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Latest episodes
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7 min
'They should be afraid': Serbia's student-led victory over Vučić sends warning to 'corrupt' leaders
François Picard welcomes Helena Ivanov, Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based foreign policy and national security think tank advocating liberal de…
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10 min
French education reform proposals 'vague': Govt created 'most of the problems' it now seeks to solve
François Picard welcomes Jean-Rémi Girard, President of the SNALC teachers’ union, who places responsibility for France’s educational difficulties not simply on demographic change…
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15 min
Marine Le Pen's 'Renaissance': Fourth time lucky?
Just before half past four this Sunday, Marine Le Pen took to the stage under the stadium strobe lights at the Zénith Arena in Orléans. The far-right French politician, who analyst…
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24 min
Brazil presidential election: Lula's late surge
It's a coin-flip election in Brazil, with little separating the country's left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his far-right rival Flavio Bolsonaro. The results of the…
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12 min
France: Watching the post-riot protests
After the French protests turned into riots last weekend, followed by curfews and the alleged racist mass shooting on Friday on the outskirts of Paris, there has been much anxiety,…
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12 min
'Witkoff should step down,' says Ukraine foreign policy committee chief
Ukraine's access to Starlink and Starshield satellite links has been restored to the speeds it had before restrictions that disrupted front-line operations for more than a week, Uk…
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7 min
NFL Paris premiere: The Saints' Alvin Kamara on global reach and sport as an opportunity for youth
FRANCE 24's François Picard and Selina Sykes are pleased to welcome New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara as the National Football League (NFL) expands its international rea…
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7 min
Netanyahu weighs West Bank operation ahead of elections: ‘Politically, it will not help anybody’
As Israel approaches a consequential parliamentary election amid renewed violence in the occupied West Bank, Yedioth Ahronoth Senior Journalist Ben-Dror Yemini offers a critical as…
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9 min
'The best on Earth': Can weak economic growth undermine Europe's 'very sophisticated social system'?
Can Europe continue to sustain one of the world's most ambitious social models while falling increasingly behind its major economic competitors? For Pascal Lamy, former European Co…
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15 min
Trump admin 'destroying' US democracy with 'autocratic, terrorist version of Christian nationalism'
François Picard welcomes former US Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim Townsend and former US Air Force officer Michael (Mikey) Weinstein, founder and president of the Military Reli…
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7 min
Art crime detective Arthur Brand warns: 'All museums have been, and will be, victims of theft'
François Picard is pleased to welcome art crime detective Arthur Brand. "In the old days they stole a painting, but a painting is unique; you cannot cut it in two," Brand explains.…
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25 min
French riots: A gift for Le Pen?
How much damage has the unrest in France caused to a protest movement rooted in genuine grievances but hijacked by rioters, violence and vandalism? Is it a gift to Marine Le Pen, t…
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13 min
'US tilting toward Russia: Europeans are standing more and more solidly with Zelensky'
As transatlantic relations confront renewed geopolitical uncertainty, former Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves delivers a pointed assessment of Washington's shifting approach…
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9 min
Oxfam takes France to court over 'tax inequality': 'Problem' with tax system, public service funding
François Picard is pleased to welcome Layla Abdelké Yakoub, Tax Justice and Inequality Advocacy Officer at Oxfam France. "Today in France a billionaire pays less taxes proportional…
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11 min
'Amazing progress' in lung cancer: Immunotherapy extends survival as mRNA vaccines offer hope
François Picard is pleased to welcome Siow-Ming Lee, Professor of Medical Oncology at University College London and a specialist in lung cancer. "Lung cancer is not one cancer. The…
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12 min
ISS amid global conflict: A rare bastion of 'scientific collaboration' between East and West
François Picard is pleased to welcome Alban Guyomarc'h, Researcher in Space Geopolitics at Paris's École Normale Supérieure School of Higher Learning. As a new era of space rivalry…
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7 min
Digital distrust and polarisation: 'We need to get back to engaging with one another as a society'
François Picard is pleased to welcome Valdemar Osted, partner and head of technology at Danish digital consultants Common Consultancy. Can the fear of disinformation become as dang…
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10 min
'Transactional diplomacy': Greece positioning itself as Trump's most 'reliable ally in the region'
François Picard is pleased to welcome Petros Konstantinidis, a financial journalist for Greece's leading daily newspaper TA NEA. The current controversy surrounding the US ambassad…
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9 min
Capital punishment in US: Elected judges, prosecutors seek 'results', 'not interested in the truth'
François Picard is pleased to welcome Sandrine Ageorges-Skinner, an advocate against the death penalty, author and member of the association "Ensemble contre la peine de mort" (Tog…
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14 min
Raphaël Glucksmann, the man who wants to be French president
Raphaël Glucksmann has won the primary to represent the French centre-left in the upcoming presidential elections, securing 66% of the vote. He now faces the challenge of building…