MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 12/09/2024
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00:00Welcome everyone, I am delighted to see you again for a new edition of the Média Mornay's big news. Here are the headlines.
00:26The civil defense of Gaza announced that 18 people from UN collaborators were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a school transformed into a shelter.
00:41North Korea fired several short-range ballistic missiles towards the sea on Thursday. This is what the South Korean army said. These missiles were fired a few days after the 66th anniversary of the founding of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
01:05And then in Nigeria, the massive floods that submerged the city of Maiduguri in the north-east of the country in the beginning of the week killed at least 30 people and displaced more than 400,000 people. We will talk about this in a moment.
01:22The civil defense of Gaza announced that 18 people from UN collaborators were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a school transformed into a shelter.
01:42The civil defense of Gaza announced that 18 people from UN collaborators were killed on Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a school transformed into a shelter.
01:59This is what the civil defense of Gaza announced.
02:22And then in Nigeria, the massive floods that submerged the city of Maiduguri in the beginning of the week killed at least 30,000 people. We will talk about this in a moment.
02:47This is what the civil defense of Gaza announced.
03:17This is what the civil defense of Gaza announced.
03:37In Kiev, the Ukrainian President promised the leaders of the US and British diplomacies to respond urgently to the demands of Ukraine, which claims in particular to be able to hit the Russian territory in depth with Western missiles. Ukraine has also called on its neighbors to shoot down Russian missiles and drones when they fly over the west of the country.
04:08In Nigeria, the massive floods that submerged the city of Maiduguri in the beginning of the week killed at least 30,000 people.
04:28This is what the civil defense of Gaza announced.
04:54This is what the civil defense of Gaza announced.
05:20In Senegal, President Bassirou Dioumaifay promised a relentless strike on Wednesday.
05:29Passers-by are moving migrants to Europe on the scene of a new drama of clandestine migration that he described as an unsustainable situation.
05:39Dioumaifay, elected in March and confronted in turn with the succession of such sea dramas, called on young people to stay in the country and not give in to the illusion of a better future elsewhere.
05:51He assured that the government was working hard on policies against the unemployment of young people. At least 35 people, according to the Senegalese press, perished in the shipwreck of an overloaded pirogue.
06:05On Sunday, just after leaving the port of Pech-d'Hombourg, Senegal is one of the main starting points for the thousands of Africans who have been taking the perilous road of the Atlantic for years and are trying to gain Europe, mainly via the Spanish archipelago of the Canaries, at the port of embarkation, crowded and often vain.
06:25We continue with the 57th session of the Council of Human Rights of the UN, which is held in Geneva, where about forty countries have reaffirmed their support for the full sovereignty of Morocco on its Sahara,
06:45a position that is rejoiced by the permanent ambassador to the UN office in Geneva and also the President of the Council of Human Rights of the UN as of the year in progress. Together we listen to him.
07:00It is a statement of importance, of course, which supports the position of our country in terms of its territorial integrity. It is made by exactly 38 countries, and this statement, it must be underlined, intervenes in the context of the Council of Human Rights and declines the support of all these countries for the full sovereignty of the Kingdom of Morocco on its Sahara provinces.
07:29This is the first principle. Secondly, this statement recalls that the political process in New York, the Security Council in New York, is an exclusive process and that it has the primacy in terms of the search for a political solution to this regional difference.
07:48As for the dimension of human rights, the statement indicates very clearly that the Security Council recognizes the role of the regional committees of human rights that exist in the southern provinces and that are part of our National Council of Human Rights.
08:03So it is a statement of all clarity. Moreover, it congratulates the creation, for example, of consulates in the cities of the UN and Tahrir, which reflect, if you will, the exercise of Moroccan sovereignty in full recognition of its international role.
08:22What I would like to emphasize more is that this list of countries is growing as we move forward year after year in the work of the Council. We are currently 38 countries. This does not mean, of course, that there are only 38 countries that support the position of Morocco, well beyond more than a hundred countries as it is well known.
08:43But if we compare it to other statements made by the different groups on other subjects at the level of the Council of Human Rights, and especially those that have followed up on issues of conflict or of different regions, it is really something exceptional.
08:59So this is the content of this statement. I would also like to emphasize that the countries on this list come from all over the world, from Africa, Asia, America, and Europe as well.
09:12What is also very important is that this group transcends the different regional and political groups that exist within the Council.
09:20So all this has a very important meaning for us. It is also in response to a certain number of activism, which is done by a small fraction of other delegations, completely isolated, led by representatives of the Algerian regime,
09:39who always seek to instrumentalize the work of the Council to make, if you will, a very false propaganda, I would say systematically false, for what would be violations of human rights in our southern provinces,
09:56for the alleged exploitation of natural resources, while we know that the situation is more peaceful in our southern provinces, while we know that the populations on the ground exercise their full rights, whether it is, for example, their participation in various scrutinies, but in everyday life.
10:14As far as the alleged exploitation of resources in our southern provinces is concerned, the whole world sees today the exceptional achievements, the historical achievements of our country, especially in terms of infrastructure, economic development, training, education, including, of course, world-class infrastructures, as I am used to saying, in our southern provinces,
10:41which are now in full development and which constitute a fundamental link of our country in its regional area and beyond in its continental area.
10:51After the floods that hit the south-east of the Kingdom, one of our teams moved to Gelmim, on site in the village of Amtady.
11:02The time is now for mobilization to clear the debris left by the floods.
11:09This is the heritage whose execution of the work is the mobilization of all stakeholders, such is the motto here in the village of Amtady.
11:18Here, the maintenance teams work 24 hours a day to break the isolation and reconnect the village to the water and transport electricity grid as part of an urgent plan aimed at repairing what has been destroyed by floods and floods.
11:33The local authorities, the royal gendarmerie, the civil protection and the auxiliary forces do everything they can to clear the roads and restore traffic.
11:50Also, the landfills are strongly mobilized to clear the roads badly damaged by the floods.
11:57The residents lived a night of fear and isolation as they had never seen before, while the flooding of the village of Amtady swept away the villages, landfills and palm trees whose inhabitants depend on for their subsistence.
12:18We had never seen this in our life, the flood was the incarnation of the force of nature, great gift, it was on us before we could even realize it, I am 40 years old and I have never seen this in my life, our ancestors and our ancestors, they too have never known this in their life.
12:36Recalling that the strong floods recorded in recent days are equal or greater than half of the annual rainfall in the region, for the time being, efforts to restore normal life continue, reflecting the determination and dedication of the authorities responsible for restoring stability in the region.
12:55We immediately place the guest of the major newspaper of Média Mornay.
13:01Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, this duel is still relevant.
13:08Kamala Harris and Donald Trump faced each other on Tuesday night during a debate televised in the context of the election campaign, a debate during which two very different views of America opposed each other.
13:23How does the continuation of this election campaign in the United States look like the day after this duel?
13:30To talk about it, we are live with Professor Mohamed Rajahi Barakat.
13:36Hello Professor, you are an expert in international relations and we thank you for being with us.
13:51So, let's start first with this poll conducted by CNN just after the televised duel which indicates that 63% of the people interviewed in the United States judge that Kamala Harris succeeded in better arguing her policies and against her opponent, Donald Trump. What do you think?
14:14Of course, it was normal because Donald Trump, as usual, seems to present arguments or counter-arguments, but this time he did not succeed.
14:26Some specialists, especially in European media, say that President Trump says counter-truths and even lies, especially when he talks about immigration.
14:41He talked about immigrants who come to the United States, who eat American animals, rats, cats, etc. And this way of talking about immigration has shocked a part of the American population.
14:56In addition, when he talks about abortion, he is against abortion, knowing that part of the American voters, especially women, are for abortion in the United States.
15:12In addition, when he talks about the Middle East, what is happening in Gaza, the genocide in Gaza, President Trump said that if he is not elected, it will disappear in two years.
15:27Knowing that now Mrs. Harris is Vice President of the United States and the American policy on the Middle East conflict is a total insult to Israel and the genocide that is currently taking place.
15:46In fact, it is done in large part with American weapons. All these lies have pushed President Trump further and further and he has lost a lot of voters because of these lies.
16:06The problem in the United States is that the country is divided. There are conservatives who support Trump in Korea. We saw that they even dared to enter the American Congress following President Trump's request.
16:28And so this current of American conservatives, which account for more than 70 million voters, varies. Will they continue to support him? Will some of them withdraw their support?
16:52Professor Barakat, speaking of polls, what can you tell us about the evolution of polls since the announcement of the candidacy of Kamala Harris?
17:06In fact, polls must be wary. There are many elections in the world, in Europe and even in the United States, which launched numbers, percentages, following polls that were carried out on a sample of the population.
17:24But we have seen that often it happens that polls do not reflect the truth. There are many voters who decide at the last moment who to choose to vote for one party or another.
17:41But so far, polls have evolved. We saw that before, at the time when Biden was a candidate, before he left his place as Vice President, polls gave Trump as a winner.
18:00And then it was equal. And now, following the declaration and the debate that opposed them, he has lost a lot of votes in the polls, a large percentage, because at one point it was up to 50-50.
18:17But it is enough for President Trump or the candidate of the Democratic Party to say something or make a gesture that pleases, and then the polls will vary from one moment to the next. So it is very difficult to rely on polls. And the indicators in the United States are still ...
18:41According to you, what will be the next guidelines for the electoral campaign, especially after this debate between Trump and Harris?
18:58I believe that Trump will try to attract Jewish voters who have the Zionist lobby and the Jewish lobby in the United States, which has a considerable influence on the American Congress, the American Parliament.
19:17And so he will try to continue to promise to the Israelis. One of his statements is that the state of Israel is a small state and must be enlarged on the account of who, which he also aims to add a part of the Jordanian territories, the Lebanese, in addition to the six Jordanian Gaza, or even go much further.
19:44And so for the days to come, he will continue to try to attract the sympathy of pro-Israeli voters.
19:55On the other hand, Mrs. Harris, we know the position of the current president and vice president. In fact, there is support for the state of Israel, but Mrs. Harris has tried to say that the war must stop and Israel cannot continue to commit this genocide, etc.
20:20She also tries to have the sympathy and support of pro-Palestinian voters, especially among the young Americans who we saw during the last period, who strongly protested against the genocide of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza, and the destruction of infrastructure and cities in South Jordan.
20:47And so it will play on that. And then the important problem for American citizens is immigration. He promised to stop immigration and to take even more serious measures against immigrants who arrive clandestinely in the United States.
21:11And also abortion. And let's not forget the story of the fairly free sale of weapons. There are Democrats, especially President Biden and before him Obama, who tried to limit the free sale of weapons.
21:32But the lobby of weapons in the United States is quite influential. And so the president, in the event that he is elected, has promised, so Trump has promised, to give even more freedom for the sale of weapons to citizens. We saw when he had ...
21:52Professor Baraket, the American election is decided by an indirect universal suffrage. The whole issue is focused on a handful of key states to obtain the majority of the electoral college. Can we expect major upheavals following the last debate Harris-Trump?
22:13I believe that now, with the latest developments and the latest political positions that the president, that candidate Trump, I always say the president because he was president of the United States, that candidate Trump has adopted, and then the evolution of the situation on the world stage, I believe that Mrs. Harris has more chance than him to win.
22:44We can see now that she has the support of women in the United States, given her position on abortion and other issues. So in my opinion, it will not change and she will stay ahead of candidate Trump.
23:08Do you think there will be a second duel between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump?
23:38As she was winning, according to all the opinions of journalists and observers, as she is winning, I believe that if she proposes another, I believe that she will accept to do this new face-to-face.
24:01Thank you very much for this insight and I remind you that you are an expert in international relations.
24:14This is the end of this edition. Thank you for following it. Stay with us, the big news of Media Morning continues. See you in a moment.
24:30.