NEWS AT NOON. Farmers remain vigilant, Oudéa-Castéra holds firm, two French people killed in Ukraine… what to remember

Les agriculteurs restent vigilants, Oudéa-Castéra tient bon, deux Français tués en Ukraine. Midi Libre – MaxPPP – Montage Midi Libre

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News of the day

Farmers: the barriers are rising but the anger does not subside. The president of the FNSEA, the leading French agricultural union, once again called on the government on Friday for "very concrete actions" quickly in favor of farmers, who began to lift blockades on several highways the day after the announcement of a new series of measures. "We said that we were lifting the blocking points but that we had to transform this anger into very concrete actions for farmers and we said it, starting next week , (get) to work to make what the simplification announced by the Prime Minister will be credible and tangible on our farms", declared Arnaud Rousseau on BFMTV .

Welcoming "tangible progress" on the part of the government, the FNSEA and the Young Farmers' Union (JA) advocated on Thursday "the suspension of blockades" which have paralyzed several roads in the country for days. The Rural Coordination also called on Thursday to suspend the actions while the Confédération paysanne, the third agricultural organization in France, said "continue the mobilization" with the blocking of several purchasing centers and the Saint-Quentin-Fallavier toll in Isère.

And also…

Farmers' blockades: in Nîmes on the A9, the demonstrators have left, towards a reopening of the axis ? Like almost everywhere in France – and while the Minister of Agriculture is expected at the end of the day in the department – the demonstrators who had occupied the A9 motorway since last week packed up this Friday' ;nbsp;in the morning. The last tractors left Nîmes West, a little before 10 a.m. However, the reopening of the Nîmes-Ouest-Nîmes Est section will not be immediate. If the farmers proceeded this morning to clean this axis where they have taken turns day and night for more than a week, it will then be the turn of the Vinci operator to take over to inspect the impacted portion. For safety reasons, checks are underway on one of the bridges over the A9. The work would have been more or less impacted by a fire, during its eight days of demonstration by farmers in Gard.

French people killed in Ukraine, Macron denounces a "cowardly and unworthy act". President Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday a "cowardly and undignified act" the day after the death of two workers French humanitarians in an attack by the Russian army in Ukraine. The head of French diplomacy, Stéphane Séjourné, for his part declared that Russia will have to answer for its crimes. "Two French humanitarian workers were killed in Ukraine by a Russian strike. Cowardly and unworthy act. I am thinking of their loved ones and their wounded comrades", declared the French president on Russian air strike with armed drones killed two French aid workers and injured three other foreign nationals in the town of Berislav.

Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra "is not thinking of resigning". Since his appointment at the head of a "super-ministry" of Education and Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra accumulates controversies and crystallizes tensions in the world of education. Morning guest "Hello!" on TF1 this Friday, the minister admitted that her first steps in the government formed by Prime Minister Gabriel Attal at the beginning of January did not go well: "The beginning didn' not been good, obviously", she declared. Amélie Oudéa-Castéra nevertheless affirms this morning that'she does not "don't think about resigning". "I am in action in the service of national education (…) I want to contribute to the success of the school because I think that I ;rsquo;I have a lot to contribute to this action: method, dialogue, action of will and courage", affirmed the tenant of the rue de Grenelle.

Bad idea

He wanted to avoid the farmers' filter dams: the driver of a heavy goods vehicle found himself stuck on a small road in Hérault. A 38-ton Moroccan semi-trailer truck, driven by a national of this country, found itself stuck on a small road, ready to tip into a ravine, Thursday February 1 at around 10 a.m. 30 in the town of Lacoste, near Clermont-l'Hérault. The heavy goods vehicle carrying peppers came from Agadir and was going to the Netherlands. Its driver, for fear of being intercepted by farmers, chose to go through the lake du Salagou, take the departmental road 156e5, below the dam and join the A75 motorway at Salèlles-du-Bosc. At this location, the road is prohibited for vehicles over 3 .5 tons becomes very narrow. The truck driver had to immobilize his vehicle. The axles on the right side of the semi-trailer left the tarmac and were resting on a small strip of earth, with the risk of tipping into the ravine… The axle was closed to allow the weight to be recovered -heavy.

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