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Back to homepage / Shows / Perspective Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 13:03Modified: 19/01/2024 – 13:07 06:56 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 UNICEF spokeswoman Tess Ingram has just returned from working in Gaza. In Perspective, she detailed the reality for children trying to survive during Israel’s military offensive. Calling the situation in Gaza “appalling”, with many people living in makeshift shelters amid the cold and rain, she warned that a lack of food is leading to malnutrition in children. She also explained the war’s impact on youngsters’ mental health, saying that with people unable to flee the beleaguered territory, children face “repeated trauma”…

Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 13:23Modified: 19/01/2024 – 13:24 An historic trial opened on January 8 for the West African nation of The Gambia. Ousman Sonko, a former high-ranking member of the dictatorship of Yahya Jammeh, is in the dock in Switzerland for a series of alleged crimes against humanity committed between 2000 and 2016. Victims of the dictatorship have high hopes for the trial. FRANCE 24’s Sarah Sakho and Simon Martin report. From 1994, when Yahya Jammeh came to power in a bloodless coup, The Gambia lived in fear as the country plunged into dictatorship. For 22 years, all Gambians suffered from…

Back to homepage / Shows / Focus Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 11:23 12:02 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Since the October 7 Hamas attacks, Israel has stepped up its raids in the occupied West Bank, storming refugee camps and arresting dozens of people. Human rights groups say at least 300 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces and settlers in the last three months. The Israeli military insists its soldiers are defending themselves from militants holed up in the camps. But residents of Palestinian camps who spoke to FRANCE 24 accuse Israel of terrorising the population. FRANCE 24’s Andrew Hilliar, Melina…

A Ukrainian drone struck an oil storage depot in western Russia on Friday, causing a massive blaze, officials said, as Kyiv’s forces apparently extended their attacks on Russian soil ahead of the war’s two-year anniversary. Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 11:24 2 min Four oil reservoirs with a total capacity of 6,000 cubic meters (1.6 million gallons) were set on fire after the drone reached Klintsy, a city of some 70,000 people located about 60 kilometers (40 miles) from the Ukrainian border, according to the local governor and state news agency Tass.The strike apparently was the latest in a recently intensified…

Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 12:10 The World Economic Forum is winding down after a week of intense discussions in Davos. A packed agenda on the final day includes panels discussing possible impacts of some key elections as billions of people in more than 50 countries head to the polls in 2024, including in the US. The final panel looks at the economic outlook for this year. FRANCE 24’s Yuka Royer spoke with Julie Teigland, EMEIA Area Managing Partner at EY, about what to expect in 2024. Source link

Issued on: 18/01/2024 – 22:26 In a video circulating widely on social media, users claim to show trucks dumping expired humanitarian aid in the Egyptian border town of Rafah, without ever reaching Gaza. We tell you where this video really comes from in this edition of Truth or Fake.  Source link

Mexican marines detained one of the top leaders of the Gulf drug cartel, the gang that kidnapped four Americans and killed two of them in March 2023. Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 10:53 2 min The public safety department of the border state of Tamaulipas said the suspect was arrested in the neighboring state of Nuevo Leon, and identified him as “La Kena.”That was the nickname the state previously listed on a Tamaulipas wanted poster for José Alberto García Vilano in 2022. Mexico’s national arrest registry said García Vilano was taken into custody on Thursday.Mexico’s Navy Department said in a statement…

Issued on: 17/01/2024 – 20:08Modified: 17/01/2024 – 20:11 2024 began with conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East that are sending shockwaves around the world. It continues with a scramble for innovation in energy and tech that’s got the superpowers beefing up protection for homegrown industry and along the way, a series of elections that often pit populists against the guardians of globalised trade. Enter France’s term-limited president. We hear what Emmanuel Macron had to say at his first visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos in six years. Caught between the investors they need to court and the…

Pakistan’s Prime Minister will hold an emergency security meeting on Friday with military and intelligence chiefs after trading deadly air strikes with Iran on militant targets this week. Issued on: 19/01/2024 – 08:04 1 min The rare military actions in the porous border region of Baluchistan — shared between the two countries — has further stoked regional tensions already enflamed by the Israel-Hamas war.Iran carried out a missile and drone attack on what it called “terrorist” targets in Pakistan on Tuesday night, with Pakistan in turn striking militant targets inside Iran on Thursday.The United Nations and United States have appealed…

Issued on: 17/01/2024 – 22:54Modified: 17/01/2024 – 22:55 In response to Israel’s war against Hamas, Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been disrupting activity in the Red Sea by targeting both commercial and military ships. Two separate videos circulating online claim to show the Houthis firing missiles at a US warship and a US cargo ship from the Yemeni coast. We debunk these particular claims in this edition of Truth or Fake.  Source link