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00:00We are still together on Médien-TV. Thank you for remaining faithful to us. Here are
00:20the headlines of your newspaper.
00:22Heavy rain, strong gusts of wind, but also a lot of snow in Morocco. A weather alert
00:27warning is in effect. Several regions are concerned. We are talking about this in the
00:32eastern zone.
00:33Russia claims the resumption of the city of Suja in the region of Kursk at the moment
00:41when American negotiators arrived in the country to present the proposal to stop
00:47Washington's fault, to cease arms temporarily in Ukraine.
00:52The question of the Ukrainian truce is now on the agenda of the G7 discussions in Canada
01:00where the trade war will also be at the heart of the discussions.
01:06We start this newspaper in Morocco. You have certainly noticed it. The sky continues to
01:14open its vanes. There are strong gusts of wind, but also snow. This weather alert
01:20will continue until Saturday with heavy rain in Al-Husayn, Medirfenidik, Taitouan, Tangier,
01:30Asila, Oazan, Larache, Farsanjra, Shefchaouen, Taza and Taonat. Even snowfalls over 1,500
01:38meters are expected in the provinces of Ifrah, Nazilal, Benimelal and Midelt. A phenomenon
01:44that also concerns Al-Hawz, Khenifra, Bulman, Al-Husayn, Shefchaouen, Seyfrou and Taroudant.
01:52The precipitation of recent days gives smile and hope to farmers after years of drought.
01:59In this report, one of our teams went to the region of Loukos to follow the impact of
02:05these rains on crops. Mohamed Rishi, Edina Mrini.
02:10The recent precipitation recorded in Morocco, especially in the northern region, gives hope
02:16to the agricultural sector. Source of relief for spring crops and fruit trees, their effect
02:23remains limited on autumn cereals already affected by drought.
02:28The last precipitation recorded in March is equivalent to that of the whole of last year.
02:34They reached 314 mm. These rains represent an opportunity for filling the dams,
02:40including those of Ouad El Mahazine and Dar Khouroufa, as well as for the renewal of
02:46phreatic taps.
02:49The farmers and professionals of the sector welcomed these rains with great satisfaction
02:55and relief, reviving the hope of a good season of production.
03:00The vegetables have returned to the agricultural zones and the level of phreatic taps has
03:06improved considerably.
03:19The last rains have given us hope after years of water shortages. This has allowed farmers
03:24to relax and support the crops in place. These precipitations could mitigate the effects
03:29of previous seasons. They will have a beneficial impact on agriculture, including cereals,
03:34beets and legumes.
03:37We are satisfied and relieved to see the return of the rain, which will be beneficial for the
03:43culture of beets, sugarcane and all kinds of cereals. We are optimistic about the harvest
03:49of the upcoming season.
03:52Although they arrived late, these rains remain essential for spring crops, breeding and
03:57the recharge of phreatic taps and surface waters, especially if other precipitations
04:02reinforce these accumulations in the coming weeks.
04:11These rains are a sign of a good season.
04:15These rains are a sign of a good season.
04:20Eighteen months have passed since the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8, 2023.
04:26In January 2024, the first authorization to build was granted. Since then, construction
04:33has been underway in the province of Al-Hawz. More than 24,000 beneficiaries have already
04:40completed their construction. Elham Barada and Hayat Ziani have gone there.
04:46We are in the province of Al-Hawz and more precisely in Douar Marira, one of the sinister
04:51areas of the earthquake that struck Morocco on September 8, 2023. We paid a visit to the
04:57Zaïd family, who lost their family home. Today, in these fortune installations, the
05:04women of the house manage their daily lives as well as badly. It is their son Ahmed who
05:09is working on the reconstruction of their new house, which has benefited from the help
05:14of 80,000 dirhams.
05:22The representative of the municipality gave me the construction plan. I found that the
05:26surface was 74 square meters. I submitted the document to the company in charge of the
05:31construction site. The foundations cost me 35,000 dirhams. Then there are the walls,
05:36the posts and the roof slab.
05:48The situation has completely changed since the earthquake struck. We bear the
05:54bad weather, the cold and the heat. Things have changed a lot. My son has not yet finished
06:00the construction of his house. We are still living under tents.
06:10In the province of Al-Hawz, more than 24,000 constructions are scheduled. In some
06:16of Douar, the work is in full swing. Residents are eager to settle in their homes and leave
06:21the tents set up the day after the earthquake. At the headquarters of the province, the
06:27subject is being listened to by beneficiaries.
06:41Currently, more than 14,500 houses are already built on a total of 26,252 beneficiaries.
06:47What I can provide as statistics at the level of the province of Al-Hawz, 1,250 households
06:53have received direct monthly support of a sum of 2,500 dirhams for housing or
06:59rental fees. Of the 26,252 who have benefited from support for reconstruction, 14,500
07:05have already been relocated, 3,000 are in the last stages of construction. It is planned
07:10that it will end in two months.
07:13At first, I wondered if I was really going to rebuild this house, if I was still going
07:19to live here. Fortunately, after the support provided by His Majesty the King, this relieved
07:25us. We were able to re-install ourselves, and we started a new life.
07:30We were able to enter the house, and thank God, we were able to leave.
07:43A year and a half after the earthquake in Al-Hawz, the reconstruction program continues
07:49on its way. More than 2,900 villages had been affected, housing a population of 2.8 million
07:55people. In total, more than 59,000 houses had been damaged, more than a third totally
08:01destroyed.
08:03Moscow will consider as a direct armed conflict the deployment of European peace soldiers
08:09in Ukraine. This is what Russia has made known, which asks the United States to distance itself
08:15from this project. On the ground, the Russian defense has claimed today the resumption of
08:21the main city of Sujab, Ukrainian conquest in the region of Kursk.
08:26This would mark a turning point for the offensive of Kiev troops. Ukraine has not yet commented
08:32on this Russian claim, but the commander-in-chief of his army spoke yesterday of a strategic
08:39retreat of his troops to more favorable positions.
08:44Donald Trump had announced it yesterday. American negotiators are not willing to give up their
08:51positions in the Kremlin. The American proposal to cease fire for 30 days in Ukraine has arrived
08:57in Russia. Washington had urged Moscow to accept the truce without preconditions. For
09:03now, the Russian president, as war chief, was on the ground to order his army to completely
09:09liberate the Kursk border region from Ukrainian forces.
09:14The question of the Ukrainian truce is now on the agenda at the G7 discussions in Canada,
09:20where the trade war will also be at the heart of the discussions, a matter that should be
09:26addressed by the heads of American and Canadian diplomacy, who have an appointment today in
09:32Quebec. The Canadian government and the Russian government are in talks on the issue.
09:39The Canadian government has also announced this morning new customs rights against certain
09:45American products, in response to Donald Trump's decisions, who intends to take advantage of
09:51the meeting of the Club des Grands Pays Industrialisés to call on European leaders to take
09:57American threats seriously.
10:05Still no sign of a truce on the front of the trade war. From Beijing to Ottawa, through
10:11Brussels, the response machine is well launched. What could be the short- and long-term consequences
10:18on the economy on both sides of the Atlantic?
10:22Answer with Nabil Adel, teacher and researcher at ESCA.
10:26The impacts are multiple. The first short-term impact is the reaction of the financial markets,
10:32which have recorded strong losses in anticipation of the continuation of this war.
10:37We know that a trade war in a globalized world is the worst thing that can happen,
10:43as a good part of economic growth comes from foreign exchanges.
10:47Threatening the stability of these foreign exchanges will affect short-term growth.
10:54In the long term, you have much more important ramifications.
10:57We are talking about a trade war that exacerbates tensions between different countries
11:03and that can permanently destabilize relations between several partners.
11:08Today, we see that Donald Trump first penalizes his allies, and so it causes alliances that
11:17have been built for several decades, a century or two, and others since the Second World War.
11:26Today, we are all going to collapse.
11:28We will never be able to withstand such tensions and such levels of alliances between countries.
11:34Traditionally, when there are trade wars between opposing countries,
11:37today the novelty is that we are in a trade war between partner countries.
11:43And in this context of trade war, can we avoid the worst?
11:47How far is Donald Trump willing to go?
11:49Always answer with Nabil Adel, teacher and researcher at ESCA.
11:53We have two hypotheses.
11:55If we consider that Donald Trump, due to his personality, does this in a matter of negotiation
12:01and that he would not implement it, but just that he is trying to improve his position in negotiations,
12:07I think we can avoid the worst.
12:09Now, if he implements it, he will force other countries to react.
12:14And if they react, it will be a catastrophe at the international trade level.
12:18Because today we are already on a slow recovery from the consequences of Covid-19.
12:24Following that, there was the inflationary push all over the world.
12:28Then the war in Ukraine and the events of October 7.
12:32So this is a ninth chapter of conflict.
12:36And if ever an open trade war breaks out, believe me, the world economy will not get out of it unharmed.
12:43In the rest of the news, the Arab ministers of foreign affairs discussed yesterday in Qatar
12:48with the American emissary for the Middle East, Steve Whitkoff,
12:52the plan of the Arab League for the reconstruction of Gaza.
12:56This plan plans to rebuild the Palestinian enclave without moving its inhabitants
13:01and with the return of the Palestinian Authority to the territory led by Hamas since 2007.
13:08The new Syrian authorities have created a national security council
13:14with the interim president, Ahmed al-Shara, at its head.
13:18This council will be in charge of coordinating and managing security policies.
13:24We also find in this council the Minister of Foreign Affairs,
13:28his colleague from Defense, the Director of General Intelligence
13:32and the Minister of the Interior,
13:34as well as two consultative seats appointed by the President and in the seat of experts.
13:43Recent tensions in South Sudan push this poor and unstable country
13:48more and more to the brink of war.
13:51A warning from the IGAD for this block of states in East Africa.
13:55The peace agreement has been threatened in recent weeks by new clashes in the northeast of the country.
14:01For IGAD, these incidents are a critical indicator of the country's vulnerability to violence.
14:07The organization calls for an escalation and the end of hostilities.
14:15The President of the Moroccan Royal Football Federation, Fawzi Lakja,
14:19was re-elected yesterday for a second mandate within the FIFA Council,
14:25which took place during the 14th General Assembly of the African Football Confederation.
14:32It was at the heart, with the presence of FIFA President Janine Fantinon,
14:37the Moroccan Football Director,
14:39obtained 49 votes out of the 53 possible, issued by the presidents of the member associations of the CAF.
14:46Let's listen to Fawzi Lakja's reaction.
14:50This extraordinary General Assembly had a special flavor
14:59since it comes four years after the last General Assembly,
15:04which took place in Rabat in 2021, as everyone remembers.
15:09It comes in a period where our country has been developing thanks to the high royal vision for more than 25 years now,
15:24and this vote illustrates Morocco's influential position in Africa.
15:30In sport in general, and football in particular, we were slightly behind in terms of this strategic vision,
15:43but this meeting was essential to confirm the right path we are taking in the development of football,
15:51and this since 2015, always thanks to the high royal instruction of His Majesty the King Mohammed VI,
15:58may God assist him, to bring Morocco to the highest level on the continent.
16:10I immediately give the floor to the guest of the major newspaper of the day.
16:16Donald Trump's emissaries arrived in Russia to discuss his proposal to end the fire accepted by Ukraine.
16:23Washington wants Moscow to accept a ceasefire as a gesture of goodwill three years after the start of the war in Ukraine.
16:32What can we really expect today from these negotiations between Washington and Kiev?
16:38Is the ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine imminent?
16:41We speak with political and editorial analyst Mustafa Tosa, he is live from Paris with us.
16:48Mustafa Tosa, hello and thank you for accepting our invitation.
16:53Hello, thank you for your invitation.
16:56The American president is trying to put pressure on Moscow to get a ceasefire.
17:02According to you, what are the chances of success of the American negotiators' mission in Russia at the moment
17:09to present Washington's proposal to the Kremlin?
17:14In fact, all the information from Moscow indicates that Vladimir Putin refuses this 30-day ceasefire
17:23because the Russian leadership considers it an opportunity for the Ukrainian army, for Vladimir Zelensky, to recover.
17:33So, we don't have an official statement from Vladimir Putin yet,
17:38but his entourage says that there is a Russian refusal of this ceasefire
17:43in order not to give the opportunity to the Ukrainian army and Vladimir Zelensky to recover, to reorganize.
17:52So, what we don't know so far is what alternatives the Russians will offer to the American emissary visiting Moscow.
18:03Will they offer him a real long-term ceasefire with their conditions?
18:09All the questions are around this point.
18:16In any case, you said it, for Vladimir Putin's diplomatic advisor,
18:30a temporary ceasefire would give Kiev a respite.
18:34According to you, what would be the other reasons that could push the Kremlin to reject this American proposal?
18:42The other reason is that the Russian army can recover the territories that were occupied by the Ukrainian army.
18:51And it is no coincidence that yesterday, just after the announcement of the results of the Jeddah Summit,
18:58we saw Vladimir Putin in military uniform visiting positions in the Kursk region,
19:07which was partially occupied by the Ukrainians.
19:10And we know that in Vladimir Zelensky's strategy,
19:13the fact of occupying Russian territories had a strategic objective.
19:18That is, the day he went to negotiate with Vladimir Putin,
19:23he was going to give himself up to a kind of exchange of territories.
19:27I give you or I release the Russian territories that I have occupied,
19:32and in exchange, you must release the Ukrainian territories that you have occupied.
19:36And this logic was rejected by Vladimir Putin,
19:41and he wanted to show himself in military uniform,
19:44the man who continues the war until the Russian territories occupied by the Ukrainians are totally liberated.
19:51And what we also know is that Vladimir Putin proposes or imposes in this deal,
19:59in this peace treaty, that he can keep all the Ukrainian territories that he has occupied,
20:04especially to the east of Ukraine.
20:06And the whole negotiation today is to know what percentage of the territory
20:12the Ukrainians will be obliged to give up to the Russians.
20:16And this is the whole object of the negotiation between America and Russia currently.
20:22Today, Mustafa Tosa, some analysts consider that new economic sanctions would be ineffective against Russia.
20:31A lot of sanctions have already been taken against the country that has held so far.
20:36Can economic pressures change the Kremlin's mind, according to you?
20:42Yes, we read Donald Trump's statements a few days ago,
20:47saying that if Vladimir Putin or the Russians never accept this peace treaty or ceasefire,
20:58he will be forced to impose economic sanctions on them,
21:02which will be, to use his devastating expression,
21:06but we know very well that the Biden administration and the Europeans
21:12have tried to impose sanctions on Russia and Vladimir Putin.
21:17These were severe sanctions, a severe isolation.
21:21But Vladimir Putin's tactical and strategic intelligence
21:26is that he has managed to find alternatives and openings to reduce the economic effect of these sanctions.
21:34He has found other allies, such as India, China, the so-called global south.
21:39So the question now is, if Donald Trump is forced to impose these sanctions,
21:44what will be the extent of these sanctions?
21:47And would they be effective in convincing Vladimir Putin to accept the American deal?
21:53This is also a question that arises today.
21:57Questions for the moment, we suspend.
21:59But in this context, Russia warned this morning
22:02that it would consider sending European peace soldiers to Ukraine,
22:08as a direct armed conflict with Moscow.
22:12This is the first time that Russian diplomacy has warned
22:15that it will consider this as the equivalent of a military attack.
22:20Today, in case of failure of the American negotiators,
22:24what would be the impact on stability in Europe and international relations?
22:29In fact, you mentioned a very important point.
22:32However, it is the probable and eventual deployment of European forces
22:38to guarantee a possible peace agreement.
22:41And this is not the first time that Russia has refused.
22:45But it is now, and it says it with words that are very, very crude and very hard.
22:51Namely, if the Europeans or the Americans ever think of deploying forces in Ukraine,
22:57supposedly according to the Russian vision, to bring security guarantees to Ukraine,
23:03it would be considered as a declaration of war
23:06and it would be considered as a Western occupation army that needs to be fought.
23:11So, this particular point is a point that confuses the Europeans.
23:18The Europeans absolutely want to bring security guarantees to Vladimir Zelensky.
23:23Once he has accepted the truce and peace with the Russians,
23:28there must be men to guarantee this peace, to monitor it,
23:32even if only on the Unisian level.
23:35But the Russians see it as an Atlantic aggression.
23:39So, yes, the Russians see it as a declaration of war.
23:43And so, the Europeans and the Americans have no possibility,
23:47until today, to consider deploying armies or soldiers,
23:53if only to monitor this truce and this peace agreement.
23:58And what informs us of an absolutely incredible reality
24:04is that Vladimir Zelensky will have to sign a peace agreement with the Russians,
24:10under American pressure, without any guarantee of peace given by the Europeans.
24:16In any case, Washington wants to conclude a 100-day peace agreement.
24:21Do you think this is feasible?
24:24Yes, it is feasible.
24:26What we have so far ignored, and this is the big question mark
24:30that challenges all the sectors that are currently following
24:34this peace negotiation between the Americans and the Russians,
24:38whether in Europe or in the United States,
24:40and we read it in the European and American press,
24:43is that we do not know to what extent Vladimir Putin
24:47is able to meet the demands of Donald Trump.
24:51Donald Trump has shown that he was his ally,
24:54that he absolutely wanted to find a peace agreement that would be favorable to the Russians,
25:00since he will impose absolutely unacceptable conditions on the Ukrainians.
25:05And what we do not know today is whether Vladimir Putin
25:08is going to turn down this unprecedented offer from the Americans,
25:14or whether he will finally accept it.
25:18And how long will it take?
25:20What is the ideal timing for the Russians?
25:22Will it be in a few days, in a few weeks?
25:25There are a lot of questions about all this,
25:28but what we do know, and what is certain,
25:31is that this is the first time Vladimir Putin has a friend,
25:36in quotes, an ally, who defends his interests in the White House.
25:40Is he interested in spending this golden opportunity?
25:43That is the question that arises today.
25:45Can this American mediation, Mustafa Atatürk,
25:48be described as a crucial moment for American diplomacy?
25:54Yes, it is a crucial moment, because before arriving at the White House,
25:58Donald Trump had promised,
26:01he had even built his entire electoral campaign
26:04on the man who is going to stop the war.
26:07And in a clumsy way, or sometimes involuntarily,
26:13or abruptly, he has managed to stop the war in Gaza,
26:17even if it threatens to leave the Israeli side.
26:22And he has still managed to pull out a truce agreement with the Ukrainians.
26:28So there is a good chance that, with all the clumsiness we know,
26:33all the big words he uses in world diplomacy,
26:37Donald Trump could be the man who could stop the war in the region.
26:43In fact, he himself is already starting to dream
26:46of being the next Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
26:50That is to say, the strategy of stopping the war at any cost
26:55is an American concern, a personal concern of Donald Trump.
27:00Will he succeed or not? That is the question that arises today.
27:04Mostafa Tosa, thank you for all these details.
27:07Thank you for answering our questions.
27:14And now we close this newscast.
27:16Thank you for following it in a few moments.
27:18See you in the next newscast.
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