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Tractors continued to block the A6 motorway at Chilly-Mazarin, some ten kilometres (6 miles) from Rungis wholesale food market, Paris' key food supply hub. Farmers union Coordination Rurale who had called for the blockade, now sent out the directive to go "towards the National Assembly" in Paris instead. IMAGES
"They look after farmers when we are protesting, and then they forget about us", Pascal Foucault, vice-president of the French national farmers union FDSEA in the northern department of Oise, bemoans as farmers block access to several motorways in France for the sixth day. The mobilisation of farmers in France continues in the wake of a meeting with Gabriel Attal's cabinet and the opening of a meeting of European ministers in the sector. SOUNDBITE
French and Turkish rescuers, searching through the rubble in the town of Osmaniye, southern Turkey, discover a body, before bringing it to an ambulance as a crowd waits anxiously near the ruins of a building in which seven people have been found dead, according to an official report given to AFP at 22:25 local time. Search operations like this are ongoing across southern Turkey and northern parts of neighbouring Syria after Monday's 7.8-magnitude earthquake, of which the death toll has reached over 12,000. IMAGES
Images of French and Turkish rescuers searching through rubble in Osmaniye, southern Turkey, after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the country, devastating entire sections of major cities in southeastern Turkey and the north of Syria. The death toll reached over 11,200 three days after the disaster. IMAGES
Chablis (France), Sep 27 (EFE / EPA).- (Camera: Christophe Petit-Tesson) The small and controlled fires that Burgundy winegrowers lit in April to save their vineyards from frost were both a necessity and an alert: climate change is forcing them to seek immediate solutions and a great change in the sector.FOOTAGE OF THE WINE SECTOR IN CHABLIS AND OF THE WINE PROCESS.
Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong (France), Dec 10 (EFE / EPA) .- (CAMERA: Caroline Blumberg) To give a touch of humor to the moment the world is experiencing the French winegrower Jean-Christophe Mauro, owner of the Chapelle Bérard organic winery, in the town of Saint-Quentin-de-Caplong (south of France), has launched a new Bordeaux wine called “Covid Test.”