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France and Iran have hailed a set of business tie-ups and export deals. As Sonia Legg reports they include the sale of dozens of Airbus planes and a car factory revamp that re-ignites a decades-old relationship between Tehran and carmaker Peugeot.
In Labege, an accident at the construction site of the third line of the Toulouse metro left one person dead and three injured, two of them seriously. Workers on this section of the bridge under construction were forced to jump from a height of ten metres when the viaduct on which they were standing collapsed. IMAGES
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg joins a gathering of opponents to the A69 Toulouse-Castres highway project in southwest France, in the pouring rain. IMAGES
The A69 highway project in France is "pure madness", according to environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who came to the southwest of France to lend her support to the project's opponents, who are organizing a weekend of mobilization. SOUNDBITE
The EU should seek to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 90 percent by 2040, its climate commissioner says, proposing a new interim target towards making the bloc carbon neutral in 2050. "Based on the best available science, and a detailed impact assessment, we are recommending that the 2040 target should be a 90 percent emission cut" compared to 1990 levels, says commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, calling for a "fair transition" that will allow EU businesses to thrive. SOUNDBITE
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