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00:00Welcome to Mediamorni, here are the headlines.
00:23Israel has launched a new wave of strikes on the south of Beirut on Friday night,
00:33in one of the most violent raids since Israel intensified its bombardment of the country.
00:40The Palestinian Authority announced 18 deaths after an Israeli strike in Sijordani,
00:46where the Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a local leader from Hamas.
00:52The general census of the population and the 2024 habitat, which was completed on September 30,
01:03will allow Morocco to have an exhaustive and geographically, socially and economically detailed database.
01:11Announced by High Commissioner for Plan Ahmed Mahlemi.
01:16The Israeli army launched a new wave of strikes on the south of Beirut on Friday night,
01:28in one of the most violent raids since Israel intensified its bombardment of the country.
01:34The official Lebanese press agency reported more than 10 consecutive strikes.
01:42The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the death of 37 people in 24 hours in the various Israeli strikes.
01:53The Israeli army had stated that it would continue to inflict severe blows on Hezbollah.
01:58According to official figures, nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in the name of trans-frontal violence
02:04between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, of which more than 1,000 since September 23.
02:09The Lebanese government estimates the number of displaced people to be around 1.2 million.
02:18The Palestinian Authority announced last night that 18 people had been killed following an Israeli strike
02:26on the side of refugees from Tulkarem, north of the Jordan Strait,
02:30where the Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a local leader from Hamas in an air raid.
02:38This is the most deadly Israeli strike in Jordan since 2000.
02:44This is what a source in the Palestinian security services said,
02:49as part of a joint operation between the armed forces and the Israel Internal Security Agency.
02:55The Israeli air force carried out this strike and eliminated the local leader of the Hamas network,
03:01Zahi Abdel-Razak, a.k.a. Zahi Lofi,
03:05according to an Israeli military statement.
03:08Hamas condemned in a statement a cruel attack, marking a dangerous escalation.
03:18The situation is therefore explosive in the south of Lebanon, but also in the heart of the capital.
03:27The population is afraid of the worst.
03:31Several countries are organising the repatriation of their blood.
03:36We will see this in more detail.
03:43Tzahal continues his strikes on Beirut and in the south and east of Lebanon.
03:47According to the official Lebanese agency NNA,
03:50Israel continued its offensive in Lebanon on Thursday night,
03:54with 17 raids on Beirut and its southern border.
03:57For the second time, a strike hit the very heart of the capital,
04:01reaching Hezbollah's civil protection centre in Bashoura.
04:05Israel has intensified its military operations in this area since mid-September
04:09in order to weaken Hezbollah and allow the return of tens of thousands of inhabitants
04:14from the border areas with Lebanon.
04:17Infiltrating a border using classic and normal military chains in wartime,
04:23however, battles can never be decisive without land operations.
04:27This is said in the case of the Lebanese,
04:29the resistance of Hezbollah on the battlefield at the border proved effective yesterday.
04:39At the same time, more than 75 rockets were fired by Hezbollah on Thursday morning
04:43in the direction of northern Israel, triggering sirens in the cities of Safed,
04:47Tiberias and many other locations in Galilee,
04:50forcing the inhabitants to take refuge in shelters.
04:53Many rockets were intercepted, according to Tzahal,
04:56while others hit open areas.
04:59We will take account of all those who attack and those who try to attack the State of Israel.
05:06This war is hard, it is a justified war, and we are entering its second year.
05:11There will be other battles, other victories and other achievements for our nation.
05:15We will accomplish other achievements,
05:17like the ones we have won throughout the recent period.
05:21But there will be victories and there will be achievements,
05:23as we have achieved throughout the war,
05:26and in the last period we see it well.
05:30On the ground, several countries have organized evacuations of the resettlement.
05:34A building of the French Navy has appeared from the southeast of France
05:38to pre-position itself off the coast of Lebanon in case of evacuation of French resettlement.
05:43Berlin has sent a military plane to Beirut
05:46to evacuate employees of the German embassy in Lebanon and their families.
05:50The United Kingdom has announced that it has booked a commercial flight
05:53for those resettlement who wish to evacuate Lebanon.
05:56Portugal has already repatriated, on Saturday night, 28 national citizens and their families via Cyprus,
06:02a total of 44 people.
06:05Canada has also announced that it has booked 800 seats on commercial flights
06:09to help its resettlement to leave Lebanon.
06:11The Canadian army has set up emergency resources in Cyprus
06:14if the commercial flights were interrupted.
06:18In the Kingdom, the government follows closely the situation of the Moroccan community
06:22established in Lebanon in a context of military escalation in this country.
06:27For the spokesman of the government, Mustafa Beytas,
06:30a crisis cell has been set up at the level of the Moroccan embassy in Beirut.
06:35This cell has the mission of maintaining direct contact with the members of the Moroccan community
06:42to guide them and ensure their safety.
06:45And know that a number of citizens and their families have already left Lebanon
06:50and that no injury has been reported.
07:00The general census of the population and habitat 2024
07:04in the data collection operation with households
07:08was completed on September 30 last year.
07:11It will allow Morocco to have an exhaustive and detailed database
07:16geographically, socially and economically.
07:19This is what the High Commissioner for Plan Ahmed El Halimi said yesterday in Rabat.
07:23Intervening at a press conference at the end of this operation,
07:27El Halimi indicated that the High Commissioner for Plan will rely
07:31over the next ten years on this database
07:36to develop the main statistical indicators
07:40related in particular to poverty,
07:43the price, social disparities, economic and social conditions.
07:48He also stressed that this census represents a crucial step
07:53for the perspectives projected by the Kingdom
07:56in the framework of sustainable development
07:58in coherence with the objectives of sustainable development.
08:06The summit of Francophonie opens this Friday in Paris
08:10and the Moroccan Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication
08:15took part yesterday in the French capital
08:18of the preparatory ministerial meeting of this meeting.
08:22At the heart of the discussions,
08:24chaired by the Secretary General of the OEF,
08:27there was in particular the project of declaration of the summit,
08:30that of resolution on crisis situations,
08:34but also on mechanisms of monitoring and evaluation.
08:38Let's take the floor.
08:39Mohamed Mohamed Ibn Said reiterated the support of Morocco
08:42and his commitment to the challenge of climate, biodiversity
08:47evoking the Middle East situation.
08:49He also recalled the position of the Kingdom,
08:51which believes that the cessation of hostilities
08:54must be done in parallel with the opening of a political horizon
08:58likely to establish a just and sustainable peace in the region.
09:06Let's react to Niger with the launch this Thursday
09:09of a campaign to detect hepatitis in pregnant women.
09:14An initiative that is part of the 14th edition
09:18of the World Day Against Hepatitis,
09:21an infection of the liver in elimination,
09:24necessarily goes through prevention.
09:27Our correspondent Jean Dubril, William, tells us more.
09:32It is a sound break that could save their lives
09:34and that of their baby to come.
09:36At the health center of Yontala,
09:38located in the suburbs of Niemey,
09:40the patients were many this Thursday,
09:42pregnant for the most part.
09:44In the program, a screening session,
09:47nevertheless preceded by an awareness
09:49on the dangers of an infection still little known in Niger,
09:52viral hepatitis.
09:53Viral hepatitis, as we said,
09:56is an inflammation of the liver caused by five types of viruses,
09:59A, B, C, D and E,
10:03causing a whole series of health problems,
10:06including liver cancer,
10:08which is really the most serious complication.
10:10For now, local health authorities estimate
10:13at 6.81% the prevalence rate of hepatitis in pregnant women.
10:18The campaign, initiated this Thursday,
10:20aims to raise doubts about a potential infection
10:23and the need to provide free treatment
10:26in case of positive results.
10:28With this initiative, at least it's free,
10:31the women will benefit for free
10:34and after the test,
10:36the product, the medicine is available
10:38that the woman will take to not contaminate her child.
10:41In addition to the mother-child contamination,
10:44hepatitis is also transmitted in an unprotected sexual way,
10:47as well as by blood.
10:49An infection of the liver is not without complications
10:52for the patients affected,
10:54of which the importance of a screening
10:56and a quick charge.
10:57Of the 2,077 chronic cases of hepatitis B,
11:02which are under treatment,
11:04558 patients are hospitalized for post-hepatitis B decompensate
11:11and 354 patients hospitalized for primary liver cancer.
11:18This shows that despite all the efforts made,
11:22we still have a long way to go.
11:24The latest report from the WHO
11:26states that more than 325 million people
11:28are affected by hepatitis B or C around the world,
11:31of which 70 million live in Africa.
11:34In 2022, only 14 African countries
11:37had integrated the anti-hepatitis vaccine
11:39into their national programs,
11:41i.e. a vaccination rate at birth of only 10%.
11:46Tunisians will be called on Sunday
11:48to slide their notebooks into the urn
11:50to elect their president.
11:52They will have to choose between three candidates.
11:55The outgoing president, Qaiss Saïd,
11:58will face Zohair Marzavi,
12:00a defender of Pan-Arabism,
12:02and a true electoral base.
12:05The third and last candidate,
12:07behind the bars,
12:09is Ayeshi Zemal,
12:11imprisoned on the day of his candidacy
12:14for falsification of sponsorship.
12:16He was recently charged
12:18with a new sentence of 12 years in prison.
12:26And we are still in Tunisia,
12:29where many NGOs are denouncing
12:32a tailor-made scrutiny
12:35for Qaiss Saïd.
12:37Left-wing parties called on him
12:39to slide their notebooks into the urn.
12:41On October 6, some political analysts
12:44believe that the boycott will only benefit
12:46the outgoing president.
12:48Look, this is a Tunisian report
12:50by Necho Béchat.
12:53Five Tunisian parties have announced
12:56their boycott of the presidential elections
12:59scheduled for Sunday.
13:01Progressive Democratic parties
13:03have called on Tunisians
13:05not to participate in the elections
13:07and to boycott the vote,
13:09considering that the results
13:11of this scrutiny seem to be in advance.
13:13We are facing a second coup.
13:17We are facing a second coup
13:20aimed at establishing a tyrannical regime.
13:23We have gone from a liberal political system
13:26to a new regime based on tyranny.
13:29This is why we call Tunisians to the boycott.
13:32On the other hand,
13:34the Free Syrian Democratic Party
13:36has also called for the boycott,
13:38believing that these elections
13:40are devoid of transparency,
13:42integrity and lack of legitimacy.
13:47Our party will remain faithful
13:49to its principles and convictions
13:51in the fight against political corruption
13:54and absolute and individual power.
13:57It will not participate
13:59on 6 October,
14:01neither close nor far.
14:07I think that the boycott
14:09shows the weakness and incapacity
14:11of the opposition.
14:13The boycott is not a political position.
14:15It will not affect real events.
14:17President Kays Saïd will benefit
14:19from this boycott.
14:21In Tunisia,
14:23the presidential election of 6 October
14:25is held in a tense climate,
14:27marked by the arrest of opponents
14:29and the exclusion of many candidates.
14:31It should be noted
14:33that only two days before the elections,
14:35the Tunisian justice condemned
14:37Haye Chizamel,
14:39one of the two candidates
14:41who presented himself
14:43to the outgoing president,
14:45who had been incarcerated
14:47for more than a month.
14:49I would like to invite
14:51our guest,
14:53Media Morning.
14:55We are going to Tunisia
14:57this morning
14:59for a spotlight
15:01on the presidential elections
15:03scheduled for Sunday, 6 October,
15:05which will be announced
15:07in a very particular context.
15:09The electoral campaign
15:11was marked by the arrest of opponents
15:13and the exclusion of many candidates.
15:15Five left-wing political parties
15:17announced this Thursday
15:19their position
15:21in the face of these elections.
15:23They are taking the boycott.
15:25To talk about it,
15:27we are live with
15:29Sihem Bedi,
15:31former Tunisian minister
15:33and political activist.
15:35Hello, Sihem Bedi.
15:37Thank you for accepting
15:39our invitation.
15:45Three days
15:47before the elections in Tunisia,
15:49only three candidates
15:51remain.
15:53One of them, Haye Chizamel,
15:55was sentenced on Tuesday
15:57to 12 years in prison,
15:59which adds to two other verdicts.
16:01What does this mean for you?
16:05Listen, we are still
16:07in the authoritarian
16:09phase,
16:11in all its splendor.
16:13We have only one candidate.
16:15Really,
16:17we have only one candidate,
16:19Kays Essaed,
16:21who was sentenced
16:23and cannot campaign
16:25behind bars.
16:27We have another candidate
16:29who was also sentenced
16:31to be faithful to his master,
16:33faithful to Kays Essaed.
16:35So, we have only one candidate
16:37who is leading
16:39the campaign on his own,
16:41of course,
16:43using everything
16:45that belongs to the state
16:47to lead
16:49his campaign
16:51on his own.
16:53Of course,
16:55these elections
16:57have had a mess
16:59from start to finish.
17:01First of all,
17:03excluding all the other candidates,
17:05who have been validated in prison.
17:07So, we cannot
17:09talk today
17:11about presidential elections
17:13that are transparent
17:15and that take place
17:17under normal conditions.
17:19How many times
17:21have there been disrespect of the law,
17:23whether it was
17:25on the part of the
17:27elections
17:29or the president.
17:31Even if we change the rules of the game,
17:33even a week before
17:35the election,
17:37even before going to the polls,
17:39which is completely illegal,
17:41we cannot change the rules of the game
17:43during the game.
17:45So, he has changed
17:47the laws.
17:49Even the laws that were voted
17:51by his assembly,
17:53have been corrected
17:55and rectified
17:57even after the assembly's decision.
17:59If I may say,
18:01speaking of the election campaign,
18:03what is your view
18:05on this campaign
18:07that is coming to an end
18:09this Friday at midnight?
18:11I think that these elections,
18:13the results,
18:15the games are made in advance,
18:17we know the results in advance.
18:19For him, it is a question
18:21of life or death.
18:23For nothing in the world, he will give up.
18:25For nothing in the world,
18:27he will accept that someone
18:29will go to the presidential election.
18:31So, he is ready for everything.
18:33And when I say everything,
18:35that is, even if it means falsifying the laws,
18:37even if it means imprisoning
18:39the political opponents,
18:41even if it means hurting the country,
18:43and even more.
18:45So, he is ready for everything
18:47to stay and not leave.
18:49He is ready for everything,
18:51whatever the price,
18:53even if the price is expensive for the country,
18:55expensive on all levels,
18:57he is ready to pay it.
18:59And unfortunately,
19:01we are living,
19:03once again, the drift,
19:05and our country deserves better.
19:07But I think that we,
19:09as opposition,
19:11October 6th is the day of the elections,
19:13but I think there will be
19:15an after October 7th.
19:17And Kayser Saeed, elected in 2019,
19:19will not be the Kayser Saeed
19:21who was elected by force
19:23in 2024.
19:25I think they will take
19:27another turn.
19:29Five left-wing parties
19:31called for the boycott of this
19:33scrutiny yesterday.
19:35They point out several things
19:37that have undermined the credibility
19:39of this election,
19:41including the revision
19:43of the electoral law.
19:45What do you think?
19:47I think, of course, that they are right.
19:49So, we can say
19:51today that Kayser Saeed,
19:53who is finally
19:55out of office,
19:57everything that will come after
19:59is ideal for us.
20:01I think that this party
20:03and a large majority
20:05of the population
20:07will not see Kayser Saeed
20:09really elected.
20:11He is no longer a chosen president.
20:13He is a president who passes by force.
20:15And so, he will not have the same credibility.
20:17He will not have the same popular support.
20:19He will not have the same...
20:21He will not be seen
20:23in the same way
20:25as a citizen of Tunisia.
20:27So, I think that today,
20:29in my opinion, he thinks
20:31that he has won, but I think
20:33that he has lost a lot.
20:35And so, I think that the population,
20:37whether it is
20:39the elite, the political parties,
20:41civil society,
20:43or the citizen,
20:45I think that everyone
20:47today has put them on their back
20:49and he is
20:51under the collimator of
20:53all these people
20:55who, after October 7, of course,
20:57will not see him
20:59in the same way.
21:01After the Tunisian president
21:03took office,
21:05he has a new mandate.
21:07What are, in your opinion,
21:09the stakes of these elections?
21:11In any case,
21:13a large part
21:15of the Tunisian population
21:17will not support
21:19these elections
21:21and will not
21:23recognize them.
21:25We must now work on an international level
21:27to do just that.
21:29I think that there will be
21:31complaints
21:33that will be filed
21:35on a national level,
21:37on an international level,
21:39against all these derives
21:41that we have seen.
21:43I think that there will be other derives
21:45on October 6 and after
21:47because, as you can see,
21:49we are not talking about a second round.
21:51We have no contrary at all.
21:53The falsification of the laws,
21:55all this cannot go unnoticed,
21:57cannot be accepted by a population
21:59that has already tasted,
22:01after the revolution,
22:03freedom of expression,
22:05that already knows how to defend itself
22:07and recover again
22:09what has been stolen
22:11or what has been taken by force.
22:13The people will use
22:15all the means in their possession,
22:17of course,
22:19when I say the means,
22:21the peaceful means,
22:23to recover this country
22:25and not accept
22:27to go by force like that
22:29and to give no consideration
22:31to the political parties,
22:33to the opposition,
22:35to civil society.
22:37Now, today,
22:39there is no one who counts
22:41in place, as you said,
22:43who has given up all power
22:45and he wants to impose
22:47a choice that is not ours.
22:49And I think that
22:51a free citizen,
22:53a worthy citizen
22:55will not be able to accept
22:57such a choice.
22:59More than
23:0139 million Tunisian voters
23:03are called to the polls to choose
23:05their new president.
23:07What are their expectations?
23:11I think that now
23:13there is despair.
23:15I think that the Tunisians,
23:17there is a part of the opposition
23:19who still wants to vote
23:21and who wants to show
23:23that it is no longer their choice.
23:25And that today,
23:27even if the opposition is in prison,
23:29there is a large population
23:31who says that
23:33they will use
23:35the contested vote
23:37to vote for
23:39Macron to show
23:41that it is no longer their choice.
23:43And a large part,
23:45the part that wants to boycott,
23:47I do not think that the boycott
23:49will remain negative.
23:51It must be a constructive boycott
23:53in the sense that,
23:55as I said,
23:57we really need to
23:59close the courts
24:01and we must do everything
24:03to cancel these elections
24:05that are from start to finish,
24:07that have never respected
24:09the law, neither the electoral law,
24:11nor the constitution,
24:13nor the choice of the people.
24:15And if it does not end today,
24:17it will end later.
24:19And that's why I say
24:21that Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
24:23who said at the beginning
24:25that he was too popular
24:27and that he was elected
24:29by a large majority of the population,
24:31today he cannot pretend
24:33to his functions
24:35and that a large part of the population
24:37turns its back on him
24:39and that a large part of the population
24:41is displeased
24:43and ...
24:45Sihem Bedi,
24:47thank you for answering
24:49our questions.
24:51I remind you that you are
24:53a former Tunisian minister of politics.
24:59This is the end
25:01of this edition.
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