While Europe loses its bearings over banking, the US Congress approves landmark legislation...France denies speculation of a prisoner swap with Iran, but doubts linger...and was Thailand’s bloodbath avoidable?
Joining François Picard in The World This Week: Alison Smale, International Herald Tribune executive editor; Eleanor Beardsley, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio in the US; Christopher Dickey of Newsweek magazine, and Patrice de Beer of the editorial website Open Democracy.
While Europe loses its bearings over banking, the US Congress approves landmark legislation...France denies speculation of a prisoner swap with Iran, but doubts linger...and was Thailand’s bloodbath avoidable?
Joining François Picard in The World This Week: Alison Smale, International Herald Tribune executive editor; Eleanor Beardsley, Paris correspondent for National Public Radio in the US; Christopher Dickey of Newsweek magazine, and Patrice de Beer of the editorial website Open Democracy.
Controversy has broken out in France following the release on Tuesday of an Iranian man convicted for the 1991 murder outside Paris of Shapour Bakhtiar, the last Iranian Prime minister to serve under the Shah. This decision comes a few days after Iran freed French academic Clotilde Reiss. Did the French government strike a deal with the Iranian authorities?
In this edition: French academic Clotilde Reiss is finally back home after being held in Iran for ten months, but there remains much controversy around the conditions of her release; negotiations kick off between the government and the top unions on the reform of France's pensions system; and we discover the fresh face of French football, 25-year-old Mathieu Valbuena, who has been shortlisted to play on the national team at this summer's World Cup.
Ali Vakili Rad, the Iranian agent who spent 19 years in a French jail for the 1991 assassination of Shapour Bakhtiar, a former Iranian PM during the Shah’s era, arrived in Tehran on Tuesday, hours after a French court ordered his release.
Two stories dominate the French press today: Did Clotilde Reiss work for France's secret service? And will taxing the wealthy more, get the French to work past the current retirement age?
Tonight's debate will be split into two parts.
Part One looks at Clotilde Reiss, her detention and the mechanics of her release. Part Two will focus on the nuclear programme in Iran and what the Reiss Affair means in this context.
Clothilde Reiss, a young woman detained by Iran facing charges of spying. She'd attended the street protests that rocked the Iranian capital last year.
Tonight's debate will be split into two parts.
Part One looks at Clotilde Reiss, her detention and the mechanics of her release. Part Two will focus on the nuclear programme in Iran and what the Reiss Affair means in this context.
Clothilde Reiss, a young woman detained by Iran facing charges of spying. She'd attended the street protests that rocked the Iranian capital last year.
In today's French papers: Clotilde Reiss is finally free, but did the Elysee make a deal with Tehran? And France Soir looks at French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde from a who new angle.
