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00:00Welcome to a new edition of the Médiamonde newspaper, here are the headlines.
00:23In Morocco, the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy will take the necessary measures to return to their normal functioning.
00:30An announcement was made this Thursday by the Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation.
00:41Israel promised to fight the Lebanese Hezbollah until victory, rejecting a call from its allies.
00:48A ceasefire, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
00:51These last Israeli strikes killed 92 and injured 153.
01:00In the United States, the very dangerous hurricane Helen hit Florida Thursday night with gusts of rare violence,
01:08but also colossal amounts of water capable of causing catastrophic floods.
01:19In application of the Royal High Instructions, the government has launched a program to rehabilitate
01:27areas affected by floods in the south-east of the Kingdom.
01:31The global budget allocated to the implementation of this program is about 2.5 billion dirhams.
01:38More details with Soheil Jalil.
01:42Morocco is launching a program to rehabilitate areas affected by floods.
01:47In application of the Royal High Instructions, the government has launched a program to rehabilitate
01:53areas affected by floods due to major and exceptional rainfall,
01:58which caused human losses and material damage in the provinces of Tarachidia, Midelt, Ouarzazate,
02:04Tinrir, Zagora, Figig, Jrada, Tcharoudant, Tata, Tiznit, Gelmim and Assazak.
02:11The global budget allocated to the implementation of this program is about 2.5 billion dirhams.
02:17According to the Royal High Instructions, the government has mobilized important human and logistical resources
02:24to respond effectively to the needs of affected populations.
02:27The various ministries concerned are involved to ensure the rapid and efficient implementation of this program.
02:34The program also includes the reconstruction of damaged houses and buildings,
02:39as well as the rehabilitation of road infrastructure,
02:42telecommunications networks, electricity distribution, drinking water and sanitation systems.
02:48Specific support is also intended for the agricultural sector,
02:52in particular through the restoration of small and medium-sized hydraulic works,
02:56and support for farmers who have lost their shepherds due to floods.
03:02The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and Innovation announced yesterday
03:08that the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy will take the necessary measures for a return to normal functioning.
03:14In a statement, the ministry specifies that these faculties will take the necessary measures
03:19to allow students who have passed the exams of the first semester of the 5-September-2024 session
03:24to continue to pass the exams during an extraordinary special session,
03:29as well as students who have boycotted classes,
03:32to pass all the exams of the University Year 2023-2024
03:37as part of an extraordinary, unique session for each semester and those before the end of November 2024.
03:44The zero mark will be cancelled for students who have not passed the exams
03:48and will be replaced by the marks obtained during the extraordinary sessions, adds the same source.
03:57As for students in medicine, they have decided to maintain their boycott movement,
04:03assuming that their claims are not taken into account,
04:07notably those consisting of a training of 7 years instead of 6 years.
04:12I invite you to listen to Monsef Mqali, a student in the 5th year of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Tangier.
04:20This session that we have planned today is a session that is in the continuity of our boycott and strike movement
04:28that continues today for more than 10 months.
04:31We are fighting for claims that seem legitimate to us, that are our right,
04:36that concern the quality of our training, everything that we want.
04:41There was a ministerial report that was released this morning,
04:45which concerns the students in pharmacy, who have managed to resolve this crisis situation by obtaining an agreement.
04:50And this is the simple thing that we are also waiting for on our side in medicine.
04:54We have always carried out a pacifist discourse,
04:57we have always sought to go to the exchange with the ministries, to find solutions with them.
05:02But the lack of response means that our movement continues to this day
05:07and that brings us to this kind of situation, to this sit-in in front of our faculty,
05:11which unfortunately has been forbidden,
05:14and they have forbidden us access to our faculty to carry out this event.
05:19We are also here in response to the violence that took place yesterday,
05:24last night in Rabat, during the sit-in that took place on the spot,
05:27where many students and parents were assaulted and violated by the police.
05:32So we are also here in support of them,
05:35and in response to show that we remain united and united in the face of this crisis,
05:39and we are still actively looking for solutions.
05:42All we want are the answers to our claims,
05:45to find solutions to maintain the quality of our training,
05:48to maintain our honor, our dignity, which has been heavily affected over the last ten months,
05:53especially over the last few weeks.
05:55We also want to maintain the prestige of these professions,
05:59which is above all there to save our people and our country.
06:04I would also like to point out that Denmark considers the autonomy plan presented by Morocco in 2007
06:10as a serious and credible contribution,
06:13but also a good basis for a solution to the various artificials around the Moroccan Sahara,
06:18a position expressed on Wednesday by the head of Danish diplomacy, Lars Lok Rasmussen,
06:23during an interview with his Moroccan counterpart, Nassar Borreta,
06:26held during the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
06:31I invite you to listen to the head of Danish diplomacy, Lars Lok Rasmussen.
06:37We support the UN-led process.
06:40We actively support the UN-led negotiation process,
06:45and we believe that Morocco's position is serious and credible,
06:49offering a solid basis for reaching a definitive solution.
06:55We maintain excellent bilateral relations, and we have agreed to strengthen them even more.
07:01There are many opportunities for rapprochement,
07:04especially in the renewable energy sector, which has considerable potential in Morocco.
07:11Danish competitive and influential companies in this area,
07:15such as Copenhagen Partners,
07:17are already in direct dialogue with the Moroccan authorities,
07:20as part of the Offre Maroc programme.
07:23We have explored together the possibilities of direct investment in this promising sector.
07:31In addition, I would like to highlight my long-standing and cordial relations
07:35with your Foreign Minister,
07:37which have always favoured a fruitful collaboration between our two nations.
07:45In the Middle East, Israel promised to fight the Lebanese Hezbollah to victory,
07:51rejecting a call from its allies to cease fire
07:54and continuing its massive air strikes on the east and south of Lebanon.
07:59For the fourth consecutive day,
08:01the Israeli army carried out dozens of strikes against the Hezbollah.
08:04The Israeli army carried out a series of precise strikes on Beirut,
08:08claiming to have killed Hezbollah's drone unit commander, Mohamed Sour.
08:12The Hezbollah confirmed this death in the evening.
08:17According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health,
08:19these last strikes killed 92 people.
08:22The Israeli bombings, which have killed more than 700 since Monday,
08:28have left more than 90,000 civilians on the roads in Lebanon,
08:32according to the United Nations,
08:34and more than 30,000 of them have been tortured in Syria, according to the Houthis.
08:42In the United States, Hurricane Helen,
08:45which was classified as extremely dangerous,
08:47hit Florida last night,
08:49with gusts of a rare violence,
08:51but also colossal amounts of water,
08:53capable of causing catastrophic floods.
08:56According to the U.S. Hurricane Center,
08:58Helen hit land in the Big Bend region,
09:02in the northwest of Florida,
09:06at around 11.10 p.m.,
09:10with gusts of 225 km per hour.
09:14The hurricane is classified as category 4,
09:16on a water level of 5.
09:19That's what the organization said.
09:21Helen is already experiencing intense rain,
09:23and the risk of marine submersion is worrying.
09:26Authorities lamented that the water could reach 6 meters per place on the coast.
09:30President Joe Biden has exhorted the inhabitants
09:34to take into account the calls for evacuation
09:36issued by the authorities in Georgia,
09:38Tennessee and South Carolina,
09:42which will also suffer the effects of the hurricane.
09:45Tens of millions of Americans are under the weather alert.
09:53We now go to Senegal,
09:55where Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko
09:57promised yesterday investigations on widespread corruption.
10:01According to him, under the previous power in place,
10:03before April 2024,
10:05he has accused of manipulating the figures of public finances.
10:09Ousmane Sonko, appointed Prime Minister in April,
10:12after the resounding victory of his former second Bassirou Dioumaïfaï,
10:17at the presidential election a few days earlier,
10:19set up a state of the places of public finances
10:21found by the new leaders.
10:24We were far from imagining that things were so catastrophic,
10:28said Sonko.
10:29He accused the former authorities of lying and falsifying the figures,
10:33notably with international partners.
10:38For example, on the head,
10:40the Minister of Justice, Ousmane Diagne,
10:43has declared that the suspicion of manipulation
10:45seems to revert a criminal qualification
10:49that competent judicial authorities seized
10:52will have to determine.
10:59In the news also,
11:01in Sudan, air strikes and artillery fire
11:04shook, I say, the capital Khartoum,
11:06where the army is delivering
11:08fierce fighting against paramilitaries,
11:11rapid support forces.
11:13Clashes began at dawn,
11:15in what seems to be the first major offensive of the army
11:19for months,
11:20to take back parts of the capital,
11:23controlled by the FSR.
11:26The army is free from fighting.
11:28Charnia Khartoum has declared a source within the army
11:30claiming that the troops had crossed two key bridges on the Nile,
11:33which separates the parts of the capital held by the army
11:36from those controlled by the FSR.
11:39These clashes occur,
11:40while the head of the army is a de facto leader of Sudan.
11:45General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan called
11:47in front of the UN General Assembly in New York
11:50that the rebel militia be designated as a terrorist group
11:53accusing the FSR of hindering peace efforts.
12:01A word of sports now.
12:02Morocco has won against Iran
12:04in the eighth final of the World Cup in Futsal.
12:07In the end of a thrilling match,
12:09the national team defeated Iran by 4-3.
12:12The Lions of the class,
12:14despite the injuries inside the locker room,
12:16showed a good group spirit
12:18to reach the quarterfinals of Futsal.
12:21In the next round,
12:22Morocco will face Brazil.
12:52And right away,
12:53the guest of the big newspaper,
12:57Media Morning,
12:58while Israeli raids continue
13:02on the Gaza Strip in Lebanon,
13:03the Israeli army makes dozens of strikes
13:06calling for an international call
13:08to cease fire
13:09and plan the possibility of a terrestrial operation.
13:13This Thursday,
13:14at least 92 people were killed in Lebanon.
13:18We focus on the evolution of the situation
13:21in the Middle East
13:22with Agnès Levallois,
13:24vice-president of IREMO.
13:27Hello, Mrs. Agnès Levallois
13:30and thank you for being with us.
13:36Hello.
13:39Israel continues its murderous attacks
13:42against Hezbollah in Lebanon,
13:44rejecting the call to cease fire,
13:46immediately launched by France,
13:48the United States and other Arab countries.
13:50A dead-end project.
13:52Why does Israel reject the idea of a ceasefire?
13:58For Israel,
13:59it is about going to the end of the operation
14:02that it has launched now for more than a week,
14:05which consists, according to his words,
14:08of ending it with Hezbollah,
14:10as he had declared he wanted to end it with Hamas.
14:14We see Israel in a logic of going to the end
14:17of what it considers to be its objectives of war.
14:22In this context,
14:23it absolutely does not intend to accept the ceasefire.
14:27All the more so,
14:28and you reminded it in your words,
14:30that the destruction and the bombings
14:33are important today against Lebanon,
14:36whether it is the south,
14:37but also more inside the land and up to the capital.
14:42Israel considers that it is in a position of strength,
14:46that Hezbollah is seriously weakened
14:49after these different attacks,
14:51which started with the attacks on the Bipers and the Tokimokis,
14:55which put the entire chain of command in difficulty,
14:59since the communication between all those responsible
15:03has been damaged.
15:04So Israel today feels in a position of strength on the ground,
15:09and that's why it absolutely does not want to hear about a ceasefire.
15:13And the other reason,
15:14which is also a reason that allows us to understand this position,
15:20is that the ministers within the government,
15:23the ministers who represent the far right,
15:25and who support the coalition,
15:27because if they leave, Netanyahu falls,
15:31these far-right ministers consider
15:34that it is absolutely not necessary to negotiate,
15:36and they have already threatened to leave,
15:39to undermine the governmental coalition,
15:41if Netanyahu accepts a ceasefire.
15:45Very well.
15:46The Israeli Chief of Staff has called his troops
15:49to prepare for a possible entry into Lebanon.
15:52The memory of the July war,
15:53does it revive, in your opinion, the specter of the invasion of 2006?
16:00Yes, there is a real, real concern in Lebanon,
16:02in any case, a fear, a very great fear,
16:05since the memory of the 2006 operation,
16:09which lasted 33 days,
16:11was dramatic and traumatic for the Lebanese,
16:14since the country was largely destroyed.
16:17What seems quite incomprehensible
16:19in this idea of launching a terrestrial offensive,
16:22is that the Israelis had to leave after 33 days,
16:28because the damage was also significant
16:31concerning the Israeli army.
16:33So for the Israeli army,
16:35it is very dangerous to launch this operation,
16:38because they are going to a terrain they do not know,
16:41not as well as Hezbollah,
16:43Hezbollah being at home,
16:45and even if Hezbollah is very weakened
16:48by the strikes that have been hitting the country
16:51for more than a week now,
16:53they still have capabilities.
16:55And so is it, for the moment, a means,
16:58it's a rag, if I may say so,
17:01to frighten and to force Hezbollah
17:04to stop and accept,
17:07to stop responding to the Israeli bombing,
17:12which is a real will from the Israeli army,
17:15to go beyond.
17:17I fear that the second option
17:19is the option on the table,
17:21since we have the feeling today
17:23that Netanyahu is in an advance flight
17:25and this omnipotence that he feels
17:27gives him the desire to go all the way.
17:31After having been striking for a long time,
17:34or conducting strikes against Hamas
17:36in the Gaza Strip,
17:38the Israeli army is now targeting
17:40the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.
17:42Has Hezbollah become
17:44Israel's new priority target?
17:49I believe that these are the two targets,
17:51Hamas and Hezbollah are the two targets,
17:53since we talk less about them now,
17:55but the bombardments continue
17:57in the Gaza Strip,
17:59with schools that continue to be bombed.
18:01So it's true that in terms of priority,
18:03we have the feeling today
18:05that Hezbollah is the priority,
18:08but we should not forget
18:10that during this time,
18:12the bombardments continue
18:14on the Gaza Strip.
18:16But it is true that Israel has the feeling
18:18that a large part of the work,
18:20when I say work,
18:22I put it in quotation marks,
18:24is being carried out in the Gaza Strip,
18:26even if this is not the case,
18:28since the war objectives
18:30that Netanyahu had set out,
18:32the liberation of the hostages
18:34and the elimination of Hamas,
18:36have not been achieved.
18:38And it is also a way for Netanyahu,
18:40it seems to me,
18:42by heading towards Lebanon,
18:44to make people forget
18:46that these war objectives in Gaza
18:48have still not been achieved.
18:50Let's now talk about this new
18:52train of American military aid.
18:54The Israeli Ministry of Defense
18:56announced yesterday
18:58that it had obtained a new envelope
19:00of American military aid,
19:02an announcement that intervenes
19:04in full swing in the region.
19:06How do you explain this new
19:08train of American military aid for Israel?
19:12Listen, it is quite clear,
19:14it shows once again
19:16that the words of the Americans
19:18are completely contradictory
19:20and how to call a ceasefire
19:22if at the same time
19:24you deliver arms
19:26knowing that the only effective
19:28pressure on Netanyahu
19:30would be to stop the war.
19:32We can clearly see
19:34that the American position
19:36has always been that of unconditional
19:38support for Israel
19:40and that despite all the diplomatic
19:42so-called steps put forward
19:44by Washington,
19:46these are only words
19:48followed by facts
19:50and therefore this American duplicity
19:52because it is perceived as such
19:54by a certain number of observers
19:56and I think it is dramatic
19:58because you send a completely
20:00contradictory signal
20:02as if the Americans
20:04on the one hand wanted to send
20:06a signal to the population
20:08saying we support you
20:10by calling a ceasefire
20:12but ultimately what is most important
20:14is support for Israel
20:16and it is logical in this context
20:18that Netanyahu refuses
20:20any ceasefire
20:22since he knows that he will
20:24in any case obtain the means
20:26to continue this war.
20:28On the second front,
20:30a new strike by the Israeli army
20:32was carried out against a school
20:34on Thursday,
20:3615 dead according to the civil defense
20:38of Gaza, the school
20:40sheltered from the displaced.
20:42What is your analysis
20:44of the humanitarian situation
20:46in Gaza?
20:48Listen, the humanitarian situation
20:50is absolutely catastrophic
20:52and is deteriorating every day
20:54a little more with Gazans
20:56who live in absolutely
20:58unimaginable conditions
21:00but because of the blockade
21:02imposed on the Gaza Strip
21:04the fact that foreign journalists
21:06cannot enter the Gaza Strip
21:08and yet Israel continues
21:10to bomb
21:12even if the bombings
21:14are perhaps a little less intense
21:16than at the beginning of the war
21:18but it must be said that a lot has been destroyed
21:20so there is not much left to achieve.
21:22So the situation is absolutely
21:24catastrophic
21:26with, as you know,
21:28humanitarian aid coming to the Congo
21:30medicines that no longer exist
21:32care centers that are
21:34completely destroyed as well
21:36so we will discover
21:38at the end of this conflict
21:40a number of deaths
21:42much higher than the one
21:44officially announced
21:46because the government of Hamas, the Minister of Health
21:48does not have the means to list all the victims
21:50so this is the situation
21:52and absolutely
21:54the words are too weak to describe
21:56the humanitarian situation as it exists
21:58in Gaza without any respite
22:00for the population.
22:02Can we say
22:04that Israel has not
22:06achieved its main
22:08objectives in Gaza
22:10which pushes it to reaffirm
22:12its concept of
22:14dissuasion on the northern front
22:16with Lebanon.
22:18What do you think?
22:20Yes, that's
22:22what I said earlier. It is clear that
22:24the war objectives have not been achieved
22:26in the Gaza Strip, even if Hamas
22:28is obviously weakened and seriously weakened
22:30because of all the bombings
22:32for almost a year now
22:34but Netanyahu
22:36needs
22:38this diversion towards
22:40Lebanon and to show
22:42that after the trauma
22:44resulting from the massacres
22:46of October 7th, Israel must
22:48reestablish its dissuasion,
22:50reestablish a balance of power
22:52which clearly shows that Israel is much stronger
22:54than its neighbors
22:56and this is what justifies
22:58the opening of this second front
23:00on Lebanon. And there is another element
23:02which is important for
23:04the opening of this northern front
23:06it is the fact that the Israeli
23:08populations who live
23:10in the north of Israel, not far
23:12from the border with Lebanon,
23:14have left their homes for a year now
23:16because of the threat
23:18that Hezbollah was putting on
23:20the north of the country
23:22because of the support
23:24displayed by Hezbollah to Hamas
23:26and that the pressure is strong from these populations
23:28under Netanyahu's government
23:30so that they can return home
23:32and this is what also justifies
23:34today the violence of the bombings
23:36on the south of Lebanon and on Hezbollah.
23:40Agnès Levallois,
23:42I thank you for all these
23:44clarifications, thank you for answering
23:46our questions and I remind you that you are
23:48vice-president of IREMU.
23:56This concludes this edition,
23:58thank you for following it,
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