The Debate

By 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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September 27, 2018 The Kavanaugh hearings: Supreme Court nominee faces accuser
Christine Blasey Ford before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Up to now, Brett Kavanaugh seemed a shoe-in for confirmation to the US Supreme Court. Now, Donald Trump's pick for a lifetime appointment to the high bench is in doubt. We look at Ford's accusation of sexual assault when in high school, her testimony before the senate judiciary committee and Kavanaugh's rebuttal.
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September 26, 2018 What does labour want? UK opposition split over Brexit
The big party conferences, first Labour in Liverpool then Birmingham for the Conservatives taking place to the tick-tock sound of Brexit: with six months to go, terms of divorce with the continent must be sealed before the end of the year if they're to be ratified in time. And yet, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was over 45 minutes into his speech before he uttered the B-word. What does that say about the opposition leader's true position on Brexit?
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September 25, 2018 Which world order? Trump, Macron spell out rival visions at U.N.
Two diametrically opposed world views playing out before world leaders gathered for the annual opening of the UN General Assembly in New York. First they heard Donald Trump rejecting "the ideology of globalism." Then his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron arguing that the world needs a new balance that defends universal values. UN week is a chance to take stock of the challenges facing the planet.
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September 24, 2018 Iran Under Pressure: Tehran Vows Retaliation After Ahvaz Attack
Iran's leader, Hassan Rouhani, returns to the UN general assembly for the first time since Washington walked away from the nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions. Rouhani is also facing pressure from within an attack targeted the elite revolutionary guards at a military parade in Ahvaz. Arab minority radicals claimed responsibility, but Tehran blames an unnamed US regional ally, presumably Saudi Arabia. What backlash can we expect? Should Hassan Rouhani reach out to Trump?
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September 21, 2018 EU's mounting challenges: European unity faces test over migration
Today we have our eyes firmly fixed on the Austrian city of Salzburg where European Union leaders on Thursday gathered for a second day for a meeting at which the issues of migration and Brexit were at the top of the agenda.
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September 19, 2018 Breakthrough In Pyongyang? Kim promises to visit Seoul and dismantle nuclear sites
Those are some big, big promises from Kim Jong-Un.
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September 18, 2018 Syria: Russia and Israel seek to avoid spiral over plane downing
Have they avoided the worst, or simply delayed the inevitable?
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September 13, 2018 Brewing Storm: The politics of extreme weather
After heat waves, monsoons and forest fires this summer, warming ocean temperatures have hurricane Florence bearing down on the Carolinas and Typhoon Mangkhut battering the Philippines. Extreme weather's no longer the exception. Local governments and the private sector look to do more. But it also means rethinking how we as citizens live our lives. Are governments all for going green just so long as it doesn't dent growth: can we always want more, more money, if the planet can't afford it?
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September 12, 2018 Battle of values: EU parliament recommends sanctions against Hungary
It started with the Brexit campaign. Now a battle of values is playing out on the continent. The European Parliament, for the first time ever, has voted to sanction Hungary for flouting the democratic values it signed on to when it joined the EU in 2004. So what happens next? And who is next?
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September 11, 2018 Trump v. the ICC: Does international justice have a future?
Donald Trump's national security advisor is pulling no punches.John Bolton has told conservative legal scholars in Washington that his administration would go so far as to sanction the International Criminal Court if it went ahead with probes of alleged US human rights violations in places like Afghanistan.
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