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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January 25, 2021 Egypt's revolution, 10 years on: What happened to 'bread, freedom & social justice'?
Ten years on, we are examining the revolution that changed Egypt. The Arab Spring swept through North Africa and the Middle East and with it, several hardline leaders were swept aside. Today is the annual day of the police in Egypt and President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi presided over commemorations of the role of Egyptian law enforcement. A role that many activists say was at best heavy-handed back in 2011 and has continued the same way.
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40min
January 21, 2021 Biden's America: What are the new US president's priorities?
One day after Joe Biden's incident-free inauguration as the 46th US president, we bring you another special edition of the France 24 Debate live from Washington. What to make of Biden's inaugural address? What are his priorities now that he's in the White House? We discuss all this and more with our guests.
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44min
January 19, 2021 Countdown to inauguration: Washington under lockdown for Trump-Biden transition
On the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th US president, we bring you a special edition of the France 24 Debate from a heavily fortified Washington. Can Biden reconcile an America that's more divided than ever? Have we heard the last of Donald Trump as he retreats to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida? And what about his supporters? We discuss all this and more with our guests and team of reporters.
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42min
January 18, 2021 Navalny defies Putin: Russian opposition leader arrested on return to Moscow
Alexei Navalny is tonight in custody in Moscow. The Russian opposition leader was arrested immediately on his return from Germany, which has demanded his release. It was in Berlin that Navalny was treated after he was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent in August. Russia denies attempting to kill the man who has become a thorn in the side of President Vladimir Putin. But Navalny's influence is gaining ground beyond Russia's borders since the attempt on his life in Siberia last summer. We take a closer look with our guests in The FRANCE 24 Debate.
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38min
January 14, 2021 Trump's second impeachment: US president to face Senate trial for inciting insurrection
Donald Trump makes history as the only US president to be impeached twice. The vote in the House of Representatives saw 10 Republicans flip over to vote against their president. Such is the depth of feeling over the violence at the Capitol last week when a mob of Trump supporters, egged on by the president, marched on Congress, occupying and vandalising the premises. In the violence, five people were killed. We're asking: is this the end of the story or just another beginning?
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36min
January 13, 2021 Impeached again: Trump doubles down ahead of Inauguration Day
Is it the final nail in the coffin of American exceptionalism? With the impeachment of Donald Trump comes fresh revelations about those who plotted both outside and in the US Capitol to overturn the result of the presidential election. US democracy may well weather the current storm in Washington, but the certainty that its 240-year old system of government will always prevail while here in France we have had three monarchies, three dictatorships and five republics, that certainty seems well and truly over.
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40min
January 12, 2021 Which way for Uganda? Bobi Wine takes on longtime incumbent Museveni
It has been billed as a generational battle. Africa's gaze is turning to Uganda and the tense homestretch to Thursday's presidential election. 38-year-old pop star-cum-opposition leader Bobi Wine is among nine candidates taking on 76-year-old Yoweri Museveni, the former military leader whose National Resistance Movement took the capital way back in 1986.
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39min
January 11, 2021 Law unto themselves? Social media block Trump amid calls to regulate Big Tech
Two elections too late? Twitter is permanently banning Donald Trump's account, Facebook has suspended it through Inauguration Day, and other social media are jumping on the bandwagon of curbing false claims of a stolen election. For four years, the US president has been spreading disinformation from the Oval Office. His followers had loudly broadcast on various platforms that they were going to march on the Capitol and they did.
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38min
January 07, 2021 Stable democracy? America after the storming of the Capitol
Is America's legacy in doubt? The world's most powerful nation has been a stable democracy for most of the better part of two centuries. As the planet awakens to images of the first storming of the US Capitol since the British did it in the War of 1812, there are those who will focus on security lapses: how did crowd control get so easily overwhelmed?
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39min
January 06, 2021 US election certification: Unprecedented bid to overturn presidential result
Is it all just a bit of political theatre by Trump loyalists or is it a coup attempt? Join us for a special edition as we cover what has up until now always been a ceremonial formality: the US Congress' certification of the presidential winner. Some Republicans are vowing to contest Joe Biden's victory. That triggers a recess of the joint session, with senators and congressmen then going to their respective chambers to debate before reconvening.
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