François Picard

Paris

Debate and The World This Week Host at France 24

Paris-based host of The France 24 Debate & The World This Week. Usual disclaimers.

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The Debate - What do Iranians want? Population caught between hardline regime and war

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard |Aline Bottin |Elisa Amiri

On that score, the command in Tehran closely watching for signs of internal dissent: we’ll ask about arrests, Internet disruptions, calls to stop using WhatsApp and reaction to Israel’s brief hacking of state television. Note that while Donald Trump employs the collective we as in “we now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran," Israel’s Iron Dome unable to stop missiles like the one that hit Bersheeba hospital in the south of country.
Trump's move: What next in Israel-Iran war?

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Donald Trump returned to the White House, leaving behind the rest of G7 leaders in western Canada.
All-out war: How far will Israel and Iran go?

1 week ago | france24.com | François Picard

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Now, Israel's actually done it: striking Iran in a bid to destroy its capacity to build nuclear weapons.
Clothes at what cost? French fast fashion bill puts onus on Chinese brands

2 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

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Send in the Marines? Trump deploys troops to LA protests

2 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. It's a fight that Donald Trump wanted to pick for a long time, going over the head of the Democratic governor of California just days before another first, in Washington a US president staging a military parade on his own birthday.
The Debate - Race to the bottom? The dangers of deep sea mining

2 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard |Andrew HILLIAR

We’lll ask about the actual feasibility of deep sea mining...and the competing narratives at play, what with the US boycotting the United Nations Oceans Conference in Nice… and a paltry 32 nations so far ratifying the UN’s High Seas Treaty. How to protect the two-thirds of our planet’s surface that belong to both everyone and no one? On that score, no need to drill when you hit rock bottom.
Blame social media? Murder in French Riviera town follows online hate speech

3 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. What have learned? What have we enacted in the six years since Christchurch and the far-right fanatic who live streamed his own mass shooting in a New Zealand mosque?
Empty chair policy ? US defence secretary skips Nato Ukraine support meeting

3 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard

To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. What with daring drone raids deep in Russian territory last weekend and a new attack on the Kerch Strait bridge that links Moscow-occupied Crimea to the mainland. Spectacular shows but can outgunned and outnumbered Kyiv keep it up ?
The Debate - Poland's pro-Trump pivot: What next after narrow Nawrocki win in presidential runoff?

3 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard |Alessandro XENOS |Théophile Vareille |Elisa Amiri

We’ll ask if time's soon up for the swing of two years ago in favor of the reformist coalition led by center-right prime minister Donald Tusk and draw conclusions from the defeat of Warsaw mayor Rafal Trzaskowski. Could there even be a snap general election? What about that ongoing battle over the independence of the courts, culture war issues like abortion and what attitude towards Ukraine and European defense. Historical rivalries with Kyiv were talked up on the campaign trail?
The Debate - Poland's nail-biter election: Could Warsaw turn on Brussels?

4 weeks ago | france24.com | François Picard |Rebecca GNIGNATI |Elisa Amiri

Donald Trump dispatching his director of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to stump for nationalist right candidate Karol Nawrocki. The Law and Justice party of the outgoing Andrej Duda hopes to rally the 20-percent of voters who veered further to the right in the first round. In a nation where living standards have skyrocketed since joining the EU two decades ago, why are so many citizens eager to elect Eurosceptics?