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00:23This is a report from the World Water Summit, a summit on the sustainable management of
00:27water on the fringes of the COP16.
00:29According to the UN, the cost of drying is 300 billion euros per year worldwide.
00:35Details in a few moments.
00:36On the eve of the most serious violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon, the Israeli army
00:43announces that it has hit dozens of targets in Hezbollah.
00:49Syria has also been hit today by violent clashes between soldiers and rebels in the
00:58north of the province of Hama, a situation that worries the United Nations.
01:03We meet right away for the development.
01:08Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, let's take the direction of Riyadh,
01:12where the head of the government, Aziz Arhanoush, accompanied by the Minister of Equipment and
01:17the Minister Baraka, represents His Majesty the King Mohammed VI at the World Water Summit,
01:22whose works opened on Thursday, today rather, in Riyadh, in order to discuss the rarity
01:29of water resources worldwide and the challenges facing the World Water Summit, which is held
01:37on the eve of the 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention
01:44on the fight against desertification.
01:47It is an initiative led by Saudi Arabia in partnership with France, Kazakhstan and the
01:52World Bank to discuss the scarcity of water in the world.
01:57In Riyadh, the World Water Summit, which takes place on the eve of the 16th COP on desertification,
02:06aims to strengthen international cooperation on water-related issues.
02:11More details in this story by Alaa Ben Ali.
02:15Representatives from various countries, including Morocco, international organizations and actors
02:22of civil society, are meeting today in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
02:27Three major objectives are to improve the global water governance, stimulate international
02:33partnerships and accelerate action on Water Aid No. 6 on clean water and sanitation.
02:40This summit is jointly launched in Riyadh, which hosts the 16th Conference of the Parties
02:46of the United Nations Convention on the fight against desertification, which aims to reduce
02:51the degradation of land and drought.
02:53The world today is facing growing challenges in the water sector, including high rates
02:58of drought, which leads to multiple crises represented by the shortage of drinking water
03:04and the exacerbation of desertification problems and the threat to human life and society.
03:14The participants identified five major challenges to address at this summit.
03:19Access to drinking water and sanitation for all, sustainable management of water as a
03:24common good, improving the multilateral framework for water, financing water and sanitation
03:30and finally the link between water, humanitarian crisis and peace in the world.
03:36We have put in place a national plan to reduce our consumption by 10% by 2030, which relies
03:42on science, climate models to anticipate all scenarios, including the most degraded,
03:48and to mobilize all levers, sobriety, innovation, technology, at the service of all sectors.
03:55And we are pursuing this action at the international level through the French Development Agency,
04:00which has already committed more than $10 billion in the water sector, including nearly $2 billion
04:06only in 2023.
04:10Water management is crucial in the face of the growing climate crisis, with a water demand
04:15expected to increase by 50% by 2030.
04:18Currently, about 2 billion people do not have access to drinking water, according to the latest
04:23data from the UN.
04:24This summit is an incubator of solutions for these challenges, thus preparing the ground
04:29for the next UN Water Conference, scheduled for 2026.
04:35At the global level, droughts cost nearly 300 billion euros per year, warned the UN on the
04:41second day of the COP16 on desertification in a report calling for urgent investments
04:47in solutions based on nature, such as reforestation.
04:52Droughts fueled by climate change and unsustainable water and soil management should affect 75%
05:01of the world's population by 2050, said a UN report published on Tuesday.
05:07On Royal High Instruction, on 2 and 3 December in Rabat, the work of the 22nd meeting of the
05:18French-Mexican-Moroccan Military Commission under the co-presidency of the Army Corps
05:24General Mohamed Berride and the Army General Thierry Bouchard, Chief of Staff of the French
05:32Republic, has been concluded by the signing of the Verbal Trial on the various aspects
05:38of bilateral military cooperation.
05:47The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the African Cooperation and the Moroccans living abroad,
05:51Nasser Bourita, has called for a ceasefire in Lebanon, a positive development that must
05:56be respected and consolidated to preserve the unity of these countries and the security
06:02of its territory.
06:03The Minister has also expressed hope that the ceasefire could open the way to the implementation
06:09of the UN Security Council Resolution 1701 on the south of Lebanon, the Kingdom of Morocco,
06:15under the leadership of His Majesty King Mohammed VI.
06:18He supports the territorial integrity of Lebanon and its sovereignty on its territory.
06:23The head of Moroccan diplomacy also stressed this.
06:31Accused of violating the ceasefire in Lebanon, Israel now threatens to penetrate deeper into
06:37the country if the war resumes with Hezbollah.
06:41A threat formulated by the Israeli Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, during a visit to
06:48troops earlier in Beirut, resulted in nine people killed in Israeli strikes in the south
06:54of Lebanon.
06:55Dozens of Hezbollah sites have been targeted in retaliation for an attack claimed for the
07:01first time since the start of the truce.
07:09The rampant evolution of the situation in Syria worries the UN.
07:13The attacks against civilians and the health system in the north-west of the country are
07:18extremely worrying, said Volker Turk.
07:21These attacks are aggravating.
07:23The suffering endured by the millions of civilians, says Jeremy Lawrence, spokesman for the UN
07:29High Commissioner for Human Rights.
07:32The fighting in Syria has already killed more than 500, according to an NGO, and pushed
07:3850,000 people to flee in a few days, said the UN yesterday.
07:48Syria has witnessed violent clashes between soldiers and rebels in the north of the province
07:54of Hama.
07:55Clashes have increased in fear of a resumption of large-scale fighting after more than a
08:02decade of civil war.
08:06This Tuesday, violent clashes opposed the Syrian army to a coalition of rebels trying
08:12to advance towards the strategic city of Hama, in the center of Syria.
08:17According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, violent clashes are taking place in
08:22the north of the province of Hama, while Russian and Syrian aviation are delivering dozens
08:28of strikes on rebel positions.
08:31The rebels launched a brutal offensive last week, allowing them to seize Aleppo, the second
08:37city in Syria, in the north.
08:39They have also been able to take control of several cities and villages in the Hama region.
08:45The Syrian army had announced that it had sent reinforcements to the region, which has
08:50slowed down the progress of the rebels over the last two days.
08:54We managed to crush these armed terrorist troops.
08:57The Syrian Arab Army will bring the situation back to what it was by defeating them and
09:02destroying them.
09:06This is our land and our pride.
09:08Anyone who breaks the law, anyone who has been engaged to stand against us, we will
09:13set an example.
09:17Hama is a strategic city in the center of Syria, on the road linking Aleppo to the capital
09:22Damascus.
09:23Faced with these tensions, UN Secretary-General António Guterres was alarmed on Monday
09:29by the recent escalation of violence in Syria and called for an immediate cessation of hostilities.
09:35On his side, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad denounced an attempt to redraw the map of
09:41the Middle East while fighting.
09:43The first of this magnitude since 2020, accompanied by Syrian and Russian air bombings, have
09:49already killed several hundred.
09:53During this time, the CAIR has been sheltering the work of a ministerial conference since
09:58yesterday to strengthen the humanitarian response in Gaza.
10:01103 delegations representing several states, including Morocco, took part in it.
10:06The kingdom, which has also stressed its commitment to adhere to any international effort
10:11aimed at creating favorable conditions for the resumption of the peace process in the
10:16Middle East.
10:17UN Secretary-General Amina Mohamed said that the catastrophe that Gaza was experiencing
10:22was a nightmare that had to stop, underlining the need to support the efforts to move
10:29aid to Gaza.
10:35At least two months after Donald Trump's return to the White House, Ukraine is already
10:41putting pressure on NATO countries to be invited to join them.
10:46The only real guarantee of security for Ukraine is full NATO adhesion, as well as recalling
10:56Ukrainian diplomacy.
10:58But for the Kremlin, this adhesion would constitute an unacceptable threat.
11:03Very careful, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte was content to reiterate the principle
11:09position of the alliance.
11:11The crisis leading to Ukraine's adhesion is irreversible, he recalled, without mentioning
11:17a calendar year.
11:24Politics leads us to France, where it is in an extremely fragile position that Michel
11:30Barnier's government addresses parliamentary issues.
11:33Yesterday, the Prime Minister, without surprise, committed the responsibility of his government
11:38on the bill to finance social security.
11:42The debate, followed by a vote on the left-wing censorship motions, will take place tomorrow.
11:50The adoption of such a motion would be a first since 1962.
11:55Barnier's government should therefore be the shortest in the history of the Fifth Republic.
12:01Great news in Morocco.
12:07Basic retirement pensions will be totally defiscalized by 2026.
12:12The long-awaited amendment to this principle was adopted unanimously yesterday during the
12:18PLF 2025 review.
12:20All political formations and the press have pleaded for a total defiscalization of basic
12:26pensions.
12:27The adoption of this measure will be made progressively in 2025.
12:32Yesterday, pensions will be reduced by 50% before being totally abolished in 2026.
12:43The deputies of the 15th Senate Legislature were officially installed yesterday.
12:49This new assembly follows the proclamation of the final results from the legislative
12:57session last November.
12:58Our correspondents, Daoud Essaou and Chert Daoua, will tell us more about this.
13:03Senegal now has a new National Assembly.
13:07The President of the Parliament is also known.
13:10The new President of the Senegalese National Assembly was until now Minister of Transport,
13:16but he chose to resign from the government to serve the country in the hemicycle.
13:22We will now move on to the election of the other members of the Bureau.
13:28I recall the provisions of Article 14, Article 2 of our Internal Regulation.
13:35The Vice-Presidents, the Secretaries and the Questioners are elected to the list scrutiny
13:43for each function.
13:45Each group of the Assembly can present a list by function respecting gender equality
13:54in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 2010-11 of May 28, 2010.
14:06For the deputies of PASTEF, the party in power, the hope of the populations is great.
14:12They intend to be up to all their expectations.
14:16To be a deputy of the people, to fight for the people, to work for the Senegalese people,
14:23to work for a success, a development success.
14:27We want sovereignty, and sovereignty means a lot of work.
14:31So, we, our priesthood, is to be with the Senegalese population.
14:36We must not disappoint them.
14:39So, we have a determination.
14:42And this determination is to work to change Senegal.
14:47To completely change Senegal.
14:49Because we found Senegal bankrupt.
14:52There are a lot of problems.
14:54On the opposition side, the Republican stance is taken.
14:58I am now in my sixth term.
15:01I have been a deputy since the old opposition.
15:03So, I have already crossed two regimes.
15:07So, my stance is perhaps a Republican stance.
15:11That is to say, to be at the National Assembly for the people.
15:14We are already there for the people, we will be there for the people.
15:17This means that we will remain attentive to all the proposals and bills
15:22that will be at the National Assembly.
15:24And we will observe them, work on them, vote on them,
15:28according to the interests of our populations.
15:31After the anticipated legislation of November 17,
15:36the Senegalese Constitutional Council proceeded on November 27
15:40with the proclamation of the definitive results of the scrutiny.
15:44This new National Assembly is expected to vote on the budgets of 2025
15:50and on the necessary reforms brought about by the current Senegalese authorities.
15:57While artificial intelligence transforms the digital and media landscape
16:01around the world,
16:03gathered in Abidjan for the 11th Conference of the Regulations Instances
16:07of the Communication of Africa,
16:09African regulators are looking at its impact on the continent.
16:13Mel Barchelé and Ange-Wilfred Mérignat will tell us more.
16:18Artificial intelligence is one of the most remarkable technological advances
16:22of the 21st century.
16:24But if its advantages are numerous,
16:27its impacts are definitely an adapted regulation.
16:30It is the objective of the 11th Conference of the Regulations Instances
16:34of the Communication of Africa,
16:36organized by the High Authority of Audiovisual Communication of Ivory Coast.
16:40Placed under the theme of the regulation of artificial intelligence
16:43in the sector of audiovisual and digital communication in Africa,
16:46this event brought together regulators from several countries
16:50to explore the challenges and opportunities offered by AI.
16:53The success of the Moroccan Presidency
16:56of the African Network of Regulations Instances of the Media
16:59is due to the fact that the Haka,
17:02to which an unanimous and supported tribute has been paid today,
17:08is part of the vision of His Majesty King Mohammed VI
17:13in terms of African cooperation, solidarity,
17:17but also a vision that gives absolute priority
17:21in all actions to the answers to the citizens' expectations
17:26and to the continued research of the general interest of African societies.
17:30Beyond the round discussions,
17:32the main objective is to guarantee an ethical and responsible use
17:37of artificial intelligence on the continent,
17:40while valuing its cultural specificities.
17:43I have no doubt that with the sum of our reflections,
17:47our skills, we will come up with two major texts,
17:51namely a legal framework on the regulation of artificial intelligence
17:57and also a declaration entitled
18:00the Abidjan Declaration on Artificial Intelligence.
18:03I would like to assure you that the conclusions that will come out of these works
18:08will be transmitted to the Governor and therefore to the Head of State,
18:13who gives special attention to the development of audiovisual media,
18:19to the protection of freedoms, of all freedoms,
18:24and mainly the freedom of expression and communication.
18:28The 11th CAAF CIRC will have allowed to lay the foundations
18:32for a regulation adapted to the digital era in Africa,
18:35an essential step to transform technological challenges
18:38into opportunities for sustainable and responsible development.
18:43Direction le Mali,
18:44or in the context of the campaign of the 16 days of activism
18:48against violence against girls and women,
18:51the NGO FAWEI, with its Break Free project,
18:54has organized meetings to raise the voice of the victims
18:58and promote the respect for the rights of women and girls.
19:01Let's listen to our correspondent Mohamed Oudagneko.
19:05Starting last November 25,
19:07the campaign of the 16 days of activism against violence
19:10against girls and women will end on December 10.
19:14The NGO FAWEI, like several other NGOs and organizations
19:18fighting for the protection and promotion of the rights of girls and women,
19:23has organized a series of activities within the country
19:27with the aim of raising awareness among communities and decision-makers
19:32to take more action to end the violence against women and girls.
19:37The celebration of the 16 days of activism
19:40offers us the opportunity, as part of our project,
19:43to talk about the different violence against women and girls.
19:46This year, the theme adopted by the Malian government,
19:50which talks about the role of family and community responsibility
19:53in the fight against violence based on gender,
19:56comforts the implementation of our project,
19:59because all that affects and prevents girls from evolving
20:03must be addressed in the public space
20:06and allow each other to assume their responsibilities
20:10to ensure that the rights of girls can be a reality,
20:14that girls can thrive in society.
20:17These activities, which took place in Kutsala and Agnena,
20:21allowed the victims of violence to call for the survival of their families.
20:27These activities, which took place in Kutsala and Agnena,
20:30allowed the victims of violence to call for the survival of their families.
20:33They broke the silence so that the population became more aware of the phenomenon.
20:38An initiative appreciated by the local authorities.
20:42We are infinitely excited about our objectives.
20:50All these activities are aimed at raising awareness
20:55and putting an end to violence based on gender.
21:01Child marriage, marital and physical violence,
21:04and psychological violence are among other themes
21:07that were discussed during the debate conference.
21:14Back in the Kingdom, Black Friday sales are a commercial opportunity
21:19for buyers from all over the world.
21:21In Morocco, there is a fierce debate about this imported tradition
21:25between those who encourage these exceptional opportunities
21:29and those who denounce the false marketing techniques.
21:32Mahadi Amal and Youssef Ouhamou
21:34dive into this universe of commercial marketing
21:37in this story by Shaima Fikri.
21:41This tradition of importing from the United States and Europe
21:45has recently invaded the Moroccan markets.
21:47The idea of importing according to the sellers would motivate the consumer to buy.
21:51But some consider that this is a dubious marketing tactic,
21:55with the exception of some large brands and distribution companies
21:59that respect their activity and their customers.
22:11These rumors may be true.
22:13There are sellers who increase prices to lower them later.
22:16The final price remains the same.
22:18Well-known companies that have a certain credibility
22:21and a close relationship with customers cannot lie about prices.
22:34Unfortunately, customers think they are doing good business,
22:36but they are swindled.
22:37In the United States, sales are between 50 and 90%,
22:41a reality that does not exist in Morocco.
22:47Black Friday sales, unlike in Western countries,
22:50are not strictly controlled on the Moroccan market,
22:53which opens the door to opportunistic sellers
22:56to sell products that are not popular for the rest of the year.
23:06In the United States and Europe,
23:08Black Friday has its own legislation to avoid scams
23:12and defend the rights of sellers.
23:14In Morocco, the only law that regulates sales is Law 3108
23:18on consumer protection.
23:20This is not respected by artisans.
23:22The law does not determine who will carry out this operation in time
23:26and who will ensure its surveillance.
23:28The Ministry of Industry and Commerce is responsible for this surveillance.
23:45To avoid falling into the trap of these sales,
23:47experts advise consumers to avoid impulsive purchases
23:51and to be wary of products whose prices seem to be reasonably low.
23:57In the world of theater and Moroccan audiovisual,
24:01the artist Moustapha Zari has died today in Casablanca,
24:05at the age of 79.
24:07Artist Chevronné, the deceased,
24:09was made known by a range of comical and dramatic characters
24:13that he embodied with maestria on the boards,
24:16as well as on the big and small screens.
24:19But it is on the boards, moreover,
24:21that he has invested for more than five decades
24:24and that he has also been able to reveal the immensity of his talent,
24:29alongside his acolyte,
24:31Feu Moustapha Zari.
24:33This is the end of this newscast.
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