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00:00Welcome to this new edition of the Grand Journal Mediamore, here are the headlines.
00:23Two strikes hit the She'it neighborhood in Haft Tahrir, in the south of Beirut, on Wednesday, a few minutes after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order in the area.
00:37Chad saw 25,000 refugees fleeing from neighboring Sudan to escape the war in the first week of October, a record in 2024, UN alert.
00:54And in the Cannes 2025 football qualifiers, the Lions of the Atlas, in Rougie, against South Africa, with a final score of 4-0, as we speak, on this day.
01:12The president of the US Secretary-General's Conference, Andrew Jinder, saluted the vision and wisdom of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI for the development of the cities of Morocco, in particular those of the Moroccan Sahara.
01:32Andrew Jinder spoke at the end of these interviews, this Tuesday, in Rabat, with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the African and Moroccan Cooperation Residents Abroad, Nasser Borreka Borreta,
01:45recalling the recognition by the United States of the full and entire Moroccan identity of Morocco on its Sahara.
01:52At the end of the US Secretary-General's Conference, he said he can't wait to meet the elected representatives of the region to hear about the autonomy plan and explore the means of collaboration.
02:03The US delegation discussed with Nasser Borreta the importance of cooperation and local development as Morocco is the oldest friend of the United States.
02:14Andrew Jinder, Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, and Jim Ross, Mayor of Darlington, Texas, I invite you to listen.
02:25We'd like to thank the Majesty King Mohammed VI and the Moroccan people for their hospitality.
02:31We would like to thank King Mohammed VI and the Moroccan people for their hospitality.
02:35Morocco is an essential ally of the United States. We appreciate the partnership between our two countries.
02:41This visit is an excellent opportunity to see in person the progress made in Morocco under the leadership of His Majesty the King.
02:48Our visit will also take us to the Moroccan Sahara, where two memorandums of understanding will be signed with the cities of Dakhla and Laayoune.
02:56We are very enthusiastic about doing business in this country, and we are grateful to His Majesty and his leaders for giving us the opportunity to discover so many things in the Moroccan cities of this great country.
03:09As you know, the United States officially recognizes Moroccan sovereignty over the region.
03:14We can't wait to meet the region's elected officials to hear about the autonomy plan and explore ways to collaborate.
03:20Today, we discussed with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Borreta, the importance of local cooperation and local development.
03:28We agreed that cooperation in cities is essential to restore bilateral relations between our two countries,
03:35because it promotes the implementation of innovative solutions focused on collectivity to address common challenges.
03:41Morocco is the oldest friend of the United States, and we are happy to affirm today our strategic relationship.
03:48…community-driven solutions for shared challenges. Morocco is America's oldest friend, and we're pleased to reaffirm today our strategic relationship.
04:02I think it's evident that His Majesty puts tremendous value into the development…
04:10I think it's evident that His Majesty places great importance on the development of relations, not only with the Americans, but also with the Moroccan people themselves.
04:19I think that's why we appreciate so much the opportunity given to us to visit the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
04:27in order to continue to maintain excellent relations between the United States and Morocco.
04:32These relations give us the opportunity to be better together.
04:35That's what we believe as members of the Conference of the Mayors of the United States.
04:39We, the mayors, work together with the United States, and I think it's by crossing cultural borders and developing wonderful relations that we will all succeed in life.
04:49We, the mayors, work together with the United States, and I think it's by crossing cultural borders and developing wonderful relations that we will all succeed in life.
05:04A few minutes after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order, the Lebanese official agency said that it was an air strike.
05:23The Israeli army regularly strikes Lebanon as part of an offensive aimed at neutralizing Hezbollah.
05:34On Tuesday, the Lebanese Hezbollah challenged Israel despite the hard blows it received, threatening to attack it everywhere on its territory
05:44when the Israeli army intensified its strikes on Lebanon on the periphery of the movement and beyond in a speech.
05:52On Hezbollah's number two, Naim Qassem said that the solution to put an end to the war in Lebanon was a ceasefire, ensuring that its movement would not be an effect.
06:03Israel said it wanted to remove Hezbollah from the Palestinian Hamas in the northern regions of southern Lebanon
06:12and put an end to its ceasefire strikes for a year to allow the return to the north of Israel of some 60,000 displaced inhabitants.
06:28And also know that the United States has put Israel on guard for maintaining American assistance without improving humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip,
06:37giving it a 30-day delay.
06:39This is what the Department of State said yesterday.
06:43This warning appears in a letter dated Sunday and addressed to the Israeli authorities by the US Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Defense Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin,
06:54in which they deplore the current low level of humanitarian aid for the Palestinian territory devastated by the war.
07:03In their letter, Blinken and Austin clearly indicated to the Israeli government that there were changes to be made so that the level of aid provided to Gaza rises compared to today's very, very low level,
07:15said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.
07:20And in the news also, the American state of Georgia, one of those who could decide the result of the presidential election in November,
07:34experienced a strong influx for the first day of voting, anticipated according to the authorities.
07:41Three weeks after the national scrutineering, Georgia opened voting offices on Tuesday in order to be able to vote physically without waiting.
07:50On November 5, the two candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump called on the inhabitants to go to the polls.
07:57As of now, the number of voters to have voted has exceeded a record for a first day of early voting,
08:04setting at 4 p.m., 8 p.m. GMT, 251,899 ballots, according to a Georgia electoral official.
08:17A little everywhere in the United States, voters can vote by correspondence or physically in advance,
08:23before November 5, more than 5 million of them have already done so, according to the count of the University of Florida.
08:34In the rest of the news, Chad has seen 25,000 refugees fleeing neighboring Sudan to escape war during the first week of October,
08:46a record in 2024, and the situation is far from stabilizing.
08:50After 18 months of a conflict, a rare violence alerts the UN.
08:55The regional coordinator of the United Nations for Refugees, Mamadou Dian-Nabaldé,
08:59estimates that the bar of the 3 million people who fled Sudan will be crossed in the next two to three weeks.
09:07We are almost at 3 million.
09:09A disaster, he explains, due to the intensification of the brutality of the conflict.
09:14Sudan, the theater since April 2023 of a war between the forces of rapid support led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglou
09:25and the army led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, leader of the country's FAKTOF.
09:35Nigeria, like the international community, celebrated yesterday the world day of washing hands with a simple gesture.
09:43Nevertheless, it is anchored in the daily habits of often submissive populations,
09:48in the lack of adequate infrastructure, especially in rural areas.
09:52Of course, with our correspondent Jean Gibril, William.
09:56Why is it important to have clean hands?
09:59Even if the answer is generally known to all,
10:01the question of the merit of being debated by the international community on October 15
10:06dates commemorating the world day of washing hands with soap.
10:10The hand is what we do all the main activities with.
10:14So it is important, after using the toilet, or after handling an object, to wash our hands.
10:22All handicapped and often deadly diseases today are linked to the lack of hygiene and are linked to the hand.
10:31In 2008, by the United Nations,
10:34the date of October 15 is an opportunity to raise awareness about the hygiene of hands around the world.
10:40A campaign aimed at motivating populations to improve their daily habits regarding hand washing.
10:46The celebration of such a world day of washing hands is an action of global awareness,
10:53aimed at raising more awareness about the importance of hand hygiene
11:00and to trigger an improvement in the practice of hygiene and sanitization in our daily practices.
11:06But hand washing on a daily basis requires, first of all, access to drinking water for populations, especially in rural areas.
11:13In Niger, this day of celebration initiated by the Journalists for Water, Hygiene and Sanitation network
11:20has thus been an opportunity to multiply the plaintiffs at the place of local authorities,
11:24but also technical partners and financiers.
11:27We plead together with you for access to water to be a reality everywhere and for everyone,
11:37in schools in particular and in sanitary training,
11:40because we cannot today gather 1,000, 3,000 students without a water supply and talk about promoting hygiene.
11:49According to a UNICEF study, hand washing with soap could save more than half a million children,
11:56in West and Central Africa,
11:58a simple gesture that would also reduce the risk of contracting a respiratory or intestinal disease from 25 to 50%.
12:08And in sports news, in the qualifying rounds of the ACADEMY 2025 in football,
12:14the Atlas Lions are in the spotlight again this Tuesday against Central Africa,
12:21in front of Achraf Hakimi, who once again rewarded us with the same spectacle as Lallet,
12:26in a stadium of archipelagic honour.
12:29Zreib offered a double, worthy of a lion,
12:32before Masaryk and Zezouli participated in the offensive festival,
12:36unprotected from Ouelly-Terekbeg, until the final 4-0, with 4 victories.
12:41In so many outings, the Lions of the Atlas offer a free-for-all in these qualifying rounds,
12:47waiting for the next two confrontations in November, between Gabon and Lisbon.
13:18And right away, a place for the guest in the big news of the media.
13:23Morning Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are facing each other in a tight electoral campaign,
13:30and this until the presidential election scheduled for 5 November.
13:34The Democrat candidate officially invested in August after Joe Biden's resignation,
13:40is in good shape in the race to the White House, but the victory is far from being assured.
13:46And to talk about it, we are live with Yassine Yatibi,
13:50General Secretary and Researcher associated with Neige-Maroc.
13:55Hello Yassine Yatibi and thank you for being with us.
14:00Hello, thank you for the invitation.
14:03So, according to the latest polls, Kamala Harris collects around 49% of the votes,
14:10between 47% for her opponent at the national level.
14:15The two candidates remain at odds in the polls, in the key states.
14:21Do the trends still have time to reverse?
14:28Totally, because these American elections will be played at odds until the last moment,
14:37so until early November.
14:39These elections are truly historic on the level of the two candidates,
14:48now two candidates that everything opposes on the political level,
14:55on the level of the programs, on the level of personality.
14:59These elections are also historic with the withdrawal of President Biden,
15:08the candidacy and the express electoral campaign of Kamala Harris during this summer.
15:17So all this will really count to have something that will go down in American political history,
15:28because we must not forget this assassination attempt that Donald Trump suffered,
15:35and which is one of the most important narratives of his campaign.
15:44He really presents himself as a martyr of this deep state.
15:48So a lot of stakes, a lot of unique aspects in this electoral campaign
15:58that is really going to be tight until early November.
16:03So the Republican candidate Donald Trump has ruled out participating in another debate
16:10against his democratic rival Kamala Harris.
16:14How do you explain this refusal?
16:20This refusal comes from this first debate that took place a few weeks ago,
16:27where there was more friction than a real political debate.
16:34The attacks were, let's say, rather frivolous on the part of the two sides,
16:41and it is estimated by the two campaign teams that it is not really necessary
16:50for the good and for a certain good political level for a second debate to take place.
17:00Especially since Kamala Harris must now catch up with a certain delay,
17:06given that she arrived at the last moment in this electoral campaign.
17:15It is really a real U.S. tour that she is carrying out
17:20in order to fill a certain delay that is normally traditional among Democrats.
17:25For example, there is an important figure, 60% for now still undecided among Hispanics,
17:33which represents the lowest level for a Democrat candidate for more than 20 years.
17:41While normally this Hispanic electorate is traditionally on the side of Democrats,
17:49this is far from the case for Kamala Harris.
17:55There is also this Afro-American electorate.
17:58Let us remember that Kamala Harris has African-American and Asian origins,
18:04and for the moment this Afro-American electorate is not totally acquired for the Democrat candidate,
18:14given that there are still some doubts about whether these social policies,
18:22these support policies towards this community are really concrete.
18:28Kamala Harris must be in a period of conviction, in a capacity to convince these parts of the population,
18:37which are very, very important.
18:39Let us remember, for example, that the Hispanic community is the only community present in the United States
18:45which is exponential on the demographic level, unlike the others.
18:51And this part is therefore really decisive for this presidential campaign which will take place until early November.
19:01During this campaign, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump privileged a number of influencers and podcasters
19:10compared to the mainstream traditional media. Why, in your opinion?
19:16Well, we arrive in a new era that Donald Trump set up during his first candidacy in 2016.
19:27Quite simply, Donald Trump was the Twitter president of the 2016 campaign.
19:37Then, throughout his presidential term, he used social media to get closer to the American population
19:47and to break with a certain traditionalism.
19:52For example, the allocations that can be made by other heads of state.
19:58Well, this new era is now completely anchored in the political strategies carried out by American politicians.
20:08And whether it is the 2020 presidential elections or the current 2024 presidential elections,
20:17now the use of podcasters, streamers, influencers is used en masse to convince a young electorate.
20:29Because this young electorate, for the moment, is abstentionist according to American polling institutes.
20:36And this abstentionism is a little bit the enemy of the two candidates
20:42because it is this 2%, 3%, 4% margin of manoeuvre that is always announced
20:48and that really puts this election in a very, very tight way.
20:53And so the two candidates go to the front to convince this youth who have environmental sensitivities,
21:03who also have social sensitivities.
21:06And for now, the two candidates still have to convince on these issues
21:11because the program is not clear.
21:13We know, for example, the climate sensitive of our country.
21:16Yes, Mr. Yatibi, precisely to reconquer the working class,
21:20Kamala Harris is counting on the major infrastructure projects launched by Joe Biden.
21:25She has above all changed her position on the controversial hydraulic fracturing method to extract shale gas.
21:36Mr. Schist, how do you explain this reversal of Kamala Harris?
21:43Well, this reversal of positioning on the political level is based on the internal states of the United States.
21:55These internal states are a little more, let's say, traditionalist in terms of the vision of the American economy,
22:06which is very much based on an observation that the United States needs carbon resources to restart its economy.
22:21Let's recall an important figure.
22:23The United States has a debt of 120% of gross domestic product.
22:31And this debt is also an answer that Americans are waiting for to know how to restart this American economy
22:42and how to reduce the debt.
22:46Well, there is such an important figure.
22:4988% of current voters are asking concretely what are the solutions to reduce this debt.
23:00To reduce this debt, many are asking for the use of carbon-based economies, including shale gas.
23:10This is why there is a reversal of position in order to convince this electorate of the internal states of the United States.
23:19Yassine Yatioui, thank you for this enlightenment.
23:23Thank you for answering our questions.
23:25I remind you that you are Secretary General and Researcher Associated in Neige, Morocco.
23:32Thank you very much.
23:36This is how this edition ends.
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