Report at Toulouse-Blagnac airport on the first flight of the Airbus A380. Images of the take-off. The reactions of the employees, delighted with this success. Comment on factual images and interview Noël FORGEARD, president of Airbus, satisfied and moved. Plateau en situation Patrice PELE.
In two days, the launch of Digital Terrestrial Television, TNT, will allow viewers to receive fourteen free digital channels instead of the current six analog channels. Comment on factual, illustrated and infographic images and interview Victor JACHIMOWICZ (director of the testing laboratory FNAC) who introduces the decoder-enclosure necessary to capture the channels.
Report on the success of Nicolas GHESQUIERE, Balenciaga’s artistic director, with the press and American department stores. The latter, as well as Marianne FAITHFULL, were the privileged guests of the presentation of the stylist’s autumn winter collection in Paris. The commentary on the images of parades alternates with the short interviews of Nicolas GHESQUIERE and Julie GILHART, vice-president of Barney’s in New York. She says the stylist has a big influence on the US market.
In the investigation into the murders of serial killer Michel FOURNIRET, the wife of the accused, Monique OLIVIER, told the investigating judge that her husband would be the author of several new murders. Commentary on factual and archival images, and infographics
Portrait of the Airbus A380, the largest airliner in the world. Concentrated of technologies, each part has been the subject of intense research allowing the A380 to be more reliable, lighter, less noise and less fuel consumption. England, Germany, France and Spain contributed to the production of the parts, which were then sent to Toulouse for assembly. Illustrated reports of images of the A380 being constructed in a hangar, cockpit, engine parts and synthetic images.
This is Epiphany Week marking the arrival of wise men. In many regions, the pancake is made with Frangipane, but throughout the south of France it is a bun with sugar and candied fruit. The cake then becomes "Kingdom". Comment on factual images and interviews Christian HERISSON (pastry maker) and micro-sidewalk customers.
At noon precise, Dominique BAUDIS (President of the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel) officially launches the terrestrial digital television network, said TNT, by activating the transmitter of the Eiffel Tower. To receive the new programs, viewers must equip their television sets with a decoding box. Comment on factual and infographic images and interviews D. BAUDIS and Ghislain ACHARD (Managing Director of France Télévisions).
Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING was received at the French Academy according to an unchanging ceremonial. He praised his predecessor, Senegalese President Leopold Sédar SENGHOR. Alternating commentary on factual images and interviews with Valéry GISCARD D'ESTAING, Jean Marie ROUART and Jean D'ORMESSON, members of the French Academy.
Report on the 10th Francophonie Summit, which is being held in the presence of Jacques CHIRAC in Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou. Comment on factual images and extract interview of the French president. Plateau in Véronique SAINT OLIVE situation.
Reportage. The great designer Karl LAGERFELD makes unfaithfulness in Chanel by presenting, this autumn, a collection for the H&M retail banner. Explanations. The commentary on factual images alternates with the interviews of Karl LAGERFELD, designer, Bertrand DE TALHOUET, president of the management of La Redoute and Rolf ERIKSON, managing director H&M.
An investigation report by the Conseil de la concurrence denounces an illegal agreement between the three mobile operators to limit the lowering of rates. Commentary on alternating images of mobile phones, infographic cards, and interviews with Julien DOURGNON (UFC-Que Choose), Patrick DEVEDJIAN (Minister Delegated to Industry) and microsiders of users.
On the eve of 14 July, an update on the categories of prisoners who do not receive presidential pardon (prisoners for racist crimes and sexual assault). The release of prisoners will not, however, change the problem of prison overcrowding. Commentary on alternating images of prisons and detainees, infographic cartons, interviews with Bruno THOUZELLIER, Union syndicale des magistrats and Hugues de SUREMAIN, from the International Prisons Observatory.
Update on French discovery of e-commerce and household computer equipment. The subject alternates numerical data, testimony of a family and interviews of Pascal GRIOT, Marketing Director Surcouf and Pierre KOSCIUSKO-MORIZET, CEO of priceminister.
Reportage devoted to the famous Lépine contest that takes place during the Fair of Paris and which rewards the best inventions. A micro-sidewalk alternates with a comment on factual images and interviews of Didier CLEMENT (inventor) and Philippe GOIRE (idem, armchair "Boxway").
Report in Canton, China on the chicken flu epidemic currently raging in Asia. That’s probably where the avian epidemic would have started six years ago. Right now China is just disinfecting the markets. Jean-Marie HOSPIED, "global doctor" in Canton is concerned about the transmission of the chicken flu virus through the air. Philippe ROCHOT, Special Envoy to Canton in China confirms that the population is not worried at the moment.
Reportage Explanations about the functioning and objectives of the World Trade Organization with illustrations, infographics and commentary archives, interviews with Pascal LAMY, European Commissioner and Jacques NIKONOFF, President of ATTAC .
Presentation of the port of Le Havre, one of the largest in Northern Europe and the first French port for container ships. Its history is also linked to that of the great transatlantic countries. The commentary on the images of a pilot guiding a container carrier, boats in the port, a dry dock and archives of France alternates with interviews of Xavier de SALINS, harbour pilot, and Edmond BECHEVETER, former commander of the French liner.
Report devoted to the announcement of the shutdown of commercial flights of the supersonic Concorde aircraft, between New York and Paris. Comment on images of his last landing in Paris, various shots of the crowd present at Roissy airport. Testimonies of a former hostess on the Concorde, and a former steward.
Report on the Elf judgment after five years of a long and twisted investigation. Former Foreign Minister Roland Dumas, who had appealed his first conviction, was released by the Paris Court of Appeal. Alfred Sirven, Loik Le Floch-Prigent and Christine Deviers-Joncour were sentenced to prison terms. The commentary on archive images of Roland Dumas alternates with the statements of Christine DEVIERS-JONCOUR and her lawyer Sophie BOTTAI, and Pierre HAIK, lawyer of Loik Le Floch-Prigent.
Update on medical research to treat heart attacks. Example with a patient treated at the CHU de Montpellier, zoom on scientific advances at the Centre de recherche de biochimie macromoléculaire de Montpellier, and finally, mention of the French ban on working on the human embryo, which considerably impedes research. Commentary on images shot at the CHU and in a Montpellier laboratory, and on infographics, alternating with the testimony of a patient with heart failure and the interviews of Christophe PIOT, cardiologist at the CHU de Montpellier and Michel PUCEAT, CNRS Montpellier.