Gilles Yabi, West Africa Project Director, International Crisis Group

Armen Georgian meets Gilles Yabi, the West Africa Project director of the International Crisis Group, to discuss about the deteriorating situation in Mali. The Islamists have chased the Tuareg out of key towns, imposed sharia law, and last week destroyed ancient Muslim shrines they deemed un-Islamic in the UN world heritage-listed desert city of Timbuktu.

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Douglas Herbert

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Melissa Bell

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Armen Georgian

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Annette Young

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Marc Perelman

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09/04/2013 - THE INTERVIEW

Ami Ayalon, former head of Shin Bet (Israel's internal security service)

In "The Gatekeepers", an Oscar-nominated documentary by Dror Moreh, six former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security service, speak out about their work. Ami Ayalon is one of them. He tells Marc Perelman about his hopes for a two-state solution, but predicts more violence between Israel and the Palestinians.

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Maria Van Der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency

The 14th International Oil Summit is under way in Paris. It brings together energy ministers and oil executives from all around the world. What is the future of oil and where is the world’s energy going to come from? Those are the questions taking centre stage. Markus Karlsson speaks to one of the key players of the summit: Maria Van Der Hoeven, the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency.

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Thilo Sarrazin, German politician and writer

German politician and writer Thilo Sarrazin stirred a huge outcry in Germany when he argued in an explosive book that Muslim immigrants were undermining German society by failing to integrate. With his book now published in French, he speaks to Douglas Herbert about why he feels he’s been made a scapegoat for raising a taboo.

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Tracy Chamoun, Lebanese author and politician

Armen Georgian meets Tracy Chamoun, the scion of one of Lebanon’s most famous dynasties. The first woman to found a political party in the Arab world - the Liberal Democrats Party of Lebanon - she talks about her plans and hopes for her country, and about coming to terms with the murder of her father, his second wife and their young children during the Lebanese civil war.

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Rached Ghannouchi, leader of Tunisia's ruling Islamist party

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24, the head of Tunisia’s ruling Ennahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, speaks out in favour of the death penalty. In the wake of an outcry over a recent case of child rape, he backs the application of capital punishment, describing it as a "natural law".

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