Haxie Meyers-Belkin

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🇫🇷 News anchor @France24_en for European earlybirds and American nightowls. Proud Londoner aspiring to Parisian cool since 2013 🇬🇧

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2024 European elections: Women's groups brace for a lurch to the right

May 31, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

With EU elections now just around the corner, women's rights groups are anxiously waiting to see if pollsters have been correct to predict a surge in support for the far right. At a country level, parties associated with the far-right groups in the European Parliament have a long history of seeking to erode sex-specific protections, including access to abortion. Haxie Meyers-Belkin speaks to Jéromine Andolfatto, a policy and campaign officer with the European Women's Lobby.
US abortion rights: New laws highlight election battleground

May 3, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

A new six-week abortion ban in Florida makes it illegal to seek a termination before many women even realise they're pregnant. Amid a dizzying patchwork of abortion legislation across US states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade under President Trump almost two years ago, the issue of reproductive rights is increasingly galvanising voters on both sides of the political divide.
Eyal Kalderon, cousin of Gaza hostage: 'We need to strive to get a deal'

Feb 6, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

Exactly four months on from the Hamas attacks on southern Israel, more than 100 Israelis remain in captivity, with very little known about their fate. The families of those held captive are continuing to urge their government, and the international community, not to give up on their loved ones. We spoke to Eyal Kalderon, whose cousin Ofer was kidnapped by Hamas from the Nir Oz kibbutz on October 7, and remains a hostage in Gaza. Ofer's two children were kidnapped with him.
European Parliament elections could usher in 'more climate sceptic majority', expert says

Feb 5, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

Ahead of European Parliament elections in June, should the bloc be preparing for a sharp turn to the right? And if so, what does that mean for European policy, and by extension, European unity?
War in Ukraine: 'Who are we trying to protect and who are we ready to sacrifice?'

Feb 4, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

Almost two years on from Russia's invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of men have already been called up to fight and a new mobilisation bill is due to be debated by parliament this week. According to Anna Colin Lebedev, a senior lecturer at Paris Nanterre University and specialist in contemporary Ukrainian history, one of the major questions facing Ukrainian society today lies in the mechanics of the draft.
Film director S. Leo Chiang on 'commonality' shared by Taiwan and China

Jan 8, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

S. Leo Chiang is a Taiwanese-American film director based in San Francisco and Taipei. His most recent short film "Island in Between", about his deeply complex relationship with his Taiwanese identity - specifically in relation to China - has been nominated for an Oscar. He says he hopes his feature will remind people of how much Taiwan and China have in common, and help them to reject the all-too-easy tendency to "demonise the other side". He joined us on Perspective.
UNICEF: 'There is no safe place for a child in Gaza right now'

Jan 7, 2024 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

Three months on from the October 7 Hamas attacks and Israel's counteroffensive in Gaza, the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave is increasingly dire. The death toll continues to climb and the injured are struggling to receive adequate treatment in hospitals on the brink of collapse. While aid trucks are now regularly entering the enclave, aid agencies warn they don't come close to covering the diverse needs of desperate Gazans, with children disproportionately affected.
Biden made mistake in 'refusing to call for ceasefire' in Gaza, expert says

Nov 26, 2023 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

As speculation mounts that the current four-day pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could soon be extended, we speak to Gilbert Achcar, professor of development studies and international relations at SOAS, University of London. He says that Western leaders - and US President Joe Biden in particular - have backed themselves into a corner with their initial unwavering support of Israel's military operation, as the sheer scale of human suffering within Gaza becomes clear.
Israeli raid on Gaza's Al Shifa Hospital: A military operation 'beyond revenge'

Nov 15, 2023 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

By Israeli soldiers stormed Gaza's largest hospital on Wednesday, targeting what they believe is a major Hamas command centre located beneath the hospital complex. But compelling evidence that Hamas fighters are carrying out operations from medical facilities in Gaza remains scarce, according to Lex Takkenberg, Senior Advisor on the Question of Palestine at the Arab Renaissance for Democracy and Development based in Amman.
'Israel knows it's entering a trap prepared by Hamas,' military expert says

Nov 1, 2023 | france24.com | Haxie Meyers-Belkin

Over the past few days, Israeli ground troops have pushed deeper and deeper into Gaza in their war against Hamas, with a growing array of units joining the effort. But does what we're seeing in Gaza constitute an invasion proper? To discuss Israel's military tactics and the growing challenge posed by increasingly critical Western public opinion, we speak to General Vincent Desportes. He's a professor of strategy at Sciences Po University and HEC Paris Business School.