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[00:00:09] if you're joining us, welcome to your "Behind the Image" segment, we're going to take the time
[00:00:13] as every day to decipher the news from a photo that
[00:00:16] makes sense, that speaks for itself, hello Sylvin Rosso, let's immediately look at the photo that
[00:00:20] Despite his efforts, several sections of you selected for us, I have a feeling you're going to talk
[00:00:23] about space there, exactly this photo, it was
[00:00:26] taken just after the Crow Dragon capsule in which Adno returned
[00:00:30] to Earth, so the capsule was hoisted onto a boat, the SpaceX teams
[00:00:34] took the astronaut, in this case Sophie Adno, out of
[00:00:37] this capsule, and it was at that moment that the photo was taken, so why did I
[00:00:41] hesitate a lot before choosing this
[00:00:43] appreciated beyond public photo? We could have taken a photo where we see her trying to walk, or where we see her waving,
[00:00:47] but this photo seemed more interesting to
[00:00:49] since she is a bit their me, first because, indeed, it's nothing spectacular, when you look at it like that, it's
[00:00:52] a bit like the classic photo of astronauts returning
[00:00:55] from the space station, but I also like the light over the Pacific that
[00:00:59] gives a somewhat unreal feel to this image, and then in reality, we see
[00:01:03] a lot of things in it, first, we see that an astronaut's return to Earth is absolutely nothing
[00:01:07] romantic, it's something very medicalized, we see it with
[00:01:10] all the SpaceX and NASA employees who
[00:01:14] are busy around Sophie Adenau, who had to be extracted from the
[00:01:17] capsule to be placed on
[00:01:21] a stretcher, and then we also realize when we see her in that state, we
[00:01:25] feel her very weak, and we realize that an astronaut's mission does not stop upon their return to
[00:01:29] the ocean, or even on solid ground, because we can clearly see that the
[00:01:32] return to their normal state, to a normal life, assuming an
[00:01:35] astronaut and a normal life are compatible, well, it's a process that takes time,
[00:01:39] we see in this photo that the return to Earth is not trivial, and then there's something else
[00:01:43] in this photo that I found fascinating, it's that next to it, occupying almost half of
[00:01:46] the image, we see the capsule in which she is, and of course, we see this
[00:01:52] driving and non-compliance with traffic capsule that is very marked by this atmospheric re-entry at more than 25,000 km/h, we see these
[00:01:55] dark traces, this somewhat burnt aspect, and we realize
[00:01:58] the importance of technology
[00:02:01] and the fragility of life, meaning we see
[00:02:05] a human being who is ultimately a fragile little thing compared to the
[00:02:09] forces we imagine to make these marks on the capsule, and this
[00:02:12] capsule is all that separates human beings from absolutely
[00:02:16] communication is not limited to pretty photos of colossal forces, to summarize, we could say that it's a photo that tells a story of return more than an
[00:02:20] exploit, oh, that's well said and when we look
[00:02:23] at Sophiano like that, indeed, we see her still quite
[00:02:26] weakened, what are the consequences of such a long
[00:02:30] journey, such a long stay in space? Yes, it's true, when we think of
[00:02:33] a stay in the space station, we immediately think of the astronaut
[00:02:36] who is having fun somewhere a little
[00:02:40] in weightlessness, we see her flying from one side to the other of
[00:02:44] the station, that's mostly what we think of, we also obviously
[00:02:48] think of extravehicular activities, but all that has a
[00:02:51] huge impact on the organism, it takes a lot of time to get back
[00:02:55] on your feet, and when we listen to Sophie Adno during her arrival in Cologne,
[00:02:58] we realize that even for her, it's something quite addictive
[00:03:02] to float, not to feel her body, and then she also explains to us that
[00:03:06] her return to Earth was a little bit difficult, I suggest
[00:03:10] we listen to her, it was in
[00:03:13] noise because of Cologne last Saturday when she arrived, adapting
[00:03:16] being propelled into space was a
[00:03:19] piece of cake for me, but coming back to Earth is no
[00:03:23] piece of cake, when
[00:03:25] like we have done today, because at the end of the commandos extracted me from the capsule, the
[00:03:28] first thing I said was, "send me into space, please,"
[00:03:32] it was much more easy
[00:03:34] up there,
[00:03:37] so we realize indeed from this interview that she is tired, her
[00:03:41] face is marked, she needs support to be able to walk because she can't walk by herself yet,
[00:03:45] and yet we are more than 24 hours after
[00:03:48] her return, because for 8 months, because 8 months is a long time, we get used to not
[00:03:52] feeling the effects of gravity, muscles work less
[00:03:55] despite 2 hours of daily exercise, so the muscles of the
[00:03:58] legs and back as well, and these are the muscles that carry the body,
[00:04:02] we also lose a lot of bone density, you have cardiovascular
[00:04:06] after-effects because without gravity, blood doesn't
[00:04:11] Yuri Gagarin, who was the circulate the same way, it tends more to go up to the head than to circulate in the legs, the inner ear
[00:04:15] responsible for balance is also obviously affected because you no longer have a reference for
[00:04:18] where is up or where is down, and the problem is that the body
[00:04:22] gets used to that, especially when it lasts for several months, and when you come back
[00:04:26] to Earth, well, in a few minutes, you find yourself in an environment for which you are no
[00:04:30] longer adapted, so fortunately, everything
[00:04:33] is reversible, but indeed, in this protocol we saw
[00:04:37] in the photo, it's not so much a medical emergency
[00:04:41] as a physiological necessity, and if you add to that
[00:04:44] that the SpaceX capsule spent 20 to 30 minutes in the Pacific, tossed
[00:04:48] by the waves before being fished out, you have someone who went
[00:04:51] from air sickness to sea sickness and land sickness
[00:04:55] in the space of an hour, you're selling us dreams there, Simon Rosso, we wouldn't sign up at the beginning,
[00:04:59] but now, this is the whole package, the program
[00:05:02] now for Sophie Adenau now that she's back and she's going to be
[00:05:06] able to acclimatize, what will she do in the coming days, weeks? Well, as we saw,
[00:05:10] she arrived immediately
[00:05:13] in Cologne, in Germany, at the European Astronaut Centre, she will stay there for
[00:05:17] 3 weeks, and so she will obviously be subject to strict medical
[00:05:21] monitoring, with samples, analyses, if only to ensure that she
[00:05:24] is in good health, and then we don't forget that the astronaut is also a subject of study,
[00:05:28] all these analyses, these data, as for every astronaut who goes to the
[00:05:32] space station, will be used to document the effects of a stay in
[00:05:35] space, to prepare for future missions, so obviously, doctors will monitor her
[00:05:38] balance, her cardiovascular system, her muscular strength, her bone density,
[00:05:42] in short, as I was telling you, all the physiological effects related to a
[00:05:46] prolonged stay in weightlessness, and then also the whole
[00:05:49] rehabilitation aspect, she will have to readjust to gravity, to
[00:05:53] life on Earth, a lot of physical and physiological exercises to regain her
[00:05:57] physical condition from before her departure, and then also some experiments
[00:06:01] to finish, I had been able to follow an experiment called
[00:06:04] physiool where the astronaut was subjected to various physical
[00:06:08] and mental tasks in stressful and weightless conditions,
[00:06:12] well... she will have to do the same exercises on the ground, so there are other
[00:06:15] experiments like that, but that's really the one I have in mind, she will have to do the same
[00:06:18] exercises upon her return as she had done before leaving, simply to be able to
[00:06:21] compare the data, and then she will have to manage
[00:06:24] the scientific exploitation of these experiments, debrief with the European
[00:06:28] Space Agency, debrief with NASA, and then that will come in a second phase,
[00:06:32] sharing her experience with other astronauts, with the public, she will also be
[00:06:35] involved in the missions of her future colleagues, and then from a more
[00:06:39] personal point of view, she will also be reunited with her loved ones, and it's true that these little moments, these reunions
[00:06:43] away from the cameras, are also an essential moment of an astronaut's return, and we saw her
[00:06:46] very, very, very emotional, particularly emotional upon her
[00:06:50] return, now that she's back, it's time for the assessment, what can
[00:06:53] we remember from this stay in space? We're going to look perhaps immediately
[00:06:57] at these images edited and commented on by
[00:07:01] our colleagues from France 2, this is the assessment of Sophie Adenau's stay
[00:07:04] in space, watch inside this
[00:07:08] Crodragon capsule, Sophie Adenau, here on the left, here she is
[00:07:12] with her companions, ready for the return journey, in these
[00:07:16] images, we see the crew embracing the astronauts
[00:07:19] who came to take over, end of an adventure of
[00:07:23] 237 days with a view of Earth, on social
[00:07:27] media she describes mixed emotions, it's quite
[00:07:30] ambivalent, I'm super happy to come back, to see the people I
[00:07:34] love, to see my family, next to this desire to come back, there's
[00:07:38] also this little hint of nostalgia,
[00:07:41] a hint of nostalgia. for leaving, because I loved it,
[00:07:45] I loved this mission, I love space, because it must be said that
[00:07:48] 400 km above our heads, Sophie Adenau quickly
[00:07:52] found her feet in the ISS, now we navigate in 3D, so
[00:07:55] up, down, it's no longer really a question now, at the heart of her
[00:07:59] mission, scientific experiments, physiology,
[00:08:02] medicine, mechanics, she conducted more than 200, some of which
[00:08:06] were specially for all of us every Sunday
[00:08:08] morning, it's really super fun, isn't it?
[00:08:13] Would Sophie Adenau have transmitted the science bug? It's
[00:08:16] great, it's true that especially the environment, everything that is a bit more
[00:08:20] mathematical, scientific, it's really, it's really
[00:08:23] masculine, it's super inspiring, I think it also allows women to dream
[00:08:26] a bit more in the professional environment, I think it's a
[00:08:30] good, a good sharing in any case of knowledge and
[00:08:33] discovery, Sophie Adenau's secret weapon,
[00:08:37] having kept her playfulness intact to share her daily life in
[00:08:40] the ISS, sports sessions, meals, and even the
[00:08:44] toilet repair, and then
[00:08:47] there's this moment, the one every astronaut dreams of, a
[00:08:50] spacewalk. Sophia Adenau performed three,
[00:08:54] 20 hours in total in outer space, a record for a first
[00:08:57] mission,
[00:09:01] there you go, a very rich, very, very intense stay, a
[00:09:04] record stay also for the French astronaut, yes, she spent
[00:09:08] exactly 237 days, 5 hours and 18 minutes in.
[00:09:12] a record because it is the longest continuous stay for a
[00:09:16] European astronaut, it is even, if we
[00:09:19] consider
[00:09:23] first in space, it is even the 7th longest first
[00:09:27] stay in space, so it is absolutely considerable, it is remarkable
[00:09:30] for a first flight, especially after such a short training, we recall that she only had
[00:09:34] 3 years between the time she was named by
[00:09:38] ESA, when she was selected, and the time she left, and it is
[00:09:41] also the longest stay in the space station for a SpaceX crew since
[00:09:45] SpaceX sends astronauts to the space station,
[00:09:49] she performed a total of three extravehicular activities, she is the
[00:09:52] first French woman to go into space, because
[00:09:56] Claudie Haigneré, when she went into space twice, she could not go out,
[00:10:00] these were much shorter stays, she spent 19 hours
[00:10:04] and 43 minutes outside the space station, again, this is a record for
[00:10:07] a European, she is the one who stayed the longest in space by
[00:10:11] accumulating the different outings, as we heard in the
[00:10:15] report, she conducted more than 200 scientific experiments,
[00:10:18] experiments on health, biology, materials science, fluid physics, fundamental
[00:10:22] research, it takes skills when you are an astronaut, so
[00:10:25] after the full scientific assessment of these experiments, it will take
[00:10:29] a few years for all the data to be exploited and
[00:10:32] studied, she travelled more than 150 million
[00:10:36] kilometres around the Earth and more than 3700
[00:10:40] orbits still around the Earth, and she is also the first of her
[00:10:43] class to leave, her epsilon mission therefore opens
[00:10:47] a new page for French astronauts but also European ones, that's a lot of firsts,
[00:10:51] so you've listed everything, the picture is complete, is it the dawn
[00:10:53] of an Adenau phenomenon, are we at the dawn
[00:10:57] of an Adenau phenomenon, as we've heard it said, we've talked about the Pesquet phenomenon, this is a woman, so
[00:11:01] already Sophie
[00:11:04] Adenau, we know she is very
[00:11:08] opinion, she is obviously very appreciated by the European Space Agency, which is quite normal
[00:11:14] protégé, but also by NASA and SpaceX, and we realized that
[00:11:17] throughout her journey, NASA praises her work
[00:11:21] capacity, obviously praises her skills, and if it hadn't been
[00:11:25] her, she wouldn't have done three spacewalks, she would have done only two, if they added
[00:11:29] one for her, if they allowed her to do the third, it's also because obviously they were very
[00:11:32] happy with her work, and we know she is also very appreciated by
[00:11:36] SpaceX, I had noticed that because I had been able to attend her launch at Cape
[00:11:39] Canaveral, and the Teslas
[00:11:41] that brought the astronauts from their quarantine
[00:11:45] zone to the launch pad, well, all the Teslas had a license
[00:11:48] plate on which it was written "bon vol," and that's a first, it's the
[00:11:52] first time SpaceX uses a license plate in a foreign language
[00:11:55] and specifically for an astronaut who is not
[00:11:59] American, that gives an idea of the esteem in which
[00:12:02] the company places Sophie Adenau, so
[00:12:06] obviously all that will matter, it is obviously an important face of the new
[00:12:09] generation already for this record, and as I told you, she is the first of her
[00:12:13] class to leave anyway, so she holds the place, and she is also a very
[00:12:16] popular public figure, so we are far from the Pesquet phenomenon for now,
[00:12:20] but Thomas Pesquet was on his second flight, Sophie Adenau
[00:12:24] did much more. She received much more media attention than Thomas Pesquet during her first
[00:12:27] flight, for example, and what is interesting is that it's not at all the same way
[00:12:31] of communicating, we saw it in the subject, Sophie Adenau, she doesn't just show space, she
[00:12:35] uses it to explain science, and on top of that, in an extremely
[00:12:38] visual way, her
[00:12:41] Earth, we saw it, as I told you, with this little segment on Sunday
[00:12:45] morning science, we were on something very pedagogical,
[00:12:49] very very visual, and ultimately quite
[00:12:52] intelligent in the way of communicating, she has one that is very embodied where
[00:12:56] indeed she creates an image that is both accessible and
[00:13:00] competent, and above all, she is someone who opens up completely, who doesn't
[00:13:03] hide her emotions, we saw it, you were talking about it just now, during her
[00:13:07] return on the tarmac in Cologne at the
[00:13:10] European Astronaut Centre, she shares her tears, she shares
[00:13:13] all her emotions, let's watch, I suggest we watch
[00:13:16] a short interview, a moment from
[00:13:20] this short press conference where
[00:13:23] she shares her tears
[00:13:27] and all this with a lot
[00:13:30] of humour,
[00:13:33] the only thing I saw is that Earth was more
[00:13:36] than immense, it was really
[00:13:39] precious, no division, no
[00:13:42] borders,
[00:13:45] just a precious planet that we all share, our common
[00:13:48] home, I'm sorry, it's very
[00:13:51] emotional.
[00:13:59] "It's funny to see tears flowing downwards, I wasn't used to it anymore
[00:14:03] after 8 months,"
[00:14:06] there you go, we see she has a lot of humor, a lot of emotion, she shares that with us,
[00:14:10] this video was also very, very widely shared, I was talking about her
[00:14:14] communication on social networks during her stay, she does it in both French and English,
[00:14:18] which allowed her to be publicized around the
[00:14:21] world, her first extravehicular activity was extremely
[00:14:25] followed, including in Asia, because she has
[00:14:28] this ability to really move people and to
[00:14:32] take them with her, and now
[00:14:35] there will indeed be the last aspect, she wanted before leaving, she
[00:14:39] said it and repeated it, to inspire vocations, to take advantage of her status, her
[00:14:43] mission, her future notoriety to interest young people, and more
[00:14:46] particularly young girls, in science, we'll see a little bit how that
[00:14:50] goes in the coming weeks, so is there a Sophie
[00:14:54] wave? Probably not yet, but the wave is there, and there's
[00:14:57] absolutely no doubt about that, and the coming weeks will tell us if she will
[00:15:01] succeed in surfing it, thank you
[00:15:03] very much, Sylvain Rousseau, for the news of
[00:15:07] Sophie Adenau and so after this return, these
[00:15:10] months spent in space, the aftermath, so we will surely have the opportunity to
[00:15:14] talk about it again with you, this is the end of this "Behind the Image" segment, but
[00:15:18] stay with us because right after, your main feature of the day is the focus, I'll let you
[00:15:22] watch.
[00:15:35] It is the densest urban network in the country.
[00:15:39] 32,000 km of roads used by 15 million
[00:15:42] vehicles, in Delhi, traffic never stops.
[00:15:46] Cars, trucks, motorcycles, rickshaws,
[00:15:49] buses and bicycles must coexist
[00:15:53] in the midst of chaos. Managing this traffic
[00:15:56] is a challenge for the traffic police
[00:15:59] officers.
[00:16:02] Some drivers break the traffic laws, they should have stopped
[00:16:06] there, but they continued to drive here, so they block the
[00:16:09] traffic coming from the other direction, and I have to deal with these infractions, it takes
[00:16:13] time to fine everyone while continuing to regulate
[00:16:16] traffic.
[00:16:19] The Indian capital holds a sad record, with 5,000
[00:16:22] accidents and nearly 1,500 deaths on average per year, the roads of
[00:16:26] Delhi are among the most deadly in the country. We
[00:16:30] are going to drive through Delhi for 2 hours to discover what really
[00:16:34] puts people's lives at risk.
[00:16:37] Quickly, we notice that the most elementary rules are not
[00:16:40] respected, motorists change lanes without
[00:16:43] using their turn signals, sidewalks, supposed to be reserved for
[00:16:47] pedestrians, are used by two-wheelers, many motorcyclists
[00:16:50] ride without helmets, often with several people on the same vehicle, not
[00:16:54] to mention U-turns in the middle of the road, often poorly
[00:16:57] indicated.
[00:17:00] I took off my helmet because when it's hot I suffocate
[00:17:02] inside, especially when there are
[00:17:05] traffic jams.
[00:17:09] Driving against traffic allows me to avoid traffic jams and save
[00:17:13] time.
[00:17:16] Every day, road accidents occupy a significant place in the
[00:17:20] newspapers.
[00:17:26] Deaths often linked to reckless
[00:17:29] laws, even the simplest measures like seat belts,
[00:17:33] sécurité,
[00:17:36] it was only in 2022 that the Indian government made it mandatory to wear
[00:17:39] seat belts in the back after the death of a billionaire in a
[00:17:43] collision while he was not fastened.
[00:17:46] Cyrus Mistry and Jahangir died on the spot. In
[00:17:49] 2023, two-wheeler drivers accounted for half of the
[00:17:53] 17,000 people killed on Indian roads. The absence
[00:17:57] of helmet use or the use of cheap helmets
[00:18:00] sold for a few euros and not compliant is regularly singled
[00:18:04] out. In Mumbai, Karun Desai.
[00:18:07] A road safety trainer, he warns new motorcyclists
[00:18:10] against such poor-quality equipment.
[00:18:13] There are different types of helmets on the Indian
[00:18:16] market. Look at this low-end helmet,
[00:18:19] when a car runs over it, it completely breaks. On the other
[00:18:23] hand, a good quality helmet, as you can
[00:18:27] see, absorbs the weight of the car.
[00:18:30] Karan primarily addresses young people. For him, their lack
[00:18:34] of driving experience makes them the most vulnerable group to accidents.
[00:18:38] Most road deaths, most accidents involve those
[00:18:41] aged 18-35, so if we target them and they retain what we teach them
[00:18:45] during this training, it will clearly help them feel more
[00:18:49] secure on the road, and it can also protect other
[00:18:51] users. The idea is really to instill
[00:18:54] a culture of safety from the start. Prevention
[00:18:57] campaigns may be increasing, but another
[00:19:00] scourge continues to claim lives on Indian
[00:19:03] roads. Often, emergency intervention is too late.
[00:19:08] Swarnendu Bose lost his best friend in a road accident in
[00:19:12] 2023. Piyush, 30 years old,
[00:19:15] was riding a motorcycle when another driver hit him from behind.
[00:19:19] Seriously injured in the head, he remained on the ground for 30 minutes,
[00:19:23] without anyone coming to his rescue.
[00:19:25] The ambulance never
[00:19:27] arrived.
[00:19:31] No one stopped to help him. No one even took a few moments for my
[00:19:34] friend, not even 5 minutes. They could have at least called
[00:19:37] the police. A life is clearly worth nothing on Indian roads
[00:19:40] today, we really need to show more
[00:19:43] empathy.
[00:19:47] In the last 10 years, the Indian government has made road
[00:19:50] safety one of its priorities,
[00:19:53] particularly by modernizing its infrastructure. The
[00:19:57] highway network has grown from 9,000 to 140,000
[00:20:00] km, but several projects quickly showed construction
[00:20:04] defects, transforming some roads into deadly
[00:20:07] traps, as observed by Chatanya
[00:20:10] Patil, this 29-year-old engineer has made it his mission
[00:20:14] to identify the multiple obstacles that can endanger
[00:20:18] the lives of
[00:20:18] motorists.
[00:20:23] There you see this barrier has been hit by a vehicle and there are no
[00:20:27] reflective elements left, so
[00:20:30] if it stays on the ground, other drivers risk not seeing the
[00:20:33] deviation, that's why when I come across them during my
[00:20:35] travels,
[00:20:39] I put them back in place. Last year, Chatanya
[00:20:42] walked more than 500 km along the highway connecting the
[00:20:46] city of Mumbai to the region of Goa. Documented
[00:20:50] on social media, every pothole, every poorly
[00:20:53] designed or dilapidated
[00:20:54] section.
[00:21:01] The goal is to raise public awareness about the state of the
[00:21:04] road network and push authorities to
[00:21:06] act.
[00:21:10] the highway have still not been repaired. This is
[00:21:14] one of the places I reported during my walk, they did do some work
[00:21:17] here, but this section has not been renovated. If a motorist
[00:21:21] comes speeding down this lane, imagine the accident that will
[00:21:24] cause, the vehicle will fall into this breach, this situation must stop,
[00:21:28] that's why I keep calling on the authorities, they must intervene and
[00:21:31] repair this, it's their duty. The
[00:21:34] government has set itself the goal of halving the number of
[00:21:37] road deaths by 2030, by relying
[00:21:40] on artificial intelligence, but without detailing concrete
[00:21:44] measures, a colossal challenge, on
[00:21:46] average, one person dies every 3 minutes on the roads.
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[00:30:12] it's Monday, October 12, here are the main headlines, first the cold
[00:30:16] in Aubagne near Marseille, a 14-year-old high school student opened fire in his
[00:30:20] school, he shot three times before injuring two people and being
[00:30:23] arrested, he is not known for acts of delinquency or
[00:30:27] radicalization. The investigation is ongoing, Emmanuel Macron reacted, he praised the
[00:30:30] composure of the teaching staff. who avoided the worst, he says.
[00:30:34] NATO in battle order, the supreme commander of the alliance spoke
[00:30:38] earlier. He assures that the organization will ensure that any
[00:30:41] attack against its members is totally futile, a statement
[00:30:45] while Trump deals with Putin and calls for elections in
[00:30:48] Ukraine. She is the star of the 2026
[00:30:52] Paris Motor Show, the electric 2CV is presented by
[00:30:55] Celantis, a resurrection that the group is counting on heavily
[00:30:58] against.