Author: France 24

Ireland got their bid for unprecedented back-to-back Grand Slams off to the perfect start with a bonus-point 38-17 victory over 14-man France in the opening match of the Six Nations in Marseille on Friday. Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 23:19Modified: 02/02/2024 – 23:28 3 min Jamison Gibson-Park, Tadhg Beirne, Calvin Nash, Dan Sheehan and Ronan Kelleher all crossed for tries as fly-half Jack Crowley converted all five and hit a penalty.France had Paul Willemse sent off in the 32nd minute after two yellow cards as the team slipped to their heaviest defeat since Fabien Galthie took over as head coach in…

The European Union’s 27 member states on Friday approved landmark rules on regulating artificial intelligence, passing a key last hurdle after tough negotiations to the very end. Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 18:26Modified: 02/02/2024 – 18:30 2 min Brussels first proposed an AI law back in 2021 but spent most of last year racing to greenlight the draft text after chatbot ChatGPT exploded onto the scene.EU states and lawmakers had agreed on a set of draft rules in December, billed as the world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate AI, and their approval after that should have been a formality.But some countries,…

France’s government was on the defensive on Friday after environmental campaigners and opposition politicians accused it of having scrapped a key green policy to appease protesting farmers. Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 19:49 2 min Agricultural workers started to lift roadblocks after more than a week of demonstrations, following government promises of cash and eased regulation.Among the concessions announced by Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau on Thursday was that a 15-year-old government plan to stem dependence on insecticides and weedkillers would be put on hold.The latest version of the Ecophyto plan had aimed to reduce the use of pesticides by 2030 to…

Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 15:54 A former Victoria’s Secret Angel and muse to the likes of Jean Paul Gaultier and Karl Lagerfeld, Laetitia Casta has successfully made the transition from modelling to cinema. FRANCE 24’s Louise Dupont meets the French actress to talk about her latest film “Le Bonheur est pour demain” and being directed by her mother-in-law, Brigitte Sy. Source link

Back to homepage / Shows / Focus Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 12:42 06:02 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 As negotiations on a new ceasefire agreement with Hamas continue, Israeli society is deeply divided. The majority of families of hostages are calling on Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to negotiate the release of their loved ones and put an end to the war in Gaza. Yet a large section of the population rejects any deal with Hamas and wants the offensive in the Palestinian enclave to continue. So far, only negotiations have permitted the release of hostages, as seen during last November’s truce,…

The United Nations’ top court said Friday it had jurisdiction to rule in most parts of a case brought by Ukraine over Russia’s brutal 2022 invasion, with Kyiv urging reparations. Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 17:04 2 min Ukraine dragged Russia before the International Court of Justice only a few days after the invasion, seeking to battle its neighbour on all fronts, legal as well as diplomatic and military.When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion on February 24, 2022, part of his argument was that pro-Russian people in eastern Ukraine had been “subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv…

Back to homepage / Shows / Fashion Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 14:37Modified: 02/02/2024 – 14:39 06:00 FASHION © Media TV By: Pascal MOURIER | Media TV Haute couture represents the apotheosis of fashion. Thousands of hours of work can go into a single item, destined to be worn just once. Couture offers a window into a multi-billion-euro industry. But it’s also a pillar of French soft power, which was perfectly expressed this year at Dior, Imane Ayissi, Sara Chraïbi and Simone Rocha for Jean Paul Gaultier. FRANCE 24 takes you to check out the runway shows. Read more on related…

Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 13:29 In the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, one road symbolises the complex relationship between Lebanon and neighbouring Syria: the aptly named Syria Street. With the outbreak of civil war in Syria in 2011, Tripoli street also become a conflict zone. On one side, the Alawite district sided with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The Sunni neighbourhood on the other side supported the rebels. For several years, the street was transformed into a battlefield. Young Lebanese living in Tripoli fought each other, ready to die for a cause that was not their own. Today, calm has returned…

Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 14:44 In the run-up to February 7 presidential elections, repression has increased in Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic in the Caucasus that borders Iran and Armenia. Any opposition to President Ilham Aliyev is silenced. Human rights activists, journalists and political opponents are on the receiving end of the regime’s wrath on a daily basis. Our reporters Karina Chabour and Roméo Langlois met victims of torture who are denouncing a violent system of repression. They also looked into the Council of Europe’s ambiguous links to the regime in Baku. In November 2023, several journalists and a member…

In November 2023, several journalists and a member of the administrative team from Abzas, an online investigative media focusing on human rights in Azerbaijan, were arrested by the country’s authorities. A few days later, Forbidden Stories, an international consortium of investigative journalists, announced that it was continuing Abzas’s work on several investigations in partnership with a dozen international media organisations including FRANCE 24. Issued on: 02/02/2024 – 11:55Modified: 02/02/2024 – 11:58 2 min Alongside a consortium of investigative journalists, RFI and FRANCE 24 are continuing the investigations of imprisoned journalists from independent Azerbaijani news outlet Abzas Media. This work, published…