MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 15/10/2024
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00:00Welcome everyone, thank you for joining us in this new edition of Media Morning.
00:25In front of the members of the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly,
00:30Jordan, Qatar and Guatemala reaffirm their support for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco.
00:42Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his American ally
00:46to consider attacking the Iranian army and not Iran's oil or nuclear infrastructure.
00:51They are warning of a few hundred missiles being fired on Israel by Tehran.
00:56This is what the Washington Post said on Monday.
01:03And then the South Korean army announced this Tuesday that it had fired response shots on its own territory
01:11after the destruction by North Korea on the road connecting the two enemy countries.
01:23The Jordanian PM reiterated this Monday in New York his support for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco
01:31while congratulating himself on the autonomy plan presented by the Kingdom to definitively resolve the regional difference around the Sahara
01:39while insisting on the respect of the legitimate rights of the Kingdom of Morocco.
01:44Brother to sovereignty on these lands and its territorial integrity,
01:48to underline the representative of Jordan, Ahmad Samir Habachny,
01:52who expressed himself in front of the members of the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly.
01:59Even his bell for Guatemala, which has reaffirmed its support for national sovereignty and territorial integrity of Morocco
02:08as well as the initiative of autonomy as a definitive solution to the regional differences around the Moroccan Sahara.
02:16Still in front of the 4th Commission of the UN General Assembly,
02:20the representative of Qatar, Jassim Al-Thani, also expressed the support of his country to the efforts of the UN Secretary General
02:26aiming to facilitate the achievement of a sustainable political solution and compromise within the framework of the process
02:33carried out under the auspices of the United Nations in respect of the sovereignty of Morocco and its territorial integrity.
02:50In Rabat, the head of Moroccan diplomacy, Nassar Bouretta, received yesterday the President of the Brazilian Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco.
02:57This visit of the President of the Brazilian Senate testifies to the renewed will of Rabat and Brasilia to deepen bilateral ties.
03:06Rodrigo Pacheco was accompanied by Senators Davi and Coulombre,
03:10future presidents of this institution in February 2025, and the President of the Commission of Foreign Relations, Renan Calheiros.
03:21Let's listen to Nassar Bouretta's analysis of the Moroccan-Brazilian relations.
03:32These are very good relations, traditionally very strong.
03:37If at the beginning of Morocco's independence, the two countries had courteous relations,
03:44these relations have strengthened over the years.
03:48And we have seen in the last 20 years a very sensitive strengthening of these relations,
03:55so much so that Brazil has become the third, and sometimes even the second, country in which Morocco matters the most.
04:08So these are very strong and very important relations for Morocco.
04:13In international news, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to his American ally
04:20that he plans to strike the Iranian army in the name of Iran's oil and nuclear infrastructure,
04:26in retaliation for the shooting of some 200 missiles by Tehran on Israel.
04:30This is what the Washington Post said on Monday.
04:33According to the American daily, Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged phone calls last Wednesday
04:39with American President Joe Biden, their first call in more than seven weeks.
04:45On this occasion, Netanyahu said he plans to strike Iranian military infrastructure in retaliation for the shooting of Iranian missiles.
04:53Neither the office of the Israeli Prime Minister nor the White House have commented on the daily.
05:00On October 1, Tehran launched some 200 missiles on Israel,
05:05in retaliation for the shooting of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on Israel
05:12and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
05:17While it attacks Israeli cities and communities, these attacks have claimed the lives of many Israelis, including yesterday.
05:48Another night of horror in Gaza, in the epicenter of the Al-Aqsa hospital in the center of the Palestinian enclave.
05:57An Israeli attack caused a fire that quickly spread in the fortunes shelters,
06:03sheltering many families and causing several victims.
06:12There are no safe places in hospitals or schools.
06:18Five days ago they attacked a school and this morning they attacked this camp.
06:25What can we do? There were victims burned alive. It's horrible.
06:34What we live in is catastrophic. We have lost everything, our goods, our money. We have lost everything.
06:43We have become displaced without a home.
06:47We fled our homes to settle in this hospital.
06:51Look how this hospital has become.
06:55This attack takes place the day after the bombing of a school in another refugee camp in Nusayrat, which killed at least 22 people.
07:03The attacks of the Israeli army also continue in Sijordani.
07:08The Palestinian Authority announced the death of two Palestinians killed by the Israeli army,
07:13one of them in Jenin, in the north of the occupied territory.
07:22In the morning, an Israeli special forces unit was present in the refugee camp.
07:27The soldiers climbed on the roofs of the houses.
07:32They shot at everything that moved, which led to the martyrdom of a child and a young man, about 20 years old.
07:39In recent months, the Israeli army has conducted several operations on refugee camps in Sijordani,
07:46in particular in Nurshams, near Tulkaram, in Balata, near Nabuls.
07:51The UN and the Palestinian Authority report that no less than 36 Palestinians have been killed.
08:00The UN's Blue Helmets will keep their current position in Lebanon,
08:05despite calls from Israel to move when the fights with Hezbollah intensify.
08:11This is what their leader, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, said on Monday.
08:16Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said again yesterday that the Blue Helmets deployed in southern Lebanon
08:23are withdrawing from certain positions close to the border between Israel and Lebanon,
08:27stating that it was completely false that the Israeli forces were targeting the Blue Helmets,
08:33the UN's forces in Lebanon.
08:35Tensions between Israel and the Blue Helmets have multiplied in recent days.
08:40Five of its soldiers were injured by the Israeli army, which has cost Israel a lot of lives.
08:48The Blue Helmet, which has more than 9,500 members, is deployed in southern Lebanon
08:54to make peace with Israel.
08:56It denounced shocking violations of Israel against its positions,
09:01including the entry on Sunday of two Israeli tanks in one of them.
09:11The Blue Helmet, which has more than 9,500 soldiers, is under Israeli and Hezbollah crossfire.
09:20Since the Lebanese movement is the target of an open front by Israel,
09:27created by the Security Council,
09:30the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon aims to orchestrate the withdrawal of Israeli troops
09:37to the south of the country and consolidate peace.
09:41Shaima Fekdi tells us more.
09:44It is one of the largest peacekeeping missions of the UN in the world.
09:50An international force whose history is intertwined with the tragedies of southern Lebanon.
09:55The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon is initiated by the vote of two resolutions
10:01adopted in March 1978 by the UN.
10:05The first troops were deployed in the country of Cedre as early as March 23 of the same year.
10:11Dating from the first invasion of southern Lebanon by Israel,
10:15this organization gives rise to multiple operations.
10:19It is positioned in a strip of land of 120 km,
10:22which follows the unofficial border between Israel and Lebanon.
10:27It is the blue line drawn by the UN in June 2000 after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
10:33It is the UN peacekeeping mission that is in charge of monitoring it.
10:37The area is still the regular theater of clashes between the Israeli army and the Hezbollah.
10:43Created by the UN Security Council,
10:46the FINUL was deployed in Lebanon to fulfill three objectives,
10:50namely to confirm the withdrawal of Israeli forces,
10:53restore peace and security,
10:55and help the Lebanese government to ensure the return of its effective authority in the region.
11:02The mandate of the mission has been adjusted twice
11:05due to developments that occurred in 1982 and 2000.
11:09Since 2006, the FINUL is also there to control the cessation of hostilities,
11:15to support and support the Lebanese armed forces
11:18as they deploy throughout the south and provide assistance,
11:23to help ensure humanitarian access to civilian populations
11:27and the voluntary return of people displaced under security conditions.
11:32Its mandate is now renewed each year by the 15 members of the UN Security Council
11:37and at the moment the organization has 13,000 soldiers
11:41supported by civil, international and local personnel.
11:45In April 2024, more than 10,500 blue helmets were deployed in the country.
11:51There are more than 9,500 troops and about 800 civilians, including locals.
12:00In the news, the South Korean army announced this Tuesday
12:04that it had fired response shots on its own territory
12:08after the destruction by North Korea of roads connecting the two enemy countries.
12:13After an explosive operation carried out by North Korea
12:16to block the liaison routes,
12:18the South Korean forces carried out response shots
12:21in areas south of the military demarcation line.
12:25This is what the Inter-Armed Staff Declared.
12:28According to the South Korean press agency,
12:30these shots are in response to the North Korean army
12:33which destroyed road crossings,
12:35formerly used for cross-border exchanges with South Korea.
12:49Six months after the election, President Basirudio Maifa
12:53and the head of the Senegalese state, Prime Minister Ousmane Sanko
12:58presented their program this Monday
13:00to develop Senegal over the next 25 years
13:03with a first phase of the quinquennal
13:05going from 2024 to 2029.
13:08This economic action plan, which extends until 2050,
13:12aims to overcome underdevelopment, dependence and over-indebtedness
13:17while putting the country on the path of progress.
13:21There are more details in this video.
13:26This is the beginning of a new era
13:28with the official launch of the Senegal 2050 Public Policy Referendum.
13:40This development strategy on the horizon of 2050
13:43is a promise of campaign held by the new Senegalese authorities.
13:47The national agenda of transformation
13:49is based on four main axes,
13:51including good governance or a competitive economy.
13:55This new national development strategy
13:58is an innovative response to the challenges of the systemic transformation of Senegal.
14:04It is based on a clear, coherent, ambitious and assumed endogenous vision.
14:12This roadmap for the next 25 years,
14:15which is the object of a sharing today
14:18and the result of a collective reflection,
14:21is based on a quinquennal and decennial strategy.
14:25The emergence of Senegal will be marked by a significant funding
14:29of more than 18 billion EFA francs in its first quinquennal phase,
14:33thus covering the period 2025 to 2029.
14:36This program will benefit from the support of the brother countries of the sub-region.
14:41Convinced that the future of our continent
14:44rests on regional integration and solidarity,
14:47Senegal will play a leading role on the African level,
14:51especially in the areas of security,
14:54technological innovation and democratic governance.
14:58This vision meets the aspirations of the Senegalese population,
15:02especially young people who are at the heart of this new project.
15:06The President of the Republic, in this vision,
15:09has just said that by 2050,
15:12it is necessary to train 5 million young technicians.
15:16And by 2029, in the next 5 years,
15:19it is necessary to train 700,000 technicians.
15:22So 700,000 young people and less young people that must be trained.
15:25To make Senegal a sovereign, just and prosperous country in 25 years,
15:30will go through the establishment of food sovereignty
15:33and a structured agriculture.
15:36The second element that seems important to me in agriculture
15:39is the axis they have developed on cooperatives.
15:42How to connect cooperatives at the level of the municipalities
15:45with what are called agropoles.
15:48Because agropoles are industrial transformation spaces.
15:51But if we do not produce, or what we produce we lose,
15:54in the event of post-harvest losses, we cannot transform.
15:57And if we do not transform, there is no industrial fabric.
16:00The President of the Republic, Prime Minister Ousmane Sanko,
16:03is presiding over the Symbolic Submission of the Senegal 2050 Referential
16:06to the President of the Republic.
16:09The train is now on its way to the emergency.
16:15And right away, the guest of the major media newspaper, Morning,
16:20the Pentagon announced on Sunday the deployment in Israel
16:24of an American anti-missile defense system, TAAD,
16:29which will be maneuvered by American soldiers.
16:32It will reinforce the integrated air defense system of Israel.
16:36We are going to talk about it with Jérôme Besnard,
16:40journalist and essayist from Paris.
16:43Hello and thank you for being with us.
16:46I can't hear you.
16:49Mr. Besnard, can you hear me?
16:52Yes, I can hear you.
16:55Thank you for being with us.
16:58As the fights between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah continue,
17:03Washington announced the sending of a hundred men to Israel
17:08to support the Israeli army.
17:11What do you think is the importance of this American deployment?
17:16We should probably not overestimate it.
17:19The goal is to complete the iron dome of Israel's protection
17:25in relation to Iranian missile fire.
17:28To deploy an armament that another army does not master,
17:32the only way is to send people already trained to use it.
17:36If the United States decides to send additional ballistic protection,
17:42they are obliged to send men who know how to use these armaments.
17:47The American military aid to Israel breaks all records.
17:53It has reached unprecedented levels since October 7.
17:59How do you explain this new American military aid to Israel?
18:07In fact, we must first analyze it in the context of the American political calendar.
18:13We are a few weeks before the presidential elections.
18:18The Democratic camp knows that it has lost a part of the American pro-Palestinian left.
18:29It is therefore obliged to try to regain votes against Donald Trump
18:37by helping Israel more significantly.
18:43This is, I think, the heart of the very high level of current American aid to Israel.
18:51Can this new American aid be interpreted as a preparation for a large-scale attack
19:01or as a support to the Israeli air defense system whose effectiveness would be impacted?
19:09We can probably opt for your second option.
19:17First of all, to demonstrate that the United States will defend Israel to the end.
19:23If there are large-scale attacks, they will come from Israel itself.
19:34Yesterday in Gaza, today in Lebanon, and tomorrow in Syria.
19:40There are questions about the strength of Bashar al-Assad's power.
19:47The Iranian Foreign Minister said that Washington was putting American soldiers at risk.
19:57Do you think that with this military deployment, Washington is even more involved in this conflict?
20:07Probably. After all, the Iranians are used to announcements that do not necessarily have the next day.
20:13There is also a part of internal propaganda in the country, in Iran.
20:19There are few maps of Iran with the mobilization of Hezbollah in a direct confrontation with Sahel.
20:29In the region, there are tools in Yemen, which continue to paralyze part of the traffic to the Suez Canal.
20:38There is probably still armament of missiles,
20:42the different types of missiles that have already been fired on Israel,
20:47and that go from ballistic missiles to drones.
20:51But on both sides, there is also a verbal escalation that will not necessarily be followed by large-scale operations.
21:05We can still hope that the Middle East will not fall into a direct confrontation.
21:17Speaking of the impact of this military deployment on the ground,
21:23do you think the Middle East is ready to live a new stage in this conflict?
21:31That's what I was saying.
21:33If there is a new stage, it could be the continuation of the destabilization of Syria.
21:40And Israel, if it has an attack plan that exceeds the political and evolutionary contingencies,
21:50once it has taken it in Lebanon, it can be tempted to push the matter to Damascus.
21:59And the real question, in any case today I see the analysis of the geopolitical specialists in France,
22:05is rather oriented towards the question of whether Syria will hold,
22:11or if at the same time the flight of some of Hezbollah's troops to Syria
22:19and possible Israeli actions will destabilize Bashar al-Assad's regime.
22:27Israel has announced that its response against Iran will be unprecedented in size.
22:32Every day that goes by, the suspense increases.
22:36In your opinion, what form will the Israeli response take to the 200 Iranian missiles fired on 1 October last year?
22:51It's always difficult to know.
22:53In any case, what we could think of is that today Israel would be able to target the Iranian leaders in Tehran,
23:02as it did yesterday in Beirut or the day before yesterday in Gaza.
23:07That is to say that their unprecedented response would be the elimination on Iranian soil,
23:12away from some of the country's leaders.
23:16It may seem to be the simplest thing for Israel,
23:23since the danger for it would be to enter a total war with Iran,
23:30where its own population, despite American protection and the Iron Dome,
23:36could also be seriously affected.
23:41Perhaps the continuum of Israel's strategy in recent months
23:46would be its ability to hit more or less surgically the main political and even military targets of Iran.
24:00Jérôme Besnard, thank you for answering our questions.
24:05Thank you for this insight.
24:07I remind you that you are a journalist and essayist.
24:13Thank you very much.
24:16This concludes this edition.
24:18Thank you for following it.
24:20Enjoy the rest of the program.
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