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 08, 2021 Which route to reform? Migration at core of Kamala Harris' Central America tour
First Guatemala, then Mexico. It's a tough maiden foreign assignment for the new US Vice President. Kamala Harris is on a mission to broach the root causes of why undocumented migrants risk it all to head north. How much pressure can Washington apply when her hosts squander or steal the aid that's meant to offer an alternative? It's not all about lofty development goals.
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38min
June 07, 2021 Peru's bitter divide: Which way in uncertain presidential run-off?
A nail biter is unfolding in a polarised Peru. The hard right's Keiko Fujimori, daughter of a jailed former president, is facing off against a populist political novice, the far left's Pedro Castillo. Which way for a nation beset by corruption and mismanagement, where Covid-19 has only accentuated the inequality gap? Will the result clear the air in a Peru that has been through five heads of state in five years?
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40min
June 03, 2021 Bye bye Bibi? Israel on edge as Netanyahu fights coalition deal
If it's all over for Bibi, then why is Israel still holding its breath? After an eleventh-hour deal on a coalition to bring the curtain down on the Netanyahu years, drama is now shifting to parliament where the speaker – a Likud loyalist – refuses to move up the date for a vote of confidence. We ask about the push to first remove Yariv Levin, then get the 61 votes needed to oust the country's longest-serving prime minister.
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40min
June 02, 2021 Down to the wire: Will anti-Netanyahu forces agree on Israel coalition?
Is it really "bye bye Bibi" this time? Israel's longest-serving prime minister has been written off more times than we can count. While it seemed that Benjamin Netanyahu's demise might be reversed during last month's fighting with Gaza, it's now deadline day for coalition building and the cards are out of his hands.
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40min
June 01, 2021 Too much pressure? Naomi Osaka quits French Open over media boycott
What are the terms and conditions of success? World number two Naomi Osaka shocked the tennis world when she announced late on Monday that she preferred to quit the French Open before her second-round match rather than face another confrontation over her refusal to attend the post-match press conference.
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40min
May 31, 2021 Back to the lab? US-China rivalry fuels tensions over Covid-19 origins
It's a tale of two worlds. Vaccines and clement spring weather are easing lockdown restrictions in the West, while new variants spread in unvaccinated Asia, Africa and Latin America. Are superpower tensions fuelling discord when we should all be pulling together? Does China need to do more to dispel doubts about the origins of Covid-19?
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40min
May 27, 2021 As far as France can go? In Rwanda, Macron acknowledges French responsibility in genocide
"I remember," spoken in the local language Kinyarwanda by Emmanuel Macron. Did the French president find the right words in his speech at Kigali's genocide memorial? Macron acknowledged France's damning responsibility in the build-up to the 1994 genocide, an era when France backed a regime where hardliners gained influence. Paris should have seen the peace process unravelling, Macron said in a much-anticipated speech by a French president, hoping this marks a new beginning after 27 fraught years.
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May 26, 2021 Overdue reckoning? South Africa and the Zuma corruption trial
An overdue reckoning? It's more than just Jacob Zuma on trial and it's about more than the bribery scandal involving French arms maker Thales. Opening day in court comes more than 20 years after the case was first opened. We ask about the specifics of a deal that led to the conviction of a Zuma former advisor in 2004, long before he became South Africa's president. Any trial of a former head of state is always a test for a nation's institutions.
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41min
May 25, 2021 Lukashenko's way: Why the brazen capture of Belarus journalist?
Was it worth it for Alexander Lukashenko? A European Union that so often struggles to reach consensus on foreign policy was quick to unanimously agree on new sanctions against Belarus over Sunday's forced landing of a Ryanair flight from Greece to Lithuania. More measures could follow after the brazen capture of Roman Protasevich.
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39min
May 24, 2021 Europe's move: What response after Belarus diverts Ryanair flight?
It is enough to hijack the agenda of an EU summit. A supposed bomb threat was the pretext for forcing a Ryanair flight to land in Belarus, where authorities could then pluck an independent journalist from the plane. What kind of a precedent is set by the scrambling of military jets to force a commercial carrier to land? What is Europe going to do about it?
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