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While France contemplates the possibility that the country’s 3/4 biggest city #Toulouse may elect a far left mayor it’s been overlooked that #biarritz is about to choose rugby legend Serge Blanco as mayor.

@ovaliegirl So true….

Extraordinaire de vivre depuis si longtemps à Toulouse de lire tout ce qui est écrit sans mémoire politique. Rien de nouveau en 2026. Le schéma était exactement le même en 2001 et 2020. Le PS et François Piquemal (2026), Archipel Citoyen (2020) et Les Motivés (2001). Du classique

🇫🇷 👩‍🚀 #SophieAdenot is becoming only the second #French woman to travel into space on Friday. FRANCE 24 journalist Christopher Bockman tells us about Adenot and how she got here ⤵️

#Corsica is still shocked by the shooting of Alain Orsoni last week at his mother's funeral. I spent time with him when he ran the local football club @ACAjaccio and was nicknamed the "godfather" of the island. Here's a look back at that encounter for @BBCWorld

@WillSmale1 @BBCWorld Thank you Will very kind of you. Lets do it again!

@chrisbockman @BBCWorld It is a superb article Chris.

A rare story from me outside of my south west France comfort zone - but how could I miss an opportunity to see the French secret services #DGSE & #DGSI training its spies & next gen ones for the challenges of the future. My story @BBCWorld bbc.com/news/articles/…

@castelm11 @richardmarcj didnt know that fascinating Martin

When Denis Healey delivered the 1976 budget, he walked from 11 Downing Street to Parliament. On the way, he spoke to members of the public -- in three different languages. He spoke French to a group of French tourists and German to a German visitor.

Morocco is going through extraordinary economic growth in the aerospace & defence manufacturing sector. At the aerospace meetings in #Casablanca the Industry and Trade minister Ryad Mezzour @MezzourR expects a 3x rise in the next five years.

Former world karate champion Laurence Fischer runs a charity called " Fight for Dignity" helping women across France overcome domestic and mental abuse to rediscover their bodies and self-esteem through karate. My long format report for @bbcworldservice bbc.com/audio/play/w3c…

@zequeen5 @Airbus Congratulations Marie Noelle - when are you going to write the book?

#aerospatiale @Airbus #medailledutravail 35 ans de bons et loyaux services 35 years later they gave me golden labor medal . #passion #resilience what a fantastic adventure

The Paris Air Show is the biggest of its type in the world and this year focused on sovereignty, decarbonization and Space. The team behind the event asked me to do a video report from there on the key events. Here it is youtube.com/watch?v=HunWR1…

Sustainability, earth monitoring from Space to prevent climate change and the goal of common European defence sovereignty. These are the roundtable topics I will moderate with aerospace execs, senior military and astronauts at the #ParisAirShow2025 in Le Bourget. Cant wait

@BenBarnier Pretty powerful report from my colleague and friend Ben Barnier in an underground hospital in Ukraine

UKRAINE 🇺🇦 Reportage en immersion. 14h avec les urgentistes de l’armée ukrainienne, 6 mètres sous terre. Les attaques russes sont constantes. Les drones bourdonnent au dessus de leur hôpital souterrain. Eux, réparent les blessures, tentent de sauver des vies. Au 20h de France 2 ce soir. Reportage @benbarnier @kenck_jri07 @FranceTV

Thank you Elgan for the book plug, indeed I went to Toulon many times to cover the characters in that club when Laporte and Mourad Boudjellal ran it. Back then no more exciting place to report on rugby in France. The sport and its personalities a little too tame these days

Prosecutor in charge of investigation of British couple, Dawn and Andew Searles in the #aveyron in February tells me this morning no evidence so far that any one else involved in their deaths, focus now on murder followed by suicide. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Im in the small town of #moissac for @BBCWorld an hour north of #toulouse with a far right mayor. Overwhelming opinion Le Pen was brought down unfairly - by political judges

I moderated rountables in Bordeaux bringing together the world's experts fighting wildfires. 13x size of Italy burns each year costing $900 billion . Current aircraft (from N. America) are ancient. Urgently needed European innovative firefighting aircraft will soon be ready

Separating facts from rumors after the mysterious deaths near #villefranche in rural #aveyron for @BBCWorld

Deaths of Dawn and Andrew Searle in their home in ville franche in #aveyron still a mystery investigating magistrate tells @BBCWorld in statement. Locals in their neighborhood tell me they were very kind social couple

The big #fertility plunge in south west France and my focus on one town facing the biggest fall across the country #colomiers for @BBCWorld