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
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Wild about the implications of his infection for the 2020 president ial race. Unveils plans to counter islamist separatism with a new law defending secular values critics as a desperate bid to mask its failings during the pandemic. Great have you with us here in moscow this is r. T. And well begin with the deadly standoff between armenia and azerbaijan on europes southern border with asia our correspondent whos in the nagornokarabakh conflict zone says that 3 explosions have just occurred earlier during a night time bombing raid a hospital in the regions capital and there are unconfirmed reports of casualties but it was treating soldiers who since been evacuated. So of all residential buildings were also hit in the to strike teams just on the reports from the thing i dont. Think they would witness one of the worst bombings of the planet the city which is the capital of nagornokarabakh the disputed region here right behind the hospital it was bombed literally just minutes before we arri
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