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Added on the 06/10/2012 12:12:10 - Copyright : France 24 FR
The government of Argentina inaugurates the first section of the Nestor Kirchner Gas Pipeline (GNK), to transport the fluid from the unconventional gas and oil field of Vaca Muerta (south) to the province of Buenos Aires (center), through 573 km. IMAGES
Street scenes in Harare as Zimbabweans weigh an uncertain future without President Robert Mugabe after the army took power and placed the 93-year-old, a liberation hero turned authoritarian leader, under house arrest. IMAGES
After 43 years, Libyan exile Abdoullassem Al Naji finally returns to his homeland. Helped by the Red Cross, he has been reunited with the family he left behind in Libya decades ago. Next, there's fierce debate in Tunisia as the government weighs up the pros and cons of granting a shale gas drilling permit to energy giant Shell. Finally, we go to the movies in Morocco, where we settle down for a look at the Zagora Trans-Saharan film festival.
The UN rights chief warns that the world needs to change paths to avoid a future filled with military escalation, repression, disinformation, deepening inequality and rampant climate change. "We are at a fork in the road: We can either continue on our current path — a treacherous ‘new normal’ — and sleepwalk into a dystopian future, or we can wake up and turn things around for the better, for humanity and the planet," Volker Turk tells the United Nations Human Rights Council. SOUNDBITE
Kamala Harris says she's faced tough elections in the past. "We were underestimated at practically every turn, but we never gave up, because the future is always worth fighting for," she tells the crowd at the Democratic National Convention, before adding, "that’s the fight we are in right now, a fight for America’s future." SOUNDBITE