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Egypt warned Israel of 'major' Hamas attack: 'No world where Netanyahu's not aware' (Vivian Salama)

François Picard is pleased to welcome Vivian Salama from Washington. An attorney and staff writer at The Atlantic, Salama has reported from more than 85 countries. Her latest investigation takes us back to September 26, 2023. As Israel's national security establishment gathered to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War and one of the country's greatest intelligence failures, Abbas Kamel, then Egypt's intelligence chief, made an exceptionally rare and discreet visit to Israel with a stark warning about the dangerous situation unfolding in Gaza.

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High school blocks: Matignon denounces "urban violence"

The government believes that the movement of high school students, who protest against the lack of resources, "falls into violence". The authorities point to LFI's responsibility. The other news that has shaken political life is the anti-Semitic statements attributed to Jordan Bardella by Mediapart that are undermining Marine Le Pen's dediabolization strategy. France's report to the Jewish French and the State of Israel will also be discussed.

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High school blocks: Matignon denounces "urban violence" and points at LFI

The government believes that the movement of high school students, who demonstrate against the lack of resources in the National Education, "takes down in violence". The authorities point out the responsibility of La France insubmissive. Another news that has shaken political life is the anti-Semitic comments attributed to Jordan Bardella by Mediapart, which are undermining Marine Le Pen's strategy of demonization.

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'Guilty of all charges': Man City at centre of 'biggest scandal in football history', vows to appeal

François Picard is pleased to welcome our sports editor, James Vasina, and Andreas Evargora, sports journalist and commentator. Evargora describes the current Manchester City case as unprecedented in scale: “This is nothing of the scale that we’ve seen before.” The case brings together an explosive mix of pressures confronting modern sport like never before: the multibillion-euro business of football, the legal and regulatory mechanisms designed to govern it, and the increasingly complex relationship between sport, political power and international investment.

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Ian Bremmer: 'We have passed peak Trump in terms of disruption on the global stage'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Ian Bremmer, the American political scientist, author, and founder and president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media. According to Bremmer, we may now be entering the autumn of the "Donroe Doctrine" and the MAGA era: an "America First" isolationist approach in which President Donald Trump envisions a return to "greatness" in Gilded Age fashion. But is this the America voters had envisioned?

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Trump ‘flips & flops’ with Iran between making a deal and threats to attack in ‘devastating fashion’

François Picard is pleased to welcome Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center. She describes the US-Iran conflict as a dangerous combination of military escalation, diplomatic ambiguity and political calculation. Slavin sees an absence of true diplomacy: The recent indirect contacts between Washington and Tehran, mediated by Qatar, has been too limited and too fragile to produce any serious breakthrough. For her, this amounts to “kabuki diplomacy”: they half engage while positioning themselves against any appearance of compromise.

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Cold shower for Seixas, Zidane quiet, Queen Beaugrand: weekend sports info

While aiming for victory in the Worlds, Frenchman Paul Seixas only finished in 15th place. Triathlete Cassandre Beaugrand continues to fly over her discipline with a second World Champion title. Zinedine Zidane started her French team's selection mandate with a victory in Turkey (1-0), thanks to a goal by Kylian Mbappé.

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Volleyball: the French in the Euro Final after victory over Finland

The French volleyball team qualified for the Euro Final by beating Finland on Friday night in Milan. Les Bleus will be opposed on Saturday, still in Milan, Poland, who holds the title, for a poster that will also be a reissue of the final of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, won by the French.

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‘Most powerful force is human potential’: Ukraine's military prioritises new tactics, technologies

François Picard is pleased to welcome Kyrylo Berkal, Deputy Commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, He sees Ukraine’s struggle centred on human potential, adaptation and will. While Ukraine is outnumbered, outgunned and sometimes outflanked, their answer is to make human initiative a weapon: giving soldiers and sergeants room to innovate, developing technology from the tactical level upward, and trying to outthink their adversary. Berkal says that Operation Vivaldi embodies that philosophy.

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UN: AI "needs extreme attention" according to OpenAI's boss

The current growth of artificial intelligence (AI) "needs extreme attention," warned OpenAI boss Sam Altman on Wednesday, September 23, during a presentation to the UN Security Council. Sam Altman was invited, along with his counterparts Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and the Frenchman Clement Delangue of the IA Hugging Face platform, to take stock of this technology and its risks. The explanations of Leïla Mörch, CEO of Shael in Madrid.

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When climate mitigation becomes politicised: The Guardian uncovers IPCC links to Saudi oil industry

François Picard is pleased to welcome Eoghan Gilmartin, an award-winning investigative journalist and part of The Guardian team whose investigation examined links between IPCC authors and Saudi Arabia’s oil industry, including Saudi Aramco. Their findings take us to the intersection of climate science, political and economic interests, and institutional credibility, and into the politically consequential terrain of climate mitigation: how societies decide to respond to climate change.

Politics

François Kalfon (PS): "All oil superprofits must be taxed"

On the rise in pump prices, the government announces new targeted aid. According to François Kalfon, MEP and PS member, "the account is not: automatic help is needed for the most modest". He suggested that "all oil superprofits be taxed in Europe". On the Russian threat, the MEP notes a significant increase in hybrid attacks and in the European Parliament, "some political parties like AFD are under Russian domination".