MEDI1TV Afrique : LE GRAND JOURNAL MIDI - 08/12/2024
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00:00You are following Mediain TV Africa, thank you for joining us for this round of news,
00:20here are the headlines.
00:21Syria has fallen into the hands of the rebels, an entry into the capital Damascus that marks
00:27the end of Bashar al-Assad's reign, who has fled, the details in a few moments.
00:34Faced with this situation, the former Syrian Prime Minister Mohamed al-Jalali said he was
00:39ready to cooperate with the new leadership chosen by the people.
00:45It is the outcry in the presidential election in Ghana, Vice President Mahamadou Bahoumia,
00:52candidate for the new patriotic party in power, has recognized his defeat today and announces
00:57that he has called his opponent, Dioune Mahama, to congratulate him.
01:00We meet again right now for the development.
01:05Welcome ladies and gentlemen, it is by shots of joy and blows of the horn that the rebels
01:10have entered the capital Damascus and announced the end of the reign of President Bashar al-Assad,
01:16who fled less than two weeks after the start of their raging offensive in Syria.
01:21They were many to rally the place of Humeyad in the center of Damascus to celebrate the
01:28fall of the Assad clan in power for more than half a century.
01:36The coalition of several rebel groups carried out in a dozen days a particularly spectacular
01:42advance, invading the major cities of Aleppo and Hama, before announcing on Saturday night
01:49that they had taken control of Homs, the third city in the country, and entered the capital Damascus.
01:55Does this almost instantaneous collapse of the regime also open, according to the information,
02:01a new era of uncertainty in Syria?
02:04Political analyst Ramjad Shehab gives us his opinion.
02:09There is a new era of uncertainty because the factions of the rebels are of different ideologies.
02:14Normally, there are the Kurds who do not quite agree with the Turks.
02:20There is the influence of Turkey, which has also helped a lot in the training of the rebels
02:28and their armament too.
02:30And we will see how, until now, there have been no clashes,
02:36there have been no internal wars, civil wars.
02:41But everyone is waiting.
02:43But the conditions of this passage of power, perhaps until now,
02:49will be able to pass pacifically on the other side.
02:53But there is still the danger of external interventions,
02:58which may be able to boost a return to a civil war.
03:03But if there is wisdom, also the ability to control the situation,
03:08it may be able to avoid such a drama that the Syrian people have experienced before.
03:15And we are also waiting for the attentions of these rebels.
03:18We do not know exactly.
03:20Until now, all the statements made are statements of moderate people,
03:27people who are trying not to take revenge or not to attack the communities.
03:35Because there are several communities in Syria.
03:38We speak of Druze, we speak of Christians.
03:40And until now, there has been no major incident.
03:45Symbol of the confusion that accompanied the rebel offensive in the capital,
03:49the premises of the public television were abandoned by the officials.
03:54It was on television that nine people appeared.
03:58One of them read a statement to announce, I quote,
04:02the liberation of Damascus, the fall of Bashar al-Assad
04:05and the release of all the prisoners unjustly in the regime's prisons.
04:14It is in this context that Commander Hayat Tahrir al-Sham,
04:18who leads the offensive, called his fighters
04:21not to approach public institutions in Damascus,
04:25which remains under the control of former Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali.
04:30In a video published on his account,
04:32the latter said he was ready to cooperate with the new leadership
04:36chosen by the people,
04:38who will be in his office this morning at the government's headquarters
04:42for any procedure of passing of power.
04:46At the opening ceremony of the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris,
04:51Prince Moulai Rachid represented His Majesty yesterday.
04:57King Mohammed VI, Prince Moulai Rachid,
05:00also took part in the Palace of the Elysée,
05:04at the dinner offered by President Emmanuel Macron
05:07in honour of heads of state, governments and international organisations.
05:12In addition to heads of state and governments,
05:15and also international organisations,
05:17they also assisted, with other eminent personalities,
05:22at the official ceremony and the liturgical office
05:25of the re-opening of this religious building,
05:28nearly nine centuries after its restoration,
05:32following the fire that ravaged it, partly in 2019.
05:42Under the patronage of His Majesty,
05:45King Mohammed VI initiated, on the theme
05:47of rebuilding trust for a united and plural world,
05:51the meetings of the University of Fes
05:54on the future of civilisations were closed yesterday.
05:58These meetings focused on several areas,
06:01including peace, migration and international cooperation.
06:05According to the organisers, these meetings were held
06:08by the determination to promote dialogue
06:11in order to build common solutions to global problems
06:14such as the impacts of artificial intelligence
06:17on the integrity and accuracy of information,
06:21extreme climate phenomena
06:23or forced migration.
06:25On the work report, I invite you to listen to
06:28Mostafa Bousmina, President of the University of Fes.
06:34Yesterday and today, under the patronage of His Majesty,
06:40the King, whom God watches over and assists,
06:43the meetings on the alliance of civilisations were held.
06:46At these meetings, several intellectuals,
06:49university representatives from different regions of the world,
06:56as well as the Council of His Majesty,
06:58the High Representative of the United Nations
07:00for the Alliance of Civilisations,
07:02the former Vice-President of the European Parliament
07:06and several representatives from the university world
07:10and different religions.
07:14During these two intense days,
07:18the participants discussed the different subjects
07:23related to the Alliance of Civilisations
07:26and praised the healthy, visionary and enlightened policy
07:32of His Majesty the King, whom God watches over and assists,
07:36in terms of the alliance of civilisations,
07:39in terms of inclusion, in terms of alterity
07:42and in terms of living together
07:44and in terms of rapprochement between peoples,
07:46especially at a time when the world is experiencing
07:49global disruptions.
07:52Presidential in Ghana, Vice-President Mahamudu Bahumia,
07:57a candidate for the new patriotic party in power,
08:00has recognised his defeat today
08:02and announces that he has called his opponent,
08:04John Mahama, to congratulate him.
08:07The latter has confirmed on his account
08:09that he has received the call for congratulations
08:11from Vice-President of Ghana, Mahamudu Bahumia,
08:14who has declared that John Mahama has won the presidency
08:19decisively and that the opposition party, NDC,
08:23has also won the legislative elections
08:25according to the internal accounts of the party in power.
08:33And that's all for today.
08:35We'll be back on May 1st.
08:37TV1.