:12:05where Democrats will probably continue to
00:12:09celebrate their total victory in the midterms today. They swept
00:12:12everything, majorities in the House and Senate, great victories also for governor positions,
00:12:16assured of obtaining 54 seats in the upper
00:12:19house, Democrats are still waiting today for results in Alaska and
00:12:23Mississippi. On the Republican side, some have
00:12:27started to pressure Donald Trump, urging him to reshuffle his
00:12:30administration and change his policy strategy. The
00:12:33defeat is particularly difficult for Jivens to digest, associated with a president at the end of his
00:12:37term, he who was considered the favorite for the Republican nomination, he
00:12:41tries to distance himself from the president, attributing
00:12:44this electoral disaster, like him, to the war in Iran. Listen to Donald
00:12:48Trump.
00:12:54If I had... a candidate would have won, you saw the number of
00:12:57people, thousands and thousands of people present at each meeting, if
00:13:01I had been a candidate, they would have won, but we couldn't
00:13:05transfer their love, they had so much during the meetings, it was
00:13:08incredible, we couldn't transfer that love to the
00:13:11candidate.
00:13:13That's the latest statement from Donald Trump, after such a
00:13:17result, there are clearly also already expectations being expressed internally,
00:13:21of course, but also abroad, as evidenced by this very latest
00:13:24reaction this morning from Volodymyr Zelensky. Anne
00:13:27Corpe, hello, we're going to
00:13:30said he hoped for more American support for Ukraine
00:13:33following these results, will it be
00:13:37possible? Well, the American president
00:13:40is still in charge of foreign policy, but Congress, which holds the
00:13:44purse strings, could negotiate in exchange for
00:13:47concessions to Donald Trump, the return of military
00:13:50aid to Kyiv or the lifting of
00:13:54the return of sanctions on Russia that the White
00:13:57House lifted, and
00:14:00concerned about the mark he will leave in history, Donald
00:14:04Trump might want to make progress on this Ukrainian conflict
00:14:07that he had promised to resolve in
00:14:1048 hours. Melania Trump is also expected to
00:14:13receive Russian and Ukrainian officials
00:14:16at the White House today. This is not the first time the First Lady has
00:14:20intervened to secure the
00:14:24release of Ukrainian children abducted
00:14:26by the Russians, and it was also she who
00:14:30negotiated the truce that took place in the city
00:14:33of Oleshky occupied by the Russians to allow
00:14:36the evacuation of the population. Moreover,
00:14:39Volodymyr Zelensky awarded her a
00:14:42decoration yesterday for her personal contribution to
00:14:46humanitarian aid. On the political front, there is a negotiation
00:14:50session between Russians and
00:14:53Ukrainians under the auspices of the Americans planned for next
00:14:56week in Abu Dhabi. Such a three-way meeting
00:15:00has not taken place since last February.
00:15:03Volodymyr Zelensky said on X that he had
00:15:07a long, detailed conversation
00:15:09with the American emissaries
00:15:13to prepare this meeting. Jared
00:15:16Kushner on X said that he was working on
00:15:20the architecture of a
00:15:24necessary security after the
00:15:27war to prevent it from resuming in the event of a
00:15:31ceasefire. On the day after the
00:15:34Democratic victory in Congress, Moscow
00:15:38seems to continue to bank on Donald
00:15:41Trump's benevolence towards
00:15:45Russia. "We sincerely hope that he will continue
00:15:48his efforts for peace," declared the
00:15:51Kremlin spokesman, who does not seem to expect much from talks
00:15:55with Volodymyr Zelensky, since the same
00:15:59spokesman says he wants to wait for the emergence
00:16:02of a new personality in
00:17:31between energy and quiet strength, Bernard
00:17:34Lavilliers has just celebrated his 80th birthday.
00:17:37Gallant traveler, humanist, the artist releases
00:17:40"Rid Cruel," his 24th album, as
00:17:44always grappling with reality, from Ukraine
00:17:47to Africa, Lavilliers fires his arrows through
00:17:51social and political
00:18:01Lavilliers, you've just celebrated your 80th spring, you
00:18:05were born in 1946. It was post-war,
00:18:09hope. 2026, how is
00:18:12it? I still feel hope, but I'm
00:18:15doing the big 8, for me at 80, it's the big 8, for me it's the big 8,
00:18:20energy in Chinese medicine, yes, I still have the energy
00:18:24to write, more than 50 years of career, almost
00:18:2760, always traveling, always with
00:18:30your guitar, how would you define yourself as
00:18:34an artist? Adventurer?
00:18:38Artist ethnologist
00:18:41sometimes because sometimes I learn music, most of the time when I use
00:18:45music I learn it with the creators because
00:18:48I don't want to use music as a decor so I would like to
00:18:51know well where they come from, who plays them and for how long?
00:18:55which is the case for all the music
00:18:59I use, I am a
00:19:03kind of tropical rock troubadour, I use a lot of
00:19:06sounds. The sensual sounds of
00:19:09percussion, all kinds of percussion, and I love
00:19:13that, so if you like, I like the
00:19:16rock drums, but I also like the swaying
00:19:19side of tropical music which is
00:19:22sensual, on which we can say formidable words, who
00:19:26is the tough one, that's me, that's you, yeah, let's
00:19:59democracies in danger, you who have
00:20:02been a factory worker, son of a worker, socialist
00:20:05militant, communist..." communist, anarchist
00:20:09after, we'll get to that, from Saint-Étienne, you who have
00:20:12spent your life crossing borders, singing about métissage, Bernard
00:20:16Lavilliers, what is your view on the political
00:20:20and social crisis that France is going through as the
00:20:23presidential election approaches next year? It's a great logic, it's a
00:20:27series of events with a kind of abandonment, they are
00:20:31no longer even technocrats, it's the little marquises who have taken power, they have
00:20:34taken anyway the goal... of a
00:20:37president in a competition
00:20:40that I mean in competition for elections
00:20:44is still to win, so after he can promise whatever he wants, the
00:20:47population doesn't give a damn. Another reality for me, I
00:20:51think that knowing others of all colors gave me
00:20:55the advantage of being able to decode
00:20:57even my brothers and sisters here, because
00:21:01what they lack, it's not worth reducing oneself to a community, it
00:21:04becomes extremely strange to think all the same thing at the same
00:21:08time, I prefer absolute diversity,
00:21:11that is, the possibility of arguing because we don't agree, but did
00:21:14you expect such a level of violence in French society?
00:21:18It goes with
00:21:22uh, how do you explain that, the contempt or
00:21:25ignorance of letting conflicts or
00:21:28demands simply fester for months. There's a certain end-of-marquis
00:21:32side to it too, it's a bit over for the marquises, so I'm
00:21:36talking about the marquises who are in power for now. I wrote a song called
00:21:40"Beautiful Days,"
00:21:42"Beautiful Days," where I talk about how they are well
00:21:46dressed, all out of their box, but they don't know
00:21:50how to lead anything at all.
00:22:14now tend to exasperate
00:22:17me. What memory, what value do you
00:22:20keep from your work at the factory,
00:22:23the value of direct work, the fact
00:22:27of being a good worker, that has followed me all the time, I
00:22:31used it later when traveling, I sometimes continued to work as a turner
00:22:35in foreign countries, so I think that the very
00:22:38idea of starting to work at 16 in a
00:22:42factory, you see retirement for me
00:22:45is not for now, but in any case I
00:22:49think that it gives a certain pride,
00:22:53on the other hand, the army was out of the question, no, no, no, certainly
00:22:57not, and no, no, no,
00:22:59no, no, no, I didn't want to be in the army because no
00:23:03god no master, no foreman, so there you go, I was like that at the time, and
00:23:07I still am a bit, you still want to be neither god nor master,
00:23:10isn't that a bit utopian today, that motto? Well, I
00:23:14mean, so far
00:23:38the war in Ukraine, you sing a lullaby for the children
00:23:41of Europe, isn't Europe
00:23:44alert enough? This is a poem in the face of these threats, in the face of the Russian
00:23:48threat, it's a poem. from 46 by a
00:23:52resistance fighter named Louis Couchois that I found
00:23:55in a collection of resistance poets that
00:23:57Segers editions sent me, I found this
00:24:01poem, I set it to music because first of all, it's a woman who
00:24:04talks to her child in the middle of a big world
00:24:08war there for
00:24:12once and I found it
00:24:15particularly moving and the way it's written and the
00:24:19way she talks, you see, stations without
00:24:22travel and beaches without children, for me, that's
00:24:26what war is, so the war, the war in Ukraine
00:24:30resembles the war of 14-18 with
00:24:32drones and machine-gun robots in
00:24:34addition, go to the world without
00:24:38wonders, for the mills, without grains of
00:24:41wheat, sleep for the cellars without
00:24:44bottles, sleep for the
00:24:46adults,
00:24:49who have... and then on this album you also take us
00:24:52to Congo on swinging
00:24:55rhythms in Kinshasa, you write, cobalt to
00:24:59China, uranium, lithium, coltan, the inhabitants don't
00:25:03see the color of it, what is your link with East Africa and
00:25:07especially this region of Congo? This link with this
00:25:10country, I had it before for music especially, when I went to
00:25:14Brazzaville, we crossed the river at the time to go listen to the
00:25:17musicians, in Kinshasa. who lived day and
00:25:20night, a lot
00:25:24music, sculptors, it's still there, and today
00:25:28and well today it's the same, I quote Matongé for
00:25:31example, there are also street theater groups and
00:25:35formidable, there's meme, there are sculptors who sculpt
00:25:39with pieces of scrap metal, I know one who is called Freddy
00:25:42Timba who sculpts enormous things who was displaced from
00:25:46the city center to go a little elsewhere, I admire a lot what he does.
00:25:50finally I find that he has a kind of yeah
00:25:54effervescence, a kind of
00:25:56bubbling that inspires you, that's it,
00:26:00an incredible energy in a... troubled
00:26:23have traveled a lot, Bernard Lavillier, what is
00:26:26precious in France that should be protected,
00:26:30preserved, we should protect the... artists also
00:26:33creation because
00:26:35the
00:26:38problem with industry is that it's not necessarily creative, so it's
00:26:41possible
00:26:44in any case I'm still a kind of activist in this field
00:26:47because I think that what remains of countries is rather the
00:26:50arts most of the time when you when you look over long
00:26:54distances not many generals there are many more artists
00:26:57than generals even if culture is very attacked right
00:27:00now culture is always attacked by
00:27:03hegemonies, by autocrats who want to
00:27:06rewrite history in their own way, right, it's not the first time that this
00:27:10has happened, your weapons are words as an artist,
00:27:13music, both, where does this love for the French
00:27:16language come from, for the languages of the world even, I would say, yes, so there are
00:27:20in French but in other Latin languages a lot of words to
00:27:24express oneself, what I think is less and less there, so
00:27:28it becomes more punchline,
00:27:30uh maybe because they read less, it's possible, but it's
00:27:34a shame, so the fact of having a lot of possibilities of
00:27:38colors to express oneself, it's it's a proof of freedom
00:27:41right, necessarily when you are in front of a blank page
00:27:45and that the words don't come to you or that you
00:27:49don't find exactly the exact word that would sound on
00:27:52this note because in addition when you do both the word must sound
00:27:56tough, it sounds like word, it's a pretty
00:27:59old word but I'm bringing it back into fashion because I think there's nothing better
00:28:03to define someone
00:28:06who can resist temptation
00:28:08and this last album is clearly a
00:28:12resistance album full of punchlines, thank
00:28:15you very much Bernard Lavillier for your
00:28:18time, you are going back on tour in France from January
00:28:222027 with notably two dates at the Zénith of
00:30:29Extreme violence has gripped this northwestern state.
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