So the Paris Olympics is finally under way. The Opening Ceremony kicked off a little earlier taking place in the city itself rather than a stadium with thousands of athletes paraded by boat along the River Seine. But it was a very different picture just hours earlier. On one of the busiest days imaginable for the french capital, the Rail Network in and around paris was thrown into chaos by a series of acts of sabotage. Its been called a Massive Attack after Signal Boxes and electrical wires on the high Speed Rail System were vandalised, causing fires. Our Paris Correspondent Andrew Harding has the story. Confusion this morning at europes busiest railway station, the Gare Du Nord in Central Paris. News about the overnight attacks on three french Railway Lines spreading fast. Delays and cancellations piling up, prompting frustration and some anxiety. Are you concerned about these attacks . Im not happy about them. I dont. As long as thats it, im happy, but i am concerned, cos ive got the
Paris because the Opening Ceremony there is coming to an end, and we are expecting a glorious light show. It is of course known as the city of lights. There are something like 300,000 spectators who have been lining the banks of the seine watching those 10,500 athletes as they head towards the main area. Beautiful site there. I think maybe its even more beautiful because there is so much rain and clouds in paris this evening. Its the city of lights, the damp city of lights, but it still looks gorgeous. Want people enjoying the sights there. We will be bringing you more highlights as and when we get them. President biden has welcomed the arrests of two notorious leaders of mexicos Sinaloa Cartel in texas. Ismael zambada, known as el mayo, was earlier charged by us prosecutors with conspiracy to make and distribute fentanyl, the drug that has been blamed for the us opioid crisis. Arrested with him was joaquin guzman lopez, son of the jailed kingpin El Chapo guzman. The pair were detained
For the remainder of the tournament. Earlier this week, two canadian staff were sent home after a drone was flown over new zealands training, but Canada Soccer says its discovered evidence of previous Drone Use predating the paris games. One of the key pieces of information was the conclusion from Canada Soccer that she needed to be suspended based on their accumulation of facts. Ive seen some of them, some of the information they have. And weve gathered some additional information ourselves that made me conclude that she was highly likely to have been aware of the incidents. Away from the olympics, its been a Topsy Turvy day at edgbaston so far, with ebbs and flows throughout the first two session of the third test between england and west indies. The windies won the toss and elected to bat, then put on 76 for the first wicket, with Kraigg Brathwaite making 61. A flurry of wickets either side of lunch left them 115 5. Jason holder and Josh Da Silva have stopped the rot. At stumps on d
so i feel very, i love being onstage. i love being in a live environment. i haven t been onstage, actually, for a couple of years now, five years, probably. but i m looking forward to going back and doing some more because it is, it s live and you have a control over the performance, which you don t on screen. is it true, that thing people always say about how you feel the audience when you re onstage? you can feel whether they re paying attention or slightly looking at their watches, thinking, am i going to make the last train home? yeah. you can? totally. the last play i did was a beautiful play by bill nicholson called shadowlands, which is a movie with debra winger and tony hopkins about cs lewis and his late flowering love. and it s shot through with great wit and humour about this very closed off man who finds love late in life, and then she dies. and it s really a story about the question that he asks at the beginning of the play is, if god is love, why does he allow s