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00:20Here are the headlines of your newspaper.
00:22Lebanon is still in shock after the explosions of Bipers
00:27which resulted in 9 deaths and several thousands injured among Hezbollah members.
00:33Israel points its finger and promises to respond. We speak about this in an honest way.
00:40A clear visit from Anthony Blinken to the heart.
00:42He met this morning with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,
00:46at the menu of their discussion.
00:48A question, how to silence weapons in Gaza?
00:53The United States also wants to silence weapons in Sudan.
00:57US President Joe Biden called yesterday the parties to the conflict to resume negotiations
01:03to put an end to the war that has been going on for more than a year.
01:10In Morocco, following the broadcast on some social networks of photos of people in swimming suits,
01:16sitting on the ground and others in front of the concrete wall,
01:20the Attorney General of the King after the Court of Appeal of Teton
01:23announced that the Prosecutor General has ordered the opening of a judicial inquiry on this subject
01:29in order to stop on the veracity of these facts and the circumstances of the broadcast of these images.
01:37No school today in Lebanon.
01:39The country is still in shock after the explosions of Bipers that occurred in Beirut,
01:44but also in other regions of the country.
01:46The number of dead and several thousand injured among the members of the Hezbollah
01:52who used this means of communication, the pro-Iranian movement, points to Israel.
01:57Its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will speak on Thursday.
02:01According to the New York Times, these Bipers were trapped upstream by Israel,
02:06which managed to intercept them before their delivery to the Lebanese Hezbollah.
02:16And these Bipers exploded simultaneously in Lebanon at 3.30 p.m. local time yesterday.
02:26It was the panic in Beirut, never seen in the country.
02:29Younes Benzineb tells us about it.
02:33Detonations everywhere in the country, deaths and injuries in the explosion of Bipers
02:38belonging to members of the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
02:40According to the Lebanese Minister of Health,
02:42most of the victims were injured in the face, hand, stomach and even in the eyes.
02:51This afternoon around 3.30 p.m., a large number of injured people began to flee to hospitals.
02:58The injuries were caused by the explosion of communication devices.
03:04Telemetry warns that the victims were carrying.
03:07The number of victims was very important.
03:13According to security sources, the explosions came from radio messages
03:18that members of the Lebanese armed group used for encrypted internal communications.
03:23The Lebanese National Information Agency reported an unprecedented security incident
03:28that took place in the southern suburbs of Beirut,
03:30as well as in many Lebanese regions, the Tribune in Israel.
03:34The same opinion is shared by the Lebanese movement, which claimed that it was Israeli piracy.
03:39In a statement, the party claimed that Israel was entirely responsible for the explosion
03:44and will receive its fair punishment.
03:46This is the first incident of this kind since the beginning of the violence between Hezbollah and Israel
03:52for nearly a year.
03:53Transfrontal violence triggered in the siege of the war in the Gaza Strip
03:58has caused hundreds of deaths and injuries.
04:01The General Assembly of the UN is speaking today
04:05on a resolution demanding the end of the Israeli occupation.
04:10The non-condemning text, which must be voted on at 3 p.m. GMT,
04:15requires Israel to put an end, without delay, to its illicit presence in the Palestinian territories
04:20and that it be done later, 12 months after the adoption of this resolution.
04:25Yesterday, the Palestinian Ambassador to the UN, Riyad Mansour,
04:30called on the Member States to choose the right side of history by supporting this resolution,
04:36the first to be presented in the name of the State of Palestine,
04:41thanks to a recently won right.
04:47While the Security Council is largely paralyzed on this issue,
04:51the General Assembly of the UN has several times adopted texts in support of the Palestinians.
04:56What can this resolution change?
04:58Let's listen to the answer of Amjad Shehab,
05:00Professor of Political Science at the University of Al-Quds.
05:05There are 770 just resolutions of the General Assembly
05:14and about 40 resolutions of the Security Council.
05:18We are talking about hundreds, not dozens.
05:22I think that in the absence of a political will of the West,
05:30I think that all these resolutions will have the same problem,
05:35which is to apply it.
05:36There is no will or decision to apply these resolutions.
05:42Just to make up the international organization that is there,
05:48to give illusions that there is hope to do something.
05:56I don't think that these resolutions will ever come to fruition
06:01with this imbalance of power,
06:05especially considering Israel as an ally and partner with the West.
06:12This is the real problem.
06:15The Palestinian cause has paid dearly.
06:17It still pays dearly.
06:19This is a conflict of commercial, political and military interests
06:29compared to the Middle East.
06:33A clear visit of Antony Blinken to the heart.
06:35The US Secretary of State met early this morning
06:38with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
06:41at the discussion table.
06:43A question, how to obtain a proposal
06:46that allows the agreement between Hamas and Israel
06:49to shut down the weapons in Gaza?
06:51After Egypt, Antony Blinken will go to Paris this Thursday
06:54to tell his French, British and Italian counterparts
06:59about his discussions in Cairo
07:01and his trip to Ukraine last week.
07:07The US also wants to shut down the weapons in Sudan.
07:11US President Joe Biden called yesterday the parties to the conflict
07:14to resume negotiations to put an end to the war
07:18that has been going on for more than a year.
07:20A war between the army and the paramilitaries
07:22and so far has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths.
07:25The humanitarian situation continues to deteriorate
07:28in this country, on the brink of famine.
07:34In the news, there is also the CDAO
07:36that firmly condemns the terrorist double attack
07:39that targeted Mali yesterday.
07:41The authorities speak of some losses in human lives,
07:45but the JNIM, which claimed them,
07:47claims to have inflicted heavy losses on the army in Bamako.
07:51This terrorist group affiliated with Al-Qaeda
07:54targeted yesterday the school of the gendarmerie
07:57and an area of the military airport of the capital.
08:00I propose to listen to General Umar Diara,
08:03head of the Malian army.
08:06The terrorists who were infiltrated have been neutralized.
08:09The eradication continues.
08:11We are now working to recruit accomplices
08:14to control the situation.
08:16It's our job, we are professionals.
08:18I would also like to ask the population
08:20to provide information.
08:22I think the support was really very substantial,
08:25allowing us to recover the suspects who were there.
08:28The investigations are underway.
08:30We just saw all the terrorists who were neutralized here.
08:33The point is being made.
08:35The evaluations will be made.
08:37I ask the Malian population.
08:39This situation is on purpose.
08:41We are all Malians.
08:43People don't work, they put us back to back.
08:46We must avoid amalgamations.
08:48If the situation is not like this,
08:50the first responsibility will be on the Malian neighbors.
08:53This double attack occurred the day after
08:56the first anniversary of the confederation of the states of Sahel.
09:00According to our correspondent in Mali,
09:02the timing chosen is far from being anodized.
09:05Mohamed Agnouko, what do we hear?
09:07Since we saw the president of the Malian transition,
09:10who is the president in exercise of the confederation
09:13and the alliance of the states of Sahel,
09:15he gave a speech to the nation.
09:17In his speech, the security aspect was highlighted.
09:20The report we did,
09:22people were globally satisfied with this security aspect.
09:26We can think that it is purely thought.
09:29To implement this 24 hours after the anniversary of the confederation of the states of Sahel,
09:35it is not anodized, it is reflected.
09:37It is also worth noting.
09:39Today, the confederation of the states of Sahel,
09:42which is globally considered satisfactory,
09:44by the authorities and even by the population,
09:46is the security aspect.
09:48So, attacking the country that has the presidency of this alliance,
09:53at that moment, is not anodized.
09:55So, it marks the blow.
09:57The authorities will certainly take all the consequences
10:00to be able to relaunch themselves
10:02and make a real reality this security aspect
10:05on which the populations are still relatively satisfied.
10:10A new Ukrainian attack targeting the Russian army.
10:14About 50 drones were targeted at the warehouse containing missiles
10:18and artillery ammunition in western Russia.
10:21Explanations with Noa Bazir.
10:25Ukraine announces having destroyed an armory in western Russia.
10:29On Tuesday night,
10:31drones targeted an armory located in the Tver region in Toropet.
10:36Ballistic missiles,
10:38guided air combat,
10:39and artillery ammunition were stored.
10:41Several Russian and Ukrainian media
10:43have published videos of impressive explosions.
10:46The regional authorities of Tver
10:48have announced on Telegram
10:50that a fire was in the process of extinguishing
10:52at the place where the debris of a drone fell in Toropet,
10:55without mentioning an armory.
10:57Ukraine regularly conducts drone strikes
11:00against Russian territory,
11:02sometimes hitting targets very far from its borders.
11:05The Ukrainian army often claims
11:07to target military or energy infrastructures
11:10in order to disrupt the logistics of the Russian troops
11:12who invaded the country in February 2022.
11:15The Russian army also announced on Wednesday
11:17that it had destroyed 54 Ukrainian drones in the night,
11:20half of which were above the territory of the Russian region of Kursk.
11:23This region has been the scene of a large-scale Ukrainian offensive
11:27since the beginning of August.
11:31Two long queues in front of the polling stations.
11:34The Indian region of Kashmir
11:36has chosen its local representatives for the first time
11:39since it was put under control by the New Delhi government.
11:43The 8 million registered voters
11:45are called to elect their local assembly,
11:48with the power to limit in terms of education or culture,
11:52especially for the first time since 2014.
11:55Many of them are determined to express in the polls
11:59their refusal of New Delhi's authority.
12:01The results of the poll are expected on October 8.
12:08More than 4 million people in 14 countries in West and Central Africa
12:13are affected by the catastrophic floods
12:17caused by torrential rains.
12:19As a result, the World Food Programme
12:22notes an increase in humanitarian needs.
12:24According to the PAM, this increase is all the more worrying
12:29as it comes as the regional famine crisis
12:32already affects 55 million people,
12:34four times more than five years ago.
12:37The PAM calls on concerned countries to invest
12:40in early warning systems,
12:42early action,
12:44and the financing of disaster risks.
12:50A quarantine of forest fires
12:52continue to ravage the north and the centre of Portugal,
12:56which has been hit by a wave of fires
12:59caused by heat and wind for several days.
13:02At least seven people have died.
13:043,900 firefighters, supported by more than 1,000 vehicles,
13:08are mobilized.
13:10Authorities had to proceed yesterday
13:12with two new evacuations in the municipality of Gandamar,
13:15in the region of Porto.
13:17Firefighters speak for the time being
13:19of an uncontrollable situation.
13:22At the moment, the weather and flooding
13:25caused by the Boris storm in Central Europe
13:29have increased to 22 deaths,
13:31with three new victims reported in Poland
13:34and another in Austria.
13:37The number of victims could increase.
13:40Polish authorities have reported other deaths,
13:43but without giving details.
13:45Since last week, violent winds and heavy rainfall
13:48have hit entire parts of Austria,
13:51the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,
13:54Romania and Slovakia.
14:02And now, the guest of the big news of the day,
14:07and we are with Maury Touré,
14:09climatologist engineer
14:11at the National Civil Aviation and Meteorological Agency in Senegal.
14:15He is live from Dakar with us.
14:17Maury Touré, hello,
14:19and thank you for accepting our invitation.
14:23Hello, sir, and thank you for inviting me.
14:26So, we have just seen,
14:28according to the World Food Programme,
14:3114 countries in West and Central Africa
14:34are affected by the catastrophic floods
14:36caused by torrential rains.
14:38According to you, what is the origin
14:40of these heavy rains
14:42that have caused several deaths in these regions?
14:47Indeed, as you have noticed, sir,
14:50this year we have witnessed extreme rainfall,
14:54especially during August,
14:56in the Sahel,
14:58in countries like Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso,
15:01and especially in Guinea and Sierra Leone,
15:03we have seen extreme rainfall.
15:05And if you notice, these rains
15:07continued during the month of September,
15:09even yesterday and the day before yesterday,
15:11we have seen extreme rainfall in Senegal,
15:13more precisely in Touba,
15:15where we have seen extreme rainfall.
15:17We have received 140 mm during 4 days,
15:21which has caused terrible flooding
15:25in this city,
15:27which is an oil refinery in Senegal.
15:30And what is the origin of this?
15:34Yes, what is the origin,
15:36as we all know,
15:38we are in a context of climate change,
15:41so the climate parameters have changed,
15:44so we tend to have extreme events,
15:46such as heat waves,
15:48that is, extreme heat
15:50and extreme rainfall for certain reasons.
15:52And now what caused this phenomenon
15:55in a synoptic way,
15:57is that we had a low-cost vortex,
15:59and this vortex was also located
16:01at high altitudes,
16:03so that means we had deep convection
16:05and the system continued, persisted
16:07and evolved slowly,
16:09which is why every time it is somewhere,
16:11like that, it lasts,
16:13it will cause extreme rains.
16:16So what caused the floods in Senegal,
16:19except in Touba,
16:21is that we also had the same configuration,
16:23we had a vortex that was located
16:25in the center of the country,
16:27and which evolved slowly,
16:29which caused extreme rains.
16:31And the next day, this vortex
16:33was located at the extreme west,
16:35and we know that at the extreme west of Senegal
16:37there is the Atlantic Ocean,
16:39and we know that the system
16:41for which we had the continuity of rains,
16:43which was intermittent,
16:45is what caused a lot of problems
16:47in some cities in Senegal
16:49and even in Africa.
16:51Today, Maurizie Touré,
16:53what worries us is the abundance,
16:55not to say the violence of these rains,
16:57you said it,
16:59they are a little linked to climate change,
17:01but from what moment,
17:03or from what volume,
17:05can we say that it is linked
17:07to climate change?
17:09In fact,
17:11first of all,
17:13it is not because we have extremely heavy rains
17:15that we automatically say that it is climate change.
17:17Scientists have already shown
17:19the existence of climate change
17:21by looking at the evolution
17:23of trends for the past 30 years,
17:25whether it is
17:27climate trends,
17:29I mean the evolution of rain,
17:31the evolution of temperature,
17:33the evolution of other climate parameters.
17:35What did we notice?
17:37We noticed that we have a tendency
17:39to increase temperatures,
17:41because if you notice well,
17:43we now have the presence of heat waves,
17:45which has become 50,
17:47and then there is the intensity of temperatures
17:49and the intensity of heat waves,
17:51which is important now,
17:53and as far as precipitation is concerned,
17:55what did we notice?
17:57We noticed that for certain reasons,
17:59or in the most extreme,
18:01it means that we can have 200-300 mm
18:03of rain per hour,
18:05which is huge,
18:07because it will not let time
18:09absorb all this rain,
18:11and then sometimes we can stay
18:13days or weeks
18:15without having rain.
18:17This means that we can stay
18:19a very long time without having rain,
18:21we can have a break,
18:23a total calm,
18:25which is often excellent,
18:27because for farmers,
18:29we need a lot more rain,
18:31which is excellent for hours,
18:33and we can stay for weeks without having rain.
18:35These are really extreme phenomena,
18:37and these phenomena,
18:39it's not just today,
18:41we started to have them
18:43years ago,
18:45which is why, as a scientist,
18:47we can impute this manifestation,
18:49we can impute these events
18:51to climate change.
18:53So what is the efficiency
18:55of alert systems
18:57in Africa today?
18:59Yes,
19:01most African countries
19:03have set up SAPs,
19:05early warning systems,
19:07for natural phenomena,
19:09such as thunderstorms
19:11or heatwaves.
19:13Some countries may have coordination problems,
19:15because to set up
19:17an early warning system,
19:19we often need services
19:21which are sometimes
19:23independent,
19:25such as meteorological phenomena.
19:27Often, the meteorologist
19:29has to make the alert,
19:31but he doesn't have the means
19:33to make the necessary decisions.
19:35Sometimes he doesn't have
19:37the strategic position
19:39to perhaps
19:41bring this alert to the national level,
19:43which is why
19:45we really need other sectors,
19:47such as civil protection,
19:49or I don't know, it depends on each country,
19:51so that we can work together
19:53to set up efficient early warning systems.
19:55But as far as Senegal is concerned,
19:57the weather service
19:59had the alert three days before.
20:01Now,
20:03during the event,
20:05three hours before, the weather service
20:07had sent a message to the authorities,
20:09to the fighters
20:11against flooding,
20:13and to the residents concerned.
20:15But unfortunately,
20:17we really had the systems that came,
20:19and then there was rain,
20:21and then thunder,
20:23and then we had two deaths already,
20:25for yesterday.
20:27I don't know
20:29the forecast for the future,
20:31but for the moment, we have two deaths,
20:33and we have considerable
20:35damage for the moment.
20:37So really, it's something that's complicated,
20:39and I think the government
20:41is trying to do something,
20:43and in the future,
20:45they will try
20:47to strengthen the means
20:49of the weather service,
20:51to anticipate these kinds of phenomena.
20:53Morituri,
20:55according to the World Food Programme,
20:57more than 4 million people
20:59in these regions are affected
21:01by these floods.
21:03Does this worry you
21:05when several countries
21:07face food insecurity?
21:11Yes, indeed.
21:13There are people who are affected
21:15by these kinds of phenomena,
21:17because often when we have extreme weather,
21:19there are families
21:21who lose their homes,
21:23who lose their children,
21:25who even lose their food.
21:27Often it's a problem.
21:29Sometimes we even lose our fields,
21:31because to do agriculture, we don't need innovation.
21:33But the phenomenon
21:35is alarming.
21:37I think that the authorities
21:39in each country are trying to do something.
21:41Also, the organizations
21:43continue to support
21:45the countries, but still,
21:47I think that
21:49what is essential is to strengthen
21:51the services,
21:53whether it's emergency services,
21:55whether it's scientific services,
21:57and also to strengthen research
21:59in order to understand
22:01why we currently have
22:03these kinds of events,
22:05and to try to see how
22:07we can anticipate, how we can
22:09set up other forecasting systems
22:11that will be much more effective,
22:13because we are in the process of forecasting.
22:15When we forecast, we know that we won't have any errors.
22:17But we are trying to integrate
22:19other methods, other tools
22:21that can help, especially radars, for example,
22:23that can help with immediate
22:25forecasting,
22:27so that we can alert
22:29and also say exactly
22:31how much rain we can have
22:33for this rain
22:35that will come in the future.
22:37We have talked
22:39about food insecurity
22:41affecting these regions.
22:43What measures should we take
22:45to fight against
22:47the destruction of vast areas of land?
22:49How can we anticipate them?
22:51What measures
22:53should we take to protect
22:55farmers and consumers as well?
23:01I would say
23:03to protect the entire population,
23:05because it's a big problem.
23:07It's not just a problem affecting
23:09farmers, for example.
23:11I think that
23:13what we should do
23:15in the first place
23:17is first
23:19help people
23:21who already have problems,
23:23and then try to
23:25propose structural solutions,
23:27i.e. try to look at
23:29urbanization,
23:31try to look at
23:33the way
23:35of canalization,
23:37that is, sanitation,
23:39strengthen meteorological services,
23:41but above all
23:43put in place
23:45all the necessary tools
23:47to anticipate these phenomena.
23:49As I said at the beginning,
23:51there is climate change,
23:53so these phenomena will come back.
23:55If we look at the case of Tuba,
23:57we have received 140 mm.
23:59We have never received 140 mm
24:01in Tuba.
24:05In recent years,
24:07for example,
24:09in 1989,
24:11we had received
24:13I think
24:15107 mm in 24 hours.
24:17In 2012, we had received
24:19136 mm in 24 hours.
24:21So what did we notice?
24:23In 2022, also 129 mm.
24:25In 2023, 112 mm.
24:27So what did we notice?
24:29We noticed that we still had
24:31extreme depletion in this region,
24:33but in recent years,
24:35there has been a decline
24:37in these phenomena.
24:39So every year,
24:41we could still have extreme depletion.
24:43So that means that maybe next year
24:45or the year after next,
24:47we could still have these kinds of extreme phenomena.
24:49So the reason for which
24:51we still have to try to adapt,
24:53not to attend to these phenomena,
24:55but we have to try to adapt,
24:57try to find the necessary means,
24:59try to put in place
25:01the necessary infrastructure
25:03but above all,
25:05as far as agriculture is concerned,
25:07as we have noticed,
25:09the seasons have become short.
25:11Try to use
25:13how can I say
25:15hemp or
25:17try to use other varieties
25:19that do not require enough rain
25:21but that are adapted to our climate.
25:23So I think that's the method.
25:25Try to use varieties
25:27that are really adapted to our climate.
25:29The importance
25:31of the Morituri adaptation.
25:35Thank you for all your clarifications.
25:37Thank you for answering our questions.
25:43This is the end of this edition.
25:45We'll take a break and we'll be back in a few minutes.