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00:00800,000 travellers have been impacted by the malicious attack which targeted railway networks
00:07across France on the day of the Olympic Games opening ceremony in France.
00:13Several trains carrying athletes for the Olympic Games were among those affected by the attacks.
00:20On the Atlantic Coast, we operate 250 trains a day. We had four trains with athletes and
00:31two of them were able to operate. One was cancelled and one is under process to be operated.
00:39So the impact on the opening ceremony is very, very few.
00:43Dubordieu added that trains in various parts of France are operating with delays that vary
00:48between one and two hours.
00:52So we have 30,000 kilometres of railway in France, so it's a very large network. It's
01:00absolutely impossible to check all the points. What we are doing currently is some specific
01:09tour organised by experts on very targeted areas.
01:16French officials condemned the attacks as criminal actions, though they said there was
01:20no sign of a direct link to the Games. Prosecutors in Paris opened a national investigation saying
01:27the crimes could carry sentences of 10 to 20 years.
01:34A little over a third of the Refugee Olympic team at the Paris Games are women. The female
01:40representation has continued to decline since the team's creation in 2015. While the International
01:48Olympic Committee emphasises that this year's event will be the first gender equal one in
01:54history, individual sports cases reveal a different story to the reality of the bigger
01:59picture.
02:01They're, you know, consistently promoting the achievements related to gender equality
02:09at the Games, but not then kind of enforcing or really requiring them of any national team,
02:19but even this refugee team over which they have control.
02:24The number of refugees has tripled just in the last decade. Around half of them are women
02:30and girls. In addition to poverty and other issues that all refugees may face, women refugees
02:36encounter an added layer of oppression caused by gender discrimination. So for some, having
02:43the number of women athletes reach almost 40% is an achievement that should be celebrated.
02:50I think we need to be really realistic that even the teams that are sending gender equal
02:54teams to Paris, it doesn't mean that women's sport is somehow solved in those countries.
03:00So yeah, we would love to see a gender equal refugee team at an Olympics in the future,
03:06of course we would. But I think for this time, we should really be celebrating the fact that,
03:11you know, these amazing women have made it this far.
03:13However, not everyone shares this opinion.
03:16I don't think it's enough. The teams at the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games can
03:21be used to raise awareness about and draw attention to the global refugee crisis that
03:29we have, should also be drawing attention to that not everybody has the same experiences
03:36of being a refugee, and that there are these increased risks and challenges for women,
03:42for gender minority folks, for disabled folks, right, as refugees, and that all of that does
03:49influence who then ultimately gets to be or is able to be part of the Refugee Olympic
03:55and Paralympic teams.
03:57The Olympic Refugee Foundation, which runs the team, states that a balanced representation
04:03in terms of sport, gender and regions is taken into consideration. And to be legible, athletes
04:10must be elite competitors in their respective sport and be refugees in their host country,
04:16recognized by the UN Refugee Agency.
04:25Germany is hoping to avoid scenes like this, trains so packed that people are standing
04:31at the entrance. A countrywide effort to improve the railway system is underway. Right now,
04:37the route between Frankfurt to Mannheim is closed for repairs until December. Deutsche
04:42Bahn says heavily used corridors will be the focus. Repairs next year will force the closure
04:48of the route between Hamburg and Berlin, the two largest cities in the country. Some are
04:54still enjoying the freedom and accessibility that trains can bring. But Frank Cordes says
04:59repair works are causing him and his wife Karin headaches.
05:12Germany is not the only European country facing closures. The Amsterdam to London Eurostar
05:29route won't be running until next year due to construction. But Germany has an especially
05:35notorious reputation for late arrivals. The railway carrier is hoping the much-needed
05:40repairs to old tracks will change that. Railway advocates say the closures will be difficult
05:46for passengers. Past governments have neglected the railway and not just for a few years,
05:52but for decades. So what we have now are problems you can't solve within two or three months. You
05:58really have to do it very thoroughly. And that's why we think that we now have to get through this.
06:06We have to really bear this very hard time. For now, passengers are being offered replacement
06:12buses for the closed routes, but that won't make things easier for some.
06:37The construction work will also include renovations of stations
06:41across Germany, which Deutsche Bahn says will offer passengers more comfort.
06:49Austrian police are trialing the Taser electroshock weapon system as they consider
06:54rolling it out across the entire force. Around 70 Taser units are being used in the trial in
07:01three high-crime areas in the capital Vienna. A police spokesperson rejected claims that the
07:07potential adoption of the weapon was due to increased violence between migrant gangs in
07:12the country. Austria has been reluctant to roll out the use of the Taser due to
07:17reports of people dying after getting electroshocked.
07:23Artificial intelligence is everywhere and has of course made its way to the Paris 2024 Olympics.
07:30At the Intel stand at the Stade de France, you can use AI to test your body strength to see which
07:36sport you best perform in. For the moment, it includes 12 sports such as football, table tennis
07:42and sprinting. Let's see how it works. My body is scanned and put to the test to see my reaction,
07:50strength and speed. Intel is the official AI platform partner for Paris 2024. But this tech
07:57is not just for spectators at the Games. It could spot the next sporting talent anywhere in the world.
08:05We did a really great experience in Senegal with the IOC where we actually took very similar
08:10technology to Senegal and worked with the Senegalese Olympic Committee to identify
08:15the next set of Olympians. So we tested over a thousand children in Senegal all around the
08:20country using mobile phones and AI platform technology to identify which athletes have
08:26that potential to be the next Olympian. I hope that this technology has a role to play and we
08:31think that there's going to expose so many more opportunities for athletes around the world. You
08:36can reach areas at a very low cost and figure out how to find athletes in all corners of the world
08:42and for all sports. As for me, I'm probably not going to be the next Olympian, but it turns out
08:50my strength lie in heptathlon.
09:20The Games were a huge accelerator for the city. What it took us 10 or 15 years to do, we managed to do in 4 or 5 years.
09:50It allowed us to transform some neighbourhoods. We engaged in large-scale development and infrastructure work.
10:12The facilities are obsolete because most of the sports facilities in Seine-Saint-Denis
10:18are between 40 and 50 years old. We have 16 facilities for 10,000 inhabitants,
10:26while the average in Île-de-France is 25 and the average nationally is 50.
10:48you