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Added on the 06/02/2018 09:18:42 - Copyright : France 24 EN
A video released by the Paris fire brigade shows firemen putting out a fire in a 4,000 sq m warehouse in Aubervilliers, on the outskirts of Paris, used to store antiques and fabrics. No one was injured in the blaze, said the fire brigade.
As a nationwide transport strike makes it difficult for French people to get to work, one group of workers remain on the frontline: the "sapeurs-pompiers" or firefighting paramedics, who make up the backbone of the French capital's emergency services. The overstretched Paris brigade of 8,000 firefighters respond to half a million calls every year, many of which turn out to be unnecessary. Our reporters have been following one team in the capital who, like their colleagues in Marseille, don't have the right to strike.
Khaled Bahlawan hammers nails in a wooden boat he is building by hand, toiling in the scorching sun everyday to preserve an ancient Syrian craft his family is the last to master. The Bahlawan are the only manufacturers of traditional wooden boats on the Syrian coast, a Phoenician craft dating back thousands of years, now threatened by low demand in the age of technology.
What do the Louvre and the National Assembly have in common? They are part of the 800 Parisian buildings where the air conditioning works thanks to the Seine.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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