After the Olympics

Audio 19:30

Tokyo Paralympic Games closing night.

September 5, 2021. AFP - CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

By: Frédérique Lebel

23 mins

End clap on the Olympics.

It was the closing ceremony yesterday in Tokyo of the Paralympic Games.

The Japanese will undoubtedly have their assessment to draw from this immense machine deployed in full covid.

In the short term, it has already cost the Prime Minister his job, but in the longer term.

Almost ten years after the 2012 Olympics, London knows well what it owes to these famous Olympic Games.

Their mark on the capital and in the memory of Londoners is still very visible.

This is the report in London by Marie Billon.

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The legal consequences of Bloody Sunday

British justice has ruled.

But the main parties have not given up on the idea of ​​appealing.

Almost 50 years after Bloody Sunday.

On January 30, 1972, 14 Northern Irish demonstrators lost their lives in Derry under fire from the British army.

London ultimately decided not to pursue Private F, one of the parramilitaries who had shot the crowd.

The British government which has already recognized the innocence of the victims will not go further disappointment in Derry as noted

Emeline Vin.

The festival of photo journalism vis-à-vis the image is currently in Perpignan.

Several exhibitions look back at the fate of the refugees.

Photographer Antoine Agoudjian, winner of the gold visa from the International Committee of the Red Cross, talks about the heavy toll paid by civilians during the conflict last fall in Nagorno Karabakh, a landlocked territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Under the title

“ 

Armenians, a people in danger”

, Antoine Agoudjian

also explores this long memory which began with the Armenian genocide in 1915, as he explained to

Clea Broadhurst.

Baths for women

It's not really sport.

Although you can swim, it is rather a relaxation area very popular with Austrians.

The public baths are a popular outing especially at the end of the summer.

But now this subject a priori very consensual triggers the controversy an influencer has decided to offer a prohibited day for men.

In Vienna Céline Beal.

The K pop trial in Turkey

And of kind, it is also question in Turkey.

This time, it was the Turkish government that decided to launch the offensive.

Against Korean pop groups, K Pop as it is called.

Not classic enough, one might say, according to the government they would be

"agents for the promotion of homosexuality".

Not sure that the thousands of fans who flocked to Ankara to the Dongkiz group's concert understand

Anne Andlauer's

explanations from

Istanbul.

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