Report at Brie-Comte Robert High School on the activities of students during the school press week and their views on the intervention in Iraq, through the European press. Alternating interviews of students and teachers with images of video and written workshops.
Report in Paris on last minute purchases made before Christmas, on the amenities necessary for their realization. Interview of passersby and a store manager.
Excerpt from the speech of the President of the Republic Jacques CHIRAC in the gallery at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (South Africa): "Our house burns and we look elsewhere. The mutilated, overexploited nature is no longer able to recover and we refuse to admit it. Humanity suffers, it suffers from poor development in the North as well as in the South and we are indifferent, the earth and humanity are in peril and we are all responsible for it, we cannot say that we did not know. Let us be careful that the twenty-first century does not become for generations the crime of humanity against life!"
Report on dress codes for men, between extravagant outfits of creators and wise outfits in the street, as the presentations of men’s fashion collections begin in summer 2003. The images of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s fashion shows alternate with the interviews of Paul SMITH (creator), Olivier SAILLARD (in charge of fashion and textile museum programming) and Chantal BAUDRON (director of a recruitment consulting firm).
Report on the demonstrations of pensioners that took place in about twenty major cities in France. They are calling for an increase in the minimum age. Alternating comments on images of demonstrations and interviews with demonstrators and Bernard THIBAULT, General Secretary of the CGT.
Foreign visitors are allowed to report on the conditions of detention of Taliban detained in Guantanamo Bay. Report to the American Marines on the Guantanamo base. Meeting on a boat with an escort and inside the camp with Lieutenant Mac Pherson. The latter shows some effects distributed to new inmates. On stage, journalist Etienne LEENHARDT concludes the report.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, two weeks after the Nyiragongo volcano erupted, more than 300,000 people still need help. Specialists monitoring the volcano’s activity are very concerned. Volcanologists on the spot multiply the observations because the Nyiragongo, located 15 kilometres from Goma, is still very active, as confirmed by the frequent earthquakes that shake the region. Interviews with Jean Christophe KOMOROWSKI, geologist at the Institut physique du globe de Paris, Jacques DURIEUX, volcanologist and Dieudonné KAVOTA, volcanologist at the Goma Observatory. Aerial views of the eruption area, plans of the magma, a group of on-site volcanologists and the CRSN-Goma volcanological observatory.
An update on the influenza epidemic in France. Commentary on factual images and interviews Doctor Marcel DADOIT (general practitioner), his medical secretary, and Cécile VILLEPRAND (pharmacist).
Report on the work required to set up the Christmas windows of department stores. A child declares that "every year they make fabulous windows...". In front of the animated teddy bears, he explains that "you just have to put a string on top"... which is not quite true. Jean-Claude DEHIX, a famous son puppeteer, explains how he works. Interviews with Frédéric BODENES, artistic director "Le Bon marché" and Leila MENCHARI, director of decoration Hermès.
Report on the opening of the WTO conference in Doha, Qatar. Apart from José BOVÉ, most of the representatives of the anti-globalization movements did not obtain visas to go to Qatar. Comments on factual images of the conference venue and the events that took place there alternately with interviews with José BOVE, the Confédération paysanne and Pascal LAMY, European Commissioner.
A Strasbourg surgeon went to New York to remotely operate a 68-year-old patient hospitalized in Strasbourg. Comment on images of the operation alternating with the interview of Jacques MARESCAUX, surgeon at the CHU de Strasbourg.
Europe and the new currency: The Ministry of the Economy notes a rise in prices before the changeover to the euro. Merchants rounded up. Bercy reported an increase of 0.5% in July and 0.4% in August. These estimates are certainly lower than the survey of "60 million consumers" which revealed the flight of labels of consumer products. Comments on factual images and interview Nicole DELMAS (baker in Paris).
Report on the intervention of teams of Médecins sans Frontières psychologists to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip, traumatized by the violence surrounding them. Comments on factual images of life in a neighbourhood of Rafah and the intervention of MSF psychologists alternating with the interview of Murielle MONTAGUT, psychologist of MSF.
Report on the wake after the assassination of Jean-Marie TJIBAOU (leader of the FLNKS) and Yeiwéné YEIWÉNÉ, his right-hand man, murdered on 4 May. The images of the vigil in the ardent chapel, with the sound of the songs, the caskets, the flowers and the rolled manus (pieces of fabric) are followed by an IN tray by Nathalie DALY.
The president of the FLNKS, Jean-Marie TJIBAOU, reviews the terms of the Matignon agreements, signed on 27 June in Paris. It considers that the various parties must agree on direct management of the territory and that the balance between the different claims is small. He awaits the content of the upcoming referendum and believes that these agreements represent a hope for New Caledonia.
Jacques CHIRAC leaves Polynesia. Before returning to the plane, he was greeted by many Polynesians who each time offered him a necklace made of shells, so that he literally drowned under an impressive mass of necklaces.
The Caledonians are called upon to decide, by referendum, for or against the independence of the territory. Nouméa: comment on images of long lines in front of polling stations, electoral registers and Jacques Lafleur, Pierre Frogier, Jean Lèques and Dick Ukeiwé voting.
Agreements are signed between the Malagasy Government and the French Economic Cooperation Fund to increase yields of rice and sugar cane production in Madagascar.