REPORTERS - EXCLUSIVE: Mali, in the line of fire 

Amazing amount of professionalism and humanity shown by these men.

It's not everyday you see a Lieutenant Colonel on the front line like that, it's one of the particularities of the french army doctrine.

Damn that's hard army work with that terrain, French Legionaries looking professional!

One of the most highly respect military units in the world and it for me was a great honor to work with them when I was in the UK forces

I love how some idiots try to dismiss France's brilliant deployment in Mali by saying that the Foreign Legion isn't really French... It's absurd and wrong. They also tend to forget that 8% to 10% of the US armed forces are foreign-born personnel. That's in fact considerably more than in the French military, including the Legion. Good job France.

I ever travelled in Mali andhave some friends in this country. They are very happy of french army coming. That's not propaganda.

Poor kid being forced to fight. Thank god he wasn't killed. It was sign he was going to live a good life if he changes

Respect from Algeria.

Much respect to these soldiers keep up the fight brothers from USA.

Thank you for your English translation of your channel.

Good of them to save and talk with the kid and take care of the dead.

Semper Fi to my French Warrior Brothers

Respect from USA

Great documentary.

360p?! A huge news network can only offer their content in 360p?!

damn its good to be french army love from indian army

I love the fact that the reporter moves for the crest of the hill faster than the soldier :D

Well done, France and men of the Légion étrangère!

Big Respect to the Legion!!

Where is part 2?

Thank you boots on the ground war correspondent

Forget the never about the logistic of french army, Napoleon's logistic was one of the best of his time ...

7:20 Please help, what song is that?

France: Europe's Army

Merci France. Thank you for your professionalism legionnaires

The FFL are true warriors. Tough men. The world is clueless to this struggle.

Got to admire the FFL damn what a bunch of hell of a guys!

Is this video there was the Legion as well as the marine troops

Good Job France

As previously watched as news, French soldiers have successfully fought battles in former French colonial areas and use French as their official language in Africa such as Central Africa, Mali, Congo, rather than Middle Eastern battles such as Afghanistan like operation barkhane, operation sangaris , operation Serval

I pity the persons or person who comes across these men,NE PAS SUBIR.

Complicado

USE THE DRONES, MORE SILENT AND EFFECTIVE.

these guys needed a shovel 5:00.

2REP are something else

Why does their foreign legion performs better than the US army assisted Afghani troops.

I appreciate France 24 English , but come on now ! Post in HD for goodness sake .

I hope new combat suits and protections could be made to fight in such temperatures. This is a war that will last for decades to come.

That is very hars place to fight and to live

I love the fact that the French military is part of the NATO alliance. They seem a bit different to me. Kind of quirky. I can't put my finger on it but being different, and professional of course, brings something new to the table. Some new capabilities, tactics, a different way of thinking and eventually solving problems. And problems are something you can always expect will arise in the warfare. No amount of preparing, training and re training can't foresee all the imagined combinations of situations that could happen.. We've seen it in one of the best prepared and most trained for operation in military history - Operation Neptune spear or better known as the Bin Laden raid.. I bet nobody saw that classified stealthy Blackhawk crashing down at the beginning of the mission. That is why special forces members are highly intelligent and capable to improvise and reach decisions in highly stressful and dangerous situations... This is why I think that the French approach in a joint operation of massive scope, would contribute greatly. I don't wan't to be that guy that keeps calling the French cowards for capitulating so soon in the WW2 and made Paris an open city.. Let bygones be bygones. French military force is a formidable fighting element with advanced and, again, different approach to their weapons design. The only thing that surprises me is their perceived lack of interest in developing new anti ship missile to replace the venerable (and old) Exocet. French Navy needs a new, possibly hypersonic, anti ship missile to be capable of sinking any foe in the open ocean.

Doesn't really look like they have anything "pindown".

This is the only way yo change the world, humanity.

true professionals love from the US army

how do I join? I am in Canada

you can't just use some fuel to burn it? or something along those lines?

Errrm...

Hi

The French Foreign Legion are not only fighting for France. I think the fight is a global interest.

This fight started 13centuries ago and keeps going strong :/

มีอะไรให้ช่วยคับบอกเลยคับ

well the local cant product on themselves so i think france is right to profit

these guns are amazing

FAMAS

They didn't hear of drones?

There's very few jihadists from Malian people. A large part came from others countries. Distress and misery are too easier explanations.

Pela tua resposta posso ver que não passas de um tipo que tem a mania, mas o que eu gostava mesmo, era saber qual a tua opinião sobre o tema do vídeo, se é que tens alguma!!! Que é o mais certo não teres nenhuma, estás mais preocupado com inglês, até porque não terás grande capacidade e informação para avaliar a importância do tema aqui colocado!!!

mali i'm coming there ❤️

Best wishes to the 2 rep.

they didnt find any fight in those cities mentionned by the reporter because the chadian army kept taking a city and continued advancing north

Elegante que lo que e

Thanks you French Foreign Legion, with love from Washington, DC

FFL: Send in the BDU! US: Send in the 50cal with API rounds! Or just a shotgun with Dragons Breath rounds.

They're doing some good work there. Good on the French!

What happened to that kid..?

Why not just blow up the nitrate?

They were expelled from the country for professional unsuitability and the Russians were called.

De tudo o que disse, foi o inglês que te chamou a atenção!!! Sim senhor!!! O inglês é perfeitamente compreensível, excepto os erros típicos de escrever rápido, como por exemplo: ("frech" army). Vergonha não tenho nenhuma, porque se te quiseres argumentar aqui estou para ver quem na realidade deve ter vergonha!!! Por tanto se achas vergonhoso o facto de não ter escrito o inglês na perfeição, então veremos como vai a tua cultura geral e discutemos o que realmente aqui está proposto, pode ser?!!!

Why are they burying the bodies?

Tools

Legion patria nostra

Come my brother to fight fundamentalists on the moon...

When did the French invade Mars? I must've missed it...

Y these people r fighting and for what they r fighting...

that one guy had a nice tan for someone hiding out of the sun, in the rocks, thinking that old St Tropez lotion from the 70's?

Dip I dip you dip, dip I dip you dip I dip, MALI!!!

Do most of you know why the French are really in Mali? I see someone has mentioned it, but most seem not to know.

Wow I became proficient on their language! now it seems I can fully understand French news !😆 btw what a danger for the news reporter they may surrender if encounter the enemy 😅

Keep the gold Safe and take some percentage France. Sadiola gold mine, Moriola gold mine, Yatela gold mine And Syama gold mine. Mali has 3rd most good in Africa...

What the US did in Iraq...what you mean try to fight a war against an enemy without any uniform and how hides behind civilians.''

Malheureusement,nos braves légionnaires se battent pour des intérêts qui les dépassent!

omg, no food no water nothing for these people

Simply not true. French Armed Forces probably only has around 100,000 combat troops, the rest are in support roles. The French Army only has 120,000 full time soldiers. French Foreign Legion is at 7,000. Troupes de Marine is around 20,000 in number. You are wrong. No European country has 300,000 combat troops. The US Armed Forces has a million and a half personnel, compared to 400,000 French. US infantry would heavily outnumber French infantry.

Holly shit.. That is some seriously inhospitable terrain. I can't stand the heat, summer or any of that bullshit. But marching for dozens of miles with full on tactical gear and boots while lugging up to a 100 pounds of supplies, and all that at temperatures exceeding 45 degrees C... I wouldn't/couldn't do it if these guys had incomes like Jeff Bezos, let alone for a few measly thousands of $ per month...

In french foreign legion, real french people are near 30% of the deployed troups ... I think there are just one thing in FFL we can blame, most of the command hierarchy (sergent, lieutenant ect) are French or white european from other country (often east european legionnaires from Poland, russia ect) it's not a racist reason ... Just because white people selected are more schooled (they from France, east europe, west europe, USA and australia/new zealand) its just a normal thing

i dont think you know what is the foreign legion, those men are strangers of french, they can go in the legion even if they did crimes (but never killed someone or such big crimes), it's a new chance for everyone, i's an occasion to become frnehc for the ones that love this country and wants to fight for it. They are special forces, their training is harder than most armies in the world and their history is full of heroic battles and last stands like the battle of Camerone ...

The UN and France must to leave the sahel region

Why generally journalist shoose to follow foreign regiments and not conventional troops or marine troops ?

Creme de la creme respect boys blow all terrorist in 20 pieces take care and stay alive

Everything îs politics , who give Guns to the rebels ?

that's what i tried to say but i wrote too fast : "those mens are strangers oR french"

Get out of Mali and go home.

I dont know about that, but you defiantly dont fuck with the French....coming from an American

The AU must to send soldiers in the sahel region

Do you believe him? There told to say that

They need a camo upgrade

Don't bury em, 'buzzards gota eat, same as worms'!

Is France the only tough country left ,that keeps a big Infantry!?!? Legion has 8000 strongs infantry ready to kill French Army has at least 300,000 French Marines has at least 100,000 in they're infantry. while in US we only have maybe 40-50 thousand infantrymen in the usmc and maybe 100,000 in the US army .

lt looks like France is using the Legion more than the regular french army.

Lol you can use that same device to set up a trap . I love how they always make it sound like there are sooo many of these suicide bombers lol .

well, there is french-men in the French Foreign Legion...