Olympic Games Opening Ceremony Plan B and C Revealed, Seine River Possible Venue?

Summary today

• Will the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games be held on the Seine? “There is a plan B and even C,” said Emmanuel Macron, “if there is a terrorist threat.” The Trocadéro or the Stade de France, this is the first time that an emergency situation has been mentioned in such detail, almost 100 days before the Games ceremony.
• Olympic Games that aim to excel in terms of carbon footprint. The efforts are there, but they are not enough for the NGO that is doing the census today.
• Iron Dome was operational and Israel’s allies helped stop the Iranian attack the end of this week. The press Israel sees this morning as a political outcome. Benyamin Netanyahu came out strengthened.
• We are in New York for the historic opening of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial.
• 5 years after the Notre-Dame fire, reconstruction work is entering a decisive phase.

The guest:

• Gaëtan Thomashistorian, member of the research laboratory CERMES 3 and Medialab at Sciences po, author of the book “Licensing History”. published by Editions du Seuil on March 22, 2024.

The soap opera “Weeks in the Life”

“Week in the Life” takes us to Nigloland this week. This amusement park was founded in 1987 in Dolancourt, in Aube, in the heart of the Orient Forest, by the Gélis family, a family of fairground and circus performers. The park attracts an average of 700,000 visitors every year, mainly from the Grand-Est, to enjoy rides worthy of the biggest amusement parks in the Paris region, but here the prices are much higher cheaper. Nigloland opened a few days ago (March 30) for a new season, after the winter holidays. We were there that day.

Episode 1: the final preparations before the season opens

We follow the final preparations a few minutes before the gates open to the public with Paul on one of Nigloland’s main attractions.

Reporting by Hajera Mohammad, reporting by Stéphane Ronxin.

The history: It is France

The “It’s France” column, the 1:50 pm event that takes us on a trip to France.
Every day, a columnist comes to give us his opinion on France.

Every Monday, the journalist and historian Thomas Snégaroff talks to us, using historical archives, about a place in the news. And today, Tómas Snégaroff takes us, on the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, to a high point of this pictorial movement, Giverny.

It’s a song

Today the guest is the actress and director Frédéric Pommier, Josiane Balasko. Rebroadcast of the column from June 6, 2023 “remixed” and “updated”.