MEDI1TV Afrique : MEDI1 MORNING - 10/12/2024
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00:00Welcome to the new edition of the Média Morning, here are the headlines.
00:23Massive attack of Israel against military installations in Syria.
00:28The Israeli army has carried out about 250 strikes against the country since the takeover of Damascus by the rebels and the fall of President Bashar al-Assad.
00:39104 journalists were killed in Le Mans in 2024, more than half in Gaza, according to a report published this Tuesday by the International Journalists Federation.
00:48We'll talk about it in a moment.
00:53In Morocco, the level of dam reserves rises to 4.90 billion cubic meters until December 6, a filling rate of 29.13% against 23.70% recorded during the same period of the year.
01:13This is what the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, said yesterday.
01:23Morocco supports any political solution in line with the aspirations of the Syrian people, which guarantees its right and preserves the sovereignty of Syria as a whole.
01:35These are the strong words of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nizar Baraka, who expressed himself on Monday during his interviews with Rayla Amolou-Odinga,
01:46a candidate for the presidency of the African Union Commission.
01:49The head of Moroccan diplomacy said that the kingdom is closely following the recent developments in Syria.
02:00On the ground in Syria, the Israeli army has destroyed the main military sites by carrying out strikes against the country since the takeover of Damascus by the rebels and the fall of President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday.
02:13This is what the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday, according to the OSDH.
02:17Israel has, among other things, bombed airports, radars, arms depots, ammunition depots and military research centers in several regions.
02:26It has damaged the ships of the Syrian navy by attacking an air defense unit near the port of Laderie in the northwest of the country.
02:36The Israeli army did not comment immediately.
02:39Yesterday, Israel confirmed that it had destroyed, in recent days, chemical weapons in Syria to prevent them from falling into the hands of the rebels.
02:47The Israeli army has been carrying out an incursion in the Zontan Pond for several days, at the edge of the Golan Plateau, occupied and annexed.
02:57Mohamed al-Bashir, Prime Minister, is at the head of the Salud government, the rebel bastion in northwestern Syria,
03:08in charge of directing the transition government.
03:11Yesterday, the Syrian rebel leader, Abu Mohammed al-Julani, met with former Prime Minister Mohammed al-Jalali
03:18to coordinate the transition of power, the rebels announced the day after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
03:29Thank God, we have been doing a lot in the past period.
03:31We will see, there are experiences.
03:33There are files.
03:38At the border post of Masna in Lebanon, more than 1,500 Syrian refugees have already joined their countries of origin
03:47following the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.
03:50On Sunday, December 8, several Syrian refugees from other countries also tried to regain their Syrian citizenship.
03:58More details in this story by Alaa Ben Ali.
04:03Since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, more than 14 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes,
04:09of which about 5 million have taken refuge abroad, mainly in Turkey, Germany, Lebanon and Jordan.
04:17After the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, several refugees are happy to return home.
04:26Our joy is unimaginable, it has no price, because what is happening in Levant is a good omen for all Arab peoples.
04:39Syria is everything to me, it is my paradise.
04:42After 13 years away from my homeland, I come back to see my motherland and settle there.
04:52I grew up in Syria and I lived in Syria, but I haven't been able to set foot here for 15 years.
04:58And today I look forward to crossing the border to see my family, my sisters, my grandfather and all my relatives.
05:07About 487,000 displaced people have already crossed the border from Lebanon to Syria.
05:13In Turkey, the issue of refugees has become a sensitive subject on a political level,
05:18exacerbated by an economic crisis that fueled resentment against the Syrians.
05:23Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced Monday the reopening of a border post closed since 2013
05:30for the return of the 3.3 million Syrian refugees in their country.
05:35That said, a large part of them intend to stay in the country that welcomed them in 2011.
05:41In Germany, which houses nearly 1 million Syrian refugees, the country suspended asylum applications.
05:48This decision affects about 47,270 applications in progress.
05:53Likewise in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium or France, the latter had registered more than 4,000 applications in 2023.
06:02Finally, Austria went further by announcing the expulsion of Syrian refugees who reside in its territory.
06:12Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he was not going to stop the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip
06:20to prevent the Palestinian movement from rebuilding.
06:25If we stop the war now, Hamas will recover, rebuild and attack us again.
06:32And this is what we do not want to come back to, Benjamin Netanyahu.
06:43A particularly deadly year.
06:45104 journalists were killed in the world in 2024,
06:49more than half in Gaza, according to reports published this Tuesday by the International Federation of Journalists.
06:57After the 129 deaths listed in 2023-2024,
07:03and one of the worst years,
07:05Anthony Bellinger, the general secretary of the FIG based in Brussels,
07:10denounces the massacre that is taking place in the eyes of the anti-Palestinian world,
07:18according to the International Federation of Journalists.
07:2055 professional Palestinian media have been killed in 2024 since the beginning of the war.
07:28On October 7, 2023, the number of Palestinian journalists killed rose to at least 138,
07:35making this territory one of the most dangerous in the history of modern journalism,
07:39behind Iraq, the Philippines and Mexico, strengthens the federation.
07:43The FIG also lists 520 journalists in prison in the world,
07:50a strong increase compared to 2023.
07:57In Morocco, the level of dams until December 6 rises to about 4.90 billion cubic meters,
08:07or a filling rate of 29.13% compared to 23.70% recorded during the same period of the past year.
08:17This is what the Minister of Equipment and Water, Nizar Baraka, said yesterday.
08:22In response to an oral question on the management and durability of water resources in the kingdom,
08:27the minister made it known that the average rainfall at the national level from September 1 to December 6
08:35was estimated at 50 mm against 27.3 mm during the same period of last year,
08:40an excess of 83.15%.
08:43The minister stressed that in addition to the securitization of drinking water supply in cities and centers,
08:50water quotas have been granted for irrigation in coordination with the services of the Ministry of Agriculture,
08:57and that 1,066 million cubic meters have been allocated to irrigation in 2024,
09:03which represents 60% of the total annual supply from dams,
09:07against 40% dedicated to drinking water supply.
09:16Senegal, which has seen a significant increase in foreign transactions,
09:23welcomes this performance, but believes that it is necessary to diversify the sectors concerned
09:30for a strong national economy.
09:32Les Eclairages with Cermy Boukakar and Sherendao.
09:37Since September 2024, Senegal has recorded a strong increase in exports, with a rate of 85.2%.
09:46In terms of non-monetary gold, oil products and titanium are at the origin of this notable expansion,
09:52according to the National Agency for Statistics and Demography.
09:56This month, Senegal has contributed a lot to the international market.
10:01Perhaps this translates into a bit of competitiveness at the level of the international market,
10:05or the products that Senegal offers on the global market.
10:08We have seen a demand with Senegal's traditional suppliers,
10:14such as Mali, China, Russia and Portugal,
10:18who are very demanding of Senegal's products.
10:21Over the past year, exports have increased by 97.6%,
10:26reaching nearly 3 billion francs CFA.
10:29For this economist, a drop in food supplies is also possible in the near future.
10:35We can also expect a drop in food imports later,
10:39with the decisions taken by the new government.
10:44We think that in a year or two, we will also see a drop in food imports,
10:51including rice and wheat.
10:54Because rice imports are around 302 billion per year.
10:59For a country that has a lot of water, a lot of land,
11:03and young people looking for work, I don't think it will happen.
11:07A surge in exports is certainly noted,
11:09but some specialists call for diversifying the national economy
11:13to improve the trade balance.
11:15Countries like South Africa are much more focused
11:18on raw material products.
11:21So the ideal is that we can have more income, more interest,
11:27and that these products are transformed,
11:30value-added, transformed.
11:33This is an industrialization based on finished products.
11:36This is what will have an effect on economic growth
11:39in terms of added value and in terms of job creation.
11:43As a reminder, over a year in Senegal,
11:46imports fell by 3.2%,
11:49reaching nearly 5,200 billion francs CFA
11:52at the end of September 2024.
11:57And right now, we have the guest of the major media newspaper, Morning.
12:03Bashar al-Assad has fallen.
12:06The Syrian president fled
12:08in front of the rebel advance that took Damascus on Sunday morning.
12:12But many questions remain on the transition to a new regime
12:17to focus on the evolution of the Syrian situation.
12:22We are live with Mr. Amjad Chihab,
12:26professor of political science.
12:29Hello, Amjad Chihab.
12:31Thank you for accepting our invitation.
12:37Hello, thank you for your invitation.
12:39I greet all the viewers on your channel.
12:44The rebel forces led by the HTS group
12:49have overthrown Bashar al-Assad's regime
12:52and taken control of Damascus.
12:54What is the future and what is the transition for Syria, in your opinion?
13:01The data so far show that the future is uncertain.
13:07The situation is very complicated
13:10in relation to the ability of the rebels to maintain the situation,
13:17especially the intensive bombing of Israel,
13:21to weaken and try to provoke the factions.
13:26There are many ideological contradictions
13:29about the factions as well.
13:31The spectacular fall of the regime
13:38remains difficult to explain
13:43for internal and external reasons.
13:48But the great titles still remain.
13:52It is the escape of President Bashar al-Assad
13:56and the rapid fall of this regime
14:00that has been established for 54 years.
14:04But it is also the ability of these rebels to control.
14:10There are also Kurdish, Druze and other factions
14:18that are on the ground.
14:20There are also other movements,
14:22like the Daesh movement,
14:24which is also there and is starting to move.
14:26The real danger is the return to civil war.
14:34The brother of President Bashar al-Assad
14:39is still in Syria.
14:41He took refuge in the village of Fief,
14:48in the Alawite community.
14:52It is a village on the west side of Syria.
15:03All this shows that there is a risk of chaos
15:10that is approaching.
15:12If the rebels in Damascus are able to keep calm,
15:20they can avoid clashes,
15:23especially internal military clashes.
15:27Very well.
15:28The head of the rebel coalition,
15:31Abu Mohammed al-Joulani,
15:34met yesterday with the former Syrian Prime Minister,
15:39Mohammed al-Jalali,
15:40to coordinate the transition of power.
15:43Is the transfer of power already underway?
15:49Yes, but the transfer of power
15:51requires international and regional legitimacy.
15:54Until now, we do not know the reaction of the Biyis,
15:58apart from Turkey.
16:00We do not know the reaction of the Biyis,
16:03like the Arab Biyis, like Iraq,
16:05which is also approaching.
16:07We do not know the program of these rebels
16:12and how they will work.
16:15Everyone is happy that this authoritarian regime has fallen,
16:20but it remains to be seen in the future
16:24how the international committee will react
16:28in relation to these rebels.
16:30Especially their leader is in demand
16:33by the American CIA,
16:40which offered 10 million dollars
16:43in exchange for information.
16:45We also saw that he had an interview with CNN,
16:50the largest American channel.
16:52There are a lot of contradictions so far,
16:55and we do not know exactly who is in charge of this rebel,
16:59who really supports this rebel,
17:01and what the future holds.
17:03All we know is that this rebel
17:05is ready to wage war against the Shiites internally.
17:09Their first goal is to weaken the presence of Iran
17:20within Syria.
17:22But the big question is,
17:24are they able to manage it or not,
17:26despite the fact that they were well received by the Syrian people
17:31to get rid of this authoritarian regime?
17:34These are the big questions.
17:36We will see how they are able to manage.
17:40Do they have the means?
17:42Do they have the capacity?
17:44How will they manage?
17:45Will they be helped by the old regime or not?
17:48These are the big questions that we will find out.
17:52Let's always talk about the leader of this rebel group,
17:58Al-Jolani, who tries to moderate his image
18:01and presents himself as a political alternative.
18:05Is he at risk of permanently imposing himself at the head of the country?
18:12Yes.
18:13Will the Arab countries let him?
18:15Because it is also an Islamic trend.
18:17It is also a danger for the Gulf countries,
18:19especially the Arab Emirates.
18:21Did they manage to dominate him, to control him?
18:26Is he moderate?
18:28Is he ready to make free and democratic elections?
18:32Does he agree to make a secular constitution for Syria?
18:38According to the Security Council Resolution in 2016,
18:44the Stana Conference normally agreed
18:48to make a transfer of pacific power for almost eight years.
18:56Unfortunately, this constitution did not come into being.
19:00These elections were supposed to take place a few years ago.
19:07These are the big questions.
19:09Will they establish an Islamic regime or a democratic regime?
19:13These are the big questions that everyone is waiting to know.
19:17Do they have the will to do this?
19:19Do they respect the will of the Syrian people?
19:22Will they make a change that will bring together all the Syrian factions,
19:29whether they are secular or Islamic,
19:32whether they are opposition or former regimes?
19:36Will they all work together for the general interest of the Syrian people?
19:40These are the big questions that we do not know yet.
19:44Ahmad Shara is on his way to Joulani.
19:48He is trying to control the situation.
19:51But does he have the will to make a constitution
19:57that will bring everyone together on this constitution?
20:03These are the big questions that everyone is waiting for.
20:05Mr. Amjad Shihab, we are also asking questions
20:09about the Al-Ba'ath party of former president Bashar al-Assad,
20:13who said yesterday that he would support the phase of transition in the country.
20:19What is the scenario for this party, which has reigned in Syria for more than half a century?
20:27Yes, this party, according to the last elections,
20:32has had an absolute majority.
20:34There is no opposition.
20:36Will this party collapse?
20:38This is the big question.
20:40Or will we see the same scenario that we saw in Egypt,
20:43in which the Muslim Brotherhood arrived,
20:46and after a few months, they did not even exceed a year,
20:50we saw a reversal.
20:52Will the capacity of the former regime
20:57to understand the reasons that led to the free fall of this regime?
21:05Do we have the means to come back?
21:08Especially the brotherhood of Bashar al-Assad is still there.
21:11We are talking about 50,000 members of the security services.
21:16We don't know the Syrian security services.
21:19They are still there.
21:21They were not stopped.
21:23We don't know if they will be reorganized again.
21:26There is also the Syrian army.
21:30The members are still there.
21:32We don't know their future.
21:34Will they be stopped or judged?
21:36There is a lot of data that leads to an internal conflict,
21:42perhaps very violent.
21:44This is the big question.
21:46Will there be a conflict of interest?
21:49Or will there be a consent,
21:53or will they accept an internal compromise
21:56to save Syria from geographical disintegration
22:02or to be torn apart by ISIS?
22:07Precisely, the day after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime,
22:13a series of Israeli air strikes
22:16were carried out against military sites of the fallen president's forces.
22:22How can we explain the rapidity of these attacks
22:26and their intensity at the moment?
22:30Yes, the Israelis are trying not to give the Europeans
22:35the military capacity to react in the event of an internal conflict,
22:42especially to have strategic weapons
22:45capable of winning in the event of an internal conflict.
22:49They want to deprive them of the capacity to control the situation
22:53in the event of an internal conflict.
22:55This is what the Israelis are looking for in an internal conflict.
22:59They want to stay on the border, watch, observe,
23:02or perhaps annex a part of Syria
23:05because they have an interest in making a security zone
23:10under the pretext that there is danger.
23:13But they were shocked that the Europeans managed to control
23:19the big cities, especially the capital,
23:22without having any military confrontation.
23:26This is what shocked them.
23:28They are trying to provoke an internal conflict
23:31or to make the Europeans react against them
23:35to justify a much more violent advance against the Syrians.
23:40But all the bombardment they have made
23:43is in a strategic interest to weaken the Europeans.
23:47And by weakening the Europeans, there will be other competitors
23:52who may be looking for the Kurds,
23:55who have good relations with Israel,
23:58to enter an internal conflict.
24:00This is what Israel is looking for.
24:02This is what the Europeans are looking for.
24:05They want to win and make chaos in Syria
24:08and say, we are in a state that may threaten our northern borders.
24:14And they will annex territories,
24:17maybe they will go to the capital.
24:20This is their interest.
24:22They want to avoid at all costs having a state
24:25that is trying to rebuild itself
24:28and is also trying to save its sovereignty
24:31and this is what the Israelis are looking for at all costs.
24:34Mr. Amjad Shehab, thank you for all these details.
24:38Thank you for answering our questions.
24:40I remind you that you are a professor of political science.
24:50This is the end of this edition.
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