MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 12/11/2024
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00:00Welcome everyone, I am delighted to see you for a new edition of the Media Morning, here are the headlines.
00:23How to accelerate on climate are the world's leading powers. This is the challenge posed to some 75 leaders, majority of developing countries, this Tuesday and Wednesday at the annual UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, a week after Donald Trump's return to power.
00:43The US forces fired yesterday against 9 targets linked to groups supported by Iran in Syria in response to attacks against troops from Washington in the country. The announcement was made by the Pentagon.
00:58And then a coup d'envoi of Morocco-France economic days, including the regions of Saqqara Hamra and Dakhla-Oued Deheb. Nearly 50 decision-makers and French business leaders are taking part in this event. We find ourselves right away.
01:16How to accelerate on climate are the world's leading powers. This is the challenge posed to some 75 leaders, majority of developing countries, this Tuesday and Wednesday at the annual UN climate conference in Azerbaijan, a week after Donald Trump's return to power.
01:36The 29th COP, organized in Azerbaijan, opened yesterday on a vibrant call for international cooperation. Everyone is looking forward to Donald Trump's United States next year becoming the only country to exit the light agreement on climate adopted in Paris in 2015.
01:56Democratic President Joe Biden's emissary assured on Monday that the United States would continue to act to compensate for the long-awaited federal retreat. The anticipated exit of the second world pollster weakened the voice of its negotiators. The Europeans have promised to preserve, but they are not backing down. Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz, the president of the European Commission, will be absent at the summit on Tuesday and Wednesday.
02:27Riyadh for the extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit, which reaffirmed its support for the action of the Al-Quds committee chaired by His Majesty the King Mohammed VI. The kings, heads of the Arab and Islamic states who took part in this extraordinary summit, reiterated their support for the action of the Al-Quds committee in the service of strengthening the resilience of the Makdissis.
02:51This support was expressed in the resolution adopted by the leaders of the Arab and Islamic countries at the end of the work of this summit held at the invitation of Saudi Arabia.
03:02Several Arab and Islamic countries, including Morocco, took part in the work of the extraordinary Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh, His Majesty the King Mohammed VI, and was represented by the head of the government, Aziz Arnouch, who underlined that the sovereign places the Palestinian cause at the forefront of the foreign policy of the kingdom and that security and stability will not be totally established in Morocco.
03:32His Majesty the King placed the Palestinian cause at the forefront of the foreign policy of the kingdom and that security and stability will not be totally established in Morocco.
03:53His Majesty the King placed the Palestinian cause at the forefront of the foreign policy of the kingdom and that security and stability will not be totally established in Morocco.
04:06The sovereign had given a large place to the Palestinian cause in his speech on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the throne celebration.
04:16His Majesty the King reaffirmed in his speech his commitment to continue to support constructive initiatives aimed at finding practical solutions for the conclusion of a concrete, sustainable ceasefire and to restore the humanitarian situation.
04:33His Majesty the King reaffirmed that the worsening of the situation in the region requires leaving the logic of crisis management in favor of the search for a definitive solution to this conflict.
04:48His Majesty the King reaffirmed that the worsening of the situation in the region requires leaving the logic of crisis management in favor of the search for a definitive solution to this conflict.
05:07His Majesty the King reaffirmed that the worsening of the situation in the region requires leaving the logic of crisis management in favor of the search for a definitive solution to this conflict.
05:20His Majesty the King reaffirmed that the worsening of the situation in the region requires leaving the logic of crisis management in favor of the search for a definitive solution to this conflict.
05:41His Majesty the King reaffirmed that the worsening of the situation in the region requires leaving the logic of crisis management in favor of the search for a definitive solution to this conflict.
06:07The Pentagon did not specify which groups were targeted or made victims, but according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, these strikes killed four members of a group linked to Iran.
06:19The United States deployed about 2,500 troops in Iraq and 900 in Syria as part of an international coalition created in 2014 to fight Daesh terrorists who had taken full control of the Syrian and Iraqi territories before being defeated in 2019.
06:39But terrorist cells remain active, particularly in the rural and remote areas outside the big cities.
06:50Morocco-France in the regions of Sarkia-Alhambra and Dakhla-Ouaddahab.
07:04As part of the realization of the French decision to recognize the Moroccan identity of the Sahara and the sovereignty of Morocco on its territory.
07:14The ambassador of France to the Kingdom of Morocco, Christophe Lecourtier, accompanied by a strong delegation, also participates in this meeting.
07:22This initiative follows an official visit of the level during which the two countries renewed their commitment to strengthen economic cooperation in future strategic areas, especially in the southern provinces.
07:36And on these economic days, Morocco-France, listening to Jean-Charles Domblin, Director General of the French Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Morocco.
07:48The importance, if you will, for the CFCM is always to accompany the Moroccan regions.
07:55There were recent statements, the idea came to do this roadshow in the southern regions.
08:02So we start today, we arrived in Laayoune, we stay tomorrow in Laayoune for a presentation of the PDR that will be made.
08:10It's about 50 companies, 50 decision-makers of the company who are with us today.
08:15So a presentation of the PDR of the region and so in the afternoon a visit of the site, which is the UM6P of Laayoune.
08:24Subsequently, we will take a flight to Arla.
08:27For us, it is important to be able to accompany the companies.
08:30Here we have companies, of course, French companies, subsidiaries of the French group that are already installed.
08:36I will not name the names, but large companies that come here to see a little bit, to take advantage of the different opportunities.
08:42It is important to accompany this movement to the south.
08:45The Chamber has been accompanying the movement to the south since 2017, with the opening of its delegation in Laayoune and 2019 in Dakhla.
08:53But it was still important to redo a mission, to show companies that we are present and that the region will offer them strong opportunities.
09:02It reinforces it in fact, since our relationship is already economically anchored.
09:08We heard it during President Macron's visit, the figures that were given.
09:1314 billion euros of exchange between the two countries.
09:16Also France, the first foreign direct investor in Morocco.
09:20So to reinforce them, it is not only to reinforce them on the Casablanca region, Tangier, Rabat, on the main axis.
09:27But it is the Chamber's desire to help the regions, to accompany the regions, precisely in this reinforcement,
09:32by bringing companies, subsidiaries of the French group or French companies.
09:36We have here four companies that come from France, who wanted to come and see what was happening in Laayoune,
09:40who had never come to Laayoune or even to Dakhla, where we are going tomorrow, where we are leaving tomorrow.
09:45So it was important to show all of Morocco and all the regions that make it up.
09:51In the rest of the news, in Mozambique, the main opponent and ex-host of Vénancio Mondlane TV
09:59reminded his supporters on Monday of three new days of demonstrations starting on Wednesday
10:03to defend themselves after the victory proclaimed by the party in power.
10:07Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday 14th and Friday 15th.
10:09We will not analyze all the activities announced during a live broadcast on social networks.
10:14Vénancio Mondlane, who claims electoral victory in this country of Africa-Australia,
10:18denounces fraud in favor of the Frélimourx, a power formation since independence in 1975.
10:26At least 30 people have died in post-election violence since October 19th
10:30and the murder of two figures of the opposition in an ambush in the middle of the street in Maputo,
10:35according to one of the accounts of the ONG Human Rights Watch carried out before the march on Thursday,
10:42which made new victims.
10:44According to the ONG Mozambique, a center for democracy and human rights,
10:49five people were killed by police bullets on Thursday in Maputo.
10:56The day of the election
11:02I am now with the guest of the major media newspaper Morning.
11:08Eyes are on Azerbaijan, which is currently covering the work of the 29th session of the UN Conference on Climate Change.
11:24We are live with Saïd Khorrouk, a climatologist.
11:31Thank you, Mr. Saïd Khorrouk, for accepting our invitation.
11:38Thank you, hello everyone.
11:42Representatives from several countries will meet until November 20th at COP29,
11:49while global warming is dangerously approaching the 1.5 target set by the Paris Agreement.
11:57What are the challenges of this COP29?
12:02Today, with all the packaging of the global climate and the severe direct effects on all humanity,
12:12this COP29 is taking place in a climate that is beyond our natural limits.
12:22A climate that gave us, in North Africa and Morocco, the last floods of equatorial origin in September.
12:36Before that, there was the Milton hurricane that destroyed the United States of the South East.
12:45And not long after, what happened in Cote d'Izumo, not to mention that, in Spain.
12:54So we are facing a climate that has already changed,
12:58that I have called a new climate since 2010 for purely scientific structural reasons.
13:07And today we must no longer talk about global warming.
13:11We are already in a heated climate that continues to evolve.
13:15This is the great difficulty, it continues to increase.
13:18And this is not the time, I will not go into these details.
13:21So now, humanity, since the COP of Copenhagen in 2009,
13:27has found itself in a reality that is beyond the real of not using fossil fuels.
13:41And since then, we have not really talked about the climate or the attenuation itself.
13:48We talk about the topics that are around the climate in all these summits.
13:53And today we are going to talk about finance, quite simply.
13:56But finance, what is finance?
13:59Finance is the countries of the South that are victims,
14:02and that are waiting for the help of the countries responsible for global warming,
14:07so that there is help to support their integration.
14:14But this help does not come.
14:16It has not come since 2009.
14:19And then we continue to meet to try to stop the increase in climate temperature.
14:30And until now, it is the climate that is taking the lead.
14:33This is the situation.
14:36Morocco is participating in this COP29.
14:40Morocco, which has recorded progress in the development of wind and solar parks
14:49in order to contribute to the reduction of its dependence on fossil fuels.
14:54In your opinion, what role could the Kingdom play,
14:57especially in terms of awareness and action,
15:00to fight against the effects of global warming on the African continent?
15:07We are proud to be a leader in this area.
15:14We have developed, through sovereign national strategies,
15:19renewable energies that are varied today.
15:23Solar, wind, but also hydrogen.
15:29And this, with our African friends, but also our European friends,
15:40in a complete and systematic synergy for the future.
15:47Morocco, on the legislative level, but also on the practical level,
15:54we have developed a lot of means to both integrate into this new warm climate,
16:04but at the same time also to mitigate and show that we are not a polluting country.
16:09The Kyoto Protocol gave us the right to pollute.
16:15It has passed now, we don't talk about it anymore, because we are not a polluting country.
16:20Today, we don't have a lesson to give to anyone,
16:25but we are developing a national strategy that is sovereign,
16:31decided by His Majesty the King.
16:33This will bear fruit, and it will continue to bear fruit.
16:36Personally, I am very proud of all of us, and the Moroccans should be too.
16:43Let's now talk about the participation of other African countries.
16:48Faced with the increasing costs of climate disasters,
16:51these countries are demanding that they receive the means to adapt to warming,
16:56and are demanding more to access funding.
17:04The African continent, as it is, is suffering from a colossal lack of infrastructure.
17:14And when we talk about infrastructure, it's not just pollution,
17:18it's also social infrastructure.
17:22Since then, Africans have always lived in a very difficult balance between nature and society.
17:31Today, the climate has warmed up, and therefore the whole machine has changed function.
17:38It becomes faster, more severe, with a more active water cycle,
17:43a lot of evaporation, and when it rains, it's floods, etc.
17:48And so, this very fragile balance today is completely broken,
17:53which means that these countries are facing a reality that is far beyond them.
18:03So now, if there is no cooperation, if there is no help from the countries responsible for this warming,
18:12there is no way.
18:14And also, it's a card played by Africans and countries in the South for these COP summits,
18:21because there would be no summit without Africa, without countries in the South.
18:25And so, it's their main card that they play in these meetings and these summits.
18:33And I have the impression that, for a long time, we've been talking about the climate,
18:38we've been talking about finance, we've been talking about money.
18:43This money that is promised by developed countries, but which is a shy promise,
18:52and it doesn't come, it comes drop by drop.
18:56And the Africans are still following.
18:58It's a bit of a complex question, and I don't want to go into the details of finance,
19:04because it's not really the climate.
19:07It's the economy, it's the issues around the climate.
19:12And so, the climate is left to its own devices.
19:16The temperature has risen.
19:18The latest report from the GERC of August 2021 told us that the temperature has risen by 1.1.
19:27In 2021, today, it has only risen.
19:302023 was the hottest year ever recorded.
19:33Today, we don't know what temperature we are at.
19:37But certainly, we have exceeded 1.5°C compared to the pre-industrial period.
19:42And it's dangerous to wait for 2°C.
19:45It's very dangerous because scientists, since the 1980s,
19:49have been trying to recall this threshold
19:52because we don't know how the climate is going to evolve from this threshold.
19:59The COP-29 participants do not doubt that Donald Trump,
20:06elected President of the United States,
20:08will bring his country out of the Paris Agreement
20:12and that they will have to move forward without Washington.
20:16What is the impact, if we can say, of this American disengagement on climate action?
20:24Well, certainly, that's what he has to do because he has already done it.
20:28And Donald Trump, he is free to do whatever he wants with his country.
20:35But the Americans are not the only ones polluting the planet.
20:42The Chinese are polluting today much more than everyone,
20:48much more than the Americans, much, much more than the Europeans.
20:54The Americans are in conflict with the Chinese
20:59and the Westerners are in conflict with Russia.
21:04And without the Americans and without Russia, we forget it,
21:11there would be no agreement, there would be no solution for the climate.
21:15We made an embargo on Russia, but we can't make an embargo
21:19and have debates on the climate.
21:21It won't work.
21:23And from there, we don't really care about the climate.
21:28With Trump or without him, the question is already biased in advance.
21:33And today, it is enough to discuss, to debate with the Chinese and the Europeans
21:42about solutions to be found, if we want to.
21:48The 2024 edition of the UN Summit on Climate Change
21:52is announced with the absence of brands.
21:56We are talking about American President Joe Biden,
21:59German Chancellor Olaf Scholz,
22:01Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
22:04On the French side, Emmanuel Macron is also among the absent.
22:08How can we explain these absences?
22:13Quite simply, we have a lot more cats than the climate,
22:19no more, no less.
22:21And today, with what is happening in Ukraine,
22:24and especially what is happening in Palestine,
22:26the issue is very complex.
22:28And the decision-makers are certainly in difficulty with their people
22:36on the diplomatic level, on the level of the advancement of each country's place
22:43on the international scene.
22:45And from there, it is preferable to avoid clashes between countries
22:53in meetings like the climate one.
23:00Now, in these countries, can we really expect an agreement?
23:06And at the same time, when we have an agreement, who agrees?
23:12These are the three major countries in the world,
23:16the Americans, the Europeans and the Chinese.
23:19If they agree, we say that the summit has succeeded.
23:22If they don't, we say that it didn't work, etc.
23:27This is a diplomatic policy towards the climate,
23:33but it doesn't mean that the main issue is the climate itself.
23:39Mr. Saïd Karrouk, thank you for this clarification.
23:44Thank you for answering our questions.
23:46I remind you that you are a climatologist.
23:49Thank you, Madam.
23:52This is the end of this edition.
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