Syria crackdown: how far will Assad go?

When does a crackdown become a massacre? It seems that a line has been crossed in the Syrian city of Hama, where rights groups say over 140 people have lost their lives since Sunday. Laura Baines asks her panel what, if anything, diplomacy can do.

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Nadim HOURY. Director of the Human Rights Watch Beirut office, Senior researcher on Syria and Lebanon (from Beirut);
Joshua LANDIS. Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma (from Norman, Oklahoma);
Patrick SEALE. Journalist and author of "The struggle for Arab independence" (from Fayence, France);
Majd EID. Syrian Activist.

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François Picard

25/03/2013 - THE DEBATE

Tough love for Cyprus

Wall Street had its Lehman moment. Is Europe having its Laiki moment? Winding down Cyprus’ second largest bank is only the start of it for a Europe that often seems daunted by its financial imbalances.

21/03/2013 - THE DEBATE

Mali: Who's in charge? (part 2)

It's not just a first suicide attack in Timbuktu that rings alarm bells. France 24 goes to the northern city of Gao and found that two months on, there's not really a semblance of a functioning state, the locals mistrust the army, and most civil servants have yet to return from the capital.

21/03/2013 - THE DEBATE

Mali: Who's in charge?

It's not just a first suicide attack in Timbuktu that rings alarm bells. France 24 goes to the northern city of Gao and finds that two months on, there's not really a semblance of a functioning state, the locals mistrust the army, and most civil servants have yet to return from the capital.

19/03/2013 - THE DEBATE

Iraq, ten years later... (part 2)

The weapons of mass destruction that weren't, daily sectarian violence that endures and US public opinion that's lost its stomach for foreign intervention: François Picard's panel looks at how nonetheless the legacy of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could still morph over time.