Sunday, November 23, 2008

Thursday 20 November 2008

Which way now for France's Socialists?

This week David Crossan’s guests on Politics include Socialist Party MEP Pervenche Beres and Green Party MEP Alain Lipietz. What now for the Socialist Party? A new alliance of the “plural left” including the Greens? (Part 1)
  • POLITICS
    Which way now for France's Socialists?
    This week David Crossan’s guests on Politics include Socialist Party MEP Pervenche Beres and Green Party MEP Alain Lipietz. What now for the Socialist Party? A new alliance of the “plural left” including the Greens? (Part 1)
  • FRANCE 24 DEBATE
    France and Rwanda weighed down by history?
    After a French court charged a senior Rwandan presidential aide with complicity in the 1994 assassination of former Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, we discuss whether France and Rwanda are weighed down by history. (Part 1)
  • FACE-OFF
    French Socialists: a battle Royal
    As Ségolène Royal and Martine Aubry clash in a final run-off vote, one thing is sure: the new leader of France's Socialist Party will be a woman. But what kind of party will French people wake up to?
  • TOP STORY
    Al Qaeda challenges Obama
    Fumbling for an effective response to the election of Barack Obama as US president, al Qaeda has launched an ideological pre-emptive strike.
  • THE FRANCE 24 INTERVIEW
    Vital Kamerhe, President of the Congolese National Assembly
    This new edition of The France 24 Interview is dedicated to the Civil War now ravaging the DR Congo. Vital Kamerhe, the President of the Congolese National Assembly, responds to this crisis now threatening the country's stability.
  • THE TALK OF PARIS
    Abdou Diouf, secretary general of La Francophonie
    In a world increasingly dominated by English and internet giants such as Google, can the French language avoid domination? Abdou Diouf, secretary general of the organisation of French-speaking countries gives his view. (Part 1 of 2)
  • THE BUSINESS INTERVIEW
    Patrick Kron, Alstom chairman and CEO
    As the financial crisis spreads to the broader economy, a handful of companies are bucking the trend. Among them is the French engineering group Alstom. FRANCE 24's Raphaël Kahane met Patrick Kron, its chairman and CEO.
  • POLITICS
    Socialist party leadership contest bubbling up nicely
    Defeated presidential candidate Ségolène Royal had put her candidacy in the fridge, then declared social democracy to be past its "best before" date. Now it looks like Royal is coming out of the fridge and into the fire.
THE BUSINESS INTERVIEW    
J-P. Fitoussi, Chairman, French Economic Observatory (OFCE) Edmund Phelps, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics
IMF / WORLD BANK ON THE CRISIS    
IMF head predicts no more bank collapses World Bank's Zoellick to the G7: Don't forget poverty
THE OBSERVERS    
POLITICAL INTERVIEWS    
Hubert Védrine, former French foreign affairs minister Dominique de Villepin, former French prime minister

    News Briefs
    Weather
    Currently
    • New York
      Passing clouds.  Chilly.
      -3°C
    • Rio de Janeiro
      Mostly cloudy.  Mild.
      21°C
    • London
      Light snow.  Ice fog.  Chilly.
      0°C
    • Paris
      Sunny.  Chilly.
      3°C
    • Moscow
      Sprinkles.  Mostly cloudy.  Cool
      9°C
    • Istanbul
      Passing clouds.  Cool.
      8°C
    • Mumbai / Bombay
      Sunny.  Pleasantly warm.
      26°C
    • Beijing
      Clear.  Nippy.
      5°C
    • Tokyo
      Passing clouds.  Refreshingly co
      15°C
    • Shanghai
      Light rain.  Fog.  Cool.
      13°C
    • Sydney
      Light rain.  Passing clouds.  Mi
      17°C
    • Johannesburg
      Passing clouds.  Mild.
      24°C