MEDI1TV Afrique : Midi infos - 23/06/2024
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00:00Hello and welcome to this newscast. Here are the headlines. Morocco and the United States
00:19launch the group of friends on artificial intelligence for sustainable development and
00:24it is in New York. In Tel Aviv, thousands of protesters against the government of Netanyahu
00:34claim early elections and the return of hostages detained in Reza. And on the occasion of the
00:44day of the consolidation of peace celebrated on June 23, António Guterres, Secretary-General
00:50of the United Nations, calls for a collective jump in favor of peace. Direction New York to
01:02start this newscast. Morocco and the United States have launched the group of friends on
01:07artificial intelligence for sustainable development. The permanent representative of Morocco
01:14with the UN Omar Hillel and his American counterpart Linda Thomas-Greenfield launched
01:20this initiative in New York, which follows the adoption by the UN General Assembly of the
01:26first UN resolution on artificial intelligence initially sponsored by Morocco and the
01:33United States, as well as by the 123 member states until the day of its adoption. And on this
01:41topic, I propose to listen to Amal Elfallah. She is the Executive President of AI Movement.
01:49We listen to her. Artificial intelligence has been identified as a real lever to help
01:59achieve the sustainable development goals that were defined in 2015 to the 2030 horizon. I
02:07would like to quote an article that appeared in Nature, which is a very prestigious journal,
02:14which appeared in 2020 and which explains how artificial intelligence can achieve
02:2179% of the sustainable development goals by 2030. So the question we can ask ourselves is
02:31how will this AI help achieve these sustainable development goals? So already, very quickly,
02:37when we talk about sustainable development, we refer to the definitions of this terminology to
02:45say that today we want solutions that allow us to solve the problems of the present without
02:52compromising future generations. That is to say, for example, we will not waste the resources of the
02:59planet right away to solve our energy problems or our heating problems if our children and
03:06grandchildren can miss it because we have consumed everything. This is just an example. So AI will
03:12allow us to improve the school thanks to the improvement of learning. Today we see
03:19a lot of solutions to education, to learning that uses artificial intelligence.
03:26In the field of health, AI has already proven itself on everything that is prediction,
03:32everything that is recognition, everything that is identification of certain pathologies, etc.
03:37On the other hand, AI can help in what is called precision agriculture, that is to say,
03:44how to help farmers have better agriculture thanks to the technologies of
03:51artificial intelligence. AI can also help to design sustainable housing and transport.
03:57In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets yesterday against the
04:06government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protesters are calling for
04:12early elections and the return of hostages detained in Raza. Similar demonstrations
04:20have gathered in recent weeks tens of thousands of people in Tel Aviv, the largest city in Israel,
04:25to protest against the management of the war in Raza, but also against the inability of the
04:32Prime Minister to negotiate the release of dozens of hostages still held in the Palestinian territory.
04:40And we still stay in Raza, where Joseph Borel asked yesterday for an investigation to be carried out
04:49on the murderous shots that damaged an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
04:55The European Union condemns the shrapnel shots that damaged the office of the CISR in Raza and
05:02made dozens of victims. An independent and necessary investigation, and those responsible
05:08will have to account for it, wrote on the former Twitter of the head of European diplomacy Joseph Borel.
05:16Israeli bombings targeted on Sunday the band of Raza, devastated by more than
05:25eight months of war, at a time when the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant,
05:30went to the United States in the middle of a dispute over the weapons between the two allies.
05:36According to witnesses, shells again targeted the east, west and center of the city of Rafah,
05:42in southern Raza, where the Israeli army has been carrying out a land offensive since May 7.
05:47Air strikes hit Raza in the north, and tanks bombed the camp of Nusayrat in the center.
05:55Fighter planes carried out raids on Saturday against dozens of military structures and
06:01infrastructures, the Israeli army said, while carrying out a series of targeted operations in Rafah.
06:06Israeli military operations in Raza have killed more than 37,598 civilians so far.
06:18And according to the British Maritime Security Agency, a merchant ship was damaged by a
06:25drone attack off the coast of Yemen, where the Yemeni rebels multiplied their raids against
06:31the merchant navy. According to the British Agency, the ship was able to continue its journey to the
06:37next port planned for its course. On Thursday, the US Army had announced that it had destroyed
06:43four unmanned boats and two drones of the Houthis, and Washington called on its Yemeni rebels to
06:49release humanitarian workers arrested at the beginning of the month. In addition to the attacks
06:54against the ships, the Houthis have recently arrested more than a dozen humanitarian workers,
07:00including employees of the UN, accusing them of being part of an Americano-Israeli espionage network.
07:09And on the occasion of the Day of the Consolidation of Peace, celebrated on June 23,
07:14Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, called on the collective to promote
07:21the cause of peace in the world. In a message, the UN chief insisted on the need to
07:28prioritize the timeless tools of dialogue, diplomacy and negotiation.
07:34We must use the timeless tools of dialogue, diplomacy and negotiation and show
07:41an indisputable commitment to humanitarian aid in order to appease the sufferings.
07:46We must also focus on prevention, as the New Agenda for Peace recommends,
07:53in order to restore confidence, to appease dissensions, to stimulate development
07:58and to mitigate the wave of violence that prevails in the communities
08:01before they become uncontrollable, as Antonio Guterres indicated.
08:09And in Ukraine, Russian strikes are killing and about 50 injured in Kharkiv, the second city
08:15in Ukraine, are regularly bombed. The Russian army has hit this city near its border
08:21with four guided-air bombs, weapons with devastating force, as Ukrainian President
08:29Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram. The building hit has been dug up, all its windows blown,
08:35pieces of furniture and metal were scattered on the sidewalk along which a large hole
08:41indicated the probable impact of a bomb near the damaged cars.
08:45And the president of the Malian transition has inaugurated many infrastructures in the region
08:56of Sikasso, mainly made up of road infrastructure. This is a report from our correspondent on site.
09:15In the urban corridors, the viaducts of the exchangers, who, according to the opinion of Sikasso's
09:21supporters, have changed the image of the city to highlight it at the level of other regions.
09:28It gives us a heart attack. We are very, very happy with the acquisition of these
09:35instruments, especially the exchangers, the viaducts, which have really changed the
09:42physiognomy of the city of Sikasso. Sikasso was perhaps in contact with other regions of Mali,
09:50especially Cebu, which has its exchangers. The head of state proceeded during this visit
09:57to the distribution of cereals, water drilling and the installation of the first stone of the
10:02university of the city to the great happiness of the youngest. At the time, when our students
10:08lost their studies in the field of sexual elegance and lack of housing and even lack of
10:16food at the level of Bamako and Cebu. But fortunately, thank God, we had a great university
10:23at the level of our regions. We are very proud, we are very happy. These initiatives and actions
10:29are part of the priorities of the authorities of the transition. The infrastructures constitute
10:35the development of a country. It is a solitary issue.
10:46The authorities of the transition have decided to take charge of the issue of infrastructure,
10:58everything that concerns the development sections. In his speech, the president of the transition
11:05engaged the Malians to fight together against armed terrorism, media and economic.
11:14And in Senegal, on July 1, the country will apply a tax on the added value generated by
11:21digital activities. The measure applies to both national companies and foreign suppliers.
11:28More details with our correspondents on the spot, Marème Addiop and Moussaint Dier.
11:34The State of Senegal will now take economic action related to the digital transformation of our society.
11:41The services of digital services including the supply of goods and services
11:46immaterial via computer networks and or electronic will be submitted to the TVA as of next July.
11:54It is quite normal that Senegal, in the context of the dynamic of the creation of the ZECAF,
12:00that Senegal also positions itself in relation to this scale of value and can capture, as I said earlier,
12:06the economy that inevitably returns to the State of Senegal. In this new text, which will come into effect
12:13in July 2024, there are certain advantages. Foreign suppliers are also required to collect
12:21and return the TVA applicable to their online sales operations carried out on Senegalese territory.
12:28Intermediaries such as digital platforms that receive commissions on these transactions
12:34are also subject to this tax obligation.
12:38These are foreigners, suppliers who are established outside the territory of Senegal
12:43and who, through digital virtues, are what we call today smart contracts.
12:50We no longer need to be in B2B to do business, but from far away it is possible today to do business.
12:57What is the tax base? It is the performance. What is the tax base? It is the global turnover, the global economy.
13:04And this brings today the Senegalese, who maintain relations with foreigners, to comply in terms of invoicing.
13:16This new tax provision on digital concerns several areas.
13:21According to forecasts, a surplus of 693 billion francs CFA will be expanded on the tax base if the law is well applied.
13:30Today in the world, the drivers, when I say the drivers, it is what we call the famous locomotives of growth,
13:36they are no longer the classic companies that produced what we call physical goods,
13:40but especially other types of companies, what we call GAFAM and other companies that are in the ecosystem of GAFAM
13:46or that gravitate around GAFAM, which are in what we call the immaterial services trade.
13:52These people are more and more in the middle of the world. Today they make more than 50% of the commercial goods in the world.
13:59But these goods are immaterial, they are invisible.
14:02So if our states, as recommended by the OECD, do not go in the direction of taxing them, it is a huge lack of tax gain for our states.
14:10The tax on added value on digital services is an initiative of the Ministry of Finance and Budget.
14:18It aims to strengthen the mobilization of internal resources to finance public policies.
14:28And in Niger, it is the launch of the campaign Only Niger Counts,
14:33an initiative that aims to bring together all the living forces of the country in order to defend the process of transition in progress.
14:41Our correspondent Jean-Gébriel William gives us the account.
14:47After Laboussa Nino in Hausa or Zantien Kasane in Zarma languages, understand the affair of the nation.
14:53It is a new slogan that has just come to light on the place of the consultation of Nieme, almost a year after the coup d'état of July 26.
15:01Only Niger Counts is the name of the campaign that now intends to bring together all the living forces of Nigeria
15:07in order to support the actions of the National Council for the Preservation of the Fatherland,
15:11a call for cohesion carried this Friday by all the structures of civil society across the country.
15:19This time we said to ourselves, why is it that all these movements, all these associations, including the trade unions,
15:27instead of going into the fight in a separate way,
15:33it is better to converge in a single campaign that aims to consider only the interest of Nigerians.
15:45It is cohesion and complementarity.
15:47And if the support around the military authorities still seems intact today, the expectations of the populations are not lacking.
15:55On the road planned this Friday, it was therefore necessary to reassure,
15:59in particular on the issue of the increase in the cost of living recorded in recent months.
16:03We are facing greedy merchants who voluntarily increase the price of their products
16:09and whose goal is none other than the destabilization of the country.
16:12We have therefore launched several projects,
16:14aiming among other things to produce ourselves crops such as rice,
16:17and we have also started irrigation projects and access to water in regions such as Ifa or Oso.
16:23In the long term, Nigeria will be able to reach its food self-sufficiency and be independent of imports.
16:31It should be noted that the launch of the campaign, Seul Niger Compte,
16:34also plans the resumption of the popular watch brigades observed the day after the coup d'état of July 26.
16:42In Nigeria, inflation has reached an unprecedented rate.
16:46In the most populous country in Africa, food prices have increased by more than 40%
16:52compared to 2023.
16:54More details with our correspondent on site, Gilbert Tamba.
17:01The high prices of food products and the weakness of Naira
17:04are the main drivers of inflation in Nigeria, analysts say.
17:08In these markets in Garki, downtown Abuja,
17:11sellers and customers complain about the gravity of the current situation.
17:16Over high, like before.
17:332000, over, over high, everything.
17:39This is our business that we are doing now, we are just managing.
17:45We are currently trying to do our best.
17:47The situation is unbearable.
17:49Our trade is very fragilized and we can no longer get benefits on our products.
17:54Often we can't get our money back because prices have exploded.
18:02The annual inflation in Nigeria has reached a new high of 33.95% for 28 years,
18:09according to official data from the National Bureau of Statistics,
18:12aggravating the difficulties that have fueled the anger of the public
18:15against the economic reforms of President Bola Tinobu.
18:19It is the 18th consecutive month that inflation increases
18:22against 33.69% a month earlier.
18:26These sellers explain the reasons for the sharp rise in food inflation in Nigeria.
18:36The major problem is that farmers are complaining
18:39about not having access to their land to do their work
18:42because some men come with animals, like beef,
18:45to destroy the products in their fields.
18:47These animals are going to eat all their products
18:49and when they complain, these people are going to attack them.
18:52It is for this reason that they are afraid
18:54and therefore the production is very low.
18:56Farmers are no longer producing.
19:02The pressure on prices has been stimulated by the reforms of the current government
19:06which have mainly reduced subsidies to gas and electricity
19:10and devalued the Naira currency twice in a year.
19:14The unions which have suspended a strike
19:16to demand a new minimum wage
19:18have asserted that the reforms are harming the poor
19:21and have left millions of people in debt
19:24with the worst crisis in the course of life in decades.
19:29If the president had taken into account the impact of the suppression of subsidies on fuel
19:34and how to put things in place
19:36so that by suppressing the impact
19:38it is not felt by the masses who have voted for him,
19:41things would have been better.
19:43The Central Bank has raised its interest rates by hand
19:46for the third time this year
19:48in response to the continuous rise in inflation.
19:50The banking institution has indicated
19:52that the rates would remain high as long as necessary
19:55to lower inflation.
19:59And in Morocco, and more precisely in the region of Urub,
20:03the season of sugar beet harvest has begun.
20:07This is a report by Maroua Ben Haliba
20:09and Souheil Jalil.
20:12The process requires great precision
20:15and modern equipment.
20:17After cutting the leaves,
20:19the machines tear off the roots
20:21with great care to avoid damaging them.
20:23A crucial step for an important culture.
20:26It supports the local economy
20:28and provides a major source of sugar in Morocco.
20:32We are grateful for this harvest.
20:34Of course, we have known better,
20:36but the combined efforts of the farmers
20:38and the guardians have paid.
20:40Just here, we have 110 tons of sugar beet.
20:43The machines facilitate the task of harvesting
20:46and transport what is necessary to the factories.
20:49This is very beneficial to us.
20:52The beet roots are collected in special trailers
20:55to be transported to the collecting points
20:59or directly to the factories.
21:01This is a complete process
21:03that requires good coordination
21:05between the farmers, the factories
21:07and the local infrastructures
21:09to guarantee an efficient harvest and transformation.
21:18We find ourselves in the best land of this culture.
21:21It is the first on a national scale
21:23and the first in terms of production per hectare.
21:26This year, we have broken a new record
21:28of 113 tons per hectare.
21:30In our region, we have managed
21:32to extract 98 tons per hectare.
21:395560 hectares is the area cultivated
21:42in sugar beet in the Rabat Saleh-Qnetra region.
21:45According to the Regional Agriculture Direction,
21:48we plan to produce 276,000 tons of beet,
21:51while the yield this year is 53 tons per hectare,
21:55against about 52 tons per hectare
21:57recorded during the previous season,
22:00which is an estimated 3% increase.
22:05A word of football with Jamal Salami
22:07who succeeds Hossein Ammouta
22:09at the head of the Jordanian team.
22:12The Jordanian Football Federation
22:14claims to rely on the Moroccan coach
22:17for the final phases of the World Cup 2026 qualifiers
22:21scheduled for September.
22:24At the age of 53, Jamal Salami
22:26will live a first experience
22:28far from his native Morocco.
22:30The former FUS coach
22:32has already coached the U-17 and U-20 teams,
22:37in addition to the A-team as an assistant.
22:41At the moment, it is specified
22:43that the separation with Ammouta
22:45was made at the request of the national staff
22:48for personal reasons
22:50and it was done in a friendly and respectful manner.
22:55Football, as always,
22:57and this duel at the top
22:59for the semi-finals
23:01of the Football Cup 2022-2023
23:03which will be played
23:05against Eifar
23:07at the Mrereb de Fez
23:09tonight from 8 p.m.
23:11at the Grand Stade d'Agadir.
23:13His first semi-final
23:15between Eifar and Mrebre de Fez
23:17will certainly be marked
23:19by a great rivalry between the two teams
23:21since the vice-champion of Morocco
23:232023-2024
23:25will win the Cup of the Throne
23:27for the 13th time in its history
23:29while Mrebre de Fez
23:31will break the cycle
23:33for the 5th time in its history.
23:35The second semi-final
23:37between Raja de Casablanca
23:39and Mouloudia de Oujda
23:41is scheduled for Tuesday at 8 p.m.
23:43And this is the end of this news.
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