Latest update : 2017-11-10

Saudi Prince cracks down at home and abroad; Trump in Asia

Our Friday panel of journalists discuss the latest from Saudi Arabia, after the Crown Prince netted more than 200 arrests in a surprise purge and Lebanon's Prime Minister Hariri announced a surprise resignation from there in a recorded tape. We also look at the grand opening of the Louvre Abu Dhabi, the Paradise Papers leak, and President Trump's Asia tour, with his latest stop taking him to Vietnam for the APEC summit.

Produced by Charles WENTE, Ivana SCATOLA, Francois PICARD

By François PICARD

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Anne-Sylvaine CHASSANY

Paris Bureau Chief, The Financial Times

Christopher DICKEY

Foreign Editor at the Daily Beast

Stefan DE VRIES

Paris correspondent, RTL4

Dorian MALOVIC

Asia Editor, La Croix Newspaper

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FRANÇOIS PICARD Presenter

Host of the show since 2010, this Franco-American was RFI’s West Africa bureau chief from 1995 to 1998. He plays it straight on all issues, except for les Bleus in rugby and ice hockey’s New York Rangers!

LAURA CELLIER Presenter

She’s a British journalist who previously worked for Bloomberg Television. At FRANCE 24, she hosts the weekly Inside the Americas, the fast-paced Live From Paris show and regularly hosts The Debate.

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