mark olivier, you have an honored position, which is the last word in this great discussion. i will leave it to you to leave our listeners, as a student server of american and french society. how do you see the slim air -- similarities and differences between french and america's approach to free speech? >> the question of the norms and the way that we negotiate those are important. one of the things that struck me in the year that has passed in the u.s. as an academia, i've been struck by the number of generalists who have lost their jobs because of misplaced tweets in recent or past. where i can take a normative stance is i think in terms of the protection of workers. it would be great if the u.s. would take a bit of inspiration from france, because i believe there is a tendency to fire people a bit too fast. instead -- it looks as if management has taken into consideration the problem and moved and done something about it. but in fact, it's just getting rid of a problem, and the questions are not really asked. if you don't have the room to make a mistake and discuss it as

olivier. we have a question from our audience and noting that my screen is just froze. but it it asks that in light of your discussion of the tom cotton op-ed. what about the publication of french army letters. so tell us about that controversy as well as other here we go. it's interesting to hear about the tom cotton not bad in light of the french army letters published in the last month under what context for those allowed if the cotton op-ed would not be and tell us about that and other areas as a journalist where you could not publish stuff in france, that would be published in the us. concerning the od army letter. i think it's a bit early to really comment on the the the legal aspect of it because it might it could go to toilet complaint could be file and i don't know what would happen quite frankly in terms of i think also that some of the authors were seeing that they're relations to the french army were cut off, you know, so it's already a form of sanction, but and clearly also it was

you can see that the day ended like this home with baton well, this weekend marks the 20th anniversary of the worst terror attack in modern history. when u. s. airliners were hijacked and flown into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york city, killing almost 3000 people. earlier i spoke with our chief caleb mop and who was following the memorial events in new york city. as well as our senior correspondent, mariah garcia, who is in the afghan capital of couple l. a 1st to you. it's a solemn day for all americans and new york in particular. what's the atmosphere like in the city right now? while it's just gotten dark here and the lights commemorating the events that the world trade center have gone on, there have been people gathering the sites all day, leaving flowers, firemen, rescue workers. survivors have been gathering. we heard interesting remarks from comma la harris, who spoke in pennsylvania. we also heard from the president the states former us president, spoke elected officials, survivors quite an interesting ceremony all coming amid the decision by the united s