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00:00:00in Dakar on France 24 and all our social
00:00:03to block in Paris. At the call of networks
00:00:09la République and Place de and welcome if you're joining us on France demonstrators will march between Place de 24, it's 1:30 PM in Paris.
00:00:11Let's go straight to the Paris live news and here are the main headlines
00:00:15of the day. We're obviously going to come back to this new
00:00:18series of bomb alerts on at least 12 airliners since this
00:00:22morning. The announcements of false alerts have
00:00:25multiplied. Planes diverted, notably to the
00:00:28Evreux air base. But what exactly is happening in the
00:00:32European sky since Tuesday? We're going to try to shed some light on it in a few moments
00:00:43feared here in France. A call for the
00:00:46charges. According to the Ministry of convergence of struggles has been launched by the inter-union. Employees, civil servants, yellow vests,
00:00:49retirees are called to join the
00:00:52students, the vandals are not part of 250 demonstrations in more than 70
00:00:55cities. And young people are obviously at the heart of this
00:00:58movement. We'll go to... take the pulse at Place de la République
00:01:02in this broadcast. And then the
00:01:05Americans are still awaiting results in Alaska and Mississippi. It
00:01:09doesn't matter for the Democrats, the victory is already undisputed, so clear and
00:01:13frank that many Republicans are asking Donald Trump to change his political
00:01:18disrupt the strategy. The ambitious Jelly Ven has started to distance himself, deeming
00:01:20the war in Iran responsible. We're going to look at the high expectations
00:01:24generated by such a result, particularly in
00:01:32start. The procession will leave from Place de
00:01:41Two days after a wave of false bomb alerts
00:01:45on commercial flights, the situation seems to be
00:01:48repeating itself in the European sky. A first airliner this morning, an A320 that
00:01:52was traveling from Dublin to Rome, was first
00:01:56diverted to the Evreux air base.
00:02:00defeat is particularly difficult The aircraft landed safely. All
00:02:02passengers are fine. Very quickly, new aircraft, then three,
00:02:06then seven experienced roughly the same fate or in any case the same kind
00:02:10of alert. As I speak to you, this early afternoon, a total of
00:02:1412 planes have been
00:02:16affected by this affair. I suggest we first take a brief
00:02:20look at the situation in images with Marc Pois. We'll come back to it right after with Sylvain
00:02:24at the construction site of Rousso. It's a new series of bomb alerts that
00:02:28is shaking the European sky. Several planes have been forced to land in
00:02:31Bulgaria. A Finer aircraft bound for Rome was
00:02:35also subject to an alert, as was this Aer Lingus plane that
00:02:38was supposed to connect Dublin to Rome, but which was diverted to Evreux this
00:02:42Thursday morning. The vast
00:02:45majority of bomb alerts
00:02:47it caused a slight short-term rise in gasoline turn out not to be a real security issue.
00:02:50No explosive device is ever
00:02:53discovered. Since the beginning of the week,
00:02:56do it. We can't let Iran acquire these alerts have multiplied all over the continent. Each time, commercial flights
00:02:58are targeted. This Tuesday, at least four alerts concerned
00:03:02flights of the Irish company Ryanair. Experts
00:03:06are considering several leads. One
00:03:09of the aspects we are monitoring is the possibility of Russian involvement,
00:03:12given that these are airlines based in Europe and that these
00:03:16attacks affect the continent. It should also be kept in mind that Iranian
00:03:19hybrid warfare is just as active in some parts of Europe. For
00:03:23now, each time all planes have been thoroughly inspected
00:03:27without any suspicious object being found on board. So, as
00:03:31we speak, the situation continues to evolve. We have
00:03:34information coming from Madrid, planes that also experienced the
00:03:38same kind of alert there this morning. Well, we're going to stop
00:03:41communicating the numbers. We understand that a certain number of
00:03:44aircraft are being targeted by these alerts. Just now, a European official
00:03:48functioned as a subsidiary of told us: it's too early to say if the bomb alerts
00:03:51disrupting air traffic are linked
00:03:55or not. Sylvain, in any case, this has been going on for two days, this story, yes.
00:03:59Indeed, it started. It
00:04:02there is this march that will set off from started on Tuesday. There were about ten flights between Tuesday and Wednesday, between the day before yesterday and
00:04:04yesterday. Today, it's multiplying and it's almost
00:04:08exponential, since we were at 12, it seems that now we are at a good
00:04:11fifteen, in any case, planes that have been the subject of these threats. What
00:04:15we can say is that, however, all the
00:04:19planes concerned by these threats have not been hijacked. We must pay attention to that.
00:04:22There are at least three or four flights that have been diverted, no more.
00:04:26Diverted, excuse me, hijacked does not at all mean the same thing, so they were
00:04:30diverted, especially the one that
00:04:31barricades and unauthorized landed in Evreux this morning. The others arrived at
00:04:36dispersed by the police. their destination without incident, sometimes also escorted by
00:04:39military planes. All precautions are obviously taken. In fact,
00:04:43it depends on where the plane is when the
00:04:46According to the Ministry of threat is received and is deemed credible. What we know is that for
00:04:50now all planes, at least the first 12, all planes have
00:04:53landed safely. So the passengers, the crew members have been
00:04:57evacuated from these planes and no explosives have been
00:05:00detected in the aircraft whose inspection was
00:05:04hectares of finished at that time. Obviously, inspections will continue as
00:05:07they go on, but for now, what we know since Tuesday is that indeed no explosive device has
00:05:11been detected in... any plane. Philippe Tabaro, the French
00:05:14Minister of Transport, also communicated to say that for now there was no modification
00:05:18of flight schedules nor any crisis
00:05:22plan put in place. We were saying that since
00:05:25Tuesday, since this morning, we've been asking ourselves questions about what it could be, what could
00:05:29be behind this. Well, we still don't know. However,
00:05:32what we've seen since this morning is that the concentration of threats, because we
00:05:36talked about three flights to Madrid, apparently quite
00:05:40recently, but we know there were three flights to...
00:05:42four flights to Prague in the Czech Republic, so all this makes
00:05:46coordinated threats very likely, obviously,
00:05:49organized rather than a succession of isolated jokes
00:05:53as it could still be mentioned this morning. There is no
00:05:56claim, there is no identified perpetrator. It is still too
00:06:00early at this stage to say if there is, for example,
00:06:04state malice or paramilitary groups behind
00:06:07all this. For now, we don't know any
00:06:11more. We just know that it looks more and more like something
00:06:15coordinated, even if the European official just said that it was too early to link
00:06:19these different alerts. It's true that the question we ask ourselves spontaneously
00:06:22is, what is this whole story about? Where does it come from? And why
00:06:26is it happening, above all? So, why is it happening? Well, first of all, it's going to
00:06:31system, or rather, it's going to disrupt European
00:06:34airspace. It's also going to mobilize armed
00:06:38forces, because as I told you, many planes are also escorted to their destination.
00:06:42Because this type of threat is published, and then
00:06:45it's also the desire to create disorder. When, for
00:06:49example, there was this story of hacking freezers in
00:06:52supermarkets, there were several European countries where
00:06:56we also wondered why, but all this contributes to creating a
00:06:59generalized disorder. But we have to be careful with these stories of
00:07:03false bomb alerts. It's a bit different. We can't yet establish a link
00:07:07obviously with what happened before, because there are precedents
00:07:11in this newspaper. Notably in India in 2024, there
00:07:15were more than 700 alerts in 2024, including 500 for the
00:07:19month of October alone. There were even more than 100 in one
00:07:22day, and out of all these alerts, no explosive device was
00:07:25detected and the origin of the messages 2 years later remains
00:07:29undetermined. In France in 2023, I don't know if you remember after the
00:07:33Arras attack, we switched to red Vigipirate plan, so obviously maximum
00:07:36alert. There were hundreds of threats in France, bomb alerts on
00:07:40airports, schools, tourist sites. There were even
00:07:4470 threats of
00:07:46explosions in airports in one week. Lille, Nantes, Toulouse, Beauvais,
00:07:50Strasbourg, Lyon had to be evacuated, and there
00:07:53again, all these threats turned out to be false and we were never able
00:07:57to determine if we were dealing with something concerted or if we were dealing with
00:08:01a contagion effect, meaning that a first announcement makes a lot
00:08:04of noise and then it leads others to do the same
00:08:08thing. For now, as I told you, we can't yet obviously say
00:08:11if there is an entity, an individual, a
00:08:15group of individuals who is behind these threats, but what is certain is that
00:08:18the more they repeat and the more they tend to concentrate, that's what makes us a little
00:08:22suspicious, the fact that they are concentrating today really on certain
00:08:25cities and certain countries, it indeed
00:08:29gives a little more weight to this
00:08:32hypothesis. Thank you very much, Sylvain,
00:08:36for the explanations at this hour, knowing that the situation
00:08:39continues to evolve.
00:08:42Still more disruptions in the European
00:08:46sky. Also major disruptions, even on the ground here in France
00:08:50today, this Thursday, November 5. A call for
00:08:53launched by the inter-union. A dark day
00:08:58feared by the government. A movement against the high cost of living that has returned to
00:09:02the streets. You can see here the images from Toulouse
00:09:04Ourenne. Employees, civil servants are called to stop
00:09:08working for salaries, at the call of the inter-union, but also of
00:09:12high school and student organizations. Active French people, retirees too,
00:09:16are called to join one of the 250
00:09:19gatherings planned throughout the country. The objective is obviously to make
00:09:23anger converge to put the government under pressure. A government that
00:09:27is communicating. Laurent Nunez just indicated that 27,000 demonstrators are
00:09:30gathered in the 180 processions in France,
00:09:33excluding Paris. There will be a march later that will start from Place de la
00:09:37République at 2 PM. Sophie Binet mentioned roughly the same figures earlier,
00:09:4125,000 people mobilized,
00:09:4470,000 police officers, security forces also
00:09:47deployed throughout the
00:09:50territory, while we fear
00:09:53overflows. Near Toulouse, in Tournefeuille, hooded
00:09:57youths caused fires this morning. They broke into
00:10:00the establishment equipped with mortars. Teachers describe
00:10:03determined individuals and particularly significant violence.
00:10:07The principal, who has since decided to close the establishment, even speaks of a
00:10:11catastrophe and a real scene of guerrilla
00:10:13explanation.
00:10:16Scene of chaos at the high school, firing of
00:10:20firecrackers by hooded youths and
00:10:23inside this establishment near Toulouse, fire
00:10:27breaks out, part of the building goes up in
00:10:30smoke, students and teachers are in
00:10:32shock.
00:10:35I was the first to see everything and it's true
00:10:39that when you see firecrackers and all that in front of you, it's a bit
00:10:42shocking, everything burning, it's not fun, it's
00:10:46useless, it's not going to help us make
00:10:50our rights heard. Well, young people are demonstrating for their rights, I can well
00:10:53understand that, but to attack the
00:10:56high school, the high school, I find that disappointing and I would cry so much
00:11:00because I find it sad, sad, sad and really
00:11:03disappointing. No injuries but considerable
00:11:06damage. The reception and student life of the high school
00:11:10are ransacked. Dozens of CRS are
00:11:13deployed, but according to some
00:11:17the establishment. They hope that this attack will not overshadow their
00:11:21demands. We know that very few high school students who do not... are
00:11:25from the high school were involved in the damage, but I agree
00:11:28that all vandals should not be justified, whatever it is, and we don't justify
00:11:32it. I think there is still a lot of
00:11:35focus on violence, on riots, etc.,
00:11:39than on high school demands. The high school will remain
00:11:43closed for several days, according to the Occitanie region. The damage
00:11:46should cost tens of thousands
00:11:48of euros.
00:11:51So, the Parisian mobilization is also about to
00:11:57la République at 2 p.m., in about twenty minutes.
00:12:01We also expect a lot of people in this procession, which will head
00:12:04towards the Nation. Marine Tondelier
00:12:07for the Greens is currently answering
00:12:11questions from the press. We're going to listen to a few excerpts. Ten lines
00:12:14in mid-October to tell us that Monique Barbu had been entrusted with a
00:12:18mission, so we should be reassured. Indeed, it's very reassuring when Monique Barbu is entrusted with a
00:12:22mission. And he writes to us therefore... at the beginning of October
00:12:25to say, rest assured, Monique Barbu must submit her conclusions and her recommendations at the very
00:12:29beginning of October. We are now at the beginning of November and we still have
00:12:32no beginning, no beginning of a government plan to
00:12:36improve things on the ecological front. And so when there's no ecology, it's not
00:12:40just sad for us ecologists, it's hard for all French people. It's felt
00:12:44in the wallet and that's one of the reasons why we're demonstrating today. So, of course,
00:12:48we come with our ecological demands, which I think align with the
00:12:51demands of everyone here. But we also support all the demands, starting
00:12:55with the end of Parcoursup, not in 2028 or I don't know when, when the
00:12:58president and the prime minister who are committed to it will no longer be there. We want the end of Parcoursup
00:13:02now. And by the way, I see that there are
00:13:05all these debates about the routes of demonstrations and so on, and it's a real issue, the
00:13:09freedom to demonstrate, the rule of law, it's a real issue. But I notice that now on
00:13:13many channels we debate more about the route of the
00:13:16demonstration than about Parcoursup. But we are here for Parcoursup, we would like to be able
00:13:20to continue talking about it too. So all the demands of high school students have
00:13:23our support, as well as those of civil servants, workers,
00:13:27unemployed, precarious workers, ecologists, feminists. We are here for all these
00:13:30demands. And the government, which preferred to send
00:13:33law enforcement rather than social responses to the movement, well, that's going
00:13:37to get a little more expensive now, because there are so many people in the streets that it's not just
00:13:41by responding to Parcoursup and school buildings that everyone will
00:13:44go home. So their inaction, well, it's like for climate
00:13:47inaction, inaction in terms of social dialogue also costs more in the
00:13:51end. And frankly, when you see that 2.3 million French people are working poor,
00:13:55they work and that's not enough to protect them from poverty, when you see that 23% of
00:13:58children don't have three meals a day in this country, we're going to have to get a move on
00:14:02social responses. What about demonstrations every week? So
00:14:06this is the call from Marine Tondelier. We've been
00:14:09talking about the convergence of struggles since this morning,
00:14:12demands obviously in favor of the climate and support expressed for
00:14:16this youth. The question of Parcoursup, as we said earlier, will be
00:14:20addressed on Monday during a meeting with Prime Minister Sébastien
00:14:23Lecornu. In the meantime,
00:14:27Place de la République in Paris. The outcome will be
00:14:30this evening. We'll count the numbers, we'll see if the call for
00:14:34mobilization was massively followed or not.
00:14:37We are indeed concerned about overflows. Marie Chester
00:14:41mentioned earlier that a significant police presence has been
00:14:44deployed for this day. Explanation and
00:14:47commented images, watch:
00:14:50From mid-morning, in some streets of the
00:14:53capital, improvised
00:14:56gatherings formed, immediately
00:15:01l'ordre,
00:15:04Some high schools are blocked, like here in the 20th
00:15:07arrondissement.
00:15:11Education, 81 high schools were blocked this morning in
00:15:15France. These figures are disputed by the high school
00:15:18students' union, which claims 1000. These
00:15:21high school students intend to continue the movement.
00:15:25The figures given by the state are really very incorrect. For us, it's been 3
00:15:29days that the high school has been administratively open but that
00:15:33no classes have taken place. As long as we don't get what we want, what we
00:15:36desire and... deserve, I will come back
00:15:41the inter-union, the
00:15:46la Nation. A march in the heart of the capital,
00:15:50the first since October 17th. This
00:15:53shoemaker is located on the route. His
00:15:55storefront still bears the traces of past demonstrations.
00:15:59You see the cracks there, maybe they didn't do it
00:16:03on purpose, but the police once they charged, so they
00:16:07have...
00:16:09This hairdresser, located on Place de la Nation, reluctantly considers
00:16:13closing. It's half-days less work,
00:16:16so less turnover. You have to pay employees, you have
00:16:19to, well, you have to pay
00:16:23the Interior, 80,000 demonstrators are expected in Paris this
00:16:27afternoon.
00:16:30So, for this state of affairs, under pressure from the
00:16:34street, which continues to demand more resources, the executive finds
00:16:38itself under pressure from elected officials too. You'll understand that after about ten days of
00:16:42disjointed debates, deputies rejected yesterday unanimously the revenue part of the state
00:16:45budget bill for 2027.
00:16:47458 deputies from all groups, including those supporting the government,
00:16:51blocked the text despite it being deeply
00:16:55transformed. Result: back to square one. The Senate
00:16:59will have to, from November 20, examine the bill in its
00:17:02initial version.
00:17:05Alright, let's head now to the
00:17:07US, where Democrats will probably continue to celebrate their total victory
00:17:11in the midterms today. They swept everything, majority in the House, Senate,
00:17:15and good victories for governor positions too. Guaranteed
00:17:19to win 54 seats in the upper house, Democrats
00:17:22are still waiting for results today in Alaska and Mississippi.
00:17:25On the Republican side, some have started
00:17:29to pressure Donald Trump. The plant has reshuffled his
00:17:32administration and changed his policy strategy. The
00:17:37to digest for J'associer, a president at the end of his term, who
00:17:41was nevertheless considered a favorite for the Republican
00:17:44nomination. He has been trying to distance himself from the White House president,
00:17:47blaming, like him, this electoral disaster on the war in
00:17:51Iran. Tibo Franceske.
00:17:55After the stinging defeat of his party in the midterm elections, Donald
00:17:58Trump met with the press
00:18:02the ballroom he is having built at the White House. He acknowledged the
00:18:05results without seeing them as a repudiation of himself. Rather,
00:18:09his vice president recognized the link with the war in Iran. When
00:18:13questioned on the matter, Donald Trump did not deny it, but did
00:18:17not regret his choices
00:18:18either.
00:18:21I think that's largely true because
00:18:24prices, but I thought oil prices would rise much
00:18:28more, and that's on that basis that I acted. We had no choice, we had to
00:18:33nuclear weapons, otherwise everything you see here could well disappear one day.
00:18:37But the Democrats who now control Congress no longer want this
00:18:41war. Americans don't know at all why we are fighting in Iran. He has
00:18:45never clearly explained it. He changes his mind from one day to the next, even from one minute to
00:18:49the next. This war must end.
00:18:53Their power in this matter remains however limited. They will have control over the
00:18:56budget, including defense, but military operations will remain a
00:19:00prerogative of the White House. Democrats now want to ride this
00:19:04blue wave to have influence and pass bills in Congress. But
00:19:07be careful of the presidential veto, an important
00:19:10power that Donald Trump intends to use. The two camps will
00:19:14therefore have to find compromises.
00:19:18We are working for the American
00:19:19people,
00:19:22and the days when the House of Representatives
00:19:26the Trump administration are over.
00:19:29House Democrats will lead a Congress that will truly be a check
00:19:33on an out-of-control executive branch.
00:19:39By controlling the Senate, Democrats will also be able to launch
00:19:43investigations and block Donald Trump's appointments to key
00:19:46positions.
00:19:49So, by making their choices this Tuesday, November 3rd,
00:19:52Americans also expressed their rejection of
00:19:56multi-billionaires. These midterm elections were the most
00:20:00expensive in history, with nearly 12 billion dollars spent during the campaign.
00:20:03A significant portion of this sum came from large donors, the Super PACs,
00:20:07raising 2.5 billion almost dollars for Republicans, a
00:20:11little less for Democrats, 2 billion. Technology
00:20:14mogul Elon Musk was by far the largest individual donor
00:20:18of all time, injecting more than 440
00:20:21million dollars into the Republican Party. This defeat is therefore also partly
00:20:25his. Watch:
00:20:28It's a victory of the people against money. It is with these words that
00:20:31James Talarico hails his election as senator,
00:20:34the first Democrat in Texas since
00:20:381988. Behind this phrase, he targets
00:20:41one man in particular: Elon Musk. I believe that
00:20:45Texans have sent a somewhat clearer message to the world's first trillionaire.
00:20:48Texas is not for sale.
00:20:52Power in this state, in this country, belongs to the people, and
00:20:56we must ensure that it remains that way. It is estimated that Elon Musk
00:20:59spent over $200 million solely for Texas and the campaign
00:21:03of Republican Ken Paxton for the Senate, bringing his
00:21:07financial investment in these midterm elections to over $445 million,
00:21:10a record in modern American history.
00:21:14Texans also elected a Democratic governor who
00:21:18promised to crack down on data centers, and this while Elon
00:21:21Musk transferred his residence and his businesses from California
00:21:25to Texas during the COVID-19 pandemic, where he found more
00:21:29favorable business conditions. On his social
00:21:32network, the billionaire was sarcastic. I
00:21:35feel like my space lasers' interference in the elections didn't work
00:21:39this time. The Democratic blue wave that swept Congress could also
00:21:43thwart his plans. His projects such as the factory in
00:21:46Terrafab semiconductors worth 100 billion dollars and a potential
00:21:50merger between SpaceX and Tesla could now be subject to
00:21:54further scrutiny. Both chambers also want to strengthen
00:21:57oversight of tech giants and billionaires. We're
00:22:01also heading to Israel, in this news report, where negotiations to form
00:22:04a government continue. Gadcoat, the main
00:22:07rival of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who wants to take his
00:22:11place after the elections, well, he pledged yesterday to
00:22:14renew, to also strengthen relations with the United States, if he became
00:22:18head of government. As a result of the negotiations, since no party
00:22:22has an absolute majority, agreements still need to be
00:22:25found. More details right away in images by Thibo
00:22:28Franceske.
00:22:31He is not yet prime minister, but Gadia Izenkot is already projecting
00:22:35himself into the future of Israeli-American relations.
00:22:39While negotiations continue to form a government after the
00:22:42legislative elections. The opposition leader to Benjamin
00:22:46Netanyahu says he wants to strengthen ties with the United States.
00:22:51"Under my leadership, we will renew and strengthen the partnership with the
00:22:54United States and consolidate the bipartisan foundations that have long
00:22:58supported it." A statement that comes the day after a crucial
00:23:01announcement by Donald Trump, he wants to cut American aid to
00:23:05Israel, established annually by Barack Obama in
00:23:082019. The United States has always been a major
00:23:12political and financial supporter of the Hebrew state. Last
00:23:15year, Israel was the second most aided country by Washington
00:23:18after Ukraine. Interviewed by phone on Fox
00:23:21News, Donald Trump speaks of a mutually agreed
00:23:25decision. "Bibi Netanyahu and I had reached
00:23:28an agreement that we would pay 4 billion dollars a year to Israel,
00:23:32and we agreed a few months ago to end it. On their
00:23:36side, it suits them, because as you know, it has become a very prosperous country, they
00:23:39don't need it anymore." The announcement also comes as the Democrats have just
00:23:43won the midterm elections, and if Joe Biden
00:23:47was conciliatory with the Hebrew state until his departure,
00:23:50other Democrats did not hesitate to criticize the scale of the war in Gaza and the number of
00:23:54victims. The American Congress could therefore be
00:23:57less inclined to help Israel in
00:23:59the future.
00:24:01And that's it for the main international news today. Stay with us, we'll be back in
00:24:05just a few minutes for Club France 24. Our commentators will speak, I'll see you in a moment.
00:30:20And welcome if you're joining us on France 24, it's 2 PM in Paris, it's time for
00:30:24our commentators, it's time for Club France 24, hello to all three of you and
00:30:28welcome to the set of Paris Live, the program is happening right here, we're
00:30:31going to continue, of course. to cover this day of mobilization for salaries, a black
00:30:35day feared by the government while the inter-union called for a strike,
00:30:38for the convergence of struggles also in the processions of
00:30:42employees, retirees, high school students, we will take the pulse in Paris with Mary
00:30:45Chester, Place de la République, we will also ask ourselves here with you Marc
00:30:49Perelmann, hello Marc, what room for maneuver is possible for the government,
00:30:53is there any at all, that's the real question, the government
00:30:56keeps saying that the coffers are empty, but if...