US mid-terms: the new rules of the House (part 2)

There's no other way to call it: Barack Obama has suffered the political equivalent of a bloody nose. Tonight, he’s coming to terms with the biggest political upset of his career. In their biggest congressional victory in 62 years, Republicans have won control of the House of Representatives, and made gains in the Senate as well. There's nothing left for the president to do but to hold out the olive branch.

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GUESTS:

Marjorie PAILLON

Journalist, co-founder of www.ilovepolitics.info

Pierre GERVAIS

Deputy director, CENA (Center for North American Studies, Paris)

Senior lecturer, Université Paris 8-Saint-Denis

Celestine BOHLEN

Freelance journalist

By satellite from the White House, Wash. DC

Guillaume MEYER

Correspondent, France 24

THE FRANCE 24 DEBATE

Presented by Laura BAINES

Prepared by Perrine DESPLATS and Bilal TARABEY

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Presenter

François Picard

24/05/2012 - THE DEBATE

Merkel's next move: Will Germany stick to its guns on austerity?

François Hollande steals the show at his first late-night EU summit but the ball remains firmly in Angela Merkel’s court. Her constituents remain torn between paying for pain they don’t (yet) feel and shouldering the blame for an eventual collapse of the euro.

23/05/2012 - THE DEBATE

Egypt's presidential poll: The revolution, Part II (part 2)

Fifteen months after Hosni Mubarak's fall, the second act of Egypt's revolution is underway. Millions of Egyptians are choosing a president in the first free elections in the country's 5,000-year history. Douglas Herbert and his panel discuss whether the newly elected president will have a chance of healing divisions while tackling poverty and fighting violent crime.