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September 16, 2021 Breach of trust? France fumes as Australia drops submarine deal for US
Back in 2016, French branded it the deal of the century. So why is the agreement to sell military-grade submarines to Australia suddenly dead in the water? Canberra has ditched the 2016 deal for the chance to buy nuclear-powered subs whose technology is made in the US, with Washington also announcing an Indo-Pacific military alliance with the Australia and the UK.
39 min
September 15, 2021 Europe: The next level? Von der Leyen outlines challenges ahead
This Wednesday, Ursula von der Leyen gave her State of the Union speech to the European Parliament – an update on the state of play across the 27-nation bloc. But how is Europe tackling the big issues? For instance, vaccination against Covid-19 is running at more than 70 percent. It’s a success story, but when you look at the detail, there are big variations between the member states.
39 min
September 14, 2021 What next for Guinea? Uncertainty looms despite junta's transition pledge
Last week's military coup in Guinea saw President Alpha Condé arrested and detained. Colonel Mamady Doumbouya emerged as the face of the new military leaders. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed the taking of power at gunpoint. Neighbouring states followed his lead, adding their condemnation. Then followed the West African economic group ECOWAS and the African Union.
41 min
September 13, 2021 France gears up for 2022: Who's going to take on Macron?
In seven months from now, people across France will be heading to the polls to vote in presidential elections, which will determine whether President Emmanuel Macron becomes the country's third consecutive one-term head of state, or whether he will manage to do what his two predecessors failed to achieve and win a second term.
40 min
September 11, 2021 Two decades on, the enduring legacy of 9/11
As the world commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, FRANCE 24 brings you a special debate in which our guests reflect on that fateful day. Our panel also reacts to our full-length documentary on the event that propelled mankind into the 21st century, with far-reaching consequences for the US, Afghanistan, Iraq and around the globe.
35 min
September 09, 2021 Adieu Belmondo! What legacy does New Wave film icon leave behind?
As France bids the fondest of farewells to a true cinema legend, we're asking: where does this leave French film and French culture? After Jean-Paul Belmondo died on Monday at the age of 88, the tributes continue to flood in. One perhaps sums him up best: an extraordinary hero of ordinary France. In other words, a man of the people who was also the biggest star of his generation.
40 min
September 08, 2021 November 2015 attacks trial: Will victims get the answers they need?
France is beginning to relive the atrocity that changed French life forever. The trial of 20 men over the terror atrocities of November 13, 2015 has begun in Paris. One of the accused was actively part of the attacks that night. Salah Abdeslam spoke in court to say he was a fighter of the Islamic State group. It is the most he has said since his 2016 arrest in Brussels.
42 min
September 07, 2021 Just like Trump? Brazil's Bolsonaro targets Congress, Supreme Court
Is Brazil's president really reaching for the Trump playbook? On Independence Day, Jair Bolsonaro is in the capital to lead a rally against Congress and the Supreme Court in what critics had warned could be his January 6 moment. Just like during the storming of the US Capitol by Trump supporters, Bolsonaro claims the system is rigged, with corruption probes against the current administration gaining steam.
39 min
September 06, 2021 Coup in Guinea: What next after the overthrow of Alpha Condé?
The optics play to old stereotypes about Africa: men in fatigues holding the deposed president who has outlasted his stay. In 2010, Alpha Condé became Guinea's first civilian president to win through the ballot box. We ask if the once courageous opposition leader lost his way when he saw fit to lift term limits to hang on to power.
41 min
September 02, 2021 When's enough? EU hits 70% of adults vaccinated, plans booster shots
The European Union has hit the milestone of 70 percent of adults inoculated against Covid-19. It is quite a feat for a pandemic that is less than two years old and a vaccine that has only been available since January. Fury over the EU's misfires at the start of the campaign may already be fading from memory. However, Covid is not done with us. The vaccination rates vary wildly inside the EU and in many parts of the developing world, the inoculation rate remains below 2 percent.
40 min

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