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
Due this autumn, will be painful because of what he called a black hole in the public finances, inherited from the previous administration. More than 3,500 current and former workers at next have won a six year legal battle for equal pay. An Employment Tribunal said store staff, who are predominantly women, should not have been paid at lower rates than employees in warehouses, where just over half the staff are male. Police in india have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of kolkata. They are demanding the resignation of a state minister, following the rape and murder of a Junior Doctor at a City Hospital earlier this month. It is an extremely rare occurence that a Military Operation to free and rescue a hostage ends successfully. But the family of Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52 year old Bedoin Israeli abducted on october 7th, are celebrating tonight, after he was freed by israeli commandoes from a tunnel in Southern Gaza. Mr alkad
Message in the market that we need to Pay Attention to i think its interesting because last weeks the markets were so weak and everyone felt so despondent that this week was going to be just a replay of last week. I think that as the election is here today, people are settled, i think, into the fact that we will have a result i thisnk the market thinks we will have a result in the next 24 hours i think we all have fatigue from this election and i this i just havi i think just having a decision is what the market is pricing in now and after the decision, well go from there. I think the market is positive for clarity. It may not be clear but well see tomorrow what actually happens. Unless the market is getting ahead of itself. If you go by our cnbc states of play poll, only one in five think youre going to have an answer tonight on election night. The market seems to be acting over the next couple of days like were going to go to bed knowing who the next president will be or donald trump
Vying to become the Vice President have sparred in their only debate ahead of next months election republican Vice President mike pence and his democratic challenger senator kamel harris clashed over the white houses response to the Pandemic Health care as a calls at the greatest failure of any president ial administration in history and its responded it calling bidens plan for prone to virus so similar to the president s in those plagiarism other points of contention with the opening on the Supreme Court bench after Ruth Bader Ginsburgs death abortion and the environment. Well joining me now in the studio for more coverage is stacy bivins from our u. S. Election team thanks so much for joining us so so much of the lead up to this debate was actually about the health of President Donald Trump after he spent 3 days in hospital with a coronavirus diagnosis. Do you think Vice President mike pence was able to get away from that topic during the debate no no. No the coronavirus was center s