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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June 05, 2023 Has it already begun? Ukraine's counter-offensive strategy
Is Ukraine armed and ready for its long-touted spring counter-offensive? We’ll ask about air cover, cross-border strikes and ammunition. More broadly, what does it take to claim heavily fortified, heavily mined Russian-held positions? Is Kyiv ready? Is NATO ready? Will stepped-up supplies of military hardware suffice? We also weigh the consequences of a protracted war on the NATO alliance.
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45min
June 05, 2023 Artificial intelligence: Why is facial recognition so scary?
In 2020, American startup Clearview AI introduced one of the most highly controversial facial recognition applications. This inspired FRANCE 24's documentary “Your faces are ours: the dangers of facial recognition”. Here’s a behind-the-scenes look into our investigation of a technology using artificial intelligence to precisely identify anyone who has been photographed or filmed.
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19min
June 01, 2023 Iran protest crackdown: Two reporters could face death penalty over Mahsa Amini story
Two female journalists are on trial in Iran. They face charges of spying and working for foreign intelligence. Their crime cold perhaps best be described here in the West as a good old fashioned journalistic coup. They revealed the truth about a story and dared to publish it. The story was the death in police custody of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman.
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44min
May 31, 2023 Kosovo on edge: How to prevent an ethnic escalation in the north?
NATO has sent 700 soldiers, peacekeepers, to Kosovo in the wake of the disturbances near the border with Serbia. This follows violent scenes where Serbs faced off with police. NATO peacekeepers were injured - caught in the middle of the fight. Jens Stoltenberg, announcing the dispatch of reinforcements, said the attacks on NATO soldiers must stop.
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46min
May 30, 2023 Uganda's anti-gay law: Will world outrage fall on deaf ears?
Uganda's legislation that outlaws indentifying as LGBTQ is receiving widespread condemnation. US president Joe Biden has spoken out to describe the new law as shameful. Biden, who is himself a practising Roman Catholic, a religion that says homosexuality is a sin, says Uganda's new legislation could very well harm US-Uganda relations. Before Biden's words were uttered, the law had been condemned by the United Nations as the "worst of its kind in the world."
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47min
May 29, 2023 What's next for Turkey? Erdogan faces polarised country after historic win
Recep Tayyip Erdogan wins an extension of his more than two decades in power in Turkish presidential election.An election that veered to the hard right still leaves unanswered questions on the economy, the earthquake response, corruption and the plight of Syrian migrants.
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57min
May 25, 2023 EU takes on artificial intelligence: Will Europe's regulation scare off OpenAI?
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company could "cease operating in Europe if the EU gets too tough". Altman is currently in Europe, visiting Paris after London. When he was called before Congress last week in Washington to talk about the same issue of regulating artificial intelligence, Altman made three proposals: a federal agency to control licences; safety standards for high-capability AI models; independent audits of creators.
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46min
May 24, 2023 Twitter's candidate? DeSantis launches presidential bid on Musk's platform
There is the age-old question of what makes someone want to run for president. And then there is the question of how the candidate announces. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is opting for Twitter: not a tweet but a live discussion hosted by none other than the boss of that social media platform. Elon Musk insists the event does not constitute an endorsement on his part. But if the medium is the message, what does this launch say about the candidate and the times we live in?
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46min
May 23, 2023 Collision course: Will US-China tech race spin out of control?
Were often asking if Russia's invasion of Ukraine can lead to some kind of world war. But what if global conflict creeps up on us from a different quarter? Infuriated by what it portrayed as an "anti-China" G7 summit, Beijing has now made good on its threat to ban the US's biggest memory chipmaker, Micron. The move was expected, one might argue, after the West's growing restrictions on Chinese tech brands that include the likes of Huawei and TikTok. Is this a fight for market share disguised as a battle of values? Or is technology the battleground of national security in the Information Age?
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45min
May 22, 2023 Why Bakhmut matters: As Russia claims victory, Ukraine insists it has momentum
How many lives have been lost so far in Bakhmut? And why? Russia claims to have fully captured the eastern Donbas city while Ukraine spins it as part of the plan, with its forces elsewhere gaining ground to the north and south.
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