MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 SOIR 20:00 - 14/12/2024
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00:00Good evening and welcome to this new newspaper, here are the headlines.
00:20In Jordan, European, Arab and Turkish ministers discussed the Syrian issue after the flight of Bashar al-Assad.
00:33In France, François Beyrou, the new prime minister, stated an Himalayan difficulty, especially budgetary, which he called to resolve in a national assembly without a majority.
00:43And in South Korea, Yoon Sung-yeol is no longer the president of South Korea. The parliament adopted today a motion of resignation against him.
00:55Let's start with the Syrian issue, since the ministers and European, American, Arab and Turkish officials held a meeting in Jordan, in Aqaba, on the Red Sea, to discuss the Syrian issue after the flight of Bashar al-Assad on December 8, by an offensive of rebels.
01:17And on the eve of this international meeting on Syria, the foreign ministers of eight Arab countries, including Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, called for a peaceful transition in Syria, supported by the United Nations and the Arab League.
01:30And on the eve of this international meeting, Geir Pedersen, special envoy of the UN for Syria, called during a meeting with the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to work to avoid the collapse of Syrian institutions.
01:47And still in the Syrian issue, the United States has established a direct contact with the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham. This is at least what the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, declared on Saturday, whose country had qualified as a terrorist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
02:04At the end of the meeting in Jordan, Antony Blinken stressed the need for an inclusive and representative Syrian government.
02:13And still in Syria, the new authorities reassure, they promise to establish a state of law and guarantee the rights of all communities. More details in this story of Dina Meridi.
02:27Despite the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad, the opposition between the minorities is very real. In northeast Syria, mostly controlled by the Kurds, more than 200 people were killed in a few days in violent fighting.
02:42The Syrian Democratic Forces fought pro-Turkish rebels, including the Syrian National Army. Allies of the West, the Syrian Democratic Forces play a crucial role in the fight against Daesh. They celebrate the opportunity to build a new Syria based on democracy and justice, which guarantees the rights of all Syrians.
03:06We can say that Daesh is strengthened, especially in the Syrian desert. We also know that their plan is to attack the prison of Guyana and the refugee camp of Al-Hol.
03:16In the camp of Al-Hol, 42,000 people, 70% of whom are under the age of 15, have no access to education, which makes this camp a fertile ground for Daesh. On the other hand, the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, insists on the need to protect Syrian civilians.
03:36The Syrian Democratic Forces, which we support, play an essential role in ensuring that Daesh is held in check, by keeping the detention centers where thousands of foreign terrorist fighters have been held for years, and by removing them from the battlefields and preventing them from joining Daesh. This is a crucial mission.
03:59In Syria, the number of attacks claimed by Daesh has decreased each year since 2019, before increasing this year to reach more than 250 attacks in mid-November.
04:16And in France, François Bayrou started his consultations on Saturday in order to form a government with the presidents of the Parliament and the personalities of the economic world.
04:27His beginnings in Matignon are shaken by the devastating passage of the tropical cyclone Shido in Mayotte. The Prime Minister will participate this Saturday night in an inter-ministerial crisis meeting, which he convened with the Minister of the Interior, Bruno Routaillot, on the situation in the archipelago, where at least two people were killed.
04:45With the appointment of François Bayrou in Matignon, it is a new chapter that starts for France. Indeed, the new Prime Minister has established an Himalayan of difficulties, especially budgetary, to be resolved in a National Assembly, without a majority, of the Court of Matignon, alongside his predecessor Michel Barnier. François Bayrou promised not to hide anything, not to neglect anything, and not to leave anything aside.
05:08So, François Bayrou, a political veteran and supporter of Macron's first hour, reaches the post of Prime Minister at the age of 73, finally rewarded for helping Emmanuel Macron to become head of state in 2017.
05:26Back on the rise of the new pensioner of Matignon in this story of Rajah Engu.
05:37Allied with Emmanuel Macron, the centrist François Bayrou is entrusted at the age of 73 with the post of Prime Minister in a France in a political and economic impasse. The president of the moderate democratic movement will have to use all his political experience and his talents as a conciliator to compose with a fragmented National Assembly.
05:55After three failures at the presidential elections of 2002, 2007 and 2012, the mayor of Pau has signed an alliance with Emmanuel Macron for the presidential election of 2017. After this alliance, François Bayrou becomes a consulted advisor to the head of state, but also a critical observer of his governance and his reforms.
06:11Named the 17th Minister of Justice, François Bayrou had left the government on June 21 due to the opening of a preliminary investigation on the case of the alleged fictitious jobs of the Modem's parliamentary assistants to the European Parliament. He was finally relaxed.
06:26In September 2020, he was appointed Commissioner of the Plan while assuring ministerial posts for his Modem allies. Then in 2022, Emmanuel Macron chose him as Secretary General of the National Council of Reformation.
06:38In February 2024, he delayed the governmental resumption after the resignation of Elisabeth Borne by refusing a ministerial portfolio within the team of Gabriel Attal. François Bayrou explains having refused the Ministry of the Armed Forces, expressing his preference for national education, of which he was minister from 1993 to 1997.
06:56He will say of the presidential election of 2027 that the challenge is to reconcile the France that fights at the bottom with the France that decides at the top. His courteous relations with Marine Le Pen could help the expected pacification. He would have given in 2022 his sponsorship to Marine Le Pen for the presidential election in order to save democracy.
07:15And in South Korea, the day after his failed attempt to impose martial law and to smear the parliament by the army, President Yun Seok-yool was finally dismissed by the deputies. More details in this story by Chaima Fekri.
07:31With 204 votes in favor of the dismissal, 85 against, 3 abstentions and 8 invalid ballots, President Yun Seok-yool was dismissed by the parliament. The dismissal motion had to collect at least 200 votes out of 300 to pass. The opposition, which has 192 deputies, has thus managed to convince 12 of the 108 members of the People's Power Party to join it.
08:02The suspension of the leader of the rebellion, Yun Seok-yool, is only a first step towards the resolution of the crisis. We will maintain our vigilance until an in-depth investigation is carried out to clarify the circumstances of the incident, identify those responsible for the decree of martial law, and have them punished.
08:22The Korean president is suspended in the wait for the validation of his dismissal by the Constitutional Court. Prime Minister Han Duk-soo assures the interim.
08:35I can take a break, but the journey to the future that I have undertaken with the people over the past two and a half years must never stop. I will never give up. By keeping all the criticisms, encouragement and support that have been addressed to me in my heart, I will do my best for the country until the last moment.
09:06I will devote all my strength and all my efforts to ensure a stable management of the administration of the state during this difficult period.
09:15At the announcement of the dismissal, 200,000 demonstrators gathered in front of the National Assembly to celebrate this decision. The Constitutional Court has six months to confirm or cancel the Parliament's decision. If the dismissal is validated, an anticipated presidential election will take place in 60 days.
09:37And in national news and following the deaths at the Moulay Youssef Araba hospital, the Ministry of Health published a statement this Saturday. According to the results of the investigation, these deaths recorded at the Moulay Youssef Araba hospital were not due to a technical failure.
09:56And following what has been relayed concerning a technical failure at the oxygen supply channels at the Moulay Youssef hospital, a commission of the Ministry's General Inspection was urgently dispatched to this health establishment to investigate the circumstances of these deaths and, contrary to what has been circulated on this subject, two deaths were recorded on Tuesday, December 10, 2024, the first after two and a half hours after the failure, while the second death occurred more than four hours later.
10:27We stay in Morocco and Rabat. And in the framework of the work of the 13th edition of the annual international conference of the Policy Center for the New South, the ambassador to the United Nations in New York, Omar Hillel,
10:42stated in an interview with the Maghreb Press agency that Morocco is the best-placed country with the greatest legitimacy to represent the African continent as a permanent member of the Security Council.
10:55Omar Hillel underlined that the Kingdom, under the leadership of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI, has precisely this ability to represent the continent and defend the causes and interests of Africa.
11:06He stated, I quote, sorry, the Kingdom is eligible to become a member of the Security Council because, quite simply, the fundamental criterion for becoming a member is to contribute to peace and security in the world, in particular by contributing to the forces of peace. End of quote.
11:27And we still stay in the capital, which hosted the first edition of the Forum of Parliamentary Women, an event of the House of Representatives. More details in this report by Selwa Elkheloui and Youssef Ouhmou. The story is by Sheyma Fikri.
11:43Promoting the involvement of women in parliamentary life and fighting against violence are the objectives of the first edition of the Forum of Parliamentary Women. Two roundtables have already taken place to discuss these issues.
11:59We are still far from an equality between men and women in politics. A lot of countries have put systems in place, have worked on legislation to improve the place of women in politics, but this is not enough yet. Ideally, we should arrive at an equal representation of men and women in politics.
12:20If I take the example of Belgium, in Belgium we have the obligation to have parity on the electoral lists, whether at the federal level or at the municipal level. So a man, a woman, a man, a woman on the lists, but when we look at the results the day after the elections, parity is not there.
12:38We still have a lot more men elected than women. So there are all these systems that are put in place, but it is probably not enough. There are also many other factors that we can work on so that women take up more space in politics.
12:52The session aims to promote the role of women in the political and parliamentary field, while highlighting their achievements in this sector. It also addresses the persistent challenges they face and explores ways to strengthen their participation in public life.
13:08During these debates, the President of the French National Assembly said that the use of a quota has been considered positive, but it is essential to continue the struggle to achieve true equality with a 50% share. It is also essential to assign high-level positions to women.
13:37The Forum of Parliamentary Women represents a significant progress for the improvement of women's status in the political sphere. It offers a precious opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences between parliamentary women while promoting mutual cooperation between them.
14:01And this is the end of this newscast. Back to the news in a few minutes.