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Ukraine escalation, French-led Mali pullout, Trump and Zemmour speak, another Russian doping scandal from 2022-02-19T16:44:39
Russia this week claimed it had started pulling back its military forces from the Ukrainian border, but when shelling hit a nursery school near the frontline in the southeastern Luhansk region...
Ukraine escalation, French-led Mali pullout, Trump & Zemmour speak, another Russian doping scandal from 2022-02-19T16:44:39
Russia was claiming it had started its drawdown of its military forces from the Ukrainian border, but when shelling hit a nursery school near the frontline in the southeastern Luhansk region T...
Ukraine saga continues, Canada's 'Freedom Convoy' fever, Identity politics in India's elections from 2022-02-11T20:04:50
The week began with Emmanuel Macron heading to Moscow for what he hoped will be the start of a long road to de-escalation over Ukraine. He had a closed-door conversation with Vladimir Putin, e...
2022 Winter Olympics, Ukraine-Russia tensions, West Africa coup contagion from 2022-02-04T20:04:26
The Winter Games are now underway in Beijing – in an anti-Covid bubble, for good reason. The opening ceremony has been impressive. Due to a diplomatic boycott, only Vladimir Putin is the main ...
Ukraine Diplomacy continues, a coup in Burkina Faso, Johnson's birthday bash & Neil Young vs Spotify from 2022-01-28T20:22:54
The Kremlin is unimpressed by the West's written responses their demands over Ukraine. And Russian flags flew in Burkina Faso this week after a coup ousted yet another civilian government over...
US-Russia showdown, Tory rebellion against Johnson, French minister's Ibiza trip, Anne Frank mystery from 2022-01-21T20:24:45
It feels almost like last-chance talks to stop an eventual war as the US and Russian foreign ministers met in Geneva. Over two months, Moscow has amassed troops at the Ukraine border and amid ...
Djokovic saga, Johnson's Partygate, Mali sanctions, clumsy referees from 2022-01-14T20:07:17
As the fate of Novak Djokovic hangs in the balance, the ball is now in the court of an Australian appeals judge. This comes after the country's immigration minister revoked the 34-year-old Ser...
Kazakhstan under pressure, US Capitol riot one year on, Macron's war on the unvaccinated from 2022-01-07T20:38:04
We begin in Kazakhstan, where the country's president has given the green light to security forces to shoot to kill those taking part in the unrest that's been sweeping the Central Asian natio...
The World in 2022: France's presidential race, Bolsonaro v Lula, China to crown Xi, World Cup in Qatar from 2021-12-25T10:20:50
He won as an outsider, but can French President Emmanuel Macron win a second term? François Picard’s panel weighs the odds ahead of April elections. Also, Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro cries foul ah...
The World This Year: Vaccines and variants, Biden’s battles, Myanmar coup, Ethiopia civil war from 2021-12-21T10:22:33
2021 began with the promise of vaccines to the rescue. But as one variant begets another, rich nations talk of boosters and jabs for kids while much of the developing world still waits for fir...
Boris Johnson on backfoot, First Omicron then Inflation, Germany vs. Russia, Elon Musk from 2021-12-17T20:10:44
After Boris Johnson's non-denial denial of a staff Christmas party at Downing Street at the height of lockdown last year the verdict of the people coming in a Thursday by-election in the West ...
Macron & the new Europe, Downing Street Christmas Party, Biden hosts democracy summit from 2021-12-10T20:03:35
By tradition, the first foreign visit by a new German chancellor is always to Paris. After the campaigning, the vote, the coalition building and the handover ceremonies, Olaf Scholz is at the ...
Omicron on the way, WTA rallies around Peng Shuai, the France of Josephine Baker... and Zemmour from 2021-12-03T20:27:53
With the delta variant whacking Europe and Omicron on the way, Germany's outgoing and incoming chancellors sat at the same podium to announce a lockdown for the unvaccinated. This time, there'...
France-UK's dispute, South Africa's Covid-19 variant, Abiy Ahmed to war, Osman Kavala's trial from 2021-11-26T20:17:56
A record 27 people died in the English Channel Wednesday when their overcrowded inflatable dinghy capsized. However, with the stepped-up dismantling of makeshift camps around Calais and an eve...
France-UK dispute, South Africa's Covid-19 variant, Abiy Ahmed to war, Osman Kavala's trial from 2021-11-26T20:17:56
A record 27 people died in the English Channel Wednesday when their overcrowded inflatable dinghy capsized. However, with the stepped-up dismantling of makeshift camps around Calais and an eve...
Belarus-Poland migrant crisis, Cop26 final day, Xi Jinping's grip on power, House of Gucci from 2021-11-12T20:04:31
Migrants by the hundreds marching to Belarus' border with Poland a sudden escalation in what is seen as retribution by Minsk for stepped-up EU sanctions, Belarus' strongman who has been tighte...
COP26, Unvaccinated European citizens, Ethiopia's ongoing war, Goncourt Prize from 2021-11-05T20:23:01
The Hindu festival of light is a joyous occasion that features fireworks, but the morning after seems to have given Mother Nature a hangover with thick seasonal smog this Friday in New Delhi. ...
Sudan's coup, COP26, France-UK fishing dispute, Return of Benin's cultural artefacts from 2021-10-29T20:10:16
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has deplored an epidemic of coups d'état. His remark came after the latest military takeover in Sudan this week. There have been protests against the mili...
EU Poland tensions, Belarus migration, Covid surge in Europe, Colin Powell's legacy from 2021-10-22T20:19:40
EU leaders have been holding a two-day summit in Brussels at which a spat with Poland over its rejection of the EU's legal order was high on the agenda. This after the Constitutional Court in ...
Lebanon tensions, Elections in Iraq, Energy crunch, Covid health pass, Mozzarella vs. Camembert from 2021-10-15T20:15:12
Thursday saw the worst gunfire endured by Beirut in more than a decade: four hours of sustained exchanges between rooftop snipers and pro-Hezbollah demonstrators below. The protesters were ral...
Nobel Prize, Pandora Papers, China-Taiwan Tensions, French Catholic Church Abuse from 2021-10-08T20:04:38
Punditry is a safe sport when played in the air-conditioned comfort of a Paris studio; less so for the two intrepid winners of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize: Russia's Dmitry Muratov, editor-in-ch...
Fuel shortages, France's deal with Greece, WHO sexual abuse in DRC, Volcano eruption in La Palma from 2021-10-01T20:24:26
The first of October means Britain is taking back control. As of this Friday, European travellers to post-Brexit Great Britain can no longer bring a simple ID card – they will have to show a p...
Submarine spat, Evergrande, German elections, Suriname football from 2021-09-24T20:09:13
This week at United Nations headquarters in New York, Joe Biden sat down with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. The meeting came at a time when France, Washington's oldest ally, had re...
Australia submarine deal, Europe after Merkel, Marks & Spencer closures, Christo's Arc de Triomphe from 2021-09-17T20:10:28
A "stab in the back", a "breach of trust". France's foreign minister is fuming after Australia's surprise dumping of a deal for 12 French diesel-power battle-ready submarines in favour of a ne...
9/11 commemorations, November 2015 Paris attacks trial, Belmondo remembered from 2021-09-10T20:07:32
We are discussing 9/11, the terror attacks that changed the world and all our lives. We head to New York, where François Picard describes the mood on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the atr...
9/11 Commemorations, 2015 Paris attacks trial, Belmondo remembered from 2021-09-10T20:07:32
We are discussing 9/11, the terror attack that changed the world, and changed all over lives. We go to New York where François Picard is covering on the ground the 20th anniversary of the atro...
Afghanistan, Abortion rights in Texas, Macron in Marseille, China gaming ban from 2021-09-03T20:09:30
They were chased out two decades ago, but now they're back. On Tuesday at Kabul airport, the Taliban celebrated their return to power in Afghanistan, at times with seized US-built military har...
Leaving Afghanistan: Heartbreak as evacuation deadline looms from 2021-08-27T20:11:10
Hundreds of people are still awaiting evacuation – and that's only inside the perimeter of Kabul airport. On the day after twin attacks targeting the US-led evacuation operation, flights out a...
Sport & Covid-19, Mandatory vaccines, Presidential assassination in Haiti, Afghanistan's future from 2021-07-09T20:05:24
"It's Coming Home" is a pop song written for England's hosting of the Euros back in 1996. There is a petition up before parliament to make next Monday a bank holiday if England win the tournam...
Canadian Inferno, Chinese Communist Party, Ethiopia's turning point, Will Zuma go quietly? from 2021-07-02T20:16:13
Cartoonist Zapiro's work is showcased as part of the Cartooning in Africa exhibit that opens this Saturday in Paris at the Forum des Images. Throughout the show, we feature his work and that o...
Europe's divisions, Catalan separatists freed, Tigray air strike, Apple Daily closure from 2021-06-25T20:12:47
It took an unwitting decision by a UEFA, otherwise delighted that Budapest has been offering full stadium capacity for Euro 2020, to bring Hungary's illiberal streak to a head. Europe's footba...
Biden-Putin summit, Iran elections, Gbagbo returns to Ivory Coast, vaccine incentives from 2021-06-18T20:16:30
With US-Russia relations at a post-Cold War low, the bar for success was low on the Lake Geneva shoreline. Before shaking hands with Vladimir Putin, Joe Biden had spent a week rallying the tro...
Biden's G7, Brazil & the Copa America, Macron slapped in the Drôme from 2021-06-11T20:15:20
Europe in eight days: For his first foreign tour as US president, Joe Biden stormed the beaches of Cornwall Thursday in the company of his host Boris Johnson and their respective spouses. Bide...
Netanyahu vs Israeli coalition, Naomi Osaka, Tokyo Olympics, Nigeria abductions from 2021-06-04T20:16:44
It has been a quarter century since Benjamin Netanyahu was prime minister of Israel for the first time. The Likud leader has since honed his skills as the ultimate political survivor. This tim...
Belarus, Macron in Africa, Covid-19 origin investigation from 2021-05-28T21:54:21
What are the consequences of last Sunday's forced diversion of a Ryanair plane... for Belarus, Russia and the global travel industry? Also, we ask our Friday panel of journalists about rekindl...
Belarus, Macron in Africa, COVID origin investigation from 2021-05-28T21:54:21
What are the consequences of the diversion of that Ryanair plane... for Belarus, Russia and for the global travel industry? Also, we ask our Friday panel of journalists about rekindled rows ov...
Israel-Gaza ceasefire, Spain-Morocco migrant standoff, Colombia protests from 2021-05-21T20:24:07
Eleven days, hundreds killed and both sides declaring victory. Celebrations took place overnight in the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank and at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound after a ceasefir...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Colonial pipeline cyber attack, ANC South Africa from 2021-05-14T20:02:33
It all came to a head Monday with a showdown over the expulsion of families of East Jerusalem, tear gas in the Al Aqsa mosque and just when Jerusalem Day day tensions seemed to be subsiding. H...
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Colonial pipeline cyberattack, Trouble in South Africa's ANC from 2021-05-14T20:02:33
It all came to a head on Monday with a showdown over the expulsion of families of East Jerusalem, tear gas at the Al-Aqsa mosque and just when Jerusalem Day tensions seemed to be subsiding, Ha...
Vaccine patent waivers, Spain regional elections, UK fishing row, Napoleon bicentenary from 2021-05-07T20:08:16
In a stunning 180-degree turn, the Biden administration has announced that the United States will now support waiving exclusive rights to Covid-19 vaccine formulas owned by the pharmaceutical ...
Biden recovery plan, China population to drop, Covid-19 in India, 'Cash for curtains' saga from 2021-05-01T12:59:04
Will it be remembered as 100 days that changed the world? Joe Biden has become the first US president to address Congress with two women sitting behind him – in the vice-president and house sp...
Space X launch, India Covid surge, George Floyd murder trial, the death of Idriss Déby, Super League from 2021-04-23T20:31:24
Nothing quite like a rocket launch. Dateline: Cape Canaveral, Florida, just before 6am local time. Elon Musk's SpaceX and its reusable rocket launcher on Friday sent a crew of four to the Inte...
Ukraine tensions, US Afghanistan withdrawal, Hong Kong, Notre-Dame Cathedral from 2021-04-16T19:59:35
What could possibly go wrong? Russia is insisting that the deployment of 83,000 troops for its land and sea manoeuvres at the Ukrainian border is routine. Ukraine responded with military drill...
Prince Philip remembered, Northern Ireland violence, Sofagate, Biden's corporate tax from 2021-04-09T19:58:44
He was two months away from turning 100. Prince Philip had occupied the job of consort of the British monarch for nearly seven decades. In 2014, the Queen paid a historic visit to Northern Ire...
Floyd's trial & Biden infrastructure plan, Easter Covid, Mozambique, Italy spy row from 2021-04-02T22:12:54
It is hard to be clinical and cool-headed when the evidence is so disturbing. The opening of the trial in Minneapolis of the police officer accused in the murder of 46-year old George Floyd. T...
Floyd murder trial & Biden infrastructure plan, Covid-19 at Easter, Mozambique, Italy spy row from 2021-04-02T20:12:54
It is hard to be clinical and cool-headed when the evidence is so disturbing. This week saw the opening of the trial in Minneapolis of the police officer accused in the murder of 46-year-old G...
Suez crisis: Blocked supertanker disrupts global supply chains from 2021-03-26T20:34:45
Vaccine rows are putting the focus on global supply chains. So is a stranded supertanker in the Suez Canal, holding up traffic for now more than 150 vessels. Also, are vacationers really still...
The Biden doctrine: New US president takes on China and Russia from 2021-03-19T20:36:28
Forget niceties, there won't even be a final communiqué when China and the US wrap up two days of talks in Anchorage, Alaska. The first face-to-face sit-down between the Joe Biden administrati...
Royals row, AstraZeneca complications, Lula's comeback, Myanmar crackdown from 2021-03-12T20:10:23
After Oprah Winfrey’s bombshell interview with Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Prince William has finally come out to defend the British monarchy against Meghan’s inflammatory claims of raci...
Pope in Iraq, Sarkozy sentenced, vaccine row, Meghan Markle from 2021-03-05T20:17:33
"I'm happy to resume my travels." Those were Pope Francis' words to reporters before landing in Iraq, his first trip abroad since the Covid-19 pandemic. Francis, who has had his vaccine shots,...
Biden's grand game, Brazil's Petrobras, vaccine passports, vegetarian school meals from 2021-02-26T20:30:29
Joe Biden's first phone call to Riyadh went not to MBS but to his dad, the ailing King Salman. This came ahead of the declassification of intelligence that links the crown prince to the 2018 m...
Mars landing, Vaccine strategy, Texas snow storm, 'Islamo-leftism' from 2021-02-19T20:24:58
The world but also what is out of this world: NASA's Perseverance Rover has successfully touched down on the Jezero Crater on Mars. It's the delicate first step in a mission to bring back to E...
Trump impeachment trial, Myanmar protests, Saudi activist released, Bitcoin and Elon Musk from 2021-02-12T20:34:05
Video testimony before the US Senate has thrust an unsung hero into the limelight. On January 6, Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman directed rioters away from lawmakers and in one instance ...
Navalny's trial, Myanmar coup, Italy's politics, Marjorie Taylor Greene from 2021-02-05T20:22:55
Alexei Navalny found himself in a Moscow court twice in the same week. Thousands were arrested over the charges filed against the first poisoned, then imprisoned anti-corruption crusader. The ...
EU-AstraZeneca vaccine row, Students' mental health, #MeTooInceste, Egypt 10 years on from 2021-01-29T20:21:26
Earlier this week, we discussed the politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccines; how the jabs to stop the pandemic have become in many ways a geopolitical tool. The row between the EU and vaccine ...
Biden's first days as US president, Navalny's arrest, Covid-19 in Europe, Michelin goes vegan from 2021-01-22T20:39:24
Joe Biden has been inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States of America. Reporters are already remarking on the change of tone from the White House towards the media. Biden has al...
Trump impeachment, Uganda elections, Covid-19 in France & the EU, Germany after Merkel from 2021-01-15T20:18:02
He's the first US president to be impeached twice. This time though, it's a whole different atmosphere. Lawmakers had to pass metal detectors and National Guard troops who'd slept overnight in...
US Capitol stormed, Covid-19 in Europe, Where is Jack Ma? from 2021-01-08T20:31:37
It was not one but two grave assaults on America's 240-year-old democracy. Remember, the week began with the world discovering that leaked phone call where Donald Trump tried to pressure Repub...
Covid-19 vaccines, Merkel's legacy, America under Joe Biden and Ethiopia's conflict from 2020-12-28T17:31:29
The year 2020 may have ended with Christmas effectively cancelled in Britain, but the country broke ground in offering its population a shot in the arm. Margaret Keenan, a 90-year-old British ...
A year of Covid-19, a US election, Black Lives Matter, Samuel Paty and Nagorno-Karabakh from 2020-12-24T17:32:56
An invisible foe indifferent to man-made borders, the world's greatest pandemic in a century triggered fear, anxiety, and sometimes the worst but also the best in humanity. In Italy and elsewh...
Macron contracts Covid-19, Biden wins again, Nigerian schoolboys freed, remembering John le Carré from 2020-12-18T20:36:21
A fever, a cough, and fatigue... Emmanuel Macron is the latest head of state to have contracted the coronavirus. The French president is now self-isolating at La Lanterne; a guest house on the...
Covid-19 Christmas, Brexit, Israel & Morocco, activism in football from 2020-12-11T20:37:16
Help is on the way. Dateline Coventry, England. A 90-year-old pensioner was applauded after becoming the first member of the general public to get her Covid-19 vaccine jab and – what a feat – ...
Skiing in Europe, Iran scientist assassination, Australia wine campaign from 2020-12-04T20:05:05
The hills are alive with the sound of protest. In France, a land where skiing is a €10 billion business that employs 120,000 professionals, the natives are up in arms over the government's ban...
Maradona, France security law, Ethiopia crisis, US presidential transition from 2020-11-27T20:03:10
No pandemic was going to keep Argentina from its Evita moment. For hours on Thursday, mourning Argentinians filed past the coffin of Diego Armando Maradona, the rags-to-riches hero, who, thank...
Ethiopia crisis, EU budget, Pompeo's farewell tour and Covid-19 vaccines from 2020-11-20T21:23:42
We go to the Middle East to discuss Mike Pompeo's farewell tour of the region. We also discuss Donald Trump's legacy, as well the Covid-19 vaccines. Is there now light at the end of the tunnel...
Paris attacks commemorations, Covid-19 vaccine, US presidential election from 2020-11-13T21:12:05
November 13, 2015 was also a Friday: a Friday many of us sadly will never forget. One hundred and thirty people were killed in a terror attack in Paris. This Friday 13, tributes have been laid...
US presidential election: Biden on cusp of clinching victory in narrow race from 2020-11-06T21:05:28
We dissect a week like no other with the latest on the US presidential election. We're asking: how does America hope to become re-United in the wake of the most bitter election in living memor...
Nice attack, 'Boycott France' protests, Covid-19, US presidential election from 2020-10-30T21:11:03
It was a Thursday the French would rather forget, with bottlenecks at the exits of Paris as some city dwellers raced to get out before Act II of a national lockdown. And if the second wave of ...
France teacher attack, last US debate, Nigeria & Thailand protests, EU 'veggie' burger row from 2020-10-23T22:45:04
Samuel Paty was beheaded by an 18-year-old who had to pay pupils to identify his victim, this after a row over a civics class on free speech that included cartoons of the prophet spiraled into...
Covid-19 curfew, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Nigeria protests and 'Emily in Paris' from 2020-10-16T22:13:43
The French government is trying a new tack: a 9 pm to 6 am curfew for nine metropolitan areas including Paris. The idea this time is to keep schools open, to keep businesses open, to allow the...
US presidential race, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Mali hostages, France floods from 2020-10-09T22:07:42
On Monday morning we awoke to images of Donald Trump returning by helicopter to the White House after a weekend stay in hospital with Covid-19. The commander-in-chief who turned to the camera ...
Trump positive for Covid-19, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, India rape cases from 2020-10-02T22:16:19
It was 1 am in Washington when the president of the United States confirmed he had tested positive for Covid-19. Face masks were a topical issue in Tuesday's first presidential debate. Even if...
Paris knife attack, Covid-19 in Europe, Navalny out of hospital, Ginsburg at State Capitol from 2020-09-25T22:16:40
It's last call for drinks at the bar at 10 pm in Paris. The tightening of Covid-19 restrictions is even stricter in Marseille, where both bars and restaurants are shut for two weeks as of this...
Covid spike in Europe, Abraham accords, Macron backs 5G technology, US West Coast burning from 2020-09-18T22:01:45
How can Europe better tackle the current spike in coronavirus cases? François Picard's panel looks at the new tightening of social distancing measures across the continent. Also, Israel offici...