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00:21The American president and the Israeli prime minister had not spoken for seven weeks.
00:26The escalation in the Middle East was at the heart of their telephone interview.
00:34In the United States, there is a debate between the two candidates before the presidential election,
00:38while Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are attacking each other by interposed interviews.
00:43And they don't give a damn about the candidates.
00:47So that Africa speaks of a single voice at the next United Nations Conference on the Oceans,
00:53Tangier welcomed the African Ministry of Foreign Affairs consultation.
01:03Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Benjamin Netanyahu exchanged phone calls today
01:09about the tense situation with Iran and the ongoing conflict in Lebanon.
01:16The American president and the Israeli prime minister had not spoken for seven weeks.
01:26This telephone interview takes place in a context marked by the exacerbation of tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.
01:34Today, two people have been killed in the north of Israel by rockets fired from the neighboring Lebanon.
01:41Houthis intensified their strikes in southern Beirut.
01:44Washington has put Israel on guard today against any offensive in Lebanon
01:50that would look like what happened in the Gaza Strip in response to the statements of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
02:00And in this context, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs
02:05met today with Saudi heir Mohammed bin Salman to discuss the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.
02:14The Abbas Ararchi minister, who was also received by his Saudi counterpart Faisal bin Farhan,
02:21said he hoped these consultations would improve the situation in Palestine and Lebanon.
02:28He also hoped to restore peace in the region.
02:32In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army has encircled the Jabalia area in the north
02:39and called for the evacuation of the sector targeted today by intense bombings that killed at least 18 people.
02:47According to UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees,
02:53at least 400,000 people have been trapped in this area, which he called an endless hell.
03:00The war has destroyed entire sectors of the small territory,
03:04besieged and displaced the vast majority of the 2.4 million inhabitants.
03:09At least 42,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the Israeli offensive.
03:17Meanwhile, the Palestinian Hamas movement announced
03:23that a meeting with the rival party of the FATA, which is based in occupied Jordan,
03:29was held today in Cairo to discuss the war in the Gaza Strip and the efforts of the international community.
03:36Hamas, supported by Iran and FATA, led by Mahmoud Abbas,
03:40have been rivals for decades and even clashed in 2007.
03:47The US presidential election is in less than two months.
03:51It is scheduled for November 5th.
03:53In the United States, the electoral campaign is in full swing.
04:08And during this presidential campaign, no debate was televised between the two candidates before the scrutiny.
04:14While Kamala Harris and Donald Trump attack each other by interposed interviews,
04:19they do not give each other gifts.
04:21Recently interviewed in The Late Show,
04:24the US Vice President described her rival as a loser who openly admires dictators.
04:32On her part, intervening in a podcast, Donald Trump compared his rival to a child.
04:40A few weeks after the presidential scrutiny,
04:43Kamala Harris received 49% of the votes on a national level,
04:49against 46% for her rival in an opinion poll published by The New York Times yesterday.
04:59In this context, the billionaire Elon Musk is doubling down on efforts to bring Donald Trump back to the White House.
05:06On the other hand, he says he is fully committed to the Republican candidate,
05:10the owner of X social network, but also of Tesla or SpaceX.
05:15He was also present, we see it on these images,
05:19on Saturday at a meeting of the former US president.
05:22He had then assured that Donald Trump had to win on November 5th
05:26to, I quote, preserve the Constitution and democracy.
05:37How to act so that Africa speaks of a single voice
05:41during the third conference of the United Nations on the oceans,
05:44scheduled for next year in France?
05:47The question was today at the heart of the African ministerial consultation,
05:53a meeting organized at the initiative of the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fishing.
06:00It was in particular the presence of Peter Thompson,
06:03Special Envoy of the United Nations General Sector for the Oceans,
06:07to learn a little more about the importance of holding such a meeting.
06:11Let's listen to Khamel Sediqi, Moroccan Minister of Agriculture, Maritime Fishing,
06:15Rural Development and Waters and Forests.
06:18In the context of this African week on the oceans that we have organized,
06:24on the issues of the preservation of the oceans and the blue economy
06:27and its impact on the social and economic development of African countries,
06:31we have held, in partnership with the United Nations,
06:36a consultative ministerial meeting in preparation for the Congress,
06:43the World Summit, which will be held next week.
06:48in preparation for the Congress, the World Summit,
06:53which will be organized by the United Nations in Nice in June.
06:57It will be the third edition of the Congress on the Oceans.
07:03The objective is that Africa can go there with a single voice,
07:08starting with discussions, experts first, then ministers,
07:13in relation to the global issues that are well diagnosed today,
07:20but also in relation to the solutions and the means to implement
07:26all the recommendations that have been released and will be released
07:31from the conference or rather from the summit in Nice.
07:38Whether it is the value chain of fishing or aquaculture,
07:45or environmental problems and the whole issue of logistics,
07:52all are very important aspects that have been discussed.
07:57The countries have supported and appreciated the approaches
08:02and initiatives of the Kingdom of Morocco.
08:05First, the Blue Belt Initiative, which was launched in 2016
08:10on the instructions of His Majesty the King,
08:13and which is intended to protect the oceans in the African continent.
08:19And then the Atlantic Initiative of His Majesty,
08:23which was launched on the 48th anniversary of the Green Walk,
08:29and which first called for the Atlantic to be an open space
08:36for economic, social and human development,
08:40open to all African countries,
08:44not only to the Atlantic coast, but also to other countries.
08:48Rameth Laroussi, Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Fisheries,
08:52has also come back on the subject of these African consultations.
08:56Together we listen to him.
08:58This is the third day of the activities of the Oceanic Week in Tangier.
09:02Today is the organization of a large-scale event on an African scale.
09:07It is in fact an African consultation preparatory
09:10to the United Nations Conference on the Oceans,
09:13which will be held next year in Nice, France.
09:15And the objective is that it is an unprecedented initiative on an African scale.
09:21African countries no longer have to attend the United Nations Conference
09:27as representatives, as participants,
09:30but rather as a major actor whose voice must be heard
09:33at the international level in this forum.
09:35The African consultation aims to increase and give more strength
09:41to African participation,
09:43to make its voice heard within the United Nations,
09:46which is the major body for the governance of the oceans,
09:49so that the voice of Africa is taken into account,
09:52so that the specificities and challenges of the African continent
09:57are taken into account by the United Nations.
10:00As you said at the beginning,
10:05there are more than thirty delegations,
10:08many of whom are represented at the ministerial level.
10:10There is also the presence of important and eminent people
10:14directly linked to the oceanic governance.
10:18There is the presence of Ambassador Peter Thompson,
10:21who is the special envoy of the Secretary-General of the United Nations,
10:24who is in charge of the oceans.
10:26There is the presence of Mr. Ambassador Omar Hillel,
10:28permanent representative of the Kingdom of Morocco to the United Nations.
10:32And there is the African commissioner,
10:35Mrs. Seko, I don't know,
10:37who is the Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
10:39This is a very important participation in quality and quantity.
10:45This African consultation on the ocean
10:48was held the day after the closure of the third ministerial conference
10:52on the initiative of the Blue Belt.
10:56Food and employment were at the heart of the discussions.
10:59It was still in the city of Detroit, in Unespen.
11:03Under the theme of building a base to stimulate food and employment
11:08as part of an approach to the development of the blue economy,
11:11the envoy was given to the third edition of the ministerial conference
11:16of high level on the initiative of the Blue Belt.
11:19Organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries
11:23in partnership with the World Bank,
11:25this conference inaugurates the first edition of the African Week of the Oceans,
11:29which includes a series of meetings and exchanges
11:32with ministers and experts in the African continent.
11:41Today we learned about the evolution of the situation of the oceans
11:45among the different participating countries.
11:48We also attended the presentation of the results of the research
11:51carried out by experts in the African continent.
12:00The conference today is also an opportunity to present the results
12:04of the mission carried out by the oceanographic ship Al-Hassan Marrakech
12:12in the economic zones of Liberia and Benin.
12:18The Blue Belt is an initiative launched by Morocco in 2016
12:22on the eve of the COP22.
12:24It is a platform to implement innovative solutions
12:28for the adaptation of the fishing sector to climate change.
12:32According to the participants, the optimization of the blue economy
12:35will play a central role in the realization of sustainable development goals.
12:41At the continent level, we are concerned with the implementation
12:44of all that we have as programs, strategies, policies.
12:49And we see that every time we come to Morocco,
12:52we launch an initiative and we go all the way.
12:55And we can share these experiences,
12:58try to share them with other African countries
13:01that need Morocco's expertise to move forward with all our programs.
13:07The blue economy is a priority for the African Union.
13:10And when we have a member country that already has all these technologies,
13:14all this knowledge, it is good that it shares with others.
13:17And this is how we can reach the objectives of the Agenda 2063.
13:22In total, the event includes the participation of 32 countries,
13:26including 16 delegations led by the ministers in charge of fishing and the blue economy.
13:34Second and last day of the World Power to Extimate in Marrakech.
13:39This two-day event organized by the Research Institute on Solar Energy and New Energy
13:44under the auspices of the Ministry of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development
13:49aims to promote green hydrogen as a key lever for the energy transition in Morocco
13:55and internationally.
13:57Let's listen to Leila Ben Ali, Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development.
14:01Right after, you will have the reaction of Laurent Sable, among the participants this week.
14:07The offer in Morocco, as you know, is an offer that allows to mobilize,
14:11first of all, the funder, a million hectares.
14:14So it gives a lot of visibility to investors, to the private sector, Moroccan and international,
14:20and a space of trust, a transparent space in which they know
14:24that they have a unique guichet called Mazen,
14:27where they have to go to submit their offer.
14:31So, in addition to this transparency and this visibility,
14:35it also gives security to be able to invest
14:39and to be able to take charge of the technological risks,
14:42the commercial risks, the industrial risks that are inherent to these sectors.
14:47So we want today, and that's why when we mobilized this million hectares,
14:51we said to ourselves, we are not going to attack a single sector,
14:54we are going to attack all sectors, electricity, energy, shipping, transport,
15:00the maritime sector also which wants to decarbonize,
15:03the industry also which wants to decarbonize.
15:05So we are not going to put all our eggs in the same basket
15:09and we want the private sector, national and international,
15:12to accompany us in this transition.
15:14We are working on major energy projects in Morocco and Africa
15:18and we are lucky to accompany the Green Energy Hydrogen Cluster
15:23with which we have signed an MOU today
15:26because indeed the hydrogen sector today
15:29offers immense opportunities for investors
15:34because we now have a structured legal and fiscal offer,
15:39the fund is there and beyond the wind and the sun,
15:43there is a quality of the Moroccan ecosystem.
15:48We see a lot of opportunities for investors.
15:52This is why we firmly believe that this ecosystem,
15:57like other ecosystems such as the automobile,
16:00the aeronautical cluster, etc., can prosper in Morocco.
16:05In Senegal, the Takou Walou coalition,
16:08whose former president Macky Sall is head of the list,
16:11filed this week a request to the Constitutional Council
16:15against the candidacy of the current Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko
16:19in the legislature on 17 November.
16:22Forty-one list of parties, coalitions and entities
16:26regrouping independents have been validated
16:29by the General Election Commission.
16:31What is to be read?
16:32Let's listen to the political analyst Chersa Diboudiaye.
16:36Indeed, the DGE presented 41 lists,
16:39so we are witnessing a plethora of lists,
16:41that is to say a plethora of candidacies.
16:43As you know, the elections will draw
16:46the new Senegalese electoral cartography.
16:48The legislative elections will symbolize
16:51if there is really a break in the Senegalese political class,
16:54if the Senegalese have made an appointment with the change
16:57to support the leadership of Ousmane Sonko,
17:00led by the president of the government,
17:03or if the Senegalese will take a step back
17:05and choose among the candidates of the opposition,
17:08as you said, at the head of the Takou Walou list,
17:11the former president Macky Sall,
17:13and the other candidates like Amadou Bar,
17:15or Barthelemy Diaz, or others.
17:17So the Senegalese executive really decided
17:20to put President Ousmane Sonko,
17:23who is the president of the PASSEF party,
17:25who will represent the PASSEF coalition
17:27during these elections.
17:28So we will see if the Senegalese
17:31will confirm the choice that has been made
17:33on the president of the government,
17:35that is, to lead these 54%
17:37to these legislative elections,
17:38so that they can vote for the majority
17:40for the PASSEF coalition,
17:42or if the Senegalese will choose
17:44among the opposition,
17:46that is, President Macky Sall,
17:48who also has a certain duality
17:50with his former prime minister, Amadou Bar,
17:52who is at the head of a strong coalition
17:54that benefits from the support of many Senegalese.
17:56This shows us that the Senegalese political class,
17:59even the Senegalese politics,
18:01is in the process of bubbling up,
18:03to really take another turn.
18:05So this is what we are seeing at the moment.
18:10The October Rose wave
18:12for the prevention of breast cancer
18:14is still growing.
18:16This year, we are mobilizing all over the world.
18:18Morocco is not stopped.
18:20To talk about it, we are with Dr. Oussam Haddad,
18:23a specialist in radiotherapy,
18:25oncology in Tangier.
18:27Dr. Haddad, good evening,
18:29and thank you for accepting our invitation.
18:32Good evening, thank you.
18:34So, at your level,
18:36how do you experience this October Rose campaign?
18:41Well, we would have liked
18:43the whole year to be in pink,
18:45because I think that October alone
18:47is not a sufficient month.
18:50We can say that the awareness,
18:52the screening,
18:54the early diagnosis of breast cancer
18:56is crucial,
18:58is very important.
19:00So this is really all year round.
19:02Maybe the month of October comes up
19:04each time to remind it,
19:06but in the end,
19:08the whole year must be devoted to this cancer,
19:10because it is a cancer
19:12in which we get huge benefits
19:14from screening
19:16and early diagnosis.
19:19If I remember correctly,
19:21the whole year should be pink.
19:23So, men or women,
19:25we are all concerned
19:27by this campaign,
19:29or by this disease,
19:31because we know someone
19:33who is affected by breast cancer.
19:35Today, what are the risk factors
19:37that make the occurrence
19:39of breast cancer
19:41more likely?
19:45The first risk factor
19:47is the woman.
19:49It is the sex itself.
19:51The woman is much more
19:53likely to have breast cancer,
19:55since for 100 cases of breast cancer,
19:57there are 99 women
19:59and one man.
20:01So, already the sex itself
20:03is a risk factor.
20:05The second risk factor is also the age.
20:07We notice that
20:09the older we get,
20:11the more there is
20:13this risk.
20:15There are more and more
20:17women, more and more young people,
20:19who are affected by this cancer.
20:21But if we look at the national
20:23and global statistics,
20:25the older we get,
20:27the more there is this risk.
20:29There are also the antecedents,
20:31either personal,
20:33of a breast cancer,
20:35which increases the risk
20:37of another cancer,
20:39or family factors.
20:41There are also hormonal factors
20:43that are there
20:45and that make us
20:47distribute risk groups
20:49to promote this screening.
20:51You said it,
20:53there are several risk factors.
20:55But today, is there a category
20:57of women
20:59who should
21:01give much more importance
21:03to this awareness campaign?
21:07According to the national statistics,
21:09there is the age range
21:11of 40-45 years
21:13and 45-50 years
21:15which is the most affected.
21:17The national program
21:19has specified
21:21a screening age
21:23starting
21:25from 40 years
21:27up to 69 years.
21:29This is the age range
21:31that is most affected
21:33by this screening.
21:35By definition,
21:37patients who are asymptomatic
21:39should be interested.
21:41These are patients
21:43who have no symptoms
21:45and will go to their doctor
21:47for the screening,
21:49which will of course
21:51be based on a clinical test,
21:53but above all on mammography
21:55whose goal is to detect
21:57these very small lesions
21:59which are infraclinical,
22:01meaning that they have not yet
22:03given clinical meaning
22:05to their benefits.
22:07Why? Because we will have
22:09lighter treatments,
22:11conservative treatments.
22:13These are women who will
22:15keep their breasts.
22:17Very likely, these are patients
22:19who will not need
22:21heavy treatments
22:23and of course
22:25these are patients
22:27who will also have
22:29largely favorable and superior
22:31prognoses compared to other
22:33cases where the diagnosis
22:35is made later.
22:37How important is
22:39the early screening
22:41in the prevention of breast cancer?
22:45The screening
22:47is actually part
22:49of the prevention.
22:51We are not in the primary prevention,
22:53but rather in the secondary
22:55prevention, which will
22:57require screening and
22:59diagnosis very early.
23:01The primary prevention
23:03has other specificities.
23:05We cannot eliminate
23:07all the risk factors of breast cancer.
23:09When we are a woman, we are.
23:11When we are
23:13older, we cannot
23:15move forward in age.
23:17So we cannot totally prevent.
23:19There are certain cases in which we can
23:21prevent the occurrence of breast cancer,
23:23but really these are rare cases.
23:25These are familiar cases
23:27where we have
23:29cancer families,
23:31who are responsible for the cancer,
23:33who are also detected,
23:35tested, and who will
23:37allow us to prevent this breast cancer
23:39thanks to mastectomies
23:41or prophylaxis ovariectomies.
23:43Today,
23:45Dr. Oussam Haddad,
23:47what are your views on
23:49the measures taken in the Kingdom
23:51to deal with this breast cancer?
23:55These are efforts,
23:57colossal efforts,
23:59thanks to the efforts
24:01of the Ministry of Health,
24:03thanks to civil society,
24:05thanks to the public
24:07and private hospital structures
24:09that participate in the sensitization
24:11and also the availability
24:13of clinical
24:15and radiological
24:17screening tests.
24:19So there is really a national
24:21program for screening
24:23and early detection.
24:25The important thing
24:27is that there are patients
24:29who are often afraid of this initiative
24:31to go for screening
24:33because they are always afraid
24:35of this step, of this possible diagnosis.
24:37When you get tested,
24:39you still take the risk of having
24:41this new diagnosis of breast cancer.
24:43The important message is that
24:45when we detect it very early,
24:47we have a good chance of healing.
24:49We have a good chance
24:51of controlling this cancer
24:53and not letting it evolve
24:55to more advanced stages.
24:57The important thing
24:59is that in Morocco
25:01there is the very important project
25:03of the generalization
25:05of health insurance
25:07which facilitated
25:09access to care,
25:11diagnosis and screening
25:13to the entire population.
25:15I invite the entire Moroccan population
25:17to get involved
25:19in this project of generalization
25:21of health insurance.
25:23We need health insurance
25:25when we are really in
25:27chronic diseases,
25:29especially cancer.
25:31So it is really very interesting
25:33to register to benefit
25:35when it is necessary.
25:37Thank you Dr. Oussam Haddad.
25:39Thank you for all these details
25:41and thank you also for answering
25:43our questions.
25:47That's it for today.
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