Philippe SÉGUIN, since his failure in Paris, has returned to win Jacques CHIRAC to the Presidential. He entered the campaign by holding a meeting in Troyes (Dawn) and made an inventory of the situation of the right and give some advice. Comment on factual images and speech extract.
The campaign of vaccination against meningitis continues in a part of the Puy de Dôme and concerns only the age range from two months to twenty years. While some pediatricians question the usefulness of vaccinating toddlers, the authorities do not express any doubt. Reassuring for some and worrying for others the vaccination against meningitis C raises many questions about the possible negative consequences of such vaccination. Interview of Laurence LEMONIER (nurse) with her baby in the pediatrician. She believes it is not innocuous to vaccinate a baby and that caution is required to avoid unnecessary vaccination. Interview with Dr Geneviève CHEREAU, a pediatrician who will not carry out this vaccination because of the immaturity of the immune system of children before the age of 4. She questions a possible link between the development of allergies and autoimmune diseases and intense vaccination. It also points to the presence of aluminum hydroxide in the composition of vaccines as a potential risk. He is concerned about the cumulative doses, especially since the Ministry of Health’s Institute of Health has conducted an epidemiological investigation which identifies this adjuvant as responsible for a disabling muscle disease. Interview with Professor André LABBE, head of the pediatric department of the CHU de Clermont-Ferrand: many vaccines do not contain any, therefore, there is no cumulative risk and the quantities are too small to cause short- or long-term consequences. The French health safety agency considers the tolerance to this vaccine satisfactory. Serious adverse events represent one in 22,000 cases
Reportage in Paris on New Year’s Eve in a chic Boulogne wood restaurant reserved for an easy clientele. Comment on factual images and interviews of a client and the cook of the restaurant, Frédéric ANTON (chef "Le Pré Catelan").
Reportage à Limoges. Update on the merchants' preparations for the balances, the old prices to be displayed in francs and euros, the prices in euros. Commentary on factual images, alternating with interviews with saleswomen, and Roland BOULET, regional director of competition and fraud repression.
A tradition at the Lille braderie: the mussel pyramids, it is the height that makes the reputation of the restaurateurs. ITW Ludovic BLANCART said that the shells are there to show the amount of mold that was sold in two days of selling. ITW from a customer saying this is a traditional dish from the area. ITW from another customer from the restaurant saying these mussels have taste. ITW Patrick DOZIER in front of the pile of empty mussel shells showing how high it will be by the end of the evening.
Report on the shortage of nurses at the Strasbourg hospital, in the context of the first discussions for the application of the law on 35 hours to 800,000 public service hospital officers. In this sector, the shortage of nurses is particularly acute and job offers face a lack of vocation, as working conditions are often difficult. Commentaries on images of nurses alternate with the interview of Josée DUGUEPEROUX, head nurse, affirming that the hospital is a "airbus with a Solex engine", Marcelle GROSSKOST, Director of the Institute of Nursing Care Training and Professor Albert JAEGER.
Report devoted to the Etna eruption in Sicily. A new mouth opened near the crater and lava flows destroyed the funicular station that usually allows tourists to go to the top of the volcano. Images of the volcano and works to prevent lava flows. Interviews with Giovanni FRAZZETTA, the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology and Nello MUSUMECI, President of the Province of Catania. Plateau in Stéphanie PEREZ, sent special in Sicily.
Today we are even celebrating the 100th anniversary of the famous law of July 1, 1901 governing associations. This law on the non-profit "contract of association" currently concerns in France more than 800,000 associations in various fieldss: clubs, unions, friends, support committees, foundations, etc. Due to the radical Pierre WALDECK-ROUSSEAU, Prime Minister Lionel JOSPIN decided to modernize this law, including consequent tax measures. Comment on factual images and interviews
Reportage devoted to the verdicts of the trial of the main actors in the Elf case, that is Roland Dumas, Christine Deviers-Joncourt, Loik Le Floch-Prigent and Alfred Sirven. The lawyers have announced that they will appeal the judgment. Commentary on images of each of them at the exit of the Paris courthouse and interviews with master Jean-René FARTHOUAT, lawyer of Roland Dumas, Sophie BOTTAI, lawyer of Christine Deviers-Joncourt, and master Olivier METZNER, Loik Le Floch-Prigent’s lawyer.
In between, the actors Maurice BIRAUD, Georges GERET and Lino VENTURA play the revolts on the shooting of the film "La métamorphose des cloportes" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. Maurice BIRAUD complains to Michel AUDIARD that the great brute of Lino VENTURA hits him, then Georges GERET explains that he thought to play the role of a priest who would save the bums... Finally arrives Lino VENTURA who is unhappy to have a role of brute in the film.