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CLEAN : Rafting, water sports in France's Verdon gorges in balance as drought hits hard
Activities like rafting and canoeing in France's scenic Verdon gorges are hanging in the balance this summer as the region is hit hard by an ongoing drought which is drying up the lake (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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VOICED : French bill aims to "help workers", "expel delinquents" : interior minister
We have to help those who work, we have to be tough on those who commit delinquent acts": France's Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin sums up his future immigration bill in front of the press, between a hardening of expulsions and a...
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CLEAN : 'Down with France': protesters target the French embassy in Burkina Faso
Pro-Russia and anti-France protesters gather in front of the French embassy in Burkina Faso (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Ocean Viking: asylum applications "take time", says lawyer
These hearings take time, and we end up with judges who cannot rule within the 24-hour time limit imposed by the law," explains Jeremy Nanaï, a lawyer at the Toulon bar (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Football's influence on fashion stripped down as shirts turned into corsets
Playing on France's love for fashion, young designer Maï Jarach is giving a second life to old football shirts by transforming them into corsets (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : WRAP: the trial of French anesthesiologist Frédéric Péchier
A look back at the trial of French anesthesiologist Frederic Péchier, prosecuted for 24 alleged poisonings of patients, nine of whom died, as the Besançon prosecutor holds a press conference to address new findings (Footage by AFPTV via...
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CLEAN : French policeman seriously injured after being hit by a car
The Central Comissioner of Valenciennes (northern France, Eds.) the person who hit a French policeman with his vehicle denies any homicidal intentions (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : Strikes persist at TotalEnergies refineries, fuel depot in France
Workers at French Donges refinery owned by oil giant TotalEnergies vow to continue striking, compounding concern over petrol supply ahead of wider protests early next week (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French motorists recreate mythical traffic jam
Several hundred old models of vehicles converge in Lapalisse, in France's Allier region, for the 9th edition of the "Lapalisse traffic jam", a historical re-enactment on what was a stopover point on the mythical Nationale 7 (N7), linking...
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CLEAN : Burkina Faso's coup leader named transition president
Captain Ibrahim Traore, who seized power two weeks ago in a coup in Burkina Faso, the second in eight months, is "unanimously" appointed transitional president until a presidential election scheduled for July 2024 (Footage by AFPTV via...
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CLEAN : Historic drought strikes fears of water war in western France
In the ochre-coloured plain of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), around a solidly fenced-in plot of land, police watch over the construction site of the water reserve (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : In Burgundy, the expertise of an faience factory for the traditional King cake
In Burgundy, near Auxerre, the Colas family runs a pottery works producing traditional 'feve', a typically French ceramic trinket creation that takes several days of painstaking work to make (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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CLEAN : French ready-to-wear Celio buys Camaieu brand at auction for €1.8 million
What we are buying today is just the name. It's this history, this DNA that has existed for forty years," the men's ready-to-wear brand Celio bought the Camaieu brand for 1.8 million euros at an auction near Lille in northern France...
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CLEAN : The critical situation of the homeless in suburban Paris
We've never seen anything like this, especially in winter, and for a week now we've had no response, no feedback from the state," says Julia Ritter of the association "Interlogement93 (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Former French finance minister in Kabul for visit
1. Set-up of Alain Madelin sitting at table for news conference
2. Cutaway journalist
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Alain Madelin, President of the Democracy Liberal party:
"It's on the spirit that the provisional authority in Kabul, General...
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SYND 12-3-73 PRESS CONFERENCE BY MARCHAIS AND MARCELLIN ON ELECTION RESULTS
French Communist Party leader Georges Marchais and Raymond Marcellin at news conferences.
SOUNDBITE: French
1. mcu Marchais speaks
2. ws interior counting station
SOUNDBITE: French
3. mcu Marcellin announcement
Film: Rev - Sound: MAG SOF...
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FRANCE: GERMAN ELECTION HOPEFUL SCHROEDER GETS SAUZAY'S SUPPORT
French/Nat
A top level political translator, who will be an adviser to German leadership challenger Gerhard Schroeder if he is elected next week, says Germans must ask themselves how they see their future as Europeans.
Brigitte...
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Presser on torch route through Paris this weekend
1. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe shaking hands with officials
2. Wide of news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (French) Bertrand Delanoe, Mayor of Paris:
"By welcoming this flame, we are defending the values and the convictions of Paris. The...
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TALKING POINT Calls for action as use of cannabis soars
Paris, 13 July 2007
1. Various of people walking on the Champs Elysees
3. People sitting down
4. Director of the OFDT (French Observatory of Drug and Drug Addiction) Jean Michel Costes walking down corridor
5. Close-up of report on...
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French prime minister says EU facing difficulties
1. Dominique de Villepin walks to seat
2. Villepin seated at airshow
3. Plane flies by
4. Interior of briefing
5. SOUNDBITE (French) Dominique de Villepin, French Prime Minister:
"The problems brought on by the parity of the dollar and...
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Nun tells of healing after praying to John Paul II
1. Wide of Sister Marie Simon-Pierre with a portrait of Pope John Paul II, surrounded by media
2. Close of Simon-Pierre with portrait
3. Wide of Simon-Pierre arriving at press conference
4. Mid of Simon-Pierre smiling
5. Close-up of...
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Reaction to proposal by Iran for France to enrich uranium, NKor comment
1. Exterior of French Foreign Ministry
2. Various of French Foreign Ministry spokesman Jean-Baptiste Mattei, at weekly briefing with journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean-Baptiste Mattei, French Foreign Ministry spokesman:
"To talk...
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Authorities unable to confirm location of reporter, ICRC comment
Paris, France
1. Foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero arriving for media briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Bernard Valero, Foreign ministry spokesman:
"As far as we are concerned we do not at this point have any elements that would...
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FRANCE: PARIS: BOOK INVESTIGATING DEATH OF DIANA RELEASED
Paris, France - 26 June 1998
1. Wide shot of Alma tunnel
2. Diana and Dodi graffiti
3. Eiffel Tower
4. Diana & Dodi graffiti on wall of tunnel
5. Photo of Diana on wall of tunnel
6. Newspapers booth
7. Poster of L'Express...