Latest update: 17/01/2011

- Hezbollah - Lebanon - Rafik Hariri - Saad Hariri

Trying times in Lebanon

After Hezbollah quits Lebanon’s government of national unity, why are so many nations so deeply involved in what boils down to a murder trial? But as François Picard’s panel points out, Rafiq Hariri’s not just any victim and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s not just any jurisdiction.

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Nahida NAKAD, Head, France 24 Arabic Service
Régis LE SOMMIER, Deputy Editor-in-chief, Paris Match
Nadim SHEHADI, Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme at Chatham House (By satellite from London)
Paul SALEM, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut (By satellite from Beirut, Lebanon)

Watch the 2nd part.

Programme produced by Perrine Desplats and Yi Song.

Presenter

François Picard

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Strauss-Kahn: have the French been too complacent?

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17/05/2011 - The Debate

Strauss-Kahn, the fall: sex scandal shocks the world

The culture clash is glaring as the French watch Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s first appearance in court on sex crime charges. François Picard’s panel debates the pros and cons of seeing a potential presidential frontrunner in handcuffs.

16/05/2011 - THE DEBATE

Strauss-Kahn, the fall: sex scandal shocks the world (part two)

The culture clash is glaring as the French watch Dominique Strauss-Kahn's first appearance in court on sex crime charges. François Picard's panel debates the pros and cons of seeing a potential presidential frontrunner in handcuffs.

13/05/2011 - THE DEBATE

Out of Tunisia

With all to play for as Tunisia tries to build a democracy, François Picard’s panel explains why are able young men willing to risk all to escape to Europe in rickety boats...and, as the EU tightens border controls, the cool reception that awaits them on the other end.

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11/05/2011 - THE DEBATE

My big fat Greek bailout - but will Europe pay? (part 2)

While Markus Kerber in Berlin argues that "only Greece can save Greece" by quitting the eurozone, Athens University’s Yanis Varoufakis rebuts that this would trigger a disastrous domino effect for the whole continent.