Author: France 24

The USA women’s team will aim to emulate the men in winning the wheelchair basketball title on the last day of the Games. Meanwhile the 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony will be held Sunday evening at the Stade de France. FRANCE 24’s James Vasina reports. 

Bacterial infections resistant to available antibiotic medicines will cause more than 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years and indirectly contribute to an additional 169 million deaths, according to a forecast published on Monday. FRANCE 24’s Sharon Gaffney speaks to Ben Cooper, Professor of Epidemiology at the Centre for Global Health Research at Oxford University and one of the authors of the report. He says that vaccines, hygiene and antibiotic education are key to avoiding this crisis.

In this week’s show we shine the spotlight on France’s “banlieues”: the low-income neighbourhoods that are on the periphery of the country’s largest cities. On September 17th and 18th, the first ever “banlieue economic forum” took place in Paris – providing an opportunity for the businesses, associations and politicians of these suburbs to brainstorm on the best ways to stimulate local economic growth.   

Israel said Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets from Lebanon on Friday following overnight air strikes which destroyed dozens of launchers after its leader vowed retribution for deadly sabotage attacks on its communications.

In this arts24 episode, we talk to fugitive director Mohammad Rasoulof about his powerful Iranian film “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”, a brazen and startling picture about the misogyny and theocracy in his country. The director had to flee Iran where he was sentenced to prison for his filmmaking. The movie won a special prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May where it premiered. French culture editor Louise Dupont sat down with him in Paris.

On matchday 1 of the Champions League Barcelona dropped points, Manchester City and Arsenal failed to win and there were some banner results already. Bayern Munich scored nine goals.

Infections of drug-resistant superbugs are projected to kill nearly 40 million people over the next 25 years, a global analysis predicted on Monday, with the researchers urging action to avoid this grim scenario.

People in Martinique are protesting the cost of living. That’s because food products on the island cost up to 42% more than in mainland France. Sri Lankans are gearing up for a presidential election – and this year, the economy will be at the top of voters’ minds. The Bank of England decided to hold its key rate steady at 5%, a day after the US Federal Reserve kicked off its own rate cuts with a half percentage point reduction.

The explosion of pagers and walkie talkies in an attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon has seen the country’s entire hospital sector mobilized to treat the wounded. The victims, mostly young, underwent eye surgery and, in many cases, amputations. For the medical teams of the French Hospital of the Levant in Beirut, it has meant working non-stop. Our team on the ground send this report.

Director Mohammad Rasoulof had escaped a prison sentence in Iran just days before his latest film screened at the Cannes Film Festival this year. “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” went on to stun critics and win the Jury Prize. Critic Emma Jones tells us why it was her favourite film of the festival and how Rasoulof managed to incorporate the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests to great effect. We also discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s epic project “Megalopolis” and see James McAvoy in a chilling new role in “Speak No Evil”. Plus, French actress and director Julie Delpy injects her unique…