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00:00Sports fans in Paris are celebrating this star-studded 2024 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.
00:10At least 30 people, including 15 children, have died following an Israeli airstrike on a school in Gaza.
00:19The 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off in Paris with a bang, with the star-studded opening ceremony featuring glitter, musical performances and rain.
00:35Many on the streets of the French capital are ready to watch 19 days of competition, and say not even the weather will dampen their spirits.
00:43Yes, I cried, really.
00:46I don't know, it's the emotion, it's to see people who mark us, who have touched us at the level of sport.
00:52Yes, it's all the atmosphere with the rain that was on the people, I don't know, I found it very, very beautiful, honestly.
01:12We had this trip planned for the Tour de France in 2020 during COVID, and then COVID kind of cancelled it, so this is our redo, and we added the Olympics to it, so an extra bonus.
01:22Roughly 10,500 athletes will compete in almost 330 Olympic events, including new categories such as breakdancing and surfing.
01:32France's major railway network will return to normal on Monday, according to the CEO of transport company SNCF.
01:42Jean-Pierre Farandou said teams have repaired a substantial amount of damaged infrastructure.
01:48It follows recent attacks on the high-speed railways that threatened to derail French transport ahead of the Olympics.
01:55Yesterday's results are still proof, because of the 200 TGVs that were removed from the 750,
02:03it's finally 150,000 passengers out of the 250,000 who couldn't travel yesterday.
02:09And thanks to the SNCF teams, who were mobilized very strongly during the night, and despite the weather conditions, which were difficult to work in,
02:18they managed to restore a lot of elements of the TGV network today.
02:22According to a company press release, train services will be patchy over the weekend, and customers should expect delays of up to two hours.
02:32French authorities are actively investigating the sabotage, but state no suspects have yet been identified.
02:43At least 30 people, including 15 children at a school in Gaza, have been killed by an Israeli airstrike.
02:51According to Palestinian health officials.
02:54The Israeli military says it targeted the building as it served as a Hamas stronghold used to store weapons.
03:01Thousands of displaced people in Gaza were sheltering at the school, which also contained a medical site, according to civil defense workers.
03:22As long as we continue to migrate, from day to day, in the same regime, in the same way, may God forgive us.
03:31Earlier, the IDF ordered the evacuation of a part of a designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.
03:38This is the second evacuation order issued in a week, as Jerusalem targets parts of Mawassi, a crowded camp hosting thousands of displaced Palestinians.
03:47Former U.S. President Donald Trump has slammed Vice President Kamala Harris' remarks on the Israel-Hamas war as disrespectful.
03:57He was speaking at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where he held talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
04:05On Thursday, Netanyahu met Harris at the White House for talks largely focused on the status of Gaza ceasefire negotiations.
04:13Harris said it was time to end the war and said she was concerned about the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
04:21Asked if her remarks might have an impact on ongoing ceasefire talks, Netanyahu said, I think time will tell.
04:29The Israeli military operation in Gaza was sparked by an incursion into Israel by Hamas on October 7, which saw around 1,200 people killed and 250 others kidnapped.
04:40The IDF operation in Gaza has been devastating with at least 38,000 Palestinians killed and around 80% of the strip's population displaced.