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The Debate

FRANCE 24 English

A live debate on the topic of the day, with four guests. From Monday to Thursday at 7:10pm Paris time.

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00:42:52

Trump's move: What next in Israel-Iran war?

The Debate ·

2025/06/17

He says he wants "better than a ceasefire". Donald Trump has returned to the White House, leaving behind the rest of the G7 leaders in western Canada. After five days of war between Israel and Iran, the US president faces a stark choice: he can either approve bunker-busting bombs to target underground nuclear facilities or tell Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu it’s time to stop. With air superiority over Tehran, Israel is doubling down on an operation that was in the works for decades. And while

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00:45:41

All-out war: How far will Israel and Iran go?

The Debate ·

2025/06/16

The threat had been repeated so often over so many years that it had started to ring hollow. Now, Israel's actually done it: striking Iran in a bid to destroy its capacity to build nuclear weapons. Tel Aviv sees a window of opportunity, and with Tehran's proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza either gone or debilitated, the Israelis are also targeting the senior leadership around Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. So what’s the ultimate goal: military superiority or regime change? Iran may be reeling but it’s

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00:44:18

How to break the cycle: From war in Gaza to a...

The Debate ·

2025/06/12

A death spiral in Gaza with no end in sight; a Middle East peace process that’s been moribund for years. What’s the point of talking solutions when not even a truce is in sight? In New York next week, France is slated to co-chair with Saudi Arabia what's officially billed as a "UN International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution". Emmanuel Macron had strongly suggested he would recognise a Palestinian state at the

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00:44:52

Clothes at what cost? French fast fashion bill puts...

The Debate ·

2025/06/11

How to stop our needless overconsumption of cheaper and cheaper clothes that pollute the planet? France's senate passed a bill to curb advertising and tax pollution on fast fashion, with lawmakers even talking up the distinction of ultra fast fashion - garments made in a hurry - more and more using polyester and other polluting plastics, shipped at warp speed by plane and which fall apart after only a few washes. Has the bill been partially stripped bare though? The new version seems to include a

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00:43:21

Send in the Marines? Trump deploys troops to LA protests

The Debate ·

2025/06/10

The United States Marine Corps, the country's main foreign expedition force, has been deployed to Los Angeles – this on top of the US president enrolling the National Guard in a show of force against pockets of violent protest against the arrest of undocumented immigrants at their place of work. 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: a US president staging a military parade in

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00:46:36

Race to the bottom? The dangers of deep-sea mining

The Debate ·

2025/06/09

Overheated and overfished: an SOS for oceans under duress is being sent from a UN summit in Nice. But try telling that to those who advocate deep-sea drilling for precious metals. In a world hungry for the minerals that power our batteries and connect our computers, the United States but also China, India, Japan, Norway and more are seriously studying whether science fiction can become reality. We ask about the actual feasibility of deep-sea mining and the competing narratives at play, what with the

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00:41:35

Blame social media? Murder in French Riviera town...

The Debate ·

2025/06/06

What have learned? What have we enacted in the six years since Christchurch and the far-right fanatic who livestreamed his own mass shooting in a New Zealand mosque? Here in France, outrage is growing over the 53-year-old man who posted five times to Facebook before and after killing his Tunisian neighbour and who also targeted two Kurdish asylum seekers. Posts included a call to "go get them wherever they are" and to vote for Marine Le Pen's National Rally. It was enough for it be treated as a

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00:43:53

Empty chair policy ? US defence secretary skips Nato...

The Debate ·

2025/06/04

Ukraine’s 'no surrender' attitude is on display. 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 ? Particularly with the US defense Secretary skipping a meeting of the NATO support group on Ukraine, the US which for now is still sharing intelligence and disbursing military aid allotted to Kyiv by the previous

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00:43:34

Poland's nail-biter election: Could Warsaw turn on...

The Debate ·

2025/05/29

A fortnight after Romania, Poland is holding a presidential run-off where the pro-EU candidate faces uncertain odds. On Sunday, Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafał Trzaskowski will need the kind of boost in turnout that propelled his counterpart from Bucharest to victory. Nicoşur Dan came to campaign last weekend for Trzaskowski, the candidate from Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform party. Trzaskowski is not the only one with celebrity endorsements. US President Donald Trump is dispatching

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00:47:27

Weaponizing aid? International community blasts...

The Debate ·

2025/05/27

A way to pull the rug out from under Hamas or a scheme to permanently chase Palestinians out of parts of Gaza? Israel insisting that a brand-new Geneva-registered aid group aims to deliver long-awaited aid to secure distribution sites while preventing the Palestinian militant group from diverting food and medicine. With the United Nations out of the loop, and Gaza residents forced to travel vast distances mostly for what look like rations, the international community warns it's a bid to force the

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00:43:26

Untouchable for too long: Surgeon Le Scouarnec in...

The Debate ·

2025/05/26

With 299 victims over 25 years, why wasn’t serial rapist Joël Le Scouarnec stopped sooner? Closing arguments in the trial of the 74-year-old surgeon in the western French city of Vannes. We’ll ask about a man convicted of purchasing child pornography online two decades ago and yet investigators failed to uncover worse crimes and the medical board allowed him to continue to practice. France’s largest-ever sex abuse trial concludes, exposing decades of abuse at the Bétharram Catholic school in the

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00:42:21

Bottled watergate: Why did French government cover...

The Debate ·

2025/05/22

Is it something in the water? Why insist on bottled brands at every meal when in a country like France, it flows freely from the tap – even if it’s not exactly free. We’ll ask about old habits and new realities that force a rethink of what we drink. Anger bubbling over this week with the French senate concluding that the government “at the highest level” covered up for Nestlé which continued to put the words "natural mineral water" on bottles and cans of iconic brands such as Perrier even though the

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00:40:20

Hard sell diplomacy? Ramaphosa-Trump sit-down turns...

The Debate ·

2025/05/21

It’s a White House visit preceded by some heavy-handed sales tactics. South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa in the lion’s den of the Oval Office after Donald Trump advisor Elon Musk accused Pretoria of discrimination over a stalled commercial deal to buy his Starlink low orbit satellite system. Ramaphosa reportedly now offering a workaround of post-Apartheid local Black ownership laws, laws to address historical inequality in a nation where whites make up 7-percent of the population but still own

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00:43:44

Tipping point? Growing pushback against Israel's Gaza...

The Debate ·

2025/05/20

Aid returning at a trickle into Gaza after a two-month blockade, but troops are on the move and the bombing continues with an average of dozens killed a day the past week. Israel’s prime minister talking up what might sound like a permanent reoccupation. This collective punishment of two million civilians, many, says the UN on the brink of starvation, is exactly the sort of overreaction that Hamas wanted when it perpetrated the worst terror attack in Israel’s history more than 18 months ago. At the

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00:29:17

Romanian surprise: Why did the far right fall short...

The Debate ·

2025/05/20

Two weeks after the far right's George Simion garnered a whopping 41 percent in the first round of presidential elections, a surge in voter turnout instead propelled the pro-EU mayor of Bucharest Nicosur Dan onto a rocky road to victory. Dan wasn’t even a candidate when the constitutional council annulled last November's first round of voting and barred pro-Russian TikTok star Calin Georgescu over foreign meddling and campaign financing records that claimed zero spending whatsoever. The call to do

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00:46:56

Putin snubs talks: Does Trump pivot towards Ukraine?

The Debate ·

2025/05/15

In the end, Vladimir Putin did not go to Istanbul for the one-on-one on offer. Instead, in what critics call a worse snub than an empty chair, the Russian president dispatched his former culture minister, a "greater Russia" ideologue, for the first face-to-face meeting with Ukraine since 2022. What's the Trump administration's next move after pushing so hard for talks? We know Zelensky's next move: travelling to Ankara instead of Istanbul, where the Ukrainian president met his Turkish counterpart

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00:44:28

Trump in Saudi Arabia: Dealmaking without the Israelis?

The Debate ·

2025/05/13

He’s back in the Gulf to do deals. But a familiar ally seems cut out of all the dealmaking. Donald Trump is on familiar ground in Saudi Arabia, where he made his first trip as president back in 2017. The US president may have said no to ceremonial Arabic coffee, but he seems ready to approve a landmark civilian nuclear agreement – one that no longer seems linked to Riyadh normalising ties with Israel. Israel was left out of Monday's release by Hamas of what's thought to be the last US citizen held

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00:43:30

Kashmir ceasefire: How to spin a stalemate?

The Debate ·

2025/05/12

What started it? Who ended it? After the worst week of fighting between India and Pakistan in a quarter century, the whole world is breathing a sigh of relief that it didn’t escalate further between nuclear-armed neighbours .... and wondering how much superpower showdowns weigh on the dynamic in the decades-old rivalry over Kashmir. What started with a terror attack spilled over from the disputed territory, with Chinese-made military hardware displayed in battle for the first time, disputes over the

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00:43:15

US Cardinal Robert Prevost elected Pope Leo XIV

The Debate ·

2025/05/08

Live reactions from Rome and from our guests as Cardinal Robert Prevost is elected the first American pope.

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00:44:51

A welcome guest? France first Western nation to host...

The Debate ·

2025/05/07

Is this the right moment to roll out the red carpet for Syria’s new leader? France is the first Western country to welcome Ahmed al-Sharaa, who with the toppling of Bashar al-Assad last December, shed his fatigues and his Islamist militia leader name Abu Mohammed al-Joulani. The right moment? Yes, if it is time to fully scrap sanctions and help Syria’s economy a chance to recover from more than a decade of civil war. The new masters of Damascus say they need money and time, time to make good on

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