A year after the earthquake in Turkey, the Hatay region is struggling to rebuild. The earthquake which devastated the south and south-east of the country killed more than 53,500 people and left hundreds of thousands of people affected. Despite President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s commitments, in Hatay province, nearly 330,000 people still live in container cities or have been forced to return to live in their homes despite the fragility of the buildings. Céline Pierre-Magnani.
Germany mobilizes against the progression of the far right
AFD, the Alternative forGermany, is now credited with more than 20% of voting intentions in the European elections and 30% in the 2024 regional elections in the Eastern Länder. Faced with this rise in power, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in many cities across the country. This movement is also supported by the descendants of German resistance fighters to the Nazi dictatorship, as well as by personalities from the entertainment world. In Berlin, Delphine Nerbollier.
One Life, the extraordinary story of the rescue of children in Prague in 1939 by a British broker
HAS Prague, Nicholas Winton, helped by a few others, managed to bring more than 660 boys and girls, the vast majority Jewish, to England before the arrival of the Nazis. The film A life recounts this episode. The feature film will be released on February 21 on French screens. It has just been screened in Prague in the presence of the last survivors. Alexis Rosenzweig.
In Finland, a former prime minister and a former head of diplomacy vie for the presidency
First presidential election since the invasion of Ukraine by neighboring Russia, and since Finland joined NATO last year (2023), the second round of the presidential election in Finland will be held on Sunday February 11, 2024. It will pit a former conservative Prime Minister, Alexander Stubb, against the former head of environmental diplomacy, Pekka Haavisto. Crossed portraits of the two finalists with Julien Chavanne.
Oysters to take action against climate change
Oysters to purify water, to help restore biodiversity. This is the whole meaning of the project, currently being carried out in Dublin Bay, in Ireland. Clémence Pénard.