Presse monde - 05/02/2024
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00:00 Hello and welcome to the PressMond magazine.
00:07 We start our edition today in Europe.
00:10 The European Settlement Project on Artificial Intelligence has passed a decisive stage,
00:16 with its validation unanimously by the 27 countries of the European Union.
00:21 I read in the newspaper Le Monde that after more than 7 months of opposition and suspense,
00:27 France has finally decided to ratify the Act.
00:30 For the French government, the compromise obtained is a short-term setback,
00:35 but Paris estimates that it will be out of this fire in the long term.
00:40 Thus, France has tried in vain to obtain additional concessions in the name of the protection of its start-ups,
00:48 these points were essentially on the regulation of the founding models.
00:52 The Artificial Intelligence Act should come into force in 2025 after its ratification by the European Parliament.
01:00 A priori acquired and expected in the coming weeks,
01:04 the vast text prohibits certain uses of artificial intelligence,
01:09 such as citizen notation and the manipulation of behavior or biometric identification at a distance of people in public places,
01:18 except for cases linked essentially to security, in the image of the fight against terrorism.
01:24 "On the subject of tensions in the Middle East,
01:26 wars will continue in the region until the Palestinians get their state,"
01:32 wrote the Independent newspaper.
01:34 American raids in Iraq and Syria were inevitable,
01:38 and the question is now to know how to prevent the war in Gaza from turning into a larger crisis,
01:44 indicates the British newspaper.
01:46 In its editorial, the newspaper estimates that the American response to the attack,
01:50 which targeted its military bases in Jordan, was stronger and wider than expected.
01:55 It mentions in particular the Pentagon, which stated that 85 targets had been hit in Iraq and Syria,
02:02 and that the number of deaths was ten times higher in the number of attacks in Jordan.
02:07 For the newspaper, a simple lack of recognition of the Israeli government
02:12 and its institutional structure for an independent Palestinian state will be symbolic.
02:18 As long as international opinion is not mobilized around an acceptable regulation for the Israeli and Palestinian peoples,
02:26 the risks of escalating the conflict will remain eternal, concludes the publication.
02:31 Back in Europe, more precisely in Spain, the climate crisis has reached the taps of half the country,
02:38 quoted the newspaper El Diario.
02:42 "The Catalan restrictions in Andalusia illustrate the reality of climate change for Spain.
02:47 There is less water to meet the demand," the newspaper said.
02:51 The latter cited Barcelona, which, according to the author of the publication,
02:55 could become "desert" after the Catalan government declared a state of emergency,
03:01 and to continue that the area has experienced its worst drought in centuries.
03:05 The current deficit of rainfall is unprecedented since the beginning of the raises in 1916.
03:12 The region had already experienced a year and a half of drought in 2008,
03:15 and the periods without rain are not atypical.
03:19 The lack of rainfall in 2023 was one of the ten most expensive climate disasters of the year in the world,
03:26 according to the annual analysis of the Christian Aid organization,
03:30 which calculated a loss of 50 euros per inhabitant due to drought.
03:35 We stay with the Spanish press.
03:37 More than 50 deaths, thousands of hectares and two houses burned down.
03:42 This is not in Spain, but in Chile, the country of South America devastated by fires.
03:47 After the 2010 earthquake, it is probably the disaster that has caused the most victims in Chile in recent years,
03:55 as stated by the Minister of the Interior Carolina Toa, quoted by El País correspondent in Santiago.
04:02 Since Friday, the Valparaíso region has been burning.
04:05 Between 3,000 and 6,000 houses were destroyed, or reduced to ashes,
04:10 says El País, as well as 43,000 hectares of forest.
04:14 In this area, a hundred kilometers northwest of Santiago,
04:18 about thirty homes remain active out of the 92 listed in total.
04:23 The El Niño climate phenomenon is the origin of a heatwave that hits the region,
04:28 but heat alone does not explain the catastrophe in progress.
04:32 The Chilean president has indeed mentioned the possibility that humans are behind the fires in Viña del Mar,
04:39 reported El País, citing local newspapers.
04:43 And if a simple injection could cure cancer,
04:47 the new observer, entitled "Message RNA vaccine, a therapeutic promise against cancer", wonders.
04:55 Several trials evaluating treatment vaccines have shown very positive effects,
05:00 to the point that some scientists who see the next medical revolution in oncology indicate the magazine.
05:07 In September 2023, an announcement, repeated by many media, made a lot of noise.
05:13 According to the first results of a clinical trial of phase 3 Tedopi,
05:17 a therapeutic vaccine against metastatic lung cancer,
05:21 would reduce the death rate by 41% in the year that follows its administration.
05:27 Certainly, the cohort of patients is limited, a hundred,
05:31 but already this study sends a positive signal,
05:34 specifies the magazine, citing the coordinator of the study at the Gustav Roussi Benjamin Besse Institute.
05:41 Tedopi is not an isolated case.
05:44 For more than 20 years, scientists have been trying to develop such treatments,
05:49 but the real turnaround has occurred in the last five years
05:53 with the advent of the technology of the messaged RNA popularized by the Covid-19 pandemic.
05:59 This is the end of the Pressmond magazine. Thank you for following it.
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