Showdown on the streets : here's looking at France (Part 2)

Are the French lazy? No but street protests over raising the retirement age show a penchant for protest that’s engrained. Joining François Picard in The France 24 Debate are Time Magazine’s Don Morrison, British journalist Stephen Clarke, Ana Navarro-Pedro, Paris correspondent for Portuguese newsmagazine Visão and Paris-based writer and filmmaker Vijay SINGH.

DEBATE

Program prepared by Perrine Desplats and Yi Song.

Click here to watch the 1st part.

Presenter

François Picard

16/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

The Boston bombings: a painful reminder of vulnerability

There are still no hard answers, but lots of anguish and questions, a day after back-to-back explosions rocked America's oldest and most prestigious marathon. Douglas Herbert's panel discuss how Americans are dealing with a tragedy that Barack Obama is calling a cowardly "act of terror" - and look at how the rest of the world is reacting.

16/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Venezuela: The death of Chavism? (part 2)

Why did Hugo Chavez's anointed successor blow a double-digit lead in the polls? François Picard's panel argues over whether Venezuela's election signals a fundamental shift for Latin America's left/right divide.

15/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Venezuela: The death of Chavism?

11/04/2013 - THE DEBATE

Al Qaeda's bid for Syria (part 2)

A victory for Assad? The jihadist Al-Nusra Front's pledge of allegiance to Al Qaeda puts the Syrian opposition and Western powers in a pickle. At the G8 foreign ministers meeting in London, U-S Secretary of State John Kerry is quoted as saying he can make 'no promises' that weapons sent to rebels in Syria won't fall into the wrong hands.