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 med
Being out of school is having on children and parents. Three Premier League defeats in a row forjose mourinho and spurs. They lose at home to chelsea, who continue their good start under new boss thomas tuchel. Today, snow only really Northern Scotland but over the next few days we are going to see is no more widely and all of us will feel the bitter chill of an easterly wind seeing snow more widely. Its friday, february 5th. Our top story. From the 15th Of February uk residents returning from Coronavirus Hotspots abroad will have to quarantine in hotels for ten nights. Theres been mounting pressure for ministers to set out details of the scheme, which was first announced last week. The government has been accused of being too slow to act. Simonjones reports. A new destination for new arrivals from the most high risk countries. British nationals returning home from more than 30 covid hot spots will have to check into designated hotels at their own expense for ten days. It is to try to
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Your television provider. Ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens, i accept your nomination and your program. [ applause ] and now, my friends, that you have made your decision, i will fight for that office with all my heart and soul. [ cheers and applause [ cheers and applause ] and with your help, i have no doubt that we will win. Help me to do the job in this autumn of conflict and of campaign. Help me to do the job in these years of darkness and doubt and crisis which stretch beyond the horizon of tonights happy vision, and we will justify our glorious past and the loyalty of silent millions who look to us for compassion, for understanding and for honest purpose. Thus we will serve our great tradition greatly. I ask of you all you have. I will give you all i have. That was our contender this week, Adlai Stevenson, accepting the democratic nomination for president in 1952. We are joined by historian Richard Norton smith here in Adlai Stevensons old study in libert