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French Minister for Housing, Patrice Vergriete, announces that additional funding of €120 million will be committed to "strengthen the emergency housing scheme" at a time of extreme cold weather in France. SOUNDBITE
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin arrives on site after an apartment building collapsed in an apparent explosion in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, injuring five people. Authorities warn there are likely to be fatalities as firefighters battle a blaze. IMAGES
In Marseille, citizens held a march of "anger" to mark the first anniversary of a deadly building collapse. They called on the city's centrist mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin to tackle unsafe housing in the city without displacing vulnerable residents far from the centre. IMAGES
One year after the collapse of two apartment buildings in Marseille, several hundred people pay tribute to the eight victims and express their disappointment and anger with city authorities. IMAGES
The 'Monmousseau' building in the Minguettes district of Lyon in France collapses in a pile of rubble after being demolished to make way for the second phase of the district's urban renewal, which began in 2005. IMAGES
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).