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00:00Hello and welcome to Mediain TV, thank you for joining us to make a new point on the
00:21news.
00:22Here are the headlines of this day.
00:23The Syrian state of an Israeli air attack on the city of Latakia, an attack that caused
00:30fires in the coastal city, we will talk about it in a moment.
00:33The 27 countries of the European Union are meeting for a summit in Brussels.
00:40European leaders will look at a new hardening of their migratory policies.
00:442023 was the hottest year ever recorded in Morocco, this is what the annual report on
00:52the state of the climate in Morocco, published today by the General Directorate of Meteorology.
00:56And to begin with, know that a twinning agreement between the municipality of Darla and the city
01:05of Columbus in the United States was signed this Wednesday in Darla in order to strengthen
01:09bilateral cooperation in several areas of common interest.
01:13In a statement to the press, the mayor of the city of Columbus and the president of
01:17the Conference of Mayors of the United States spoke of his joy to visit for the first time
01:22the city of Darla and to get to know the Moroccan people better in order to forge very important relations.
01:28The American representative saluted the clear-sighted vision of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI
01:33in favor of the development of the provinces of the south of the kingdom.
01:36For his part, the president of the municipal council of Darla, Rarab Hulmatullah, said
01:41that this twinning agreement will benefit the inhabitants of the cities of Darla and Columbus
01:44in the context of exchange, partnership and cooperation with the United States.
01:49And know that the United States has hit five underground depots of Houthi rebels ammunition
01:55in Yemen.
01:56US Defense Minister Lloyd Austin said that this is the first job known to this day
02:01of B-2 bombers by the US forces since the beginning of their strikes against the Houthis.
02:05And Houthis have been carrying out attacks against Israel and ships that would be linked to them
02:10in solidarity with the Palestinian people for months.
02:13The Syrian official agency stated on Wednesday night that an Israeli air strike
02:20caused fires in the coastal city of Latakia.
02:23The Syrian observatory of human rights mentioned a strike on a weapon depot.
02:26The NGO, based in the United Kingdom, has a wide network of sources in the country,
02:30reported on the social network X that an Israeli strike aimed at a weapon depot.
02:35In addition to the Gaza Strip and Lebanon, Israel has intensified its raids on Libya, on Syria.
02:41The humanitarian situation in Gaza remains catastrophic.
02:48The Palestinian enclave is missing almost everything.
02:51After calling on Israel to put an end to these bombings, having caused nearly 43,000 deaths,
02:56the UN is warning against a real risk of famine on the spot.
03:00Jeymeh Fikri tells us more.
03:04UNRWA rings the alarm.
03:06The head of the United Nations Agency for Palestinians
03:10warned on Wednesday against a real risk of famine this winter in Gaza.
03:14Philippe Lazarini estimates that hunger in the Gaza Strip is artificially created
03:19and accuses Israel of actively preventing convoys from crossing the border.
03:24The UNRWA boss also claimed that some members of the Israeli government
03:29are making famine a weapon of war.
03:32After more than a year of Israeli offensive on Palestinian territory,
03:37Lazarini has seen a drastic drop in the number of food convoys in the south,
03:42to an average of 50 to 60 for 2 million inhabitants.
03:46A very low estimated number to meet the needs of the Palestinians.
03:51I expect a very big humanitarian disaster
03:54because most adults and children are dying of hunger.
03:57And the Israelis are doing it on purpose.
04:00They are carrying out this operation to kill the people in one way or another.
04:03Not by strikes, but by famine.
04:07The aim is to humiliate the Palestinian people.
04:10In Berlin, Philippe Lazarini reminded that children are bearing the brunt of this war
04:15and that 1 million minors are currently living in the rubble.
04:21We have done all this to get a pot of lentil soup
04:25because the situation in our house is very difficult
04:28and we have no food.
04:30We have come a long way to find something to eat.
04:33On the other hand, the United States has threatened Israel
04:36to suspend part of their military assistance
04:39if there is no significant improvement
04:42of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip.
04:45After 30 days, the COGA, the Israeli military body
04:48in charge of supervising civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories,
04:52has declared that 50 trucks carrying humanitarian aid,
04:56including food, water, medical supplies,
05:00and shelter supplies provided by Jordan,
05:03have been transferred to northern Gaza.
05:08The 27 countries of the European Union meet for a summit in Brussels
05:11five months after the adoption of the Immigration Pact.
05:14European leaders are already considering a new toughening
05:17of the migratory policy.
05:19European leaders must notably discuss the proposal
05:22of a return hub for migrant transfers
05:25in third-country reception centers,
05:28which Italy offers in Albania.
05:30These centers are just a drop of water
05:32and do not represent a solution for large countries like Germany,
05:35as Chancellor Olaf Scholz revealed.
05:38Spain opposes it, while France invites to favor returns
05:42when the conditions allow it,
05:44rather than organizing returns in third-country hubs.
05:52Vladimir Zelensky wants a strong Ukraine
05:54in order to be ready for diplomacy.
05:56The Ukrainian president said on Thursday in Brussels
05:59that his victory plan aimed at placing his country
06:02in a position of strength against Russia
06:04in order to be in a good position for negotiations.
06:07Our plan is to strengthen Ukraine,
06:09to be strong and to be ready for diplomacy,
06:12he said at his arrival at a summit of the European Union
06:15gathering the leaders of the 27 countries.
06:17Vladimir Zelensky is expected today in Brussels
06:20to defend his plan for victory
06:22in front of the 27 European leaders
06:25The General Directorate of Meteorology published yesterday
06:29its annual report on the state of climate in Morocco for the year 2023,
06:33a year that the document presents as the hottest ever recorded
06:37in the kingdom since the beginning of the 20th century.
06:40In terms of rainfall, the document tells us that 2023
06:43has been the driest year in at least 80 years,
06:46with a rainfall deficit of about 48%.
06:49The case of Morocco is part of a global context
06:52marked by an increase in greenhouse gas concentrations
06:56contributing to global warming.
07:02We stay in Morocco where the launch of the 8th edition
07:04of the International Congress on Emergency Medicine
07:07was given in Rabat today.
07:09The event is organized by the Moroccan Society of Emergency Medicine
07:12under the patronage of His Majesty King Mohamed VI.
07:15This congress offers a unique opportunity
07:17to emphasize the crucial importance of emergency medicine
07:20in managing life-threatening emergencies.
07:22In particular, this congress aims to strengthen
07:24the quality of care in the kingdom
07:26through the exchange of expertise
07:28between national and international specialists,
07:30but also by addressing the major challenges
07:32of emergency services by proposing innovative solutions,
07:35notably by using new technologies.
07:42And to find out a little more about the issues
07:44of the International Congress on Emergency Medicine,
07:46we are live from Rabat with Hamza Al Hamzaoui,
07:49professor at the Ibn Sina University Hospital.
07:51Hello.
07:55Hello.
07:57Thank you for the invitation.
07:59Thank you for covering this congress.
08:04So, this 8th edition is centered on the theme
08:07of the essentials in emergency medicine.
08:09Why is it important to return to the essentials
08:12or the fundamentals of emergency medicine?
08:19Well, simply because we believe that emergency medicine
08:23does not affect other specialties,
08:26whereas all specialties of all types,
08:30whether medical or surgical,
08:32know their own emergencies.
08:34So, going back to the basics,
08:36to be able to bring out specialized emergencies
08:39and to find, or above all,
08:42to come out with specialized recommendations
08:45for each type of emergency.
08:48So, this 8th edition of the Congress
08:52is organized over two days.
08:54What will be the highlights of this
08:56International Congress on Emergency Medicine?
09:02So, it will be three days,
09:04today, Friday and Saturday,
09:06rather than two days.
09:08And it will be spread over three days
09:10by targeting three points.
09:12This 8th edition, we will already know
09:15how to value the other specialties,
09:17as I just said.
09:18So, it will be a multidisciplinary congress
09:20that will touch on all emergencies
09:22of all specialties.
09:24This is the first point.
09:25The second point is a little bit
09:27the regulation of patients
09:28throughout the whole kingdom,
09:30to be able to unify the care
09:32and the care of serious patients
09:34at the level of emergencies.
09:35So, a regulation that will be led
09:37by SAMUS, MUR services,
09:39but how to organize it,
09:40how to smooth the circuits
09:42within emergencies.
09:43This will be our second point.
09:45So, the third point is the nomenclature
09:47and everything that is conducted
09:49and protocol, in order, as I said,
09:51to unify the care of the Moroccan citizen
09:53at the level of the whole kingdom.
09:57And to look at the deficit
09:59of emergency medicine in Morocco,
10:01Morocco really has a deficit
10:03in the matter.
10:04So, what are the priorities
10:06that the participants of this summit
10:08should look at?
10:13So, first of all, to recharge
10:15the doctors a little bit
10:17in the course of training,
10:19in order to find themselves
10:21within this environment
10:23which is still known,
10:25it will know a deficit.
10:27Why? Because the emergencies
10:29are the spine of every hospital,
10:31whether it is university
10:33or non-university.
10:35So, we will say
10:37the recommendations
10:39and the objectives
10:41that this Moroccan society
10:43of emergency medicine
10:45elaborates every year
10:47is to recruit
10:49or rather bring back
10:51to this specialty
10:53the maximum of young doctors
10:55and young nurses.
10:57Do we have figures on the number
10:59of emergency doctors
11:01today in Morocco?
11:03So,
11:05exactly figures,
11:07no, but
11:09we have specialists of emergency medicine
11:11and disaster medicine,
11:13a little over the whole kingdom,
11:15over all cities,
11:17but we never have enough.
11:19So, maybe train
11:21the next
11:23and future doctoral doctors
11:25and also nurses
11:27in order to really
11:29reduce this deficit
11:31because in all ways,
11:33with what we are currently experiencing,
11:35an aging population, an increase
11:37in chronic diseases,
11:39this specialty should know
11:41much more integration
11:43than in previous years.
11:45Well, thank you
11:47Hamza El Hamzaoui for all these details.
11:49I remind you that you are a professor
11:51at the University Hospital Ibn Sina.
11:59The spread of the flu virus
12:01increases in winter,
12:03thus making prevention essential.
12:05Seasonal vaccinations
12:07are one of the main ways
12:09to protect children
12:11against the current viruses
12:13and their symptoms.
12:15This is a report by Driss Bousserhan
12:17and a story by Chema Fikri.
12:19High temperature
12:21and respiratory infection.
12:23The flu can present serious symptoms
12:25with a negative impact
12:27on children's health.
12:29The annual vaccine is therefore
12:31a safe and effective way
12:33to prevent complications
12:35of the flu.
12:45The anti-flu vaccine
12:47is an annual seasonal vaccine.
12:49It contains antibodies
12:51against the viruses causing the flu
12:53and strengthens the immune system.
12:55At the pediatric service,
12:57we advise parents and sensitize them
12:59about the importance of this vaccine.
13:01The flu and its complications
13:03can be fatal.
13:05We advise all children
13:07to get vaccinated,
13:09especially those suffering
13:11from chronic diseases
13:13such as heart and blood diseases,
13:15asthma and cancer.
13:19Research shows
13:21that sensitization
13:23to the importance of vaccination
13:25contributes to an increase
13:27in child vaccination rates,
13:29increasing the importance
13:31of prevention in Moroccan society.
13:35We did not vaccinate our children.
13:37As a result,
13:39they suffer from several diseases.
13:41The doctor made us aware
13:43of the importance of vaccination,
13:45especially for the prevention
13:47of the flu.
13:49The importance of vaccination
13:51plays a key role
13:53in sanitary prevention.
13:55It also helps reduce the spread
13:57of COVID-19
13:59and reduce the burden
14:01on health institutions.
14:03Now, it's time
14:05for the guest of the Grand Journal.
14:07Today, we are going to look
14:09at the annual report
14:11on the state of the climate
14:13in Morocco for the year 2023.
14:15The year 2023 is presented
14:17as the hottest year
14:19ever recorded in Morocco
14:21since the beginning of the 20th century.
14:23To talk about it,
14:25let's hear from Casablanca.
14:27Hello.
14:29Hello, Madam.
14:31Hello to all the viewers
14:33of Média TV.
14:35I am from Casablanca.
14:37Very good.
14:39We are going to correct that.
14:41What are the main aspects
14:43of this report by the General Director
14:45of Meteorology,
14:47and what should be kept in mind?
14:49If you wish,
14:51this report should be included
14:53on a global level.
14:55Maybe we will come back
14:57to this situation later.
14:59But the report itself
15:01indicates
15:03that Morocco experienced
15:05in 2023
15:07great shifts
15:09and extremes never experienced
15:11at the national level,
15:13starting with the temperature
15:15which was too high
15:17for several months,
15:19and an absolute record
15:21at the level of Agadirna
15:23in August 2023.
15:25At the same time,
15:27it was the fifth year
15:29of consecutive drought,
15:31and the rain
15:33made a mistake.
15:35As a result,
15:37Morocco experienced
15:39a very large drought,
15:41five years in a row,
15:43and its impact
15:45on human activities,
15:47mainly agriculture,
15:49was catastrophic,
15:51especially when it comes
15:53to cereals.
15:55At the same time,
15:57there were abnormal events,
15:59such as
16:01gusts of wind
16:03which brought
16:05dust through
16:07the air,
16:09but also
16:11what caused
16:13a lot of disturbances
16:15at the airport
16:17and at the national
16:19highway.
16:21This situation
16:23is part of a global
16:25context of global
16:27warming
16:29due to the increase
16:31in energy consumption
16:33directly
16:35due to the increase
16:37in temperature,
16:39which disrupts the water cycle.
16:41The drought we are experiencing
16:43today in Morocco
16:45is one of the stages
16:47of global warming.
16:51The current situation
16:53is characterized by an increase
16:55never seen before
16:57in the surface
16:59waters of the oceans.
17:01You know that the oceans
17:03absorb a lot of
17:05solar radiation,
17:07so they cap the temperature
17:09and store it.
17:11They circulate it
17:13through currents,
17:15mainly hot currents.
17:17But what has been
17:19surpassed is that
17:21today the oceans are
17:23much warmer than
17:25normal, mainly
17:27in the tropical zone
17:29of the equator, but across
17:31all the oceans, Atlantic,
17:33Pacific, Indian, etc.
17:35This does not happen
17:37without consequences.
17:39The global warming
17:41we experienced
17:43in 2023
17:45is mainly due to this.
17:47And it continues until now.
17:49What we experienced
17:51at the end of August and
17:53throughout September
17:55of the West African flu
17:57that reached us to the south of
17:59the Atlantic,
18:01from Agadir to Tunisia,
18:03is no other
18:05than this
18:07disruption of the
18:09oceanic surface temperature
18:11that is induced and transmitted
18:13to the atmosphere
18:15and therefore reacts with
18:17excellent energy and with
18:19exceptional events.
18:21This,
18:23of course,
18:25the General Directorate of
18:27Meteorology gave us this report.
18:29We thank him on occasion.
18:31He makes a lot of effort
18:33to inform us about
18:35this situation.
18:37And we know
18:39that the years to come
18:41can be much hotter
18:43than what is happening now,
18:45because the energy bill of the Earth,
18:47and that's the big problem,
18:49continues to increase.
18:51This is the great scientific
18:53difficulty and also
18:55activities.
18:57And from there, a temperature
18:59that continues to increase
19:01disrupts all infrastructure,
19:03all interactions
19:05the ocean, the atmosphere,
19:07the continent,
19:09etc.
19:11And so we should take into
19:13consideration all these future
19:15evolutions that we
19:17ignore on occasion. We just know
19:19that the temperature continues to rise,
19:21but the water cycle, we are blind to
19:23the evolution. Either it will evolve
19:25by advancing by a
19:27lack of water,
19:29as we have experienced in recent
19:31years, or there could be a
19:33flood, as was the case
19:35in the previous phase,
19:37between 2006 and 2016.
19:39And in this case, we will have floods.
19:41In any case, we should prepare for this
19:43type of unusual events,
19:45which have become the
19:47rule of the current climate,
19:49which is completely disturbed
19:51by a climate machine
19:53that works with excess energy.
19:55And so we need to
19:57know what we want,
19:59where we are going, what we propose
20:01in the future, to solve our problems
20:03and to meet all our needs.
20:05That's it.
20:07So in this report,
20:09we also read that it is a question
20:11of climate variability
20:13influencing the climate of Morocco.
20:15In 2023, can you
20:17explain a little more what that means?
20:19So,
20:21variability is the normal
20:23evolution of the climate
20:25between
20:27the usual thresholds.
20:29I'll give you an example
20:31so that I'm
20:33quick to communicate.
20:35For example,
20:37the average rainfall
20:39in Casablanca is
20:41400 millimetres.
20:43400 millimetres is
20:45the average of a
20:47minimum threshold, which is 0,
20:49and a maximum threshold,
20:51which is 800 millimetres.
20:53So if this variability
20:55is between 0 and 800 millimetres,
20:57we are in variability.
20:59But when we have
21:01beyond 800 millimetres,
21:03that is no longer variability.
21:05That's a change, that's an evolution
21:07and that's the exception.
21:09And from there,
21:11we could look for other
21:13explanations than
21:15normal variability, than today's
21:17climate warming, which does this to us,
21:19neither more nor less. So,
21:21global warming,
21:23puts us in a future
21:25that is rather hot.
21:27That's clear.
21:29But probably
21:31drier,
21:33but at the same time
21:35with a risk of precipitation return.
21:37And from there,
21:39the Mammoth, which uses a lot of water,
21:41especially in agriculture,
21:43cannot rely only on
21:45water return. In this case, we will be
21:47blind in our
21:49future risks. But on the other hand,
21:51if we develop our drainage
21:53and we develop more,
21:55in this case, we know what we have.
21:57We know what we can produce. From there,
21:59we can make clearer plans,
22:01more futuristic, more visible
22:03vis-à-vis politics.
22:05Neither the church, nor I.
22:07There is another question that should be
22:09taken into consideration. These are the risks.
22:11The risks of
22:13heat, or wind,
22:15or floods. And in this
22:17case, it would be necessary for the
22:19person in charge to take
22:21into consideration
22:23these unknown risks.
22:25The unknown risks are all events that
22:27could occur vis-à-vis this
22:29thermal evolution,
22:31which can be either
22:33thermal, or heat, or
22:35aerial, floods, etc.
22:37And we have recently experienced
22:39wind gusts that were
22:41abnormal and
22:43caused a lot of damage and a lot of problems.
22:45That's it.
22:47You just talked about abnormal
22:49climatic events. A whole chapter of this report
22:51is dedicated to extreme
22:53climatic events of the year
22:552023. Can we go back a little more
22:57on this passage?
22:59Extreme events,
23:01the first
23:03thing was the absolute
23:05temperature, the absolute record
23:07that was observed
23:09at the level of Agadirat,
23:11which is 50.2°C.
23:13It has never been
23:15recorded at the national level.
23:17The second is
23:19a very long
23:21recurring drought.
23:23And so the fifth year
23:25is the
23:27consequence of the
23:29five years that have passed.
23:31And so its effect is
23:33great. And here I'm not
23:35talking about water, I'm not talking about the use of water.
23:37I'm talking about drought itself,
23:39vis-à-vis the natural environment,
23:41and not vis-à-vis activities.
23:43Activities that use water are
23:45our business.
23:47And to know
23:49how,
23:51where, how,
23:53etc. I won't go into details
23:55now, since there was a
23:57big problem. The drought settled
23:59in Morocco in 2019, but
24:01we continued to use water in the
24:03barracks, which were available at the time,
24:05as if the drought did not exist.
24:07And it had to come
24:09in December 2021
24:11for Marocco to be dry,
24:13for the government to declare
24:15the drought.
24:17The problem was not there. The drought
24:19had settled since 2019,
24:21really.
24:23And we don't have an alternative
24:25plan for the drought
24:27in the use of water.
24:29That's our problem.
24:31It's our problem, not ours.
24:33It's our business. So the extremes
24:35were also the floods.
24:37Yes, in Morocco we are not used to floods.
24:39And since there was
24:41this drought
24:43since 2019,
24:45the entire national territory
24:47was dry, and therefore a lot of dust.
24:49And these floods
24:51moved a lot of dust.
24:53I'm not talking about wind, I'm not talking about
24:55sand or desert sand, which
24:57entered the atmosphere
24:59and moved to
25:01Europe, to America,
25:03right? I'm just talking
25:05about dust, dust
25:07gusts that moved at the national level
25:09and that caused
25:11a lot of visibility problems,
25:13a lot of problems also
25:15on agriculture, on
25:17circulation, on the poles that fell,
25:19on the infrastructures
25:21that do not resist this gust of wind
25:23because
25:25this infrastructure was
25:27made to bring
25:29this force of wind.
25:31And so I also invite those responsible
25:33to review the standards
25:35of these constructions
25:37that we are used to
25:39making, the poles that
25:41we use, the advertising
25:43poles,
25:45the
25:47public
25:49electricity, the way
25:51of building, etc.
25:53And so the wind is nothing
25:55but an evolution of the
25:57global and local
25:59energy balance.
26:01And so as long as
26:03this balance is high,
26:05the gusts of wind are
26:07very high, they are too strong.
26:09And so we have to wait for
26:11several national infrastructures
26:13to be rebuilt and rehabilitated
26:15to resist these gusts
26:17of wind that
26:19settle
26:21in what I call
26:23the new climate based
26:25on the evolution of the global energy balance.
26:27That's it.
26:29Well, thank you Saïd Kahlouk
26:31for all these details. I remind you that
26:33he is a professor of
26:35climatology at the Université Hassane II
26:37in Casablanca.
26:39And a former member of the
26:41GIEC.
26:43Very good, thank you sir.
26:45This is the end of this news.
26:47Thank you for following it.
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