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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. Accept Manage my choices One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Try again arts24 © FRANCE 24 Issued on: 11/02/2026 – 16:59Modified: 11/02/2026 – 16:59 12:18 min From the show Reading time 1 min In this episode of arts24, film critic Manon Kerjean reviews several new French releases: Alice Winocour’s “Coutures”, starring Angelina Jolie and Louis Garrel in a backstage drama about women navigating illness and industry…

In an interview with FRANCE 24, UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese dismissed recent accusations of anti-Semitism against her as “shameful and defamatory.” She also warned that “the plan to fully destroy Gaza continues” and denounced Israeli measures in the West Bank, where “soldiers and settlers are spreading terror”. On February 8, the Israeli government took several steps to strengthen its control over the West Bank, facilitating land purchases and allowing Israel to seize control of areas under Palestinian Authority control, including religious sites. Albanese called the move “absolutely worrisome” and “illegal,” adding: “It shows that there…

France’s Julia ​Simon won the women’s 15-kilometre individual biathlon race at the ​Winter Games on Wednesday, making up for a single miss on the shooting range with a powerful skiing performance on the track ​to add ‌individual gold to a mixed relay victory. ⁠Simon’s compatriot Lou Jeanmonnot took silver, 53.1 seconds behind, with Lora Hristova securing ‌a surprise bronze for Bulgaria. However, it was Simon’s ⁠composure that stood out. After a season that started slowly, the 29-year-old peaked for the Milan Cortina Olympics, displaying ​nerves of steel to anchor the France team ‌to victory in the mixed relay on Sunday.…

“It’s not if there will be another pandemic, but when it will happen.” Dr Christian Happi and his team have just won a $100 million grant that enables them to expand their vital work to try to identify threats to provide the world with an early warning system for future pandemics. His project comes as many of his colleagues are facing huge funding cuts, with money being withdrawn from global health funding. The renowned professor of molecular biology and genomics spoke to us in Perspective.

🥇#Medals breaking and falling as athletes celebrate have sparked a growing row at #MilanoCortina and on social media. Games organisers say the issue has been identified and have asked athletes to return affected medals for repair.⛷️

French metal giant ArcelorMittal has confirmed it will go ahead with a plan to build a new electric furnace to replace one of its coal-powered ones at its steel mill in northern France. Half of the €1.3 billion investment will come from a state-backed energy efficiency mechanism. President Emmanuel Macron toured the Dunkirk site to mark the occasion. Also in the segment, we look at the state of Cuba’s economic crisis amid severe fuel shortages. 

She topped the charts with the planetary hit “New Soul” in 2007 and her stirring voice and irresistible melodies have filled concert halls, radio waves and headphones ever since. Yael Naim tells us why reaching a personal and artistic crossroads led her to experiment with a new minimalist sound and new production techniques, and why embracing optimism is a political choice today.

Peter O’Brien is pleased to welcome Iranian-American veteran journalist Borzou Daragahi, offering a deeper perspective of the geopolitics and diplomacy at play. What we’re witnessing is a last-ditch effort to avoid a military confrontation that feels dangerously close. Both Washington and Tehran have painted themselves into their respective corners. The Trump administration is under immense pressure from its political base, powerful financiers and regional allies. Meanwhile, Iran, reeling from internal unrest and isolation, has left itself exposed.

Imagine designing a society without knowing your role in it. Would you still choose the inequality we live with today? Eve Irvine welcomes Kate Pickett, Author and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York. Her work as a social epidemiologist concludes that inequality is not just unfair, it has real-life, even deadly, consequences. It erodes trust, wellbeing, education, and even the length of our lives. We already have the answers. What we lack is the will to act. This book, The Good Society, is a call to collective courage, to choose policies that prioritize human flourishing, over GDP, a…

The Seattle Seahawks relied on a relentless defence to ⁠beat New England 29-13 in Super Bowl LX on Sunday, denying the Patriots an NFL-record seventh championship and avenging a heartbreaking loss to the same opponent in the title game 11 years ago.