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A live debate on the topic of the day, with four guests. From Monday to Thursday at 7:10pm Paris time.... more
FAQs about The Debate:How many episodes does The Debate have?The podcast currently has 860 episodes available.
June 15, 2021Biden's charm offensive: US president rekindles EU-US relationsUS President Joe Biden has been taking part in the first EU-US summit of his presidency. This high-level meeting comes after the NATO summit on Monday and the G7 summit at the weekend. Biden seems to be using his first trip abroad to mend bridges with traditional US allies, repeating his mantra: "America is back"....more41minPlay
June 14, 2021After Bibi: What next for Israel?It feels like, in Israeli politics, it ain’t over, even when it is over. Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated his onetime chief of staff after Naftali Bennett ended Bibi's record-breaking 12 year stint as the country's longest serving prime minister. But if you listened to Netanyahu's speech just before, it wasn't quite as sporting. We'll hear how the Likud leader does not sound like a man preparing for a career change....more44minPlay
June 10, 2021'America's back': Can post-Brexit Britain win over Joe Biden?He has come to reaffirm ties with his closest allies. But will Joe Biden be drawn into a sausage war? The US president's first foreign tour begins with Britain, host of Friday's G7 summit and whose prime minister wrote a biography of that ultimate icon of the special relationship, Winston Churchill, but whose chummy relationship with Donald Trump drew a bit of scrutiny. Is it all ancient history now? Will Boris Johnson win over Biden?...more45minPlay
June 09, 2021Make 'em pay? G7 nations claim tax justice breakthroughIt has been billed as a turning point for the planet. Joe Biden is off to Cornwall for a G7 summit where the world's most industrialised nations for the first time will agree on a global corporate tax rate – quite a coup. Ever since the time of the Pharaohs, governments raising revenue has always exclusively been a matter of national sovereignty....more42minPlay
June 08, 2021Which route to reform? Migration at core of Kamala Harris' Central America tourFirst 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....more38minPlay
June 07, 2021Peru'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?...more40minPlay
June 03, 2021Bye bye Bibi? Israel on edge as Netanyahu fights coalition dealIf 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....more40minPlay
June 02, 2021Down 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....more40minPlay
June 01, 2021Too much pressure? Naomi Osaka quits French Open over media boycottWhat 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....more40minPlay
May 31, 2021Back to the lab? US-China rivalry fuels tensions over Covid-19 originsIt'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?...more40minPlay
FAQs about The Debate:How many episodes does The Debate have?The podcast currently has 860 episodes available.