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00:00Wednesday marked 500 days of detention for French sports journalist Christophe Glaze,
00:06who was arrested by Algerian authorities in May 2024.
00:10He was sentenced to seven years in prison in June 2025 for glorifying terrorism
00:16and the profession of publications intended for propaganda.
00:19He entered Algeria on a tourist visa rather than a work visa.
00:24Comment est-ce qu'on est capable de prendre un journaliste sportif qui fait son métier,
00:29qui est pris en défaut de visa certes, mais qui en l'occurrence n'est coupable
00:34ou en tout cas n'a produit aucune apologie du terrorisme
00:38ni ne possède de documents intentant à la sûreté de l'État.
00:43Comment est-ce qu'on peut aboutir à cette année de prison ?
00:46Ça pour nous c'est totalement incompréhensible et c'est en ça qu'on considère que la détention de Christophe
00:51est arbitraire.
01:00Je fixe la caméra au président de la République algérienne.
01:05Monsieur le Président, êtes-vous un preneur d'otage ?
01:09Vous seuls avez la réponse.
01:12Cette question vous choque ?
01:14Elle nous choque aussi.
01:16Elle nous choque aussi.
01:17Vous seuls avez la réponse.
01:18Christophe n'a rien à faire en prison.
01:21Vous avez la possibilité de signer le décret de sa grâce.
01:27Christophe Glaze's arrest came amid diplomatic tensions between Paris and Algiers,
01:32which deteriorated in 2024.
01:35Tout le monde a bien compris que Christophe est un journaliste sportif,
01:39qu'il n'est qu'un simple journaliste sportif et qu'il se retrouve empêtré dans un millefeuille diplomatique
01:46qui dépassent largement ce qu'il était venu faire en Algérie.
01:51Relations between Paris and Algiers have shown some signs of easing,
01:55yet the detention of Christophe Glaze remains a point of tension between the two countries.
02:00The journalist's family says it has still received no response regarding its presidential pardon request.
02:09The European Union is stepping up defense cooperation with Gulf countries,
02:14with a new forum planned in Doha next month.
02:17And despite growing tensions across the Middle East,
02:20the EU sees an opportunity to build stronger ties across the region.
02:24I sat down with the EU's new ambassador to Qatar, Antonino Maggiore, to discuss what comes next.
02:31You've taken your post at a particularly challenging time.
02:34What are the biggest obstacles and opportunities to strengthening EU ties with Qatar and the GCC?
02:40What more can be done?
02:42I think every crisis brings opportunities.
02:48And this was very much confirmed by the project of a summit.
02:56As you know, the European Union GCC was planned for 24th of October.
03:01Unfortunately, it has been postponed.
03:03But what has not been postponed are the objectives and the sense.
03:07It's a missed opportunity that we are to postpone it.
03:11But there is no postponement of the urgency of strengthening the relations.
03:17So now security and defense are becoming bigger priorities in the EU-GCC relations.
03:22Security is fundamental in the current geopolitical context.
03:30And I think it's a mutual interest.
03:31Europe and the Gulf, we are both exposed to challenges in terms of security.
03:39So it's very much how we can work together.
03:42We are working on a defense technology forum, EU-GCC, that will take place on 3 December here in Doha.
03:49There are two main concrete objectives.
03:54The first is to create a platform for our defense industry to work together with the Qataris counterparts.
04:06And possibly also from the GCC, from the other GCC countries.
04:10The seminar will offer the opportunity for the European Commission to present what we are doing internally to build this
04:21common defense industry,
04:23which very soon can, in my opinion, in the future become a partner for third countries.
04:33It's not that at the moment we are focusing internally, but there is a debate ongoing in the European Union
04:40on how,
04:40especially with the new multi-annual financial framework, which is our budget,
04:46how we can explore the possibility to strengthen partnership with third country, also as EU, in the defense sector.
04:56So this we will start to discuss in the seminar.
05:02The 67th Thessaloniki Film Festival welcomed the award-winning director, screenwriter and actor Oliver Lacks.
05:10The creator of the gripping film Sirat, which won the jury prize at last year's Cannes Film Festival,
05:17captivated the festival audience during the masterclass he gave,
05:21where he spoke about his career, cinema and his influences.
05:30In the film, we follow middle-aged Louise as he searches along with his young son
05:35for his missing teenage daughter at outdoor rave parties in southern Morocco.
05:42So, what does Sirat capture in Lack's opinion?
05:46I'm interested in the sacred, I'm interested in therapy, I'm interested in to explore our wounds.
05:57That is a really complex thing that we have human beings today.
06:01Wounds that belong to us and wounds that belong to our ancestors and also to the world we are living
06:10on.
06:10We are portraying in Sirat a generation that is lost, I include myself in a way.
06:18And it's like we don't have the tools, you know, to really be in balance.
06:23But something that is beautiful is that we keep looking for transcendence.
06:29So, I don't like to judge if the tools that you take for transcendence are better or worse.
06:36What I like is to recognize humankind today, like looking at the sky still, you know.
06:44And this is something that you do in the desert, you know, in the desert, you don't see trees, you
06:49don't see rocks, you don't see mountains, you just see the sky.
06:52That is yourself, in a way, it's a mirror to look inside yourself.
06:55And that's what we wanted to propose to spectators, you know, through this shock therapy that is Sirat, to look
07:03a little bit inside, you know.
07:05That I think it's the most political thing that you can do nowadays, to look inside.
07:11This year, the Thessaloniki International Film Festival is organizing a major tribute titled, Welcome to the Desert.
07:19As part of this, it's invited the Galician Director to select 17 films centered on the theme of the desert.
07:28At the same time, Oliver Lax is presenting his audio-visual installation titled, Who, at Mermus Experimental Arts Center.
07:37First time that the work has been presented outside of Spain.
07:41The desert gives you taking from you.
07:45So, I like that the desert gives you limits.
07:50And I need limits.
07:52Because I like to go far.
07:56That program, it's based on my, the films that they were inspiring for me, from different levels.
08:06And, and yes, and I also present my installation that I did in the Rina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
08:23Santorini is widely regarded as the most popular Greek island among international travelers.
08:27Its iconic volcanic caldera, whitewashed houses, and spectacular sunsets in Ia consistently place it among the top destinations for visitors
08:36from around the world.
08:37However, local hoteliers have been voicing concerns that their hotels are no longer fully booked.
08:42After COVID-19, we had an intense tourist activity in our island.
08:47However, because of some of the unrelated events, one was the seismic activity in the mountains.
08:53And, in the second time, the war was created in the Coulpo.
08:58It was created by a tourist activity.
09:01For me, it was about 30-40%.
09:05The sharpest decline was recorded in arrivals from the United States and, naturally, Israel.
09:10However, the situation improved after the summer season.
09:13The tourism industry began with a number of tourists, but in the end of the year, it was a disaster.
09:20And, in September and October, it was a good tourist tourist month.
09:24And, with visitors who have the most interest in the world for the island.
09:29The Santorini is not just a tourist destination, it is just a tourist destination.
09:33It is a tourist destination, and a tourist destination, and a tourist destination, and a tourist destination.
09:39And, it can offer tourism all the time, please.
09:42A new digital tourism campaign was recently launched to boost the island's international image.
09:49The Santorini is for all the islands.
09:51It can support all the economic islands.
09:54It presents places from very thin to very precisely.
09:57The increase of the tourists creates a question of the worth of the tourists.
10:04The number of tourists are almost the same.
10:07The Santorini has 3,5 million visitors.
10:10And, with the tourists who are allowed to be the tourist destination.
10:13Cruise tourism is seen by many as both a blessing and a curse for islands like Santorini.
10:19Look at that, we rhythmized the Kruasgayra,
10:20that is a study that we did before 10 years ago.
10:24With the University of Aegean,
10:26we adjusted the average of the participants
10:28who can see each day in the Santerini.
10:30So, therefore, there are no longer
10:33places in different places
10:35at the same time,
10:35and this is an opportunity.
10:40However, the Kruasgayra
10:42doesn't really make the problem
10:44that has been made in the past.
10:46Of course,
10:47those who remain in the Xeno-Dohia
10:49or in the Kruasgayra,
10:49they leave more money than the
10:51of the Kruasgayra.
10:56It is clear that
10:58about the half of the tourists
10:59every time in Santerini
11:00are coming from the Kruasgayra.
11:03However, the Kruasgayra
11:06asserts that
11:07these types of visitors
11:08don't leave money
11:09because they are not in the same way
11:13of the Kruasgayra
11:13they are not in the same way.
11:17From the Santerini
11:18for the Giro News,
11:19Yiannis Yaginis.