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
Forecast. A reminder of our top story. Another new vaccine has been shown to be effective, the second and 2a hours. If approved the uk has millions of doses on order. Thats all from the bbc news at six, so its goodbye from me. On bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im Lizzie Greenwood hughes, heres whats coming up tonight. Well look at two of the biggest issues in football west broms Romaine Sawyers the latest to be racially abused online, we speak to the chair of kick it out. Were also talking about concussion, as the Premier League takes further steps to protect players. Also coming up in the programme. Premiership rugby is back after an enforced break caused by the pandemic, well be with Northampton Saints to find out how theyre coping with covid. And Tracey Neville joins us on sportsday to tell us about her return to netball. So a busy sportsday for you tonight and were starting with more on the distressing story this week that se
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