Hello, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Paris Tonight to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 paralympics. 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations will compete over the next 11 days of competition with these games featuring a Record Number of delegations and of female athletes. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss is watching in paris. A perfect parisian evening and a paralympic Curtain Raiser like no other. Welcome to paris at Place De La Concorde an Opening Ceremony exploring attitudes towards disability. French Star Christine and the queens with a modern take on an Edith Piaf classic. And soon it was time for the athletes. Parading down the champs elysees, more than 180 countries united by a commonjoy. And here comes great britain. The british team, led by Terry Bywater and lucy shuker, were welcomed by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Paralympics gb have 215 athletes competing here and after finishing second in the Medals
They would be a ban on smoking in pub gardens. Is this true . Pub gardens. Is this true . It looks like it and it pub gardens. Is this true . It looks like it and it is pub gardens. Is this true . It looks like it and it is essentially pub gardens. Is this true . It looks like it and it is essentially saying l like it and it is essentially saying you couldnt light up outside Football Stadiums or nightclubs or Restaurant Terraces and even in small parks. We have a statement from the Department Of Health and social care showing that this is under very serious consideration. They say that they dont comment on leaks but smoking claims 80,000 lives a year and costs taxpayers billions. It says that they are determined to protect children and nonsmokers from the harms of second hand smoking. They are considering a range of measures to finally make Britain Smoke free. We knew that we will get legislation because they inherited the Rishi Sunak legislation on smoking so it looks like at the leas
Americas other epidemic shows no signs of slowing. This time a mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, cam. There have been 17 Mass Shootings in the last week. 17 in the last week. Deaths from gun violence in the u. S. Up 23 so far this year. Its another case where the victims were frontline workers. Last month it was a fedex facility in indianapolis, before that a supermarket in boulder, colorado. And now its rail workers helping other Essential Workers get to work during this pandemic. These are the folks who are showing up every day throughout the pandemic to ensure that transit would operate every day to support members of our community to depended on transit for their livelihoods or for their lives and, you know, these are Essential Workers and they took risks to themselves, showing up every day for work, and now their friends and their Family Members are mourning their loss. The mayor says the gunman was a coworker and the victims due them well. This is happening everywhere in
Americas other epidemic shows no signs of slowing. This time a mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, cam. There have been 17 Mass Shootings in the last week. 17 in the last week. Deaths from gun violence in the u. S. Up 23 so far this year. Its another case where the victims were frontline workers. Last month it was a fedex facility in indianapolis, before that a supermarket in boulder, colorado. And now its rail workers helping other Essential Workers get to work during this pandemic. These are the folks who are showing up every day throughout the pandemic to ensure that transit would operate every day to support members of our community to depended on transit for their livelihoods or for their lives and, you know, these are Essential Workers and they took risks to themselves, showing up every day for work, and now their friends and their Family Members are mourning their loss. The mayor says the gunman was a coworker and the victims due them well. This is happening everywhere in
Americas other epidemic shows no signs of slowing. This time a mass shooting at a rail yard in san jose, cam. There have been 17 Mass Shootings in the last week. 17 in the last week. Deaths from gun violence in the u. S. Up 23 so far this year. Its another case where the victims were frontline workers. Last month it was a fedex facility in indianapolis, before that a supermarket in boulder, colorado. And now its rail workers helping other Essential Workers get to work during this pandemic. These are the folks who are showing up every day throughout the pandemic to ensure that transit would operate every day to support members of our community to depended on transit for their livelihoods or for their lives and, you know, these are Essential Workers and they took risks to themselves, showing up every day for work, and now their friends and their Family Members are mourning their loss. The mayor says the gunman was a coworker and the victims due them well. This is happening everywhere in