France shootings: Homegrown terrorism takes centre stage (part 2)

Twice, the alleged gunman in Toulouse went to Afghanistan. François Picard’s panel examines what we know about 24-year old Mohammed Merah and asks whether he was "self-radicalized", as the state prosecutor claims, or, instead, acting on behalf of al Qaeda.

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Elaine Cobbe, CBS news
Hall Gardner, International Politics Professor, American University of Paris
Sébastien Baer, Journalist, France Info
Peter Neumann, Security Studies Professor, King's College
Alain Lamballe, Former Military Attaché to India and Pakistan
Georja Calvin-Smith, Journalist, France 24
Christopher Moore, Journalist, France 24.
Program prepared and produced by Christopher Davis, Molly Hall and Mary Colombel

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Egypt on edge

Hosni Mubarak remains in charge but if Tuesday's million man march lives up to its billing, the France 24 Debate wonders if he can still hang on. If not, who to fill his shoes? Answers range from the secular opposition to Islamists and the army.

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Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what? (part 2)

Despite Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak reshuffling his cabinet and appointing his first ever vice-president, there's no let-up in the protests calling for him to go. François Picard's panel debates what the role of the army could be in a transition process, and who of the civilian and Islamist opposition is best placed to take the reins of the Arab world's most populous nation.

31/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge: calls for change, but a transition to what?

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Davos: have they learned anything? (Part 2)

Do they get it in Davos? Bankers are back, parties are back but with a jobless recovery in the West and rising staple item prices already sparking social unrest in the Arab World, François Picard’s panel argues over the right path for the world’s high and mighty.