The World This Week - August 24th, 2012

The vacation’s over for Europe’s politicians as they buy time - not for Greece, but for the rest of a continent scared of the economic and political consequences of a "Grexit". Also, US politics gets even more polarized ahead of the Republican convention, Ethiopia after Meles Zenawi and why Burgundy villagers are seeing red over a Chinese tycoon’s big buy.

THE WORLD THIS WEEK

Anne Bagamery. Senior Editor, International Herald Tribune;
Aude Baron. Editor in Chief, "Le Plus" Nouvel Obs;
Tunde Fatunde. Journalist, Lagos Guardian Newspaper;
Craig Copetas. Correspondent-at-large, Quartz/The Atlantic Group.

Watch the second part here.

Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Mary Colombel, Paul Maakad.

François PICARD

Presenter

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