France 24 | July highlights

12 July 2021

France 24 | July highlights

The English-language service of France 24 broadcasts 24 hours-a-day from Paris. Here is a selection of programme highlights for July.

ENCORE!

With the Cannes Film Festival taking place, the daily magazine Encore! returns to Cannes bringing viewers the very best from the biggest film festival in the world.

Sonia Patricelli goes to the French Riviera and reports live from there. She offers reviews, red carpet news and exclusive interviews every day with the brightest stars and rising talents from the world of film. On July 17, France 24 will be broadcasting a special show dedicated to the closing ceremony of the 74^th edition of the Cannes Film Festival after its enforced break of a year.

REPORTERS PLUS | Rwanda’s righteous

Saturday 17 July at 1910 GMT

In 1994 in Rwanda, 800,000 people, mostly from the Tutsi minority ethnic group, were killed within the space of just three months. The few Hutus who tried to protect them were executed as well. However, some of them still risked their lives to help Tutsis. Amongst Rwanda’s righteous is Froduald Karuhije, a farmer in the small village of Shyogwe who dug holes in fields to allow Tutsis to hide. Damas Gisimba, head of an orphanage in Kigali, also helped Tutsis to hide in the ceilings and secret rooms of the building. Joséphine Dusabimana, a bartender in Kibuye, stole small boats on lake Kivu and helped Tutsis escape at night to reach an island on the other side of the border. Why did these Hutus make this choice? How did they manage? Reporters Plus focuses on these heroes of the Rwandan genocide.

BASTILLE DAY AND MILITARY PARADE

Wednesday 14 July throughout the day

On Bastille Day, France 24 covers the festivities for its viewers across the world, which include the military parade on the Champs Élysées in Paris.

France 24 consolidates its European media position

3 June 2021

France 24 consolidates its European media position

According to the Ipsos Affluent Survey Europe 2021* carried out in 2020 with opinion leaders in 21 European countries, France 24 has made tremendous progress in terms of both awareness and reach.

The international news channel – which operates in French, English, Spanish and Arabic – has recorded the highest increase in awareness amongst all the international news channels: up 10.4 points in one year. 47% of opinion leaders say that they know about the channel and 4.7% watch it every week (+0.6 point). France 24’s weekly viewership has increased significantly in French-speaking countries (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland) as well as in Portugal, Spain and Turkey.

The excellent performances on TV are complemented by the channel’s success on digital platforms: 5.5% of opinion leaders visit its websites each month (+0.7 point).

In total, more than 7.1 million European opinion leaders (+1.5 point within a year) are in contact with France 24 each month, on television or online.

*Source: Ipsos Affluent Survey – Europe 2021, surveys lead from January to December 2020 in Top 20% of households by income in each of 21 countries across Europe: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, The United Kingdom and Russia (Moscow and Saint-Petersburg).

France 24 | June highlights

2 June 2021

France 24 | June highlights

France 24 has announced its June programme highlights

FRANCE IN FOCUS – 4 June 1545 GMT

40 years ago in the United States, an unknown disease mainly affecting homosexual people was discovered. Two years later, a French team published their discovery about what is now known as AIDS. Today, how far has French research on AIDS advanced? How do people live with the disease in 2021 in France? To answer these questions and more, “France in Focus” interviews Aurélien Beaucamp, head of the NGO AIDES.

REVISITED – Sewol ferry disaster – 13 June 1910 GMT

On April 16, 2014, MV Sewol sank off the south-west shores of South Korea, with 476 passengers onboard including 325 students on a school trip. Few of them survived as they were asked to remain in their cabin as the ferry sank. The sinking of Sewol, which killed 304 people, resulted in widespread social and political reaction within South Korea, sparking debate on the “culture of obedience”. It resulted in a generation of young politicised South Koreans being born following the tragedy. Today they are not even 20 years old, but they are eager to make a change. France 24’s correspondent in Japan Constantin Simon reports from Ansan, the victims’ city a few kilometres from Seoul, where the pain remains vivid.

EUROPE NOW – Summer 2021: Greece’s Covid Odyssey – 19 June 1115 GMT

Summer has begun in Europe: restrictions on travel are ending, beaches and bars are beckoning, and Greece is particularly keen to fill them all with holidaymakers. Greece is the European country that relies the most heavily on tourists for its national wealth. In non-covid times, the sector generates a fifth of Greek GDP and employs one in six of the workforce. But the sector has been rocked by the pandemic – this after a decade of austerity and financial crisis from which businesses and banks have still not entirely recovered.

As Greece tries to stage a grand international reopening, France 24’s Europe Editor Catherine Nicholson and her team take viewers from North to South, from the mainland to the islands.

ENTR – multilingual digital project

ENTR operates in six languages (English, German, French, Portuguese, Romanian and Polish) targeting young Europeans ion Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter. With regularly scheduled video formats translated in all the languages, ENTR’s content shines a light on journeys and initiatives that inspire people to take action, create change and enable the European youth to connect around thought-provoking topics such as climate, solidarity, liberties, culture, technology and employment.

ENTR is developed by France Médias Monde and Deutsche Welle in partnership with other European media.

France 24 achieves highest ever ratings

8 April 2021

France 24 achieves highest ever ratings

In 2020, France 24 achieved its highest ever broadcast and online ratings. The French international news channel that operates in four languages (English, French, Arabic and Spanish) boasts 98.5 million weekly viewers (+13% vs. 2019), measured in 74 of the 184 countries where it is available. In addition, the channel registered 28.7 million visits (+54% vs. 2019) and 156 million video views (+58%) on its digital platforms each month.

Strong results partly made possible by a vibrant community of followers – more than 53 million of them – across France 24’s social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

France 24 is gaining ground in all its broadcast languages and in all the geographical areas where it is accessible.

Available in 184 countries, France 24 is broadcast in 444 million households (+10% vs. 2019) as well as in more than 3 million hotel rooms around the world and in the halls of several institutions and international organizations, cultural organizations, airports, and other international hubs.

France 24 says its success demonstrates the public’s fondness for the French international news channel and its major role in delivering reliable information to its viewers on all five continents, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.

France 24 – programme highlights

26 March 2021

France 24 – programme highlights

Reporters Plus – Zambia: Under Chinese Influence

2010 GMT, Saturday 27 March

Over recent years, China has become an alternative source to Western aid for many African countries. In this “Reporters Plus”, France 24 focuses on Beijing’s influence on the continent with the example of Zambia. Indeed, it is the African country where China invested the most in 2020.

The relationship between the two countries goes back to the 1960s. Today, China owns a third of Zambia’s debt and Chinese companies are present in every key sector, from agriculture to mines and industry. While the Chinese presence in the country was praised at first, it is now facing growing criticism, openly voiced by those on the campaign trail in the run up to the presidential election.

With China using the Covid-19 crisis to strengthen its health diplomacy in Africa, France 24’s journalists Roméo Langlois, Nicolas Germain and Yi Song had unprecedented access to Chinese companies in Zambia, shared the daily lives of their directors and bring viewers an exclusive report.