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Occupy Wall Street: the end or just the beginning?

As technocrats rise to power in Europe, elected leaders fail to agree on how to resolve the debt crisis. Is the Occupy Protest over, or is this just the beginning? The anti-corporate greed movement enters its third month. We also look at Syria, where protesting is to take one's life into one's own hands - the violence continues despite an ultimatum issued by the Arab League.

  • Paul TAYLOR, European Affairs Specialist at Reuters;
  • Craig COPETAS, Senior Writer, Bloomberg News;
  • Christopher DICKEY,  Paris Bureau Chief for Newsweek and Mideast Editor,The Daily Beast;
  • Dave CLARK, Paris Deputy Bureau Chief, AFP news agency.

    Watch the first part.

The World This Week - March 22nd, 2013
22/03/2013 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

The World This Week - March 22nd, 2013

On Thursday, Turkey's prime minister gets an historic truce agreement from the jailed Kurdish rebel leader. On Friday, Recep Tayip Erdogan accepts Israel's apology of Israel over the 2010 sinking of a flotilla bound for Gaza. Two separate stories... but is there a common thread when it comes to Syria?
The World This Week - March 15th, 2013 (part 2)
15/03/2013 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

The World This Week - March 15th, 2013 (part 2)

Did the International Criminal Court's indictment actually help Uhuru Kenyatta in his run for Kenya's presidency? François Picard's panel looks at an ICC badly weakened by the verdict from the ballot box there. Also, a look at the new Pope and the established order at the Vatican; and change in China with the president deploying his wife on the world stage.
The World This Week - March 15th, 2013
15/03/2013 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

The World This Week - March 15th, 2013

Did the International Criminal Court's indictment actually help Uhuru Kenyatta in his run for Kenya's presidency? François Picard's panel looks at an ICC badly weakened by the verdict from the ballot box there. Also, a look at the new Pope and the established order at the Vatican; and change in China with the president deploying his wife on the world stage.
 The World this Week - 8 March 2013
08/03/2013 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

The World this Week - 8 March 2013

Annette Young and a panel of international journalists talk about what made headlines in the last week.
The World This Week - March 1st, 2013 (part 2)
01/03/2013 - THE WORLD THIS WEEK

The World This Week - March 1st, 2013 (part 2)

Our crack panel tackles bankers’ bonuses, the French hostage drama in West Africa, France’s loss of influence in the face of Russia, Beppe Grillo’s antics in Italy and the papal succession. Will the Vatican package a new pope just like Beaujolais Nouveau markets itself – every year it’s supposed to be different, but every year it tastes the same?

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