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Added on the 10/08/2022 14:37:15 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg joins a gathering of opponents to the A69 Toulouse-Castres highway project in southwest France, in the pouring rain. IMAGES
French farmers dump tyres, soil, manure and wooden pallets outside a train station in Agen in southwest France. Across the country, angry farmers are blockading motorways and calling on the government to respond immediately to their distress. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron says Russian President Vladimir Putin made a terrible mistake in pulling out of the deal to protect Black Sea grain exports. "He decided to weaponize food, and I think this is a huge mistake," Macron says. SOUNDBITE
A few hundred demonstrators with saucepans form a welcoming committee for President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting a health centre southwest of Paris, amid the rapid decline in the number of doctors. IMAGES
"Soon the end of a profession, thank you NGOs": angry fishermen are demonstrating in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a seaside town in southwest France, to warn of "the death of small-scale fishing" as part of a "dead channel" operation in French ports. They denounce in particular the decision of the State Council to impose within six months the closure of certain fishing zones in the Atlantic in order to preserve dolphins, whose strandings have multiplied in the Bay of Biscay. IMAGES
French Education Minister Pap Ndiaye observes a minute's silence in a middle school in Albertville, southeast france, the day after the death of Agnès Lassalle, a Spanish teacher stabbed by a student in her class in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, in the southwest. IMAGES
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