Showdown over guns

Barack Obama throws down the gauntlet to Congress and the gun lobby with a wide-ranging mix of executive orders and bills. Public opinion may be on his side, but can he really reverse the decades-long loosening of gun control?

DEBATE

Steve KATZ, New York State Assemblyman;
Anne BAGAMERY, Senior Editor, International Herald Tribune;
Frederick T. DAVIS, Lawyer, Member of the French American Foundation France;
Gerald OLIVIER, Journalist and Author, "Mitt Romney, pour le renouveau du mythe américain".
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Programme prepared and produced by Isabelle Sarton du Jonchay, Anelise Borges and Mary Colombel

Presenter

François Picard

03/02/2011 - The Debate

Clashes in Cairo

Does it have to end badly? Cairo this Wednesday was rocked by charging camels and hours of pitched battles between pro and anti-Mubarak supporters. François Picard's panel argues over the next move of the president, the army and the opposition. (Photo credit: Mehdi Chebil).

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge (part 2)

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.

01/02/2011 - THE DEBATE

Egypt on edge

31/01/2011 - THE DEBATE

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.