70 days until Brexit and the UK is doing its best to keep calm and carry on. This week the Commons rejected Theresa May's Brexit divorce deal by a record-breaking 230 votes, but the next day voted to keep May as PM. Does anyone know how they'll get out of this "mother of all messes"? Manbij, in Syria, is subject to the first attack since Trump's surprise decision to withdraw US troops from the region. Also on the show, Kenya's terror attack and Gbagbo's ICC acquittal. And is wine bad for you?

As the US nears its historically longest government shutdown, 800,000 federal workers are missing out on their first pay day. Also this week, the US president gave his first nationally-televised speech from the Oval Office and then travelled to the Mexican border to plead his case for a border wall. Our panel also discusses the locally-contested DR Congo election results, plus populist support from abroad for France's Yellow Vest movement.

Will it really be the year that Brexit means Brexit? Will Brazil's Bolsonaro rule the way he campaigned? François Picard's panel tackles those questions and more in a special New Year's edition.

The heat is on: From the backlash against Saudi Arabia’s crown prince to the changing rules of capitalism, François Picard’s panel looks back at a year that also saw the tide turn against France’s president.

You know Dr Seuss' Grinch who stole Christmas? Well, this week we discovered that the actual person might actually exist. Near Crawley in West Sussex, England, home to the UK's second busiest airport. Flights were grounded at Gatwick because of drone flights near the runway.

Our panel of journalists looks at Theresa May pulling the vote on her Brexit deal until after the New Year. Instead, she got a vote of no-confidence from her own party, which she survived. As the clock ticks towards March 29, patience is running thin with the endless cacophony in the Commons, particularly among the EU 27. We look also at Emmanuel Macron visiting Strasbourg after a lone gunman's rampage against the city's famed Christmas market; and ahead to Act V of the Yellow Vest protests.

As Paris hunkers down for another Saturday of protests by "Yellow Vests" angry at cost of living increases, the government mobilises some 89,000 police nationwide including 8,000 for the capital, where they'll be backed up by armoured vehicles equipped to clear barricades. It's a moment of truth for French President Emmanuel Macron. We also look at the election of Angela Merkel's protégée Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as new leader of the CDU party, and at the arrest of Huawei's CFO in Canada.

Maybe we should cry for Argentina? The Copa Libertadores soccer final between River Plate and Boca Juniors has now been moved to Madrid after the spectacle that unfolded in the streets of Buenos Aires between rioting fans. And of course the protests against hosting the G-20 summit - a decision taken long before Argentina found itself teetering on the brink of another bankruptcy.

We forgot about Gilbraltar! Spain's prime minister, who's on a visit to Cuba ahead of this coming Sunday's summit in Brussels to ratify the draft divorce deal with Britain, insists he won't sign it if the status of the disputed territory isn't treated separately from the rest. Gilbraltar had failed to rate in the astounding soap opera known as Brexit. Until now.

The World This Week looks at the UK PM Theresa May soldiering on while others within her party plot her demise, this amid the uproar over her unveiling of a draft divorce deal with the European Union. Our panel of journalists also discusses Israeli political turmoil, with PM Benjamin Netanyahu failing to reach a deal with junior coalition partners after the resignation of his far-right defence minister. Plus, we look at "Yellow Vest" fuel protests in France against rising prices at the pump.