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00:00Welcome to a new edition of the Média Morning, here are the headlines.
00:22From Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, we go through Damascus to Paris.
00:29The world celebrated the arrival in 2025 in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday with fireworks
00:35at the end of a year marked by the return of Donald Trump's Donald Trump,
00:40but also of new upheavals in the Middle East and Ukraine.
00:46In South Korea, investigators working on the crash of the plane of the company Jeju Air,
00:50which caused 179 deaths, extracted the first data from one of the black boxes of the Boeing 737-800.
00:58This is what was announced this Wednesday by a government official.
01:05And in this newspaper also, the Senegalese president Bassir Oudio Maifa announced Tuesday
01:09the end of all military presence of foreign countries in Senegal as of 2025
01:14in a speech on the occasion of a new year.
01:17The French military base in Abidjan will be retreated to the Ivory Coast in January.
01:21The announcement was made last night by the Ivorian president Alassane Ouattara.
01:29From Sydney to Rio de Janeiro, we go through Damascus to Paris.
01:34The world celebrated the arrival in 2025 in the night of Tuesday to Wednesday with fireworks
01:40at the end of a year marked by the return of Donald Trump's Donald Trump,
01:46but also new upheavals in the Middle East and Ukraine.
01:51At midnight in Brazil, hundreds of thousands of people shouted joyfully
01:58on the beach of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro under a mega firework.
02:04In New York, tens of thousands of fireworks were massed on the emblematic Times Square
02:13while waiting for the descent of the famous five-ton illuminated ball
02:17before marking the passage to the New Year.
02:21And then in Paris, more than a million people gathered on the avenue of the Forbidden Champs-Élysées
02:26in vehicles and boarded dozens of trees in Saint-Sylvain, Sydney,
02:31on one of the most eastern time zones on the planet.
02:35More than a million spectators gathered in the self-proclaimed city
02:39and world capital of the New Year.
02:462024 has been a difficult year for the world,
02:50marked between war and catastrophe.
02:54For 2025, humanity has only one wish, peace and stability.
02:59Back on the highlights of this year with Raja Hengo.
03:09Australians are the first to celebrate the New Year 2025.
03:13In Sydney, on one of the most eastern time zones on the planet,
03:17more than a million spectators gathered in the self-proclaimed city
03:21and world capital of the New Year.
03:23Nine tons of fireworks lit up the sky above the impenetrable Opera and Harbour Bridge.
03:30But in the Gaza Strip, there are no fireworks.
03:33Civilians are saying they are exhausted by the war between Israel
03:37and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas,
03:39triggered by the attack of October 7, 2023.
03:42On the spot, the humanitarian crisis has worsened.
03:45After an Israeli raid on the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza,
03:49the medical staff administers care to patients in damaged tents.
03:58Patients are exhausted.
03:59There is a shortage of clothes and adequate shelter.
04:02They arrive in a hospital, which should be a safety and treatment shelter.
04:06But they find more humility affecting their bodies and clothes.
04:09It is difficult for them to move inside.
04:12It was difficult for them and for us.
04:17Still in the Middle East?
04:18In Syria this time, the New Year brings hope and anticipation
04:22after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad by rebels on December 8.
04:26Syria is experiencing a historic moment
04:28with the end of more than 50 years of rule of the al-Assad family.
04:34Free Syria is very beautiful.
04:36Syria is so beautiful when it is happy and green.
04:39Green will be the color of 2025.
04:41I hope that next year will be strong and free in Syria.
04:47At the end of a year marked by confrontations between the Israeli army
04:51and the Hezbollah militias in southern Lebanon,
04:54the civilian populations hope for this new year
04:57the return to peace and stability.
04:59I hope that next year will be better.
05:01The year 2024 has been very difficult for us
05:04due to our conditions in Lebanon and the war that took place.
05:08We hope that 2025 will be much better than the past years,
05:11because we are exhausted.
05:13It is time for us to live in calm, peace and love.
05:16This is how Lebanon should be.
05:182025 is much better than the years that have passed,
05:21because we are tired.
05:24In Eastern Europe, the Russian invasion of Ukraine
05:27is on its way to its third anniversary.
05:30In difficulty in the East, Kiev will have to deal with Donald Trump,
05:33whose election has raised doubts about the future of American aid.
05:37But far from the wars, the world has also suffered huge losses.
05:40The year 2024 was certainly the hottest ever recorded,
05:44with natural disasters aggravated by global warming.
05:48In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path
05:51by drastically reducing emissions
05:54and supporting the transition towards a renewable future.
06:01In South Korea, investigators working on the plane crash
06:05of the Jeju Air company that killed 179 people
06:09have extracted the first data from one of the black boxes
06:13of the Boeing 737-800.
06:16This is what a government official announced on Wednesday.
06:19The plane of the company in Baku, South Korea,
06:24carried a total of 181 people, including 6 crew members.
06:29All died, except for one hostess and a steward,
06:33which makes it the worst air crash in the history of South Korean soil.
06:39South Korean and American investigators,
06:42especially from Boeing, go to the end of the line.
06:45The site of the accident, in Muan in southwestern South Korea,
06:50the two black boxes were retrieved.
06:53The aircraft from Bangkok landed on the belly
06:56before crashing at high speed against a wall at the end of the runway.
07:00Under the force of the shock, the aircraft folded in half
07:04and set fire to the runway of a collision with anti-ice birds.
07:08Pilots were summoned to explain the accident.
07:13In the news, the Senegalese President Bassir Odio Maifa
07:17announced on Tuesday the end of all military presence
07:21of foreign countries in Senegal as of 2025
07:25in a speech on the occasion of the New Year.
07:28On November 28, he announced that France
07:31would have to close its military bases in Senegal.
07:34He sets a date for the first time
07:37the departure of foreign military bases.
07:41The French military base in Abidjan
07:44will be retreated to the Ivory Coast in January.
07:47The announcement was made yesterday by President Alassane Ouattara
07:51in accordance with the re-development policy
07:54of the French military system in Africa.
07:57I invite you to listen to the statements of the Senegalese President Bassir Odio Maifa
08:02and President Alassane Ouattara.
08:06My dear compatriots, dear brothers, dear sisters.
08:10We can be proud of our army,
08:14whose modernization is now effective.
08:18It is in this context that we have decided
08:22the retreat of the French forces in the Ivory Coast,
08:29thus the camp of the 43rd BIMA,
08:33the Infantry Battalion of the Navy of Port Boué,
08:38will be retreated to the armed forces of the Ivory Coast
08:43as of January 2025.
08:48I have already instructed the Minister of the Armed Forces
08:53to propose a new doctrine of cooperation
08:56in the field of defense and security,
08:59involving, among other consequences,
09:02the end of all military presence of foreign countries in Senegal as of 2025.
09:08In Senegal, the deputies adopted the budget for the exercise 2025,
09:14an important financial plan of 6,395 billion francs CFA.
09:20This budget includes for the first time
09:23the exploitation of hydrocarbons.
09:26This is a report by Jeunesse Mouka and Bachir Yasboudian.
09:32The Senegalese National Assembly adopted the 2025 budget.
09:37This financial plan provides for a deficit of 7.08% of GDP,
09:41which raises questions about economic priorities
09:45and the strategies implemented to reconcile investment
09:48and control of public finances.
09:50There is a budget deficit that is quite high,
09:54close to the figures,
09:56which must be reduced to 7%,
09:59the budget deficit of Senegal,
10:01which must be reduced to 7% gradually
10:04to reach what is called the community deficit,
10:07which is fixed at 3% in the EU space.
10:10This is an effort that must be made,
10:12but the reduction projection brings us back to 2027.
10:17According to this expert,
10:19the long-awaited budget could play a crucial role
10:22in the realization of state projects.
10:24It is a budget oriented towards projects
10:28in relation to the public investment plan 2025-2027.
10:33A sum of 150 billion has been inscribed in this project,
10:39in this PIP,
10:41to start the economic development of Senegal.
10:45In Senegal, the integration of hydrocarbons
10:48in this budget could open up new economic perspectives.
10:52It is not the whole of the hydrocarbons
10:56that are injected directly into the budget.
10:59No, there is a law that has been established
11:02that allows to put a part of it
11:04at the level of what is called the intergenerational fund,
11:07there is another part that is located
11:09at the level of the stabilization fund,
11:11and a part that is integrated into the budget.
11:13I think it is very well thought out,
11:15it is very well thought out
11:17in relation to the management of hydrocarbons
11:19revenues in Senegal.
11:21The project of the finance law,
11:23raising to 6,395 billion CFA funds,
11:27is part of the Senegal strategic vision of 2050.
11:30Its objective is to raise the development challenges
11:33while consolidating social and economic gains.
11:38And right away, the guest of the major media newspaper,
11:43Morning Le Monde, enters in 2025,
11:47after a year marked by major armed conflicts,
11:50including the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East,
11:54that we reserve for 2025.
11:57To talk about it, we are live with Mr. Zakaria Abou-Dahab,
12:02Professor of International Relations.
12:06Hello, Mr. Abou-Dahab.
12:09Thank you for being with us,
12:11and we wish you a very happy year 2025.
12:15Thank you, Mrs. Sena.
12:16Best wishes, God willing. Thank you.
12:19Thank you as well.
12:20So, on this 1st January 2025,
12:23what are, according to you,
12:25the prospects for this new year?
12:28What can we expect on a geopolitical level?
12:35Thank you again.
12:36It's a good question to start the 1st January 2025,
12:40since there is a kind of general chartography
12:44today on the geopolitical level,
12:47especially regarding the issue of conflictuality.
12:50Unfortunately, we can still see
12:52that there are still areas of tension,
12:56first of all in our continent.
13:00The conflict is permanent in Sudan,
13:02with its wave of human tragedies, etc.
13:05We can also mention the situation in Libya,
13:08where there are even fantasies of stabilisation,
13:11but the prospects remain uncertain for 2025.
13:15We can also question the situation in the Sahel,
13:19and generally the mobility of extremist terrorist groups,
13:23who sometimes take advantage of the interference
13:26to carry out their actions on Versailles, etc.
13:29We can go to the Middle East.
13:30We can also talk about situations
13:32that are not all definitively stabilised.
13:36Of course, we can't not mention,
13:38alas, the frightening case of October 7th,
13:42until today, as well as others.
13:45But also, we could, Mme Sena,
13:47broaden the spectrum and talk about other aspects,
13:50outside the question of conflictuality
13:52or of the crisis zones.
13:54But that's in general.
13:55There may be permanences.
13:57There will probably be some changes.
13:59I won't say systematic or radical changes.
14:03We expect, of course,
14:04to see some easing,
14:07notably the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,
14:09and probably also a lightening
14:12of the Middle East situation,
14:13with prospects that will remain
14:15to be determined
14:16according to the indicators of the available indices.
14:19Precisely, Mr. Abu Dhabi,
14:21in the Middle East,
14:22concerning the war between
14:25Hamas, Palestine and Israel,
14:27what fate for Gaza in the year 2025?
14:31Can it open perspectives of peace
14:35in the region?
14:38Yesterday, when in Sydney
14:40there was an artifice
14:42to celebrate the passage to 2025,
14:44the commentator of a channel
14:46had, ironically,
14:48but also realistically,
14:50said, when we launch the artifice
14:52to celebrate the passage to 2025,
14:54alas, elsewhere, in Gaza,
14:56especially children, people are suffering,
14:58particularly from the cold.
15:00What can we say about these images,
15:03unfortunately contrasted and paradoxical,
15:07that Gaza is murdered,
15:09it is completely destroyed,
15:11but at the level of the horizons,
15:15let's say, short-term, medium-term,
15:17there are perspectives,
15:18the conclusion of a truce,
15:20although sometimes it is not respected,
15:22especially on the Israeli side,
15:25there are negotiations,
15:27for Palestine, I would say,
15:28it is better than the negotiations
15:30that are carried out today,
15:32also thanks to the mediation,
15:34Qatari, Egyptian,
15:35but also American,
15:37to at least see the possibilities
15:39of an armistice,
15:41which would then allow
15:42to get out of this work of stranglehold.
15:44We listened to the intervention
15:46of Mr. Guterres,
15:47UN Secretary General,
15:49on the occasion, precisely,
15:50of the New Year 2025,
15:52speaking of an untenable situation,
15:54for example, hospitals can no longer serve,
15:56services, donations, etc.
15:58But what can we say?
15:59Probably,
16:00and this is a pre-measured caveat,
16:02that for Donald Trump,
16:04the four-year mandate
16:05would perhaps be marked
16:07by an operative action
16:09requiring or tending
16:11towards the stabilization of the situation.
16:13The Israeli offensive must stop.
16:16Obviously, we are not talking
16:18only about Gaza,
16:19we are talking about Syria,
16:20we are talking about Lebanon,
16:21we are talking about Iran,
16:22which is increasingly being dismantled
16:24from the point of view
16:25of its Shiite crescent,
16:26which has risen since 1979.
16:29And so, globally, once again,
16:31this is an example.
16:32In reality,
16:33Ms. Sanaa does not date from today,
16:35she is very old,
16:36so it is a kind of
16:38permanent, unfortunately,
16:39but it is also necessary
16:40for the international community
16:42to assume its responsibilities.
16:44Since you talked about Iran
16:47after more than a year of war
16:49between Hamas and Israel
16:53and then against Hezbollah in Lebanon,
16:56Israel seems to have made Iran
16:59lose its axis of resistance.
17:02To what extent is Iran weakened?
17:09Iran is weakened
17:10internally and externally.
17:11Why?
17:12Because it is more and more
17:13pointed to the right,
17:15because even on the side
17:17of many Arab countries
17:18and on the side of the populations,
17:20generally,
17:21which at one point
17:22may have been a little,
17:23how would I say,
17:24influenced by this model
17:26that I put in quotation marks,
17:28in reality,
17:29it turned out that the Iranian action
17:31at the Middle East
17:32was very harmful.
17:33Others will say that no,
17:35Iran has managed to resist
17:37the Israeli occupation, etc.
17:39But in reality,
17:40when we see things a little closer,
17:42the balance remains negative
17:44from my point of view
17:46because when we see
17:47that the action led by Iran
17:49did not bring solutions
17:51or positive points
17:54in relation to the resolution
17:55of the Palestinian issue.
17:56The Palestinian issue
17:57is dealt with
17:58in the context of the Arab League,
18:00in the context of the solution
18:01that was acted on in 2002
18:02and it would be absolutely necessary
18:04today,
18:05and here, of course,
18:06we are looking at the new regime
18:07that settles
18:08after the fall of the regime
18:09of Bashar al-Assad,
18:11that he understood,
18:12he needed precisely
18:13to cut off
18:15all this cordon
18:16or these links,
18:17the proxies
18:19financed and supported
18:20by Iran,
18:21because in the end,
18:22they did not bring much.
18:23On the contrary,
18:24they pushed the button
18:25and so we can say today,
18:26Madam Sena,
18:27that politically speaking,
18:28on the regional level,
18:29but we still have to be careful
18:31in terms of qualifications
18:33or qualifications,
18:34that Iran is now deprived
18:36of its proxies,
18:37in particular,
18:38the Hezbollah
18:39which is almost annihilated.
18:42Speaking of the Russo-Ukrainian war
18:44in Ukraine,
18:45January 1, 2025
18:47marks the beginning
18:49of a third year
18:51of total war.
18:52Despite the successful
18:53control of a part
18:55of the region of Kursk,
18:57Ukraine failed
18:59to regain the territories
19:01occupied by Russia,
19:02which had faced
19:04a shortage of men
19:05and was dependent
19:07on Western aid.
19:09The 2025 perspectives
19:11for Ukraine
19:13are they difficult?
19:17Very difficult,
19:18Madam Sena,
19:19because you yourself
19:20spoke of total war.
19:21There is this risk
19:22of degeneracy,
19:24but in the end,
19:26today,
19:27what we know
19:28is that,
19:29despite all the actions
19:30taken against Russia,
19:31whether those
19:32that were undertaken
19:33by the UN,
19:34in particular,
19:35the General Assembly
19:36of functions,
19:37whether even the action
19:38of the International Court
19:39of Justice,
19:40a mandate delivered
19:41against Mr. Putin,
19:42whether it was
19:43the sanctions imposed
19:44by the United States,
19:45whether it was
19:46the dissuasion of NATO,
19:47whether it was
19:48the sanctions imposed
19:49by the European Union,
19:50and all the support
19:51in billions of euros
19:52and billions of dollars
19:53given to Kiev,
19:54today we can all
19:55ask ourselves
19:56how far
19:57this strategy
19:58was going
19:59to dissuade
20:00Russia,
20:01to reject
20:02this country
20:03that is still
20:04under Mr. Putin,
20:05who still considers
20:06that he is
20:07of his right
20:08and his duty
20:09and that Russia
20:10is legitimately
20:11founded,
20:12to reject
20:13this action,
20:14let's say,
20:15of destabilization,
20:16so to speak,
20:17led by a
20:18presidential coalition
20:19supported by the United States
20:20and supported
20:21by the organization
20:22of the North Atlantic Treaty.
20:23What we can see
20:24today
20:25is that there is
20:26more and more,
20:27perhaps,
20:28a change
20:29in the operational
20:30world,
20:31perceptible
20:32on the part
20:33of the United States
20:34with Mr.
20:35Donald Trump,
20:36and I believe
20:37that today,
20:38perhaps,
20:39the moment of inflection
20:40will begin
20:41from January 20,
20:422025,
20:43with Mr.
20:44Donald Trump's
20:45investiture,
20:46to see,
20:47in the end,
20:48if he has
20:49means,
20:50given,
20:51perhaps,
20:52his positive
20:53relations with
20:54Mr. Putin.
20:55Already,
20:56he began
20:57to do so
20:58previously
20:59by meeting
21:00Mr. Zelensky,
21:01the president
21:02of Ukraine,
21:03for at least
21:04an armistice,
21:05to negotiations
21:06that are long.
21:07And there,
21:08I remember
21:09the great diplomat
21:10who left us last year,
21:11Mr.
21:12Henry Kissinger,
21:13who, for him,
21:14should rather
21:15favor negotiating
21:16routes.
21:17And he said,
21:18Mrs.
21:19Zelensky,
21:20that Ukraine
21:21still has to
21:22make some concessions
21:23and I believe
21:24that this is also
21:25Mr.
21:26Trump's approach
21:27to Russia
21:28to get out
21:29of this crisis
21:30in the Middle East.
21:31You mentioned
21:32Donald Trump.
21:33In the United States,
21:34his approach
21:35centered on
21:36America First
21:37raises the question
21:38of NATO
21:39and the multilateral
21:40treaties.
21:41Can we say
21:42that Donald Trump
21:43embodies
21:44a major
21:45geopolitical
21:46rupture
21:47and what should
21:48we expect
21:49from Trump
21:50in 2025?
21:51Yes,
21:52he has
21:53his own style.
21:54It is a strategy,
21:55we know it,
21:56which is offensive.
21:57But,
21:58at the same time,
21:59the specificity
22:00of his
22:01approach
22:02to the world
22:03is that
22:04at the beginning
22:05we did not know
22:06enough about it.
22:07Today,
22:08Trumpism
22:09has become
22:10a kind of
22:11doctrine
22:12that teaches itself
22:13and on which
22:14or on which
22:15Trumpism
22:16we have written
22:17a lot of articles
22:18in well-known
22:19international
22:20journals
22:21like Foreign First
22:22etc.
22:23The Europeans
22:24know it well.
22:25But today,
22:26the Europeans
22:27must also
22:28put water
22:29in their veins
22:30because they
22:31must compose
22:32themselves
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