Last day of the tainted blood trial: the judgment of the Paris correctional court put under advisement will be made public on October 23 Michel GARRETTA, pleaded the responsibility of the community and asked for the release for their client. Assessment of the seven-week hearing. Comment on archival images and images of the trial, interviews with Michel GARRETTA (before the opening of the trial) and Master François CHARVET CHARVET. - Three days before the opening of the trial, Michel GARRETTA, former director of the Centre National de Transfusion Sanguine, defined what he expected from the hearings. He didn’t want to be a scapegoat. Everyone came to explain. The leaders of medicine, the prescribers, the AIDS specialists, even the hemophiliacs, accused of being aware of the deadly risk. A flurry of testimonies that will often turn against GARRETTA himself. Other leaders are pointed south finger: Dr HABIBI, politicians (responsible, but not guilty). Master CHARVET is indignant that GARRETTA is recognized alone responsible. GARRETTA finds itself alone before the threat of a firm imprisonment.
At the end of the Congress of the Socialist Party held in Bordeaux, Michel ROCARD was inducted as the candidate of the PS in the future presidential election.
Report on the electoral meeting of the Generation Ecologie movement in La Défense. Its president Brice Lalonde presented his list heads in view of the regionals, on a stage covered with an artificial grass carpet. Its movement stands out from the PS and intends to definitively reduce the gap that separates it from its direct competitors, Les Verts. Comments on images of the meeting alternating with a statement by Brice LALONDE who affirms: "No political force has the right to take the environmental movement for a satellite".
At the end of the election of Laurent FABIUS as first secretary of the Socialist Party, reactions of the latter and of Pierre MAUROY, the former first secretary of the Socialist Party.
Five Central Asian republics have declared themselves ready to join the "Community of Independent States" (CIS) founded under the Minsk Accords. This announcement is a new disavowal for Mikhail GORBATCHEV, whose rumor of resignation is becoming more and more insistent.
As part of the German reunification, a military ceremony at the headquarters of the French forces in Berlin to mark the end of their occupation mandate and the official surrender of their powers of the four Allied military governors, to the Kommandatura of Berlin; in the morning also arrived the German West deputies from Bonn for the first session of the reunified parliament in Berlin.
At the same time as monetary reunification, the end of the border between East and West Germany: the demolition of the concrete slabs that formed the wall, the re-paved streets and the border posts removed. Border guard interview on his future: "wait, "hope for another job. Remove signs" passport control ".
First free parliamentary elections in Czechoslovakia: tonight’s results give an absolute majority to President Vaclav HAVEL’s "Civic Forum". The point on the spot by A2’s correspondent, Giles RABINE.
As the meeting between George BUSH and François MITTERRAND takes place today in Key Largo, Florida (USA) about their respective roles in NATO, a subject presenting France’s position in relation to this military institution. Comment on factual and archival images and interview Jean FRANCOIS-PONCET (former Foreign Minister).
Images of the arrival of Titouan LAMAZOU last night at Les Sables d'Olonne commented by Philippe LEFAIT. Follow-up to Jean Mamère’s report on the damage suffered by "Ecureuil d'Aquitaine II" during this crossing. Finally images of Loick Peyron listening to the announcement of Titouan Lamazou’s victory, showing his reaction and talking about his upcoming arrival.
One of the leading Azerbaijani leaders, Etibar MAMMADOV, arrived in Moscow underground to negotiate the economic and political independence of his country.
Great Britain decides to repatriate Vietnamese boat-people refugees to Hong Kong. 51 refugees were returned this morning to Vietnam. This expulsion provoked international protests and in England. Comment on images of refugees begging behind the gate of a prison, riot police summoning refugees into a bus, of Margaret THATCHER speaking in Parliament and of a refugee camp then plateau of Philippe HARROUARD, correspondent in London.
The Dalai Lama, Tenzin GYATSO, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1989, visiting Paris, received the first Prize of Memory. He had previously spoken with a representative of the Chinese dissidents. Interview with Dalai Lama on this distinction, "a clear indication of the international recognition of values such as compassion or non-violence..."
Au CNIT, montage express du nouveau micro-ordinateur portable d'Apple Macintosh. Jean-Louis Gassee, président d'Apple produits France, présente les avantages d'un tel outil.
Inauguration of the first Paris-Le Mans line of the TGV Atlantique (to be put into service on September 24) by President MITTERRAND. Comment on factual images.
At the Château de Chambord, a photographer and an animal filmmaker hunt for the bats who have taken refuge in the different structures. We follow the two hunters of images in their visits of the Chambord forbidden to the public. Numerous plans of the bats hidden between the beams. Interview Jean François NOBLET (mammalian naturalist) passionate about these animals; he evokes their extraordinary characteristics. Interview Laurent CHARBONNIER (animal filmmaker). [General view] outside the Château de Chambord.
Jean-Paul BELMONDO returns to the theatre, where he plays "Kean" by Alexandre Dumas in an adaptation by Jean-Paul Sartre and a staging by Robert HOSSEIN. It had been 28 years since BELMONDO had played on stage... The images of Jean-Paul BELMONDO in makeup, in conversation with Robert HOSSEIN and then greeting at the end of the play are followed by interviews of delighted spectators.
Report on the political aftermath of the Heysel tragedy. Commentary off on the archival images of the disaster. Interview with Belgian Interior Minister Charles Ferdinand NOTHOMB, who acknowledged the partial responsibility of the police in this drama.
Arrival in Turin of the coffins of the Italian victims of the drama of the Heysel stadium in Brussels during the European Cup of clubs champions between Liverpool and Juventus. Presence of Giulio ANDREOTTI and Italian President Sandro PERTINI. At a religious ceremony in Liverpool, Kenny DALGLISH and Bruce GROBELAAR laid a red and white wreath in the Liverpool colours.