about thirty heads of state and government expected in Brest for the last day of the summit

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12:01 : It is noon, here is the point on the news:

• End of the mask outside, only one self-test required… The health protocol in primary schools is lightened from the start of the winter holidays.

• It’s D-Day for the One Ocean Summit. Thirty heads of state and government, half of whom are present in Brest, should commit today to better protect the ocean, which is essential for the regulation climate and rich in biodiversity, but undermined by human activities.

• Disappointment for the French women in biathlon in the sprint. Les Bleues finish far from the podium and the Olympic champion, the Norwegian Roeiseland.

•A 50-year-old Frenchman was killed in a “terrorist attack” perpetrated Tuesday in northern Benin, announced the national anti-terrorism prosecution. An investigation for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” has been opened.

11:50 a.m. : “Tomorrow there will be more plastic than plankton in the ocean”

On franceinfo, the former president of the National Museum of Natural History recalls one of the challenges of the One Ocean Summit.

11:09 : They also came to Brest. Greenpeace activists put up posters last night, denouncing Emmanuel Macron’s double talk on protecting the oceans and pastiche of the film don’t look up.

11:07 : Family photo at the One Ocean Summit in Brest (Finistère). European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, US climate envoy John Kerry, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, whose country will host COP27 on climate in November, and Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo of Sousa, are present.

(Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

09:12 : “I remind you that the environment depends essentially on the good health of the oceans. There cannot be a healthy earth without a healthy ocean.”

On franceinfo, the navigator François Gabart returns to the challenge of the One Ocean Summit, which ends today.

09:00 : It is 9 a.m., here is the point on the news:

• It’s D-Day for the One Ocean Summit. Thirty heads of state and government, half of whom are present in Brest, should commit today to better protect the ocean, which is essential for the regulation climate and rich in biodiversity, but undermined by human activities.

• Already a bronze medalist in the giant slalom, Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami won the gold medal in the Super-G. The French women rank beyond 10th place.

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the guest of “Elysée 2022”. Purchasing power, crisis in Ukraine, secularism, nuclear… You can review the intervention of the candidate of La France insoumise in our summary and read the decryption of his remarks.

•A 50-year-old Frenchman was killed in a “terrorist attack” perpetrated Tuesday in northern Benin, announced the national anti-terrorism prosecution. An investigation for “assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise” has been opened.

07:43 : This is one of the rare pieces of good news in terms of biodiversity. As our journalist Marie-Adélaïde Scigacz tells you on the occasion of the One Ocean summit in Brest, the bluefin tuna, formerly classified as an endangered species, has returned to fishing. Explanations.

Bluefin tuna off Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), September 23, 2020. (SYLVAIN CORDIER / BIOSPHOTO / AFP)

(SYLVAIN CORDIER / BIOSPHOTO / AFP)

6:00 am : We get up on the right foot with a first point on the news:

• It’s D-Day for the One Ocean Summit. Thirty heads of state and government, half of whom are present in Brest, should commit today to better protect the ocean, which is essential for the regulation climate and rich in biodiversity, but undermined by human activities.

• Jean-Luc Mélenchon was the guest of “Elysée 2022”. Purchasing power, crisis in Ukraine, secularism, nuclear… You can review the intervention of the candidate of La France insoumise in our summary.

• US President Joe Biden last night called on US citizens to leave Ukraine immediately due to a possible Russian invasion. “We are dealing with one of the largest armies in the world”Biden said in an interview with NBC, referring to the Russian army.

• Already a bronze medalist in the giant slalom, Switzerland’s Lara Gut-Behrami won the gold medal in the Super-G. The French women rank beyond 10th place.

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