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French startup launches tablet for augmenting paper drawings

Title: French startup launches tablet for augmenting paper drawings
Runtime: 1:46
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Grenoble-based startup ISKN recently launched Repaper, a device that enables the digitisation of paper drawings in real time. Using magnetometry, the tablet-sized device tracks the movement of a pencil on paper and produces the drawing into a digital form. https://rfi.my/4x2H.t

Serge Stroobants: Taliban now deadliest terror group

Title: Serge Stroobants: Taliban now deadliest terror group
Runtime: 10:56
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Afghanistan's Taliban has overtaken the Islamic State armed group to become the world’s most dangerous terrorist organisation, according to counter-terrorism expert Serge Stroobants from the Institute for Economics and Peace – https://rfi.my/4wAl.y

A night of poetry at Paris' Arab World Institute

Title: A night of poetry at Paris' Arab World Institute
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Arab World Institute in Paris has held its annual International Poetry Night, featuring performances from the Arab-speaking world. RFI correspondent Arnab Béranger was there and spoke to three women poets, who talked of poetry as an emotional and political tool – https://rfi.my/4wBw.y

Report by RFI / Arnab Béranger
Courtesy of Institut du Monde Arabe

Catherine Ringer and Rita Mitsouko: Four decades of hits

Title: Catherine Ringer and Rita Mitsouko: Four decades of hits
Runtime: 3:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: RFI’s SessionLab met French artist Catherine Ringer at the Fiesta des Suds festival in Marseille where she presented the tribute album released for the 40 years of Les Rita Mitsouko.

Candice Poitrey - rediscover nature with walks around Paris

Title: Candice Poitrey - rediscover nature with walks around Paris
Runtime: 14:14
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Candice Poitrey's new website helps stressed-out urban dwellers reconnect with nature. With easy-to-follow maps and tips, she shows you where to find quiet parks, lush forests, waterways and open fields, only a short train ride away. randonneeautourdeparis.com
http://en.rfi.fr

Unrest in Paris as Yellow Vests mark one year anniversary

Title: Unrest in Paris as Yellow Vests mark one year anniversary
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The first anniversary of the Yellow Vest protests was marred by violent demonstrations in Paris, as black bloc anarchists tore up paving stones, set up barricades and lit fires around Place d'Italie, Place de la Bastille and Châtelet-Les Halles. @RFI_En was there. https://rfi.my/4v5U.y

Title: ChessBoxing
Runtime: 1:13
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The first chessboxing event in France was held in Paris on November 9. For details check out www.rfi.fr/en

Title: "When the Wall Fell": Cameroon
Runtime: 3:04
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: ‘When The Wall Fell’ is a series of first-person accounts co-produced by RFI, FRANCE 24 and Deutsche Welle to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

'When the Wall Fell': From Berlin to a rebellion in Albania

Title: 'When the Wall Fell': From Berlin to a rebellion in Albania
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Journalist Arta Kutra explains how the fall of the Berlin Wall inspired Albanians to seek regime change.

‘When The Wall Fell’ is a series of first-person accounts co-produced by RFI, FRANCE 24 and Deutsche Welle to mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Title: France jockeys for business in Africa
Runtime: 6:36
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Business leaders gathered in Paris for the annual France-Africa summit last week, focused on ramping up investments in small businesses in Africa. France is betting on the potential of these start-ups to boost bilateral trade, but it faces tough competition from China. RFI's Christina Okello reports.

http://en.rfi.fr

Myriam Iragi Maroy, winner of RFI's Dupont-Verlon award for journalism

Title: Myriam Iragi Maroy, winner of RFI's Dupont-Verlon award for journalism
Runtime: 0:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Congolese journalist Myriam Iragi Maroy works at Radio Top Congo in Kinshasa. She was selected for the Ghislaine Dupont-Claude Verlon award for the clarity and quality of her writing. Vital Mugisho received the technician's award.

https://rfi.my/4oph.y

Vital Mugisho, winner of RFI's Dupont-Verlon award

Title: Vital Mugisho, winner of RFI's Dupont-Verlon award
Runtime: 0:41
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Congolese sound technician Vital Mugisho was awarded the Ghislaine Dupont-Claude Verlon prize for the quality of his sound recordings, notably "Le travail des enfants sur les chantiers" (child labour on worksites). The Radio Star Bukavu journalist was recognised alongside Myriam Iragi Maroy, from Radio Top Congo.

https://rfi.my/4oph.y

Women in France's video game industry #PGW2019

Title: Women in France's video game industry #PGW2019
Runtime: 1:03
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In France, about half of all gamers are women. But for Women in Games organisation, they are underrepresented in the industry.

Title: Weaving in Paris
Runtime: 2:46
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Cité internationale des arts in Paris hosts more than 300 artists and scholars at any one time, from a wide range of disciplines. The studios are regularly open to the public, providing an insight into their work in progress. RFI met with Valerie Kirk, a Scottish-born artist specialised in tapestry and weaving and her fellow weaver Mayumi Inoué from Japan.

Title: Live on Live - Susie Kahlich
Runtime: 11:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: RFI's Anne-Marie Bissada meets the self-defence and martial arts teacher who's passing on her lifesaving skills to women refugees in Berlin

Title: Brazilian singer Flavia Coelho
Runtime: 2:38
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: From the 'morros' of Rio de Janeiro where she was born, to the paved streets of Paris where she has been living for almost two decades, the nomadic singer Flavia Coelho has released her fourth album 'DNA'. RFI's SessionLab met her.

Combatting Ebola in Butembo, North Kivu, DRC

Title: Combatting Ebola in Butembo, North Kivu, DRC
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: In the North Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, local and international aid workers continue to deal with Ebola, the deadly hemorrhagic disease that has killed more than 3,000 people in the region over the past year. Food plays a vital role in the recovery of those who are cured, and a way into communities who are resisting the health response. https://rfi.my/4k5i.y

Title: The Africa Report monthly rendez-vous
Runtime: 19:09
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The Africa Report's managing editor Nick Norbrook speaks to RFI's David Coffey about the Nobel Peace Prize, Ethiopia and relations between the African continent and the European Union.

Paris metro marks 60th anniversary of Astérix

Title: Paris metro marks 60th anniversary of Astérix
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Astérix & Obélix, the Paris RATP renamed 12 metro stations in the language of the French comic book. A new edition comes out on 24 October featuring the first main female character.

Title: On the trail of poet Arthur Rimbaud
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The poet Arthur Rimbaud was born in Charleville-Mézières, in eastern France, on 20 October 1854. In 2018, the town created a Rimbaud City Trail made of 11 murals. RFI followed Claire Lignereux, docent at the Arthur Rimbaud Museum, across Charleville.

Title: Telling the Rohingya story
Runtime: 12:29
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: They’re described as the world’s most persecuted minority. The Rohingya, a largely Muslim community from Myanmar’s western Rakhine State, are still living under the threat of genocide, warns the UN. A new French film called "Mechanics of a Crime" reveals the system of persecution which led to the current crisis.

French-speaking Youtubers crossover into journalism

Title: French-speaking Youtubers crossover into journalism
Runtime: 2:05
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As YouTube audiences grow, French-speaking creators with large fan bases are getting bolder with their content. Chief among them is Swiss Youtuber Julien Donzé, nicknamed Le Grand JD. He talks to RFI about this new trend.

A new side of Paris hidden in plain sight

Title: A new side of Paris hidden in plain sight
Runtime: 9:13
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: "Discover a new side of Paris, hidden in plain sight." From hunting spoils, to old phonographs, private gardens and much more, The Little(r) Museums of Paris, written by Emma Jacobs, is full of interesting facts about the lesser known treasures in the city of lights. Ollia Horton talked to her.

Australian aboriginal artists exhibit works in Paris

Title: Australian aboriginal artists exhibit works in Paris
Runtime: 3:47
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Five aboriginal artists from the Bábbarra Women’s Centre in Maningrida in the north of Australia came to Paris, for the first time, to share their traditional stories and knowledge and preside over the official opening of an exhibition called Jarracharra, featuring their textile art at the Australian Embassy in Paris, on until 10 January 2020. https://rfi.my/4gYo.y

#WorldMusicMatters, Raashan Ahmad brings on the Sun

Title: #WorldMusicMatters, Raashan Ahmad brings on the Sun
Runtime: 1:19
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: MC, producer, hip hop artist and consciousness-raising musician Raashan Ahmad talks about the song Wonderful Fantastic from his latest solo album The Sun. Breaking through a lot of personal pain to celebrate the wonder of nature and friendship.

#WorldMusicMatters: Ghana's Pat Thomas still living the high life

Title: #WorldMusicMatters: Ghana's Pat Thomas still living the high life
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Dubbed "the golden voice of West Africa" Pat Thomas embodied the glory days of Ghanaian highlife in the 60s and 70s alongside the great Ebo Taylor. It faded into near oblivion in the 80s following the military coup but Thomas never stopped singing. In 2015 he made a comeback with the Kwashibu Area Band thanks to Ghanian musician and producer Kwame Yeboah. The two men have just released another album Obiaa! (everyone). They talk to RFI's World Music Matters.

Oum brings Moroccan music to a new horizon

Title: Oum brings Moroccan music to a new horizon
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Moroccan artist Oum was invited to the Rio Loco festival in Toulouse, southwestern France, to present her third album 'Daba'. RFI's SessionLab met her.

'Noire' remembers rights activist Claudette Colvin

Title: 'Noire' remembers rights activist Claudette Colvin
Runtime: 1:22
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: 'Noire' is a performance, based on the life story of Claudette Colvin who, nine months before Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a bus in the segregated south of the United States... On stage, while one person illustrates the story, with the images projected on a screen in real time, the other actress tells Claudette's story in the first person.
RFI talked to French director Lucie Nicolas from Collectif F71.

Title: US slavery story resonates in France
Runtime: 5:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: As the struggle for black civil rights comes under the spotlight, we ask whether there are lessons for people of African origin in France.
This August the United States marked the 400th anniversary of slavery and Black History Month is underway in Britain.

Title: Hong Kong's first political refugee
Runtime: 1:09
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Ray Wong is the first political refugee from Hong Kong to request asylum in Europe. And he has a message for the European Union.

Title: Lisa Simone, a unique destiny
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The unique destiny of Lisa Simone, daughter of the legendary singer Nina Simone, veteran of the Iraq War and also leading singer on Broadway.
SessionLab is mixed in 3D Audio.

US puppeteer Basil Twist explains Dogugaeshi

Title: US puppeteer Basil Twist explains Dogugaeshi
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: US puppeteer Basil Twist is back in Charleville-Mézières, northeastern France, where he learned puppetry at the International Puppet School. He presents 'Dogugaeshi’, a show named after the ancient Japanese puppetry tradition.

Title: Thousands pay tribute to Jacques Chirac
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: http://en.rfi.frFrance is holiding a day of public tribute at Invalides for former president Jacques Chirac. Chirac will lie in state during a public ceremony at the Invalides monument, where France honours its heroes. It is also where Napoleon Bonaparte is buried. Thousands of people turned up on Paris on Sunday afternoon to say goodbye. Here is a speeded-up video of the queue which snaked more than 1 1/2 kms around Hotel des Invalides in Paris. https://rfi.my/4aXu.t

Title: Statue of Liberty in Paris 130 years on
Runtime: 1:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A replica of the Statue of Liberty was gifted to Parisians by Americans living in France in 1889, three years after her bigger sister was unveiled in New York. The US ambasador to France and Monaco, Jamie D. McCourt, was the guest of honour on a boat trip organised by the Cordon Bleu culinary school to celebrate the 130th anniversary.

Behind the doors of Chateau de Chantilly castle

Title: Behind the doors of Chateau de Chantilly castle
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The European Heritage Days were recently celebrated in the 50 countries party to the European Cultural Convention. An exhibition was held at the Chantilly castle in France. Located 50 km north of Paris, the castle is one of the finest monuments in France. RFI's Dhananjay Khadilkar visited the castle and experienced its mesmerising charm.

Title: The Africa Report on Paris Live
Runtime: 20:23
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Marshall Van Valen, a journalist with The Africa Report magazine takes a look at some of the articles of note coming up in the next edition of the publication.

17th World Athletics championships underway in Doha

Title: 17th World Athletics championships underway in Doha
Runtime: 1:09
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: The 17th world athletics championships get underway in Doha on Friday. Paul Myers sets the scene for the first championships without Usain Bolt https://rfi.my/4a2u.t

#WorldMusicMatters: Collectif Medz Bazar releases new album 'O'

Title: #WorldMusicMatters: Collectif Medz Bazar releases new album 'O'
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Medz Bazar is a vibrant 6-piece band of Armenian, Turkish, French, and American musicians. Their heavily-percussive and poetic music is an ode to life .. and love ... as expressed on their new album 'O'.

Acroyd and Barth's differing approaches to art and nature

Title: Acroyd and Barth's differing approaches to art and nature
Runtime: 5:58
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Heather Acroyd of Ackroyd and Harvey and Guillaume Barth are artists with different approaches to their art and nature.

Ackroyd and Harvey use a lot of green in their installations or art statements about nature and society. They make grass wall paper, coats and grow oak trees from acorns which are the fruit of trees planted by Joseph Beuys in Documenta 7.

Ackroyd is a member of the climate-change action protest movement, Extinction Rebellion.
Barth is from the east of France and his conceptual work is an exploration of nature and the environment springing out of questions one expert described as “metaphysical”.

#Worldmusicmatters with master percussionist Abdou Mboup

Title: #Worldmusicmatters with master percussionist Abdou Mboup
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Abdou Mboup is a Griot from Senegal with a long and illustrious career as a master percussionist. Here he plays the tami or talking drum, "the ancestor of the cell phone". Listen to his story and extracts from his latest album African Lullaby on the World Music Matters podcast.

Chartres commemorates 75th anniversary of WW2 liberation

Title: Chartres commemorates 75th anniversary of WW2 liberation
Runtime: 1:26
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Commemorations have been held to mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Chartres from the German army during World War II.
– https://rfi.my/4Wkb.y

World Music Matters with Congolese guitarist Kiala

Title: World Music Matters with Congolese guitarist Kiala
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: A former guitarist with Fela's Egypt 80, Kiala Nzavotunga plays 'Dear World' from his debut solo album Money recorded with The Afroblaster. An album where Fela's Pan-African spirit is ever present.

Olivier Da Lage on his first murder mystery novel set in Mumbai

Title: Olivier Da Lage on his first murder mystery novel set in Mumbai
Runtime: 13:25
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Mr Singh’s Rickshaw, written by journalist Olivier Da Lage, takes us on a journey to Mumbai, on India’s west coast. The bustling city provides a stage for the murder of a professor, a controversial archeological discovery and an investigation with unexpected political ramifications. Published in French and English. www.dalage.fr

Title: Dissecting black identity in France
Runtime: 5:23
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: It was one of Paris's most–talked about exhibitions and it’s travelling. On Friday 13 September, Le Modèle Noir or Black Model, premieres in Guadeloupe. The landmark exhibition on the ‘forgotten’ models of modern history has put black identity firmly in the spotlight and reignited debate on the place of France’s black community in society.
In this second episode of Spotlight on the African diaspora, RFI’s Christina Okello explores what this growing visibility means for the diaspora, with her guest Denise Murrell, the co-curator of Le Modèlè Noir.
And to check out the full story, log onto RFI English's website here: http://en.rfi.fr/20190913-spotlight-africa-diaspora-black-model-art-show-challenges-colour-blindness-race-france/

Title: Iran nuclear deal needs new direction
Runtime: 5:44
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Iran dealt a fresh blow to the 2015 accord last Friday by lifting its limits on uranium. Analysts warn it is a step away from developing an atomic weapon, with the UN nuclear watchdog warning that time is running out to save the deal. Salvaging what's left of it will require a drastic change of tack says Mitchell Belfer, the head of the Euro-Gulf Information Centre in Rome. He spoke to RFI's Christina Okello.

Early child abuse driving France’s domestic violence

Title: Early child abuse driving France’s domestic violence
Runtime: 4:57
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: France has kicked off a three-month national debate or 'grenelle' aimed at eradicating gender-based violence. Over one hundred women have been killed this year alone by their partner or ex. Dr Violaine Guérin, a gynaecologist and specialist on sexual violence, says the spate of female murders is rooted in early child abuse.

Check out the full story at http://en.rfi.fr/france/20190904-child-abuse-blamed-france-alarming-femicide-figures-domestic-violence

French unions against proposed pension reforms

Title: French unions against proposed pension reforms
Runtime: 1:37
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Trade unionists protesting outside a meeting of France's biggest network of entrepreneurs have warned that proposed pension reforms will hurt all workers, especially women and the most vulnerable.

Who is Angela, first African slave who arrived in Virginia 400 years on?

Title: Who is Angela, first African slave who arrived in Virginia 400 years on?
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: After a terrifying crossing of the Atlantic, Angela was one of the first African slaves known to reach the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, North America in August 1619.

A Parisian Summer 5/5 - Salsa by the Seine

Title: A Parisian Summer 5/5 - Salsa by the Seine
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: Salsa, tango, rock 'n' roll and even French Celtic dancing, The Saint Bernard quay is one of Paris' truly international summer spots.

Title: A Parisian Summer 4/5 - Paris by boat
Runtime: 2:55
Date posted: 7 years ago
Description: For the fourth part of our series A Parisian Summer, a cruise down the river Seine to see Paris' historical monuments.

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